Author: Tim Abbott

Tim Abbott has presented his research at the Shays Rebellion Symposium in Springfield, Massachusetts and before numerous historical societies. His paper documenting the route and encampments of the Convention Army in Connecticut is housed in the collections of the David Center of the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He is currently writing a book about Spencer's Additional Continental Regiment. He lives in North Canaan CT.

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A Forgotten Patriot: Lt. Col. Thomas Williams, Jr. of Stockbridge, Massachusetts

The American Revolution ended many lives and cut short many promising futures. A few of the fallen became celebrated martyrs in the cause of liberty, but most died in obscurity and are unremembered today. Thomas Williams, Jr. of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was one who died, after considerable military service, less than a week after the Declaration […]

by Tim Abbott