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| Birthplace: | Preston City, New London, Connecticut, United States |
| Death: | Died in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States |
| Managed by: | Arthur Bentheim III |
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About Lt. Joseph SAFFORD
Lt. Safford
Connecticut
Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83
Name: Jos. Safford
Page #: 169
REGIMENT: Militia Volunteers
Regiment Command: Douglass, J. Col.
COMPANY: Backus'
Company Command: Backus, Timo. Capt.
Remarks: Mileage Roll of volunteers from State of Connecticut.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Johnston, Henry P., ed.. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society Revolution Rolls and Lists, 1775-1783. Vol. VIII. Hartford, CT, USA: Connecticut Historical Society, 1901, 1999.
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Listing of nearly 13,000 men who served the colonial cause during the Revolutionary War
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Added by PAM_BILL_KRUEGER on 25 Apr 2009 [ Edit ]Joseph Safford
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U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Joseph Safford
Rank - Induction: 1 Lieutenant
Roll Box: 134
Roll State: Continental Troops
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
Records indexed by Direct Data Capture.
Description:
This database is a collection of records kept by the U.S. National Archives listing men who fought for the colonies during the war. Each record provides the soldier's name, category, rank information, and NARA microfilm roll number to aid the researcher in locating the original record. Images of the records are also included.
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Asa Waterman Papers
Commissary, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Papers, 1766-1855
Size: 2.25 ft.
Catalog number: MSS 786
Processed by: Elizabeth Delmage, May 2007
©Rhode Island Historical Society
Manuscripts Division
25 - 28 Dec 1776
Box 1, Folder 60.
Company of Volunteer Minutemen from the
State of Connecticut commanded by Capt. Timothy Backus
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Lt. Joseph Safford's Timeline
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1783
Age 51
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Connecticut, United States
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence,[1] began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists rejected the right of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation. In 1775, revolutionaries gained control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, set up the Second Continental Congress, and formed a Continental Army. Petitions to the king to intervene with the parliament on their behalf resulted in Congress being declared traitors and the states in rebellion the following year. The Americans responded by formally declaring their independence as a new nation, the United States of America, claiming sovereignty and rejecting any allegiance to the British monarchy. In 1777 the Continentals captured a British army, leading to France entering the war on the side of the Americans in early 1778, and evening the military strength with Britain. Spain and the Dutch Republic – French allies – also went to war with Britain over the next two years. Throughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside (where 90% of the population lived) largely eluded them due to their relatively small land army. French involvement proved decisive, with a French naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a second British army at Yorktown in 1781. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris ended the war and recognized the sovereignty of the United States over the territory bounded by what is now Canada to the north, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west. |
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February 8, 1731
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Preston City, New London, Connecticut, United States
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May 12, 1795
Age 64
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Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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February 8, 1731
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Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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May 9, 1769
Age 38
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