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common in the
American colonies,
where they are
normally referred to as
Trainbands.
Similar organisations include the
Dutch Schutterij, and the
Swiss militia...
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disparate groups,
culminating in a 1645
episode involving the town's "
trainband", when some
Hingham settlers supported Eames, and
others supported Bozoan...
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celebrations and
activities such as
military exercises of the town's
trainband or militia. Many of the
early colonists who
migrated from
England came...
- diplomat; US Amb****ador to
Haiti John B****ett (1652–1714),
captain of the
trainband;
deputy to the
General Court (legislature) of
Connecticut Colony Lyman...
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Ashael Raymond Residence(s)
Willow Street, Norwalk,
Connecticut Colony Occupation surveyor Military service Rank
Captain (1710) Unit
Norwalk Trainband...
- or the
Council of ****istants from 1734 to 1754. He was
Captain of the
Trainband, East
Society from 1730 to 1738;
Major of the 1st
Regiment from 1738 to...
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promoted to the rank of
lieutenant in the
First Company of the
Stratford Trainband when it was
formed in 1672. A
religious conflict erupted between Stratford's...
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magistrate at Fairfield,
Connecticut in 1677 He was
Ensign of the
Fairfield trainband in April, 1690 and Capt. in Oct., 1695. He was
Deputy Governor from 1708...
- 1718, 1723-1726, 1728, 1730, 1737, 1740, 1742, 1750.
Captain of the
Trainband of Windsor, 1722.
Captain of
Troops raised for
active service, 1724. He...
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training of
Elizabethan militias which maintained well
trained units (
trainbands)
alongside less well
trained and less well
armed groups of militia. Another...
