BIOGRAPHY: Sergt. Othniel and Seba BRAINERD were sons of Othniel and Lucy (SWADDLE) BRAINERD, of Middle Haddam. The former was born September 19th 1755, and served seven years in the war, and died May 27th 1832. Seba was born April 14th 1763, and served some time during the latter part of the war, and became a colonel of militia, and died about 1845, aged 82.

BIOGRAPHY: -- HADDAM NECK
History of Middlesex County,
Henry M. SELDEN
J. B. Beers, publisher, New York 1884