Lindgren Winch Revolutionary War Soldiers - Benjamin Eaton Sr.

Benjamin Eaton and Sarah Wittum

Fuller Eaton and Lucinda Taylor

George Eaton and Abigail Baldwin

John Elwess and Ruth Ann Eaton

Francis John Elwess and Mary Cordelia Lloyd

Orville Erwin Winch and Anna Emmoline Elwess

Cecil Erwin Winch and Emily Victoria Jarl

Myron Erwin Winch and Lorna Lee Triplett

Brian Carl Lindgren and Myra Lee Winch

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The following list is to "Revolutionary War Commander-in-chief guards - List of known Guards of George Washington". Transcribed by J. Farnsworth.

https://genealogytrails.com/main/military/eliteguards.html

I have resent my application for Benjamin on 23 January 2024 to Susan Haines, Registrar, Fort Casper, Wyoming Chapter. 

7 February 2024 - Suzie is checking out my archival printed application. I am going to add everything I have in PDF to prove this is the Benjamin Eaton who was George Washington's life guard for 3 years. I need to double check the relationship of Fuller Eaton to Ben.

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https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/life-guards/

According to the above source, GW issued a General Order to Colonels or Commanding Officers of regiments of the Continental Army. This order was for those officers to select 4 men from each regiment who would form his personal guard. The officers were instructed to select persons 5'8" to 5'10'. "Handsomely and well made - clean and spruce."

The motto was "Conquer or Die."

The task given the new group was "to protect General Washington, the army's cast and official papers."

"The official designation of the new unit was "His Excellency's Guard," or the "General's Guard". The enlisted soldiers referred to the unit as "The Life Guards," "The Washington Life Guards" or "Washington's Body Guard." Washington referred to them as "My Guards".

This reads as:

Eaton, Benjamin: Enlisted, Ponfret, Conn, April 20 1775, a private, Captain Israel Putnam's Company of Minutemen; re-enlisted, Cambridge, Mass., May 1, 1775, for eight months, Captain Jedediah Waterman's Company, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Continental Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Experience Storrs: detached, Cambridge, Mass., September 7, 1775, to Captain Ezekiel Scott's Company, Provisional Regiment, Continental Infantry, commanded by Colonel Benedict Arnold; upon Canadian expedition, and retreated from Dead River under the command of Lietenant-Colonel Roger Enos, October 26 1775; rejoined Company and Regiment at Cambridge, Mass., November 25, 1775; re-enlisted January 1, 1776, for one year, Captain John Keye's Company, Twentieth Regiment, Continental Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Durkee; discharge, Newtown, Pa., December 18, 1776; re-enlisted December 21, 1776, for the war, Captain Nokiah Wade's (3d) Company, Fourth New Jersey Regiment, Commanded by Colonel Ephraim Martin, Brigadier-General William Maxwell's Brigade; at battle of Short Hills, N.J.,

June 26, 1777; battle of Brandywine, Del.,  September 11, 1777; battle of Germantown, Pa., October 4, 1777; battle on Monmouth, N.J., June 28,, 1778; transferred, February 1, 1779, to Captain Alexander Mitchell's Company, First New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden; assigned with Regiment and Brigade to Major-General John Sullivan's Division, Continental Army, engaged in an expedition against the Six Nations of Indians in Wester Pennsylvania and New York, May 26 to October 26, 1779; transferred

POSSIBLE SERVICE RECORD

[I am not sure about the Lexington conflict - that might be another Ben Eaton.]

In 1775 he was a private in Capt. Israel Putnam's Company of Minutemen; Re-enlisted Cambridge Mass, 1 May 1775 for 8 mos. Capt. Jedediah Waterman's Company, 34th Reg., Continental Inf., Lt.-Col. Experience Storrs; Detached 7 Sept 1775 to Capt. Ezekiel Scott's Company Provisional Regi., Continental Inf, with Col.  Benedict Arnold.; retreated from Dead River under command of Lt.Col. Roger Enos, 26 Oct. 1775; rejoined Company and Reg.@ Cambridge MA. 25 Nov. 1775. Re-enlisted 1 Jan. 1776 Capt. John Keys, 20th Reg. Continental Inf. commanded by Lt-Col. John Durkee; Dc'd, Newtown Pa., Dec. 18 1777.

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