From the Book:
History of the town of Goshen, Connecticut: with genealogies and biographies based upon the records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, 1897
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THE MILITIA AT NEW YORK IN 1776.
During the summer all the men belonging to the two militia companies in the town, who were considered fit for service, were called out to go to New York. They were formed into one company of 40 or 50 men. Of this number only the following names can be ascertained.
Captain Medad Hills, Lieutenant Matthew Smith, Ensign Asa Francis, Sergeant Jonathan Kettle, Corporal Jonathan Buel, Jr., Charles Humphrey, David Ives, Amos Beach, Isaac Butrick, Robert Morris, Abraham Smith, Titus Gaylord, Jesse Stanley, and Alexander Griswold
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CONTINENTAL. SOLDIERS.
The names of those enlisting at this time, so far as known, are as follows: Isaac Miles, Caleb Miles, Robert Morris, David Ives, Timothy Knapp, Thomas Wire, Joel Gay lord, Bradford Kellogg, John Seeley, and Ichabod Chapin. David Ives deserted to the enemy.
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TORIES
...Benjamin Ives, the son of Benjamin, was known as a tory.
David Ives, brother to the above, enlisted as a Continental soldier, but deserted to the British. After the war he took up his residence in Nova Scotia....
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MARRIAGES.
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March 25, 1761. David Ives and Eunice Gillett