unfortunately received a wound by a musket ball, thro' the groin, which it is feared will prove mortal ...
    "The enemy's loss is judged to be more than double our number, and about 20 prisoners. The enemy on this occasion behaved with their usual barbarity, wantonly and cruelly murdering the wounded prisoners who fell into their hands, and plundering the inhabitants burning and destroying everything in their way ...
    Wooster died in Danbury on May 2nd, and was laid to rest in a local cemetery. Following his death, Congress voted funds for a monument to the general, but this was never built. A monument was eventually built by the Hiram Lodge in 1854.
    Wooster is considered the "Father of Freemasonry in Connecticut," for his role in establishing the first masonic lodge in Connecticut in 1750. Wooster was master of that lodge for a number of years.
    North Callahan, writing in Connecticut's Revolutionary War Leaders, is especially harsh in his judgment of Wooster. He states, "The Dictionary of American Biography quotes two authorities as characterizing Wooster as 'A general of a hayfield,' and stating that he was 'dull and uninspired, garrulous about his thirty years of service ...  tactless, hearty rather than firm with his undisciplined troops who adored him, at times brutal toward the civilian population of Montreal.'  True, he seemed to have much sickness among his soldiers, which doubtless did not help matters."
    He was a man on the verge of bankruptcy when he was killed at Danbury. There is good reason to view him as a man who had nearly outlived his usefulness and was about to loose his social and economic standing - but was transformed into a Revolutionary hero with the loss of his life at Danbury.

THE CHAUNCEY JUDD KIDNAPPING, AND THE WOOSTER TORIES

    The story of Chauncey Judd was detailed in the book Chauncey Judd, or A Boy Stolen, by Israel Warren. He based his book on accounts given to him by the sister of the boy who