“Thomas and Susannah owned the Covenant of the Church in 1718 and had 2 sons and 4 daughters baptized at the same time.” They lived in southeast Clinton MA and built a house there, the cellar excavation of which was still visible in 1896, although later covered by the Metropolitan reservoir. “While all the inhabitants of this region had served as soldiers in the home guard from the first settlement to the close of Queen Anne’s War, the Wilder family have the honor of furnishing the first soldiers from the present Clinton territory for distant expeditions.”118