Trowbridge, Lt. Billy^[1]

1748 - 1798  (49 years)

• Name	Trowbridge, Billy
  Prefix	Lt.
  Birth	4 Sep 1748	Stratfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Military	9 May 1775–JAN 1778	New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1]
  	He enlisted from that town in the Revolution, his service being as follows: He was sergeant of the Ninth Company, Capt. Nehemiah Beardsley, 5th Regiment, Connecticut Line, Col. David Waterbury, Jr., enlisting May 9, 1775, and serving until November 9 of that year. This regiment was raised at the first call for troops and marched first to Horseneck and Harlem, under General Wooster, and then by boat to Albany and the Northern Department, and marching to Ticonderoga, engaged in the taking of St. John's and then went on to Montreal. He served as sergeant in Capt. William G. Hubbell's company, under Colonel Waterbury, the following year.t His name appears as second lieutenant of Capt. Jesse Bell's company, Colonel Eno's Connecticut state regiment, in June, 1777, and at the same time is recorded as ensign of the Sixth Company, 16th Regiment. There is also on record the name of " Bille" Trowbridge, enlisted soldier in the Dutchess county militia, 7th New York Regiment, Major Adams. His Revolutionary services, as described in his widow's application for a pension, were as follows: “That he enlisted in the town of New Fairfield then in the Colony of Connecticut now in the County of Fairfield State of Connecticut in the spring of the year 1775, as orderly sergeant in this deponent's uncle's company, commanded by Nehemiah Beardsley, in the northern expedition, and was absent in the service until the following winter — She further says that he enlisted as an ensign in the spring of 1776 in the town of New Fairfield in Connecticut, and served in the company commanded by her father Phineas Beardsley, Capt., in Col. Joseph Platt Cook's regiment of Danbury, and marched to New York and was in the battle of Long Island and the evacuation of New York ; and at Harlem Heights ; and was absent from home that season. She further says that her husband enlisted in the spring of the year 1777 in Capt. Taylor Hubbell's company as lieutenant, and was in command of the company under Colonel Porter, and that he marched to Mamaroneck, then to Horse Neck, after having left Fishkill, and returned home in January, 1778. And she further states that her husband was in the service continually from the commencement of the year 1775 until war closed, and that she further states that she has frequently seen his commissions."
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  Death	16 Feb 1798	Oxford, Chenango County, New York   [1]
  Burial	SAY 18 Feb 1798	Truxton, Cortland County, New York
  	Address: Truxton Rural Cemetery
  Person ID	I13888	Tree_1
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Trowbridge, Dea. Samuel,   b. 26 Aug 1700, Stratfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 24 Nov 1782, New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Seeley, Sarah,   b. 29 Jun 1703, Stratfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 15 Mar 1752, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	30 Aug 1722	Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F4509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Beardsley, Rhoda,   b. 14 Feb 1758, New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 8 Feb 1844, Truxton, Cortland County, New York (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	12 Jun 1777	New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1]
  Residence	1784	Cortland County, New York   [1]
  	In 1784 he removed with his family to Carmel, then a part of Fredericktown and in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was engaged in farming there until shortly before his death. For his services in the war he had land bounty rights in the town of Truxton, Cortland county , N. Y. While on his way thither with his family in 1798 , he was stricken with inflammation of the lungs, and died at Oxford in Chenango county. His widow and children continued on to Truxton.
  Children	1. Trowbridge, Billy,   b. 26 Mar 1781, New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 8 May 1854, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F4651	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 Sep 1748 - Stratfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Marriage - 12 Jun 1777 - New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Military - 9 May 1775–JAN 1778 - New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Residence - 1784 - Cortland County, New York Death - 16 Feb 1798 - Oxford, Chenango County, New York Burial - Address: Truxton Rural Cemetery - SAY 18 Feb 1798 - Truxton, Cortland County, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Spelled " Bille" in most public records, his father-in-law's will, and by himself until about 1790 , when he commenced the use of "Billy."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2214] Trowbridge Genealogy, pg. 144. [S1571] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Jacobus), 29 July 2023; pg. 617. [S2214] Trowbridge Genealogy, pg. 131.