Robert Hawley

Robert Hawley (1729–1799), Captain, raised provisions for the Continental Army soldiers and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Captain Robert Hawley was born June 5, 1726, in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, in New England.

Robert and Anna Hawley, and some 35 others, signed a petition to the county court held in Fairfield, Connecticut, by adjournment, the fourth Tuesday of January 1772, against Jonathan Nichols of Stratford, for the seizure and possession of about 47 acres (190,000 m2) of land in the Parish of North Stratford, which was tried by the Superior Court in 1773 and judgment rendered for plaintiffs.

[3] At a special meeting assembled in North Stratford on November 10, 1777 he was appointed to a committee to provide immediately all those necessaries for the Continental Army soldiers.

[4] On March 12, 1778, the parish of North Stratford made donations of provisions for those residents serving in the southern army stationed at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania under the command of General George Washington.