Thomas Mumford

Photo ref.: < https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bac0a75c-2878-b981-e040-e... > NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS; Letter: "Wethersfield 26 Oct. 1765" to Thomas Mumford from Silas Deane [Connecticut] concerning providing supplies at New London, Connecticut.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT:

Thomas Mumford, of Groton Connecticut was among ten gentleman who procured money for the revolutionary war expedition to Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point, after the Lexington Alarm, i.e.

"The gentleman referred to by [Capt. Edward] Mott, who on their individual notes procured the money from the Treasury, were Samuel Wyllys, Jesse Root, and Ezekiel Williams of Hartford, Samuel Bishop, Jr., and Adam Babcock, of New Haven, Samuel Holden Parsons, of New London, Silas Deane, of Wethersfield, William Williams, of Lebanon, Charles Webb, of Stamford, Joshua Porter, of Salisbury, and THOMAS MUMFORD, of Groton." 

Ref.: < http://www.americanwars.org/ct-american-revolution/ticonderoga-ente... >, American Wars "A complete history of colonial and early american wars fought on american soil", Connecticut In The Ticonderoga Enterprise