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Jabez Huntington Tomlinson, while a student at Yale, in 1779, returned to Stratford to visit the family of his betrothed, and while there was captured by a party of British or Tory raiders and taken to New York. On his release he entered the army; in April, 1780, was appointed ensign of Col. Samuel B. Webb's Continental regiment, and was one of the officers detailed to guard Maj. Andre's quarters during his captivity and trial. In return for some kindness, he received a pen and ink sketch of the doomed man, which is preserved in the library of Yale College.
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Jabez Huntington Tomlinson, while a student at Yale, in 1779, returned to Stratford to visit the family of his betrothed, and while there was captured by a party of British or Tory raiders and taken to New York. On his release he entered the army; in April, 1780, was appointed ensign of Col. Samuel B. Webb's Continental regiment, and was one of the officers detailed to guard Maj. Andre's quarters during his captivity and trial. In return for some kindness, he received a pen and ink sketch of the doomed man, which is preserved in the library of Yale College.
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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