My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

(This confrontation is commemorated in New Haven as Powder House Day. "


Memorials
On June 17 1777 Congress voted that a suitable monument should be erected in his memory but measures were never inaugurated to execute the resolution. Arnold's threats were persuasive and Wooster opened the magazine to him.

S. David Wooster (March 13 1711 [O. Cities schools and public places were named after him.