"He enlisted in the Minute Man Company at Aquebogue on March 21, 1776, under the command of Captain Paul Reeve, and served until June of that year. Jacob also appears in the 1st Regiment of Minute Men of Suffolk County, commanded by Col. Josiah Smith. In May of 1776, he enlisted as a Volunteer and Priest Soldier in a company commanded by Captain Jonathan Bailey.
"In May of 1776, Jacob traveled by boat with members of his regiment to New York City and was stationed at the barracks at Greenwich. Here Jacob's company was assigned to the building of a fort that, according to Jacob's pension application, General Washington would visit and spend three nights. This fort was one of thirteen built in New York to ensure safety from an impending attack by the British. While stationed at Greenwich, Jacob related that they came under fire by British ships of war as they passed up the North (Hudson) River.
"While engaged in the service, Jacob had the opportunity to experience a trial and execution. Thomas Hickey, Washington's bodyguard, who had been bribed by the British, attempted to poison the peas of General George Washington. Hickey told a Jamaican-American patriot and a server at the party, Pheobe Fraunces, that the general was to attend about his plot so that she could infuse the poison. Phoebe quickly told her father of this and he, Sam Fraunces, "took the peas, went into the backyard and scattered them to the chickens. Six chickens were very quickly dead." (Dr. Edward Beasley...) Jacob Corwin's pension application states that he was a witness to the execution.
"Jacob was unfamiliar with the hard labor that building a fort entails and took ill with fever. He was sent to the hospital where he stayed for three weeks before being sent back to Southhold to recover."
"In May of 1776, Jacob traveled by boat with members of his regiment to New York City and was stationed at the barracks at Greenwich. Here Jacob's company was assigned to the building of a fort that, according to Jacob's pension application, General Washington would visit and spend three nights. This fort was one of thirteen built in New York to ensure safety from an impending attack by the British. While stationed at Greenwich, Jacob related that they came under fire by British ships of war as they passed up the North (Hudson) River.
"While engaged in the service, Jacob had the opportunity to experience a trial and execution. Thomas Hickey, Washington's bodyguard, who had been bribed by the British, attempted to poison the peas of General George Washington. Hickey told a Jamaican-American patriot and a server at the party, Pheobe Fraunces, that the general was to attend about his plot so that she could infuse the poison. Phoebe quickly told her father of this and he, Sam Fraunces, "took the peas, went into the backyard and scattered them to the chickens. Six chickens were very quickly dead." (Dr. Edward Beasley...) Jacob Corwin's pension application states that he was a witness to the execution.
"Jacob was unfamiliar with the hard labor that building a fort entails and took ill with fever. He was sent to the hospital where he stayed for three weeks before being sent back to Southhold to recover."
"He enlisted in the Minute Man Company at Aquebogue on March 21, 1776, under the command of Captain Paul Reeve, and served until June of that year. Jacob also appears in the 1st Regiment of Minute Men of Suffolk County, commanded by Col. Josiah Smith. In May of 1776, he enlisted as a Volunteer and Priest Soldier in a company commanded by Captain Jonathan Bailey.
"In May of 1776, Jacob traveled by boat with members of his regiment to New York City and was stationed at the barracks at Greenwich. Here Jacob's company was assigned to the building of a fort that, according to Jacob's pension application, General Washington would visit and spend three nights. This fort was one of thirteen built in New York to ensure safety from an impending attack by the British. While stationed at Greenwich, Jacob related that they came under fire by British ships of war as they passed up the North (Hudson) River.
"While engaged in the service, Jacob had the opportunity to experience a trial and execution. Thomas Hickey, Washington's bodyguard, who had been bribed by the British, attempted to poison the peas of General George Washington. Hickey told a Jamaican-American patriot and a server at the party, Pheobe Fraunces, that the general was to attend about his plot so that she could infuse the poison. Phoebe quickly told her father of this and he, Sam Fraunces, "took the peas, went into the backyard and scattered them to the chickens. Six chickens were very quickly dead." (Dr. Edward Beasley...) Jacob Corwin's pension application states that he was a witness to the execution.
"Jacob was unfamiliar with the hard labor that building a fort entails and took ill with fever. He was sent to the hospital where he stayed for three weeks before being sent back to Southhold to recover."
"In May of 1776, Jacob traveled by boat with members of his regiment to New York City and was stationed at the barracks at Greenwich. Here Jacob's company was assigned to the building of a fort that, according to Jacob's pension application, General Washington would visit and spend three nights. This fort was one of thirteen built in New York to ensure safety from an impending attack by the British. While stationed at Greenwich, Jacob related that they came under fire by British ships of war as they passed up the North (Hudson) River.
"While engaged in the service, Jacob had the opportunity to experience a trial and execution. Thomas Hickey, Washington's bodyguard, who had been bribed by the British, attempted to poison the peas of General George Washington. Hickey told a Jamaican-American patriot and a server at the party, Pheobe Fraunces, that the general was to attend about his plot so that she could infuse the poison. Phoebe quickly told her father of this and he, Sam Fraunces, "took the peas, went into the backyard and scattered them to the chickens. Six chickens were very quickly dead." (Dr. Edward Beasley...) Jacob Corwin's pension application states that he was a witness to the execution.
"Jacob was unfamiliar with the hard labor that building a fort entails and took ill with fever. He was sent to the hospital where he stayed for three weeks before being sent back to Southhold to recover."
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