Benjamin T. Terwilliger served in the revolutionary war for a period of two years and three months. This was not a period of continous service but was done incrementally. A copy of his service records are available on the website at HeritageQuest. Although I have a copy of the records they are extremely hard to read and the file size so large they will not appear on this site. Benjamin is only one of 17 Terwilligers who are known to have served in the war. That is quite remarkable when you consider that they were all from the same family, mostly from the same area, and since the act of congress granting pension money to those who served wasn't passed until 1832. That is nearly 30 years after the war had ended. Many of the veterans and their spouses were already dead. Benjamin was 77 at the time he made application. He was in the "minute men" in 1775. A great deal of his service was against the Indians on the "frontier". The frontier was not what we think of now days but the area in and around the Schawangunk mountains of New York. He returned to the town of Schawangunk, in Ulster County, New York where he was born and remained there until his death. The exact date of his death and place of burial has not been determined.