Fold3 lookup request

Question

Can someone with Fold3 access look up Nehemiah Tilton in the American Revolution? I know he enlisted in the Delaware militia, but he somehow got to be a colonel and is said to have been in the Delaware regiment of the Continental Line - which I can't find a service record.

Comments

Hello, I have found a few pages in Fold 3, but I am not sure if it what you are looking for and how to send it to you

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Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2204/images/32596_242258-00010?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=LSf26&_phstart=successSource&pId=590275 has it. (Ancestry was down this morn)  He was a colonel as a commissary of musters.

Answer 1

His  DAR page says he was Lt. Col

Unit Col.Thomas Rodney, Dover regiment, militia

Comments

Ah yes, they were cronies. And the Dover reg. is where he first enlisted.

Thanks

Answer 2

State:Delaware

Regiment:DelawareRecord

Type:Individual

Full Name:Tilton, Nehemiah

Conflict Period:US Revolutionary War

Branch:US Army

Served for:United States of America

The last card says he was discharged by the governor on application of his father who refunded the money.

Comments

"United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q57R-HDFG : 1 March 2021), Nehemiah Tilton, 14 Dec 1776; citing Military Service, Dover, Kent, Delaware, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 103140732.

"United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPTQ-DV4Z : 1 March 2021), Nehemiah Tilton, 1781; citing Military Service, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 103140760.

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His father?  He was an orphan.  Unless a different Nehemiah.

What I'm looking for is an official record of him as an officer, specifically a colonel, in the Delaware Regiment - the 1st Delaware, aka Blues.  Not the militia, unless there is a record of a transfer from the militia to the Regiment.

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Here https://www.1stdelawareregiment.org/history is a brief history of the Regiment - no Col. Nehemiah Tilton

Was he a colonel in the militia? Or just a "colonel"?

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Apologies it was a remark made by Col Tilton about someome else that is noted on his card.

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Ah - I wondered if it might have been his son, but he was a sailor.