| Birth: | 1730 | | Death: | Sep. 21, 1777, USA | 
On September 7, 1776, Lieutenant Daniel Clark entered service and commanded the Plainfield (Windham County) Company, Colonel John Douglas' 21st Regiment of Connecticut Militia under Brigadier General Gurdon Saltonstall during the 1776 Campaign around New York. This call up was in response to General George Washington's second requisition during the summer 1776 to Connecticut for assistance in establishing a large force to meet the British's threatened attack upon New York. Lieutenant Clark was discharged from this service, March 20, 1777.
Captain Daniel Clark was detached from the Plainfield (Windham County) Company, 21st Connecticut Militia Regiment, August 24, 1777, and assigned to command a Company in Colonel Jonathan Latimer's Regiment. Colonel Latimer's Regiment was one of two large regiments of militia, composed of detachments from all the Connecticut Militia Brigades, ordered to re-enforce General Horatio Gates at Saratoga in the summer of 1777. They were assigned to General Enoch Poor's Continental Brigade of New Hamsphire and New York Regiments in Major General Benedict Arnold's Division. Colonel Latimer's Regiment fought in both the battles against the General John Burgoyne's British Army, September 19 and October 9, 1777. In the first battle Connecticut's two Militia Regiments lost more than any two other regiments in the field. Captain Clark was mortally wounded at the Stillwater battle, September 19, 1777. He died two days later.
References:
(1) "The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service during the War of the Revolution 1775-1783." by Henry P. Johnson, 1889, pages 448, 450, 474, 504 and 507
Inscription:
In Memory of Capt.
DANIEL CLARK of Plain-
field in Connecticut
who fell in Battle at
Stillwaters Sept. 19th AD
1777 Aged 40 years
a man greatly beloved
and much Lemented.
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Center Shaftsbury Cemetery
Shaftsbury Center
Bennington County
Vermont, USA |
Created by: Chazmanbsr
Record added: Oct 19, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 30684960 |
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