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250 years ago this day — Samuel Harmon’s commission

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 […]