Private Thomas Wire

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brief biography and family

a Patriot of the American Revolution for Connecticut with the rank of PRIVATE

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DAR Ancestor #A126800

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https://books.google.com/books?id=_AlIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104

Gazetteer and Business Directory of Cortland County, N.Y., for 1869 Journal Office, 1869 - Cortland County (N.Y.) - 202 pages

In 1814 David Wire, from Connecticut, located on lot 100. His father, Thomas Wire, was a native of England, was kidnapped in London when seven years old and sold in Boston, where he remained until the commencement of the French and English war. He was then impressed into the English service for six years. He subsequently settled in Connecticut, and when the war of the Revolution broke out, enlisted and served until its close. ,

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NOTE: another Thomas Wire served in Revolutionary War from Goshen and died in 1775 (perhaps the father of this Thomas). This Thomas looks to have enlisted in by April 1777.

https://books.google.com/books?id=OutSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155

History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: With Genealogies and Biographies ...
By Augustine George Hibbard

List of soldiers from the Town of Goshen

Thomas Wire

[no other Wire listings, but about a dozen men named Beach: Edmund, Ambrose, John, Israel, Abraham, Martin, Amos, Medad, Obed, Julius, Jonathan, ]

Page 119:

"Upon the surprise of Fort Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775, Governor Trumbull ordered this regiment to march as soon as possible to secure that post and Crown Point against recapture. A request to this effect was also made by the Continental Congress. The regiment reached Ticonderoga in June and Col. Hinman assumed command until the arrival of General Schuyler. It took part in the operations of the northern department until the expiration of term of service, December, 1775. The regiment suffered much from sickness. The soldiers enlisted from Goshen all returned, with the exception of Thomas Wire who died from camp distemper on the march up."

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Page 137:

"CONTINENTAL. SOLDIERS.

The names of those enlisting at this time [April 1777], so far as known, are as follows: Isaac Miles, Caleb Miles, Robert Morris, David Ives, Timothy Knapp, Thomas Wire, Joel Gay lord, Bradford Kellogg, John Seeley, and Ichabod Chapin. David Ives deserted to the enemy."

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From same source as above, wife listed as member of church: Page 102

The First Congregational Church. ...

List of members made by Rev. Asahel Hooker, Sept. 7th, 1791.

.... Wife of Thomas Wire, .... [note: widows were clearly listed as such implying this was the wife of the then still living Thomas]