 1748 - 1826 (78 years)
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| Name |
Elihu Trowbridge |
| Birth |
1748 |
Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut, USA  |
| Christening |
25 Dec 1748 |
Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
23 Mar 1826 |
Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Person ID |
I317 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Joseph Trowbridge, b. 12 Jun 1718, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 9 Oct 1801, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 83 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Trial Morehouse |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
15 Apr 1741 |
Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Family ID |
F111 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- CONFLICT: Babt. Elitus
BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE-SPOUSE-PARENTS: The Trowbridge genealogy, history of
the Trowbridge family in America; Francis Bacon Trowbridge; Tuttle,
Morehouse & Taylor; New Haven; 1908.
Died unmarried.
Elihu Trowbridge was a soldier in the Revolution. He enlisted April 20,
1775, from Hatfield, MA, as a private in Capt. Israel Chapin's
company, Col. John Fellow's regiment, and was discharged October 8, 1775.
He re-enlisted January 1, 1776, in Cambridge, MA, in Capt.
Samuel Hunt's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, MA Line. He
was chosen in February, 1776, as one of General Washington's Life Guard,
as sergeant under Captain Gibbs, and continued in that service about nine
months. He was appointed a second lieutenant in Samuel Granger's company,
2nd Connecticut Regiment, Col. Charles Webb, January 1, 1777. He resigned
December 4, 1777. In January, 1778, he was appointed a captain of marines
on board of the frigate Warren, commanded by John Hopkins, where he
served until she was destroyed at Penobscot some time in March, 1779. He
then was on leave of absence from the Marine Committee, of which Samuel
Adams was president, until peace was declared. After leaving the army he
followed the trade of pump making. He lived in Earl, Lancaster county,
Pa., Derby Landing, Conn., and Washington, Conn., returning in his old
age to his native place, where he died. He drew a pension for a few years
prior to his death.
SOURCE: MA Archives; "Connecticut in the Revolution, : p. 158;
U.S. Pension Office Records.
Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army
T
Fifteenth Virginia
page 549
Trowbridge, Elihu (Conn). 2d Lieutenant 2d Connecticut, 1st January,
1777; resigned 4th December, 1777. (Died 23d March, 1826.)
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