Root, Ezekiel Niles, 1761 -

Born in 1761, the son of Felix Root, Ezekiel Niles Root, Jr. was a Revolutionary War soldier from Farmington, Connecticut.  He served as a private in the Connecticut Line, Isaac Sherman's Regiment (1780-1783).  Farmington Vital Records, Ancestry.  Cowles, Genealogy of the Cowles Family in America, Vol. 1, 154