David Wooster (1711 - 1777)

Born 13 Mar 1711 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Died 2 May 1777 at age 66 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Brigadier General David Wooster served with Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Major General David Wooster served with Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

David Wooster is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-344133
Rank: Major General

David Wooster is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A130342.

Born in 1711 in Stratford, he was educated at Yale College and took his first degree in 1738. In 1745, an expedition of Connecticut troops was sent to Louisburg aboard a sloop DEFENCE which he commanded.

At the commencement of the Revolutionary War in 1775 he was appointed as a Major General in command of the Connecticut Militia and later transferred to the Continental Army as a Brigadier General.

David Wooster was an American general who served in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War. He died of wounds sustained (on the 27th April 1777) during the Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Cities, schools, and public places (including the town and township in Ohio) were named after him. He has been called "a largely forgotten hero of the Revolution" and was the highest ranking officer to die in the Revolutionary War.

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• Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906. database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74B-W68 : 7 January 2020), Dauid. Shows the birth of Dauid Woster to parents Abraham and Mary Woster on 2 Mar 1710 at Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Note: This was during Lady Day Calendaring, so the "now" year is 1711)
• Wikipedia contributors, "David Wooster," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Wooster&oldid=605503358 (accessed September 1, 2014).
• Wheeler, William Ogden. The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and His Descendants, 1640-1906 Biography & Genealogy; Ed. by Lawrence Van Alstyne and Rev. Charles Burr Ogden, PH.D., 1907, Lippincott company, Philadelphia . (OpenLibrary.org), Accessed January 25, 2015, Page 140.
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• Find A Grave Index [1]
• Record of service of Connecticut men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War by Connecticut. Adjutant-General's Office; Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923. Publication date 1889 [2], Page 37 et al. SHOWS: DAVID WOOSTER, Of New Haven. Appt. by the Legislature at the special April session, 1775, Major-General of 'the six regts. then ordered for "the safety and defence of the Colony "; also appt. Colonel of the 1" Regt., com'sn dated May 1, 1775. Upon request of New York Assembly, Wooster was ordered by Gov.'s Council, June 19, to march to that place with seven Co. 's of his regt. and Col. Waterbury's regt., and encamped at Harlem, June 28. Appt. by Congress June 22, Brigadier-General on Continental establishment and served out of Conn, with that rank. Directed by Congress to report to Gen. Schuyler in Northern Dept., he left N. Y. on Sept. 28, and with his troops proceeded by way of Albany to Ticonderoga. Joining Gen. Montgomery, commanding advance forces in that Dept., he took part in the siege and capture of St. John, in Oct. '75, and subsequently took post at Montreal, while Montgomery proceeded to Quebec. Record cont. in '76. — Previous service : Lieutenant, in 1741, of Conn, sloop " Defence," guarding coast; in 1742, Captain. In 1745, Captain in Col. Andrew Burr's regt. at siege and capture of Louisburg. Appt. Sept. 24, 1745, Captain in Sir Wm Pepperell's provincial regt. in British army; retired, on disbandment of regt. in 1748, as Captain on half-pay establishment. In French and Indian War, appt. by Conn. Assembly, Colonel of one of the Colony regts. for campaigns of 1756, '58, '59, and '60. Age in 1775, sixty-four.