Abraham Catlin

Ref.: < findagrave.com > , Oneida County, NY, Fairview Cemetery, Abraham Catlin.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN:

Abraham Catlin (1720-1802) served as a private in Capt. David Welch’s 4th Connecticut Company. He was born in Hartford; died in Harrington[Harwinton], Conn.; Ref.: Lineage Book – National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. LVII, 1921 Page 20. Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, Page 21. DAR A 022790

Ref.: The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service Revolutionary War, Pages 39-40; “FIRST REGIMENT – GEN. WOOSTER’S – 1775. Regiment raised on the first call for troops by the Legislature April-May 1775 Recruited in New Haven County. It marched, by request from the N.Y. Provincial authorities and the Continental Congress, to New York in the latter part of June and encamped at Harlem. General Wooster and a small detachment guarded stock on Long Island during the summer. About Sep. 28th, the regiment, under orders from Congress, marched to the Northern Department, General Schuyler’s, and took part in operations along Lakes George and Champlain. Assisted in the reduction of St. John’s in October, and afterwards was stationed in part at Montreal.” 4TH COMPANY: David Welch, Captain; Bezaleel Beebe, 1st Lieut.; Aaron Foote, 2nd Lieut.; Thomas Catlin, Ensign. Privates [excerpted]: Abraham Catlin, Sept. ’75