East Haddam Revolutionary Heroes

Known as Uncle Mala, he is quoted as saying, "I served five years and four months in the Revolutionary War and never received a reprimand for neglect of duty, nor got hit by a bullet. I was mostly in the vicinity of New York and was in a party who went to Long Island to burn and destroy military stores of the British by night. We destroyed the stores and took to our boats in the darkness. The bullets of the British guard striking around us. Had it been daylight, the British would have hit every man."
He led a charge at the Battle of Monmouth according to his son, Nehemiah. Conditions of soldiers in the march over the plains of New Jersey were bad. the sand was so hot that it blistered the feet of many who were without shoes. No water, and many had swollen tongues. The only relief was a cask of New England rum.