Jacob Brinkerhoff Totten

Descendant of Roger Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams

• Jacob's birth an d death information are available at https://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-fed94447cff1cc1ce44f78d16...
• Jacob Totten served during the Revolutionary War. From the "Eleventh Regiment -Albany Militia, Coxsackie and Great Imbocht," posted to http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygreen2/eleventh_regiment.htm, the name of Jacob Totten, private, appears among the soldiers of the Houghtaling Company [1st Company] of the Van Bergen Regiment [aka Eleventh Regiment]. The 1st Company was commanded by Captain Thomas Houghtaling.
• Jacob's service as a private during the Revolutionary War is mentioned in Genealogy and History of the Totten Family in America. Compiled and Written by Fed Albert Durling. Third Edition, 1996, Part Five, page 3]: "He served as a Private in the War of Independence and lived for a time in Greene County, before moving to Albany County, where he was an Innkeeper."