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Subject: Capt. Silas Wilde, Braintree, Mass. - Revolutionar War soldier
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:33:24 EDT

Captain Silas Wilde of Braintree, Massachusetts, was under Capt. Benjamin
Lincoln in the Lexington Alarm, then a captain in Col. William Heath's regiment
at Cambridge in 1775, captain in this regiment January 1 to December 31, 1776,
a committee to raise soldiers at Braintree in 1777, captain in Col. Ebenezer
Thayer's 3d regiment July 8, 1777, and a captain in Col. John Brook's
regiment, guarding Burgoyne prisoners at Cambridge, February 3 to April 3, 1778. He
was a prominent citizen of Braintree, where he died September 30, 1807, aged
seventy-one years.

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