Detachment/Committee of the Connecticut Line CTSSAR
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Colonel Charles Webb's Seventh Connecticut Regiment Captain Nathan Hale's Third Company
Raised 1775
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Raised March 2008
This Connecticut Line CTSSAR Detachment portrays Colonel Charles Webb's Seventh Connecticut Regiment during the
year 1775.
Raised by order of the Connecticut General Assemby at the July session, 1775. Recruited mainly in Fairfield, Litchfield,
and New Haven Counties. Its companies were stationed at various points along the sound until September 14, when on
requisition from Washington, the regiment was ordered to the Boston Camps. There it was assigned to General Sullivan's
Brigade on Winter Hill at the left of the besieging line, and remained until expiration of term of service in December,
1775. Adopted as Continental. Re-organized under Colonel Webb for service in 1776.
(Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution; Adj. Gen., Hartford, 1889)
The Branch's namesake, Captain Nathan Hale, was commissioned Lieutenant of the Third Company, July 6, 1775. He
was promoted to Captain on September 1, 1775.
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Colors or Standards associated with Webb's Regiment:
(Front) (Back)
The 7th Connecticut Regiment of 1775 (Colonel Webb’s) - Blue (?) standard bearing on one side the
Connecticut Arms and motto “Qui Transtulit Sustinet” and on the other side “An Appeal to Heaven”.
This Connecticut Line CTSSAR Detachment is composed of members of the Connecticut Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution's Captain Nathan Hale Branch Number Six.
Representing South Eastern Connecticut
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