... " Hezekiah Wyllys was a captain in Colonel Chester's regiment in 1776, and fought in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. After that he was appointed colonel of the First Regiment of Militia, and frequently turned out on alarms. He was in Putnam's force on the Hudson in Burgoyne's campaign, also at Stonington and New Haven when those towns were attacked.
He married, January 5, 1785, Amelia, widow of Col. Joseph Trumbull, son of Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
Col. Hezekiah Wyllys died in 1827, and was the last of the name who occupied the Wyllys mansion." (Taken from Miss Mary K. Talcott's pamphlet, Ruth Wyllys.) ...
