Capt. William Latham
Second in command & commander of the matross company garrisoned at Fort Griswold.
Served with the Continental Army at Dorchester, Mass., 1776.
Wounded & Paroled, Age 39.
William Latham, born 1741 at Groton, son of Jonathan Latham and Mary Avery. He married in Sept 1764 Eunice Forsythe, daughter of Timothy Forsythe and Eunice Perkins. In 1776 he was with Washington on Dorchester Heights as lieutenant of artillery; then second lieutenant in Capt. Mills company, Connecticut line. In 1781 he was captain of the Matross company, and had command of Fort Griswold. On the morning of Sept 6 the British attacked. Col. William Ledyard, commander of military district, assumed command. In this battle, Capt Latham was wounded in the thigh, taken prisoner on board a ship in New York, and afterwards exchanged. His children were Mary, married Samuel Walsworth; Eunice married Youngs Avery; Lucy, married Nathaniel Gallup; William, born 1771, was in Fort Griswold, and took part in the battle; Luke; Derastus; Hannah, married Rufus Avery, then James Mitchell; Caroline, married Rufus Avery.
From "The Revolutionary Ancestry of the Members of the Warren and Prescott Chapter, Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution".
Published 1899, pages 32, 33
Second in command & commander of the matross company garrisoned at Fort Griswold.
Served with the Continental Army at Dorchester, Mass., 1776.
Wounded & Paroled, Age 39.
William Latham, born 1741 at Groton, son of Jonathan Latham and Mary Avery. He married in Sept 1764 Eunice Forsythe, daughter of Timothy Forsythe and Eunice Perkins. In 1776 he was with Washington on Dorchester Heights as lieutenant of artillery; then second lieutenant in Capt. Mills company, Connecticut line. In 1781 he was captain of the Matross company, and had command of Fort Griswold. On the morning of Sept 6 the British attacked. Col. William Ledyard, commander of military district, assumed command. In this battle, Capt Latham was wounded in the thigh, taken prisoner on board a ship in New York, and afterwards exchanged. His children were Mary, married Samuel Walsworth; Eunice married Youngs Avery; Lucy, married Nathaniel Gallup; William, born 1771, was in Fort Griswold, and took part in the battle; Luke; Derastus; Hannah, married Rufus Avery, then James Mitchell; Caroline, married Rufus Avery.
From "The Revolutionary Ancestry of the Members of the Warren and Prescott Chapter, Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution".
Published 1899, pages 32, 33
Capt. William Latham
Second in command & commander of the matross company garrisoned at Fort Griswold.
Served with the Continental Army at Dorchester, Mass., 1776.
Wounded & Paroled, Age 39.
William Latham, born 1741 at Groton, son of Jonathan Latham and Mary Avery. He married in Sept 1764 Eunice Forsythe, daughter of Timothy Forsythe and Eunice Perkins. In 1776 he was with Washington on Dorchester Heights as lieutenant of artillery; then second lieutenant in Capt. Mills company, Connecticut line. In 1781 he was captain of the Matross company, and had command of Fort Griswold. On the morning of Sept 6 the British attacked. Col. William Ledyard, commander of military district, assumed command. In this battle, Capt Latham was wounded in the thigh, taken prisoner on board a ship in New York, and afterwards exchanged. His children were Mary, married Samuel Walsworth; Eunice married Youngs Avery; Lucy, married Nathaniel Gallup; William, born 1771, was in Fort Griswold, and took part in the battle; Luke; Derastus; Hannah, married Rufus Avery, then James Mitchell; Caroline, married Rufus Avery.
From "The Revolutionary Ancestry of the Members of the Warren and Prescott Chapter, Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution".
Published 1899, pages 32, 33
Second in command & commander of the matross company garrisoned at Fort Griswold.
Served with the Continental Army at Dorchester, Mass., 1776.
Wounded & Paroled, Age 39.
William Latham, born 1741 at Groton, son of Jonathan Latham and Mary Avery. He married in Sept 1764 Eunice Forsythe, daughter of Timothy Forsythe and Eunice Perkins. In 1776 he was with Washington on Dorchester Heights as lieutenant of artillery; then second lieutenant in Capt. Mills company, Connecticut line. In 1781 he was captain of the Matross company, and had command of Fort Griswold. On the morning of Sept 6 the British attacked. Col. William Ledyard, commander of military district, assumed command. In this battle, Capt Latham was wounded in the thigh, taken prisoner on board a ship in New York, and afterwards exchanged. His children were Mary, married Samuel Walsworth; Eunice married Youngs Avery; Lucy, married Nathaniel Gallup; William, born 1771, was in Fort Griswold, and took part in the battle; Luke; Derastus; Hannah, married Rufus Avery, then James Mitchell; Caroline, married Rufus Avery.
From "The Revolutionary Ancestry of the Members of the Warren and Prescott Chapter, Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution".
Published 1899, pages 32, 33
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