6th Connecticut Regiment was held Saturday August 12th

A modern-day re-enactment of the 6th Connecticut Regiment was held Saturday August 12th.

Sammual H. Parsons was born in Lyme, Connecticut, the son of Jonathan Parsons and Phoebe (Griswold) Parsons. At the age of nine, his family moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts where his father, an ardent supporter of the First Great Awakening, took charge of the town’s new Presbyterian congregation. In 1775, he was commissioned Colonel of the 6th Connecticut Regiment, a new regiment raised “for the special defense and safety of the Colony”. In June he was ordered to lead his regiment to Boston, where he fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He remained in Boston until the British evacuated the city in March 1776. Click For: A Biography Of Parsons

There was also a discussion at The Encampment by Professor Richard Buel about Connecticut in the Revolutionary War: