Revolutionary War Soldier. POW
He served from 1781-1782 in the Connecticut Sea Service in the Navy on the Brig Dean, Privateer ship. He was taken prisoner with the rest of his shipmates and his future father-in-law Capt. Daniel Scovil.
Per his Rev. War pension application, Joseph Mitchel had one brief voyage on the Connecticut privateer Deane before the ship was captured by two British frigates and he spent the remainder of his military service as a POW aboard the Jersey or another prison hulk in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn Harbor. Both his name and that of his Captain, Dan Scovell, appear on an incomplete list of POWs. Soon after Yorktown, Connecticut sent a ship to retrieve its captured seamen. He removed to Ontario Co., NY, and later with a brother and nephew to Vigo Co., IN. His only son, Oliver Mitchell, remained in Ontario County. Joseph died sometime after the 1830 US census. His wife, who may have been a relative of Dan Scovell, died earlier.
Contributor: coscolo (47302512)
He served from 1781-1782 in the Connecticut Sea Service in the Navy on the Brig Dean, Privateer ship. He was taken prisoner with the rest of his shipmates and his future father-in-law Capt. Daniel Scovil.
Per his Rev. War pension application, Joseph Mitchel had one brief voyage on the Connecticut privateer Deane before the ship was captured by two British frigates and he spent the remainder of his military service as a POW aboard the Jersey or another prison hulk in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn Harbor. Both his name and that of his Captain, Dan Scovell, appear on an incomplete list of POWs. Soon after Yorktown, Connecticut sent a ship to retrieve its captured seamen. He removed to Ontario Co., NY, and later with a brother and nephew to Vigo Co., IN. His only son, Oliver Mitchell, remained in Ontario County. Joseph died sometime after the 1830 US census. His wife, who may have been a relative of Dan Scovell, died earlier.
Contributor: coscolo (47302512)
Revolutionary War Soldier. POW
He served from 1781-1782 in the Connecticut Sea Service in the Navy on the Brig Dean, Privateer ship. He was taken prisoner with the rest of his shipmates and his future father-in-law Capt. Daniel Scovil.
Per his Rev. War pension application, Joseph Mitchel had one brief voyage on the Connecticut privateer Deane before the ship was captured by two British frigates and he spent the remainder of his military service as a POW aboard the Jersey or another prison hulk in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn Harbor. Both his name and that of his Captain, Dan Scovell, appear on an incomplete list of POWs. Soon after Yorktown, Connecticut sent a ship to retrieve its captured seamen. He removed to Ontario Co., NY, and later with a brother and nephew to Vigo Co., IN. His only son, Oliver Mitchell, remained in Ontario County. Joseph died sometime after the 1830 US census. His wife, who may have been a relative of Dan Scovell, died earlier.
Contributor: coscolo (47302512)
He served from 1781-1782 in the Connecticut Sea Service in the Navy on the Brig Dean, Privateer ship. He was taken prisoner with the rest of his shipmates and his future father-in-law Capt. Daniel Scovil.
Per his Rev. War pension application, Joseph Mitchel had one brief voyage on the Connecticut privateer Deane before the ship was captured by two British frigates and he spent the remainder of his military service as a POW aboard the Jersey or another prison hulk in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn Harbor. Both his name and that of his Captain, Dan Scovell, appear on an incomplete list of POWs. Soon after Yorktown, Connecticut sent a ship to retrieve its captured seamen. He removed to Ontario Co., NY, and later with a brother and nephew to Vigo Co., IN. His only son, Oliver Mitchell, remained in Ontario County. Joseph died sometime after the 1830 US census. His wife, who may have been a relative of Dan Scovell, died earlier.
Contributor: coscolo (47302512)
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