WOOSTER, wus'ter, David, Americin Resolutionary general: h. Stratford, Conn., 2 March 1710; d. Danbury, Conn., 2 May 1777. lie was graduated at Yale College in 1738, and in 1739, when the war broke out between Eng land and Spain, entered the provincial army as lieutenant, and was subsequently made captain of a vessel built and equipped by the colony for defense of its coasts. In 1745 he partic ipated in the expedition against Louisburg, and went in command of a cartel ship to Eng land, where he was made a captain in the regular sere ice under Sir William Pepperell. In the French War which ended in 1703 he commissioned by the governor of Connecti cut as colonel, and subsequently as brigadier general, and sersed during the whole war. In April 1775 he was one of the members of the assembly of C onnecticut who concerted the plan for the seizure of Ticonderoga; and when the continental army was organired he was ap pointed one of the eight brigadier-generals.
He was engaged in the expedition into Canada, where after the death of General Montgomery he for a time held the chief command. He resigned and returned to Connecticut, and was major-general of the militia when Tryon in vaded that province for the purpose of destroy ing the military stores at Danbury. He at tacked Tryon's rear guard 27 April 1777, and while rallying his men was mortally wounded. On 17 June Congress voted that a monument should he erected to his memory, but no steps were taken to have the resolution carried into effect, and his neglected grave was not identi fied until 1854. on 27 April of which year the cornerstone of a monument to his memory was laid, by act of the legislature of Connecticut. The town of Wooster, Ohio, was named in his honor.