NEW MILFORD IN THE WARS. By GEN. HENRY STUART TURRILL 31 Military inactivity of the first fifty years. The first company in New Milford. Arduousness of the train-band service. The Second Company. Tenth Company of Col. David Wooster’s Third Regiment of Connecticut Levy. Other Companies. The Eleventh Company of the Fourth Regiment. The Tenth Company of the Second Regiment. Captain Joseph Canfield’s Company. The good understanding with the Indians. The most prominent names in military affairs. The first company mentioned in connection with the Revolution. Its history indefinite. Captain Isaac Bostwick’s Company. The Nineteenth Regiment of Connecticut Line. Part played in the movements about New York. At Spuyten Duyvil Creek. Tradition of a sergeant’s guard under the command of David Buell. The capture of Fort Washington. New Milford men made prisoners of war. Confined in a barn. The Old Sugar House Prison. Prison hardships. Roger Blaisdell’s pork barrel. The prison-ship _Dutton_. Arrival of the surviving prisoners in New Milford. Captain Bostwick’s company about Philadelphia. The Danbury alarm. Captain Daniel Pendleton’s company. The stay-at-homes. The leading families in the Revolution. Engagements in which New Milford men participated. New Milford soldiers refreshed by Deacon Gaylord. New Milford men at Stony Point. The old age of David Buell. Reunions of old soldiers at the home of John Turrill. The adventures of Stephen Turrill. THE COLONIAL WARS 45 New Milford men in the Colonial Wars as given in the Connecticut Historical Society rolls. THE REVOLUTION 49