Revolutionary soldiers who settled and lived in the town of Guilford included Col. Stephen Winsor, Capt. Elihu Murray, Capt. David Richmond, Aaron Jewel, Daniel Johnson, Samuel Mead, Ezekiel Wheeler, Joseph Rhodes, Abner Rice, Samuel Mills Jr., Ebenezer Root, John Harrington, Silas Hamilton, Miles Griswold, Asa Sherwood, John Remington, Gershom Clark, Ebenezer Cornell, Joseph Latham, Theophilus White, Oliver Ingersoll, John Dickerman, Aaron Mudge, Tobias Houk, Moses Clark, John Secor, Uriah Yale, Jared Mudge, Wyatt Chamberlyn, Hezekiah Wheeler, and David Harbis, an Indian captive.