Abner
Stocking
Jr.
Born in Middle Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of Abner Stocking Sr.
and Ruth (Higgins) Stocking
Brother of
Ruth (Stocking) Brainerd, Hannah (Stocking) Bates, William Stocking, James Stocking, Amasa Stocking, Jeremiah Stocking, Benjamin Stocking and Alexander Stocking
Husband of
Lydia (Bowers) Brainerd
— married
20 Feb 1777 in Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
[children unknown]
Died before
before age 56
in Catskill, Greene, New York, United States
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Biography
Captain Abner Stocking, Jr was born 2 Jan 1753 in Middletown, Connecticut. He was the son of Captain Abner Stocking, Sr and Ruth Higgins. [1]
Private Abner Stocking Jr. served with 2nd Connecticut Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Stocking who resided during the American Revolution at Middle Haddam, Middlesex, County, Connecticut assisted in establishing American Independence, while acting in the capacity of Private, enlisting May 6, 1775, in Captain Ezekiel Scott's Second Company, Brigadier General Joseph Spencer's 2nd Regiment; Marched to Roxbury, Massachusetts, assisted in the Siege of Boston, fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
He was detached and assigned to the forces in Benedict Arnold's Expedition [2] against Quebec, Canada. He was taken prisoner at Quebec on December 31, 1775. After his release he was discharged.
He married Lydia Bowers on 20 Feb 1777 in East Hampton, Connecticut. [3]
Sources
- ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
- ↑ Stephen Darley. Voices from a Wilderness Expedition: The Journals and Men of Benedict Arnold's Expedition to Quebec in 1775. AuthorHouse, Aug 5, 2011. p 64. [1]
- ↑ Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
See also:
- An interesting Journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut Detailing the Distressing Events of the Expedition Against Quebec, under the Command of Col. Arnold in the Year 1775. Published by the relatives of Abner Stocking. Catskill, N.Y.: Eagle Office, 1810, 36 pages.
- Magazine of History with Notes and Queries, Extra Number 75, William Abbatt, Tarrytown, N.Y., 1921. 36 pages.
- Kenneth Roberts, March to Quebec, 1938. pp 545-575.
- The Maine Reader, Edited by Charles & Samuella Shain. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1991. pp 38-49.
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