[1814 HAND-DRAWN LAND SURVEY REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER LEVI TAYLOR; GEORGE CANNON WILTON CONNECTICUT] HAND-DRAWN PLOT OF LAND SURVEY SIGNED BY LEVI TAYLOR DATED May 3, 1814 for Cannon family, Cannondale, Wilton, Connecticut, 7-1/2” x 9”, 3-line complete heading “A Map of a piece of Meadowland sold by Charles Cannon to George Cannon measured May, 3, 1814, and found to contain two acres 2 roods [sic] by économies 4 rods by Levi Taylor”, with dotted line outline of the piece of land and measurements and line pointing direction North, some numbers in upper right corner, on the reverse side of the sheet otherwise blank is “Meadowland” along one edge, authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; NOTES: LEVI TAYLOR, b. Norwalk 1764, d. Wilton 1853, “Norwalk was well represented, for the Colonial Army in the Spring of 1775, the Fifth Regiment, mainly recruited from Fairfield County, and Norwalk sent a company. The officers of this company were Capt. Matthew Mead, First Lieut. Levi Taylor, and Second Lieut. Wm. Seymour…This company saw very severe service in its seven months' campaign.” (page 197, “Norwalk After Two Hundred and Fifty Years, published by C. A. Freeman, Publisher, South Norwalk, Connecticut, 1902 (date of preface)…“Immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill, eight regiments were raised in the state of Connecticut by act of Legislature, April-May, 1775. Major-General WOOSTER was the commander. The Fifth Regiment, which was mainly recruited in Fairfield County, was commanded by Colonel David WATERBURY of Stamford.” (excerpt from The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut” George L. Rockwell, privately published, 1927…“A complete roster of Colonel David Waterbury Jr.s regiment of Connecticut volunteers. The first regiment of infantry responding to a call for volunteers for the defense of New York City against the British in the American revolution”, by A. H.Clark,et al, published by A. S. Clark, New York, 1897 (title of work at the Library of Congress)…”The 5th Connecticut Regiment was raised on April 27, 1775, at Danbury, Connecticut, under the command of David Waterbury. The Regiment was one of six formed by the Connecticut Legislature in response to the hostilities at Lexington and Concord. The Fifth would see its first action during the Invasion of Canada. As was the practice during the first few years of the war, the New England troops were engaged only until years end and the original Fifth Connecticut Regiment was disbanded on December 13, 1775.” (wikipedia)…The [Fifth Connecticut] Regiment then served at Fort Ticonderoga; participated in the successful siege of Fort Saint Johns, Canada; and helped capture Montreal in November. It was mustered out of service in December 1775. (“5th Connecticut Regiment”, Connecticut Regiments in the Continental Army, online source)…“But of the 17 minor officials [of the town of Wilton following the Revolutionary War], four were Episcopalians. These included the venerable David Lambert (Yale 1761), and Samuel Marvin as Listers, also Levi Taylor, later County Surveyor, as one of the constables. Abraham Hurlbutt, a fence viewer, was then also a Methodist. (Wilton Village: A History by G.Evans Hubbard, online source); Cannondale is a section of Wilton, CT, named after the Cannon family who were prominent businesspersons in the area in the 19th century /// CONDITION: well-preserved, paper pliant (not brittle) folds as kept in records depository of the period, all text and numbers legible, brownish patches at edges folds, minor losses at edges.
