Samuel Doty Stillman, Capt.

Wounded in defense of Fort Griswold.

Captain Samuel Doty Stillman, Revolutionary War veteran. He oined ae 18 in Col. Ledyard's garrison at Fort Griswold, New London; was there wounded in arm and thigh and captured. He was about to be carried away after the massacre (Sep 1781) but entreated them to spare him as he was an only son and his mother a widow. A British officer then stopped the party, took him back to the fort and had his wounds attended to. He was afterwards kept a prisoner on one of the British prison ships until finally exchanged.

"Samuel Doty Stillman, at eighteen, was one of the defenders of Fort Griswold, where he was captured. During his confinement on the prison ship he suffered from smallpox which with his wounds prevented any arduous labor during life." source: Sergeant Stephen Hempstead