Diary of Colonel Israel Angell

Israel Angell (August 24, 1740 - May 4, 1832) was a Continental Army officer of the American Revolutionary War. Angell served nearly throughout the entire war in Rhode Island and was successively promoted. He was appointed a major of Colonel Daniel Hitchcock's Regiment at the outbreak of the American Revolution. He served with the regiment in the Siege of Boston. When the Continental Army was reorganized on January 1, 1776, Hitchcock's Regiment was re-designated as the 11th Continental Infantry.