Revolutionary War service:
(1) Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle's Company, 7th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb - Enlisted July 11, 1775, discharged December 20, 1775 at Charlestown near Boston. Col. Webb's Regiment was recruited in Fairfield, Litchfield, and New Haven Counties. The Regiment was stationed at various points along the Long Island Sound until September 14, 1775, when on requisition from General Washington, the Regiment was ordered to the Boston Camps. There it was assigned to General Sullivan's Brigade on Winter Hill at the left of the besieging line where it remainded until the expiration of it's term of sevice in December 1775.
(2) Capt. Jerah (Jierah) Swift's Company, Colonel Charles Burrell's Connecticut Regiment - enlisted February 1, 1776 at Woodbury, Connecticut, discharged in Febraury 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga. Col. Burrell's Regiment was raised to reinforce the troops besieging Quebec under Brigadier Generals Benedict Arnold and David Wooster. After retreating from that position in April 1776, it was stationed at Fort Ticonderoga and it's vicinity.
(3) A Connecticut Militia Regiment in the battle at Saratoga at the defeat and taking of the British Army commanded by General John Burgoyne.
(4) Capt. David Leavenworth's Company, 13th Connecticut Militia Regiment commanded by Colonel Increase Moseley, Jr., June 1779. The 13th Militia Regiment was composed of the Companies from the Towns of Woodbury, New Milford, and Kent. The Company guarded Hoseneck under the Command of the Regiment's Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Canfield - present during the burning of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1779.
Benjamin Bell, yeoman, moved from Connecticut to Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont in the spring of 1781. There he and his wife Elizabeth had at least 3 children: Benjamin John (1785-1813), Eunice (b. 1887), and Hazen Bell (1793-1823). Benjamin and his family moved to South Hero onto land now in the Town of Grand Isle, Grand Isle County, Vermont, in the early spring of 1793. Here he served as Town Selectman, 1798; Surveyor of Highways and Fence Viewer 1804-1805; owned and operated a Tavern on the west shore of "Customs House Bay", Lake Champlain; and established and operated the 1st Ferry running between the island of Grand Isle in Vermont and Cumberland Head on the eastern shore of the lake just north of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.
(1) Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle's Company, 7th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb - Enlisted July 11, 1775, discharged December 20, 1775 at Charlestown near Boston. Col. Webb's Regiment was recruited in Fairfield, Litchfield, and New Haven Counties. The Regiment was stationed at various points along the Long Island Sound until September 14, 1775, when on requisition from General Washington, the Regiment was ordered to the Boston Camps. There it was assigned to General Sullivan's Brigade on Winter Hill at the left of the besieging line where it remainded until the expiration of it's term of sevice in December 1775.
(2) Capt. Jerah (Jierah) Swift's Company, Colonel Charles Burrell's Connecticut Regiment - enlisted February 1, 1776 at Woodbury, Connecticut, discharged in Febraury 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga. Col. Burrell's Regiment was raised to reinforce the troops besieging Quebec under Brigadier Generals Benedict Arnold and David Wooster. After retreating from that position in April 1776, it was stationed at Fort Ticonderoga and it's vicinity.
(3) A Connecticut Militia Regiment in the battle at Saratoga at the defeat and taking of the British Army commanded by General John Burgoyne.
(4) Capt. David Leavenworth's Company, 13th Connecticut Militia Regiment commanded by Colonel Increase Moseley, Jr., June 1779. The 13th Militia Regiment was composed of the Companies from the Towns of Woodbury, New Milford, and Kent. The Company guarded Hoseneck under the Command of the Regiment's Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Canfield - present during the burning of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1779.
Benjamin Bell, yeoman, moved from Connecticut to Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont in the spring of 1781. There he and his wife Elizabeth had at least 3 children: Benjamin John (1785-1813), Eunice (b. 1887), and Hazen Bell (1793-1823). Benjamin and his family moved to South Hero onto land now in the Town of Grand Isle, Grand Isle County, Vermont, in the early spring of 1793. Here he served as Town Selectman, 1798; Surveyor of Highways and Fence Viewer 1804-1805; owned and operated a Tavern on the west shore of "Customs House Bay", Lake Champlain; and established and operated the 1st Ferry running between the island of Grand Isle in Vermont and Cumberland Head on the eastern shore of the lake just north of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.
Revolutionary War service:
(1) Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle's Company, 7th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb - Enlisted July 11, 1775, discharged December 20, 1775 at Charlestown near Boston. Col. Webb's Regiment was recruited in Fairfield, Litchfield, and New Haven Counties. The Regiment was stationed at various points along the Long Island Sound until September 14, 1775, when on requisition from General Washington, the Regiment was ordered to the Boston Camps. There it was assigned to General Sullivan's Brigade on Winter Hill at the left of the besieging line where it remainded until the expiration of it's term of sevice in December 1775.
(2) Capt. Jerah (Jierah) Swift's Company, Colonel Charles Burrell's Connecticut Regiment - enlisted February 1, 1776 at Woodbury, Connecticut, discharged in Febraury 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga. Col. Burrell's Regiment was raised to reinforce the troops besieging Quebec under Brigadier Generals Benedict Arnold and David Wooster. After retreating from that position in April 1776, it was stationed at Fort Ticonderoga and it's vicinity.
(3) A Connecticut Militia Regiment in the battle at Saratoga at the defeat and taking of the British Army commanded by General John Burgoyne.
(4) Capt. David Leavenworth's Company, 13th Connecticut Militia Regiment commanded by Colonel Increase Moseley, Jr., June 1779. The 13th Militia Regiment was composed of the Companies from the Towns of Woodbury, New Milford, and Kent. The Company guarded Hoseneck under the Command of the Regiment's Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Canfield - present during the burning of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1779.
Benjamin Bell, yeoman, moved from Connecticut to Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont in the spring of 1781. There he and his wife Elizabeth had at least 3 children: Benjamin John (1785-1813), Eunice (b. 1887), and Hazen Bell (1793-1823). Benjamin and his family moved to South Hero onto land now in the Town of Grand Isle, Grand Isle County, Vermont, in the early spring of 1793. Here he served as Town Selectman, 1798; Surveyor of Highways and Fence Viewer 1804-1805; owned and operated a Tavern on the west shore of "Customs House Bay", Lake Champlain; and established and operated the 1st Ferry running between the island of Grand Isle in Vermont and Cumberland Head on the eastern shore of the lake just north of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.
(1) Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle's Company, 7th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb - Enlisted July 11, 1775, discharged December 20, 1775 at Charlestown near Boston. Col. Webb's Regiment was recruited in Fairfield, Litchfield, and New Haven Counties. The Regiment was stationed at various points along the Long Island Sound until September 14, 1775, when on requisition from General Washington, the Regiment was ordered to the Boston Camps. There it was assigned to General Sullivan's Brigade on Winter Hill at the left of the besieging line where it remainded until the expiration of it's term of sevice in December 1775.
(2) Capt. Jerah (Jierah) Swift's Company, Colonel Charles Burrell's Connecticut Regiment - enlisted February 1, 1776 at Woodbury, Connecticut, discharged in Febraury 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga. Col. Burrell's Regiment was raised to reinforce the troops besieging Quebec under Brigadier Generals Benedict Arnold and David Wooster. After retreating from that position in April 1776, it was stationed at Fort Ticonderoga and it's vicinity.
(3) A Connecticut Militia Regiment in the battle at Saratoga at the defeat and taking of the British Army commanded by General John Burgoyne.
(4) Capt. David Leavenworth's Company, 13th Connecticut Militia Regiment commanded by Colonel Increase Moseley, Jr., June 1779. The 13th Militia Regiment was composed of the Companies from the Towns of Woodbury, New Milford, and Kent. The Company guarded Hoseneck under the Command of the Regiment's Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Canfield - present during the burning of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1779.
Benjamin Bell, yeoman, moved from Connecticut to Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont in the spring of 1781. There he and his wife Elizabeth had at least 3 children: Benjamin John (1785-1813), Eunice (b. 1887), and Hazen Bell (1793-1823). Benjamin and his family moved to South Hero onto land now in the Town of Grand Isle, Grand Isle County, Vermont, in the early spring of 1793. Here he served as Town Selectman, 1798; Surveyor of Highways and Fence Viewer 1804-1805; owned and operated a Tavern on the west shore of "Customs House Bay", Lake Champlain; and established and operated the 1st Ferry running between the island of Grand Isle in Vermont and Cumberland Head on the eastern shore of the lake just north of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.
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Benjamin Bell's grave, if it ever had a head stone, disappeared from view before February 20, 1865 when a descendant wrote to President Abraham Lincoln about it not being marked.
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