High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Israel Putnam was an American army general who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War. Although Putnam never quite attained the national renown of more famous heroes such as Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone, in his own time his reckless courage and fighting spirit were known far beyond Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends celebrating his exploits.Putnam was born in Salem Village, Massachusetts, to Joseph and Elizabeth Putnam, a prosperous farming family of Salem witch trials fame. His birthplace, Putnam House, still exists. In 1740, at the age of 22, he moved to Mortlake in northeastern Connecticut where land was cheaper and easier to obtain

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