- Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 280.
... of Derby ...
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 638.
... enlisted in July, 1777, under Captain Carris in the regiment of Colonel Enos, was in command at Horseneck and afterwards under the command of Major Humphreys near Fort Independence. In the conflict at that place he, with others, was taken prisoner and confined first at King's Bridge, then in New York, and afterward on a prison ship in the North River. His commission was taken from him by his inhuman captors and he was so illy treated that, like most of the other prisoners on that infamous ship, he survived but a short time.
His generous and honorable character may be inferred from the fact that he might have escaped being taken prisoner but he would not abandon a wounded comrade; and that he aftereward divided his funds with a fellow prisoner, to which fact of liberality Bradford Steele ascribed his own recovery, by means of the provisions and comforts he was thus enabled to procure.
- Ibid., 789-90.
The memorandum of Lieut. Jabez Pritchard, who was taken prisoner with Bradford Steele and others, was brought home by Lieut. Steele, and contains the list of guards detailed at Horseneck from September 15th to the 21st. A large part of the company was from the town of Derby. The names are: ...
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 240-1.
... home was on what is now called the Mountain Road ...
- Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), Ap110.
- Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 280.
Jabez, Lieut., d. Dec. [ ]*, 1777, at New York *last day.
- Ibid., 280.
... of Derby ...
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 402.
- Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 195.
- Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 40.
- Ibid., 40.
- Francis Bacon Trowbridge, The Hoadley Genealogy (New Haven; 1894), 81.
- Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 280.
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 753.
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 532.
- 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 23.
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 532.
... died June 9, 1848.
- Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 280.
... by Rev. Daniel Humphry.
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 753.
