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Served in Capt Down's Company, Colonel Charles Burrall's Regiment, Connecticut
Prisoner
Additional References:
Continental Congress Papers, Commissary Dept, pg 239
"A list of the prisoners belonging to the Continental Army taken at Ft. Cedars, Canada"
JOHNSTON, CT MEN IN THE REV, pg 112
The following was found on Ancestry.com while searching for data on Patriot Charles Gillett: (I am not the author.)
The Cedars Campaign Canada
Charles5 Gillett, Sr. (Josiah4, Josiah3, Jonathan2, William1 Gylette) was born 22 Apr 1728 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died 18 May 1776 in The Cedars, Canada. He married Jerusha Jewett 01 Feb 1753 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., CT, daughter of Caleb Jewett and Rebecca Cook. She was born 06 Apr 1736 in Norwich Twp., New London Co., CT.
Notes for Charles Gillett, Sr.: from: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctlitch2/towns/sharon/sharon-ch8.htm GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SHARON, LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONN. FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT BY CHARLES F. SEDGWICK, A. M. AMENIA, N. Y. CHARLES WALSH, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER.
CHAPTER VIII
The exigencies of the times calling for a large army at the commencement of 1776, a large number of men, more than one hundred, enlisted from the town of Sharon. One company marched for Canada. It was commanded by Captain David Downs, already mentioned. The first lieutenant was Adonijah Griswold, and the second lieutenant was David Doty. The last survivors of this’ company, which was a large one, were Joel Chaffee and Adonijah Pangman, of Cornwall. Charles Gillet, another member of the company, was killed near The Cedars, so called, by a party of Indians in ambush, as he was riding along the road, having gone on some business connected with his duty as commissary.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SHARON, CT
GILLETT, Charles, was a brother of Jonathan and came to Sharon from Colchester in 1755. He was a blacksmith by trade, and settled where John C. Loucks now lives. He was town treasurer from 1760 to 1771, then he removed to the mountain, having purchased of Rev. Jeremiah Day, of New Preston, the place lately owned by John Jackson. He enlisted into Capt. Down's company, and marched to the northward in 1776. While the army lay at the Cedars, in Canada, he was killed by a party of Indians, lying in ambush, as he was riding out on business connected with he duty as commissary. He left several children, one of whom was the wife of Capt. Edmund Bennett.
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