I have just been reading the best seller book, 1776, by the noted biographer David McCullough. He makes numerous references to Major, later Colonel THOMAS KNOWLTON. To quote one passage.”More than a hundred Conn. Rangers, some of the best soldiers in the Army, had left on a mission before dawn, led by one of the best field officers in the army, a strapping Connecticut farmer and veteran of Bunker Hill, Col. Thomas Knowlton. (It was Knowlton at Bunker Zill who, with Colonel John Stark, had famously held the rail fence in the face of the oncoming British lines, and Knowlton who, during the siege of Boston, had led the night attack on Charlestown that so upset the British Officer’s production of the Burgoyne farce, The Blockade at Faneuil Hall” The above was written regarding Washington’s defeat at Brooklyn Heights. Thomas really isn’t in my line. I go from William, John, John Jr., Samuel, Rice, Rice Jr.,and Benjamin Sr and Jr ,who allegedly fought side by side in the Revolution. Thought this would be interesting for Thomas’s researchers to read. Paul Ryan Mamaroneck, NY