P- John Hyde / Pvt. / MA / M- John Lundstrom
Enlisted April 1775 / Capt. Martin’s co. & Col. Learned’s Reg. At Bunker Hill (Note: MA Soldiers and Sailors)
P- Benjamin Hyde / Pvt. / MA Militia / M – John Lundstrom
Capt. Mason’s Co., Col David Reg., 22 July 1780,; Also MA Soldiers and Sailors (1900) pg. 830, Capt. Mason’s co., Col Davis’ Reg., 30 July, 1780
(Note: Silas and Duty Marsh connection) MA – S&S “enlisted July 30 1780 – 13 days to Tiverton, R.I.”
Men from the Tiverton outpost took part in the Battle of Freetown, on May 25, 1778, during the Revolutionary War. For about three years of that war, December 1776 to October 1779, Rhode Island proper (now known as Aquidneck Island) was occupied by the British. During this time, Tiverton was a refuge for Americans fleeing this occupation, and a mustering place for colonial forces, gathering to drive away the British. (The occupying forces eventually were withdrawn strategically, as General Clinton marshaled his forces for the 1780 British invasion of South Carolina.)