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As soon as the news of the
uprising at
Lexington,
Massachusetts in April of 1775
reached Connecticut, several thousand militiamen
left Connecticut for Massachusetts. They were
under the command of Colonel
Israel Putnam from Pomfret. Soon promoted to General, it was
General Putnam who said at the
Battle of Bunker
Hill in Boston, "Don’t fire until you see the
white of their eyes." In 1776, Samuel
Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams and
Oliver Wolcott signed the
Declaration of
Independence for Connecticut. In that same year,
a young Connecticut patriot,
Nathan Hale, was
captured by the British while on a spy mission
for
General Washington. Nathan Hale was born in
Coventry, Conn., June 6, 1755. When but little
more than twenty-one years old he was hanged, by
order of
General William Howe, as a spy, in the
city of New York, on September 22, 1776. On Jan.
9, 1788 Connecticut became the fifth state to
ratify the
Constitution of the United States.
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