Revolutionary War

Our direct ancestors played a major role in establishing America’s independence from England. Jonas Childs (1743-1805) lived in Becket, Massachusetts and was commissioned as an officer in May of 1776 as a Lieutenant to serve under Colonel Benjamin Simonds’s second Berkshire Company.

Colonel Simonds has been remembered as the colonel of the all-Berkshire regiment of about five hundred men known as the “Berkshire Boys” during the American Revolutionary War. His regiment notably fought in the Battle of Bennington in the summer of 1777.