CUMBERLAND COUNTY MILITIA. The returns of the earlier organizations are incomplete. The Committee of Safety commissioned the following line officers for Cumberland on Feb. 26, 1776, as follows: Timothy ROOT as 2nd Lieut. in the Guilford Company. ===== Changes in the First (Lower) Regiment. August 18, 1778. Timothy Root, 1st Lieut., Guilford County. ROLLS OF VERMONT SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1775-1783, prepared and published under the direction of Major General Martha T. Rainville, The Adjutant General, Vermont, Camp Johnson, Colchester, Vermont, 1998, Volume II, pages 822 and 823. Transcribed by Jan Jordan