JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Efquire

Capin-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His Majetty's Englith
Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America.

BY

GREETING:

Yates of the Power and Authority to me go, in cad by the Hot ChaRT, to the Gemer and Company of the Colony, under the Greu cal England, I no, by the Prefent, repofing cpccial Trift nd Cofidem in your Loveity, Courage and good Conner, conftitute and appeint yo, the Lid Sliphalit he King to be 801 of the ent Company is the lend Regiment of the birints, infled and affentled for the (pocal Detoucwid Safety of His Majcity's faid You are therefore coc lly and digently to discharge the Duty of an Ensign waleng, dering and serming aid Company, both. Inics Officers and Soldier in atk to hup there in good Order Dilcipline, hereby commandwal relf to obferve and follow fale in De to las recurs from Me, or the Con bebor ter your fuperior Officers, acpartant so the Trust repofed in you

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rih on June 17. 1775, and inereafter was in the expeneral Benedict Arno 1 against Quebec (Sept Ic,

oficial report thereof mentions Eliphalet Krig hose who lost the guns." La that campaign Capt. our Latbet and one of his Lieutenants were taken prisoners the Pritish, his other Lieutenant was killed, and more than e-half of the members of their company were killed, wounded taken prisoners, Eliphala King however escaped with only

less of his gen.

On January 1, 1776, the American Congress, composed of orgates of the Trited Colonies of New Hampshire, Mascapsetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connection New York, New, Jersey, nyivania, the counties of Newcoste Kent and Sussex on laware, Maryland, Virginia, North Car dina and Sonta Cam" issued to "Elif halet King, Goal a," a conu..iston a. cd Liegenant of Captain (bituatia don'. Com by (Third Compat in the Twenty second rent of big ext, Cormanded by Colonel Samuel Wvily &m the amy of *** United Colonies, raised for the detengo American Liberty, for repelling every hosule invision .col" This comon was signed: "By Order of the Congress, Jolin Hancock, ent-Attest Chas Thomson, Secy, Jancy the first 1776." (See „rotogravures of commissions on page facing this.)

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listenant King was with his regralent betore beston when De British evacuated that city Marc. 17, 1776, ard in Aped 1776, ne narched with his regiment unle General Washingt by the way of New London and the Sot nd, to New Y k ry and assisted in fortifying that place. On the twenty fo commar; to si

by of Angest, 1776, he went with his
at Ï.coklyn, and on the twenty-seventh of Auga.
as in the Battle of Long Island, where in regir
verely. His conduct in this battle was such that d
r. in September, 1776, he was promoter
tenant of his company. On Supien her:
us regument in its retreat from Now i
Por engagements and skirmishes wa
1776, in the Battle of White Plains

Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, and thereafter was in the expedition of General Benedict Arnold against Quebec (Sept.-Dec., 1775), for an official report thereof mentions Eliphalet King as one of "those who lost their guns." In that campaign Capt. Oliver Hanchet and one of his Lieutenants were taken prisoners by the British, his other Lieutenant was killed, and more than one-half of the members of their company were killed, wounded or taken prisoners. Eliphalet King however escaped with only the loss of his gun.

On January 1, 1776, the American Congress, composed of "Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina" issued to "Eliphalet King, Gentleman," a commission as "Second Lieutenant of Captain (Ebenezer Huntington's Company (Third Company) in the Twenty-second Regiment of Foot, Commanded by Colonel Samuel Wyllys, in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof." This commission was signed: "By Order of the Congress, John Hancock, President-Attest Chas Thomson, Secy. January the first 1776.” (See protogravures of commissions on page facing this.)

Lieutenant King was with his regiment before Boston when the British evacuated that city March 17, 1776, and in April, 1776, he marched with his regiment, under General Washington, by the way of New London and the Sound, to New York City and assisted in fortifying that place. On the twenty-fourth day of August, 1776, he went with his command to the front

at Brooklyn, and on the twenty-seventh of August, 1776, he was in the Battle of Long Island, where his regiment suffered severely. His conduct in this battle was such that shortly thereafter, in September, 1776, he was promoted and made First Lieutenant of his company. On September first, 1776, he was with his regiment in its retreat from New York City, and after many minor engagements and skirmishes was on October twentyeighth, 1776, in the Battle of White Plains. He thereafter re

mained with his regiment in the vicinity of Peekskill under Gen'l Heath.

The record of the military services of Eliphalet King, both as Ensign in the Second Regiment, Connecticut Line, and as Lieutenant in the Twenty-second Regiment of Foot, Continental Army, will be found in a book published by the State of Connecticut, entitled "Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution," "compiled by authority of the General Assembly under direction of the Adjutant General of Connecticut-Hartford, 1889," at pages 51, 92, 107 and 640.

In the same book the record of Eliphalet King's first regiment, the "Second Connecticut Line," is given at page 45 thereof as follows:

"Second Regiment-Gen. Spencer's-1775."

"[Regiment raised on first call for troops by the Legislature April-May 1775. Recruited mainly in present Middlesex Co. and Eastern part of the Colony. Marching to the camps around Boston, it took post at Roxbury and served during the siege until expiration of term of service, Dec. 1775. Detachments of officers and men engaged at the Battle of Bunker Hill June 17 and in Arnold's Quebec Expedition Sept.-Dec. 1775. Adopted as Continental in July. The regiment was reorganized for service in 1776 under Col. Wyllys]"

In addition to the foregoing, the names of the officers and men are given, and under "10th Company" at page 51 of the book appears the following:

"Captain, Oliver Hanchett, of Suffield

Lieutenant, Samuel Wright, of Suffield
Lieutenant, Consider Williston

Ensign, Eliphalet King, of Suffield"

The record of the "22d Reg't of Foot, Continental Army," into which the 2d Connecticut was merged and in which Eliphalet King became at first a Second Lieutenant and was after the Battle of Long Island promoted to the First Lieutenancy, is also given very fully in the book, but the record of Eliphalet King in that regiment as we give it here is, we think, a sufficient statement as to the general movements of that regiment and the engagements in which it participated.