^^ s Oass F Book_ ,3 C^: Senior Vice-President, 1891-7. PROCEEDINGS OF THE New Hampshire Society OF SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1898-1903 L^3 Otis G. Hammond, Chairman Arthur h. Chase JOHN Scales Committee on Ptiblication Published by the Society CONCORD 1904 V 3 N Concord, N. H. The Rumford Press 1904 P. Author. 30Je '04 SOME OF THE CONTENTS. Tenth annual meeting, 1898 . Address by Charles R. Corning . Eleventh annual meeting, 1899 Address by Samuel Rhoads, Jr. . Twelfth annual meeting, 1900 Address by Albert S. Batchellor . Thirteenth annual meeting, 1901 . Fourteenth annual meeting, 1902 . Address by Frank B. Sanborn Address by Henry M. Baker Organization of Keene Chapter, No. i Fifteenth annual meeting, 1903 Address by Henry M. Baker Address by William F. Whitcher . Spanish and Philippine war members List of members .... Index ...... PAGE. 8 14 47 53 68 75 115 120 122 134 164 168 173 186 211 213 225 PROCBEDINOS OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE flMERIGflN REVOLUTION. Concord, N. H., January 12, 1898. The regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Mana- gers of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution was held at the office of the Sec- retary in Concord on Wednesday, January 12, 1898, at 1 1 o'clock a. m. The President being absent, the meeting was called to order by the Secretary, and Thomas Cogswell was elected President ^r serve in any way that may be in my power, this Colony in particular and the Continent in general. I lament that my abilities are not greater. All I can say is, I shall employ such as I have (to the utmost) in the service of my Country." Acting as continental agent for building ships and gathering war material, Langdon now entered upon the busiest period of his life, and connected his name and that of New Hampshire with the birth of the American navy. The naval committee of congress consisted of Silas Deane, Christopher Gads- den, John Langdon, Stephen Hopkins, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Henry Lee, and of these Langdon was second to none. Keels were laid and ship building progressed rapidly, so that on the 14th of June, 1777, Captain John Paul Jones received from Lang- don the i8-gim sh\T^ Ranger, built of stout New Hampshire oak, and then and there in Portsmouth harbor Jones unfurled to the approving heavens the first United States flag ever hoisted in our navy. Well might John Langdon feel elated at the work he had done, and well may we, the descendants of those days, keep close to our hearts the memory of that event. In December, 1776, Langdon was chosen speaker of the Exeter house of representatives, but he so divided his- time as not to neglect his more urgent duties as naval agent. The fol- lowing year, 1777, he was again speaker, and it was during that term of service that he performed that act of patriotism which placed him in the fore rank of great Americans. That was the gloomiest year of the war, and upon its results depended the weal of the infant nation. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 3I The nation was scarcely a twelvemontli old, and it seemed as if its brief course was spent and that all was lost. Suddenly from the north came the fearful tidings of Burgoyne's triumphant advance down Champlain. The war up to that time had scarcely vexed the inhabitants of that section, but now the Green Mountains and the Berkshire Hills lay straight in the path of the invader. The cry for help woke the silence of Exeter and the house quickly re-assembled. Men and munitions were voted, the state troops organized, measures for raising money passed, but such a vote seemed like brutal mock- ery, for the public coffers were empty and the resources had been drained and drained. The house is in committee of the whole with Meshech Weare in the chair, and a profound stillness settles over the room. The members scarce dare to look one another in the face. They count the flying minutes and wonder what the morrow may bring. Who is to pay the cost of such preparation ? Then the well known voice of John Lang- don spoke out clear and strong. " I have a thousand dollars in hard money. I will pledge my plate for three thousand more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which will be sold for the most they will bring. They are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending our firesides and our homes, I may be remunerated ; if we do not, then the property will be of no value to me. Our friend Stark who so nobly maintained the honor of our state at Bunker Hill may safely be entrusted with the enterprise and we will check the progress of Burgoyne." The words were spoken, and beneath their spell fear and despair vanished utterly. The stricken state gained confidence and courage. The mighty load was lightened, and from every patriot home went forth praise and thanksgiving for John. Langdon. What a spectacle and what an occasion ! A house and council representing the government of one of the poorest and smallest states in the new Union, and a rebel state at that, its soldiers away from their native soil campaigning in distant fields, its frontiers threatened by an army of veterans confidently led, and that army supported by a nation the richest in all Christendom — poor New Hampshire, wounded and weak, stood facing the supreme moment of her fate. But Langdon's words revived the timid and made of every mem- ber a battalion leader. Here was a man rich in lands and merchan- dise, one who knew the value of money, probably the richest man among our Revolutionary ancestors, but, with a faith in the cause more precious than gold, he gave willingly all he possessed, and 32 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY proved to his associates and to those who came after them that his purse held nothing save the sacrifice he would gladly lay on the altar of his imperiled country. If death had now overtaken Langdon his name would still remain in the most cherished annals of our state, for his speech that day caused armed men to spring from every hearthstone, gathering force as they neared the invader, until at length, on that August afternoon a month later. Stark at Bennington began the destruction of Burgoyne and his martial hosts. We all know by heart the tremendous consequences of Saratoga, which opened the treasury of France to us and won that alliance which <;ould only be predicated on a victory. The victory was gained, and who dares deny that one of its strongest contributing causes was John Langdon's speech in the Exeter assembly.'' But Langdon -was more than a man of affairs, he was a soldier as well, and followed his famous speech by organizing a battalion, which, under his com- mand, took part in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga, and later •we find him bearing arms under Sullivan in Rhode Island. From 1776 to the last year of the Revolutionary war, not a year went by without conferring some high office on Mr. Langdon. He was delegate to Philadelphia, speaker of the house, a member of several constitutional conventions, an officer in active service, naval agent for the continental congress, and a justice of the superior court. But more distinguished pubHc honors awaited him in the future, for in 1783 he had not been president of New Hampshire, nor one of the framers of the national constitution, nor one of the great advocates of its adoption ; he had not been our first United States senator, nor the first president pro tempore of the senate ; he had not been governor of his native state, nor had he declined the secretaryship of the navy offered by his friend Jefferson, nor had he refused the office of vice- president of the republic urged upon him by his friend Madison. Well may I paraphrase the words of Rufus Choate when eulogizing that other illustrious son of New Hampshire, by exclaiming, "What a reputation that must be — what a patriotism that must be — what a long and brilliant series of public services that must be, when you cannot mention a measure of utility nor a public office fittingly be- stowed but every eye spontaneously turns to, and every voice sponta- neously utters, that respected name of John Langdon." Bitter and despairing as the long years of war had been, there was ever present the stimulating cause of a common and unfaltering hos- tility to England, but now came the dark and perilous times when, out of jealousies and suspicions, the men who had fought the battles SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 33 were now face to face with the problems of civil government. Corn- wallis's cannon had saluted the king for the last time, the colonies had burst into sovereign states, the people were free, patriotism had gained its crown. But the great leader, the organizer of war and the protector of peace, undeceived by the figments of the popular picture, addressed to the several states a circular letter containing sentiment.s so truthful and so wholesome, and yet so hard to realize, that it took the American people a hundred years to embody them in the nation's conscience. Four things, he said, were indispensable to the existence of the United States as an independent power; first, there must be an indissoluble union of all the states under a single federal government, which must possess the power to enforce its own laws ; second, the continental debts incurred in making war and securing independence must be paid; third, the militia system must be supported and made uniform in all the states; and fourth (and in this lurk even now the germs of possible disease), the people must yield local interests to the common weal, fling away corroding prejudices, and treat one another as fellow-citizens of a true republic where every man has his rights and his interests, and where the truest reciprocity is the welfare of all. So spoke Washington. But, alas, these golden words soon lost their lustre amid the tur- moil of the hour, for from 1783 to 1788 we had neither principle nor policy. Congress was chased by a mob, the sight of a veteran of Saratoga or Cowpens turned the crowd to wrath, courts were dis- solved and judges stoned, crime and spoliation joined hands and danced with drunken glee, men shook off morals as old garments, counterfeiting was to encourage the fine arts, clipping the coin made a man envied and advanced him socially, while smuggling and slave trading were the foundations of riches and influence. Debt and im- prisonment for debt pointed the way to irredeemable paper money, and with it came anarchy. New Hampshire suffered and sinned like the others, and was sorely scourged besides by the Vermont contro- versy. That, indeed, was the time that tried men's souls, and it seemed as if the splendid achievements of the war were to be lost, and that the Declaration of Independence was to become a meaning- less piece of parchment. The valor of the people had been the admi- ration of all Europe, but where now was the wisdom to make that people a nation? As we look back at that period, it certainly does seem strange that, after winning their independence, the very same leaders were unable to maintain it. There were Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Henry, Hamilton, Jay, Langdon, and all the others, and. 34 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY noblest of them all, George Washington. Never for a moment had the welfare and the policy of the country been absent from his thoughts, and again it was his leadership that pointed the way. The very weakness of the confederation made the necessity of a constitu- tion all the stronger. The people saw all this, for anything would be better than that weak and despised congress calling itself the govern- ment of the United States. The convention at Philadelphia met in May, 1787, but our dele- gates were not chosen until the middle of June, and July had nearly passed away before Langdon and young Nicholas Oilman reached the place of meeting. Why there was such delay is not wholly clear, but I am inclined to assign the cause to party reasons, for party lines were now drawn in New Hampshire, though party as yet was merely per- sonal predilection. Only the year before, Langdon had been a candi- date for the presidency of New Hampshire, but there was no election by the people and the choice was left to the legislature, which elected him. At the election in 1787 John Sullivan was the successful candi- date, receiving 4,309 votes to Langdon's 3,600, and a clear majority of the total vote cast. I merely mention these elections to impress upon your minds some idea of the early cultivation of the franchise, and to show that politics is as indigenous to our state as the rigorous winter or the spring freshet. When Langdon and his youthful colleague reached Philadel- phia the convention was half through with its deliberations, and some of the more important features of the constitution had been already agreed upon; but there yet remained questions of far-reaching influence which had not been touched, and upon these Langdon spoke with the authority of large experience, and his words had effect. This little side view of Langdon by Rufus Oriswold, one of his dele- gate friends, has some interest to us. "He is eminently practical," says Oriswold, " with sterling good sense, is social in his habits, and in his manners easy, unaffected, and pleasing. Among all the mem- bers of the constitutional convention there is not one more thoroughly republican in his feelings and tendencies than John Langdon." He was now forty-six years old, a man of middle age we might say, and yet he saw around him many far younger, and a few much older. Let us stand for a moment behind the president's chair, that chair upon whose back was painted the famous sun which gave the text for Frank- lin's prophecy, and look into the faces of that remarkable assemblage. There are in all fifty-five members, all noted for personal and public reasons. Tvvent3--nine of them were college men, while twenty-six, in- SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 35 eluding Langdon, Washington, and Franklin, were not. But the pres- ence of all these distinguished men quickly suggests the absence of others who had so much to do in recent history, and you wonder what keeps such leaders away. John Adams and Jefferson were in Europe ; General Nathaniel Greene, whose services in peace were as promising as his services in war were conspicuous, was dead ; but Sam Adams and Patrick Henry, above all others the most thought about, were pur- posely absent, as they disapproved of the convention and afterwards did their utmost to make it inoperative. John Jay was kept at home because of local spite and jealousy. But, with these illustrious names accounted for, behold and forever remember those who, having faith in the future, responded to the call ! The two most famous delegates were Washington and Franklin, the one fifty-five years old, the other eighty-one — the oldest member, as Nicholas Gilman of our state, at twenty-five, was the youngest. The next two members, whose intel- lectual powers are the splendid legacies of the ages, were Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, the one thirty and the other six and thirty years old, but even then, as afterward, they were the great in- tellects of the republic. Connecticut honored herself by sending Roger Sherman and .Oliver Ellsworth, one of them a signer of the Declara- tion. Massachusetts presents Elbridge Gerry, Rufus King, and Caleb Strong. Pennsylvania has Franklin, Ingersoll, and the two Morrises, Robert and Gouverneur, and James Wilson, celebrated for his attain- ments in jurisprudence. Then there are McHenry and David Carroll and Luther Martin and others from Maryland ; and from Virginia are Washington, Madison, Randolph, Mason, Wythe, and Blair. From the Carolinas came Alexander Martin, William Blount, the two Pinck- neys, John Rutledge, Pierce Butler, Richard Spaight. It is a remarkable list of names representing in peculiar fulness the politi- cal, the military, and the business ability of the different states. For four months the locked doors of Carpenter's hall hid the convention from public view. The deliberations were kept secret, and therein lay the reason of the convention's success. At last the great instru- ment received its finishing touches. Compromise had played its all- essential part, the doors were thrown open, and the constitution was in the hands of the people. Then followed a time of doubt and apprehension. Suspicion and malice stalked through the land, honesty and rascality strove for place, while over all hung the dark clouds of envy and rankling jealousies. We were our own worst ene- mies. It was the house divided against itself as never before, and nar- row indeed was the escape of the constitution from utter destruction. 36 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY We of these times have no conception of the bitterness that existed one hundred and ten years ago, nor have we anything to suggest the fierce hatred and consuming rancor of those days. When Langdon, on his journey eastward, neared the familiar sights of Portsmouth, his mind must have been sadly unsettled, for the news of the convention had preceded him and it required all his tact and buoyancy of nature to withstand the frowns and coolness of his fellow-citizens. Very serious was the situation, yet men like Sam Adams condemned the patiently constructed edifice, and would have applied the ax simply because a cellar window was out of line or the front door needed a porch. We were narrow in those days, prone to split hairs, sus- picious of strangers, envious of progress, skilled in good opinion of ourselves, cautious and taciturn, and given to self-examination. The people saw only certain articles and sections of the new plan of gov- ernment. They did not or would not see the equipoise of the instru- ment, while the fact that the creation sprang from the loins of com- promise tainted its legitimacy from the first. But the leaders through- out the country took the concrete view, for their experience of the past twelve years taught them many a lesson in the useful practice of meeting one's opponents half way ; so, with few exceptions, we find the prominent men of every state arrayed on the side of the friends of the constitution. The condition that was to give vitality to the in- strument was its adoption by nine states; and by February, 1788, when the New Hampshire convention met, eight states had voted in the affirmative, and in one only had the opponents shown great re- sistance, and that was Massachusetts, where a change of ten votes would have defeated the project. Now came our state. The conven- tion met at Exeter in February, and after ten days' discussion ad- journed to reassemble at Concord in June. During the interval Lang- don worked day and night for the cause, and he had stout and able friends to assist him, so when June came success crowned his toil, and his name, the first called, led the majority which declared for the new constitution, and at the same time conferred a great honor on New Hampshire by making her the ninth and necessary state to rouse the constitution into life. Whoever loves to contemplate a symmetrical and well-sustained political development will surely find much pleasure in studying the career of the statesman whose life we are now unfolding. Here was a man of no brilliant parts but of considerable good sense, early attaching himself to the common cause, prompt to deliver that Decem- ber blow at royal authority, sent to the opening congress and coming SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 37 home to infuse life into conduct of the war, holding offices, not seek- ing them, susceptible to self-sacrifice, a framer of our constitutions — both state and national — calm, conciliatory, and wise, it seems but appropriate, after all he had been and all he had done, that New Hampshire should elect him as her first senator under the permanent government he had helped to create. In March, 1788, the popular vote had called Langdon to the pres- idency of the state ; he was inaugurated in June and resigned in January, 1789, to accept the senatorship to which he had been chosen in November of the previous year. The story of how the remodeled government went into operation, and the slights and difficulties it encountered, are too well known for to-day's repetition — how the members straggled into New York city in parties of four or five, in pairs, and singly ; and how March passed and May had nearly come when Langdon, who was president j2);'y/.) The local military government of the towns in the lower part of Morey's regiment all through the war period, which was also the period of their disaffection against the Exeter government, was very largely managed through the instrumentality of delegate conventions from the towns on both sides of the river. The details of the pro- ceedings of these assemblies must be sought in the State Papers and historical collections of New Hampshire and Vermont. The supreme effort on the part of New Hampshire in behalf of the cause of independence was made in 1777. Morey's regiment, on account of its location, was naturally subject to urgent calls for the reinforcement of the army by which General Burgoyne's forces were invested. David Hobart of Plymouth, colonel of the Eleventh regi- ment of militia, commanded one of the provisional regiments of Stark's brigade at Bennington. His record in that battle was highly commended by General Stark. His fame in later years, however, was obscured by the fact that Stark's despatches made the name appear to be " Hubbard." Belknap, Barstow, and other historians have fol- lowed the error. Whiton does not mention Hobart by either name. He died soon after the war in Haverhill, Mass., to which place he had removed. (Potter, Military Hist, of N. N., p. 320; Farmer's Bel- knap, p. 374; Barstow's N. H., p. 257.) The roll of the men of Stark's brigade, compiled by Col. George C. Gilmore, i8gi, in which the residence of each individual is given by towns, credits Morey's regiment with a contribution of 50 men. Nearly or quite all of this contingent served in the regiment com- manded by Colonel Hobart. Davenport Phelps of Lyme was quarter- master on the regimental staff. Charles Johnston of Haverhill was Hobart's lieutenant-colonel, and Johnston's dramatic valor is still a conspicuous feature of the story of the battle. (15 State Papers, 142 ; 15 Granite Monthly, p. 85, biography of Charles Johnston by J. Q. Bittinger.) Colonel Hurd writes from Haverhill, under date of September 30, 1777, to the committee of safety as follows : " I congratulate with you on the success of our army to the North- ward & the glorious prospect there now appears of. destroying the SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 9I whole Force of our Enemys both North & South, & compleating the business ot this campaign ; if the people do but continue their spirit & exertions. ' Tis rather unluckey tho' that General Stark's Brigade is so soon broke up, w'^^ has struck a panic into the Enemy they will never recover ; — more of our men this way however are turning out at the earnest request of General Bayley from Castleton, & by orders of Col" Morey, who I hear was going ofi himself. I am ex- tremely chagrin'd that my infirm Limbs will not permit me to share the Toils & dangers of the field with my countrymen. I have spared two of my family & and sent them off with horses and provisions for near a month ; — one of them, my son Jacob, tho' hardly of age suffi- cient, but a well grown lad of good heart & disposition, to supply his father's place." (8 State Papers, 700.) No account is here taken of the so-called Ticonderoga alarms in the early part of 1777, to which due response was undoubtedly made by the men of Morey's regiment for the brief terms which character- ized those somewhat desultory movements. Gen. Jacob Bayley forwarded the following letter to Colonel iMorey, dated September 22, 1777 : " S"' — Success attend us as yet, in part we have cut of their Com- munication — we have taken Tic. side except the old fort hope soon to have all Lake George — Taken about 500 Prisoners we want help much our Divition is only 1500 men General Lincoln's gone to Join General Gates you and all the melitia Eastward must turn out with Horses and one months Provitions which will I hope put an end to the dispute this way. Gen''^ Arnold fought a battle two day ago on the Left of Gen^i Gates great numbers fell on both sides he took 250 Prisoners and three field peaces and the field — Pray turn out — ."' (17 State Papers, 136.) Writing from Cornish, October i. 1777, Colonel Morey makes the following report to Gen. Jonathan Chase : "Sir — This is to inform you that I have collected what men I could out of my Regiment (in so short a time) I marched them as far as this place hoping to find you at home — but as you was gone forward & as I have rec'' new orders from the Court of this state thro' the Hands of Brigadeer Gen^ Whipple to exert myself to the utmost & send all the Militia that can possibly turn out, I concluded to turn back & raise another Company & send forward as soon as possible — Cap' Chandler commands the men which I have sent forward — I have directed him to put himself under your Command — my Adjutant Simeon Goodwin is gone forward & will serve if needed & he is a 92 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY Man that may be relied on for his punctuaHty & fidelity — Gen' Bay- ley will show you what further I have wrote respecting the men and soforth — I send my son Israel with the Men he is to wait on Cap* Hay- ward when he comes — ." By reference to the rolls in 15 State Papers, 379, 383, 385, we are able to identify the volunteers from Morey's regiment, to whom the colonel refers. The officers of Morey's regiment with this battalion at the outset were Major Jonathan Child of Lyme, Adjutant Simeon Goodwin of Haverhill, Chaplain Obediah Noble, formerly of Orange, Capt. Jona- than Chandler of Piermont, Lieut. Jonathan Derby of Orford, Ensign Tames English of Lyme, Capt. Joshua Hayward (or Howard) of Haverhill, and Lieut. Thomas Hibbard of Haverhill. Major Child and Surgeon Frederick Obrey appear to have served in General Lincoln's command. (15 State Papers, 366.) Lieutenant-Colonel Webster of Hobart's Plymouth regiment accom- panied this contigent with a company of 24 officers and men from that regiment under Capt. John Willoughby. (15 State Papers, 381.) There were 30 men in Captain Chandler's company, and 36 in that of Captain Howard, besides the three officers of the field and staff. The detachment served under Colonel Chase. The rolls of Chase's men give the number in this particular service as 142. Chandler's contingent and Willoughby's company gave Colonel Chase a regiment of 235 men. The following certificate of service relative to the regiment is pre- served (17 State Papers, 150) : " H. Q. Saratoga, Ocf iS'h 1777— "These may Certify that Col" Chase with a Regiment of Volunteers have faithfully serv'd until this date in the Northern Army, and are now Discharged with Honor. — " By order of General Gates "Jacob Bayley Brig"" Gen^" Another company of 38 officers and men were engaged in this campaign under Capt. Joseph Hutchins of Haverhill. General Bay- ley certifies that they were in his brigade. Capt. John Sloan's com- pany, raised in Lyme, Orford, Piermont, and the vicinity in Coos, 27 officers and men, were also in the same service. (15 State Papers, 277-281.) The roll of officers for Hutchins's company is given in Potter's Military History, Part 2, p. 386. The officers named by Colonel Potter are, — SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 93 Joseph Hutchins, captain. Timothy Bedel, first lieutenant. Joseph Howe, second lieutenant. Ezekiel Ladd, ensign. The period of service was from August 18 to October 5. This roll should be read in connection with that of the rank and file printed in 15 State Papers, 279. It makes the full number of the company 38, and by that much in- creases the aggregate of men furnished from Morey's regiment for the Saratoga campaign. In July, 1777, it appears by the record that 50 men were recruited from this regiment for the continental regiments, and the names, resi- dences, and regiment to which each man was assigned are given in detail. (15 State Papers, 424, 425.) These enlistments were in ample time for the Saratoga campaign, in which all the New Hampshire continental regiments which are referred to participated. The total strength of Morey's regiment being 347, as already officially stated, it is now shown by actual reference to the rolls and names of the men that nearly two thirds the regi- ment (234) volunteered for the Bennington and Saratoga campaigns, and that was equivalent to two thirds of the entire body of men of military age within the territorial limits of the regiment. In a letter addressed to Lieut. -Col. David Webster, reproduced in Hon. Alfred Russell's biography of that officer in the Granite Monthly, vol. 30, p. 93, General Bayley formally thanks Colonel Webster for the services of himself and his regiment. "Headquarters, Saratoga, " Oct. 18, 1777. "These may certify that Col. Webster, with a regiment of N. H. Volunteers, have faithfully served in the Northern Army until this date, and are discharged with honor. " By Gen. Gate's order, "Jacob Bayley, Brig. GenH^ The letter does not specify the regiment to which reference is made, whether to the regiment with which Colonel Webster served or a regi- ment which he commanded. It could not have been the Eleventh, or Plymouth regiment of militia, for the same reason that two companies volunteering out of Morey's regiment were not Morey's regiment, and 142 volunteers from Chase's were not Chase's regiment. Colonel Bedel's first regiment, 1775, serving in Canada, and the sec- ond, 1776, also operating in the same region, both contained compa- 94 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY nies raised within the area of Moray's regiment. Bedel's third, 1777, and his fourth, 1778, also contained large enlistments from Moray's militia, although Bedel's later regiments, with the exception of the contingent of 100 men under Lieutenant-Colonel Wheelock called to Albany, N. Y., in 1778, were not actually engaged in field service outside of New Hampshire or Vermont. Add to this exhibit the re- cruitments from the northern militia for many companies of rangers, of which the official rolls afford evidence, and it may fairly be as- sumed that the number of men in active service assignable to Morey's regiment very largely exceeds the numerical strength of the regiment, notwithstanding the somewhat paradoxical nature of the claim. The militia was governed by the existing province laws, modified in some particulars by occasional legislation, until September, 1776, when a new system was established by act of the two houses of the assem- bly. This law created two classes in the militia, the training band and the alarm list. All the able-bodied males in the state, with cus- tomary exemptions, between sixteen and fifty years of age, were in- cluded in the train band, and an alarm list in which the liability to military duty in emergencies was extended to sixty -five years. ^ The companies, including those upon the alarm list, a field officer presiding, ware to choose a captain, two lieutenants, and an ensign to each. The non-commissioned officers were chosen by the companies. Each officer and private soldier was " to equip himself and be con- stantly provided with a good firearm, good ramrod, a worm, priming wire and brush, and a bayonet fitted to his gun, a scabbard and belt therefor, and a cutting sword or a tomahawk, or hatchet, a pouch con- taining a cartridge-box that will hold fifteen rounds of cartridges at least, a hundred buckshot, a jack-knife and tow for wadding, six flints, one pound of powder, forty leaden balls, fitted to his gun, a knapsack and blanket, a canteen or wooden bottle, sufficient to hold one quart." Each town was to provide and deposit in some safe place, for use in case of an alarm, a specified number of spades, axes, and picks, and to provide arms and equipments for those unable to provide for them- selves ; and parents, masters, and guardians were to provide for those under their care. Each company was to muster eight times a year, including the regimental musters. (Potter's Mil. Hist. N. H., vol. 2, Adjt. -Gen's Report, 1866, p. 281.) 1 A Conway return of June 10, 1775, in which all the men able to bear arms from sixteen years upward are enumerated, shows 61 men, with 10 on the alarm list, a total of 71. Of this 61, moreover, 11 were reported as already gone to the war. This may indicate approximately the respective proportions of men in the two classes in other northern towns. 14 State Papers, 246. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 95 The law imposed very serious burdens vipon the people, not only in personal services but in the expense of equipment. A census taken in the fall of 1775 (7 Prov. Papers, 724-784) indicates approximately the amount of arms and military supplies in the hands of the people. The following table is an abstract of their returns, limited to the towns in Alorey's regiment : Names of Towns. Fire arms fit for use. Powder Powder Lead Guns inhabi- town and wanted. tants has. bullets. have. etc. 13 29 30 lbs. 30 31 38 8 24 8 lbs. 15 3 2 3f I 6 f 50 I 31 16 7 7 6 12 14 7 15 10 8 7 II I 3 lbs lead, 2 dozen flints. 10 lbs. 3 3i lead, 20 flints. Pistols. Orford Lyme Bath Cockburne (Columbia) . . Colebrook Haverhill Piermont Stratford Apthorp (Littleton and Dalton) Gunthwaite (Lisbon) . . . . Northumberland Lancaster Lyman Landaff Morristown (Franconia and Lincoln) In a short time after Colonel Morey assumed command of the "North Regiment" it furnished a large contingent of men and mili- tary equipment for Bedel's regiment of Rangers which was ordered to Canada early in the winter of i775-'76 to reinforce Montgomery's army. In the absence of Colonel Bedel and Lieutenant-Colonel Wait a part of this Ranger regiment was surrendered at a fort called "Cedars," under circumstances most discreditable to Major Butter- field who was in command. (Potter's Mil. Hist., Adjt. -Gen's Report, 1866, vol. 2, p. 287.) This necessarily resulted in a serious loss of equipment which had been drawn from the western New Hampshire militia contributing the men and material for Bedel's regiment. The burden of replacing the loss in arms and accoutrements from this dis- graceful affair was a serious matter for the farmer soldiers of the fron- tier. 1 'Memorial of Charles Johnston, Joseph Hutchins, Simeon Goodwin, and Joshua Howard, 12 State Papers, 1S7. g6 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY The numerical strength of Morey's regiment can be ascertained with reasonable accuracy. The record, reprinted in 14 State Papers, 556, which gives the statistics of enrolment for an apportionment of recruits called for to fill the three continental regiments in 1777, is apparently complete except as to Colonel Morey's regiment. The total strength of the regiment is given as 347. This is manifestly based on the census returns of the fall of 1775. (7 Prov. Papers, 724.) The part which remains in the original manuscript is indicated by italics. The part in Roman is reconstructed from the census returns above mentioned. The result is so nearly that given in the record summary that we have a right to assume our method of reconstruction of the statistics of en- rolment for the regiment to be sufficiently accurate. Orford , . . 47 Lyme 6g Bath 35 Cockburne 6 Colebrook i Haverhill 86 Piermont. 43 Stratford 16 Apthorp (estimated)' 5 Gunthwaite 11 Northumberland (14 State Papers, 559, 7) 20 Lancaster ("...."...." ". . .6) 17 Lyman (" " " " . . . o) . . (estimated) 9 Landaff 9 Morristown 6 Reconstructed summary 378 Record (official) 347 Variance. The difference in the record statement (14 State Papers, 559) of the number of men in Lancaster, Northumberland, and Lyman, and the statistics as corrected by the census returns (7 State Papers, 724 to 781) with the uncertainty taken into account as to Lyman and Apthorp, from which necessarily only estimates are given, is not very important, and, due allowance being made according to the apparent requirements of the case, no serious historical error will be possible. It may, therefore, be assumed, for the purposes of this narrative, that we have the territorial extent of the regiment outlined, and its numerical strength also, as nearly as it is practicable to state it from the records, read in connection with the census of 1775. ' See 7 Province Papers 672, for authority for estimates. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 97 We are also enabled to locate most of the companies which consti- tuted the regiment, and to give the roster of field and 'company officers with the exception of one or two companies. This statement refers to the organization as it stood in September, 1775. A List of the i2Th Regiment of Foot, Colony of New Hampshire, Sept. 5TH, 1775.^ Commissioned 5th Sept., 1775. Israel More}', Esq., Colonel. Charles Johns(t)on, Esq. Lt. Col. Jonathan Child, Esq., Major. Jonathan Hale, Esq., 2d Maj. Haverhill First Company. Joshua Hayward, Capt. Samuel Ladd, Lt. Ebenezer Rice, 2d Lt. John Ladd, Ensign. Orford 2nd Company. Daniel Tillotson, Capt. Peletiah Bliss, Lieut. Eldad Post, 2d Lt. Jonathan Derby, Ensign. Lyme 3rd Company. John Sloan, Capt. Benjamin Grant, Jr., Lt. Jabez Vaughn, 2d Lt. James English, Ensign. 4th Company (Name of town and roster not in original.) Piermont 5th Company. Jonathan Chandler, Capt. John Weed, Lt. Azariah Webb, 2d Lt. Burgess Metcalf, Ensign. Gunthwaite 6th Company. Luther Richardson, Capt. Jacob Shuflf, Lieut. William Martin, 2d Lt. Timothy Bagley, Ensign. Bath 7th Company Samuel Titus, Capt. Daniel Bedel, Lieut. Henry Hancock, 2d Lt. Aaron Bayley, Ensign. Bath, Commissioned 20th June 1780 Ebenezer Sanborn, Capt. Thomas McConnell Joshua Sanders 2d Lt. Job Moulton, Ensign. 1 16 State Papers, 924. 98 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY It is apparent from the statistical view that there would be serious practical obstacles in the way of an oro;anization of a company of militia in the scattered townships to the north of Gunthwaite. Nei- ther Lancaster nor Northumberland, the two most populous settle- ments, had enough men of military age for a company of the strength required by law. It is hardly to be supposed lhat people so much dispersed could effect very much for the purpose of maintaining a com- pany of militia. The theory that they did not so unite in the early years of the Revolution seems to be sustained by the fact that the Coos forts were garrisoned by companies or squads of rangers some- times recruited from the northern towns within a wide circuit, and sometimes sent in from distant places. We may assume, in the absence of contemporary records, that the service constantly required in guarding and scouting this frontier, and in contributing to the requirements of a more general service, was a sufficient test of the devotion of these pioneers to the cause of independence, and that their duties in the fields and in the forts left no opportunity or occa- sion for further organization into a company or companies in Morey's regiment of militia, to which territorially they would be constituent. Conditions did not change materially till the end of the war. There are certain facts in the official records, pertinent in this con- nection, which have not been overlooked. It appears in the State Papers as early as January, 1776, that Edwards Bucknam of Lancas- ter, in a vote of the legislature appointing coroners for the county of Grafton, is accorded the title of captain. This may indicate that he had such command before he settled at that point or afterwards. No evidence is accessible to settle the question. Furthermore, in 1779 it appears that the settlers in those parts chose Nathan Caswell to be captain of some sort of local military organization. Whether it was merely a temporary measure or intended as an extension of the militia system is not disclosed by the record. (8 State Papers 21 ; 13 ?V/., 474. 475; 15 ^(1-^ 705-) The history of Morey's regiment derives interest from events which had a peculiar significance in the politics of the towns embraced within its limits. A number of the leading men in these settlements were from Connecticut, and their ideas of government were naturally in accordance with their education and experience in the commonwealth from which they had emigrated. Hanover, with its college and faculty, which constituted a Connecti- cut colony of itself, was the intellectual centre for this movement, which took substantial form early in 1776. The form of government SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 99 adopted for the time being by the Fifth Provincial Congress was not acceptable to the majority of the people in the towns now constituting the western part of Grafton county. Colonel Hurd and Lt.-Col. Charles Johnston, however, were not partisans of the views which generally prevailed on this subject in their vicinity. Colonel Morey and Colo- nel Bedel were conspicuous among the opposers of the party in power in the so-called Exeter government. The group of towns which included Gunthwaite on the north and Lebanon on the south, in Graf- ton county, organized themselves by town groups and local commit- tees for the management of civil and military concerns, and formally declined to recognize the new state government of New Hampshire. It will not be found useful to pursue the history of this controversy at length in this connection. It may be remembered, however, that the Independents of the Connecticut valley manoeuvered with skill and persistence to accomplish such a union of Vermont towns with New Hampshire as promised either to augment the influence of the western part of the state and to diminish in a corresponding degree the politi- cal power which the eastern section had acquired, or to sever them- selves from New Hampshire and join with the proposed state of Ver- mont or New Connecticut under more favorable conditions than they could expect from New Hampshire. At two periods between 1776 and the close of the war, that is to say, in 1778 and 1781-82, these towns were in active union with Vermont as far as the formal action of both parties could accomplish such a result. 1 1 Briefly stated, the contention of the New Hampshire party was that upon the dis- solution of political relations between the colonies and the mother country, and more especially in respect to the territory in controversy between New York and New Hampshire, the towns, being the political units and the original sources of political authority, were invested with the right to determine for themselves the question whether to accord allegiance to the one or the other of the disputing states, or whether to erect themselves into a state independent of the mandate of any other association of towns or committees formed for the purposes of government. They urged that inasmuch as the New Hampshire constitution of 1776 had never been submitted to the people or to the towns for ratification, and had been accepted by a part of the towns only, it was operative only upon such as had elected to ratify its provisions. The protesting towns took care not to do any act which could be construed as a rati- fication of that form of government in the six years from early in 1776 to 1782. Their argument was presented in the controversial and official literature of that time with great skill and effectiveness. Tl^y succeeded in making themselves felt as a political force to be reckoned with by three established states and the continental congress, as Vk'ell as the prospective commonwealth of Vermont. A number of the more important collections of documents and historical treatises relating to this subject in its various aspects are mentioned in the preface to vol. 26, State Papers, p. IX. Several valuable contributions to the history of the same controversy are embodied in recent biographies of historic personages of that time. lOO PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY Colonel Bedel of Haverhill and Colonel Brewster of Hanover were members of the Vermont Board of War (2 Gov. and Council Records, Vermont, p. 8g), and Colonel Morey recognized the civil and military authority of Vermont, and as far as his authority and influence were effectual, his regiment was a component of the Vermont militia. Col- onel Bedel's regiment, which had been organized under continental authority, was discontinued by vote of congress November 27, 1778. There is evidence that Colonel Bedel's connection with the Vermont controversy was a moving cause in this result. (See letters of Lieut. - Col. John Wheelock and General Washington on this subject, both of date November 20, 1778, and the comments of the historian of Hano- ver, Chase's Hist, of Hanover, p. 395.) He represented the adjoining towns of Bath, Lyman, and Morristown, as well as Haverhill in the Vermont assembly in 1 781.1 Among them the following are especially noteworthy. Elisha Payne, by William H. Cotton, G. & C. Bar Ass'n, vol. i, p. 497 ; Samual Livermore, by Charles R. Comings Id., p. 365 ; John Sullivan, by Alonzo H. Quint, address at the dedication of the Sullivan monument at Durham, Proceedings of that occasion, published by the state,. p. 53; Meshech Weare, a Monograph, by Ezra S. Stearns, pamphlet, 1S94; Id., vol. I, Proceedings of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution, p. 62. 1 Colonel Bedel was the most prominent figure from the region of western Grafton in the continental service. He was principally occupied in guarding this frontier and cooperating with the northern army. He ceased to be active in the field, after con- gress in November, 177S, declined to continue his regiment under authority of the confederacy. Col. Moses Hazen was in a measure his successor with a regiment partaking of the characteristics of the ranger service and with continental commis sion. The two men were in intimate relations, and Colonel Bedel was often called upon, after his formal retirement, to aid in the collection and forwarding of military stores in and from the Coos country. (Bedel Papers, 17 State Papers, /a5«;«.) He was not in favor with President Weare, the executive head of the New Hampshire Revo- lutionary administration (Letter to the Delegates in Congress, August 19, 1778, and Vt. State Papers, 303), and in Vermont politics he was a strenuous opponent of the party represented by Governor Chittenden and the Aliens. The Haldimand corres- pondence discloses an attempt on the part of the British-Canadian diplomats to enlist Colonel Bedel in cooperation with the leaders of the Bennington party in the truce that was proposed, with a cessation of hostilities against Vermont. (2 Coll. Vt. Hist. Soc, 267, 273.) In view of the attitude of his political associates in the valley {Id., I "j^) the eventual conclusion of Colonel Bedel in respect to such a convention, between Governor Haldimand and Governor Chittenden, the Aliens and Fay, could be foreseen with comparative certainty. ^ As already stated in the text, Colonel Bedel was a member of the Vermont Board of War in i7Si-'S2. From the standpoint of military strategy no one could better appreciate the importance of the fertile and populous middle and upper valley of the Connecticut as a source of supply for the continental army than Colonel Bedel. He was keenly alive to the necessity of keeping a strong force well in hand in that regioa at all times ; otherwise invasion would be invited, and its disastrous consequences. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. lOI Colonel Morey, notwithstanding his open and persistent support of the independent movement, continued in command of the Twelfth regiment until hostilities reached the verge of armed collision between New Hampshire and Vermont over the jurisdictional issue. He was then, on the iith day of January, 1782, summarily removed from his command by the New Hampshire legislature, and Lieut-Col. Charles Johnston was made colonel. This, the last experiment in any form of a union of the towns on the east side of the river with Vermont, shortly resulted in a definite and unqualified failure. The leaders in in the depopulation and devastation of the valley inevitable. Colonel Bedel's insist- ence upon this policy undoubtedly caused the discontinuance of his command. Memoir of Gen. John Stark by Caleb Stark. 1S77, PP- 161, 166, 179. If he was after- wards in any sense a party to the negotiations with Governor Haldimand it was without doubt moved by his skepticism as to the efificacy of the measure sanctioned by congress for the defense of this region and a conviction that it was justifiable in the prospective failure of other protection to keep the enemy beyond our own boundaries by recourse to the methods of diplomacy. With the failure of the Independents of the valley as a controlling force, either in the politics of the one state or the other, which immediately followed the settlement of the boundary at the west bank of the river, Colonel Payne of Lebanon, Judge Woodward of Hanover, Colonel Bedel, Colonel Morey, and their associates found themselves in irretrievable political defeat and squarely face to face with the inevitable. With a few exceptions these men loyally adapted themselves to the settled conditions. Colonel Potter, in a note to his Military History, states that Bedel was a major-general of the second division of the N. H. militia after the war, and this statement is adopted by Governor Harri- man and other writers. (Adjt.-Gen's. Report, N. H., vol. 2, 1S66, p. 242. Granite Monthly, vol. 3, p. 513.) Noting the absence of any record to verify the assertion, taking into account the significant fact that he is always designated as " colonel " in the Journals of the House in i7S4-'85, while those known to have been commissioned as generals in the militia are invariably given the title in the same record whenever a military designation is attached, and considering the attitude of Colonel Bedel towards New Hampshire authority in the later years of the war, we are convinced that on this point Colonel Potter was in error. There was but one major-general in command of the New Hampshire militia at any one time until about the date of the decease of Colonel Bedel, and this office had but two incumbents until 1786, first General Folsom and later General Sullivan. No official record mentions Colonel Bedel as a brigadier or major-general. In the two years intervening between the failure of the union with Vermont and the inauguration of a state government under the constitu- tion of 1784 the animosities and disappointments engendered by the struggle between the states for jurisdiction over the territory between the Green Mountains and the Masonian line were becoming less appreciable before other interests and fresher issues. Colonel Payne for Lebanon and Colonel Bedel for Haverhill were returned to the new legislature, and were at once accorded recognition commensurate with their character and ability. (20 State Papers, /assim.) Colonel Bedel died in 17S7 in the full prospect of supplementing a useful and dis- tinguished military career by one as honorable on the civic side in public affairs. (See also Biography of Timothy Bedel by Edgar Aldrich, 3 Proceedings N. H. Hist. Soc, 194 231.) 8 I02 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY the movement generally acquiesced in the result, but Colonel Moray could not bring himself to such compliance with the logic of events. He removed at once and permanently into Fairlee on the Vermont side of the river. There he passed the remainder of his days and occupied a commanding position for many years both in civil and military affairs. Colonel Morey was undoubtedly a consistent partisan. In antago- nism to the Exeter party in New Hampshire his attitude was unequiv- ocal and his conduct straightforward. In the politics of the new state of Vermont he was the same sturdy and persistent opponent of the Bennington party. This is not the place for a treatment of the negotiations between the Vermont leaders and the British-Canadian authorities in the latter part of the war period. (Haldimand Papers, 2 Hist. Soc. Coll.,Vt.,p. 55.) As indicating the position of some of the prominent men on the east side of the river, then claimed as a part of Vermont, an extract from a report of one of the commissioners, dated September 30, 1 78 1 , is given : "I find that Congress are much alarmed, and have lately at great expense employed a number of emissaries in Vermont to counteract underhand whatever is doing for government. The principal of these are General Bailey, Colonels Chas. Johnston, Moron, (Morey?), Brewster, and Major Childs on Connecticut River. " This junto, of which General Bailey is the soul, are endeavoring to set the populace against their present leaders by insinuating to them that they are tories and intend to sell Vermont, &c." (2 Hist. Soc. Coll., Vt., 178; Amory, Life of Sullivan, 305.) It is entirely to Colonel Morey's credit that he was the subject of such criticism as this at the hands of the British-Canadian officials. Indeed, all the evidence which throws light on the character of the men at that time vindicates the loyalty and patriotism of Colonel Morey in the cause of independence. The circumstances in which he was placed and the attitude he as- sumed in state politics put him at a serious disadvantage in his rela- tions with the dominant party in New Hampshire. (Biography of Israel Morey by ex. -Gov. Roswell Farnham, Proceedings N. H. Hist. Soc, withheld for reconstruction and revision.) In November, 1779, Capt. Joshua Howard of Haverhill was pro- moted to be second major in place of Major Hale.i In the records this officer's name appears occasionally as Hayward, as well as Howard. There is nothing to indicate that any changes were made in the field officers of the regiment after the advancement of Lieutenant-Colonel IS State Papers, S34. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IO3 Johnston until March i, 1783, when the house of representatives votecU " That Capt. Ebenezer Green [of Lyme] be and hereby is ap- pointed Lieut. -Col. of the twelfth regiment of militia in this State." "That Joshua Howard, Esq"" [of Haverhill] be and he hereby is appointed first Major of the twelfth regiment of Militia in this State." "That Capt. Edwards Bucknam [of Lancaster] be and he hereby is appointed a Second Major of the twelfth regiment of Militia in this State." The council records, as now preserved, do not indicate a con- currence in these votes by this body. Perhaps there was an error of omission at this point on the part of the recording officer. It will be noted that Capt. Edwards Bucknam is named by his title. This may and probably does indicate that a company or companies had at this date been organized further north than Gunthwaite (Lisbon)^, and that Captain Bucknam had been in command of one of them. There is significance in the appointment of a major to be located in the north part of the territory of the regiment. It presupposes a developement of the organization either already in progress or expected in that direc- tion. The numbering of Morey's regiment in the Vermont military es- tablishment has not been ascertained with absolute certainty, though it was assigned as a regiment east of the river to the brigade of Gen. Peter Olcott. Col. Jonathan Chase's regiment, according to the his- torian of Hanover, became the third in the Vermont arrangement, and More3'''s was probably the first. (2 Records Gov. and Council, Vt. 8?.) From the date of Colonel Johnston's advancement to the colonelcy in January, 1782, he continued in command, and his regiment existed territorially as it had been during the war until, the state government had been re-organized under the constitution of 1784.3 In the latter part of that year the laws governing the militia were remodeled on a peace basis and a resulting rearrangment of regiments and reappoint- ment or reassignment of officers ensued. Twenty-five regiments of infantry were established besides several regiments of artillery and cavalry. The northern regiment became the Twenty-Fifth and contained the towns of Lyman, Landaff, Lincoln, Concord (alias Gunthwaite), Cockburne (Columbia), Franconia, Littleton, Dalton, Lancaster, Dartmouth (Jefferson), Northumber- land, Stratford, Colebrook, and Percy (Stark). Joseph Whipple of Dartmouth became colonel, and held the command until the reorgan- iS State Papers, 972. 2 8 State Papers, 21. sBiogiaphy by J. Q. Bittinger, 15 Granite Monthly, 85. I04 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY ization in 1792. (Biography, by Chester B. Jordan, 2 Proceedings N. H. Hist. Soc, 289.) Bath was included in the Haverhill (Thir- teenth) regiment in 1784, with Moses Dow as colonel. This was an interesting and progressive period for the militia. John Sullivan was major-general from 1784 to 1786, and subsequently commander-in-chief for three years by virtue of his office as president of the state. 1 The prestige of General Sullivan's name and his active influence promoted a healthful esprit cie corps in the militia of the new state. With a general revision of the laws and reorganization of the militia in December, 1792, the towns of the Twenty-Fifth regiment, with little change and with the adoption of a new feature, the battalion arrangement, became the Twenty-Fourth. Concord (Lisbon), Ly- man, Littleton, Franconia, Lincoln, and Dalton were the first battalion, and Lancaster, Northumberland, Dartmouth, Percy, Coleburne (Cole- brook), Cockburne (Columbia), Stewartstown, and Stratford con- stituting the second. In 1793 Concord (Lisbon) and Lyman were severed from the Twenty-Fourth and joined with the Thirteenth regiment. At the same time the battalion division was altered and Lancaster, Littleton, Dalton, Franconia, State Hill (Bethlehem), and Jetferson constituted the first battalion, and the towns above them the second. (Compiled Laws of 1805, p. 246.) This was the status of the regiment until December, 1804. Coos county had been estab- lished in the previous year. The towns of Coos county were con- tinued in the Twenty-Fourth regiment, while Bath, Lyman, and Lan- daflf were made a first battalion and Littleton, Bethlehem, Lincoln, and Franconia constituted the second of the newly formed Thirty- Second regiment. (Compiled Laws of 1805, p. 251.) This regi- ment was now an established feature of the general arrangement con- tinuing practically unchanged for half a century. The commanders of the Twenty-Fourth regiment in their order from 1793 to 1804 were Edwards Bucknam of Lancaster, 1793, Jabez Parsons of Colebrook, 1799, Joel Barlow of Stratford, 1801, and Richard C. Everett^ of Lancaster, 1804. Benjamin Kimball of Bath, in 1805, when the organization of the Thirty-Second regiment for northern Grafton was effected, became the first commandant. 3 * Amory's Life of John Sullivan, p. 437. » Biography of Richard C. Everett by Chester B. Jordan, G. & C. Bar Assn, vol. I, P- 437- 'From 1792 to 1S16 regimental commanders were, by law, accorded the rank of lieutenant-colonel commandant, and the incumbent held rank equivalent to that be- fore and after that period accorded to a colonel. An aid to the governor in the the same period was also designated and ranked as a lieutnant-colonel commandant. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IO5 In estimating the number of enrolled militia in any town in the period succeeding the Revolution, it must be remembered that the militia act of March 18, 1780, continued the existing provision for two classes, the train band, composed of youth and men from sixteen to forty years of age, and an alarm list composed of men from forty to sixty years of age. By the act of December 28. 1792, the alarm list was abolished and the military age was from eighteen to forty. It was made sixteen to forty in 1795 (June 10). This was the age for a long period afterwards. By the act of June 24, 1786, towns which could furnish thirty-two privates and the proper number of commis- sioned and non-commissioned officers (13) were required to establish one company ; but when a town had less than thirty-two privates and a sufficient number of officers they were joined to such other corps as the field officer might think proper. By act of December 24, 1792, which was really a new military code, the number of privates for a company was fixed at sixty-four, with no provision for a less number for the first company or a greater for the second. At the time of the second war with England three regiments occu- pied the original territory of the Twelfth. Later there was another in the western side of Coos. The hereditary martial spirit of the people thoroughly permeated the military system of the state lor many years after the Revolution. So complete, practical, and effective was it in 1 8 14 that a regiment was mobilized for the defense of Portsmouth in three days, and within the brief space of time required to send express messengers with the summons, and for the men to accomplish the march from their rendezvous to Portsmouth, five regiments of infan- try, with cavalry and artillery, were in the field for offensive or defen- sive operations against the enemy. Judge Potter says of our military status at this period : " The declaration of war found the militia of New Hampshire" in a flourishing condition, as much so as at any period of its existence. The governor [John Taylor Gilman^] who from his position is com- mander-in-chief of the militia, though not a military man, was one of energy, patriotism, method, and great executive ability. His heart and hand were in the cause. His predecessors in that important office, without an exception under the present constitution, had been men engaged in the Revolutionary struggle, and had learned by experience the worth of a well regulated militia, carried out the maxim of ' in time of peace prepare for war,' and did not believe in the more modern 1 Query, whether Colonel Potter should not refer to Governor Plumer as the wai governor, t8i2-'i3. Life of Plumer, p. 3S9. I06 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY idea that ' the militia system was a nuisance, and tended to demoral- ize the people.' The adjutant-general was a soldier of the Revolu- tion, and had been in that position since the adoption of the constitu- tion, and many of the officers of the militia had been his comrades in arms in that great struggle. Such men, taught in the school of expe- rience, brought military skill and pride, without which skill is of little avail, to the organization and completion of our military system. Such being the situation of our militia, compliance with the requisi- tions of the general government was met with the greatest prompt- ness." In later years a spirit of pusillanimous commercialism and non-resist- ance seemed to cause a deterioration in the quality of our militarism. It is none the less the duty and the opportunity of all who possess a healthful and progressive patriotism to see that the hereditary spirit, the ancient heroic temper of the people is not lost or abated. I ven- ture to quote to this point the words of a New Hampshire statesman of our own time, as they declare on the basis of philosophical truth the present necessity and the present duty in reference to the public de- fense, in view, not only of existing circumstances, but also of the possi- bilities of the future. The quotation is as follows : " As the situation now is, nothing could be more foolish and crimi- nal than to leave our coasts defenseless, cease to build warships and dismantle the few we have, ' beat our swords into ploughshares, and our spears into pruning-hooks,' and teach our young men that they must not learn war any more. The history of the world furnishes a multitude of examples illustrating the disastrous fate that overtakes nations when they discard the means necessary to protect thern from the assaults of warlike enemies. The great, rich, and populous empire of China furnishes a very recent example that demonstrates how foolish a thirig it is at this day for a nation to fail to be prepared to defend itself against the modes and implements of modern warfare. A rich country without defenses and inhabited by a timid, unwarlike people, is a standing invitation to all outside adventurers to invade it, to conquer and possess it, stripping the miserable inhabitants of everything, and either enslaving them or driving them into exile. As humanity is, at the present time, the millennial period not having arrived and there being no signs of it, the surest guaranty of peace which a nation can have is the world's estimate that it is a just nation, that it will ask nothing but what is right, that it is prepared for war. and will submit to nothing wrong. The proposition that war is wrong per se, and can never be justified, is a proposition which cannot be maintained except SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IO7 upon the broad ground of the non-resistants. Nations have the right of self-defense, and are under legal and moral obligation to engage in war whenever it is necessary in order to protect the lives and property of their citizens. War is right or wrong according to the circumstan- ces that occasion it. Through all the ages since the world began wars have succeeded wars in constant succession, apparently in obedience to the fixed laws that regulate the lot of humanity."^ I will add a brief extract from a letter of Gen. John Sullivan which was addressed to the people of this state more than a century ago. He said : "In Republican governments, people often turn their thoughts to that part of the constitution which bequeaths them their liberties ; but too frequently forget that they ought to pursue measures for securing them. We have already bravely purchased liberty and independence, and now make part of an empire where freedom reigns without control ; but what will our late struggle avail, if we suffer the military skill which we have acquired to be lost, and ourselves to sleep in seeming safety till the avarice, the jealousy, or the ambition of some foreign prince rouses us from our slumbers, and convinces us of our mistake? " We often please ourselves by observing that this country is calcu- lated for freedom and commerce, not for war. I sincerely join in the opinion, and most ardently wish it may ever remain such ; but I have long since been convinced that the only way to keep peace is to be prepared for whatever events may come. If we mean to keep our neighbors' sword in the scabbard we shall whet our own." 2 In another connection General Sullivan urges the importance and utility of the military education of the youth. On this point, addressing himself to the instructors of schools and academies, he writes as follows : "As the profession of arms is in every country esteemed honorable, even when the science of war is learned with a view of extending con- quests over unoffending nations, it must be infinitely more so when taught for the purpose of national defense, and for the security of dear-bought freedom. Permit me, therefore, gentlemen, to entreat you, if you will not interfere with the plans which you may have laid for diffusing literary knowledge, to set apart some hours in the w-eek for the youth under your care to amuse tliemselves in learning the manual exercise and military manoeuvres. If this proposal should meet your approbation, 1 The Safety of the Republic the Supreme Law, by Hon. Harry Bingham, LL. D., 3 Proceed. G. & C. Bar Ass'n, 203. * Amory, Life of Major-General John Sullivan, p. 307. I08 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY your own wisdom will dictate the best method for carrying it into execution. If relaxation from studies is necessary, perhaps none can be so useful ; and I am convinced, that, in a short time, none could be more pleasing to your pupils. You will then have the pleasing satisfaction to see the youth, whom you have taught to converse with the sages of Greece and Rome, to admire the heroes of ancient and modern times, and to value that freedom for which they have fought and bled, made, by your care, proper champions to defend those natural and national rights which you have taught them to hold in the highest estimation " ^ With one more abstract from contemporary authority, this from an author of national repute, a theologian who is a leader of thought in our universities, a New Hampshire soldier, without fear and without reproach, I submit this outline of the self-sacrificing, well-directed, and unflinching efforts of the fathers who were, a hundred and twenty years ago, striving to subdue the wilderness of northern New Eng- land, and at the same time making that grand struggle to establish an enduring nationality, and the soldier-citizen's plea for the maintenance of the priceless heritage by that intelligent, eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty. In a recent contribution to the military history of New Hampshire Rev. Dr. Luther Tracy Townsend says : " The way for our nation to prevent war is to be prepared for it, and the way for her to check the wrongs and tyrannies of the whole world is to be courageous and speak out. "If, therefore, in view of what has been said, it is clear that the heroic and military spirit is of service and that it should not be allowed to slumber as it did in our northern states during the years preceding the late war ; if it is clear that our nation, among the nations of the earth, has a larger mission than as yet has been claimed for her ; and if it is true that the day of universal peace has not yet dawned, then we may offer a single additional plea, namely, that mil- itary weapons must not be left exclusively in the hands of what are called government and mercenary troops, but also and largely should be in the hands of an organized and disciplined state militia. " 'It is certain,' said Madison, ' that liberty cannot be safe with powerful standing armies, and that, without an effective militia, the danger of such armies cannot be precluded.' The history and fate of the republics of Greece and Rome, of Genoa and Venice, are a standing warning against the transfer of the sword from the militia to a mercenary soldiery. 1 Amory, Life of General John Sullivan, p. 31S. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IO9 " We do not say that what is termed the ' regular army,' in a nation of considerable magnitude like ours, is useless. Often it is service- able in the exercise of the balance of power in sudden emergencies. It is available, as a sort of movable police force, in presenting a speedy check to slight, local uprisings, and it everywhere inspires respect, being the representative of the national government. "But what we insist on is that in the midst of great perils the state militia is the surest bulwark of a nation's rights. 'It is the wall, behind which a free people may pursue their honest toil unharmed.' It was the state militia of New England under the old provincial flag of Massachusetts Bay which made the Indian tremble as 'he saw them pass along in martial order.' It was the state militia of New England which stood the first shock of the Revolutionary war in 1775. It was the state militia of New Hampshire that protected its legislature dur- ing the disturbances and disaffections in 1782. It was the state mili- tia of Massachusetts that quelled the Shays insurrection in 1786. It was the state militia of Pennsylvania which enforced the law and maintained order during the insurrections of i7g4-'98. " During the war of 181 2, when the enemy was hovering along our coast and the national forces were withdrawn, they were the organized and officered New England militia companies which, with twenty-four hours' notice, garrisoned and protected all our posts and seaboard cities. It was the state militia that in several different commonwealths quelled the riots of 1877. "And in 1861, when our country's capital was besieged, when our national archives were threatened, when our way to Washington was blocked in the streets of Baltimore, the first troops that fought their way to the protection and rescue of the city of Washington were the state militia of Massachusetts. " These instances are convincing illustrations of the efficiency and necessity of the sword in the hands of a state militia under state orders. " Our conviction is, therefore, that every boy of twelve or fifteen years of age in the state of New Hampshire should learn to go through the manual of arms. And it should be a health-giving and heroic dis- cipline if all our boys were taught to draw and poise the sword on horseback and to ram the cartridge in a field piece of any calibre. " Every large public school in our state, like the schools of Ger- many, should have its military battalion and its drill-master in science. Our public schools should be called together and dismissed, not with the bell, but with the drum and fife. no PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY " And no argument is needed to show that if the youth of our land had been thus properly schooled and drilled prior to 1861 the Con- federacy never would have reached the magnitude it assumed, and we should not have been called upon to write this history of the Six- teenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers."^ Among the many hostile influences that are always moving openly or secretly against a well-regulated and efficient system of militia are two that are antipodal. The elements of anarchism are from their very nature antagonistic to all the instrumentalities and agencies of law and order. The elements of arbitrary and tyrannical autocracy are consist- ent only with the existence of a standing army to which is committed, to the exclusion of local police and local militia, all those functions which pertain not only to the maintenance of the general peace and the suppression of serious disorder in the state, but also to the cmshing out of justifiable uprisings of the people against the exercise of oppres- sive and intolerable powers. Within these extremes of opposition to the militia system, as an essential factor in local state government, are many other fruitful sources of hostility, besides the inertia of indif- erence which is, on occasions, no less pernicious than active antago- nism. In a free republic it is still an essential to the correct balancing of the powers of the state and the rights and responsibilities of the people that the principal reliance on the military side of the govern- ment should be a citizen soldiery, educated and exercised for excep- tional duty and unexpected emergencies, and not a permanent and burdensome segregation, in a standing army, of vast numbers of the best manhood of the body politic from all of the productive and indis- pensable vocations of life upon which the progress and prosperity of the nation are absolutely dependent. The lesson of the past is instructive and inspiring to the thinkers and actors of this generation who are both conservative and progres- sive. It calls upon us to hold fast to the doctrines of the fathers as illustrated by their example in the conservation of means, at all times, to insure the public defense without at any time placing free institu- tions in jeopardy ; wisely to organize, diligently to improve, and liber- ally to sustain our systems of local militia on the most approved methods of discipline and equipment ; and to make the principles de- clared in the constitution basic, vital, and productive truths governing the civic action of the people and their servants in all the departments and in all the functions of the state. "Standing armies are dangerous to liberty." » History of the Sixteenth N. H. Vols. p. 326. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Ill " In all cases and at all times the military ought to be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power." "A well regulated militia is the proper, natural, and sure defense of the state."! On motion of Henry M. Baker a vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Batchellor, and a copy of the address requested for publication. The committee on nominations reported as follows : PRESIDENT. Charles B. Spoftord, Claremont. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Frank W. Rollins, Concord. Albert S. Batchellor, Littleton. Henry M. Baker, Bow. SECRETARY AND TREASURER. Rev. Howard F. Hill, Concord. REGISTRAR. William P. Fiske, Concord. HISTORIAN. Fred G. Hartshorn, Manchester. BOARD OF MANAGERS. William W. Flint, Concord. Otis G. Hammond, Concord. Elbert Wheeler, Nashua. John Dowst, Manchester. Frank W. Russell, Plymouth. Charles R. Corning, Concord. Will B. Howe, Concord. ' Constitution of New Hampshire. 112 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FINANCE COMMITTEE. Harley B. Roby, Concord. Rufus H. Baker, Concord. Josiah E. Fernald, Concord. DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. Pres. Charles B. Spoftord, Claremont. Sen. Vice-P. Frank W. Rollins, Concord. Rev. Howard F. Hill, Concord. Jeremiah Richards, New York, N. Y. Howard S. Robbins, New York, N. Y. Fred G. Hartshorn, Manchester. J. Le Baron Willard, New York, N. Y., each with power of substitution. On motion of Compatriot Howe the Secretary was authorized to cast one ballot for the foregoing names, and the gentlemen were declared elected. A free discussion took place on various amendments proposed to the national constitution, and the society, by rising vote, recorded itself as favoring rotation in office, and against an increase of representation to the national congress. Mr. Hammond placed before the meeting the propo- sal of Compatriot William C. Todd in regard to the pro- posed removal of the remains of ex-President Pierce to a more public spot. The subject brought out a long and instructive discussion on that theme and related subjects, in which Compatriots Henry M. Baker, An- thony C. Hardy, Rufus H. Baker, Daniel C. Roberts, Albert S. Batchellor, and the Secretary took part, and in which the proposed Perkins memorial, soon to be erected behind the state house, was touched on. A committee to act in the matter as might seem proper, consisting of Compatriots Todd, Henry M. Baker, and Batchellor, was appointed by the President. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. II3 On motion of Compatriot Howe adjourned. The annual banquet was held at the Eagle hotel, fol- lowing adjournment, and was enjoyed by a goodly company, with the usual accompaniments of speeches, the Secretary acting as toastmaster. How^ARD F. Hill, Secretary. A meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the state library September 17, 1900, at 11 o'clock a. m., Messrs. Spofford, Hammond, Howe, Flint, and Hill in attendance. The Secretary made a further report on the subject of the representation of the society in the Spanish-American war. The following were elected members : George Stillman Ryer, New York, N. Y. Frederick Stam Hammond, Oneida, N. Y. Charles Ames Howe, Lancaster. Allan Bouton Patterson, Concord. Edward Norton Hurlbut, New York, N. Y. Fred Alvah Sprague, Concord. Willis Chase Patten, Manchester. Frank Herbert Whitcomb, Keene. Supplementary papers, three sets, were approved in the name of Charles Spielmann Richards of New York. The subject of the National Register was laid on the table, on the ground of no authority from the state so- ciety ad interim. Various circulars issued by the National society were read for information. Messrs. H. W. Blair and the Secretary were ap- pointed, respectively, on the subjects of national legisla- tion and the press. 114 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY A general discussion of the subject of membership and the annual address followed. The report of Messrs. Hill and Hartshorn, delegates to the National Congress, was made verbally. Adjourned. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Secretary . A meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the state library March 12, 1901, at 11 o'clock a. m.^ Messrs. Flint, Hammond, and Corning in attendance. The following were elected to membership : Walter Godfrey, New York, N. Y. Kendall Banning, Walpole. Willis Gove Carleton Kimball, Jr., Concord. Charles Lyle Mason, Concord. Zoheth Sparrow Freeman, Concord. Frank Hall Stearns, Keene. Dwight Hall, Dover. John H. Nealley, Dover. B. Frank Nealley, Dover. Lewis Edward Tuttle, Dover. Herbert Chase Grime, Dover. Henry Rust Parker, Dover. Murrie Daniel Griffith, Claremont. Adelbert McCrillis Nichols, Claremont. The action of the Secretary in sending a wreath to the funeral of Fred G. Hartshorn, Historian, was approved. Various papers from the National society were read for information. Adjourned. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Secretary. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. II5 The thirteenth annual meeting of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution was called to order in the parlors of the Eagle hotel April 19, 1901, at II o'clock a. m., President Spofford in the chair, with a good attendance of local compatriots. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Roberts. The Secretary reported the death of Fred G. Harts- horn, Historian, on February 26, 1901, and presented the following memorial of him, prepared, at the request of the Board of Managers, by a near friend : Fred Gilman Hartshorn was the son of Samuel Gilman Hartshorn and Myra Moore. He was born in Greenfield, N. H., September 22, 1864. He received his education in the district schools of that town and in Peterborough academy. At the age of nineteen he came to Manchester and entered the furniture store of Higgins Bros., and soon after he was engaged with W. P. Goodman, the well-known book, periodical, and stationery merchant, with whom he remained six years. In 1892 he became manager of the New England department of the United States Savings and Loan Company of St. Paul, Minn., which position he held at the time of his death. He was a member of Washington lodge and Edward A. Raymond con- sistory, F. and A. M. He was an active member in the First Con- gregational church, being interested in all branches of the work of tiie church. He was prominent in the organization of a local Y. M. C. A., and never lost interest in the movement from that time to the day of his death. He is survived by a wife and daughter. The Secretary reported the following soldiers of the Spanish-American war, being members of this society, as having received medals from the National society : Private Allan Bouton Patterson, Concord. Private Fred Alvah Sprague, Concord. Sergeant Willis G. C. Kimball, Jr., Concord. Lieut. Charles Lyle Mason, Concord. Sergeant Herbert Chase Grime, Dover. Lieut. Lewis E. Tuttle, Dover. making a total of twenty-four persons from this society Il6 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY • serving in said war, a number exceeded only by socie- ties such as New York, Massachusetts, District of Colum- bia, Ohio, and other states having large cities, and from which more than one regiment was recruited. He thought our representation remarkable in view of the facts suggested, and something to be proud of. A list of names much in arrears was reported, and the Secretary was instructed to notify these persons and drop their names in event of non-payment of dues, remitting said dues in the cases of three persons only. The total membership was given as tWo hundred and eighty-seven. The Treasurer reported receipts of a total of $420.97, and expenditures of $234.68, leaving on hand $186.29. The Secretary further spoke of the sending out of cir- culars to all accessible members of the New Hampshire Spanish-American war regiment from this state ; of the additions made of markers of Revolutionary graves, and of a visit to the banquet of the Paul Jones Club S. A. R., of Portsmouth. Compatriot C. E. Staniels, from the national commit- tee on national parks, reported Fort William and Mary, Portsmouth, as a proper place for such purpose. The Secretary, as member of the national committee on the press, reported action. The President appointed Messrs. Howe, Hammond, and Staniels a committee to report a list of officers to be balloted for. The following list was later reported : PRESIDENT. Albert S. Batchellor, Littleton. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Frank W. Rollins, Concord. Rev. Daniel C. Roberts, D. D., Concord. Henry M. Baker, Bow. Albert Stillman Batchellor. President, igoi-'o?. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. II7 SECRETARY AND TREASURER. Rev. Howard F. Hill, Concord. REGISTRAR. William P. Fiske, Concord. HISTORIAN. John Scales, Dover. CHAPLAIN. Rev. Daniel C. Roberts, D. D., Concord. BOARD OF MANAGERS. William W. Flint, Concord. Otis G. Hammond, Concord. John Dowst, Manchester. Frank W. Russell, Plymouth. Will B. Howe, Concord. Edson C. Eastman, Concord. Charles B. Spofford, Claremont. FINANCE COMMITTEE. Harley B. Roby, Concord. Josiah E. Fernald, Concord. Rufus H. Baker, Concord. On motion of Compatriot Hadley the Secretary was instructed to cast one ballot for the foregoing persons^ and they were declard elected. On motion of Compatriot Sylvester Dana, the Board of Managers was instructed to select a list of delegates to the National Congress. John B. Smith, Cyrus H. Little, Howard F. Hill, and William W. Flint were afterwards so elected. There was no banquet held and no literary exercises. How\\RD F. Hill, Secretary, ii8 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY A meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the state library October 4, 1901, at 4 o'clock p. m., Messrs. Hammond, Corning, and the Secretary in at- tendance. Applications were accepted from the following : Waldo Hadlock Bly, Nashua. Henry Estes Conant, Concord. Fred William Lamb, Manchester. Henry Densmore Bishop, Littleton. Frank Webster Sanborn, Concord. Alfred H. Wheeler, Keene. Earl Percy Cushman, Claremont. Henry Clay Libbey, Littleton. Adjourned. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Seci'etary. A meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the state library March 22, 1902, the President in the chair, Messrs. Hammond and Hill in attendance. The applications of the following persons were ac- cepted : Frederick Dorrance Burns, Frederick Stanford Burns, Charles Albert Eastman, Silas Hardy, Carl Seth Hoskins, Jonas Minot, Frank Dana Woodbury, The dimit of Henry Weld Severance of Dover from the Hawaiian society was accepted. Two sets of supplementary papers from John T. Welch of Dover were approved. Boston, Mass. Boston, Mass. Old Orchard, Me. Keene. Lisbon. Beresford, S. D. Concord. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. II9 A free discussion on the subject of the boulder asked for to be placed on the graves of New Hampshire men killed at Bunker Hill and buried at Medford, Mass., and the action of the President in appointing Major F. W. Russell and Alvin Burleigh of Plymouth to procure said boulder, was had. Henry M. Baker was appointed to confer with the New Jersey society in the matter of amonumentto Gen. Enoch Poor, in said state, over his remains. It was agreed to have an informal annual meeting at Concord on April 19, and to adjourn and hold a formal meeting, with literary and social exercises, later. Voted to hold the formal meeting on June 14, being flag day, the anniversary of the adoption of the na- tional flag. It was agreed that it is advisable to amend the constitu- tion respecting the election of delegates to the National Congress in order to secure representation. Adjourned. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Secretary. A meeting of the Board of Managers was held in the state library April 9, 1902, at 9 o'clock a. m., Messrs. Hammond and Hill in attendance. The application of William F. Whitcher of Woods- ville was accepted. Adjourned. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Secretary. A meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the state library April 19, 1902, at 10 a. m., with Messrs. Hammond and Hill in attendance. I20 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY The application of Herbert Woodbury Prescott Put- man of Claremont was approved. The dimit of John Robie Eastman of Andover from the District of Columbia society was approved. Adjourned. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Secretary. The fourteenth annual meeting of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution was held at the state library April 19, 1902, at 11.30 a. m., Vice-President Roberts presiding. The Secretary and Treasurer made informal reports. Compatriots Hammond and Conant were appointed a committee to report a list of delegates to the National Congress, and later returned the names of Henry M. Baker, William F. Whitcher, Henry W. Blair, and Daniel C. Remich as elective representatives. On ballot, these persons were chosen. The resignations of Howard L. Porter and William H. Porter were accepted. After discussion on the difficulty of procuring rep- resentation in the National Congress owing to the short- ness of time, the meeting adjourned to June 14. A true record, attest, Howard F. Hill, Secretary. The fourteenth annual meeting of the New Hamp- shire Society of Sons of the American Revolution met at Representatives' hall, in the State House, accord- ing to adjourment from April 19, at 11.30 a. m. Satur- day, June 14, 1902, being Flag day, or the anniversary of the adoption of the present national flag, Vice-Presi- dent Baker in the chair. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 121 Prayer was offered by Rev. D. C. Roberts, D. D., Chaplain. An extended verbal report was made by the Secretary, who stated the membership at two hundred and ninety- five, and spoke of the difficulties of securing large atten- dance at the annual business and social meetings of the society owing to the lack of large cities in the field of the organization, together with the general decay of interest seen in all like occasions in academic life in various bodies, literary organizations, historical societies, and colleges, on all but ceremonial and wholly social assem- blies. He also touched on the subject of the appeal of the New Jersey Society S. A. R., in regard to a monu- ment proposed to Gen. Enoch Poor, now buried in New Jersey, to which end Compatriot Henry M. Baker had been appointed by this society in conference with the New Jersey society ; to the boulder desired by the Daughters of the American Revolution resident in Med- ford, Mass., in which matter Mr. Alvin Burleigh and Major Frank W. Russell of Plymouth had been ap- pointed to assist ; to the issuing of proper papers by Compatriot Hammond to ascertain the location and de- scription of graves of Revolutionary soldiers in the vari- ous towns in the state. The Treasurer reported that he had held during the year the sum of $428.39 and had paid out $194.30, leaving a balance of $234.09 in hand. The President appointed Compatriots Otis G. Ham- mond, Edson C. Eastman, and David Webster a com- mittee to report a list of officers to be balloted for. Compatriot Hammond offered the following amend- ment : Amend section i of article 2 of the by-laws by striking out the words " and delegates to the Na- tional Convention." Amend section 7 of article 3 of the by-laws by insert- 122 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY ing after the word "membership" the words "shall appoint delegates to the National Convention." The amendments were unanimously adopted, after explanation by Compatriot Hammond, and the action of the Board of Managers approved. Hon. Jeremiah Smith of Cambridge Mass., and Elisha Marston of Sandwich, being sons of soldiers of the American Revolution, were unanimously elected members for life, without dues, on motion of Rufus H. Baker. Addresses were then made by Frank B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass., on "New Hampshire Men at the Concord Fight," and by Henry M. Baker on " New Hampshire Men at the Battle of Bunker Hill." NEW HAMPSHIRE MEN AT THE CONCORD FIGHT. By Frank B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass. Ladies atid Gentlenioi : When I accepted an invitation to make an address here to-day on the subject of " The Men of New Hampshire in the Concord Fight," it was in the hope of finding out something about it. I was then in perfect darkness on this question, — "How could any man from New Hampshire take part in a sunrise engagement twenty miles from your province border, when the Massachusetts men who fought there had to get up at three o'clock in the morning to do it? " For weeks I sought in vain the answer to this conundrum. The books throw no light on it; those chroniclers of the unknown and unknowable, the New York dailies, had nothing to invent about it ; and I was all but ready to give up my engagement, as the British did theirs on that eventful day, and take refuge in Boston from the incensed antiquarians whom I had deceived with false hopes. But we have in old Concord, near the scene of that running fight, an accomplished native antiquarian, Mr. George Tolman, who had long been studying our historical affair, and in my despair I appealed to him. It was a forlorn hope, but it was not disappointed. He placed in my hands the printed story of " The Remarkable Military Life of Major Thompson Maxwell,'" a New Hampshire warrior, born i6o years ago, and still living for aught that appears to the contrary in that doc Centre Sand-w^icH, N. H. The oldest member of Sons of the American Revolution in the World Died, Sept. nth, 1902— Born, Moultonborough, N. H., Sept. nth, iSoi I.IKKNESS TAKKN THE DAY HE WAS 100 YEARS OLD SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1 23 ument. But I have reason to think that he died and was buried near Detroit sometime before he reached his hundredth year. The story, which is truly remarkable and very illustrative of New Hampshire qualities, was published in October, 1891, in the New England His- torical and Genealogical Register, that useful quarterly which we all revere, and upon whose high authority the celebrated and corrosive "higher criticism" has made no successful attack. It was written down some seventy years earlier by Benjamin Gleason of Charlestown, Mass., who had married a kinswoman of Major Maxwell, and it was dictated to him by the hero himself, then on a visit from Michigan to his relatives near Boston, where he was himself born. Thompson Maxwell, however, was but the youngest son of a stal- wart family which had emigrated from Ireland (Tyrone county and Winterburn parish), in 1733, ten years, almost, before this lively lad was born. His father, Hugh Maxwell, born in 1699, married in Ireland a wife named Corbett, and their three oldest children (out of seven) were born in Ireland. The most distinguished of the sons was Col. Hugh Maxwell, one of the founders of the town of Heath in north- western Massachusetts, and a brave and useful ofificer all through the Revolutionary war. He was nine years older than his brother Thomp- son, and enlisted earlier (in 1754) in the French and Indian war which preceded our Revolution, and trained many of our soldiers to military life. Hugh Maxwell served through five campaigns in the Lake George region and in Canada, and was one of those entrapped and surrendered at Fort William Henry in 1756; but he escaped and was promoted to be ensign before the surrender of Quebec. At the age of fifteen his brother Thompson (born in his mother's 50th year) ran away from his home in Bedford, near Concord, where he was borri September 22, 1742, and enlisted in a company of " Provisionai Rangers," commanded by Captain Nehemiah Lovell of Dunstable, the border town of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which is now Nashua on your side on the line. It is "hinted by the descendants of the elder children of the Maxwells that Thompson was a ne'er-do-weli and could not be kept under family discipline very well, hence his early military experiences. Be that as it may, you will see that he was an effective soldier, and was in every war that his country had from his 1 5th year to his 75th. The Rangers whom he joined were an unattached company of those extraordinary Rangers of Rogers and Stark, whose prowess makes a proud chapter in the history of that dragging war- In all, these rangers numbered some 700, and distinguished themselves greatly by their fights against both French and Indians. Recalling 124 PROCEEDINGS NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY the deeds of his youth, more than 60 years after, Thompson Maxwell said : "Active and patriotic, our march under Capt. Lovell was to Penny- cook, now Concord, — thence to Pigwacket Pond in Fryeburg, Maine. Thence we scoured the woods for Indians to the Connecticut River near White River, Vt. From there we reconnoitered down river to Number Four, now Charlestown, N. H., which was burned by Indians three days before we got there. Thence southward to Hinsdale ; then northward to Brattleboro, and to Black River, one day's march above No. 4; then to White River, Connecticut River, and back to Num- ber Four again. Twenty or twenty-five of us finally returned, via Wal- pole, Keene, and Swanzey, to Winchendon, Fitchburg, Groton, etc., and so home. " In copying this record I have inserted a few connecting links in the rapid narrative of our octogenarian, who may have been drawn aside a little from the accepted course of history by the fervor of his patriot- ism or the activity of his vivid memory. Not yet sixteen when dis- charged from this first expedition. Maxwell soon thirsted for war again, and in April, 1758, hp enlisted once more in Captain LovelPs company, which now seems to have joined the Rangers of the celebrated Robert Rogers. They rendezvoused at what Maxwell calls "Fort Edward," •which I suppose to have been in the Connecticut valley near Deerfield. And now I follow Maxwell's narrative again verbatim : "Thence to Deerfield; up Deerfield river to Rice's fort in Charle- mont ; over the mountains to Adams and Williamstown, to Fort Hawkes. Maj. Hawks and his whole party prisoners. Get provisions : up the Hoosac river to within 10 miles of Bennington; cross to Troy, to Half-Moon fort (now Waterford) on Mohawk river. To Fort Edward again, — Gen. Abercrombie in command (strict and severe) with 4,000 British, 3,000 provincials and 700 rangers, besides Fraz- 213 George 196 Allds, David 205 Allen, 100 Ethan 53 John 206 AUenstown, N. H 74, 194 Amendments of by-laws 121 Amherst, Jeffrey 190 Amherst, N. H. .126, 127, 196, 197 205, 215, 219. Anderson, James 194 Andover, Mass 189 Andover, N. H 120,215 Androscoggin river 83 Antrim, N. H 81 Apthorp, N. H. (Littleton and Dalton) 81, 95. 96 Arch, memorial, proposed.. . .158 Arlington, Mass 5 Arnold, Benedict 53, 91 Ashland, X. H 44 Atkinson, Samuel 78, 194 Atkinson, N. H 44 Atlanta, Ga 218 Austin, 186 Ayers, William 207 Babb, William 206 Bagley, Timothy 97 Bailey, see Baylej-. James H 213 Jemima 71 Mary B. G 71 Thomas 71 William W 9, 13, 44, 47, 67 70, 71. Baker, Henry M 43, 111, 112 116, 119-122, 134, 155, 162 164, 105, 168-170, 173, 187 213. Moses 201, 204, 206 Rufus H 8, 67, 112, 117, 122 155, 171, 209, 213. Samuel 206 Thomas 1 65 Walter S 213 Balcom, William S 41, 213 Baldwin, Isaac 193 226 INDEX. Ball, George F 160, 163, 213 George O 213 Baltimore, Md 14, 109 Bancroft, Charles P 213 George 144, 145 Banning, Kendall 114, 213 Barker, Zebulon 206 Barlow, Joel 104 Barnes, Captain 125 Barr, Aaron 127 Barre, Isaac 16 Barrett, Edwin S 47, 65, 66 Mrs. Edwin S 67 Barrington, K H....194, 195, 201 206. Barstow, George 90 Bartlett, Charles H 213 Josiah 24, 27, 29 Thomas 205 Batchelder, Breed 167 Batchellor, Albert S..75, 111, 112 116, 169, 213. Bates, John K 213 Bath, N. H 75, 95-97, 100, 104 Battles, Frank 157,213 Bayley, Aaron 97 Ebenezer 206 Jacob 77, 89, 91-93, 102 James 78-80, 84 Beal, Zachariah 195 Beals, Herbert R. . . .159, 163, 213 Bean, L. Willis 5, 213 Bedel, Daniel 97 Timothy. . .76, 77, 79, 80, 88, 93- 95, 99-101. Bedford, Mass 12-3-126 Bedford, N. H 194 Belknap, George E 156 Jeremy 90, 205 Bell, Frederick M 195 S. Howard 43, 213 Bellows, Benjamin 89 William J 210, 213 Bennington, Vt. . .32, 53, 74-76, 80 82, 90, 93, 100, 102, 124 133, 154. Beresford, S. D 118, 219 Berlin, N. H 6, 157, 214 Bethlehem, N. H 104 (State Hill) 104 Bigelow, S. Lizzie 51 Bishop, Henry D 118, 213 Bixby, Augustus H 213 Joseph S 213 Black river 124 Blair, Henry W... 66, 68, 113, 120 213. John 35 Blake, Amos J 213 Hiram 163, 213 James 82 Blanchard, Augustus 205 Joseph 190 Bliss, Peletiah 97 Bloomington, 111 51 Blount, William 35 Bly, Waldo H 118, 213 Boardman, Benjamin 206 Boden, Benjamin 60, 61 Boone, la 217 Boscawen, N. H. . . .50, 78, 81, 194 Boston, Mass. .5, 15, 17, 21, 24, 26 44, 51, 53, 55-59, 74, 76, 88 118, 123, 126-130, 134, 136 137, 139, 140, 144, 148, 149 161, 178-180, 182, 183, 185- 187, 191-193, 197-199, 202- 204, 207, 208, 213-216, 219 222. Boston, East, Mass 222 Bow, N. H..43, 111, 116, 155, 164 194, 213. Bowdoin, see Boden. Bowker, Charles H 6, 214 Edgar M 214 Bowman, Albert H 157,214 Eugene M 214 Orlando 214 Boyce, Leonard O... .160, 163, 214 Braddock, Edward 15 Bradford, Alden 147 John 205 Joseph 196 Bradford, N. H 194 INDEX. 227 Bradley, Arthur C. . .155, 209, 214 John 205 Branch, Oliver E 209, 214 Brant, Joseph 84 Brattleboro, Vt 124 Breed . Nathaniel 196 Breed's hill 137, 138, 141, 148 Brentwood, N. H 195 Brewer, James 196 Samuel 125 Brewster, Ebenezer 100, 102 Bridge, Ebenezer 137, 148 Brockport, N. Y. . .6, 68, 219, 221 Brookline, N. H 194 Brooklyn, N. Y 9, 46, 219 Broughton, Nicholson 56 Brown, Anna 74 ElishaK 214 George H 214 James 196 John 128 Eichard 195 Browne, Josiah 196 Buckland, Mass 130 Bucknam, Edwards... .78, 98, 103 104. Buffalo, N. Y 160, 217, 222 BuUard, Nathan 205 Bunker hill. . .16, 22, 25, 26, 31, 53 74, 82, 84, 119, 122, 127 133, 134, 136-138, 141-144 147-150, 152-154, 164, 170 185-187, 189-191, 193, 196- 198, 207, 208. Bunton, Andrew 206 Burbank, Edward A 157, 214 Leonard F 214 Burgoyne, John 31, 32, 49, 53 76, 79, 84, 90, 130. Burke, Edmund 15 Burleigh, Alvin 119, 121, 170 Burnham, Frank K. .161, 163, 214 Major 205 Burns, Edward S 214 Frederick D 118,214 Fredericks 118, 214 Burroughs, Sherman E. . .210, 214 Bush, Timothy 81 Buss, Thomas 196 Butler, Pierce 35 Butterfield, Isaac 95 Buttrick, John 126 Buzzell, Henry H 44 By-laws, amendments of 121 Cairo, 111 51, 52 Cambridge, Mass 15, 24, 57, 58 73, 122, 126, 127, 136-143 186, 189, 190, 193, 196, 197 201, 221. Cambridgeport, Mass 214 Campton, N. H 81 Canaan, N. H 222 Candia, N. H 196, 206, 215, 221 Canterbury, N. H., 207,195,201,203 Cape Ann 55 Garner, Anthony 62 Carpenter, Charles H 52, 214 Eugene F 214 Josiah 7, 41, 44, 45, 48, 214 Carr, James 195 Jesse 194 Carrington, Henry B 147 Carroll, David 35 Carroll, N. H 156 Garter, Stephen 196 Cass, Benjamin 206 Lewis 131 Castleton, Vt 91 Caswell, Nathan 81,98 Cedars, Can 95 Certificates, price of 43 Chamberlain, Samuel 207 Chambly, Quebec 125 Chandler, Abiel 193, 194 George B 214 Jonathan 91, 92, 97 Joseph 207 Chapman, Jonah 81 Charlemout, Mass 124 Charles river 15, 138, 140 Charlestown, Mass.. .123, 126, 128 136, 137, 143, 186-188, 197 198, 210, 222. 228 INDEX. Charlestown, N. H 124 (Number 4) 124, 125 Charlestown Neck... 127, 136, 137 1.59, 149, 186, 193, 208. Chase, Arthur H 7, 14, 41-43 45, 47, 48, 53, 155-162, 209 210, 214. Arthur W 214 Dudley T 49 Frederick 77 Jonathan 87, 89, 91-93, 103 Josiah 193 Lebbeus 49 Nazarilla 49 Samuel 25 William 206 William M 44, 214 Chatham, Lord '. . . 16 Chelmsford, Mass 125 Chelsea, Mass 198 Cheney, Frederick W 214 Harry M 46 Thomas P 44 Chesley, Alpheus -. . . .201, 206 Chester, N. H 196 Chesterfield, N. H 196 Chicago, III 68, 125, 214, 219 Chichester, N. H 52, 194, 214 Chickamauga Park, Ga 219 Child, Jonathan. 77, 88, 92, 97, 102 Nahum A 158 William H 214 Chittenden, Thomas 100 Choate, Joseph H 73 Ruf us 32 Christie, Daniel M 50 Churchill, Frank C 214 Cilley, Bradbury 44, 47 Bradbury L 48, 49 Cutting 201 Frank M 49, 214 Helen 49 Joseph 24, 48, 194 Joseph L 48 Lavinia B 48 Mabel 49 Thomas 48 Cincinnati, 13, 51 Claremont, N. H 9, 13, 41, 45 46, 48, 49, 66, 67, 72, 111 112, 114, 117, 118, 120, 170 213-215, 217-222. Clark, Byron G 9 Captain 204 Greenleaf 201, 206 Stephen 201, 206 Clayes, Elijah 196 Clements, Timothy 207 Cleveland, Grover 51 Clifford, Thomas F 14, 43, 69 211, 214. Cloquet, Minn 210, 214 Clough, Jeremiah 195 Zaccheus 195, 206 Cochran, John 21 W. Bourke 73 Cockburne, N. H. (Columbia). .95 96, 103, 104. Coffin, Peter 201, 207 Cogswell, Thomas 5, 9, 66 Colebrook, N. H....75, 95, 96, 103 104. (Coleburne) 104 Coleburne, N. H. (Colebrook). 104 Columbia, N. H 95, 103, 104 (Cockburne) . . . .95, 96, 103, 104 Comins, Edward P 46 Conant, Henry E 118, 120, 214 Concord, Mass 14, 24, 53, 65 122, 123, 126, 128-135, 144 146, 185, 186, 188. Concord, N. H... .5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 36 41-44, 46, 47, 50-52, 66-68 111-119, 124, 155, 157, 159 164, 165, 168, 194, 204, 205 208-210, 213-223. (Penacook) 124 Concord, N. H. (Lisbon), 75, 103 104. Concord, West, N. H 213 Cone, Edward P 161 Conn, Granville P 42 Connecticut river.. . 75, 77, 83, 89 102. 124, INDEX. 229 Connor, Samviel 206 Constitution, national, amend- ment of 112 Conway, N. H 83, 94 Coolbaugli, Frank E 210, 214 Cooper, William 206 Copp, David 201, 204, 5!06 Copp's hill 140 Corbett, 123 Michael 55 Corliss, Jonathan 194 Corning, Charles R 14, 40, 65- 68, 111, 114, 118, 214. Cornish, N. H.. . .49, 80, 87, 89, 91 217. Cornish Flat, N. H 214, 221 Cornwallis, Lord .33, 84 Cotton, Priscilla 130 Cowell, Richard 60 Crane, William 214 Cranfield, Edward IS Cressy, Harry R 46 Cromwell, Albert 67 David W 67, 214 Crosby, John W 50 Josiah , 126, 196 William 50 Crown Point, N. Y 125 Cummings, Eleazer 206 Cushman, Earl P 1 18, 214 Cutt, John 18 Cutter, Doctor 197 Cutts, Samuel 21 Dal ton, N. H O.j, 103, 104 (Apthorp) 95, 96 Dana, Sylvester 117, 215 Danforth, Dolly 73 George E 6. 215 George F 70, 73 Henry P 215 Isaac 73 Reuben C 215 Danville, N. H 9 Dartmouth, Earl of 178, 182 Dartmouth, N. H. (Jefferson) 82, 103, 104. Dartmouth College. 49, 50,71, 83 Davis, Archie 1 162, 163, 215 George H 215 Isaac 126 Dayton, 213. Deane, Silas 25, 30 Dearborn, Clarkson 215 George Van N 215 Henry 24, 150, 194 Joseph 206 Simeon 195- Simon 20t> Thomas H 162, 215 Deerfield, Mass 124 Deerfield, N. H 194, 19» DeKalb, Baron 53 Delano, Henry F 7$ Louisa M 72 Delaware river 53 Demeritt, John 162, 211, 215 Denbo, Elijah 201, 204 Denio, Herbert W 5, 215 Derby, Jonathan 92, 97 Derry, N. H 43, 213, 21S Derryfield,]S". H. (Manchester) 189, 194. Detroit, Mich 67, 69, 123, 125 131, 215. Dickinson, John 25 Dieskau, Baron 188 Dimond, Gilman H 68,215 Diusmore, Elijah 206 Dodge, Arthur M 215 Isaac B 215 Doolittle, Ephraira 193 Dorchester, Mass 217 Dorchester Heights 134- Douglas, Edward L.,160, 163, 215 Dover, K H 8, 41, 49-51 114, 115, 117, 118, 155, 161 162, 195, 196, 201, 206, 214- 216, 219-223. Dow, Moses 104 Reuben 148 Sumner A 46 Dowagiac, Mich 8, 220 Downing, Alfred L 68, 215 ^3o INDEX. Dowst, John. . . .111, 117, 155, 215 Dresden, N. H. (Hanover). . . 80 Drew, John 206 William J 8, 215 Zebulon 195 DuBois, Charles 46,215 J. Van Wyck 46, 215 Duda, Eliphalet 206 Dudley, Winthrop 206 Dunbarton, N. H 189 (Starkstown) 189 Dunstable, N. H. (Nashua).. .123 196. Durham, N. H 82, 181, 191 19.5-197, 201, 206, 222. Eames, Jeremiah 78 Eastman, Charles A 118 Ebenezer 194 Edson C 117, 121, 156, 215 John R 120, 215 Josiah C 9, 13 Moses 205 Wilbur F 215 Eaton, Ephraim 205 Edgerly, Clarence M 8, 215 James A 215 James B 215 Winfield S 7, 8,41, 60, 211 215. Elizabethtown, N. J 67 Elkins, Henry. ..190, 195, 196, 201 204, 205. Elkins, N, H 218 Ellis, Timothy 89, 165 William B 215 Ellsworth, Oliver 35 Emerson, Amos 196 Edward 132 Moses 197 Ralph W 131, 132 Emery, Benjamin 205 Enfield, N". H 217, 223 English, James 92, 97 Epping, N. H 195, 206 Epsom, N. H 24, 194 Evans, Ephraim !9.j Everett, Richard C 104 Exeter, N. H 5, 20, 24-27, 29- 32, 36, 48, 49, 79, 80, 90, 99 102, 149, 179, 181-183, 185 188-190, 194-197, 201, 206 207, 214, 216, 221. Fairlee, Vt 102 Fall River, Mass 46, 222 Falmouth, Me. (Portland) 55 Farming-ton, N. H 215, 222 Farrow, Seth 62 Farwell, Isaac 197 Jesse H 67, 215 Faulkner, Arthur. . . .160, 163, 215 Francis C 166 Fay, Jonas 100 Fentou, John 24, 86-88 Ferguson, Henry 206 Fergusson 78 Fernald, Josiah E 41, 43, 67 112, 117, 155, 209, 215. Field day 10, 11, 13, 44 Fiske, William P 8, 43, 66, 111 117, 155, 209, 215. Fitchburg, Mass 124, 221 Fitts, John L 215 Fitzwilliam, N. H 67, 170, 190 196, 213, 220. Flag, desecration of 14 Flint, William W 41, 45, 66 68, 111, 113, 114, 117, 155 215. Fogg, Jeremiah 195 Joseph 195 Folk, Joseph W 166 Folsom, Nathaniel. . . .24, 101, 136 149, 150, 179-181, 187-189 191, 192. Forsaith, Hiram 67,216 Fort Anne 124 Fort Constitution 50 Fort Edward 124, 125, 188 Fort George 124, 125 Fort Hawkes 124 Fort Sullivan 182 Fort Wa.shiugton 182 INDEX. 231 Fort Weare 78 Fort William and Mary 21, 25 48, 116, 134, 180-183, 191. Fort William Henry 123 Foss, James H 160, 216 Foster, Oliver H 216 William L 9, 13 Francestown, ?f . H 213 Franconia 95, 103, 104 (Morristown) 95, 96, 100 Franklin, Benjamin 25, 33-35 129, 143. Franklin, TST. H 214 Frazer, Colonel 124 Fredericksburg, Md 50 Freeman, Zoheth S 114, 216 Fremont, N. H. (Poplin) 195 French, William F 216 Frisbie, F. Senter 46 Frothingham, Richard. . .144, 152 153, 192. Frye, Ebenezer 194 Harry A 68, 216 Isaac 196 James 137, 148 Frye Brothers 156 Fryeburg, Me 124 Furness, John 206 Gadsden, Christopher 17, 30 Gage, Thomas. . . 15, 21, 136, 139- 141, 143, 153, 179, 182, 18.5- 187. Gale, John E 5, 216 Stephen H 210 Galva, la 220 Garland, Freeman A 44 Gates, Horatio 79, 91 George, Frank H 216 Gerrish, Enoch 216 Hiram F 50 Samuel 193 Gerry, Elbridge 35, 39 Gettysburg, Pa 16 Gilbert, Samuel 87 Gilchrist, Harry W 216 Gile, Ezekiel 205 Gilead, Me 159, 222 Giles, William A. J 156 Gilman, Andrew 206 Israel 196 John 195 John Taylor 39, 105 John Ward 201 Nicholas 34,35 Samuel 195 Gilmanton, N. H 66, 221 Gilmanton Academy 50 Gilmore, George C 7, 13, 41 44, 90, 147, 151. James 206 Gleason, Benjamin 123 Glover, John 53, 56 Godfrey, Walter 114, 216 Goffstown, N. H 194, 207, 221 Gold, Jane 74 Goodale, Ezekiel 206 Goodwin, Arthur G 6, 216 Augustus F 6, 216 John 206 Simeon 91, 92, 95 Gordon, Daniel 206 David 206 Gorham, N. H 159, 223 Gould, Amos 207 Charles J 67, 216 Grafton, N. H 218 Grant, Benjamin, Jr 97 Graves, lists of 121, 169 Gray, Samuel 205 Great Falls, N. H 215 Green, Ebenezer 103 Ezra 196 Frederick L 69,211,216 William C 216 Greene, Nathaniel 35, 205 Greenfield, N. H. . 9, 13, 115, 206 Greenleaf, Charles H 216 William H 216 Gregg, Joseph 205 Gridley, Richard 138, 148 Griffin, Charles P 9, 10 John 195 Simon G 165 232 INDEX. Griffith, MurrieD 114, 216 Griffiths, Arioch W 216 Edward B 216 Grime, Herbert C... .114, 115, 211 216. Griswold, Charles B 46 Eufus 34 Groton, Mass 124 Guadaloupe 61 Guuthwaite, N. H. (Lisbon).. 75 95-99, 103. Hackensack, N. J. . .158, 169, 208 Hadley, Amos 117, 216 Haldimand, Frederick. . . 100, 101 Hale, James 201 John 193 Jonathan 78, 88, 97 Nathan 196 Samuel 22, 102, 216 Haley, Herbert E 216 Half Moon fort 124 Hahfax, N. S 20, 63, 178 Hall, Betsey 50 Dwight 114, 216 Joshua G 50 Ham, John T. W 161. 216 Hamilton, Alexander. . .33, 35, 37 Hammond, Frederick S. .113, 216 Harry P 216 Isaac W 152 Hammond, Otis G 6-8, 10, 11 13, 41, 42, 44-47, 65, 66, 68 69, 74, 111-114, 116-122 155-163, 168, 169, 171, 172 208-211, 216. Hampstead, N. H 9, 13, 196 Hampton, N. H. .48, 190, 195, 205 Hampton Falls, N. H 195 Hancock, Henry 97 John 15, 25. 126, 167 Handy, William B....69, 161, 211 216. Hanover, Me 210, 220 Hanover, N. H 77, 79, 87, 98, 100, 101, 103, 160, 216. (Dresden) 80 Hanson, Aaron 206 Hardy, Anthony C 112 Ashley K 160, 163, 216 Silas 118, 163, 216 Thomas 194 Harkness, John 196 Harper, John 196 Harraden, Jonathan 59 Harriman, Walter 101 Harrison, William H 130 Hartshorn, Fred G 66, 70, 74 111, 112, 114, 115. Grant R 6, 69, 211, 217 Samuel G 115 Hatch, Ernest G 217 Harvard College 22, 49, 137 Haskell, Frederick A 9 Haskins, Charles W 159, 161 Havana, Cuba 01,62 Haverhill, Mass. . . 5, 90, 216, 222 Haverhill, N. H 75, 76, 78-83 86, 88-90, 92, 95-97, 100 102-104, 218. (Lower Coos). 75, 78, 80, 82, 84 Haverhill, North, N. H 215 Hawkes, Major 124 Hay ward, Joshua 92, 97, 102 (see Howard, Joshua) Robert P 160, 163, 217 Hazelton, John 205 Hazen, Moses 80, 100 Head, Anna 74 Eugenes 74, 217 James 74 John 74 John A 217 Nathaniel 206 Natt 74 Sadie 74 William F 70, 74 Heald, Charles B 217 Heard, see Hurd. Jethro . . 195 Heath, Elbridge P 217 General 1,54 Will C 217 William 193 INDEX. 233 Heath, Mass 123, 127, 131 Hemphill, Mary 51 ITenniker, N. H 194 Henry, Patrick 25, 33, 35 Hewes, Joseph 30 Hibbard, Thomas 92 Higffins, Daniel 206 Ilildreth, Charles F 46 Kill, Charles A 217 Charles S 69,211,217 David B 73 Frank R 6,217 George W 217 Howard F 13,41,66-68 111-114, 117-120, 155-164 166, 168-172, 209, 210, 217 Mrs. Howard F 164 Isaac 66,68,217 John 201 JohnM 44,65,70 Hill, K H 157,223 Hillard, William A 217 HiHiard, Zebulon 195 Hillsborough, N. H 66, 67 193, 194. Hillsborough Bridge, N. H. . .218 221. Hinds, Jacob 196 Hinsdale, N. H 124, 196 History of N. H. in schools 14 Hobart, David. .86-88, 90, 92, 202 Hodgdon, Thomas 206 Hog island 127 Hoit, Stephen 194 Hollis, N. H 148,206 Holton, Ernest E. . . .160, 163, 217 Hooksett, N. H 74, 217 Hoosac river 124 Hopkins, Stephen 30 Hopkinton, N. H 71, 193, 194 207. Hoskins, Carl S 118,217 Hovey, Henry E 10, 12, 42 Howard, Joshua.. .92, 95, 102, 103 (see Hayward, Joshua) Oscar J 162, 103,217 Howe, Charles A 113, 217 Howe, Fred E 159, 163,217 Joseph 93 Lord 12.5,130 Will B.... 111-113, 116, 117,217 William 140 Howland, Fred L 217 Hudson, N. H 196 Hudson river 128 Hughes, see Hewes. Hull, John 207 William 131 Hunt, Luella 52 Huntley, Frank P 217 Huntoon, Charles T 208,217 Huntress, Mrs 166 Hurd, see Heard. Jacob 91 John 77-79,86-88,90,99 Hurlbut, Edward N 113, 217 Huse, Everett B 217 Hutchins, Gordon 74, 194 Hamilton 69,211, 217 Hezekiah 196 Joseph 81,82,92,93,95 William 217 Hyland, Clinton A 161, 163 166, 217. Jesse B 161, 163,217 Ingersol, Jared 35 Isles of Shoals 185 Jackson, Charles A 217 Jacksonville, Fla 218 Jaffrey, N. H 196,220 James, Samuel D 6, 217 Jamestown, Va 16 Jay, John 25, 33, 35,38 Jefferson, Thomas 2.5, 32, 33 35, 37, 39, 82, 103, 104. Jefferson, N. H. (Dartmouth) 82, 103, 104. Jerrj''s point 182, 183 Jewett, Stephen S 41, 217 Johnson, Colonel 130 John 206 Thomas 77, 83, 84 234 INDEX. Johnson, Sir William 190 Johnston, Charles. .76-71t, 86, 88- 90, 95, 97, 99, 101-103. Jones, Charles C 217 John F !63, 210, 217 John Paul 30, 62 Jordan, Chester B 218 Judkins, George 218 Henry 218 Levi A 218 Keene, N. H 89, 113, 114, 118 124, 157, 159-162, 164, 165 167, 170, 171, 196, 209, 213- 223. Keene Chapter, organization of 164 petition for 162 Kellom, Edward 218 Kelly, David 195 Samuel 206 Kenney, William S 157, 218 Kensington, N. H 195 Kent, Henry 42, 218 Jacob 77 Kidder, John S 9, 13 Kimball, Benjamin. .... .104, 195 Benjamin A 42, 44, 218 George B 218 George R 218 Henry A 42, 218 John 218 Peter 81 Porter 206 Richard H 1.59, 218 Willis G. C, Jr 114,115, 211 218. Kimball Union Academy. ..49, 72 King, Ruf us 35 Kingsbury, Robert T 160, 163 218. Kingston, N. H 195, 205 Kinsman, Aaron 194 Knapp, Harry T 160, 163,218 Knowles, Louis W 6, 218 Knowlton, Arthur H 218 Thomas 137, 139, 144 Laconia, N. H 41, 217 Ladd, Alexander H 12 Ezekiel 93 James 81, 82 John 97 Samuel 97 Lafayette, Marquis de 49, 53 65, 79, 132. Lafayette memorial 44, 47, 65 Lake, Henry E 161, 163, 218 Lake Champlain 31, 89, 189 Lake George 91, 123-125, 189 Lakeport, N. H 44, 220 Lakin, Taylor D 9, 13 Lamb, Fred W. .118, 172, 209, 218 Lamprey, Maitland C 218 Lamson, Albert H 218 Lancaster, N. H 42, 75, 78 81, 95, 96, 98, 103, 104, 113 217, 218. (Upper Coos). . .75, 77, 78, 81-83 Landaff, N". H . . . . 95, 96, 103, 223 Langdon, John 14, 18, 21-23 25-27, 29-40, 85, 181, 182 191. Samuel 137 Woodbury 24 Larner, Noble D 161 Lawrence, Mass 215 Leavitt, Moses 195 Lebanon, N". H 46, 80, 81, 87 99, 101, 214. Lebanon, East, N. H 222 Lee, Charles 53, 193 Richard H 30 Lee, N. H 195, 204, 206 Leighton, Fred 218 Lexington, Mass 14, 24, 53- 55, 126, 128, 130, 133-135 144, 146, 185, 188, 189, 198 Libbey, Henry C 118, 218 Limerick, Ire 191 Lincoln, Benjamin 91, 92 Lincoln, N. H 95, 103, 104 (Morristown) 95, 96, 100 Lisbon, N. H 75, 83, 95, 103 104, 118, 217, 218. INDEX. 235 Lisbon, N. H. (Concord) 75,103,104 (Gunthwaite) 75, 95-99, 103 Little, Cyrus H 117, 155, 218 Moses 194 Littleton, N. H 6, 75, 81, 95 103, 104, 111, IIG, 118, 157 159, 210, 213, 214, 218, 220 223. (Apthorp) 81, 95, 96 Livermore, Daniel 194 Isaac 191 Locke, Eugene 218 Londonderry, N. H. .189, 194, 205 Long, Charles F 72 Charles H 218 Isaac H 70, 72 Pierse 28 Simeon 72 Long Island sound 53 Louisburg, N. S 22, 175 Lovell, Nehemiah 123, 124 Lovewell, Captain 81 Low, Seth 166 Lowell, Mass 50 Lower Coos, N. H. (Haver- hill) 75, 78, 80, 82, 84 Lund, Charles H 218 Lyford, Thomas 195 Lyman, N. H 95, 96, 100, 103 104. Lyme, N. H 87, 88, 90, 92, 95- 97, 103. Lyndeborough, N. H 196 Lynn, Mass 213 McClary, Andrew 170, 193 Michael 194 McConnell, Samuel 206 Thomas 97 McCrillis, John 206 McDuffee, John 194 Mc Henry, James 35 Machias, Me 55 Mclntire, Harry H 159, 218 Mackinaw, Mich 125 McKinley, Franklin W 218 MacKintosh, Henry S.. . .103, 218 McLane, Clinton A 218 McLaughlin, Thomas 194 MacMurphy, Jesse G 218 Madbury, N. H 1G2, 195, 215 Madison, James 32, 35, 39 108, 129. Maiden, Mass 193, 219 Manchester, N. H 6, 8, 9, 13 41, 44-46, 48, 66, 67, 111- 113, 115, 117, 118, 155, 189 194, 209, 210, 213-219, 222 (Derry field) 189, 194 Manly, John 55, 56, 62 Mann, Benjamin 196 Mansfield, John 193 Marblehead, Mass. . 53, 55, 57, 58 March, Clement 24 John 196 Nazarilla 49 Marcy, John 197 Marion, Francis 53 Marlborough, N. H 162, 196 210, 223. Marshall, 186 Marston, Elisha 122 Martin, Alexander 35 Joshua 207 Luther 35 William 97 Mason, Charles L. ... 114, 115, 155 160, 162, 209, 211, 219. George 35 Harry 219 Mason, N. H 196 Maxwell, Hugh 123 Hugh, Jr 123, 127, 131 Thomas 197 Thompson 122-128, 131 Medford, Mass 13, 119, 121 136, 139, 141, 146, 149, 15a 170, 186, 187, 193. Members, list of 213-22a Spanish war 69, 115, 211 Members dropped from the rolls 44, 46 Memorial at Medford, Mass. . .119 121. 236 INDEX. Memphis, Tenn 51 Mendon, Mass 128 Meriden, JST. H 49 Merrimack, N. H 196, 205 Merrimack river 24 Merrow, Lyford A 219 Medfield, Mass 214 Meserve, George 175 Johns 8, 219 Metcalf, Burgess 97 Harry B 219 Henry H 209, 219 Milford, N. H 50, 68, 126, 197 216-218, 221, 223. Miller, James 69, 121, 211 219. JohnG 67, 219 Miltimore, Daniel 205 Minot, James 219 Jonas 118, 219 Morton 6, 219 Mohawk river 124 Monmouth, battle of 49 Mont Yernon, N. H 197 Montcalm, Marquis de 125 Montclair, N. J 216 Montgomery, General 95 Eichard 53 Montreal, Can 125 Mooar, Jacob W 219 Moody, Andrew J. 219 Joshua 18 Mooney, Hercules 28 Moore, Daniel. 194 Harvey 195 John 193, 194 Myra 115 Morey, Israel. . . .77, SO, 81, S6-1C3 Israel, Jr 92 Morrill, Amos 194 Sibley G 46, 219 Morris, Amanda C 49 George F 83 Gouverneur 35 Kobert 35 Morris town, N. H. (Franco- nia and Lincoln). . .95, 96, 100 Morton's hill 137 Morton's point 140 Moulton, Job 97 Moultonborough, N. H 82 Mount Benedict 188 Mugford, James, Jr 57-59 Mystic, Mass 128 Mystic river.. 127, 139-141, 111,198 Nantasket Koads 57 Nashua, N. H 6, 44, 47, 50, 66 67, 71, 111, lis, 123, 213-21S 221, 222. (Dunstable) 123, 196 Nealley, Benjamin F 114, 219 John H 114, 219 Nelson, N. H 167 (Packersfield) 196 New Bedford, Mass 72 New Boston, N. H 194 New Durham, N. H 195 New Hampshire, history of, in schools 14 New Haven, Conn... 128, 169, 172 New Ipswich, N. H 196, 206 New Orleans, La 133 New Rochelle, N. T 221 New York, N. Y. . .6, 9, 37, 46, 67 68, 70, 79, 112-114, 128, 143 166, 214-221, 223. Newbury, Yt. . . .76, 77, 83, 84, 89 Newcastle, N. II 48, 195 Newhall, 1S6 Newmarket, N. H. . . .42, 195, 196 201, 206, 216. Newport, N. H. . .41, 155, 209, 214 220. Newport News, Ya. 216 Newton Center, Mass 43 Nichols, Adelbert M 114, 219 Moses 80 Thomas 81 Nixon, John 193 Noble, Obediah 92 Norris, James 195 North, Lord 16, 183-185 North Hampton, N. II 195 INDEX. 237 Northfield, N. H 195 ISTorthumberland, N. H 75, 81 95, 96, 98, 103, 104. Northwood Ridge, N. H 217 Norwich, Vt 77 Norwood, Charles M . . 160, 163, 219 Leon C 160, 163, 219 Nottingham, N. H 24, 48, 194 195, 201, 205. Number 4, N. H. (Charles- town) 124, 125 Nutter, Eliphalet S 9, 13 Oberly, John 51 John H 51,52 Mary 51 Obrey, Frederick 92 O'Brien, Jeremiah 55 Oddie, Orville 46, 219 Orville, Jr 46, 219 Walter F 46, 219 Odiorne, Nathaniel 201, 206 Odlin, Herbert W 219 Officers, 1898 41 1899 66 1900 Ill, 112 1901 116, 117 1902 120, 155 1903 208, 209 Olcott, Peter 77, 80, 103 Old Orchard, Me 118 Oneida, N. Y 113, 216 Orange, N. H. 92 Ordway, John C 41-43, 219 Orford, N. H. .75, 86-89, 92, 95-97 Osborne, George J 201 Osgood, David 193 Packersfield, N. H. (Nelson) . . 196 Page, Daniel 205 David 205 Paine, Samuel 81, 82 Parker, Charles S 219 Henry E 114, 219 John 19 Obediah 206 Parkinson, Henry 150, 193 Parkman, Francis 125 Parsons, Jabez 104 Joseph 206 Patten, Willis C 113, 219 Patterson, Allan B. . . 113, 115, 211 219. Harvey F 160, 163, 219 Joab N 42, 69,211, 219 Samuel F 219 Paulson, John K 68, 219 Leonard, Jr 46, 219 Payne, Elisha 101 Peabody, Adjutant 149 Stephen 196 Peacham, Vt 83, 84 Pearson, Joseph 201 Pelham, N. H 194 Pembroke, N. H 194, 206 Pembroke Academy 71, 74 Penacook, N. H 46 Penacook, N. H. (Concord). ...124 Pepperell, Sir William 22 Percy, Lord 126, 186, 198 Percy, N. H. (Stark) 103, 104 Perham, George F 219 Perkins, Abraham 207 Perkins memorial 112 Perry, Calvin B 100, 163, 220 William F 100, 163, 220 Peterborough, N. H 131, 197 Peterborough Academy 115 Peters, Absalom 89 Pettengill, Matthew 206 Pettingale, Samuel 196 Phelps, Davenport 90 Philadelphia, Pa 25-27, 29, 32 34, 179, 180, 221. Philbrook, Charles F. B 44 Phillips Exeter Academy 49 Pickett, John E 220 Pierce, Franklin, monument to 44, 112 Piermont, N. H 92, 95-97 Pigwacket pond 124 Pillsbury, Frank J 220 Pinckney, 35 Pitcairii, John 24, 126 238 INDEX. Place, David 201, 206 Plainfield, N. H 78, 87 Plaistow, N. H 195 Ploughed hill . . . 188, 193, 198, 199 Plumer, Betsey 50 William 105 Plymouth, Mass 16, 128, 130 Plymouth, N. H. . .5, 52, 66, 67, 76 82, 86, 89, 90, 92, 93, 111, 117 119, 121, 155, 170, 209, 216 219, 220. Pomeroy, Josiah 167 Seth 137 Poole, Arthur E 220 Poor, Enoch. .49, 85, 119, 121, 136 158, 169, 187, 189, 190, 192- 194, 196, 199, 208. Harriet 49 Thomas 190 Poor monument. .119, 121, 158, 169 Poplin, N. H. (Fremont) 195 Porter, Asa 86, 87 Howard L 41, 45, 47, 48, 120 William H 120 Portland, Me 55 (Falmouth) 55 Portsmouth, N. H 10, 12, 18 20-22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 36, 38 40, 105, 137, 164, 173, 175-178 180-182, 185, 191, 195, 199 201, 206, 213. Potter,Chandler E..87, 92, 101, 105 Post, Eldad 97 Powell, Fred B 220 Powers, Thomas 55 Prescott, William.. 127, 130, 137- 139, 141, 143, 145, 146, 148 153, 154, 164. Prince, John 62 Princeton, N. J 53, 130 Prison-ship martyrs, monu- ment to 172 Pritchard, 84 Proceedings, distribution of 43, 47 publication of 8, 10 47, 156. Prospect hill. 187 Prouty, Ira J 160, 103, 220 Providence, R. 1 128 Pudding Point Gut 57, 58 Putnam, Herbert W. P. .120, 220 Israel.... 53, 124, 125, 128, 130 136-138, 143, 145, 152, 154 187, 193, 202. Quebec, Can 123, 125, 131 Quinby, Henry B 220 Ramsdell, George A 42 Rand, Ezekiel 196 Randolph, Edmund 35 Edward 18 Raymond, N. H 195 Reed, Captain 127 Daniel H 67, 170, 220 George M 160, 163, 220 James. . . .127, 136, 139, 141, 143 147, 149-153, 187, 189-191 193, 196, 198, 199, 207, 208 Joseph C 160, 163, 220 Register, National 113 Reid, Abraham 194 George 194 Remey, Commodore 12 Remich, Daniel C 6, 120, 220 Revere, Paul 21, 135, 180 Rhoads, Samuel, Jr 53 Rice, 124 Ebenezer 97 Richards, Charles S 68, 113 Jeremiah 46, 112 Samuel 194 Seth M 7, 9, 41,220 William F 220 Richardson, Luther 97 Myron H 159, 220 Richmond, Duke of 16 Richmond, N. H 196 Richmond, Va 51 Ricker, Ebenezer 206 Rindge, Daniel 22 Rindge, N. H 196 Rix, Edgar M 220 Guy S 220 INDEX. 239 Rix, Thomas G 8, 220 Robbing, Howard S 112, 220 Roberts, Charles E. B.69, 211, 220 Daniel C....41, 66, 68, 112, 115- 117, 120, 121, 155, 156, 164 165, 169, 170, 172, 208, 220 Robinson, Allan H 220 Charles A 160, 163, 220 Peter 206 Roby, Harley B 13, 14, 41, 67 112, 117, 155, 209, 220. "William 196 Rochester, N. H 21, 162, 194 195, 201, 206, 221. Rochester, N. Y 73 Rockingham, Marquis of 16 Rogers, Robert. . . S3, S4, 123-125 189. Rogers' s rock 125 Rolfe, Eugene W 220 George 11 220 Robert H 69, 211, 220 Rollins, Frank E ...161,220 Frank W 9, 40, 41, 66, 111 112, 116, 220. Nicholas 206 Roosevelt, Theodore 166 Rosebrook, Eleazer 156 Rowe, Winthrop 195 Rowe, Mass 127 Roxbury, Mass 192 Roy, George C 220 Royalton, Vt 79, 83, 84, 89 Runnells, Daniel 201, 205 Samuel 82 Russell, Alfred 93 Birchard J 210, 220 Frank W 52, 66, 69, 111 117, 119, 121, 155, 170, 209 211, 220. Josiah 78 Lewis 62 William W 5, 69, 211, 220 Rutledge, John 25, 35 Rye, N. H 195, 206 Ryer, George S 113, 220 Sabbath Day point 125 St. Croix river 17 St. Francis 125 St. John, N. B 125 St. Johns, Xewf 76 St. Lavprence river 56 St. Louis, Mo 166 Salem, Mass 59 Salem, N. H 194 Salisbury, N. H 82, 194 Sampson, Cassauder C..209, 221 Sanborn, Aaron 195 Abraham 195 Austin E 211, 221 Ebenezer 97 Frank B 122, 156 Frank W 118, 221 Jeremiah W 221 John n 5, 221 Sanbornton, N". H 195 Sanders, Joshua 97 Sandown, N. H 195 Sandwich, N. H 82, 122 Saratoga, IST. Y 32, ,33, 53, 76 79, 84, 93, 154. Sargeant, Jesse W 221 Sargent, Colonel 147, 151 Mary H 74 Sterling 74 Savannah river 17 Sawyer, Charles F 221 Charles H 221 William 195 William D 7, 41, 221 Scales, Burton T 221 John 117, 155, 156, 208, 221 Scammell, Alexander 128, 196 Schools, history of N. H. in.. 14 Schuyler, Philip 53 Scott, Captain 153 Seabrook, X. H 195 Seaver, Robert 206 Seavey, Albert F 162, 221 Charles H 162, 221 James F 162,221 Secretary, appropriation to.. .7, 47 Selman, Captain 56 Severance, Henry W 118, 221 Sewall, Jonathan M 86, 81 240 INDEX. Seward, Josiah L. . . . 157, 163, 167 170, 221. Seymour, James H 68, 221 Shaw, Christopher C 221 Shays, Daniel 130 Sheafe, Jacob 24 Shedd, Charles G ..1G3, 166, 170, 171, 209, 221. Charles W 162, 163, 221 Shelburne, N. H. 67, 68, 159, 222 223. Shepard, James 201, 203, 207 Shepardson, Eeuben 46 Sherburne, 203 Samuel 28 Sherman, Fred S . . . .160, 163, 221 Koger 25, 35 Ships: Achilles 59 Canceaux 182 Elizabeth 63 Falcon 57 Fox 20 Franklin 56-58 Freemason GO, 61 Gen. Pickering 59 Hannah 56 Hope 57 Howe 63 Jupiter 61 Lee ,56 Lively 61, 62, 138 Lord Hyde 62 Lynch 56 Margaretta 55 Marquis 60 Nancy 56 Observer 63 Pitt Packett 54, 55 Ranger 30 Eose 54 St. David 60 St. Helena 61 Scarborough 25, 88, 182 Thorn 60, 62, 63 Unity 56 Warren 56 Shirley, Edward C 221 Shortridge, Richard 195 Shuckers, Virginia 52 Shuff, Jacob 97 Silsby, George H 221 Simpson, David 206 Thomas 78 William 86, 87 Sinclair, James 207 Sisson, William H 221 Sloan, John 92, 97 Smith, Almon P 42 David E 68, 221 Jacob 82 James 207 Jemima 71 Jeremiah 122, 221 John B 66, 67, 117, 221 Jonathan 83 Leland A 221 Lieutenant-Colonel 126 Sidney M 9, 13 Somers, A.N 78 Somersworth, N. H 24, 191 195, 201, 206, 222. Somerville, Mass 187 Sons of the Revolution, union with 6, 10, 13 Spaight, Richard 35 Spanish war, service in 44 Spanish war medals 69 Spanish war soldiers, list of 69, 115, 211. Spaulding, 168 Henry O 162, 163, 221 Levi 196 Spencer, Joseph 193 Spofford, Charles B 41, 45, 48 66-68, 111-113, 115, 117, 170 221. Sprague, Fred A.... 113, 115, 211 221. Springfield, Mass 213 Stanhope, Michael 61 Staniels, Charles E 9, 13, 40 52, 53, 65, 66, 74, 116, 156 172, 221. INDEX. 241 Stark, John. .24, 31, 32, 53, 74, 76 79, 84, 90, 91, 123, 125, 127 130, 133, 136, 139, 141, 143 144, 146, 147, 149-154, 187- 193, 197, 199, 207, 208. John F 221 Stark, N. H 103 (Percy) 103, 104 Starkstown, N. H. (Dunbar- ton) 189 State Hill, N. H. (Bethle- hem) 104 Stearns, Ezra S 221 Frank H 114, 163, 221 Peter 82 Samuel H 221 William B 44 Steuben, Baron 53 Stevens, Lyman D 42 Stewart, Arthur C 40 Charles H 222 Stewartstown, N. H 104 Stickney, Charles 222 Stiles, Captain 153 Stillwater, N. Y 32 Stillwell, John 61 Stilson, William 206 Stone, Ephraim 82 Isaac 196 Stony Point 49 Strafford, N. H 160 StrafEord Center, N. H 216 Stratford, N. H 75, 76, 81, 95 96, 103, 104. Stratham, N. H 195, 201, 204 206. Stronjr, Caleb 35 Sturtevant, Edward E 165 Sullivan, John 21, 25, 26, 32 34, 78, 81, 84, 101, 104, 107 127, 128, 130, 179-182, 188 191-193, 198-204, 207, 208 Suncook, N. H 46, 67, 222 Surry, N. H 83 Susquehanna river 38 Swanzey, N. H 124, 196 Taft, James S. . .160, 163-166, 170 200, 222. Mrs. James S 164 Taggart, James 197 Tarbox, Increase N 152, 153 Taylor, Benjamin 205 Temple, K H 1.58, 196 Tenney, George A 222 Thomas, Capt 151 John 193 Philip 196 Thompson, Ebenezer 24 JohnM 70, 211,222 Lucien 222 Thoreau, Henry D 131 Thornton, Matthew 27, 29 Thurston, Charles H 222 Th wing, Nathaniel 195 Ticonderoga, N. T....53, 91, 125 190, 191. Tillotson, Daniel 97 Tilton, John 195 Philip 195 Tilton, N. H 209, 221 Timson, Julius C 70,211,222 Tinker, Clifford A . . . . 43, 70, 211 222. Titcomb, Benjamin 195 Titus, Samuel 97 Todd, William C 44, 112 Tolraan, George 122 Towle, John A 5, 222 Towns, Captain 153 Ezra 196 Townsend, Luther T 108 Townshend, Charles 16 Trenton, N. J 53, 130 Troy, X. Y 124 Truesdell, Edmund E 46, 67 222. Tucker, Edward M 222 Samuel 62, 63 Turner, George 201 Tuttle, Elias A 46, 222 Hiram A 148 Lewis E 114, 115, 211, 222 242 INDEX. Union, Me 51 Union College 73 Union with Sons of the Revo- lution 6, 10, 13 Upper Coos, N. H. (Lancas- ter) 75, 77, 78, 81-83 Valley Forge 53 Vaughan, Jabez 97 Yiali, Herbert B 160, 163, 222 Wait, Joseph 95 Wakefield, N. H 50, 206 Waldron, Benjamin 52 Dustin W 52 George D.. . .52, 70, 155, 158-160 162, 163, 209, 211, 222. John 201, 206, 222 Luella 52 Walker, Joseph B 222 Nathan 62 Reuben E 222 Timothy 202 William 196 Wallingford, Samuel 206 Walpole, N. H.. . .89, 114, 124, 197 Waltham, Mass 125 Ward, Artemas...58, 126, 136, 137 139, 143, 144, 146, 149, 193. Charles E 161, 1G3, 222 Simon 222 Warner, N. H 52, 194 Warren, Joseph 137 Washington, George. . .15, 17, 25- 27, 33-35, 37, 38, 4'.i, 53, 5-5- 57, 80, 100, 127-129, 143, 154 191-193, 197-203, 205, 207, 208 Washington, D. C 51, 52, 109 Waterford, N. Y 124 Waterhouse, George 206 Waterman, Lucius 210, 222 Waters, Captain 63 Watsou, Elkanah 128, 130 John 201 Wayne, Anthony 53 Weare, Meshech 18, 24, 27, 31 85, 100, 154. Weare, K H 194 Webb, Azariah 97 RoUin E 160, 222 Webster, Daniel 132 David 76, 82, 89, 92, 93, 121 222. Ebenezer 82 Jacob 195, 201, 204, 205 Weed, John 97 Welch, John T 118, 222 Wellman, James A 6, 222 Wells, Christopher H 222 Frederic P 77 Wentworth, Benning 176 John. . . 18-20, 24, 25, 88, 176-182 184. Jonathan 195 West Fremont, Me 43, 222 West Peabody, Mass 223 West Point, N. Y 53, 80, 89 Westerly, R. 1 217 WestfleH, Mass 215 Westmoreland, N. H 82, 196 Wetherbee, Fred T 222 Wheeler, Abijah 205 Alfred H. .118, 163, 164, 166, 170 222. Mrs. Alfred H 164 Arthur M 5 Elbert 66, 111, 222 Elery 68, 222 Herbert E 159, 222 Jackman 67, 222 John A 5, 222 Samuel 1 159,223 Wesley W 159, 223 Wheelock, Eleazer 83, 84 John 79, 94, 100 Whipple, 84 General 91 Joseph 82, 103 WiUiam 29, 201,202, 205 Whitcher, William F 119, 120 156, 161, 169, 186, 208, 223. Whitcomb, Benjamin. . .80, 82, 83 89. Captain 151 INDEX. 243 Whitcorab, Edson G. . 160, 163, 223 Frauk H. .113, 163, 167, 170, 223 Jonas F 157, 163, 223 Jonathan 196 White river 124 White River Junction, Vt 220 Whitehead, John 158 Whitefield, N. H 214 Whitney, Robert L...162, 163, 210 223. Whiton, John M 90 Wigffin, Mark 201,204,206 Wilkins, Daniel 196 Wilkinson, James 153, 154 Solon S 163, 223 Willard, Edward A 223 J. Le Baron 112, 223 Williams, Abraham L 223 George H., Jr 43, 223 Obediah 193 Williamstown, Mass 124 Willis, Newton A 157, 223 Willoughby, John 92 Wilmot, N. H 218 Wilson, Allen 44 James 25, 35 Jonathan 126 Wilton, X. H 156, 196 Winchendon, Mass 124 Windham, N. H 194, 206 Windsor, Vt 49 Winslow, John 190 Winter hill. .127, 128, 187, 188, 190 193, 198-200, 202, 203, 205 207, 208. Woburn, Mass 50, 190 Wolfe, James 125 Wolfeborough, N. H 195 Woodbury, Elisha 194 Frank D ....118, 223 Levi 154 Woodman, Archelaus 206 Woodsville, N. H 46, 186, 223 Woodward, Clement J. . ..157, 163 223. David 79, 81 Judge 101 Wood worth, Albert B. . . .42, 223 Edward B 8 Wooster, 51, 52 Worcester, Frank D . . 160, 163, 223 George A 223 Noah 206 Worcester, Mass 222 Wormstead, Robert 61 Wright, Arthur L.. . .150, 16-3, 223 Elisha H 157, 223 Frances J 74 Francis 74 Frank A 160, 163, 223 Frank H 160, 163, 223 Jane 74 Jerome E 160, 163, 223 Robert M 157, 223 Wyman, Isaac.139,141,164, 165,193 Sibyl 126 Wythe, George 35 Yale college 49 Year book 44 Yeaton, Moses 201, 206 York Beach, Me 173 Yorktown, Va 53, 84, 154 Young, Millard F 159, 223 Oscar E 223 Richard B 223 1 1