Posted on: USGenWeb Windham County, Vt Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Vt/Windham/11466 Surname: FRENCH, WILD, HOW, GALE ------------------------- Micah French Sr. enlisted as a private solider in Capt. Captain William Henry's company, Col. Whitney regiment in Athol. After service of two months and 19 days ( including 19 days travel time home) in Rhode Island, he was discharged July 5, 1777. He again enlisted from Athol, Sept. 28, 1777, this time in Capt. John Oliver's company, Nathan Sparhawk's regiment. He was discharged Oct. 18, 1777 after 18 days service including 8 days travel time home, during this later enlistment he served as part of the reinforcements of the Northern army during the defeat and surrender of the British Army under General Burgoyne at Saratoga NY. about 1785 he again moved with his wife and those of his children still unmarried, to Dumerston, Vermont. In the middle 1790's they went with their now grown son Micah, and his family to Windsor Vermont and in 1798 making the last move of their lives Micah and Ruth French, made their home in Sandgate Vermont near the New York State line. They were the parents of nine children. source: Jerry O'Neil He was married to Ruth Wild in 1747 Braintree, Suffolk, MA, children: 1. Micah b.1747 m. Sarah How (my gggg grandparents) 2. Mary b. 1749 3. BARTHOLOMEW b. 1752 - m. Susan(nah) Gale 4. Ruth b.1753 5. Prudence b.1756 6. Hannah b.1759 7.Berzelia b.1762 8. Alpheus b. 1767