250 years ago today — May 6, 1775 — Julie’s ancestor Samuel Harmon was commissioned as lieutenant of the militia company of the “Second Society” of the town of Suffield in “His Majesty’s Colony of Connceticut in New-England,” by its Governor, Jonathan Trumbull. There is indeed a typo in “Connecticut”.
A fortnight after the Lexington alarm, militias were expanding. The “Second Society,” the second Suffield church, formed in the western part of the town, dated back to 1744, but I don’t know if it had its own militia company before this moment.
In 2006 we had this folio sheet conserved and reframed in its full, unfolded state, which emphasizes just how Lt. Harmon folded and carried it.
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