Lieut Isaac Willard - "Lieut"

There’s an “event” noted in his profile “about”:

Event: Rank 1771 Lieutenant in Colonel Chandler's regiment

https://www.amrevmuseum.org/collection/john-chandler-s-sword

Colonel John Chandler of the 8th Connecticut Regiment carried this small sword during the Revolutionary War as a symbol of his rank. The sword was over 60 years old by the time of the war. Chandler’s command of the 8th Connecticut began on January 1, 1777 but ended during the Valley Forge encampment when he resigned on March 5, 1778. Chandler decided to retire from the Continental Army because he had been suffering from kidney stones. The now famous memoirist of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin, served in Chandler’s regiment.

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But it looks like, based on date of 1771, that Isaac Willard was in an earlier regiment, and was not in the Revolutionary War.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/07/connecticut-militia-1739-1783/

DECODING CONNECTICUT MILITIA 1739-1783

The event is from Pope’s Willard genealogy, no further detail.

Willard Genealogy, Sequel to Willard Memoir: Materials ...https://books.google.com › books
Joseph Willard, ‎Charles Henry Pope · 1915
He was a lieutenant in Colonel Chandler's regiment in 1771. He died in January , 1806 , leaving a will of interest . Children : i . James , b .

Page 77.

https://books.google.com/books?id=E56RAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA77&ots=fPAN63oA4T&dq=Lieutenant%20in%20Colonel%20Chandler%27s%20regiment%201771&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q=Lieutenant%20in%20Colonel%20Chandler's%20regiment%201771&f=true

I think a different John Chandler.

1st Regiment, Worcester County Militia,

https://books.google.com/books?id=8bk6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA19&ots=_FKE1vVKpg&dq=Colonel%20John%20Chandler%27s%201st%20.%20Regiment%20Worcester%20County%20Militia%20in%201771.&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=Colonel%20John%20Chandler's%201st%20.%20Regiment%20Worcester%20County%20Militia%20in%201771.&f=false

The Massachusetts Magazine: Devoted to Massachusetts History ..., Volume 2. Page 19. Major Willard Moore was Ensign in 1771.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8bk6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA19&ots=_FKE1vVKpg&dq=Colonel%20John%20Chandler%27s%201st%20.%20Regiment%20Worcester%20County%20Militia%20in%201771.&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=Colonel%20John%20Chandler's%201st%20.%20Regiment%20Worcester%20County%20Militia%20in%201771.&f=true

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/massachusetts-revolutionary-war-...

Massachusetts Militiamen & Minutemen:

The first minutemen of the American Revolution were organized in Worcester county, Mass in September of 1774 when officials at the Worcester County Convention decided to weed out loyalists in the militia by requiring the resignation of all officers and then reconstituting the militia into seven regiments with new officers. …