Hudson, in Parson's Brigade under Putnam. At this same time, Lt. Griffin was also serving with Parson's Brigade, so it is possible the two area men may have been in each other's company during that portion of the American Revolution.
    The group spent the winter of 1777-78 at West Point, and in the summer of 1778 they encamped with the main army at White Plains under Washington. During the winter of 1778-79 the group encamped at Redding. In the operations of 1779, they served with Connecticut divisions on the east side of the Hudson, and part of the group detached to Meigs Light Regiment and stormed Stony Point on July 15, 177.
    The company wintered the 1779-80 season at Morristown Huts, New Jersey, and in the summer of 1780, served in the Hudson River area. On the discovery of Arnold's treason, Meigs' Regiment was ordered with other troops to West Point in anticipation of an advance by the British.
    Riggs left the group upon his discharge in May of 1780. Riggs apparently reached the rank of private and was listed as one of the pensioners in the pension list of 1818. He lived at that time in the Pines Bridge portion of Oxford which, in 1871, became Beacon Falls.
    Riggs had a wife, Betsy, who died on September 12, 1828, at the age of 40. Riggs was at that time 68 years old. Betsy was buried on the Old Rimmon Hill burial ground.
    Riggs had a daughter Harriet, born in 1798. As at this time Betsy was only ten years old, it would appear that Harriet was by an earlier wife.
    Harriet married Daniel Holbrook, son of Captain Philo Holbrook.

NATHAN MANSFIELD OF SEYMOUR

    Nathan Mansfield was born November 30, 1748 and died on November 5, 1835. He is buried in Squantic Cemetery in Seymour. Nathan Mansfield was not a professional soldier and does not appear to have served in any regular units of the Connecticut armies.
    He did make a contribution to the war effort, and was later listed as a pensioner as a result of this service. Mansfield was a volunteer who marched to the relief of Boston in the Lexington-Concord Alarm at the outbreak of the war. Mansfield's length of service contrasts strongly with those of Griffin and Riggs - he served a total of two days.