Hi Bob, Here is a site covering both wars. Have you been here? http://www.rootsweb.com/~ars/index.htm Gail rjswlw wrote: > > I am presently trying to learn more about my 5th g. grandfather Abel > Brockett. He was the son of Moses Brockett and Lydia Humiston of New > Haven and North Haven, CT. Here's an outline of Abel and his immediate > family: > > 1 Abel Brockett b: 11 August 1725 in New Haven, CT d: 04 August 1815 > in North Haven, CT (Abel and Hannah members of Congregational Church, > New Haven) > .. +Hannah Pierpont b: 12 November 1736 in New Haven, CT d: 16 April > 1816 in North Haven, CT m: 24 July 1755 > ... 2 Hannah Brockett b: 18 April 1756 in New Haven, CT d: 10 January > 1766 in North Haven, CT > ... 2 Abel Brockett b: 10 April 1758 d: 04 December 1788 in North > Haven, CT > ... 2 Silence Brockett b: 29 July 1760 d: 19 September 1833 in North > Haven, CT (Also listed as Silena "Siley") > ....... +Jared Barnes m: 22 June 1786 in North Haven, CT > ... 2 Lucy Brockett b: 19 January 1763 d: 11 May 1847 in North Haven, > CT (Will divided property in equal parts to 5 surviving siblings) > ... 2 Jeremiah Brockett b: 19 April 1765 (May have been actually > been named Jared) > ... 2 Timothy Brockett b: 09 November 1766 in North Haven, CT d: in > Galway, N.Y. (Built the first tannery in Saratoga) > ....... +Olive Root m: 27 March 1793 > ... 2 Hezekiah Brockett b: 17 July 1769 in North Haven, CT d: 22 > September 1849 in Mt. Carmel, Hamden, CT (Sea captain, cooper; on > muster roll of 2nd Regmnt, 7th Co., Capt. Ambrose Tuttle, War of 1812) > ....... +Mehitabel Candee b: Abt. 1775 d: 21 November 1840 in prob. Mt. > > Carmel, Hamden, CT m: Abt. 1791 > ... 2 Peter Brockett b: 15 November 1771 in North Haven, CT d: August > 1845 in North Haven, CT > ... 2 Hannah Brockett b: 25 March 1774 in North Haven, CT (Baptised > 05/15/1774.) > ....... +Jared Chittenden > ... 2 [1] Chauncey Brockett b: 22 January 1777 in North Haven, CT d: > 01 March 1850 in Farmington, Trumbull Co., Ohio > ....... +Anne Redway b: Abt. 1778 in New York d: Abt. 1813 in New York > ... *2nd Wife of [1] Chauncey Brockett: > ....... +Anna Balch b: 04 October 1787 d: 30 November 1871 m: 20 > January 1814 > ... 2 Lyman Brockett b: 25 July 1780 d: 1857 in Rosefield, Illinois > (Subscribed to Dr. Trumbull's Book of the Holy Scriptures) > ....... +Hannah Goodsell b: in Watertown, CT > > My notes on Abel follow with some questions: > > - He was a stalwart Colonial patriot. I think I got this statement from > Edward J. Brockett but do not have any evidence of this. Does anyone > know about Abel's patiotic acts? > > - Participated in French and Indian War and American Revolution. I don't > know where I got this information but I do not see his name on any list > of participants in either war. Does anyone have any information here? > > - See History of Republican Party of Ohio, V. 2. I have this in my notes > but do not have a copy of this book. Does this source include some > reference to Abel because one of his descendants was a Republican > politician in Ohio? > > - Where are Abel and Hannah buried? North Haven? Montowese Cemetery? > > - Abel's wife Hannah was of a very impressive CT family lineage. > Hannah's paternal grandfather was Rev. James Pierpont, one of the > ministers who founded Yale. James ministered to New Haven for 29 years. > (He was also very involved in the Saybrook Platform.) Hannah's paternal > > grandmother Mary was the daughter of Rev Samuel Hooker of Farmington and > the grandaughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the "founder of Connecticut". > Hannah's maternal grandfather was Rev. Noadiah Russell, another of the > founders of Yale. It would seem that Abel would have had to have been a > man of the highest calabre (and social standing in the Colony) to have > married Hannah. Why, then, do I find so little about who he was and what > > he accomplished in his life? > > I hope some of you will have some additional information for me! > > Cheers, > > Bob Squires > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Middlesex County GenWeb site > http://www.flash.net/~hmwalden/midlsxco.htm