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The State of Connecticut has also transmitted a list of officers who died in the service, and for which no half-pay has been made by said State, viz:
NAME RANK KILLED or DIED DATE
DOUGLASS, William Colonel died May 27, 1777


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7) Letter of Secretary of War, H. Knox, June 21, 1790, to House of Representatives, reference petition of orphans of Lieutenant, John HARRIS, 2d Connecticut Regiment, who was killed in action in Dec 1777; requests seven years’ half-pay allowance for widows and children of officers who died in service; also mentions: Captain Robert LEWIS, Colonel Charles WEBB’s regiment, served from 1775 to 1777, died Mar 22, 1777; Dr. David GOULD, surgeon in hospital department of Virginia appointed Oct 11, 1779, died on his way to Philadelphia, to settle accounts on Jul 11 or 12, 1781; Hannah DOUGLAS, widow of Colonel William DOUGLAS, of the Continental army, appointed Oct 11, 1776, died May 1777; pages 20-22