"15. Thomas Trowbridge (Daniel9, Thomas4, Thomas2, Thomas1), born May 2, 1742, in New Haven, Conn.; died August 25, 1782, in the prison-ship at New York; … Thomas Trowbridge at the age of seventeen served in the French and Indian War during the campaign of 1759. He enlisted April 4 of that year in the Seventh Company, Capt. Amos Hitchcock, 2d Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged November 1, 1759. In 1760 he was apprenticed to Amos Hitchcock, Jr., to learn the house joiner's trade, which he followed until the outbreak of the Revolution. He enlisted in the patriot army, and served in the Fifth Company, Capt. Caleb Mix, 2d Regiment of Connecticut militia, at the time of the British invasion of New Haven. He continued in the service, and was taken prisoner and confined on the Jersey prison-ship at New York, where he died during his confinement. He lived in New Haven in a brick house, still standing, on the southeast corner of Columbus avenue and Christopher street. He was admitted a member of White Haven Church in 1771. In the inventory of his estate there is mention of 'stock in the firm of Robert Townsend & Co.' and 'right in the still-house.'"
