The Virginia Gazette

When his Honour Governor Trumbull recommended it to the house-holders in the State of Connecticut, who are not obliged to do military duty, to form themselves into companies, choose their own officers, and equip themselves for the defence of these States, a number of aged Gentlemen in the town of Waterbury embodied themselves, and nominated their own officers, who were honoured with commissions; and when the regiment of militia, to which they belong, was ordered to New York, agreeable to a late resolve of the General Assembly, this company was the first that marched and reached the place of rendezvous:

It is now at Rye, and consists of 24 men; their ages, added together, are a thousand years; they are all married men, and when they came from home left behind them their wives, with a hundred and forty nine children and grand-children. One of them is fifty nine years of age, has had nineteen children, and twelve grand-children; fourteen of his own children are now living. A worthy example of patriotism—Let others go and do likewise.