LUKE HITCHCOCK

Hitchcock, Luke, Sandisfield (probably). Sergeant, Lieut. Moses Soul’s co. of Minute-men, Col. John Fellows’s regt., which marched April 21, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service to May 7, 1775, 17 days. Source: MS&SRA Vol 7 pg 964/972. MERGED as same person: Hitchcock, Luke. Capt. Moses Soul’s co.. Col. John Fellows’s regt.; order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Camp at Dorchester, Nov. 1, 1775. Source: MS&SRA Vol 7 pg 964/972. MERGED as same person: Hichcok, Luke, New Marlborough. Sergeant, Capt. Moses Soule’s co.. Col. John Fellows’s (8th) regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 8, 1775; service, 3 mos. 1 day ; also, company return dated Oct. 7, 1775 ; reported enlisted April 21, 1775. Source: MS&SRA Vol 7 pg 817/825. MERGED as same person: Hitchcock, Luke, New Marlborough. Captain, Col. Ebenezer Sprout’s regt. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; reported as serving 30 mos. as Lieutenant, 6 mos. as Captain; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Enos Stone’s co.. Col. Brewer’s regt. ; return dated Camp at Valley Forge, Jan. 25, 1778 ; residence. New Marlborough ; also, order dated Camp near Valley Forge, April 9, 1778, signed by said Hitchcock, Lieutenant, and others, officers of Col. Brewer’s regt., for clothing to be delivered Lieut. Col. Littlefield ; also, letter from Lieut. Col. Samuel Carlton to the Board of War at Boston, dated West Point, Dec. 27, 1778, asking that clothing be delivered said Hitchcock and others, officers of (late) Col. Brewer’s regt. ; also, Lieutenant, Col. Carlton’s (late Brewer’s) regt.; return of officers dated Boston, Feb. 2, 1779; also. Captain, 12th Mass. regt. ; list of settlements of rank of Continental officers, dated West Point, made by a board held for the purpose and confirmed by Congress Sept. 6, 1779; commissioned July 5, 1779; also. Lieutenant, 12th Mass. regt. commanded by Maj. Tobias Fernald; return of officers who were in actual service from May, 1777, and who had not been absent subsequently except by leave of proper authority, dated Boston, Dec. 5, 1779; also, Captain, Col. Sprout’s regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780 ; also, return of officers belonging to the 12th Mass. regt. who were in actual service, as certified at Boston, July 13, 1780; also. Captain, 6th co.. Col. Joseph Vose’s (1st) regt.; muster rolls for Jan.-Mav, 1781, dated Garrison at West Point; appointed July 5, 1779; reported on command with infantry Feb. -April, 1781 ; also, return of effectives, dated May 25, 1781 ; reported as having been on command with light infantry 95 days ; also, muster roll for June, 1781, sworn to in Camp at Phillipsborough; reported on command with light infantry ; also, returns of effectives between June 1 and June 29, 1781, dated West Point and Camp Peekskill ; reported on command with light infantry ; also, muster roll for July, 1781; reported on command with light infantry; also, returns of effectives between July 7 and July 27, 1781, dated Phillipsborough and Camp near Dobbs’s Ferry ; reported on command with light infantry; also, muster rolls for Aug. and Sept., 1781, dated Camp at Peekskill; reported on command with light infantry ; also, returns of effectives between Aug. 3, 1781, and Sept. 28, 1781, dated Camp near Dobbs’s Ferry, Camp near Peekskill, and Continental Village ; reported on command with light infantry ; also, muster roll for Oct. and Nov., 1781, dated Quarters, York Hutts; reported on furlough; also, returns of effectives between Oct. 5, 1781, and Nov. 23, 1781, dated Camp Continental Village ; reported on command with light infantry; also, returns of effectives, dated Hutts 1st Brigade, Dec. 2, and Dec. 7, 1781 ; reported on command with light infantry; also, return of effectives, dated Hutts 1st Brigade, Dec. 28, 1781 ; reported on furlough at New Marlborough by leave of Gen. McDougal from Dec. 11, 1781 ; furlough to expire April 1 (also given March 15), 1782. Source: MS&SRA Vol 7 pg 964/972 [NOTE: Field Commissions]

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