Wrote Home by Parsons
No. 2 & to Revd Willard with a thirty Dollar Bill Capt. Whitcombe1 brings
up an account yt ye Enemy are gone down
ye Lake— very warm—
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1 Captain, afterward Major, Benjamin Whitcomb,
of Connecticut, a famous partisan officer (Rogers, Hadden, pp. 4-9, 42 n.,
etc.), the fruits of whose scouting operations will frequently appear. General
Gates spoke of him as "a most usefull officer" (MS. in N. Y. Hist.
Socy. Rogers' MS. Notes). He was accordingly hated by the British and Tories.
SOURCE: Amos
Perry, The Town Records of Rhode Island, Publications of the
Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Vol. 7 (1899), p. 110
