Haha. Which side did your gggggdad fight for, because Rhode Island was a Torie state.
Can't get into the details right now but in the time being don't besmirch the Rhode Island patriots. Among others, Washington's most trusted general, Major General Nathaniel Greene, was a Rhode Island man, commanding a Rhode Island regiment before taking larger command.
I can list in detail the known battles that my ancestor was in, and I can assure you he was with patriot side. My g.g.etc grandfather was actually a massachusetts man from Rehoboth which is a dinky little town now but was much larger in those days. When the alarm went out at Lexington and Concord he crossed Narragansett Bay and joined up with the Rhode Island regiment because he his father and mother and grandparents were in Warwick, where, by the way, General Nathaniel Greene was. From there they went to Bunker Hill, and from there to Long Island to drive the Brits out of New York City, from there the Battle of Harlem Heights, and then down to Morristown in the winter encampments north of Valley Forge where they were positioned to keep the Brits from moving from New York to Philadelphia even though they were not able to take NYC and the Brits held it all through the war... and so on, he was also at the Battle of Trenton, and also 2nd Trenton, which was called the Battle of Assumptik Bridge or something.
Most of his service was with a massachusetts regiment because he transferred to the same unit with his brother after his 18 month initial enlistment was up, and then that unit was eventually federalized into the Continental Army when that was created. He was in about seven years altogether, although some of the records for his second enlistment were lost when the Brits burned part of Washington in 1812. Although I see his service there being listed as part of his widow's claim for a pension for the husband's revolutionary war service- the widow being my g.g.g.gg.g.. grandmother.
No, to the Tory allegation. Emphatically so.
