Lieutenant Colonel Amos Chesebrough

First Cong Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

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Colonel Amos Chesebrough was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 8th Regiment Horse and Feet, of the Colony of Connecticut in New England. His commission from Gov. William Pitkins was dated June 8, 1768. He married Desire Williams at Stonington, Connecticut on Dec. 2, 1729. She was the daughter of Colonel John and Desire (Denison) Williams.

Information provided by Ruth B. Porter's hand typed copy of the Alden-Chesebrough-Stanton-Bull-Porter Mayflower Ancestry

entered by Virginia Porter Harkness 1/21/2009

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, county of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 295, 298

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Amos was a lieutenant colonel in the 8th Regiment, Horse and Foot, of Colony of Connecticut in New England. His commission from Governor William Pitkins, dated June 8, 1768, was in the possession of his descendant, Gideon Perry Chesebrough of Westerly, Rhode Island, ca 1903.