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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webb , Samuel Blatchley 1753 - (search)
Webb, Samuel Blatchley 1753-
Military officer; born at Weathersfield, Conn., Dec. 15, 1753; father of the preceding and step-son of Silas Deane; was thanked for his gallantry in the battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill, where he was wounded, and in June, 1776, was appointed aide-decamp to Washington.
In the battle of White Plains he was again wounded; also at Trenton.
He was in the battle of Brandywine, and in 1778 raised and took command of the 3d Connecticut Regiment.
In 1779 he, with most of his men, were captured by the British fleet while crossing to Long Island with General Parsons, and was not released until 1780, when he took command of the light infantry, with the brevet rank of brigadier-general.
He lived in New York City after the war, until 1789, when he removed to Claverack, N. Y., where he died, Dec. 3, 1807.
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Wilkinson, James 1757-
Military officer; born in Benedict, Md., in 1757; was preparing for the medical profession when the Revolutionary War broke out. He repaired to Cambridge after the battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill, where he was made a captain in Reed's New Hampshire regiment in the spring of 1776.
He served under Arnold in the Northern army, and in July, 1776, was appointed brigademajor.
He was at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and was made lieutenantcolonel in January, 1777.
He was Gates's adjutant-general, and bore to Congress an account of the capture of Burgoyne, when he was brevetted brigadier-general and made secretary to the board of war, of which Gates was president.
Being implicated in Conway's cabal he resigned the secretaryship, and in July, 1779, was made clothier-general to the army.
At the close of the war he settled in Lexington, Ky., and engaged in mercantile transactions.
In 1791-92 he commanded, as lieutenant-colonel of infantry, an expedition