This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knowlton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/300 Message Board Post: KNOWLTON, Thomas. 1740-1776. Militia officer (Capt.), Continental officer (Lt. Col.), farmer, b. West Boxford, Mass. Distinguished himself at Bunker Hill; carried out daring raid on Charleston, Mass., 8 January 1776; leader of a body of Connecticut Rangers at battle of Harlem Heights, N.Y., 16 September 1776, in which he was killed. I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.354. Joyce