Timeline (preliminary)

1735	Blandford first settled
1740	Oliver Watson (1718-1782) bought 2000 acre lot #2 in Leicester
1740	Becket first settled
1741	Town of Blandford incorporated
27 Jan 1754	John Gibbs purchased 60 acre Blandford home lot #34 from his father for £56 13s.
1750s	Chester first settled
1765	Towns of Chester and Becket incorporated
1768	John Watson (1747-1823) bought Blandford home lot #9 and established a tannery
1772	Oliver Snow Jr. moved to Becket
10 Jun 1773	23rd Foot arrived in New York Harbor from England
16 Dec 1773	Boston Tea Party
1773	Town of Otis incorporated (as Loudon)
1774	Oliver Snow Jr. married at Becket
20 May 1774	Parliament passed the Massachusetts Government Act (Intolerable Acts)
Spring 1774	23rd Foot ordered to Boston
16 Aug 1774	A mob closed the Berkshire county courthouse
6 Sep 1774	Militia seized the Worcester county courthouse
18 Sep 1774	Governor Gates ordered seizure of militia supplies at Concord
19 Apr 1775	Battles of Lexington and Concord (including 23rd Foot's flank companies)
13 May-19 Jul 1775	Oliver Watson attended provincial Congress at Watertown, MA
16 Jun 1775	Battle of Bunker Hill  (Grenadiers of 23rd Foot led 3 charges, Sylvanus Snow injured)
3 Mar 1776	Knyphausen Regiment left Ziegenhain (Konrad + Wigand Dirlam?)
17 Mar 1776	British evacuated Boston
17 Apr 1776	4 companies of Knyphausen Regiment left Bremerlehe
6 May 1776	British/Hessian troop convoy #1a, 85 ships left Portsmouth
14 May 1776	Some von Scheither recruits left Stade (John Dirlam?)
14 May 1776	Blakeney Company assigned to 1st Grenadier Battalion
18 May 1776	Minnegrode Company of Knyphausen Regiment left Bremerlehe (K+W Dirlam?)
26 May 1776	British/Hessian troop convoy #1b, 25 ships left Portsmouth (K+W Dirlam?)
9 Jun 1776	British/Hessian troop convoy #2 left Ritzebuttel (John Dirlam?)
28 Jun 1776	British/Hessian troop convoy #2 left Portsmouth (John Dirlam?)
7 July 1776	Second Continental Congress adopted Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia
12 July 1776	Fleet of 150 British ships arrived in New York Harbor
14-15 Aug 1776	British/Hessian troop convoy #1a and 1b disembark on Staten Island (K+W Dirlam?)
27 Aug 1776	Battle of Brooklyn Heights, NY (incl. 23rd Foot)
16 Sep 1776	Battle of Harlem Heights, NY (incl. 23rd Foot)
18 Oct 1776	British/Hessian troop convoy #2 arrived at NY harbor
18 Oct 1776	John Dirlam, 3 other Hessians joined 23rd Foot in NYC (Blakeney Company)
28 Oct 1776	Battle of White Plains, NY (incl. 23rd Foot + Knyphausen)
Nov 1776	Nathan Snow's Ashford militia guarded Providence, RI for 3 months
16 Nov 1776	British captured Fort Washington, NY (incl. 23rd Foot + Knyphausen)
17 Nov 1776	23rd Foot garrisoned in New York City
8 Dec 1776	British captured Newport, RI
26 Dec 1776	Battle of Trenton, NJ (Wigand Dirlam captured)
2 Jan 1777	Battle of Assunpink Creek, NJ
3 Jan 1777	Battle of Princeton, NJ
8 Jan 1777	John Dirlam mustered for Blakeney Company
13 Apr 1777	Battle of Bound Brook, NJ
26 Apr 1777	Asa Snow and Oliver Jr's** Becket militia marched to Saratoga, NY
26 Apr 1777	Burning of Danbury, CT (23rd Foot in rearguard)
27 Apr 1777	Battle of Ridgefield, CT
23 May 1777	Battle of Sag Harbor, NY
26 Jun 1777	Battle of Metuchen Meeting House, NJ
6 Jul 1777	Fort Ticonderoga, NY surrendered to the British
18 Jul 1777	Oliver Snow Jr**, Amos Kingsley* Becket militia called 5 days to Manchester, VT
14 Aug 1777	Jonathan Wadsworth**, Amos Kingley* Becket militia called 9 days to Bennington, VT
16 Aug 1777	Battle of Bennington, NY
1 Sep 1777	Nathan Snow** and Sylvanus Snow's Ashford militia marched to Stillwater, NY
11 Sep 1777	Battle of Brandywine, PA (incl. 23rd Foot)
19 Sep 1777	First Battle of Saratoga, NY
21 Sep 1777	Battle of Battle of Paoli Tavern at Malvern, PA
26 Sep 1777	Capture of Philadelphia, PA (incl. 23rd Foot)
26 Sep 1777	23rd Foot moved to Germantown, PA
3 Oct 1777	23rd Foot sent to guard Middle Ferry and Chester Road at Philadelphia
4 Oct 1777	Battle of Germantown, PA (not incl. 23rd Foot)
7 Oct 1777	Second Battle of Saratoga, NY
8 Oct 1777	Nathan Snow** and Sylvanus Snow's Ashford militia marched to Albany,NY
10 Oct 1777	Battery on Carpenter's Isl. (behind Redbank) surrendered 300+ men by British (mostly grenadiers, incl. of 23rd Foot)
15 Oct 1777	Fort Mifflin, PA (opposite Redbank) evacuated by Continentals
19-26 Oct 1777	Middletown, CT militia escorted prisoners from Ticonderoga and Bennington through Connecticut and delivered them to the sheriff in Hartford, CT
22 Oct 1777	Battle of Redbank, NJ for Fort Mercer (incl. 23rd Foot)
Nov 1777	Burgoyne's Convention Army marched to stockade in Cambridge, MA
12 Nov 1777	Sylvanus Snow's youngest child born in Ashford, CT
11-12 Dec '77	British forage in force from Philadelphia to Radnor, PA (incl. 23rd Foot) 15 mi
Jan 1778	Timothy Levi and Nathan Snow Ashford militia guarded Providence, RI for 2 months
16 Feb 1778	The Treaty of Alliance with France signed in Paris
18 Feb 1778	Loyalist raid on Jenk's Fulling Mill, Newton, PA (25 mi to Philadelphia)
20 Feb 1778	Raid near Frankford, PA (8 mi to Philadelphia)
24-25 Feb '78	Raid near Skippack, PA ( 65 mi to Philadelphia)
24 Feb 1778	John O Dirlam reported 'captured by rebels' (by 23rd Foot)
Apr 1778	Levi Snow's* Ashford militia served at Greenwich, Hartford and New Haven, CT
1 May 1778	Silas Snow's** Ashford militia in West Point, NY and New London, CT for 1 year
18 Jun 1778	British evacuated Philadelphia, PA (incl. 23rd Foot)
28 Jun 1778	Battle of Monmouth, NJ (incl. 23rd Foot: grenadier company lost 1/3 of it's men)
Jun-Sep 1778	Wigand Dirlam freed/returned to Knyphausen regiment in Philadelphia or NYC
Jul 1778	Levi Snow's* Ashford militia served at White Plains and West Point, NY
5 Jul 1778	Blakeney Company returned to 23rd Foot from 1st Grenadier Battalion
1 Aug 1778	John Gibbs purchased 18 acres of Blandford lot #14 from sheriff for 17s. 3p.
Sep 1778	Nathan** and Bilarcah*** Snow's Ashford guarded New London, built Ft. Trumbull
Nov 1778	Levi Snow's* Ashford militia served at New London, CT
Feb 1779	Nathan Snow** moved from Ashford to Becket
May 1779	British captured the King's Ferry Forts (incl. 23rd Foot)
Jun 1779	Silas Snow's** Ashford militia served 3 months, guarded Groton, CT lighthouse
30 Jun 1779	British raided Fairport, New Haven and Norwalk, CT (incl. 23rd Foot)
Jul 1779	Nathan Snow's** Becket militia guarded New Haven, CT
5 Jul 1779	British raided New Haven, CT
9 Jul 1779	British burned Fairfield and Green Farms, CT
11 Jul 1779	British burned Norwalk, CT
8 Sep 1779	Knyphausen Regiment sailed for Quebec (3 ships inc. Wigand Dirlam captured)
7 Mar 1780	John Gibbs bought 405 acres on Blandford lots 4 and 14 from sheriff for £190 5s.
7 Mar 1780	John Gibbs and John Durlam bought 456 acres on lot 34 from sheriff for £107 s3 d6
Jul 1780	Silas Snow's** Ashford militia served 3 months at West Point, NY
21 Jul 1780	Asa Snow** enlisted for 6 months in Continental Army unit from Becket
16 Oct 1780	British raided Royalton, VT (Asa Snow present?)
25 Oct 1780	Asa Snow** mustered at Camp Totoway, NJ
15 Mar 1781	Battle of Guilford Courthouse, NC (incl. 23rd Foot, except grenadiers at NYC)
Jul 1781	Silas Snow's** Ashford militia served 3 months at Mohegan, CT
18 Sep 1781	John Dirlam married Sarah Snow at Becket
16 Oct 1779	Captured soldiers rejoin Knyphausen Regiment in NYC (inc. Wigand Dirlam)
19 Oct 1781	British surrender at Yorktown, VA
29 Oct 1781	Royal Welch Fusiliers marched to stockade in Winchester, VA
12 Jan 1782	Royal Welch Fusiliers marched to stockade in Lancaster, PA
5 Mar 1783	Oldest Dirlam son born
May 1783	Royal Welch Fusiliers marched to Staten Island, NY to rejoin the Army
24 Jun 1783	Royal Welch Fusiliers at Herricks, NY recorded John Dirlam as 'deserted'
Jan 1784	Royal Welch Fusiliers embarked for England
24 Sep 1788	John Dirlam land purchase in Becket recorded
10 Oct 1788	Sylvanus Snow land purchase in Becket recorded
20 Aug 1800	John Gibbs relinquished claim to 484 acres, farm lot 34

* Sylvanus Snow's sons, Levi, Timothy and son-in-law, Amos Kingsle
** Oliver Snow's sons Asa, Nathan, Silas, Oliver Jr. and son-in-law Jonathan Wadsworth
*** Samuel Snow's son, Bilarchy

Updated from November 2010 version.