Lt. Colonel Lt. Colonel Charles KILBORN

1758 - 1834  (76 years)

• Name	Lt. Colonel Charles KILBORN  [1]
  Prefix	Lt. Colonel
  Birth	3 Mar 1758	Litchfield, Litchfield, CT   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Military Note	"In the early part of the war of the Revolution he was drafted into the service of the Americans - much against his own predilections. He, however, served through one campaign, and was engaged in several skirmishes with the British. In common with his father and most of his brothers, he was from the first a zealous and sincere loyalist in principle. When, therefore, he learned that he must run his chance of being drafted a second time, he resolved by some means to place himself beyond the reach of such a contingency. It so happened that about this time a loyal neighbor of his, Daniel Griswold, who had been a soldier in the British army, returned to his native town, bearing a Captains commission, and forthwith commenced the work of his mission, viz., enlisting soldiers into the king's service. Charles Kilborn was among the first to enroll his name, April 26, 1777. Dr. Reuben Smith, in a letter to Gov. Wolcott, dated at Litchfield, may 12, 1777, (in alluding to Griswold and his soldiers,) says: "The Wednesday following, April 30, they were taken, (except Benjamin Doolittle and Charles Kilborn, who is is said were killed in attempting to escape,) and were carried to Derby, where they were tried by a court marial, and Griswold was sentenced to be hanged; which sentence was executed the Monday following at New Haven. The rest were pardoned, upon their enlisting into the Continental army during the war." The supposition that Kilborn was killed, was a mistake. He was successful in his "attempt to escape." and, after a series of vicissitudes and adventures, he succeeded in finding his way to Canada, on foot - much of his route lying through uninhabited country. He stopped at St. John's, then a considerable military post, where he en- gaged himself as a clerk to an eminent merchant, named White — he being then in the nineteenth year of his age. He soon after became a partner with Mr. White ; and, though extensively engaged in merchandizing, he was soon also an active participant in the military movements consequent upon the war. Before peace was concluded, he had attained the rank of Captain in the British service. In Feb. 17S4, he was married to Miss Margaret Young, a member of a loyal family who had emigrated to Canada from the State of New York. He subsequently removed to Caldwell's Manor, on Lake Champlain, where for nearly seventeen years he was extensively engaged as an agriculturist and merchant. Dur- ing his residence here, he was for a long time the highest civil and military officer in the place. Removing thence, he resided for two years in Alburg. In 1804, he settled in Stanstead, on an island formed by a considerable river, about six miles west of Lake Memphremagog.
  Death	19 Jun 1834	Stanstead, Memphrémagog, Estrie, Quebec, CANADA   [1, 3]
  Burial	22 Jun 1834	Hatley, Church of England, Sherbrooke, Estrie, Quebec, CANADA   [5]
  Person ID	I8676	MM
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Lieut. Lieut. Benjamin KILBORN,   b. 4 Apr 1728, Litchfield, Litchfield, CT d. 1810, Elizabethtown, Leeds, Ontario, CANADA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Lucy BISHOP,   b. Abt 1736, Litchfield, Litchfield, CT
  Family ID	F2357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret YOUNG
  Marriage	Feb 1784  [1]
  Family ID	F2394	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 3 Mar 1758 - Litchfield, Litchfield, CT Death - 19 Jun 1834 - Stanstead, Memphrémagog, Estrie, Quebec, CANADA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S195] Douglas Chaffey Gedcom, 195. [S193] Carr, Fraser, Fraser Carr Correspondence, 193. [S198] Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon, Town of Litchfield CT, (Press of Case, Lockwod and Company, 1859, 1859), 198. [S125] Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon, Kilbourn History, (Durrie & Peck, New Haven, 1856), 125. [S748] Quebec, Vital and Church Records, (Institut Généalogique Drouin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 748.