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That hero was David Wooster, who lost his life in the defence of the soil of his native State against that ruthless invader, General Tryon. He was born at Stratford, Connecticut, on the 2d of March, 1710, and was graduated at Yale College, in 1738. When war between England and Spain broke out the following year, he entered the provincial army as a lieutenant, and was soon afterward promoted to the captaincy of a vessel built and armed by the colony as a guarda costa, or coast-guard. [italics in oriinal, emphasis mine] Benjamin Lossing, Our countrymen; or Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans.Phialdephia pa:Lippincot, Grambo & Co., 1855, p. 322.