Daniel Hitchcock
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Daniel Hitchcock
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Daniel Hitchcock was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University. He moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he became an attorney and was suspected by the authorities of involvement in the Gaspee Affair. At the start of the American Revolutionary War he formed Hitchcock's Regiment of infantry in the Rhode Island Army of Observation. He was first appointed lieutenant colonel in command of the regiment when it marched to serve in the Siege of Boston in 1775. His regiment was renamed
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Continental Army officer (1739–1777)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hitchcock
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2023-12-30T22:40:52Z
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