Lt. William Starr

"Lieutenant William Starr son of Thomas Starr was born April 20 1745 He was the leading blacksmith of the town and manufactured axes hoes ploughshares spades forks and other agricultural implements of iron for the farmers of the place He was a volunteer in the defence of Fort Griswold At the time of the massacre he ran into the magazine where he was severely wounded by an ounce musket ball striking the breast bone at an acute angle passing across his body under the skin along his extended left arm to the elbow where it was taken out and was treasured in an old desk till a young grandson ignorant of its history lost it as a sinker on his fish line He died December 31 1816"

source: The Battle of Groton Heights: A Collection of Narratives, Official Reports ... By William Wallace Harris p 226

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William Starr who was a lieut. in the 8th militia at Fort Griswold; he was a pensioner. Source: The Groton Avery Clan, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden), Vol. I, p. 184

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