Colonel Jeremiah Gifford Mason, Sr.

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Memoir, Autobiography and Correspondence of Jeremiah Mason (1917)

At the commencement of the Revolutionary War, being a staunch Whig, he raised and commanded a company of minute men (as they were called), with which he performed a tour of duty at the siege of Boston, and was with the party that was sent out in the early part of the night to fortify Dorchester Heights. I have often heard him say that he never worked himself, nor saw men work with such ardor and effect for so many hours in succession as on that occasion.

The next autumn (1776), having been promoted to a colonelcy, he went out in command of a militia regiment and joined the army in the vicinity of New York. At the end of this harassing and un- fortunate campaign, he came home sick. He continued in the com- mand of the regiment till after the close of the war. When General Arnold assaulted and burnt New London, he rallied and brought out his regiment with very commendable speed, which, although no im- portant service was rendered, gained him credit, and was said to be the cause of his being appointed to the command of Fort Trumbull, at the mouth of New London harbor. This he retained for a few months only, till the excitement occasioned by the attack passed away. He had, or thought he had, a taste for military life.

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DENISON GENEALOGY, ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE DENISON, Of Stonington Connecticut, by John Denison Baldwin and William Clift, Worcester, MA, 1881, p 60

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