Archive:The Connecticut Nutmegger, Volume 48
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Ann Tracy Marr, "In Defense of Alpheus Chapman", The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 48, no. 2 (Nov 2015):104-119.
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The pension application for Thomas Rogers lacked a deposition by Chapman. Rogers did not serve under Hale in 1776, but according to his statement, dated 23 December 1833, he was a member of a volunteer group of two gunboats with eighteen hands each which meant to attack the British sloop of war Rose or another boat then lying in the harbor of Newport, then
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on the 20th day of September 1777, he again enlisted for two months as a sergeant in the State troops of the State of Connecticut in the company of Capt White [ink blotch] or Whitney, Alpheus Chapman of said Montville then at or of New London was Lt. of the company and Wells ensign and in the Regt of Col. Samuel McClellan, the Regt marched to Providence in R Island thence to Tiverton in said state of R Island and there encamped.
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