Biography

He enlisted as orderly sergeant for 5 months in Capt. John Graham's Co., Col. Spaulding's regiment, and was in one of the battles near New York. In October, '77, he was in Fort Montgomery, but escaped when the British stormed Fort Clinton, by swimming a small creek. Afterward he marched to Kingston, on the burning of that place. After Burgoyne's surrender he became an artificer in the army, being in Capt. James Young's company, later Capt. Sheppard's. He was discharged in 1780 and was placed on Col. Christopher Ming's staff, then in Gen. Pickering's department. In 1840 he was a pensioner, living with Samuel Dill. Col John Dill was the brother of Samuel Dill and Robert Dill.