Jabez married Sarah Gunn on 25 Oct 1748 in Derby, New Haven, CT. [2][12]. Sarah was daughter of Nathaniel & Sarah (Wheeler) Gunn, b Feb 15 1732, d May 3 1804, she m (2) Mar 18 1778 David Johnson and m (3) John Bassett [1][13]
Jabez served in Rev. War [2]. He went out as first major of the 1st Regiment and captain of the 3d Company in 1775." [16]. He served with the Second Co., Col. Lyman's Regt. in 1757
... the Department of the Interior at Washington furnished the following to John D. Candee, of Bridgepoprt, March 15th, 1882:
... Col. Thompson's Connecticut regiment, where the company was engaged in several skirmishes with the enemy, followed by the retreat of the enemy to New York, and the evacuation of the city.
While engaged in throwing up entrenchments, the British sailed up the East river, landed at Turtle Bay, and on Sunday, September 15, an engagement ensued, and the enemy retreated to New York. Col. Thompson's regiment was the last to retire from the occupation of the City, and he was killed in one of the battles that occurred soon after. Samuel Candee and his brother Job, who was in Capt. Beecher's Company, and Col. Thompson's Regiment, were both standing near him when he was killed, and but a minute previous had been conversing with him."
He died Sep 15 1776 killed at Kip's Bay in Rev [1][2][13][17]
He was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT.
↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 598.
↑ Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), 472, 474, 475, 477. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.
↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 541.
↑ Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 12621.
New England Historic Genealogical Register. Vol LXVI, July 1912. Thompson Families of Connecticut, Page 199-207.
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is referring to Samuel Candee, who was killed. Not Jabez Thompson. You can download the book in PDF form at archive.org and read it for yourself.