'111. Illl "I I II, III III jiino2008tihaa7ii t< f " ~ i Ni ' nil (ta ,• .f,^. r--< "~.r''ii'r,--'iyi5iOr"Y'-. %^ y^ GROTON DURING THE REVOLUTION BY THE SAME AUTHOR. George E. Littlefield has for sale at his Antiquarian Bookstore, No. 67 Cornhill, Boston, the following publi- catio?is : — EPITAPHS FROM THE OLD BURYING GROUND IN GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. AVith Notes and an Appendix. Illustrations, Octavo, cloth, pages 292. Boston : 1878. Price, j^3.oo. GROTON DURING THE INDIAN WARS. Octavo, cloth, 214 pages. Groton ; 1883. Price, ^^2.50. THE BOUNDARY LINES OF OLD GROTON. Octavo, cloth, 105 pages, Groton: 1885. Price, j!r. 50. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 1655-1890. Duodecimo, cloth, uncut, 268 pages. Groton : 1894. Price, S2.00. GROTON HISTORICAL SERIES. A Collection of Papers relating to the History of the Town. Vols. I.-IV. Octavo, cloth, uncut, pages 500, 480, 496, 529. Edition limited. Groton: 1884 to 1899. Price, J525. 00. Also, AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS, Bi-Centennial and Centen nial, delivered July 4, 1876, at Groton, Massachusetts. Octavo, paper covers, 89 pages. Groton: 1876. Price, gi. 00. AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS delivered at Groton, Massa chusetts, February 20, 1880, at the dedication of three monuments erected by the Town. Octavo, paper covers, 56 pages. Groton : 1880. Price, 50 cents. PRESCOTT MONUMENT, Groton, Massachusetts. See page 228. GROTON DURING THE REVOLUTION 3Mtt!) an ^pvtnttiv BY SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. Pope's Essay on Man GROTON, MASS. 1900 Slnibtrsitg ^ttss: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. TO SEi&e iilemorg of THE GROTON MINUTE-MEN, who rallied on the common and marched to the scenes of conflict, on the memorable nineteenth of APRIL, THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Prescott Monument Frontispiece Seal of the Town of Groton Page 109 First Parish Meeting-House „ 116 Stamp and Counter-Stamp, 1765 „ 188 Groton during the Revolution IN this collection of papers I purpose to print the military rolls of Groton companies that served at different times during the Revolution, together with such other facts and documents as relate to the subject. These various rolls, etc., for the most part are preserved among the Revolutionary papers of the Massachusetts Archives at the State House. In the volumes of " Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," now in course of publication by the Commonwealth, the names of the men and officers from the whole State are given, but they are arranged alphabeti cally and not by towns. A reference to that work will furnish much additional information, as after the various names there is found a short account of each one's service. Some of the papers and documents, here printed, are taken from news papers and other publications, not easily accessible to the gen eral reader, but in every case it is stated where the original may be seen. Many of them have appeared in the " Groton Historical Series." Nineteenth of April To the people of Massachusetts the Nineteenth of April is fraught with great events and full of stirring associa tions. On that day in 1689, Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of New England, representing here the power of Great Britain, was consigned by an enraged people as a prisoner 2 Groton during the Revolution to the Castle in Boston Harbor. On that day in 1775, British troops fired on the yeomanry of Massachusetts, and the first blood in the War for Independence was then shed. On that day in 1861, a Middlesex County regiment, rushing to the defence of the National Capital, was attacked by an armed mob in the streets of Baltimore, where four soldiers were killed, and more than thirty wounded. These several dates in different centuries are separated by an interval of just eighty-six years, which seems to represent the historic cycle of Middlesex County and of Massachusetts. Minute-men In the pursuit of game and other wild animals the early settlers of Massachusetts became familiar with the use of powder, ball, and musket, and even the boys were skilled marksmen. As early as the spring of 1645 the General Court ordered that all youths between the ages of ten and sixteen years should be instructed by competent soldiers in the exercise of arms, such as small guns, half pikes, and bows and arrows, provided their parents were willing. The fre quent attacks of the Indians kept the men schooled in the arts of war, and the trials of one campaign fitted them for the duties of the next. Many of the officers who served during the Revolution received the rudiments of their mili tary education in the French and Indian War; and the ex perience there gained stood them in good stead. The rank and file were made up of brave men, though undisciplined, who from their sires had inherited a love of liberty. For a period of years the leaders had been preparing, consciously or unconsciously, for a struggle which was soon to begin. Great events were hastening public opinion toward the final step. The leaders of the American Revolution showed much wisdom in the strict attention paid to the preparatory details of their work ; and every move on the board was made with Minute-men 3 reference to something that was to follow. The final success of the military struggle was due as much to their foresight and sagacity in this respect as to the deep feeling of the people. The alarm at Lexington on the memorable Nine teenth of April aroused almost simultaneously the whole country for miles around, so carefully had the region in the neighborhood been allotted to special messengers, whose duty was arranged beforehand for such a purpose. On the side of the patriots the skirmishes of that day were fought by companies made up largely of minute-men, organized on recommendation of the First Provincial Congress of Massa chusetts, in a Resolve passed at Cambridge on October 26, 1774. At that time it was recommended to the field officers of the various militia regiments that they should enlist at least one-quarter of their respective commands, and form them into companies to be held in readiness, at the shortest notice from the Committee of Safety, to march to the place of rendezvous. Such soldiers soon became known as " Min ute-men " ; and at the first signal of hostilities they were on hand, armed and equipped, ready for any emergency that they might be called upon to meet. At this critical period in many ways they proved to be of great help to the popular cause. The existence of such a body of drilled men seems to have been prompted by the practice of nearly twenty years before, during the French and Indian War, when there were bands of men, known as " Alarm lists," who were to be ready for military service at a minute's warning. And in their turn these Alarm lists followed the precedent set by the Suffolk and Middlesex regiments, which at the beginning of Philip's War were ordered by the General Court to " be ready to march on a moment's warning." Even before this time, as early as August 12, 1645, in anticipation of trouble with the Indians it was ordered that thirty men out of every hun dred in the militia should be ready " at halfe an bowers warning" for any service that they might be called upon to perform by their commanding officers. 4 Groton during the Revolution These various instances all contain the germ of the system. Thus it is seen that, for a period of a hundred and thirty years before the Revolution, the minute-man was a prime factor in both the Colonial and Provincial militia. The Advance of the British Troops The news of the advance of the British troops on Lexing ton and Concord reached the village of Groton early in the morning of the Nineteenth, when word was sent at once to all parts of the town calling on the minute-men to rally on the Common in front of the Meeting-house. The alarm, probably, was a continuation of the one sent from Charles town just before midnight, and reached Groton soon after sunrise. There is some reason to think that this intelligence was expected at that particular time, and that messengers were ready to carry it to the out-lying homes of the farmers. On April 17 it was voted by the Committees of Safety and of Supplies that the four six-pounders should be transported from Concord to Groton, and put under the care of Colonel Oliver Prescott ; and on the next day it was also voted that certain ammunition, as well as a large number of tents, and two medicine chests, should be sent there for safe-keeping. As open hostilities began so soon afterward, there was prob ably no time to make the removal. The community was much agitated, and men were thoroughly aroused. The air was full of rumors, and nobody knew their source. They seemed to come by " grape-vine telegraph," — as the expres sion was in the Union army during the War of the Rebellion. Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Congress, two companies of minute-men had been enlisted in Groton. According to a printed sermon preached before them, on February 21, 1775, by the Reverend Samuel Webster, of Temple, New Hampshire, their officers at that time had been already chosen, and while there had been " heats " — as the minister expressed it — in other towns over the choice of The Advance of the British Troops 5 officers, there had been none at Groton. Unfortunately, at a later period " heats," or contentions, did break out in one of these companies, as appears from an entry in Amos Farns- worth's diary, on April 26, 1775. These two companies of minute-men had been expecting the call, and, true to their designation, were ready to march at short notice. On that eventful Nineteenth both com panies — one of them under the command of Captain Henry Farwell, and the other under that of Captain Asa Lawrence — rallied on the Common. It is probable that by the middle of the forenoon they started for the scene of action. One of these companies bivouacked that night in Lexington, and it is very likely that the other did also. The intense excite ment of a forced march, due not only to what they saw on the way, but to what they heard, speeded their steps, and there was no lagging on the road. They left their homes as British subjects, but came back as independent citizens, who never again knew the authority of a king. According to tradition there were a few adventurous men who, after hearing the news of an English incursion, but before their knowledge of actual bloodshed, pushed on to Concord, independently of the military companies, and took part in the engagement at the North Bridge, and perhaps with the minute-men followed up the British grenadiers on their retreat. In confirmation of this tradition, see the " New Chapter in the History of the Concord Fight," which is printed later in this volume, and gives much circumstantial evidence on the subject. The events of the Nineteenth brought political matters to a head. The hasty assemblage of military companies, which then rushed to the neighborhood of Boston, by no means formed an effective army. While the men and officers had the true martial spirit, they were undisciplined as well as inexperienced. The Reverend George E. Ellis, D.D., in his " History of the Battle of Bunker's Hill," has well described the men who volunteered during this emergency. 6 Groton during the Revolution The yeomen of town and village had not come together at the summons of a commander-in-chief through adjutant, herald or advertisement. They came unbidden, at an alarm from the bell on their meeting-house, or from a post-rider, or from the telegrams transmitted by tongue and ear. And they came for what they were and as they were, with their light summer clothing, in shirt and frock and apron ; with what was left from their last meals in their pantries packed with a few " notions " in sack or pillow-case, and with the ducking-guns, fowling-pieces, or shaky muskets used in old times against the vermin and game in the woods and the In dian skulking in the thicket. And for the most part they were as free to go away as they had been to come. They were enlisted after a fashion, some prime conditions of which were their own convenience or pleasure (page 6 of the octavo edition). The need of a thorough re-organization of these various bodies was felt both by the Committee of Safety and by the Provincial Congress; and steps were taken at once by the authorities to consolidate the detached companies and skele ton commands, and to bring order out of chaos. According to the Muster-roll of Captain Henry Farwell's company, printed on page 13, re-enlistments began in his command on April 25 ; and presumably also in the other companies. At this time a consolidation was made of Farwell's com pany with Captain James Hosley's company of minute-men from Townsend, an adjoining town. Probably a similar con solidation took place with other companies of like character as to neighborhood of homes, mutual acquaintance, etc. The minute-man had enlisted for a short and indefinite term of service, and, when the emergency was over, his part of the contract was fulfilled. The men whose names appear on the Muster-roll as having served only six days were those, presumably, who re-enlisted in Farwell's company, or in some of the other companies, and remained in the field near Boston. It is known that a few of them joined either Cap tain Asa Lawrence's company or Captain Joseph Moors's, which were enlisted for a period of eight months, or until The Advance of the British Troops 7 the end of the year 1775. The men who are accredited on Farwell's roll of minute-men with seventy miles' travel are those, doubtless, who returned home soon after the reorganization. After the consolidation of Farwell's company with Hosley's, the roll includes the names of a few men from other towns besides Groton and Townsend. Timothy Stone enlisted from Ashby; Peletiah Russell, from the Coos Country in New Hampshire, and later was a resident of Groton ; Jonathan Sawtell, a native of Groton, from Rindge, New Hampshire ; and Jeremiah Wier, from Limerick, the old name of Stoddard, New Hampshire. Among the men who marched in Captain Farwell's com pany was Amos Farnsworth, who kept a diary from the time he left Groton until the end of October, when he was taken sick and went home. Mr. Farnsworth was a good type of the Middlesex yeomanry, and both by kinship and social intercourse was connected with some of the best fami- hes in the neighborhood. He was a fair representative of the average soldier of the period, being more of a patriot than a scholar ; and during the times that tried men's souls this quality was of greater importance than a knowledge either of spelling or writing. The diary contains many little entries which throw much side-light on certain events. It is the only contemporary record which tells where the company bivouacked at the end of the first day's march, a fact of some interest to the descendants of the soldiers. According to the diary, a Townsend member of Captain Far well's company was wounded in a skirmish with the enemy near Chelsea, on May 27; and two days later there was a funeral in the same company, presumably that of the wounded man, but no name in connection therewith is mentioned. In the Return of Farwell's company, printed on page 16, it is said that William Smith, of Townsend, enlisted on April 19, and that he " Dyed at Cambridge May 29." In the roll, printed on page 15, he is accredited with only forty-one 8 Groton during the Revolution days' service, while most of the other men are accredited with ninety-eight days' service. According to their roll his pay stopped on May 29, which was the day of his death, ac cording to the other roll. See Richard Frothingham's " Siege of Boston" (page 109), for an account of the skirmish, which agrees very closely with that given by Mr. Farnsworth ; and see also Miss Sarah L. Bailey's " Historical Sketches of Andover " (page 311). Without doubt William Smith was the first soldier from Townsend, killed by the enemy in the Revolution, and as the earliest victim to British bullets he deserves some special recognition on the part of that town, even at this late day. John Burge, also of Townsend, and of the same company, died at Cambridge, presumably from disease, on June 3. See the Return of Farwell's company, on page 16. Another interesting fact in connection with military usages crops out in the diary. Under date of Monday, June 7, the writer makes an entry, as follows : — " On monday my Brother [Benjamin] Came and took my Plase And on tusday about noon I Sot out on my jurney for home And Arived about ten at night." Again, under date of June 14, he says: — " on Wednesday I Took Leve of Frinds And Rode to Cam bridge And my Brother Came home." These two entries seem to show that a man in the army, during the early days of the Revolution at least, could have a temporary substitute when absent ; and the Muster-roll of the company furthermore shows that it could be done with out loss of pay. In those times military discipline was at a low ebb. Captain Henry Farwell Henry Farwell, the youngest child of William and Eliza beth Farwell, of Groton, was born on July 21, 1724. He had been a soldier during the French and Indian War. He also commanded a company at the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he was severely wounded. A musket ball passed through his Captain Henry Farwell 9 body and lodged near the spine, whence it was taken out soon after the fight. Captain Farwell lived near the head of Farmers' Row, one or two hundred feet south of the little brook which runs toward Hazel Grove and forms the source of 'Tuity Brook. An old well near the site of the house is the only trace of the habitation now left. At this homestead he died on Jan uary 9, 1804. Captain Farwell was married, first, on December 6, 1749, to Lydia, eldest child of Samuel and Lydia (Farnsworth) Tar- bell; and, secondly, on June 3, 1 761, to Sarah Taylor, of Westford, who died, according to her tombstone, on Septem ber 15, 1799, aged 66 years. By the first marriage there were three children, and by the second, four children. An entry in the Groton church records, under date of October 12, 1800, probably relates to him also, which would make a third marriage. It is as follows : — " Capt. Henry Farwell to Hannah Worster both of Groton." No papers are to be found in the Middlesex Probate Office at East Cambridge, which throw light on the name of his widow, if he left one. An anecdote told on page 61 of "The Jubilee of Lawrence Academy," refers to him, and not to Jonathan Farwell, as there given. Captain Farwell's Bullet The following query was asked in the " Notes and Queries " department of the " Boston Evening Transcript," May 25, 1895, and an answer given in the issue of May i, 1897. (S^73-) Captain Henry Farwell, who commanded a company of Minute Men from Groton at Bunker Hill, was severely wounded by a musket bullet that entered his body, lodging near his spine. It was extracted the evening of that day, as recorded in Butler's "History of Groton" [page 268], and he engraved 1775 on the ball, leaving it as a precious relic. A great-grandson of Captain Farwell's wishes to know who has possession of the engraved ball. W. P. B. lo Groton during the Revolution 5^37 [5873]- Concerning a musket ball that was extracted from the body of Captain Henry Farwell — Captain Henry Farwell was my great-grandfather. My father, James B. Farwell, had that ball in his possession after the death of my grandfather, Jonathan Farwell. During the absence of my father and mother the house was entered and the box containing the ball was stolen. My father never found it; 1775 was engraved on the ball. It was many years ago that it was stolen. If W. P. B. is a great-grandson of Captain Farwell, I would like to know who he is, as I have no relatives with those initials. There are grandsons by name of May. If W. P. B. will write to me I will answer any questions concern ing the ball. C. J. F. P. The initials " W. P. B." stand for William Phillips Brazer, of Lowell; and those of " C. J. F. P." for Mrs. Caroline J. Farwell Pettengill, the wife of Henry Emmons Pettengill, of Wilton, New Hampshire, a great-granddaughter of Cap tain Farwell, through her father, James Brazer Farwell, and her grandfather, Jonathan Farwell, who was youngest child of the old hero. The Muster-roll of Captain Farwell's company of minute- men is found among the Revolutionary papers of the Massa chusetts Archives (XII. 62) in the State House. A copy is given below, followed by another roll (Archives, XIV. 96) of his company, dated August i, after its consolidation with Hosley's ; and this again by a Return (Archives, LVI. 60), undated, but made in October, 1775. Captain Henry Farwell 1 1 A Muster-roll of Cap'. Henry Farwells Comp^ of Minute-Men in Col". W- Frescotts Reg'.who marcKdfrom Groton f. Ytf^ of April 1775 Mens Names time hen rch'd om )me 9 of iles ing & ; those sturn'd days the rvice HPi (J 0 ^ 0— 'tfi miles Henry Farwell Cap' Ap! 19 6 days Zac"" Fitch 1=.' \}. d? 70 II Amaziah Fassett 2^.1}. d? 70 II Abel Bancroft Serj^ d? 70 II Jon^ Stone d? d? 70 8 Neh"; Lawrance d° d? 70 10 Josiah Stevens d° d? 6 Nath! Sartell Corp! d? 6 Phineas Hubbard d° d? 6 Silas Page d? d? 70 4 Sam! Lawrence d? d? 6 Joel Jenkins Fifer d? 6 Amos Adams Priv? d? 70 lO James Adams d? d° 70 10 David Archabald d° d? 16 Aaron Biglow d° d? 6 Tho? Baker d? d? 18 W? Colbourn d° d? 70 II' Joshf Davis d? d? 70 18 W? Farwell d? d? 70 S Oliver Farnsworth d? d? 70 18 John Fife d? d° 70 14 Oliver Farnsworth j' d? d° 70 18 Amos Farnsworth d? d? 6 Aaron Farnsworth d? d° 70 20 Sam! Heminway d? d? 70 10 Phineas Hemenway d? d? 6 Obadiah Jenkins d? d!" 6 Jon'^ Jenkins d° d? 6 David Jenkins d? d? 6 Obadiah Jenkins Y. d." d? 70 19 I 2 Groton during the Revolution 1 . 1 itS? 1 Mens Names The tim when march' d from home N?of miles coming < going tho y'.return' No of days in the Service miles Sam! Kemp Priv^ Ap!i9 70 10 days Eph" Kemp d? d° 70 14 Will-H Kemp d° d° 70 14 Ebenf Kemp d? d? 6 John Laughton d° d° 70 10 Jon^ Lawrence d? d? 70 IS Sam! Lawrence d? d? 70 s Jon' Lawrence ]'. d° d? 70 18 Tim? Moors d° d° 6 Joseph Page d° d? 6 Benj'; Page d? d? 70 13 Thomas Parks d? d? 6 John Parker d° d? 6 WE Phelps d? d? • ¦ > . * 6 Eph" Russell d? d° 6 Sam! Rockwood d° d? 70 14 Eph? Robbins d? d° 6 Sam! Sartell d° d!- 70 14 Amos Stone d° d° 70 10 W- Shed d? d? 70 14 Jon» Sartell d? d? 6 Jonas Taylor d? d° 70 2 Abner Whetcomb d? d? 70 IS Ephraim Ward d? d? 70 10 Henrv Farwell Ca/f Middlesex ss. Deer 22? 1775. Henry Farwell made solemn Oath that the above roll by him sub- scrib'd is just and true in all its parts Before me Moses Gill. Jus. Peace thrt> f. Colony Examin'd & compar'd with the Org- E. Starkweather I Com" Captain Henry Farwell 13 In Council March 21"' 1776 Read & allowed & ordered that a warrant on the Treasury for ^51 : 9/ 2}^ in full of this Roll Perez Morton D Secy A true copy G. Tailer [Indorsed] Copy Groton Cap' Henry Farwell Muster-roll £^1 » gn 2^ (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XII. 62) A muster Roll of the Company under the Comand of Captain Henery Farwell in Colenol Will Presotts Reg^ to the first of August 177s Mens Names Towns whence Rank Time of travel time of thay Came Inlistment servis miles Days Henry Farwell Groton Captain April 25"' 35 98 Levi Whitney Townshend I Leivt April 25 44 98 Benja Ball Townshend 2 Lent Apriel 25 44 98 Josiah Stevens Groton Sergent Apriel 25 35 98 Nathanill Sartwell Groton Sergent Apriel 25 35 98 Phinas Hubburd Groton Sergent Apriel 25 35 98 Ephraim Brown Townshend Sergent April 25 44 98 Samuel Lawrence Groton Corprol April 25 35 98 Amos Farnsworth Groton Corprol April 25 35 98 Epharim Worran Townshend Corprol April 25 44 98 Joseph Page Groton Corprol April 25 35 98 Timothy Stone Ashby Drumer July 19 5° 13 Joel Jenkens Groton fifer April 25 35 98 Ephraim Adams Townshend Privat July 19 44 13 Benjamin Brooks Townshend D° Aprile 25 44 98 Isaac Boy an ton Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 Eleaszer Butterfield Town sh and D° Aprile 25 44 98 Jonas Brooks Grotton D" Aprile 25 35 98 John Clarke Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Moses Chase Groton D" May 6 35 87 William Dirumphel Groton D" Aprile 25 35 98 14 Groton during the Revolution Mens names Towns whence Rank Time of travel time of thay Came Inlistment servis miles Days James Davise Groton Privat Aprile at 35 98 Josiah Davise Townshanc D° Aprile 2c 44 98 Henry Dunster Townshanc D° Aprile 25 44 98 Joel Davise Townshanc D" July 19 44 13 John Emary Townshanc D" Aprile 25 44 98 Jonas Farmer Townshanc D" Aprile 25 44 98 Joseph Frost Groton D° May 6 35 86 Noah Farrah Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Abel Foster Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 Daniel Foster Groton D° Aprile 25 35 98 [Mori]ah Gould Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Oliver Hildrick Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Abijah Hildrick Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 [OJbadiah Jinkins Groton D" Aprile 25 35 98 David Jinkins Groton D° Aprile 25 35 98 Zakeous Farwell Groton D" Aprile 25 35 98 Ebenezar Kemp Groton D° Aprile 25 35 98 Isaac Kidder Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 John Manning Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 Henry M'Neel Groton D" May 15 35 78 Timothy Moors Groton D" Aprile 25 35 98 [Jonjathan Patt Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 [Josiah] Richardson Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Peltiah Russell Coas D° May 6 180 87 Joseph Rumral Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 Ephriam Russell Groton D° Aprile 25 35 98 Ephriam Robbins Groton D° Aprile 25 35 98 Abel Richardson Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Andrew Richardson Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 [Ijsreal Richardson Townshand D° July 19 44 13 [J]onathan Seartle Ringe D" Aprile 25 60 98 Daniel Spaulding Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Daniel Sherwin Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Joseph Willson Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 Captain Henry Farwell i 5 Towns whence Time of time of Mens names thay Came Rank Inlistment travel servis miles Days [Fr] ances White Groton Privat May 6 35 87 [Jeremjiah Wier Limbrick D° Aprile 25 96 98 [Ur]ial Whitney Groton D° Aprile 25 4'4 98 [J]osiah Warrin Groton D° May 2 35 91 Thos Wyman Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Oliver Warrin Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 98 Wills Smith Townshand D° Aprile 25 44 41 John Burge Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 46 Sam!? Weston Townshand D" Aprile 25 44 98 Jonathan Jinkins Groton D° Aprile 25 35 60 Asa White Groton D° May 6 35 53 In Council Feb'' g'^ 1776 Read & allowed & ord** that a Warr! be drawn on yf Treasf for 327. 3. 5 in full of this roll Perez Morton D Seer [Indorsed] Cap' Henry Farwells Roll in Col° Prescotts Reg' £22T. 3 : 5 for 1775 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XIV. 96) A Return of Capten Henry Farwells Company being the first Com pany in the \o"' Regiment in the Continental Army Commanded by Colonel W"' Prescott of all those Deceast Since its Establish ment df those on Command to Quebeck Q' Master Zac'' Longley D" Groton Engagd April 19 1 6 Groton during the Revolution Sergt Josiah Stevens Residence groton Eng"! April 19"! Sergt Nath Sartell Residence groton April 19"! Sergt Phins Hobbart Residence groton April I9"> Sergt Eph"" Brown Residence townshenc Ap' I9"> Corp' Sam" Lawrence Residence groton April 19 Corp' Amos farnsworth Residence groton April 19 Corpi Ephm VVTarren Residence townshenc Do 19 Corp' Jos'" Page Residence groton Do rgtii tim" Stone Resid='>« Ashby July ig"" Joel Jinkings groton April ig Mens Names on Command When EnUsted Dead deserted or dischargee 1 Cap' Henry Farwell Groton April 19 Present I Lieut Levi Whitney Townshend D" 19 D° 2 Lieu' Ben^i Ball Townshend Do 19 D» EphH Adams Townshend July 19 Sick absent Benja Brooks Townshend April 1 9 Present Isaace Boynton Townshend Do 19 Do Eleazer Buterfield Townshend Do 19 Do Jonas Brooks Grotton D° 19 Do John Clark Townshend D" 19 D" Moses Chase Groton May 6 Do Ws Derumple Grotton April 19 Do James Davis Groton Do 19 Do Josiah Davis Townshend Do 19 Do Henry Dunster Mason Do 19 D° Joel Davis Townshend July 19 D» John Emery Townshend April 19 DO Zacheui; Farwell Groton Do 19 Do Jonas Farmer Townshend Do 19 D" Joseph Frost Groton May 6 D° Noah Farrar Townshend April 19 Do Abel Foster Townshend Do 19 D° DanS Foster Groton Do 19 Do Moriah Goold Groton Do 19 Do Oliver Hildreth Westford Do 19 Do Uriel Whitney Groton D" 19 Do Josiah Warren Groton D" 19 Do WS Smith Townshend Dyed at Cambridge May 29 D° 19 Dead Townshend Died at Do- 19 John Burge Cambridge June 3"? Captain Henry Farwell 17 Mens Names on Command Dead When Enlisted deserted or discharged Jon? Jenkins Groton Died at Charleston June 17 April ig Abijah Hildreth Townshend Apriel ig Sick absent Obediah Jenkins Groton Do ig Present David Jenkins Groton D° ig Sick at the hospital Ebenf keemp Groton Do 19 Present Isaace Kidder Townshend Do ig Do John Manning Tovmshend Do ig Do Henry ""^'Neal Groton Do ig D" Timo moors Groton D" ig DO Jon» Patts Townshend Do ig D" Josiah Richardson Townshend D" ig Do Peltiah Russell Groton May 6 D" in the artificers Joseph Rumrill Townshend April ig Present EphE Russell Groton D" ig Do Epha Robins Groton Do 19 Do Abel Richardson Townshend D" ig Do Andre" Richardson Townshend Do ig Do Israel Richardson Townshend July ig D" Jon? Sartell Groton Apriel ig Do Danll Spaulding Townshend D" ig Sick at home Dan!! Sherwin Townshend Do ig Present Sam!! Wesson Townshend Do ig Wounded Present Joseph Willson Townshend Do ig Present Francis White Groton May 6 D» Jarem!! Wyer Chelmsford April ig D" Oliver Warren Townshend Do ig Dyed at Cambridge Aug. 1 1 Thomas Wyman Townshend Do ig Discharged August 11 Asa White Groton Inlisted Discharged June 27 May y= 6 Aron Bigelow Listed in the train may 27 April ig Dudley Keemp Do ig Listed in the train June 3 Henry Farwell Capt [Indorsed] Cap' Farwell (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 60) I 8 Groton during the Revolution Captain Asa Lawrence Asa Lawrence, the youngest son of Peleg and Ruth (Brooks) Lawrence, of Groton, was born on June 14, 1737. He was married, on July 27, 1757, to Abigail King, of Little ton ; and they had ten children. He died at Groton, on January 16, 1804; and his widow, at Claremont, New Hamp shire, on June 12, 1829, aged ninety-three years. After the death of her husband she made her home in the family of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Abigail Dimond, who lived in that town. During the latter part of his life. Captain Lawrence dwelt in the north part of the town where he ended his days ; but at the breaking out of the Revolution he was living on what is now known as the Lowell Road, about a mile from the First Parish Meeting-house. Like Captain Farwell he com manded a company of Groton Minute-men on April 19 ; and it is somewhat singular that these two Revolutionary veterans should have lived for a generation after the dangers of a military campaign, and then have died within a week of each other.A Muster roll of the several Persons that march' d from Groton to Head Quarters at Cambridge on y. 19'? April 1775. on f. Alarm 6fc. as a Company of minute-men under the Command of Cap'. Asa Lawrence Travel Mens Names Rank out & home Days miles Ezekiel Fletcher 2^\}. 70 1 1 Josiah Hobart Serj! 70 16 W? Derumple d? 70 15 Arthur Dennes d? 70 12 Ephr? Nash Corp' 70 16 Captain Asa Lawrence 19 Travel Mens Names Rank out & home Days miles Sam! Boyden Corp! 70 12 WS Nutting d? 70 21 James Wood Priv" 70 14 Phineas Parker d? 70 9 John Graves d? 70 IS Benj? Patch d? 70 IS Jon? Peirce d? 70 10 Jonf Nutting d? 70 IS David Wood d? 70 8 Amasa Gilson d? 70 14 Amos Wood d? 70 14 John Thompson d? 70 10 Dan! Gilson d? 70 12 Dan! Wood d? 70 9 Isaac Nutting d? 70 14 John Procter d? 70 6 Benjf Parker D° 70 6 Benj5 Prescott D? 70 21 A Muster roll of the several Persons that march' d to Head Quarters at Cambridge on yt 19'? April 1775. on y. Alarm &'c. df inlisted under Cap'. Asa Lawrence into the Continental Army Mens Names Rank Days Asa Lawrence Cap! 6 Oliver Parker i" L! II John Williams Serj! 6 Oliver Patch Corp! 6 Asa Porter Privf 6 Joel Porter d° 6 2 0 Groton during the Revolution Mens Names Rank Days Ezek! Nutting Privf 6 Abr? Blood d" 6 Jacob Williams d° 6 Lem! Blood d? 6 Eleazer Flagg d? 6 Rob! Parker d° 6 Elisha Hoit d° 6 Lem! Parker d? 6 Sol° Gilson d° 6 Jonf Calbourn d° 6 Benjf Blood d!" 6 Eleazf Green j'. d° 6 John Ames jf d° 6 Jon? Wood d? 6 Jon? Capron d° 6 W- Derumple d° 6 David Prescott d? 6 Oliver Parker if L' Middlesex ss. Watertown Mar: I4'^ 1776 The Cap! Asa Lawrence being sick, Oliver Parker yf i? L' made solemn Oath that this roll by him subscrib'd is true in all its parts according to the best of his Knowledge \_Signature faded out.'] In Council Feb? 9"' 1776 Read & allow'd & ordered that a Warr! be drawn on the Treas' for 41.6.3^ in full of this Roll Perez Morton D Seer Examined & Compared with the Original & it agreed therewith Josiah Johnson) ^ :; ¦; > Committee JONAS Dix ) [Indorsed] Groton Copy Cap'. Asa Lawrence's Muster-roll (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XII. 174) Captain Asa Lawrence 21 A MUSTER-ROLL of the Company under the Command of Cap tain Asa Lawrence in Colonel Ws Prescotts Regiment, to the first of August, 1776. Towns whence Time of Time of Men's Names. they came. Rank. Inlistment. Travel!. Service. Asa Lawrence Groton Captain April 25 35 Day 98 Joseph Spaulding Pepperrell I Lieu'" April 30 40 49 John Williams Groton 2 Lieu'" April 25 35 98 Thomas Spaulding Peperrell Sergant April 28 40 95 Obadiah Wetherrell Georgetown Sergant April 25 170 98 Samuel Gilson Pepperrell Sergant April 25 40 98 Oliver Patch Groton Sergant April 25 35 98 Lemuel Parker Groton Corporal April 25 35 98 Joseph Shed Pepperrell Corporal April 25 40 98 Jonathan Stevens Pepperrell Corporal April 25 40 98 Samuel Farley Pepperrell Corporal April 25 40 98 Levi Parker Winslowtown Drummer April 25 200 98 Lemuel Parker Jr Groton fifer June 10 35 51 Elisha Hoit Groton Private April 25 35 98 John Ames Groton D? April 25 35 98 Benjamin Blood Groton D? April 25 35 98 Jonathan Boyden Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 James Bowers Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Lemuel Blood Groton D" April 2j 3i 98 Jonathan Capron Groton D? April 25 35 98 . Jonathan Colburn Groton D? April 25 35 98 Nathan Cory Groton D? April 25 35 98 Eleazer Green Groton Do April 25 35 98 Samuel Green Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Simeon Green Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Solomon Gilson Groton D? April 25 35 98 David Hason Groton D? April 25 35 98 Jeremiah Hobart Groton D? April 25 35 98 Benjamin Jewett Pepperell D? April 25 40 98 John Kilburn Groton D? April 30 35 93 Jonathan Lewis Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Josiah Lakin Groton D? April 25 35 98 Samuel Love joy Pepperrell D° April 25 40 98 Simon Lakin Pepperrell D° April 25 40 98 2 2 Groton during the Revolution Men's Names Towns whence Rank. Time of Travel!. Time of they came. Inlistment. Service. Day Abel Nutting Groton Private April 25 35 98 Ezekiel Nutting Groton D? April 25 35 98 Ephraim Nutting Groton D? April 25 35 98 Asa Porter Groton D? April 25 35 98 Benjamin Pierce Groton D? April 25 35 98 David Prescott Groton D? April 25 35 98 Eleazer Parker Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Joel Porter Groton D? April 25 35 98 Daniel Shed Raby D° April 25 5° 98 John Shiply Groton D? April 25 35 98 Eleazer Spaulding Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Nath'. Shattuck Groton D? April 25 35 98 Jonas Tarbel Groton D? April 30 35 93 David Wetherbee Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Jonathan Woods Groton D? April 25 35 98 Jacob Williams Groton D? April 25 35 98 Ruben Woods Groton Do April 25 35 98 Simeon Williams Groton D? April 25 35 98 Nehemiah Parker Groton D? April 30 35 93 Thomas Lawrence Pepperrell D? April 25 40 98 Steven Foster Groton D? April 25 35 98 Abraham Blood Groton D? April 25 35 54 James Dodge Groton D? April 25 35 98 Benjamin Wood Pepperrell D? April 25 40 54 Simon Hobart Groton D" April 25 35 90 Robart Parker Groton Do April 25 35 63 Robart Bizel Newipswich D° April 25 55 62 U John Williams the 2 L' Till the 17 of June & from that Time the I U Sergant Tho? Spaulding a Sergant Till the 17 of June & from that Time the 2 L' Corporal Lemuel Parker a Corporal Till the 1 7 of June & from that Time a Sergant Elisha Hoit a Private Till Till [sic] the 17 of June & from that Time a Corporal Captain Asa Lawrence 23 the Whole amount of this Roll is four hundred fifty two pound seventeen shillings and Nine pence Deduction one hundred fifty six pound seven and nine pence Ballence Due two hundred Ninty six pounds ten shillings atest Nathan Wood In Council Jan'' 30 1776 Read & allowed and ordered that a warrant be drawn on the Treas^ for ^298:9: iij^ in full of the within Roll Perez Morton Dp" Seer Cap! Asa Lawrences Muster Roll Co' Prescots Reg' Examined by N Wood [Indorsed] Cap^ Asa Lawrence Roll in Col? Prescott Reg' /¦2g8:g;iiJ^ (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XV. 55) October 6 y' 1775 A return of Cap^ Asa Lawrences Compeny in Colonal W" Prescott Rigemen' Cap' Asa Lawrence Place of Residance grotton Leu' I'? John Williams D° grotton Leu' 2? Thomis Spaulding Pepperell Obadiah Wetherell Pepperell Sam" Gilson Residance c Pepperell Oliver Patch ^ti Grotton Lem'.' Parker Grotton Joseph Shed Pepperell Jonathan Steavens £ Residance D? Sam" Farley 0 D? Elisha Hoit grotton Residance Levi Parker Westford 0 F Lem" Parker Grotton 3 Q 2 4 Groton during the Revolution Privates Resedance Privates Residance John ames Grotton Asa Porter Grotton Benj^ Blood Grotton Benj? Peirce Sept on Com Grotton Jonathan Boiden Pepperell mand Quebek. Lem" Blood absent Grotton David Prescott Grotton James Bowers Pepperell Eleazer Parker Grotton Jonathan Capron Grotton Joel Porter Grotton Jonathan Colburn Grotton Nehem' Parker Grotton Nathan Cory Grotton Dan" Shed Raby Eleaz"^ Green Grotton John Shipley Grotton Sam" Green Pepperell Eleazer Spaulding Pepperell Semion Green Pepperell Nath" Shattuck absent Grotton Solomon Gilson Grotton Jonas Tarbell Pepperell David Hason Grotton David Wetherbee Pepperell Jaremiah Hobart absent Grotton Jonath" Woods Grotton Benj'' Jewett Pepperell Jacob Williams Grotton John Kilburn Littleton Ruben Woods Grotton Jonathn Lewis Pepperell Semion Williams Grotton Josiah Lakin Thomis Lawrence Sam" Louejoy Simon Lakin Discharged Sept. 21 Abel Nutting Ezekil Nutting Eph"" Nutting absent Grotton PepperellPepperell Pepperell Kiled in batle on 17 of June Last or tak™ Leu' Joseph Spaulding Steauen foster Pepperell Groton GrottonGrottonGrotton Abraham Blood James Dodge Benj" Wood Simon Hobart Died July 24 Grotton Grotton PepperellGrotton [Indorsed] Asa Lawrence Cap' (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 61) Capt. Asa Lawrence' s Company The following affidavit, made by William Adams, of Chelms ford, is found among the Revolutionary papers of the Massa chusetts Archives (LV., File H, No. i) in the volume marked on the back " Worcester Rolls Parcels 2nd. & Mixed Rolls Vol. 2." It gives some interesting facts concerning the ser vice of Captain Lawrence's company ; and the roll is, so far Captain Asa Lawrence 25 as I am aware, the only list extant of the company at that period. There is reason to think that Ephraim Parker was a member, though his name does not appear with the others. Pomp Phillis, one of the privates, was a negro ; then all colors, red, white or black, were warmly welcomed by the patriots. WiUiam Adams of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the seventy ninth year of my age, do testify and say that I rendered service in the Revolutionary War, that I now receive a Pension for survices thus rendered ; That in the first part of the Summer of 1778 I enlisted and went to West Point, the Company that I belonged to was Cap^i. Asa Lawrence Company of Groton, the regiment was commanded by Coi Poor of Andover or Methuen, some part of our service was rendered at White Plains and Peekskill, this was an eight monthes service, we received our Discharges in the month of February 1779. the Company was commanded principally by the first Leutenant John Flint of Tukesbury, this Company was made up of men from Groton Chelmsford Bilerica Tukesbury, and other Towns in this vicinity, and I further testify that I have carefully examined the Role of Capt Asa Lawrence Company hereto attached and the prin ciple part of the names born on this Roll are famillier to me, and many of the mens names, born on this Rolle are persons which I am certain were with me in the eight monthes service as above described, and I have no doubt but what it is an origional Roll of the Company which I rendered service in as above described, W!l Adams /wafer Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex ss. . Chelmsford .\pril 23 = 1841 = then Personally ap peared the above named William Adams, well known to me to be a person of sound mind, and veracity, made Oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true, Before Me Benj^ koAms Justice of the Peace 2 6 Groton during the Revolution A Roal of Cap! Asa Lawrances Company in Co! Poor's Reg' Cap' Asa Lawrance "\ Lieu! John Flint l Lieu! Moses Barker ) Sarg! Peter Hunt x Sarg! Edward Farmer f Sarg! John Pushe ( Sarg! Nathan Coburn ' Corp! Ephraim Smith ) Corp! Benjamin Patch V Corp! Ebenezer Sawyer ) Moses Ames William Adams Asa Barker Reuben Baldwin John Baley Thomas Brown Eliezer Bartlet Timothy Bolten Joseph Barron Simeon Cory Joseph Dows John Eaton Samuel Farmer James Green Alpheus Hill James Haseltine Isaac Holden Jeffery Hartwell Daniel Hacket John Hall James Karr Abner Kent John Lock Abraham Merium Oliver Perham Ezra Porter Joel Porter Ezra Porter j! Pomp PhilUs Peter Parker Isaac Powers Peter Runnel Benjamin Sartil Michael Sartil Philip Spaulding Ebenezer Stone William Whiting Captain Josiah Sartell Josiah Sartell, the second son of Nathaniel and Mary Sartell, was born probably in England about the year 1710, His father was an English mariner who came to Groton from Charlestown. The son married Mary Green, — by which union there were four children, two sons and two daughters, who all died in their minority, — and they lived on Chicopee Row. Captain Josiah Sartell 27 At the time of his death he willed to the town his homestead farm together with an adjoining one, besides some other property. The proceeds arising from the sale of these lands now form a large part of the Groton Ministerial Fund. The men of his company for the most part lived in the northerly and easterly quarters of the town. Captain Sartell was one of the Committee of Correspondence for Groton, and during three years (1775-1777) was a member of the General Court. About twenty-five years ago his gravestone was removed from the old burying-ground to the new cemetery ; and the epitaph reads as follows : — Josiah Sartell Esq. died Aug! 30* 1784. aged 74 Mary Sartell his widow, died March 30'i! 1 790. aged 80. and their Children who died in minority Nathaniel Sartell Esq. his father, who died Jan?' 16* 1741. aged 60 Abigail Green her sister, who died Dec! 20';^ 1790. aged 83. and other relations. From death's arrest no age is free. Owing to the slight difference in surnames, there is some confusion in regard to the Sartell and Sawtell families for merly resident in Groton. I am inclined to think, however, that they belonged to the same stock, and that the variation in the name was simply a matter of pronunciation. 2 8 Groton during the Revolution A Muster roll of the Several persons that marched from Groton to Head quarters at Cambridge on the nineteenth day of April A D 1775. on the Alarm under the command of Josiah Sartell Capt. Vizs. Mens names SS Josiah Sartell Job Shattuck Shattuck Blood Benj. Green Benj. Lawrence Solomon Woods James Lawrence Jacob Patch Jacob Parker Jon^ Worster Eleazr Spaulding John Hugh Caleb Woods Jason Williams Daniel Williams James Sheple Isaac Lawrence Asa Porter Joel Porter John Sheple j! W2! Farwell Oliver Lakin Sam' Gragg Nath Woods John Nutting jr Edm Blood John Hazen Benj? Hazen John Lawrence CaptLieut Lieut Serj SerjSerj SerjCorpCorpCorpCorpprlv 70 70 70 70 70 70 80 70 70 70 80 70 7070 7070 70 7070 70 7070 70 70 70707070 70 i7>^ 16 II14 19 3 8 1514 16 1114 6 14 IS17 12 99 14 9 14 1912 12 14II14 9 Captain Josiah Sartell 29 Mens names 1 1 Ezek Nutting private 70 9 Sam Worster 70 16 Francis Worcester 70 9 Abr" Blood 70 14 W" Tuckerman 70 10 Daniel Woods 70 9 John Gragg 70 14 Peter Blood 70 14 James Blood jr 70 5 David Lakin 70 II Levi Parker 70 II David Shead 80 14 John Shattuck 80 5 Jonf Stevens 80 10 Jon? Boyden 80 1 1 Jon' Shiple 80 5 W" Spaulding 80 14 David Wright 80 10 Jon'' Woods 70 9 Winslow Parker 70 9 Each person borne on this Roll bore his expence out and home and whilst in Camp excepting two days allowance drawed out of the Common Store, So that no Innholders have any demands on the Colony or person in this Role A true Role Errors excepted f Josiah Sartell Capt" Colony of the Massachusetts bay March 19. 1776 Capt? Josiah Sartell abovenamed made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above Roll by him Subscribed according to the best of his knowlege. Before Sam"^ Holt en Jus peace thro' the Colony Compared with the Original and therewith agrees. JN° Turner ) ^^^,. E. Starkweather ) 30 Groton during the Revolution In Council April 8'." 1776. Read & Allowed & thereupon Ordered that a warrant be drawn on the Treasf for ;^6i ir 2 ir i in full discharge of the within role John Lowell Dp=' Sec^ FT [Indorsed] Groton Cap' Josiah Sartell Roll Copy ;f6i n 2 m i (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XIII. 8g.) Captain John Sawtell John Sawtell was the youngest child of Ephraim and Abi gail (Farnsworth) Sawtell, and was born on April 18, 1729. He died on December 23, 1790. His epitaph in the old burying-ground reads as follows : — \Cherub's Head.] Erected In Memory of Cap! John Sawtell, who departed this Life Dec? y= 23^ Jd 1790. Aged 61V years 8 months and 5 days. The following notice among the list of Deaths in the "Daily Evening Transcript" (Boston), May 9, 1853, may give a clew as to his family : — At East Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. April ist, in his 88th year, Ebenezer Harris, a native of Brooklyn, Ct. His wife, with whom he had lived in the married state for 68 years, was a daughter of John Sawtell, of Groton, Mass, who fought at Bunker Hill. Captain John Sawtell 31 A Muster roll of the Comp"! in the Colony of the Mass'? Service which march' d from Groton 6f Pep'ril on the it^'f of April 1TJ5. and was under the Command of Cap'. John Sawtell, in Col". James Prescotts Regiment Mens Names IS O! miles out & j home Groton Pep'ril d!> John Sawtell Thomas Wright Sam! Gillson Cap! Ensf 60 80 80 20;^ 18II Groton d? Pep'rilGroton d? Thomas Farwell Enoch Cook Jo? Spaulding John Fisk Asa Stone Serj! d?d° Corp! d° 60 6080 6060 20>^ 13 I2>^ I2>^ d? d?d?d!- Amos Lawrence Zach? Longley Jonas Brooks OHver Shed [Priv.] 60 60 60 60 20>i 8X 20>^ I2>^ d° Reuben Fisk 60 17/^ d?d!-d". Jonas Stone Jonr" Terbol Levi Stone 606060 12^ 12^I2>^ d° Eben' Lowell 60 ZY^ d" d!- Pep'ril Groton d°. Joshua Chace W" Park Moses Shattuck Benj? Amsden Thomas Hubbard 60 6080 60 60 2oy2 11 \2%. 20Y2 d° Hez!- Hubbard 60 \2Y. d? d? James Davis Neb!" Parker 6060 I2KI2>^ d? Thomas White 60 20X Shirley [Gr]oton [Pejp'ril John Killburn John Peirce Abel Spauldin 80 60 80 I2X 20>^ 13 3 2 Groton during the Revolution a1 Mens Names miles out& home .sg [Pejp'ril Tho= Spauldin [Priv.] 8o II d? Philip Shattuck 8o II d!" David Write 8o 9 [Gr]oton Zacheus Farwell 6o \2yz [Pep'jril Reuben Shattuck 8o 9 [Gr]oton Matthias Farnworth 6o 20>^ [Pep]'ril Joseph Shattuck 8o 6 [do] Caleb Hubbard 8o 13 [do] Jonas Tarbol 8o 13 [do] Jo? Egerton 8o 16 Pep'ril David Shattuck 8o 6 d° Elijah Ames 8o 6 d° Joseph Hall 8o 6 d° Levi Hubbard 8o 6 d? Isaiah Shattuck 8o 6 d!- Nath! Write 8o 6 Groton James Shipley 6o 6 Pep'ril Simon Gillson So 9 Colony Massachusetts Bay Dec! 27'!" 1775 John Sawtell made solemn Oath that this roll by him subscrib'd is just and true in all its parts Before me Moses Gill. Jus Peace John Sawtell Cap'. thro y. Province E. Starkweather Comm" Compar'd with y? Original "» by with w* it agrees j In Council March 21"' 1776 Read & allowed & ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for ;^S9 : 11/9^ in full of this Roll Perez Morton D Seer A true Copy G. Tailer [Indorsed] Copy Groton Cap! John Sawtell Muster-roll £<,<) m iin gX (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XIII. 90) Captain John Nutting 33 The persons hereafter written marched to Cambridge on the Alarm on the 19'* April 1 775 and were omitted in the roll I Exhibited mens Names . Privats N? of mils N" of Days in Servis Jabez Holdin Private 60 4J^ Abijah Warren D!> 60 4X Asael Wyman D? 60 4K Benj? Farnsworth D? 60 ^y^ Mathias Farnsworth Ti°- 60 A% Simeon Brooks A% David Kemp DP 60 1% WiUf Parks D? — 10 David Archabld D2 — z% rue Copy John Sawtell Middlesex ss May 6'!^ 1776. John Sawtell above named made oath to the truth of the afore going Roll Coram Oliver Prescott Just. Peace In Council May 8'^ 1776. Read & allowed & ordered that a warrant be drawn on the Treasurer for £\t\ 12 n 6^^ in full of the within roll Perez Morton D Seer [Indorsed] Copy of Cap. John Sawtell's minit roll a 2 Edm* Peerce D° D» D° 19 6D° Wainright Fisk D" D" D° 19 6D° Jeremiah Shattuck Jr D° D" D° 19 6 D° Ebenezer Laughton D" D" D° 19 6D° Sampson Woods D" D° D- 19 6D° William Green D° D" D° 19 6D° Andrew Brown D° D° D° 19 12 D" John Nutting Cap'- Colony Massachusetts Bay March 15"" 1776 John Nutting personally appeared & made Solemn Oath that this role by him Subscribed is true in all it's parts according to the best of his Knowledge Before Jabez Fisher Jus. Peace thro the CoP Examin'd & compar'd with the Original E Starkweather] Josiah Johnson i ComS' In Council Ma^ 27th 1776 Read & allow'd & order'd that a Warrant be drawn on the Treas'' for 58.18.1 in full of said Roll Perez Morton D Seer [Indorsed] Copy Cap! John Nuttings Muster role Minute men Pepperrell ;^58-i8-i (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XIII. 22) 38 Groton during the Revolution A return of Capt John Nutting Company in Coll Wm: Prescotts Pig ment October y 6. 1775 Mens Names Place of Residence Simeon Forster Groton Sick on furlow Ambras Lakin Groton Present Cambridge October y" 2d the 1775 John Nutting Cap"- [Indorsed] Capt John Nutting Company (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 67) Captain Henry Haskell Henry Haskell commanded a military company that marched from Shirley on the ever-memorable Nineteenth. For the Muster-roll, see Reverend Seth Chandler's History (pages 122, 123). Technically they were not minute-men, as designated by Mr. Chandler, and they are not so called in the heading of the roll; and, furthermore, they belonged to Colonel James Prescott's command, which was a militia regiment. The minute-men of that period comprised only one-quarter of the enrolled militia, and in this neighborhood they belonged to Colonel William Prescott's command. It will be noticed that, in the headings of the Muster-rolls, Captain Farwell's company and Captain Lawrence's are both styled " minute- men," while Captain Sawtell's company and Captain Sartell's are not so designated, showing that there was then a distinc tion between them. Captain John Nutting's company from Pepperell is also styled one of " minute-men ; " while other companies are designated as militia, and they were in Colonel James Prescott's command. On that eventful day there was room for all, and the sturdy yeomanry thought more of the substance than of the sound. They may not have been en rolled as minute-men, but when they were needed they Captain Henry Haskell 39 marched to the scene of conflict all the same, and did a patriot's duty. A few days after the beginning of the War the expression " minute-man " fell into disuse, and a soldier was spoken of as belonging to the Massachusetts Line or the Continental Army, as the case might be. In the year 1735 Captain Haskell's father came from Gloucester, and settled in that part of Harvard which is now known as Still River. At this time the son was about a year old, and probably he was born at Gloucester. Captain Haskell was thrice married : first, on January 6, 1757, to Rebecka Willard, of Lancaster, who died on April 8, 1772; secondly, on December i, 1772, to Martha Little, of Lunenburg, who died on September 28, 1778 ; and, thirdly, to Charity Pratt, of Lancaster (published February 10, 1781), who died in December, 18 13. During his married life ten children were born to him and his wife. He owned and oc cupied a farm situated near the Shirley Shakers ; and his death took place at Lancaster, on June 10, 1807. In Lancaster, Henry Haskell, Esq. .^Et. 73 ; a Lt. Col. in the revolutionary army. " Columbian Centinel " (Boston), June 17, 1807. On April 19, 1900, a monument was dedicated to the men of Shirley who marched on April 19, 1775, under the command of Captain Haskell, and to all others of that town who took part in the War of American Independence. The following Roll gives a list of the men in Captain Has kell's company, as it was at the beginning of the year 1776. Presumably it was formed largely on the lines of the one that marched on April 19. As it contains so many Groton names, I print the whole list. 40 Groton during the Revolution Camp at Cambrige Janauary y« 13"' 1776 A Roll of the Traviling feas of Cap'- Henry Haskells Company of militia Joined Co'. Prescotts Pigment Mens Names Town No of mils Henry Haskell cap! Shirley 74 Job Shattuck Lieu! Groton 70 Samuell Gelson L! Pepperrell 80 WaUis Little Shirley 74 Peter Butterfield Towsend 84 Abner Whitcomb Groton 70 Elijah Wyman Townsend 84 Joseph Hail Pepperrell 80 Isaac Patch Groton 70 moses Warren Townsend 84 Solomon Peirce Townsend 84 John Tarbell Groton 70 Tho' Wason Shirley 74 Will" Bolton Shirley 74 Amos Holdin Shirley 74 John Jupp Shirley 74 Thadeus Harrington Shirley 74 Amos Dole Shirley 74 Ruben Kendall Shirley 74 Joseph Dodge Shirley 74 Jonathan Conant Shirley 74 Thomas Clark Shhley 74 Jonathan Lewis Pepperall 80 Daniel Turner Pepperall 80 John Scott Pepperrall 80 Richard Stevens Pepperrall 80 Shebuel Conant Pepperrall 80 Abel Spaldin Pepperrall 80 Joel Hubart Pepperrall 80 Eleazar Shattuck Pepperrall 80 Captain Henry Haskell 41 Mens Names Town N? of mils Benjamin Hudson Pepperrall 80 Peter Blood Pepperrall 80 Levi Woods Pepperrall 80 John Gelson Pepperrall 80 moses Shattuck Pepperrall 80 Nathaniel Woods Groton 70 Shattuck Blood Groton 70 David Lakin Groton 70 Benjf Simson Groton 70 Amos Woods Groton 70 Will-" Derumple Groton 70 Benj= Green Groton 70 Phinehas Parker Groton 70 Nethaniel Lawrance Groton 70 James adoms Groton 70 Benj^ Hazin Groton 70 Timothy moors Groton 70 Isaac Warren Groton 70 Daniel Willard Groton 70 Samuell Kemp Groton 70 Amos Adoms Groton 70 Ebeneazar Lewis Groton 70 Will" farwell Groton 70 John Fisk Groton 70 Ruben Cummings Groton 70 Levi Samson Groton 70 John Nichols Groton 70 Joseph moors Groton 70 Silas Page Groton 70 John fife Groton 70 John Lock Townshend 84 WillT" manning Townshend 84 Ebeneazar Ball Townshend 84 James Lock Townshend 84 42 Groton during the Revolution Mens Names Town No of mils Hincheman Warren Townshend 84 James Patt Townshend 84 John Stevens Townshend 84 John Haskell Shirley 74 John Sherrin Townshend 84 Thomas Little Petersborough 130 Henry Haskell Cap'. Capt. Hasekells Number 6 Reed of the Courts Committee viz Co" Lovell and Maj' Bliss Seventy Two pounds Four ShiUings & Two pence in full of the within Roll for our Travil too and from Head Quarters at the Rat of one penny pr Mile Henry Haskell Caf [Indorsed] Cap! Henry Haskell Col? Prescotts Reg 1776 Camp at Cambridge (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XIX. 170) Captain Joseph Moors Joseph Moors, the youngest child of Abraham and Eliza beth (Gilson) Moors, was born at Groton, on May 30, 1738. In the campaign of 1758 he served at the siege and capture of Louisburg, and, on March 4, 1772, was commissioned as adjutant in Colonel James Prescott's regiment, and, on March 9, 1774, as cornet in Captain Benjamin Bancroft's company of troopers in the same regiment. He commanded a com pany at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and, on January i, 1776, was commissioned by the Continental Congress as captain of a company in Colonel William Prescott's regiment. After his return from the army he settled on his paternal estate, and carried on the farm where he was born. It is situated on the road leading from the Groton School to Ayer. Dur ing a long life, respected both by his neighbors and townsmen, Captain Joseph Moors 43 he filled many positions of trust and responsibility among them, and for nine years he represented the town in the General Court. On July 22, 1 76 1, Captain Moors was married, first, to Lucy, fifth child of David and Elizabeth Stone, who died on August 26, 1773, in the thirty-third year of her age, accord ing to her epitaph ; and, secondly, to Sarah, elder daughter of Samuel and Miriam (Morse) Ward, of Natick, who was born on November 25, 1751, and died at Groton, on April 15, 1822, aged seventy years. He died on July 25, 1820, aged eighty- two years. A MUSTER-ROLL of the Company under the Command of Cap tain [Joseph Moors] in Colonel [ William Prescott's] Regiment, to the first of August, 1775. Towns whence Time of Time of Men's Names. they came. Rank. Inlistment. Travel! . Service. Joseph Moors groton Captain Mayy<^ lo"" 35 Miles 83 Days ZacM Walker Merimack I Leiutenant April y= 24 45 D" 99- Isaac Dodge Groton 2'^ Leiutenant May y= io"> 35 DO 83 days Phin""^ Hemingway Groton Serjeant April ye 23 35 DO 98 D° William M'^cluer Merimack Serjeant April 28"' 4S 95 D" Timothy Woods Groton Serjeaht May 2o"> 35 73 DO thomas Bigsby Leechfield Serjeant April 28 45 g5 Days Ephraim Warren Shirley Corporal May 18 40 75 D? Silas Davis Shirley Corporal May 17 40 76 D? Joseph Taylor Groton Corporal May 21 35 72 D? David Willson Shirley Corporal. May 25 40 68 Do Sam'.' Farnsworth Groaton Drumer. May 15 35 78 Peter Davis Leuninburg private April 30 45 93 Tho? Colven Groaton Ditf? May 20 35 73 William Spalden Raby Ditto April 28 55 95 Joseph Moors Jun^ Groton Ditto May 20 35 73 Oliver Tarbell Groton Ditto May 23 35 70 Sam'.' Conrey Holis Ditto April 28 40 95 Abraham Ireland Leuninburg Ditto May 20 45 73 John Jacobs Merimack Ditto April 28 45 95 Jonas Procter Groton Ditto May 27 35 66 Leonard Taylor Groton Ditto April 24 35 98 44 Groton during the Revolution Towns whence Time of Time of Men's Names. they came. Rank. Inlistment. Travell. Service. phi? Keemp Groton private May 27 35 Miles 66 Days Joseph Keemp Groton Ditto May 25 35 68 Asa Danforth Bilirica Ditto April 28 20 95 Silas Roby Merimack Ditto April 27 45 96 James Mack Merimack Ditto April 28. 45 95 William Spalden J'' Raby Ditto April 2g 55 94 Joseph Taylor J^ Groton Ditto April 28 35 95 Robert M^Cormack Merimack Ditto April 25 45 95 Ebenez^ Hill Merimack Ditto April 25 45 95 John Clough Plymouth Ditto Ap'. 28 130 95 Jasen harsell Merimack Ditto Ap', 28 45 95 John Combs Merimack Ditf? Api 28 45 95 Zebediah Wool Leuninburg Ditto May 20 45 73 Ebenez^ pirkens petersbourg Ditto Ap' 28 65 95 phinehas Whitney Haruard Ditto May 19 35 74 Daniel Page Shirley Ditto May ig 40 74 Daniel Kezer Shirley Ditto May 17 40 76 David Archabell groton Ditto May 17 35 76 William Lasley groton Ditto May 20 35 73 Zac Longley groton Ditto May 20 35 73 Abel Amsden groton Ditto May 20 35 73 W? Cawin merrimak Ditto April 28 45 95 John Sawtell New ipwich Artorfishe April 24 55 98 [Samuel] Wright HoUis privat April 28 40 95 [Amos Fisk] Groton Ditto May[ ] 35 26 [Thomas] Colbourn Dunstabell Ditto April 28 40 51 Eben^ Youngmen Dunstabell Ditto April 28 40 5" Copy Ex"* In Council Feb^ 13* 1776 Read & ord? that a Warrant pass on the Treasurer for the sum of 201-1 1-9-3 in fiil Discharge of the above roll Perez Morton D Seer hemingway mistake Not Rectifyed [Indorsed] Cap'. Jos Mores Roll in Colo Prescotts Reg^ £20\ : 1 1 : 9%' (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XV. 70) Captain Joseph Moors 45 Near the end of the Muster-roll of Captain Moors's com pany, printed on the opposite page, is the name of Amos Fisk within brackets. It was inserted by me in the manu script so long ago that I have forgotten my authority for doing so. In the original roll at the State House the name was written where a fold in the paper afterward came, and unfortunately it is now entirely gone. Whoever the man was, he did only 26 days' service from a date in the month of May, and drops out of the company on or near June 17. The two men following his name on the roll are known to have been killed in the battle ; and one Amos Fisk was cap tured in the fight and died in Boston jail during the early part of August. His death is recorded in " A Journal kept by John Leach, during his confinement by the British, in Boston Gaol, in 177S," which appears in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" (XIX. 258) for July, 1865. He is mentioned also in a list of prisoners taken at Bunker Hill, which is printed in " The New-England Chroni cle: or. The Essex Gazette" (Cambridge), September 14, 1775. In this list his Christian name is given as "Amasa," and he is put down as from Pepperell. Perhaps he was Amos, a son of Josiah and Sarah Fisk, who was born on May 12, 1739, in that part of Groton which is now Pepperell. At the date of his birth there was no town of Pepperell, but the whole neighborhood was Groton. The number of miles of travel accredited to him on the roll would seem to indicate that he was living in Groton at the time of his enlistment. My authority for inserting the name in the Muster-roll was entirely independent of the reasons here given, which are now recited in order to show their probability. The number of soldiers from Groton, who were either killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill or died from their wounds, was twelve, greater than that from any other town ; and the Me morial Tablets placed on Winthrop Square in Charlestown, by the city of Boston, on June 17, 1889, are my authority for the statement. They were serving in five different companies of Colonel Prescott's regiment. 46 Groton during the Revolution A Return of Capt Joseph Moors Compeny Ln Call W^ Priscidt Reg'. October 6: 1775 Capt Joseph moors Groton I L' Zac Walker marrimac 2 L! Isaac Dodge Groton Phinehus Haminway W!? M'Cluen Present Timothy Woods Do Tho? Bixby Do Groton marrimacGrotonLitchfiled Scilias Dauis Present Shirly Dauid Wilson Do Shirly Eph" Warren Do Shrily Joseph Taylor Ju' Do Groton Drumer Sameull Farnsworth Present Groton Peter Dauis Prsf Lunenburg Rob'. Mo Cormack Prs'. marrimac Tho= Caluin Do Groton Ebn^ Hill Do marrimac W"? Spalding woonded abesent Raby John Claugh Jasen Haskell Do Do Plymouth marrimac Joseph moors JunJ P'. Groton John Combs Do marrimac Sam'.' Conrey Do Hollis Eben': Purkins Do Petersbrough Oliuer Tarbell Do Groton Abel Amsdon Do Groton Ab-? Irland Ju' Derseted Lunenburg Phinhus Whitney Do Haruard John Jacobs Prest. marrimac Daniel Page Do Shirly Jonas Procter Do Groton Daniel Kezer Sick absent Shirly Lenorad Taylor Do Groton Dauid Archebell Prs'. Groton Joseph Keemp Do Groton Zac Longley Sick in Camp Groton Phinhus Keemp Do Groton John Sawtell Prist New Ipwich Ase Danforth Do Billeirac Joseph Gowin Sick abesent Shirly Silias Roby Do marrimac ZeW Willas Sick in camp Lunenburg James mack Do marrimac W™ Cawin Prist mammae W?? Spalding Juni; on Com") Raby Sam'.' Wright Do Hollis Joseph Taylor Sick in Camp Groton W!.' Lasley Sick abesent Groton Groton Men Enlisted Elsewhere 47 Sargent Beng? Prescott Killed June 17: Bunkerhill Groton Ebn' youngman Do June 17 Bunkerhill Hollis Thos Colbourn Do June 17: Bunker hill Dunstable Zaccheus Walker Lieu' [Indorsed] Return of Cap'. Moors Compney Oct- 6: 1775 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 65) The following lists are taken from various Returns among the State Archives, and give the names of Groton men who served at the beginning of the Revolution in several military companies raised in the neighborhood. Captain Robert Longley was of Bolton, and raised a mili tary company for the most part belonging in that town. A MUSTER-ROLL of the Company under the Command of Captain [Robert Longley] in Colonel [Asa Whitcomb's] Regiment, to the first of A ugust, 1775. Men's Names. Towns whence they came. Rank. Time of Inlistment. Travell. miles Time of Service. months Days Caleb Blood Groton Private [April] 29 36 3 : 10 Jonas Sawtell Groton D° Ap!29 30 3 : 10 Copy attest Jabez Fisher In Council Jan*" 18"" 1776 Read & allowed & thereupon ordered that a Warr? be drawn on the Treas' for 274 ,, 8 n 9 in full of the within Role. John Lowell Dp'' Sec" P T [Indorsed] Cap^ Rob? Longley in Col9 Whetcombs Regim'. 274 m 8 „ 9 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XV. 58) 48 Groton during the Revolution A Return of Cap' Longley Compney of Bolton, Ln Col Asa Whitcombs Pigment [October, 1775.] Mens Names Caleb Blood Jonas Sawtell The Town thay belong to Groton Groton Robert Longley Cap' [Indorsed] Cap'. Longly Return (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 144) Captain Abijah Child belonged in Waltham, and recruited a company in that neighborhood. Return of Cap'. Abijah Child's Company in the 3 7'* Reg" of Foot in the Continental Army Commanded by L'. Col W" Bond Mens Names John Pierce Towns belonging to Groton Camp Prospect Hill Ocf: 6. 1775 [Indorsed] Cap! Child (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 251) Abijah Child Cap'. Captain Peter Coburn lived in Dracut, and raised a company belonging largely in that town. Return of Capt [Peter] Coburn Company in Col. Bridges Rigim'. Sept. 26M 1775 Tobias Brigs | Groton | Ebenezer Varnum 2^ L'. [Indorsed] Cap'. Coburn (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 182) Groton Men Enlisted Elsewhere 49 Captain Ephraim Corey was of Stow, and his company had men from several towns. A Return of the Mens Names Last Residence Present or Absent &'c belonging to Ephraim Coreys Company in Coll Prescotts Rgmt Sergt Abel Parker groton Present Corp' Oliver Laken groton Present Corp' John Parker groton Mens Names Benj"" Bennet Jon'' Davis Robert Parker Jr Benj" Parker John'Whitney Abner Whitney Chambers Corey Robert Parker Abiel Parker Residence grotongrotongroton grotongroton groton D" Casualties Present Sick Sick Present D° D° D° Groton Kill"' June 1 7 on Bunker hill groton died Sep'^" 30 at Cambrige groton Discharg? Sep" 23'' by Mgr [Major] Moyland Cambrige October y= I'i 1775 [Indorsed] The late Cap' Parkers Cap' Ep!? Corey (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 64) Captain Thomas Wait Foster was of Hadley, and he had two Groton men in his company. A Return of Cap'. Thomas Wait Foster's Company of Artillery [in the] Horfl' Richard Gridleys Regiment Mens Names Aaron Bigolow Dudley Kemp [October, 1775] [Indorsed] Capt Tho? W. Foster. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 271) 4 Wherefrom GrowtonGrowton Josiah Lyman Cap' Lieut 50 Groton during the Revolution Captain Samuel Gilbert was of Littleton, and he had one Groton man in his company. Cambridge Sep' y^ 28"' 1775 A Return of Capt Sam" Gilbert Company in Co^' W- Prescott Reg' agreable to the orders of the 24 instant Mens Names Place of Residence Thos Baker Groton [Indorsed] Samll Gilbert Capt (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 62) Captain Joshua Parker belonged in Westford, where for the most part his company was recruited. A Return of Capt Joshua Parkers Company in the 10"' Regiment of foot Commanded By Col', W- Prescott Containing their Names Time of Entrence where Resident When Dead Where if on Com'' and or When Dischargd _.. ,. X, T-.. ,1-ji When dead or Dischard or Privates Men Names Entrance Residents ,., . on Como David Kemp Apr' 27 Groton taken Captive Died att Boston Sep! lo"" Peter Fisk Ditto 27 Grotton kild In battle June 17"" 1775 Leivt ameziah Fassett Apr' 19 Groton Taken Captive June 17"" Died att Boston July y^ 5^ This To Certify that these men above Nam"" Entred the Service with me att the time set down against their Respective Names and from the Different Towns Signefied In the Same Maner of Both Efective and Unaffective of my Company and the Time of the Deseased is in the Like manner Signifyed. Joshua Parker Cap' [Indorsed] A Return of Cap! Joshua Parkers Company In the Tenth Rege- ment of foot Commanded By Colonel William Prescott Esq' September the 27'" 1775 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 70) Captain Zechariah Fitch 5 i Captain Abijah Wyman was of Ashby, where he recruited a company. A Return of the names of the officers dv men Belonging to Cap'. [Abijah] Wymans Compeny in Colo: W- Prescotts Regt: spacefiing the towns thay Belong too Daniel Gilson Groton Corprel Cambredge octr 3 1775 Isaac Brown Lei/ [Indorsed] Cap Wymans (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVI. 65) Captain Zechariah Fitch Zechariah Fitch was the eldest child of Zechariah and Elizabeth (Grimes) Fitch, and was born at Bedford, on April I, 1734. He was married, first, to Rebekah Davis, eldest daughter of Eleazer and Rebecca (Chandler) Davis, who was born on August 2, 1736; and after marriage they settled in Groton. By this union there were two daughters, of whom Abigail, probably the younger, was born in the year 1761. Neither the first wife nor the second lived a long time after the marriage, as it is entered in the Groton church records, under date of August 4, 1763, " Zechariah Fitch of Groton to Lydia Tuck of Bedford ; " and, again, under date of February 3, 1767, " Zacheriah Fitch to Sibele Lakin both of Groton." By the second marriage there were two sons, Richard, born on October 25, 1763, and Joseph, born on February 13, 1766. His third wife, Mrs. Sibyl (Lakin) Fitch, was a daughter of John and Lydia (Parker) Lakin, born on October 16, 1739; and she died on October 11, 1806. By her there were four sons and three daughters. Late in life, on May 11, 1809, Captain Fitch was married at Pepperell to Betsey Tuttle, of Littleton, as his fourth wife, who died on January 5, 1823. His own death had taken place previously on September 2, 1820. His father was a younger brother of John Fitch, from whom the city of Fitchburg takes its name. 5 2 Groton during the Revolution According to tradition Captain Fitch was a fine-looking man, tall, straight, and well-proportioned, who wore short clothes set off with knee-buckles and shoe-buckles, as was common in those days. The sword carried by him in the Revolution was given to the Groton Historical Society by his venerable granddaughter Mrs. Amelia Fitch Rowe, on October 2, 1894; and his commission as Captain, also given by her, on October i, 1898. Fitch's Bridge over the Nashua River, near his farm, takes its name from him. A note-book kept by him is printed in the " Groton Histori cal Series" (IV. 378-385), which gives a few facts concerning the itinerary of his company from Groton to Fort Ticon deroga, and thence back again to Groton. In the book he writes: — "August y" 3'' 1776 I Rec'^ my Comision 7"= 21" I rec*" orders to march as soon as Posable to Bennington ye 28 I marched from Groton," etc. This note-book I bought a long time ago at a junk shop in Boston. Within two or three years Mrs. Rowe, has given me some interesting documents relating to her grandfather's company. Among them are several Pay-rolls with the names of the men, which are not found elsewhere, besides other manuscript papers printed below. A Rooll of Cap'. Zacheriah Fitches Company in Col". Samuel Brewers Reg'.for their Milage September the 18'* 1776 Officers & Men Cap! Zacheriah Fitch. I Lieut. Nathan Stow 2 Lieu! Josiah Bowers Ensign Nehemiah Blodget No Miles 128 147147141 563 The .\mount at I? p^ Mile O II 10 11 5 O H 12 II 3 12 II 3 II II 9 2 II 6 M II The Amount of I Days pay for every 20 M I II 14 II O I II 12 II O I II 12 11 18 II 8 S II 16 II 8 Captain Zechariah Fitch ^^ No Miles The Amount The Amount Officers & Men at It' p r of I Days pay Mile for every 20 M Serj! Abijah Mead 151 0 II 12 II 7 0 II II II ID Serj' Levi Fletcher 137 II " 5 10 Serj' John Scott 148 12 11 4 II 4 Serj! Silas Foster 140 II II 8 II I 576 2 II 8 1 0 211 4„ 3 Corpp! Zebediah Farrer 151 0 II 12 • 7 0 M 10 II 6 Corpp! Isaac Corey 15s 12 1 II II II 0 Corpp! Joseph Lawrance 132 II 1 0 9 " 3 Corp! Zacheus Richardson 153 12 ' 9 10 II 6 Drumer Jonathan Hamblet 148 12 ' 4 10 II 6 Fifer Benjamin Hazen 128 10 1 8 9" 3 867 3 " 12 ' 3 3 II I II Ebenezer White 140 0 II I I 1 8 On 9 II 4 Simon Hunt 140 II 1 8 9 " 4 Ephraim Forbush 140 II 1 8 9 " 4 Daniel Billings 151 12 ' 7 10 II I Abel Adams 151 12 ' 7 10 II I Henry Bond iSS 12 1 II 10 II 4 Samuel Train 155 12 1 II 10 II 4 William Graves 15s 12 1 II 10 II 4 Aaron Wright 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 David Evens 155 12 1 II 10 II 4 Amos Stow Junf 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 Samuel Jewel 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 William Gammel 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 Richard Hay 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 Thaddeus Garfield 15s 12 1 11 10 II 4 Peter Sterns 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 Stephen Blood Junr 147 12 ' 3 9" 9 Francies Lagros 147 12 ' 3 9 " 9 54 Groton during the Revolution No The Amount The Amount Officers & Men Miles at id p'. Mile of I Days pay for every 20 M Thomas Haseltine 132 II 11 0 811 5 Ephraim Nash 128 ID ir 8 811 s Amos Addams 128 10 II 8 8 ,1 6 James Fletcher 137 II M 5 9 Samuel Kemp Junf 128 10 II 8 811 5 Nathaniel Cutter 140 II II 8 9- 4 Amos Foster Jun- 148 12 - 4 9 II 10 John Simons 128 ^0 II 10 II 8 Oil 8.1 5 Jonathan Stephens 128 10 II 8 81, 5 John Laughton 128 10 11 8 8,1 s David Lakin 128 10 . 8 8„ s James Addams 128 10 If 8 811 5 Peter Butterfield 132 II . 8 II 6 Ephraim Brown 132 11 . 8 1, 6 Person Eaton 132 II . 81, 6 Job Dodge 138 II 11 6 9 " Timothy Baker 138 II 11 6 9 Daniel Wheat 147 12 II 3 91, 9 John Eaton 138 II II 6 9 Joseph Saunderson 132 II M 0 8 M 6 Oliver Green 132 II II 8 1, 6 Thomas Spauldin 132 II II 8 m 6 Jonas Haseltine 132 II II 811 6 John Dennis 137 II 11 5 9 John Pushee 138 II II 6 9 Abner Kent Jun5 137 11 II 5 9 Joel Prescott 137 II II S 9 Daniel Haywood 147 12 II 3 9 M 8 Ebenezer Stone 146 12 11 2 9 " 7 Thomas Dutton 146 12 . 2 911 7 WilHam Cambell 141 11 11 9 9 " 4 Samson Walker 141 II 11 9 9 M 4 Jonathan Bickford 141 II 11 9 9 " 4 Jonathan Taylor 148 12 II 4 9 II 10 Captain Zechariah Fitch 55 The Amount The Amount Officers & Men No at I') p'. of I Days pay Miles 148 Mile for every 20 M Nathaniel Haywood 12 II 4 9 M 10 Zebulin Butmon 148 12 II 4 9 II 10 William Clough 148 12 - 4 9 II 10 John Wright 147 12 M 3 911 9 Timothy Crosby 147 12 - 3 9" 9 John Senter 147 12 II 3 9- 9 John Emery 141 I I II 9 9 " 4 Jacob Durant 148 12 M 4 9 II 10 Phillip Smith 141 II II 9 9 " 4 Elias Macentire 147 12 II 3 9 " 9 Elnathan Sherrin 147 12 M 3 9 " 9 Josiah Fox 148 12 - 4 9 M 10 Joseph Taylor 147 12 II 3 9- 9 Ceser Robins 141 II M 9 9 " 4 Bristol Commings 147 12 II 3 9- 9 Benjamen Bowers 147 12 M 3 911 9 Bradbury Robinson 147 12 II 3 911 9 Joseph Asgood 153 12 M 9 10 [Indorsed] A Milage Pay Roll Cap! Fitches Abstract Mount Hope or Tie Mills, Sept! 24'.^ 1776 We the Subscribers Officers & Soldiers belonging to Cap!. Zacha- riah Fitches Company Col?. Sam.'. Brewers Regiment have Received in full our Milage & one Days pay for every twenty Miles to Ben nington of Cap.'. Zachariah Fitch Nathan Stow Josiah Bowers Ju^ Ne? Blodget Peason Eaton his John x Eaton mark Thaddeus Garfield John Simonds Zacheus Richardson Amos Foster Zeb?* Farrar Joseph Lawrance Simon Hunt Ephrain Forbush Amos Adams Levi Fletcher James Fletcher William Graues John Dennis John Emery his Nathaniel x Cuter mark Bradbery Robinson Jonathan Steuens 56 Groton during the Revolution Joel Prescott Jon*!* Bickford Jacob Dvrunt Dauid Euans Elias X Makintire Francis Lagros Benja Hazen 'EvH^ Brown Daniel Haward Thomas Dutton Eben Stone John Wright William Campbell Zebulon Butman Elnathan Sherwin Jonathan Hamblet Isaac Cory Joseph Taylor Oliver Green Samson Walker John Pushe Tim° Baker William Clough Ephraim Nash Job Dodge Philip Smith Silas Foster Samuel Kemp Juner John Laughton David Lakin Abner Kent Ju^ Abijah Mead Ebenezer White John Scott Daniel Wheat Richard Hay Abel Adams Peter Stearns number of names 28 numbers of names 25 James Adams Reed one Dolar [Indorsed] Soldiers Receipts John Senter Timothy Crosby Benj" Bowers Daniel Billings Jonathan Taylor Joseph Osgood Aaron Wright NathanielHeywood his Bristol x Coming mark Jonas Haseltine Thomas Hasseltine Joseph Sarndersson William Gammell James Adams Tho= Spaulding Ceser Robins Peter Butterfied Amos Stow Samuel Jewel JosAH Fox Ty Mills, 8"' of October 1776 We the Subscribers officers and soldier belonging to Cap' Zech ariah Fitches Company Col?- Sam" Brewers Reg' have Receiv'' the Full of our pay up to the 30"' of September 1776 Nathan Stow Josiah Bowers Ne? Blodget Amos Adams Ephraim Nash John Pushee Levi Fletcher John Wright his Nathaniel X Cuter mark Daniel Wheat Thaddeus Garfield James Adams Aaron Wright John Dennis Oliver Green Benja Hazen Joseph Osgood Jacob Durunt Jonathan Steuens Ephraim Forbush Abijah Mead Job Dodge Dauid Euans Simon Hunt Peter Stearns Calvin Ransom his Francis X Lagros mark Samuel Jewel Captain Zechariah Fitch 57 Joel Prescott Benj*' Bowers his Zacheus X Richardson mark Jon*?" Bickford Samson Walker Zeb!? Farrar Nathaniel Heywood Elias X mackentire Bristol x Coming Jonas Haseltine Thomas Haseltine Jonathan Taylor William Graues John Simonds John Senter Samuel Kemp Juner Abel Adams Joseph Sarndersson Elnathan Sherwin Isaac Cory John Laughton Hery Bond William Gammell Richard Hay Joseph Lawrance Silas Foster Number of names 32 Number 31 [Indorsed] Soldiers Receipts Abner Kent John Scott William Campbell Zebulon Butman ThoI Spaulding Eph" Brown Ceser Robins TiM° Baker Thomas Dutton Eben" Stone David Lakin Amos Foster Peason Eaton John Eaton Jonathan Hamblet William Clough Brodbery Robinson Peter Butterfield Daniel Haward Timothy Crosby Amos Stow John Emery Eben White Josiah Fox Groton Dec 22 Ticondaroga who was Excluded in the first abstract ) Job Shattuck Cap' Captain Nathaniel Lakin 7 i Suffolk ss Feb'' i. 1777 Sworn before Nath'- BAYLEYy^j- Pe Exam'' & allowed Copy pr Nath"- Bayley Seth Loring Clerk to y Com" on part of y Board In Council Feb'' 3- 1777 Read & allowed & ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for £\2(), 6, 5 in full of this Abstract Jn"? Avery Dp" Sec" [Indorsed] Cap'. Job Shattuck's Abstract from Ticond= Due £\2i>, 6, 5 Col° Reads Reg' (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LV. File L, 35) Captain Nathaniel Lakin Captain Lakin was the youngest son of James and Eliza beth (Williams) Lakin, of Groton, where he was born on December 13, 1728. His marriage is entered on the church records, under date of January 23, 1755, as follows: — " Nathaniel Lakin of Pepperrill & Sybil Parker of Groton." The company was recruited from the neighborhood of Groton, and the men belonged in various towns. I print both the Muster-roll and the Pay-roll, which are very similar, but not identical. My grandfather, Samuel Lawrence, was a commis sioned officer in the command. At the beginning of the War Captain Lakin was a minute- man, and at different times during the Revolution he served as captain in various regiments. His term of service ex tended at intervals to the end of the War. Muster Roll of Cap'. Nath'.' Lakins Company in the Service of the United States Commanded by Col'! John Robinson engaged for Six Months from July y i" 1777 taken to Dec^ 18'* 1777 Commissioned Nath!' Lakin John Chaney Sam! Lawrance Ephraim Brown Captain I?' Lieu! 2^ Lieu! Ensign June yf 27'!" 1777 fOn Furlough Ditto ) [In pencil] " taken from the Ditto J paper of Susana Lawrence and Ditto (of Leu' Sam' Lawrence H H S " Sergeants Shebuel Conant John Scott Eph" Russell William Kemp When Inlisted July 20 Aug! 1=" Ditto July 7f Remarks Corporals Sam! Moody Emerson James Commings Thomas Nichols Eleazf Butterfield When Inlisted July 20 July 7'." Ditto Aug. I?' Remarks Drum & Fife Robinson Lakin Lemuel Parker When Inlisted Aug! I? July 7* Remarks Major Fifer Made up in the Staff Roll ^1 to o l-t ooD- C>-)»—* • crq tr1^ft) <: o o Captain Nathaniel Lakin 73 3 3 3 (3 ' Q Q Q -g ^i c a c m lU 000 p Q a S >. a-SxjH^rtSggr^iJlSrt^oUgScis ^|u«t«f^SS5o 3 =« 6rt C g^^j3 rt gtd *H W C0^tov.0 -O-OO OnO m n rO'^^^'O t->.00 Q\0 74 Groton during the Revolution North Kingston Dec! 18'?' 1777 Mustered then Captains Lakins Compan? as Specified in the Above Roll And!' Brown D^. Must: Master We Do Sware that the Within Muster Roll is a True State of the Company Without Fraud to these United States or Any Indi viduals According to the Best of our Knowledge John Chaney Liei^. Sam!- Lawrence Lieif. Sworn Before me this 18"' Day of Dec! 1777 Daniel Hall Justice of Peace [Indorsed] Muster Roll when Mustered by Major Brown (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, II. 184) Pay Roll of Bounty due to Cap'. Nath'.' Lakins Compy CoP. John Robinsons Regi from Massachusetts State for service done att Rhod island from the first of July to the Last of Dec"'' 1777 Exclusive of three Pounds Rec^. By Each soldier Mens Names Time of Inlisting Time of Service Shubuel Conant July 20'^ MD 2 II II John scott Ephf Russell August I? Ditto 2 II 2 11 Will"" Kemp Sam! Moody Emerson James Commings Thomas Nichols July 7* July 20 July 7'^ D? 2 11 25 2 II II 2 11 17 2 II 17 DesertedDeserted 23 Decembf 23 Decb' Eleazf Butterfield August i" 2 11 Lemuel Parker July 7'^ 2 II 17 Deserted 23 Decembf Robinson Lakin Aug! \^ 2 11 David Jenkins Uriel Whitney Moses Chase July 7'^ D? D? 2 II 25 2 11 25 2 M 25 Thomas Tarbell D° 2 .1 25 Henry swan Oliver Farnsworth D? D? 2 „ 25 2 .1 25 Captain Nathaniel Lakin 75 Men's Names Time of Inlisting Time of Service MD Moses Ames July 7* 2 ' 25 John Trobridge D? 2 ' 25 Amos Ames D° 2 • 25 Isaac Williams D!" 2 ' 25 [Ambrose] Lakin D? 2 ' 25 [Djaniel Wethe[rbee] D? 2 ' 25 James Darling D? 2 ' 25 Sam! Lovejoy D? 2 ' 25 Abner Lovejoy D° 2 ' 25 Thomas Caprin D° 2 ' 25 Philip Lovejoy D? 2 ' 25 Aaron Farmer D? 2 ' 25 Daniel Willard D!- 2 1 ' 25 Peter Gillson D? 2 1 ' 25 Jonah Johnston Jonf French D?D° 2 1 2 1 ' 25 Dischargd Decemb' 1 2 Allowed 10 Days To Return home John Perham D? 2 I 1 17 Desert* 23 Decemb": Josiah Moshuer July 20 2 1 1 11 John Chamberland Aug! i".' 2 1 Abel Lakin Ditto 2 1 Lemuel Parker D!- 2 1 Jonathan Tarbell D° 2 1 Sam! Wyman D" 2 1 Josiah Robins D!- 2 1 Isaac Wetherbee D? 2 1 Nathan Shattuck D° 2 1 John Shattuck D° 2 1 Ebenez' Ball D° 2 1 Ebenez' Jilles D? 2 1 Israel Stone D° 2 1 Philip Butterfield D? 2 1 Richard Francis D° 2 1 Ebenezf French D° 2 1 Jon? Patts D° 2 1 Nath^'- Lakin Cap'. 76 Groton during the Revolution Cap! Nath!' Lakins Roll in Coll!" Robinsons Regiment for Ser vice to Rhode Island Examined & found Due ;^i 14-10-0 Jonathan Metcalf Iff order Exam^ & the above Sum is Due A Fuller IP order to be made payable to Lieu! Sam! Lawrance In Council June 19'!' 1778 R'' & All"* & Ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for ;^ii4. 10. o in full of this Roll Jn!' Avery D" Sc" Middlesex ss Groton Mar 25'J^ 1778 Then Cap! Nath'-' Lakin made Solemn oath to the muster Roll that the Sum is Just and True according to his Best Knowledge Concerning the Same Before Josiah Sartell Justice peace (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, II. 180) Captain Abishai Brown was of Concord, and, according to the following papers, there was a Groton man in his company. Abstract of Cap'. Abishai Brown Company Ln the Colony Service Col" Josiah Whitney Regiment Mens Names Rank °™" ^ ^ ., ' Belong to miles [Obediah] Genkins Private Groton 40 Abishai Brown Cap' Suffolk ss. June 24 1776 Then Cap' Abishai Brown made oath to y" truth of the Above Roll Before me B Lincoln Jus Peace Boston Decern 3, 1776. Then adjusted the within Role with David Jeffries paymaster and Received of him One hundred forty five pounds nine shillings and five pence in full of the within ;^i45 - 9.5 Ephraim Jackson L' Col" [Indorsed] Cap', Abishai Brown's Roll in Col? Whitneys Regim'. 1776 :^I4S- 9- S (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LV. File L, 36) Captain Thomas Warren 77 A Muster-roal of Cap" Abishai Brown Company in Colonel Josiah Whitney Regement Raised By the State of the Massachusetts Bay, — From the First of November 1776 Up to the First of December AD. 1776 — and one Day for Every 20 Miles Travel Camp at Hull November y" 27"? 1776 Towns Names No of miles Months M days Mens Names Rank Obediah Ginkins [Private] Grotton 70 13 In Council Decf 5. 1776 Read and allowed and Ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for .^178. 3. 7. in full of this Roll John Avery Dpy Secy [Indorsed] Cap! Abisha Brown's Roll, in Col" Marshalls Reg'. Dec^ 1776 Due £\^?l. 3. 7 p' WooDBRiDGE Brown Copy Seth Loring Clerk to f Com', on the part of the Board (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LV. File L, 49) Captain Thomas Warren belonged in Townsend, but more than one third of his company were Groton men. Harbor Farnsworth was so named from the fact that he was born in Boston harbor in a boat, on June 10, 1756. A Return of Captain Thomas Warrens Company in Co'i Brooks Regement October 31"' 1776 Mens Names It ¦3u5 g fl en ¦" Place from whence thay Came Lieu' Joseph Rockwood I Groton Serj! Samuel Gragg I Groton Corp' Asa Porter I Groton John Gragg I Groton Jon5 Boyden I Groton Harbor Farnsworth I Groton Samuell Teel 1 Groton Nehemiah Lawrence I Groton Paul Fletcher I Groton 78 Groton during the Revolution Mens Names •3u5 il in ¦" Placefrom 'hence thay Came tS t/i ^ p Joseph Moors I Groton Jacob Patch I Groton Jon? Tarble I Groton Simeon Williams I Groton Abel Sawtell I Groton William keemp I Groton Phinehas hemmingway I Groton Jonathan Capron I Groton Benjs Fisk I Groton Richard holden I Groton Jonathan Stone I Groton Oliver Lakin I Groton Gabriel Lakin I Groton Abel Farwell I Groton [Indorsed] Cap! Warrens Return Col° Brooks Oct? 31 177^ White Plains (Massachusetts Archives, Re\ folutionary Pap ers, X> av. 55 Captain John Minot was of Chelmsford, and he had in his company a dozen or more Groton men. One of them, a mere lad, lost his life on Dorchester Heights, according to an epi taph in the old burying-ground at Groton, as follows: — [Cherub's Head.] Memento Mori Here lies the Body of Mr Nathaniel Ston-^ son of Mf Nathaniel Stone & Mf= Sybel his wife who died in his Countrys ser= vice on Dorchester= Hill Octf 22? 1776. Aged 17 years one month & 22 days. Captain John Minot 79 A Pay Role of Travill and Wages Due to Cap'. John Minots Com pany in Col". Dikes Reg", for the Travill from their Placies of Abode to the Heights of Dorchester the Place of Rendezvous And back to their Respective homes, and one Days Wages for Every Twenty Miles home. Mens Names Towns Number of Miles to and from Encampment TheN? of Days Travilling home Benjamin Lawrance Groton 82 2 Roland Lawrance Groton 82 2 Abel Kemp Benj^ Patch Simeon Brooks do dodo 8282 82 2 22 William Shead do 82 2 Ezra Prescott do 82 2 Nathaniel Stone do 82 2 Benj^ Farwell Salmon Whitney Shattuck Blood dodo do 82 82 82 22 2 John Minot Cap'. In Council Nov! 30. 1776 Read and Allowed and Ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for £()0, 12, 2. in full of this Roll John Avery Dp" Sec" [Indorsed] 34 Cap'. John Minots milage Roll in Col? Dikes Reg', at Dorches ter Highs Nov 1776 Exam^ Williams Nath" Groton Groton 134 Youngman Peter Westford Groton (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXVII.) Soldiers' Orders for Pay Due 83 The three following orders were found among the Fitch papers given to me by Mrs. Rowe, but, according to the Pay-rolls, the men signing them did not belong to Captain Fitch's company. maerymac march : io<': 1777 Cap'^ moors Sur Pleas to Pay Leiut Walker all mye Pay that is Dew to me as a solder in the Continentel arme and this shall Dis Charge you from me as witness mie hand Samuel Ayer Groton Sep! y!" 9 1777 then R1 the Contents in full Gideon Davis [Addressed] Zaccheus Walker Lieut marrymac march : I4<^: 1777 Capt moors Sur Pleas to Pay Leiut Walker all mye Pay that is Dew to me as a Solder in the Continentel armee and this shall discharg you from me as witness mie Hand James Macy Groton Sep! 1777 R- the Contents in full f Gideon Davis [Addressed] Zaccheus Walker Lieut To Cap'^ Joseph mores Please to Pay to Zechariah Fitch the full of my wages for Contenal Service and this with his Recept shall Be your Discharge Daniel Kezar [Indorsed] an order 84 Groton during the Revolution A List of men Raised by the County of Middlesex in the state of Massachusetts- Bay for the Purpose of filling up and Compleat- ing the fifteen Battalions of Continental Troops directed to be raised in that State for the Term of Nine months from the time of their arrival at Fish-Kill, agreeable to a resolve of General Court Pass'd April 2d^ 1778 No Names Towns Remarks 64. Nath! Corey Groton June 20!'' 6S- John Shipley 66. Shattuck Bird 67. Eleazer Green 88. Jonathan Coburn Groton 106. Joseph Taylor Groton 119. Joseph Page Groton 120. Henry Davis d° 121. John Pearce d" 122. Fra? White d° 123. Eben' Farnsworth d° 129. Isaac Warren Groton June 21? Rec!" July 20!'' 1778 of Jonathan Warner Commissioner One Hundred & Thirty one men, Included in the above list for the purpose therein mentioned R Putnam} Colonel [Indorsed] County Middlesex (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LV. File L, 17) Nine-Months Men 85 A List of the Men Procured . . . for the term of Nine Months from the time of their Arrival at Fish Kill. County of Middlesex Time Names and. Towns Regt they Company of Arival No they Belong to Belong to they Belong to Age Stature [1778] Groton June 19 I Nathan Cory Reeds I Compy 33 S-9 D°20 2 John Shipley J^ D" 2 Do 21 5-8 D° 3 Shatock Blood J' D" D" 20 5-9 D" 4 Eleazer Green J' D° Do 23 5 10 Dozi S Jonath? Coburn D° Do 26 5 7 D'>21 6 Joseph Taylor D° I Do 36 6 D" 7 Isaac Warren DO D" 24 5 10 D° 8 Henry Davis D" D° 21 5 9 D" 9 Joseph Page Do Do 36 5 7 D" 10 John Peirce D" DO 57 S 10 D" II Francis White D" Do 20 5 8 D" 12 Ebenezer Farnsworth J' Do DO 21 5 S July 11 Josiah Stevens 34 5 to D° Joseph Frost Stow 21 5 II 6 Isaac Dodge Reeds I Compy 35 5 10 This Dodg Belongs to Grotton Arived June 23 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXVIII. 160) 86 Groton during the Revolution Captain Moses Barnes lived in Marlborough. Pay Pool of Cap'. Moses Barnf. Comp". in Lieu' Col- Perce' Rig- from the Massachusetts Bay Now in the Service of the United States for the term of tow Months from the i'.' May 1779 to the 1'! July 1779- Also a Days Pay for every twenty miles travil return ing hom. Mens Names Rank Towns to which thay Belong No of Miles time of Inlisting time of Service Cotten Proctor Ser! Grotten 80 May 17 Month Days I - 14 Rogers Lawrence Priv! Grotten 80 D°i7 I - 14 Calvin Russell D? D° 80 D°i7 I - 14 Ezekiel Portor DO D? 80 D°i7 I - 14 Moses Barns Cap. N B The Original Sworn to before Mf Justice Metcalf Cor Peirces Regiment Cap! Moses Barnes Role for State Pay for Service at Rhoad Island, Paid by a Resolve Pased Apriel 30'? 1779 s d Examined & found Due ;^ioi8 =1=4 Jon* Metcalf Pf order Copy S Moore Examin"^ & the above Sum is found due A Fuller ^ order In Council Sep' 7. 1779 Read & All"! & ord"" that a W' be drawn on y^ Treas>; for ;^ioi8 n i .¦ 4 in full of this Roll Jn? Avery D Set (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, I. 70) Additional Levies 87 A List of Men Raised {agreeable to a Resolve of Court of the g'" of June 1779) i'>^ the County of Middlesex (See Descriptive List) Mens Names Levi Lawrence Joseph Moor Jun' Jonas Blood John Trobridge William Parker Gabril Lakin Moses Ames Robert Parker Isaac Lawrence Jun"' Sam'.' Parker Town Groton pf Joseph Hosmer Superintendant for Middlesex Nov! 24"' 1779 [Indorsed] Middlesex Nov. 24 1779 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XLI. 125) Captain Thomas Hovey was of Cambridge. A Pay Roll of Caf. Tho'. Hovef. Company Col". Nathan Tylers Re^. of New Leaviesfrom the Massachusetts State for their State Pay for Service Done Ln the State of Rhode Ls land from the 24 of June to the 1'.' Day of Dec! Agreable to a Resolve of Court Past the 8'* of June 1779 Names A c So .a " « > Time in Service Months Days David Blood Daniel Fletcher Jonas Kemp Asa Kemp Private Do Do Do July 12 1212 12 4 19 4 19 4 19 4 19 88 Groton during the Revolution I Do Swear that the Within pay Roll is true and Just without fraud to the United States or to any Individual According to My best Knowledge Tho= Hovey Capf. Sworn before me this 6 Day of Decef 1779 E Cornell B G Pay Roll of Cap! Thomas Hoveys Company for their State pay for Service Done in the State of Rhode Island from June 24'!" to December the first Day. Agreable to a Resolve of Court Past June 8'^ 1779 Col Tylers Reg' Examined and found Due £6<)^^ 14 8 Ezra Sargeant Per order Examin? & the above Sum of ;^6953 - 14-8 found due A Fuller f order to be made payable to Col? Nathan Tyler In Council Decf 25 1779 Read & allow? & ord? that a W! be drawn on the Treas'' for ;^6953 14 8 in full of this Roll [Indorsed] Cap! Tho! Hovey Col? Tyler 1779 R'' Island (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, II. 133) A Pay Roll of Cap'. Thomas Hoveys Company Col Nathan Tylers Reg', of New Leaviesfrom the Massachusetts State for their State Pay for Service Done in the State of Rhode Lsland the Month of December Agreable to A Resolve of Court Past the %"! of June, 1779- Names I Towns from 1 D 1 Time in Service alloweing r days pay for Every 20 Miles Home Months Days David Blood Private Groton 100 I 5 Daniel Fletcher Groton 100 I 5 Jonas Kemp Asa Kemp Groton Do 100 100 I 5 I S Additional Levies 89 I Do Swear that the Within Pay Roll is the present true and Just without fraud to the United States or any Individual According to my Best Knowledge Tho^ Hovey Cap'. Sworn before me this 6 Day of Decef 1779 E Cornell B Gen' Examined and found Due ^1753 -0-8 Ezra Sargeant Per order Examin!" & the above Sum of ;£'i753-o-8 is found due A Fuller f' order to be made payable to Col° Nathan Tyler In Council Jan? ii'" 1780 R"' & All? & Ord? that a W be drawn on the Treasury for ;^ 17 53 — 8 in full of this RollJn° Avery D Sec [Indorsed] Pay Roll of Cap'. Hoveys Company for State Pay for Service Done at Rhode Island the Month of December 1779 Col Tylers Reg'. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, II. 132) Pay Roll of Caf. Tho! Hovey Company in Col". Nath[an] Tylers Reg', of New Levies from the State of Massachusetts Bay for their State pay for service done in the Month of December 1779 at the State of Rhode Lsland. s0 -0 a -2 ervice 2 days ry 20 home M ¦s t« c ¥ -3 Names s •£^ Q •1 e in ngo or e\ trav e3 1 g Tim Alowi payf Miles Days David Blood Private Groton 100 22 27 Daniel Fletcher do Groton 100 25 30 Jonas Kemp do Groton 100 22 27 Aas Kemp do Groton 100 22 27 Tho= Hovey Cap'. N. B. The Original Sworn to before M-' Justice Fisher Examined and found Due ;^i302. 14. 8. Ezra Sargeant Per order 90 Groton during the Revolution Examin" & the above Sum of ;^i302 - 14-8 is found due A Fuller f order Copy In Council May 10'.'' 1780 [Indorsed] Col Tyler Reg' A pay Roll of Cap' Thomas Hoveys for the month of Dec' for State Pay for Service at Rhode Island (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, II. 129) A Descriptive List of the Eighth Division of Six Months Men raised to reinforce the Contifiental Army March' d from Springfield Under the Command of M'! EK Kent July y 8" 1780 Names Age Stature Complex Town arival at Springfield Ezekiel Porter 17 S 10 Ruddy Groton July 8"= Job Shattuck 21 5 8 Dark d° d° Simeon Lakin 20 6 I Light d° do Sam" Blood 18 S 1° d° d" d° Daniel Fletcher 17 S 2 do d° do Nath!-' Blanchard 20 5 6 d° d° d° Benj' Tarble 18 5 4 d" d° d° ws Farewell 18 6 d° d° d° Charlestown Edes 30 5 8 Negro d° do Springfield S'.^ July 1780 Received of Justin Ely Esqf Commissioner for the State of Mas sachusetts Bay the One Hundred and Thirty Three Men men tioned in the Within Lists being raised to reinforce the Continental Army for six Months agreable to a Resolve of the General Court of said State of the fifth of June last past and forwarded Said men together with Descriptive Lists of the same under the Command of Mf Ebenezer Kent Jn° Glover. B. General A True Copy Examined p' Justin Ely Commissioner [Indorsed] List of the Eighth Division of Six months Men who march'd with M^ Kent July S"! 1780 133 Men (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXV. 189) Additional Levies 91 A Descriptive List of the Eleventh Division of Six Months men march'd from Springfield with Ensign Bancroft July 11- 1780 Mens Names Age Stature Complex Town Arival at Springfield Levi Lawrance Moses Ames 20 20 5 10 5 " Ruddy d° Groton d° July 9* d° Peter Stephens 18 ,S 6 Dark do d° Eben"^ Tarbell John Trowbridge Salmon Whitney Ephraim Stone 1818 20 17 5 6 5 7 S 7 .5 6 Ruddy do Light d" d° d° d"d° d°d" do do Thaddeus Bancroft 26 S II Ruddy d° d- Ebenf Farnsworth 22 S 6 d° d° d° Simeon Kemp Richard Holden 1919 S 9 5 7 d°d° Groton d° July 9'" d" • Springfield ii'* July 1780 Received of Justin Ely Esqf Comissioner for the State-of Massa chusetts Bay the One Hundred & Seventy Seven Men born on the within Lists (together with with [sic] Descriptive Lists of the Same) being raised to reinforce the Continental Army for Six Months agre able to a Resolve of the General Court of Said State of the fifth of June last past and forwarded said Men to the Army under the Care of Ensigh Bancroft Jn° Glover. B. General A True Copy Examined pf Justin Ely Commissioner [Indorsed] Descriptive List of the 11 Division of 6 Months Men March'd under the Care of Ens". Bancraft July y' 11"' 1780 177 Men (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXV. 192) 92 Groton during the Revolution A Descriptive List of the Eighteenth Division of Six Months men march'd from Springfield under the Care of Lieut Zebulon King Julyy 1 6'^' 1780 Names Age Stature Complex Town Arival at Springfield Samuel Parker Rogers Lawrance Benjamin Moors 161617 54 S 5 S6 LightLight D" GrotonGroton d° July 16"" 1780 July le"- 1780 d° Springfield \&^ July 1780 Received of Justin Ely Esqf Commissioner for the State of Massa chusetts Bay the Sixty Two Men born on the within List (Together with Descriptive Lists of the Same) being raised to reinforce the Continental Army for for [sic] Six Months agreable to a Resolve of the General Court of Said State of the fifth of June last past and forwarded Said Men to the Army under the Care of Lieu! Zebulon King Jn° Glover. B. General A True Copy Examined 1*. Justin Ely Commissioner [Indorsed] 18"' Division of Six Months Men March'd July yo 16"' 1780 L'. King 62 Men (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXV. 200) A Descriptive List of the Twenty Second Division of Six Months Men march' from Springfield under the Care of Cap'. Benj! Warren July 20'-^' 1780 Names Age Stature Complex Town Arival at Springfield John Gregg 25 5 7 Light Groton July 20"' Additional Levies 93 Springfield 20"' July 1780 Received of Justin Ely Esqf Commissioner for the State of Massachusetts Bay The Fifty seven Men born on the Within List (together with a Descriptive List of the Same) being raised to rein force the Continental Army for Six Months Agreable to a Resolve of the General Court of Said State of the fifth of June last past and forwarded Said Men to the Army Under the Care of Cap! Benj? Warren Jn? Glover. B. General A True Coppy Examined ^f Justin Ely Commissioner [Indorsed] 22E^ Division of Six Months Men march'd July y= 20"' 1780 Cap Benj? Warren 58 Men. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXV. 204) A List of the Six Months Men Received of Major Joseph Hosmer Superintendant of y County of Middlesex agreable to a Resolve of y General Court Passed June y 5- 1780. Names Towns Names Towns Ezekiel Porter Groton Eben' Tarbell Groton Job Shattuck d° John Trowbridge d° Simeon Lakin d? Salmon Whitney do Sam" Blood d° Ephraim Stone d" Daniel Fletcher d!" Thaddeus Bancroft d° Nath!^' Blanchard d° Ebenf Farnsworth d? Benj? Tarble d° Simeon Kemp d" WS Farewell d" Richard Holden d° Charlestown Edes d° Sam" Parker Groton Levi Lawrance Groton Rogers Lawrance d" Moses Fames d° Benj? Moores d° Peter Stevens d" John Gregg do Springfield 6 August 1780 Received of Majf Joseph Hosmer Superintendant for the County of Middlessex the Men mentioned in this List being raised to serve Six Months in the Continental Army agreable to a Resolve of the General Court of the 5'^ of June last past by Justin Ely Commissioner [Indorsed] Justin Ely's Reef of 6 Months Men to Majf Hosmer. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LIV. File F, 30) 94 Groton during the Revolution Middlesex ss A Pay roll for the Six months men, who were in actual Service in the Continental army for 1780; in behalf of the town of Groton, made up by us the Subscribers agreeable to the resolves of the General Court of the i''. October 1781 Names Time when Marched Time when Discharged Miles M? days Levi Lawrance July 4"- 1780 Decebf 18'!' 220 5 26 Richard Holden DO Decemf 12'!' 220 5 20 Job Shattuck junf June 26'!' Jany i!' 1781 220 6 18 Moses Ames July 4'!' Decf 26'? 220 6 3 Peter Stevens junf DO Jany 9'^ 1 78 1 220 6 16 John Trobridge junf D? D° DO 6 16 Ephraim Stone D° D° D° 6 16 Ebenf Tarbell D° B" DO 6 16 Ebenf Farnsworth junf D° Decemf 4"' D° S " Thaddeus Bancroft July 8'!- Nov. \ff! DO 4 23 Salmon Whitney July 4* Jany 9'" D° 6 16 Benj? Moors July 8';- Dec' s'" DO S 9 John Gragg junf July 8'^ DO Rogers Lawrance July 8'!- Dec' I3'^ 220 5 16 Nath! Blanchard July 4'!" J[any 9] 220 6 16 Ezekiel Porter July 4'^ Jany 9"' 220 6 16 Will-" Farwell jun' D° D° DO 6 16 Benj? Tarbell jun' DO DO 4 26 Samuel Parker July 8'" Jan?' 9'!- D" 6 12 Daniel Fletcher July 4'" D° D" 6 16 Samuel Blood July 4'-" DO D° 6 16 Charlestown Edes do Decf 3'' D° 5 II Simeon Lakin D" Novf 19'!' D" 4 26 All the above [Two lines missing here ] Oliver Prescoit \ Selectmen Job Shattuck K of Solomon Woods j Groton Additional Levies 95 Middlesex ss 28"" Jany 1782 Job Shattuck & Solomon Woods made solemn Oath that in mak ing up the above roll they acted faithfully & impartially & that the same is just & true according to the best of their Judements Before me Oliver Prescott Just peace A true copy A Pay Roll for the Six Month men for the Town of Groton 1780 Examined and found Due in Specie ;^264- 1-4 Ezra Sargeant Per order Examin" & the above Sum is found due A Fuller ¦^ order Copy In Council Feb'' 18 1782 Read & Advised that [a warrant be] drawn on the Treasury for ;^264 n i n 4 in full of this Roll. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, IV. 81) A List of the Six Months Men raised to reinforce the Continental Army agreable to two Resolves of the General Court passed in June 1780 posted up to their respective Towns from the Receipts of the Continental Officers by Justin Ely Commissioner Groton Division in which musterd Ezekiel Porter 8 Ebeni Tarbell Job Shattuck 8 John Trowbridge Simeon Lakin 8 Salmon Whitney Samt Blood 8 Ephraim Stone Dan'- Fletcher 8 Thaddeus Bancroft Natht Blanchard 8 Ebenf Farnsworth Benjs Tarble 8 Simeon Kemp W" Farewell 8 Richard Holden Charlestown Edes 8 Sam' Parker 18 Levi Lawrence II Rogers Lawrence 18 Moses Ames II Benj" Moorse 18 Peter Stephens II John Gregg 22 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXVII. 12) 96 Groton during the Revolution An account of the Men Murstred in the County of Middlesex Since the Last Return Groton March 28 1 78 1 Eleazer Green 28 28 28 March 20 Joseph Lakin Oliver Lakin Oliver Lakin Jur William Tarble (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LIV. File F, 28) Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the Selectmen of the Town of Groton Dr. For the Bounty or hire of Twenty one men to serve in the Con tinental Army for three years, or during the war agreeable to the Resolves of the General Court of December & February last, viz! William Tarbell £90 " 0 II 0 Oliver Lakin Jun- 95 " 12 11 0 Ezekiel Porter 93 " 10 11 0 John Stevens 93 " 10 „ [ J Moses Chase 94 " [ ] Charlestown Edes 90 11 °[ ] John Pierce 7811 12 [ ] Harbour Farnsworth 98 11 8 11 0 Joshua Parker 91 II 4 II 0 Elijah Nutting 90 11 0 II 0 David Farwell 90- 0-0 Asa White 90- 0 II 0 Amos Dole 98 11 2 11 0 Eleazer Green Jun' 98 II 16 II 5 Joseph Bancroft 93 " 10 11 0 John Goddard 90- 0-0 Edmund Holden 90- 0-0 Amos Shed 8711 0 11 0 Benj? Tarbell Jun' 90 II 6 11 0 Calvin Russell 93 " 0 11 0 Joseph Lakin 93 " 0 11 0 Hard money ^1928 : 10 : 5 Specie Additional Levies 97 N. B. Two of the above named men, vizt. Calvin Russell & Joseph Lakin were hired & Mustered in Season Tis expected the said Russell will join the Army immediately. The said Lakin is absconded. Oliver Prescott \ Selectmen Groton 6 Novf 1781. ISAAC Farnsworth [ of Solomon Woods 3 Groton Middlesex ss Novi 6'^ 1 78 1 . D5 Isaac Farnsworth & Cap' Solomon Woods two of the Select men abovenamed personally appeared & made oath that the afore going return by them subscribed was true according to the best of their knowledge Before me Oliver Prescott J peace Groton Return of 3 Years Men by Resolve of the 2 Dec. 1780 7 Men @ 90;^ £(>?,o- 0: 3d° 93 : 10/ 280 : 10/ 2 d° 93 186 : 0 I d° 95 ¦¦ 12/ I d" 94: I d° 78: 12/ I d° 98: 8/ I d° 91 : 4/ I do 98: 2/ I d° 98 : 16/5 I d° 87: I d° 1781 £ 90: 6/ 21 Men 1928 : 10 : 5 Specie [Indorsed] Return of three years men (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXII. 578) 98 Groton during the Revolution The Following is a List of men Procured in Consequence of a Resolve of Court of the 2"^ of December 1780 in the County of Middlesex for a Term Less then three years viz Date of Inlistment Names the Town for which Engaged for what time Engagd [178,] Novf 20 Amos Woods Groton one year Feb^ ii"" 1782 p' Joseph Yiosu-RK] Super' for Middlesex [Indorsed] Joseph Hosmer E' Superintendant for Middlesex return of Men for three Years by a Resolve of Court passed Dec^ 2? 1780 37 Men (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXII. 595) Additional Levies 99 t^ Id C/3 C/1 OJ OJ ^PPPPPPQPPP ^PPQQPPQP S Town for Which Engagd Poooooooooo5ooooooooo opPQPPPPPQQ oQQPPPPPQQ H Eqpppqppppp.| Bpqpppppq U 8 .SP rt .SPQ Q rt Q .SPP ^ .yi rt .Mp rt rt p p p p 3 K^l Q Q Q hJ Q hJI Q hJ WP -" 'rt .£P rt .SPQ !3 .SP rt Q Q Q .5P rt .MQ rt MQ Q Q S g hJ| Q ^ Q hJ Q 1-1 P J m 1-1 Pot a •a i SPrt MQ |3 bJOQ rtQQ W>rt SPQ ^ MQQQ Sj M H^IQJ q;_i Q l-lQhJ Si3 Q3 OOO C^u^vo NVO O MVO Ti¦O^^N00 ONr^OoO On*-^ M MM M o bo <; MMVOONt^MDwOOO^t^QvOr^WMMNt^l-^wNNMMMMWlOMNMNMMfONWTj-MNrO s 5 „Of-'^ Sot^-5^=« aZl rt1;;j3"2^ S^ O OJ I-H r-.SoOr*3Tl-MOMO«ONOi-'f<"^<=^"^f:]"N t-^ijoooooooooo rto%>3'5ot;i-l;> ^|QQQQQQQQQPgP 3^^ | P »-| ^^ loo Groton during the Revolution Classes of Soldiers The following Resolve, passed by the General Court on December 2, 1780, explains the division of the inhabitants into various "Classes," as mentioned below. Under the call ordered at this time the town of Groton was directed to raise twenty-one men for the Continental Army toward the 4240 which were needed to complete the quota of the Common wealth. On February 26, 1781, a supplementary Resolve was passed; and still later, on March 7, 1782, another Re solve, under which latter call the town was ordered to raise eight men for the Army, toward the 1500 which were then needed. And it is further Resolved, That the several towns and plantations within this Commonwealth be, and hereby are authorized to agree (if they think fit) upon classing the inhabitants thereof at a legal town-meeting called for that purpose, in order to procure their pro portion of soldiers to serve in the Continental army, for three years or during the war : And in all towns and plantations where the mode of classing shall be adopted, the selectmen of such towns, and the assessors of such plantations, or such committee as the town or plantation shall appoint for that purpose, shall divide all the inhab itants thereof, with others who were assessed in the hard-money- tax, into as many classes as according to the annexed schedule, there are men required of such town or plantation, in proportion to their several taxes, intermixing poor with the rich, so as to make the several classes as nearly equal in property and in number of polls as may be with convenience ; and each of said classes shall, on or before the twentieth day oi January next, procure a good able- bodied effective soldier to serve in the Continental army three years or during the war, unless such town or plantauon shall in some other way procure the whole number of soldiers to be by them raised : And that in case any one or more of said classes shall neglect or refuse to procure the soldiers assigned them, within the limited time aforesaid, such town or plantation is hereby empowered and directed classes of Soldiers loi to procure such soldier for each class so neglecting of such town or plantation, and the assessors shall assess said classes, or the sev eral neglecting individuals thereof, in the same proportion they were severally assessed in the hard-money-tax, the full value of the sum which shall be expended in procuring said soldier, with an addi tional sum not exceeding double the sum advanced to procure the said soldier, as the said town shall determine ; and the several col lectors of such towns or plantations are hereby authorized and re quired to collect said assessments in the same manner as they are directed by law to collect town taxes, and pay in the same accord ing to the direction contained in the warrant which they may receive from the selectmen or assessors of such towns or plantations for the purpose of collecting said assessments ; and the said selectmen or assessors are hereby authorized to grant such warrants, agreeable to the form by law prescribed for collecting town taxes, mutatis mutandis. (Pages 42, 43.) The following receipts given by soldiers are found in Vol ume XXXII. of the Archives, Revolutionary Papers ; and the number of the paper in the volume is indicated in heavy- faced type after each receipt. I do hereby Acknowledge that I have Rec"* of the Town of Groton by Class N° 4 in Money and Securities Two Hundred & Ninety Spanish Mill'd DolP for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Term of three Years Witness my hand this Sixth Day of April 1781 Amos Shed 557. Groton April d- 1781 I do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec^ of Class N^ 8 in Groton afores? three hundred Spanish milH Dollars in money paid and Security Given in full for my Engaging to Serve in the Continental Service for the term of three years from the time of my Inlistment witness my hand John Goddard 558. I do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec:* of Class W 2 in Groton, Ninety three pounds ten Shillings in money paid and Security Given by Said Class, in Silver at Six Shillings and Eight pence per ounce. I0 2 Groton during the Revolution in full for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the term of three years from the time of my Inlistment witness my hand Joseph Bancroft 559. April 6S 1781 Rec? of the Town of Groton by Class N? 14 Ninety four Pounds in Silver Money, in Money and Securities for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Term of three Years Witness my hand this 23'' Day of April 1781 at Groton Moses Chase 560. Groton March 19- 1781 Rec? of Capf John Sawtell & others Belonging to s? Sawtells Class (N° 17) three Hundred & Twenty Eight Silver Dollars, in full Con sideration for my Bounty from s^ Class as a Soldier in the Conti nental Army for the Term of three years, Unless Sooner Regularly Discharg? I say Rec^ by me Harbour Farnsworth 561. Groton April 16'-!! 1781 I do hereby Acknowledge that I have Rec? of the Town of Groton Afores? Two Hundred and Sixty two Spanish Mill'd Dollars by Class N? 18 in Money and Securities for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Term of three Years Test. William Swan John -|- Peirce Isaac Farnsworth mark 562. Geoton April 6'-!^ 1781 I do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec? of Class N? 15, in Groton afores-, Three Hundred Spanish mill? Dollars in money paid and Security given in full for my En gaging to Serve in the Continental Service for the term of three years from the time of my Inlistment witness my hand 563. Elijah Nutting I do hereby Acknowledge that I have Rec^ of Class N? 7. in Groton Ninety Eight Pounds Sixteen Shilli^ and five pence in Money paid and Security given by U. Solomon Woods in Silver at the Rate of Six Shillings & Eight pence ^ Ounce in full for my hire as a Sol dier in the Continental Service for the Term of three Years Wit ness my hand this Sixth Day of April 1781 Eleazer Green jr 564. classes of Soldiers 103 This Certifies that I have Rec? of Isaac Farnsworth and others belonging to Class No : 19 in the Town of Groton, in Silver, paper Currency and Securities, the amount of Ninety three pounds ten Shillings in Silver at Six Shillings and Eight pence per ounce, as a hire from said Class, for my inlisting into the Continental Service for the term of three years in behalf of said Town 565. Groton April 5'-!! 1781 ^i John Stevens Groton April 6'- 1781 I do hereby Acknowledge that I have Rec? of said Town by Class N° 9 in Money paid and Securities Given Three hundred Spanish Mill'd Dollars in full for my Engage- ing to serve in the Continental Service for the Term of three years Witness my hand Edmund Holden 566. I do hereby Acknowledge that I have Rec'* of the Town of Groton by Class Ns 13 in Money and Securities Three Hundred Spanish Mill'd Dollars for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Term of three Years Witness my hand this Six Day of April 1 78 1 Asa White 567. [Indorsed] Asa White Groton Groton April 23? 1781 This Certifies that I have agreed with Class N- 6 in Said Town for the Sum of three hundred Spanish mill? Dollars as a hire for my inlisting as a Soldier into the Conti nental Service for the term of three years in behalf of said Town his Test Charleston X Edes Josiah Hobart "^'' 568. Groton April 23? 1781 Rec? of the Town of Groton by Class N5 12 Three Hundred Spanish Mill'd Doll? in Money and Securities for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Term of three years William Tarbell 569. I do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec? of Class N? 3 in Groton, Ninety three pounds ten Shillings in money paid and Secu rity Given by Said Class, in Silver at Six Shillings and Eight pence I04 Groton during the Revolution per ounce in full for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the term of three yeas from the time of my Inhstment witness my hand Ezekiel Porter April 6'J! 1 78 1 570. Groton April 6- 1781 I do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec? of Class N- 16 in Groton afores? Three hundred and one Spanish mill- Dollars in money paid and Security Given in full for my Engaging to Serve in the Continental Service for the term of three years from the time of my Inlistment witness my hand Benj* Tarbell Jun" 571. I do hereby Acknowledge that I have Rec? of the Town of Groton by Class N? 5 in Money and Securities Three hundred Spanish Mill'd Dollars for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Term of three Years Witness my hand this Six Day of April 1781 DAVID farwell 572. I Do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec? of Class N° 10, in Groton Ninety Eight pounds two Shillings in money paid and Secur ity Given by said Class in Silver at Six Shillings and Eight pence per ounce in full for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the term of three years from the time of my Inlistment witness my hand Amos Dole April 65i 1781 573. I do hereby acknowledge that I have Rec? of Class N? 11 in the Town of Groton, Ninety five pounds Twelve Shillings in money paid and Security Given by said Class, in Silver at Six Shillings and Eight pence per ounce, in full for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the term of three years from the time of my Inlist ment witness my hand Oliver Lakin J" April e'-t 1 78 1 574. classes of Soldiers 105 I the Subscriber do hereby Acknowledge that I have this Day Rec? of James Prescott William Swan and Zacheriah Fitch a Commt" of the Town of Groton Three Hundred & four Spanish Mill'd Dollars in Money paid and Security given for my hire as a Soldier in the Continental Army for the Term of three years as Witness my hand this 31" Day of January 1781 Abijah Prescott Joshua Parker Jon" Keep 579. [Indorsed] Groton The next seven receipts are on printed blanks which are filled in, according to the facts in each case, the date, name, number, place, amount, term, and signature being written. Boston, April 30 1782. RECEIVED of M^ Joseph Allen Chairman of Class N<- 3 for the Town of Groton the Sum of Ninety Pounds L. Money, as a Bounty to serve in the Continental Army for the Term of three years Witness my Hand, john Frost 636. [Indorsed] Groton N2 3 ;^90 — o 4 men @ go ;^ ;^ 360:0 1782 Boston, April ii'-^ 1782. RECEIVED of W- Ezekiel Fletcher Chairman of Class N°- 5 for the Town of Groten the Sum of Ninty Pounds L. Money, as a Bounty to serve in the Continental Army for the Term of three years Witness my Hand, Eleazear Ames 637. [Indorsed] Groton N2 5 Boston, June 6 1782. RECEIVED of Mf Thomas Bond Chairman of Class No. 2 for the Town of Groton the Sum of Ninety pounds L. Money, as a Bounty to serve in the Continental Army for the Term of three years Witness my Hand, Oliver Hartwell 638. [Indorsed] Groton N9 2 io6 Groton during the Revolution Boston, April ll"> 1782. RECEIVED of Israel Hobart Esq£ Chairman of Class N°- 7 for the Town of Groton the Sum of Ninty Pounds L. Money, as a Bounty to serve in the Continental Army for the Term of three years Witness my Hand, samson Prescott 639. [Indorsed] Groton N? 7 Boston, 21? August 1782 MUSTERED and received of M? Zachariah Fitch, Chairman of Class No. 8 for the Town of Groton a certain Chandler Russell a Recruit, inlisted for the Term of three Years John Popkin, Muster-Master. April 20, 1783 (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXII. 644) Boston, 13 August 1782. MUSTERED and received of Mf Solomon Woods Chairman of Class No. one for the Town of Groton a certain Samuel Wyman a Recruit, inlisted for the term of three Years. John Popkin, Muster-Master. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXIII. 485) Boston 22* October 1782. MUSTERED and received of Mf Joseph Moors Chairman of Class No. four for the Town of Groton a certain Joseph Stevens a Recruit, inlisted for the Term of three Years John Popkin, Muster-Master. Rec? Feb 13 1783. [Indorsed] Groton (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, XXXII. 635) Classes of Soldiers 107 Groton September 9'.'' 1782 We hereby Certify that Simeon Kemp was a Soldier in actual Service for the Town of Groton in the Six months Service in the Continental army for 1780- That He did march June 26"" and was discharged December 14"' 1780 and that the number of Miles from the place of his discharge was 220 that he was in Service Six months Eleven days & therefore the whole amount of his pay was twelve pounds fourteen Shillings & Eight pence and that He the Said Simeon Kemp was omitted when the Selectmen made up the Mus ter roll agreable to the resolves of the General Court by reason of his certificate of the time of His discharge being mislaid & there fore forgot Signed for Six Month Service £,\2 . o. Oliver Prescott ^ Selectmen Abel Bancrofi >- for Zachariah Fitch ) Groton Middlesex ss Jan''' 27'" 1783 the above named Abel Bancroft & Zachariah Fitch made Solom oath that the foregoing certificate was true in all its parts according to their best knowledge Before me Oliver Prescott Justice of Peace A true coppy Pay Roll for one man that served in the Continental army from the Town of Groton for Six Month in the year 1780 and was omitted in the other Roll Examined and found Due in Specie ;^i 2-0-0 Ezra Sargeant In Council 20"" March 1783 Read & Advised that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury in full of this Roll Attest (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, IV. 70) io8 Groton during the Revolution The following is a copy of a paper which was sold with other manuscripts by Messrs. C. F. Libbie & Co., in Boston, on December 15, 1897, though I do not know to whom. It undoubtedly has a connection with Edmund Holden's receipt printed on page 103. This is Each mans Proportion towards hireng Edmund Holden as a Soldier in Class y*^ 9"' in Groton Zechariah Fitch. Samuel Hemanway. Caleb Blood. Thomas Bond. Samuel Lawrance. Abel Farwell. Amos Adams. Ephraim Kemp. Samuel Kemp Jr. Simeon Nuting. Robertson Lakin. John Simonds. Benjamin Whitney. Wd Rachel Spalding. £ s D Q 3 7 6 0 2 I 9 2 2 7 3 2 3 6 10 0 I 10 S 2 X I II 4 0 X 0 19 6 0 0 18 0 0 X 0 18 0 0 X 0 2 9 0 X 0 I 9 0 X 0 15 4 2 X 0 I 9 0 0 2 10 0 18 5 9 0 Credet ;^o-2-o 1785 [Endorsed] Class Rate. Extracts from the Town Records 109 Extracts from the Town Records The following extracts, relating to the action of the town on several occasions during the early part of the Revolution, are taken from the town records. As the volume for that period is not numbered, I can indicate only the pages where the extracts are found. September 12, 1774. Voted To Raise the Sum of Forty pounds to buy Arms and Ammunition, in addition to the Town Stock, which Sum is to be laid out at the Descretion of Mess? Moses Child Jonathan Clark Lewis and Isaac Woods, who are a Committee for that purpose. (Page 276.) January the 3^? powder Winslow Parker 20 B >^? 6 F Benjs Blood 4 F J^ powder- Simeon Foster ^ powder 4 F Stephen Foster 20 B ^ powder David Jenkins J^" 20 B 6 F Obadiah Jenkins 10 B 5 F ^ Pow James Dodge ^? powder 2 Flints Benjs Lawrence j- J^? powder Aaron Bigelow 20B 2F i/** powder Obadiah Jenkins 20 B ^? 3 F John Laughton 20 B 4F i/? powder Sam!^' Kemp jJ ^^S 20 B 4 F Aaron Farnsworth J^- 20 B 3 F NeW Parker 20 B 6 F i/^ powder Oliver Farnsworth ]'- 'A'^ 2 F John Graves /^- powder 4 F Isaac Lawrence /^ 4 F Daniel Williams 20 B 6 F Joel Porter 20 B 4 F LS Fletcher 13 B Phinehas Hemingway J^"* pow Benjs Hazon )4'^ Amasa Gillson 4 F 6 B Eb : Kemp j^: ^C" Jont Woods y John Lawrence K Revolutionary Papers 119 Ezkiel Nutting j!: >^ 20 B 6 F Jon5 Colburn >^? 20 B 6 F John Lawrence 25 B 4 F Amos Woods 2oB&6F&:|- Powder Oliver Farnsworth -^ Pound Powder i flint and twenty Bullets Groton William Tuckerman 3QI-' Powder & 6 Flints Joseph ,\dams ^'' Powder 3 F 6 B John Hugh 3 flints Jonathan Woods 3 flints Joseph Herick Yz powder 24 B 4 F Jonathan Worster 2 F 20 B Cap' .Amos Lawrance 20 B 4 F Francis Worster 4 F John Hughs i/"" of Powder Jon'' Woods X? of Powder 20 B Ashel Wyman \^- Powder 12 B Return'' in 35 B Elisha Hoit 3Qff Powder & 3 flints & 16 B Timothy moors 3 Flints Benj* Farnsworth 2 F Urial Whitney 2 F Abijah Warrin 3 F & 10 B Jonas Tarboll ^ P 3 F 20 B Nehemiah Holden one flint Jonathan Jenkins %.^ powder 15 B i F Joel Jenkins >^'? 15 B: 2 F John Ames 1/- 30 B 2 F Ambrose Lakin J^"" of powder James Blood j- >^- powder) Return Powd Peter Blood 6 Bullits To W- Eb: Patch about ^"^ powder 12 B Jacob Williams ^'5 20 B 3 F David Lakin 20 B 3 F Oliver Tarbell half a Pound Powder (loi in all) I20 Groton during the Revolution To Pepperrell William Spaulding ]'- }4''- Sam'-' Gillson /z"- Will2 Burk 'A Moses Shattuck A Sam'-' Gillson X'^ powder Eleazar Spaulding J^^ Timothy Hosly }4'^ David Avery ^'5 Powder 15 B. 2 : F Reuben Shattuck yi"^ powder wanting about two charges [These entries relating to Pepperell are crossed out^ [Indorsed] amenition acompt The Selectmen of Groton D- To a Gun Delivered by their order for Obadiah Jenkins to Carry into the Colony army ;^: i : 16 : o April 19'." 1775 V John Stone Rec- of Isaac Farnsworth one pound thirteen Shillings in Cash, as a part of my Servant Cuffis wages, for his Service Feb'- y= 18!!; 1776 V Isaac Townsend Groton March y=' 28= 1777 an accompt of what I have Dun in the wars in the year 1775 Eight months of my Self att Cambridge and Eight fnonths of Uriel [his son] att Cambridge and the whole of y'' year 1776 of uriel in the Continentel Sarves Abner Whitney [Indorsed] Abner Whitney Pepperrell, Septemr y William Bancroft ) ^"¦^i^r [Indorsed] WS! Bancroft Shirley July 3"' 1777. this may Certify that William Bancroft is inlisted in my Company and has past muster During the present War for the town of Groton SiLV^^ Smith Cap' 122 Groton during the Revolution Groton July y? 8'J} 1778 Receiv? of Benj? Bancroft Ju- Treasurer for said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of this Towns Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in said Town Apriel yl= f- 1777 William Bancroft recon? off this may Certify that Aaron Bigelow hes Past muster be fore me muster James Barrett , Aaron Bigelow ^ '"'''^"- [Indorsed] Aaron Biglow This may Certafy that Aaron Bigelow has Inlisted into the Con tinental army for the Town of Groton Edm"? Bancroft L'. Groton May y'' 17"' 1777 Groton May y? 17S! 1777 Receiv? of Benjs Bancroft Ju- Treasurer for said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of the Towns Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in said Town Apriel yf f- 1777 Aaron Bigelow Reckned off . These may Certify that Caleb Blood & John Blood who have inlisted in the Continental army, in Cap- Silvanus Smith, s Com pany in Col : Timothy Biglow,s Regiment, have provided their own Blankets, at their own Expence Groton May s'D 1777 Isaac Farnsworth | Select men John Tarbell / for s^ Groton ) Concord Select Men Samuel Gardner) Rec? of Benj? Bancroft Town Treasurer for Groton afores? Forty pounds Cash as a Town Bounty agreeable to the Towns Vote in augt. 1777- I promise to Serve in the Continental army for three years (if not sooner legally Discharged) as one of s- Groton'' Quota witness Samuel: Cole th Sept 10 day 1777 This may Sartfey that Samuel Cole Has pased muster for the twon of Groten for the term of three years under Captin Smith for the Continatall Searues and has Rescued his State Bounties of me all exsept four pounds ten Shilings for his fier armes and other queterments. falmouth Casco bay In the Countey of Cumbaland muster master for the Same Daniel Insley Esq Reckned off 124 Groton during the Revolution Groton June y^ lo'h 1777 Receiv- of Benjs Bancroft Ju' Treasurer for said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of a Bounty by a vote Passed in said Town the 7- of Apriel last for a soldier that will list into the Contineltal Service for three years or During the war I say Rec" by me william conn ;^20.0.0 attest Jonas Farnsworth Reckned off MIDDLESEX S§ STATE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, MAY g'i 1 777 Whereas I the Subscriber having inlisted in the Continental army, as a Soldier under Cap- Silvanus Smith in Col: Biglow,s Regiment ; and have passed muster, as a Soldier in Said Service during the war, I do hereby acknowledge that I have this day Received a Blanket of the Select men of the Town of Groton, agreeable to an order of the great and general Court of this State f' Edmond Farnsworth the Blanket within mentioned, purchased of y'= widow mary hart well @ 18/ July 21- 1777 Paid This may Certafye that Edm? Farnsworth Inlisted into the Con tinental Army about the Middle of March 1777Edm"? Bancroft, Lieui May y= 24"! 1777 This may Certafy that Edm? Farnsworth has Inlisted into the Continental army for Groton Edm? Bancroft Ap) 20"' 1777 Edmaund Farnsworth Groton Sepl y^ i6'J! 1777 Rec'5 of Benjs Bancroft Ju' Treasurer for This Town Eighteen Shillings in Consequence of the within writing Submit Farwell Revolutionary Papers 125 Decon Bancroft — you may Venter to let David Farwells wife have 3 Dollars Towards yf Towns Bounty &c Reckned off James Prescott 1777 Receiv? of Benjs Bancroft Ju' Town Treasurer Seven Pounds four Shillings in Part of my Husbands Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in this Town Apriel y'' 7- 1777 submit farwell Groton Dec's ys s'Ji 1777 Rec? of Benj? Bancroft Ju^ Twon Treasurer three Pounds Twelue Shillings more I Say Rec? by me submit farwell January y° 31"' 1778 Receiv? of Benj? Bancroft Ju- Eight Pounds Six Shillings in full and in Consequence of the within writing test Moses Child p' me submit farwell Groton Octof 8 1777 this Certifys that we are willing David Farwells wife should have the Towns Bounty proposed for her Husband James Prescott To Decon Bancroft Tresuer": Oliver Prescott Isaac Farnsworth Reckned off Groton Novi 12"' 1781 this Certifieth that Daniel Fletcher Sarved Six months in my Company in the 15"' and 5"' Mass'- Regiments in the years 1780 and 1781, and was Honorably Discharged, he Drew no Blanket nor knapsack during his Service in s? Reg- Filed off SiLv! Smith Cap*- 5'" Regt [Indorsed] Rec! from Cap! Smith This May Certifye that Thomas Farrington Junf Did Inlist in to my Company in the year 1775 on November 20- and has continued in the Service Ever Sence and Still Remaines there) he was born at Groton and heald his Reasedenc there Ever Sence Excepting Paying Som Visits at Andover amongest his Frinds &c., he ought therefore to be Deemed as a Groton man Now in the Service of the United States &¦:. Tho'' Farrington Septem'' 8'J' 1778 126 Groton during the Revolution Middlesex ss September 8- 1778 then the above named Thomas Ferrington personaly appeared before me the subcriber and Made solom oath to the truth of the above Certificate Israel Hobxat f us tice of Peace We hereby Certify that we were Informed that Cato Frye a free Negro who Resided & Laboured in the Town of Pepperrell for some time previous to his Ingaging in the Continental Army, in- listed as a Soldier in the Continental Service for the Town of Groton and that the Selectmen of Pepperell Resigned their pre tensions to hold him, to the Town of Groton as they supposed they were Quota full, & were to make no further Claim about him we also Certify he the s? Cato did Receive a Town Bounty from Groton oct' 13'!' 1778 Oliver Prescott ) Selectmen Isaac Farnsworth > for Joseph Moors ) Groton Concord August 26 7"= 1777 This may Sertify that I baue Enlisted into the Continantal army for three years & haue Pased Muster for the town of grotton his Cato -|- Frye mark Test John Davison Sarg- Groton Sep'- 6'-5 1777 D"! Benj? Bancroft Treasurer I See no Dificulty in your paying L' Wethrell forty pounds in consideration of a man which he has procured for this Town to Serve as a Soldier in y- Continental army for three years as by y- above cirtificate Isaac Farnsworth Reckned off Groton September 6':'' A D 1777 Rec" of the Within Named Benjt Bancroft Treasurer the Sum of Forty pounds in full of the Towns Bounty for the within Named Cato Frye as within mentioned Obadiah Witherell [Indorsed] Cato Fry Revolutionary Papers 127 this may Cartify that Jesse garfield has past muster before [Indorsed ] Jesse Garffield T n 7 muster James Barrett V . •" ) master Cambridge Jany le'l" 1778 This may Certifie all to whoom it may Consern That the Town of Cambridge haue supply? the Contaneltel army with men agreable To order of Court Latly made, by order of the Selectmen N B. Jesse Garffield Excluded Edw° Marrett To Cap' Edw° Marrett Sir this May Certify that we Desire you to Give Jesse GarflSeld a Certificate that the Town of Cambridge have Got their full Quota of men for the Continentel army without Reckoning him for one of them Aaron Hill Cambridge January \&^ 1778 EPHRAIM Frost Step- Dana Groton Jan'' 27''' 1778 Recived of James Prescott the Sum of Sixty pounds (for the use of Jesse Garffield resedent in Cambridge) which I Enlisted into the Contenental army on the first Day of Novf last who is to Serve in Cap. Whites Company in Co- Ruefus Putnums Ridgef which Sum I Recive as a Bounty Given by S? Town of Groton to the Said Garffield to Serve for & be recon? as part of the Quota for Said town Sargent thomas Ditson Attest William Swan Feb'' 13: 1778 re? of Benj? Bancroft Juf Six pounds Reckned off This may Certify that Daniel Gillson and Daniel Gillson Jr hes Past muster before me .„ ) muster James Barrett j- ^^^^^^ Reckned off 128 Groton during the Revolution Groton May ys 14'J! 1777 We the Subscribrers &c Receiv? of Benjs Bancroft Juf Treasurer of the Town of Groton Twenty Pounds Each as in full of Said Towns Bounty Abreeable to a vote Passed in Said Town Apriel yf y- 1777 Daniel Gillson Daniel Gillson Ju"^ [Indorsed] Daniel Gillson this may Certify that Arnel Glidden has past muster before me James Barrett} '"^"f ¦' ) master Arnel Glidden [Indorsed] Arneld Glidden Groton Octf 19'? 1777- Rec? of Benj?' Bancroft juf Town Treas urer for Groton Thirty one pound in Cash which with the sum of nine pounds I have already received of Nathan Smith is in full of the Town? Bounty for their Continental men and do hereby acknowledge I have received the same in Consequence of my being inlisted into the Continental army for three years as one of the s? Town^ Quota of Continental men &c Arnel Glidden witness Oliver Prescott Reckned off For Value received I promise to pay Benjs Bancroft ju' Town Treasurer for the Town of Groton or his Successor in s- office the Sum of Forty pounds on Demand, I having rec? the s? Sum for the purpose of hiring men for s- Town into the Continental Service &c Witness my hand this fifth day Sept- A D. 1777 Nathan Smith Test Isaac Farnsworth Revolutionary Papers 129 Febyg'J! 1778 Gave B- Bancroft an order for the above Sum of forty pounds Septl 55I! 1777 Deacon Bancroft we Desire you to pay Cap'- Smith the Sum within mentioned & receive this Note for the Same Oliver Prescott ^ 5 ^ Isaac Farnsworth ( -h ,k "S Nathan Hubburd 1 ^ Cb Boston May 3'' 1777 This May Certify that Elisha Hoit inlisted in Coll? Crains Regf of Artillery and past Muster the 29"^ of April Last past as for the Town of groton in Cap' Benj" Eustus Companey Joseph Bliss Leiu'. Groton may ys 5* 1777 Receiv? of Benj? Bancroft Ju' Treasurer for Said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of the Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in said Town Apriel y" 7'-^ 1777 I say Rec'' by me Elisha Hoit attest Ephraim Warren jr Reckned off [Indorsed] Elisha Hoit This may sertify that Richard Holden hes Past muster before me ., .„ ) muster Tames Barrett x ¦' ) master Reckned off Groton may yl 12* 1777 Receiv? of Benjs Bancroft Ju' Treasurer for Said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of this Towns Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in Said Town Apriel y'= 17'-^ 1777 Richard holden [Indorsed] Richard Holden 130 Groton during the Revolution Concord may 2 ) muster James Barrett' > . ¦" ) master his Charles X Procktor mark attest Oliver Prescott April 23? 1777 Rec? five Pounds [Indorsed] Charles Procter This may Cartify that Jonas Procter has past muster for Groten befor me -, James Barrett I ' muster master Revolutionary Papers 135 Groton June yS i6'i' 1777 Receiv? of Benj? Bancroft Ju'- Treasurer for said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of this Towns Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in Said Town Apriel yf 7- 1777 attest Daniel Gillson -, „ !;'^ -d ^„....- Jonas X Procter mark Reckned off [Indorsed] Jonas Procter This may Sertify that Nathaniel Russell has Past muster before me T -r, ) muster James Barrett > . ¦' ) master Reckned off Groton May yf 5?!; 1777 Receiv? of Benj? Bancroft Ju^ Treasurer for Said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of the Bounty according to a vote Passed in Said Town Apriel y' f- iTn I Say Rec? by me Eph" Russell [Indorsed] Nath'. Russell Groton April y" 14"' 1777 Gentlemen Please to Pay my Father Ephraim Russell the Sum of twenty Pounds Voted to me as a Towns bounty for my Engageing in the Conten" Service Dureing the war as I am this Day obliged to March and Cannot wait to Receive it my Self & you will oblige your most obedient & Very humble Se- To the Selectmen of Groton or Towns Committee or Treasurer re? twenty pounds Ephr" Russell Reckned off Nathel Russell To the Selectmen of Groton Please to Pay my Hond Father What was allowued for a Blanket for he found me one and I Expected to Drawn the money for it when I Joyned My Regment but could not for want of a certificate from Groton Select men From Your Humble St Nathaniel Russell Albany may ye 28 1777 136 Groton during the Revolution This may sertefy that Salomon Russell hes Past muster Before me T -r, } muster James Barrett } ^^^^^^ Reckned off Groton April y' 30S; 1777 Receiv? of Benj? Bancroft Ju^ Treasurer for said Town Twenty Pounds as in full of the Bounty Agreeable to a vote Passed in Said Town Apriel yf 7'- 1777 I Say Rec" by me Solomon Russell [Indorsed] Solomon Russell may yf 5fS 1777 I the subscriber being inlisted in the Continental army with Capf Silvanus Smith in Col : Timothy Biglow,s Regiment Do hereby acknowledge that I have Received one Blanket of of the Selectmen of y- Town of Groton in Consideration of a Blanket allowed me by an order of the General Court of this State Solomon Russell Concord Sep? 11 y"= 1777 To Capt. Asa Lawrence Sir as you are one of the Comity for to Enlist men for the town I Send you Sam'J Taylor that I haue Enlisted him & Pased muster & want the hyer onest forty Pounds & the town of acton they Say is Coto full Obadiah Witherell I want you Should Enlist them men that you talked of & Send the Enlistment by Eleazer Fames Send me as many as you Can for General Gates is Sent for all the Continantal Oficers & men These from your friend Obadiah Witherell This may Cartify that Samuel Talor has past muster before me James Barrett I '"'"'f ¦' ) master Sepf 12: 1777 I hereby Certify that Nathan Parlin one of yf Com'- of Acton Told me yf Evening of yf 11 : Instant that yf town of Acton had Got their Quota of men & had no objection to my Going for any town Test his Eph" Russell Samuel x Taylor Revolutionary Papers 137 Groton Sep'; 12:1777 I hereby acknowhdge that I have rec? of Oliver Prescott Esq!: forty pounds as an additional Bounty Given by yf Town of Groton To Serve as a Soldier in yf Contenantal army for s? town his Eph*;' Russell Samuel x Taylor ' mark June 23!? 1778 Gave this Receipt to M' Child which I am to have Cr for [Addressed] To Captn Asa Lawrence Groton this may Certify that Samuel Thomson has Past muster before me .J _ ) muster James Barrett y , ¦' ) master Reckned off Groton Jan^ y= 30"" 1778 Rec? of Benjs Bancroft Ju^ Town Treas- for said Town Sixty Pounds and in Consequence of the within Certificate and I hereby acknowledge my Self a Soldier in the Continental Service for the term of three years & as a Private Soldier for the Town of Groton in Said Service in Cap' Salvanus Smith Company attest Thos Bond p- Samuel Thomson [Indorsed] Sam'! Tomson Cambridge April 15 1777 to Cap' Beniamin Bancraft iur town treshrer Sir Pleas to Pay John Williams my money that is Coming from the town as a Soldir in the Contenentel army from groton and this Recit Shall Be your Discharge from me Nathanel Williams John Williams this may Certifi that Nathaniel Williams has Inlisted in my Company for the Town of Groton j^ P' me Matth Fairfield Cp Cambridg Apriel 15 1777 Reckned off 138 Groton during the Revolution Groton Apriel y" ifl 1777 Receiv? of Benj?-" Bancroft Ju'- Treasurer for Said Town Twenty Pounds as in full according to this Towns Vote Passed in Apriel yf 7'-^ 1777 by the hand of my Brother John Williams by my ordor I Say Rec" by me John Williams in behalf of Nithanil Williams This may Certifie that Nat Williams was musterd in Cap Fair- fields Company & Col Wigglesworth Battalion & was paid the State Bounty by Nat Baron Boston M master April 15 1777 County Suffolk [Indorsed] Nathl Williams this may Certify that Peter Youngman hes Past muster before ) muster ) master me -r -o ) muster „ ,, James Barrett V Peter Youngman •' I January 30 1778 This may Certfy that I Peter youngman for and in Consideration of a Sume agreed apon betwexts us to be paid to me by John Nutting of Groton I have Inleasted my Self into the Continantal armey to Do a turn in the place of John Nutting and No other man. atest Peter Youngman Pelati Fletcher This Certifies that the Town of wesford have engaged their Quota in the Contenental army and that the Barer Peter youngman is at Liberty to Engage for any other Town at prsent. Zac!* Wright Cap' Wesford Feb. 11. 1778. Reckned off Groton Feb' 17"' 1778 Rec- of Benj? Bancroft Ju' Town Treasurer for S" Town the Sum of Forty Pounds in full for S? Towns Bounty, & I hereby Acknowl edge my Self A Private Soldier Under Cap' Smith in Coll: Biglows Regf. for Groton During the Term of three Years as Witness my hand Peter Youngman Revolutionary Papers 139 Groton april 23"^ 1777 Rec" of the Selectmen of Groton two Blankets for the use of my Company SiLV§ Smith Cap- Price 42/ We the Subscribers Each of us Rec? of Capf Salvenus Smith a Blankett that he Rec? of the Select men of Groton Benj* Peirce David Tarbel Apriel 23? 1777 Feb- 17'-^ 1778 Peter Youngman Rt from yS Town £40: o : April 14'-!! 1777 Nathi Russell 20 May 17'-!! 1777 Aaron Bigelow 20 Ap- 19'-!; 1777 Benj? Peirce 20 April 1 4'? 1777 Benjs Brazier 20 April 21 1777 Zac- Longley 20 B°- Asa Longley 20 June 27- 1778 Jesse Gaffield 60 May 5Si 1777 Elisha Hoit 20 May 12- 1777 Richard Holdin 20 April 17'-^ 1777 Nath'-' Williams 20 April 14'- 1777 Joel Jenkens 20 May 15'-!! 1777 Zac? Longley Ju!: 20 April 18 1777 WS Kemp 20 July 83; 1777 WS Bancroft 20 April 1 7S! D? Benj! Parker 20 D5 John Blood 20 D5 Caleb Blood Ju^ 20 June 10'-!; 1777 WS Conn 20 May 14'-^ 1777 Daniel Gilson 20 D° Daniel Gilson Ju^ 20 April 30'-!! 1777 Solomon Russell 20 April 15'!! 1777 Henry McNeill 20 April 3o'-S 1778 Sam'-' Thompson 60 Sep- 8'-i 1777 Eleazer Ames 4° May S toa 2 Brought forward 140 16 0 in 0 in 0 in £ .S D John Park I Paid By order T 16 0 Eph'! Russell j' I Paid By order I 16 0 Amos Farnsworth I Paid By order 1 4 0 Joseph Allen I Paid By Cash I 16 0 John Tarbell 2 2 3 Paid By order 10 8 0 158 Groton during the Revolution Ul in 0 S £ S D Lf Hezekiah Sawtell I Paid By order I 4 0 Richard Sawtell I I Paid By order 3 0 0 Wills Bush I paid by order in full 1 4 0 Lf Elisha Rockwood I 3 Paid By order 5 8 0 Lf Jo- Rockwood I Paid By order I 4 Q Tho? Bennett I Paid By order I 16 0 Paul Fletcher I p'S by Town order I 16 0 Benjs Worcester I Paid By an order De livered To Capf Shattuck I 16 0 James Sanders I Paid By order Deliv ered To Constable woods I 16 0 Wills Shed I paid by order to Cap- Shattuck I 16 0 Jason Williams I Paid by order I 16 0 Capf Shattuck 5 paid by order 6 0 0 John Gragg 7 paid Cash II 4 0 Sheple & Lawrence 3 Paid By order Given To Lieu- Bancroft 3 12 0 L John Woods I Paid By order I 4 0 David Woods I Paid By order I 4 0 Moses Child 3 allso for one Cask ;^o 12 0 Paid By order 5 8 0 Wills Derumple I Paid By order I 4 0 Capf Asa Lawrence I Paid By order I 16 0 Josiah Hubbart I Paid By order I 16 0 Jacob Gragg 2 I paid by order 4 0 0 Nehemiah holden I I 3 Paid By Cash 7 0 0 M- Lewis 2 Paid By order 3 12 0 Oliver Shed I Paid By order I 16 0 Cap! Zac*! Fitch I Paid By Town order in full I 16 0 Amos Adams I paid by a Town order in full I 4 0 233- 16 . 0 Revolutionary Papers 159 £ S D Due to Jacob Gragg by mistake in his order Paid By order 13:23: 25 total £22A 8.0 may ^- 1778 Delivered N. may 4"* Delivered El Remains at Swans at Major Moors Hole eazer Iin Ames Shirts 45 I 7 2 Shoes 45 I 2 stockings 45 I 3 12 . 24 . 26 55 • 48 49 43 24 . 23 55 • 48 . 49 Due To m- John Tarbell for Cash Borrowed 18 Dolers D"-? To Joseph Moors Cash o : 14:0 [Indorsed] Cloathing Acc- 17 Mosher S- Elezer ames is in Need of his Shurt Stockens & Shoes & we as Select men for the Town of Groton are willing To Deliver them To him your Certifying To us That you will informe his Col? that he may Not Draw them agane GROTONmay 4'Jl 1778 ISAAC FarNSWORTH Joseph Moors John Tarbell Oliver Prescott Selectmen for Groton Gentlemen A Cording to your Desire I Shall Send Elezer Ames Kapt to his Cap' Sirs yours John Mosher Lu' i6o Groton during the Revolution L' Jo? Rockwood Wills Derumple Jonf Lawrence Capf Sheple 2- of wool m' Lewis Hezekiah Kemp Oliver Blood Converse Richardson L- Benjs Lawrence Sein" to make up Capf Sheples wool into Stockens Sam- Gragg Benjs Davis m- Sam- Dana Lem- Parker moorsChild Shurts 3 6 Stockings 3 26 5 33 = Shirts I Stockings I Shoes 3 Shoes O Cred ^41 o. 8 : o I 19 0 0 1= 4-9- -0 14 3 0 0 18 = 0 14 3 3:9 Benjs Stone WS Nutting Jn? Park Amos Farnsworth Caleb Woods Benjs Bancroft juf Amos Ames I shirt I D" I p- Shoes I p!: Stockings I p!: Shoes - I p'- Sh pf Shoes J" I p- Stockings p' Stock Shirt Revolutionary Papers Obad Jenkings I p!: Stockings Cap' Henry Farwell 2 p- Stockings Sam- Lawrance 2 Shirts Stock Shoes 5 6 4 Amos Adams I Neh Lawrance 2 WS Swan I I Zach Fitch I L Wait I Tho? Farwell I Rich!" Sawtell I Lf Sol. Woods 2 2 L- Sam" Lawrance I Benj Stone more 5 I Oliver Shead I Abel Bancroft I Enoch Cook I I 13: 12 : 14 Shurts Stockings Shoes 13: 12: 14 S6 56 56 56 : 14 2 6 8 19 24 28 Wh? 6 6 6 Lawful 1 37 32 28 mony 19 24 28 13 24 widd? Mary hartwell Nehs holden Isaac Farnsworth one pair of Stockings Two pair of Stockings 2 Shirts one pair of Stockings 75° 375 1125 1 = 15 = I 18 » = 2 I 3 3 : 13 = 10 = 6: II .3 4 12 16 II o 10 I 3 i6 2 Groton during the Revolution Cap- Asa £ 7. 9 ¦ 5 Smith 40 milage 9 D° 43 5 8 milage 3 0 0 Allen 33 15 0 £136- IO- I Ds Bancroft Feb?" 9"" 1778 Gave him an order for the above sum State of the Massachusetts Bay To the Selectmen of the Toivn of Groton B^ To Cloathing delivered to Capf Joseph Hosmer for the Con tinental Army, agreeable to the Resolves of the General Court June 16'!" 1778. To 39 Shirts @ 48/ £()t, .12.0 To 15 pairs of Stockings @ 30/ 22-10-0 To 39 pairs of Shoes @ 48/ 93-12-0 Groton Dec!; 2i'i' 1778 Total ;£'209 .14.0 In the name of the Selectmen Oliver Prescott Coppy allowed for Transport 17 miles 3/ 2 - 11 - o £¦2^2 . 5-0 Jan!? 9'J5 1779 Examined & allowed Co.vi''''^^ Revolutionary Papers 163 State of the Massachusetts Bay To the Selectmen of the Town of Groton D- To Sundry articles of Cloathing delivered Captain Joseph Hosmer for the Continental Army agreeable to a Resolve of the Gen'- Court i6"' June 1778 To 39 Shirts @ 40/ .^ 78 " o • o To 15 pair of Stockings ©30/ 22-10-2 To 39 pairs of Shoes @ 48/ 93 -12-0 Groto.n Dec^ 21=' 1778. [Indorsed] Bay State Dr to Groton Total .^194 U 1^ Cothing provided for the Soldiers agreeable to an order of the General Court passed ° m June 16^! 1778 II Nathan Hubburd Solomon Coopper Wid'? Esther Lamson Wid° Esther Wait Isaac Farnsworth Cap! Fitch Maj!: IVloors ¦SS. £ S D <-* to 8 p^' Nathan Hub bard by L' A Lawrance 72 Dollars I Paid By Town order 2 14 o 1 Paid By Town order 2 14 o P" By Town order 3 12 o I p'S ds Farnsworth in full 42 Dollars 6 N. B. Special agreement Dec!: if- 1779 P'S by order 54 Dollars 3 12 6 pair Shoes Sence p" maj': moors in full 213 dollars 164 Groton during the Revolution Capf Shattuck John Tarbell In the Store ¦ Total Novi 21? 1778 David Woods Juneyf 7. 1779 Paid Cap5 Shattuck 121 Dol lars in full for all the cloath ing he found — Josiah Lakin? Stockings and the shoes Called 9 Dollars a pair- p-S Jn? Tarbell by L' Bancroft 99 Dollars June 7'Ss Paid Jn? Tarbell 8?/ in full for Clothing 39-15 • 39 I Paid By Town order £1 Paid Joseph moors for one pair of Stockings By order which was forgot to Be Sot Down Decf 21?' 1778 Agreed to pay five Dollars for each pairs of Stockings and Six Dollars for each shirt June 7^ 1779 Paid Phinehas Hubburd by order for two Pair of Shoes forgot to be Set Down ;^5 253 60 IS 75 I to 00 00 000 77 [Indorsed] Clothing for the Army 0 0 Accf FebK 15'-!! 1779 Clothing Rec'S for the Soldiers of m'- John Stone two tow Shirts .:^ 3 = '2 = o of Ephs Russell Jun- Eleven pair of Shoes 29 = 14 = o also two pair of Stockings 3 = o = o of the wid? Colier two pair of Stockings 3 = 0=0 Revolutionary Papers 165 of maj!: moors eight pair of Shoes & one pair of Stockings of Josiah Lakins wife five pair of Stockings of John Tarbell ten pair of Stockings also two tow Shirts of Benjs Page one pair of Stockings one pair of Stockings of David Woods,s which was brought in before & enter- on another List the Within is all Paid 7 = 10 = 20 5 = 0 = 0 3 = 12 = 0 1 = 10 = 0 We hereby acknowledge ourselves to be inlisted into the Con tinental Army agreeable to the Resolves of the Great and General Court of the 2o'-S! April last for Raising Two Thousand men to reinforce General Washington &c and promise to serve in s'S Army accordingly as one of the men assigned the Town of Groton for that purpose and to sign any other proper inlistment therefor, if required witness our hand this ii'-S: may 1778 Simeon foster John Sheple ]- Shattuck Blood J" JanZ i85l! 1779 this Day Pec's of the Towns money the sum of ^19 = 2 = o The State Treasurer,s order on Constable Wait _;^ 2 12 = 5 Pec's ;^ 159 in part Rec"- 53-5 212 - 5 [Indorsed] Pay Benjs Beels of Ringe in y? State of New hamshire & Anna Lawrence of Groton enter'S Jan^ g- 1779 Without doubt this is a publishment, as the couple were married. on May 11, 1779. 1 66 Groton during the Revolution The wid? Mary Hartwell of Groton Testifies & saith that her Son Edmund Farnsworth went & lived with a man at acton and was to have been bound as an apprentice if he had liked his place; but being Discor tented, he inlisted into the army in the Sixteenth year of his age, upon which his master never paid him any wages and withheld his Cloathing — That he served as a Soldier in Cap Moors Comp? and went to York ; after his return from York came to Groton and lived with the Dopenent all winter and on the 17"' of march 1777, inlisted into the Continental army for during the Warr & received his Bounty from Groton and lived with her untill he marched again. ^^^ mid" ss. June 24'S-' 1778. Mary x Hartwell mark The abovenamed Mary Hartwell made oath to the Truth of the above Deposition by her subscribed : before Oliver Prescott Just Peace This Certifies that the Selectmen of Groton informed me that they numbered Edmund Farnsworth for Groton June 24'!' 1778. Oliver Prescott the Chary Valey September n 1778 this may Sartify that We the Subscribers haue inlisted ouer Seines into the Continentel Seruis for three year and Do heare by Engaig to Serue for the town of Groten or aney other town or Parson and Do hearby impouer Capf Liuf Jonas Parker to Receiu the towns bountey for Eaich of us as Witness our hands yocham X Vanallstine inarlc his Test Peter Wright Andrew X Strander Cherry Ually Oc-' 16'!' 1778 These are to sartify, that Youghem vanalstine in Colonl Aldens Regf base apered before me this Day, and hes taken the oath of fidelity to the State ; according to to [sic] regulation of the Con gress, to qualify them for a Soldier Will" Jo hnston Justice Revolutionary Papers 167 CiiKRRV U.vli.y Oc'' 177S These may sartify that Andr" astrander now in Colon! Alden's Regf has apper'd before me, and has qualified by Oath, according to the Acts of Congress, in order to qualify him for a soldier in the Continental Army Will" Johnston Justice if the Peace Cherry Vali.ky 30'.'' Nov: 1778 this sertifys that I have Musterd Yocham V'! Alstine and Andrew O'Strander for Capf Lf Parker as Soldiers in the Continittal Service in the late Coif' Aldens Battallion Richard Lash D. C Muster northern Department Fort Alden 28f'' March 1779 I do hereby Certify that the within Mentioned Richard Lash is A Dep'' Continettal Muster Master for the Northern Department D Whiting Maj! Comml these Men are ingaiged For three years Jonas Parker Cap'. L'. A true Copbey D-' May 31''' 1779. Rec'S of Oliver Prescott Esqf Two Hundred pounds Lawfull mony, in full Satisfaction for a Towns Bounty for two Soldiers viz .-\ndrew astrander & Yocham Vanallstine inlisted into the Continental .-Vrmy for three years from Nov" 1778. and are Soldiers in late Col' Alden? Reg- :/^2oo JoN.-\s Parker C«/' Z' Ducal M'^Kenzy — born in Don Robin Southerlinshire aged 25 years Jan>' last — L- Col'' Campbell 7 i?' Regt 5 feet 3 Inches John Creige — born in Balereif in the Parish of Aberleddy in the County East Louden — aged 25 — L'- Col'? Campbell 7 1^ Reg' — 5 feet 6J^< Inches Peter Hooy born in the City of Edinburg and Parish of West Kirk — in mid Louden — aged 19 years — Lt Col° Campbell 71- Regt. — 5 feet 10 Inches i68 Groton during the Revolution M!2 Gordon D' To Journeys and med? in the Family fro Balenerif Aberledy See page 142 for an account of the capture of these Scotch men who were taken on the " George." Perhaps these men afterward re-enlisted on the side of the Americans. Sir Archibald Campbell was the Lieutenant Colonel of the sec ond battalion of the 71st Regiment of Highlanders. Robert Campbell, mentioned below, was a prisoner of war. See pages 149, 150, for several allusions to him and his wife. Names RegE Company Statuer Feet Inches Robart Campbell Col° Campbell Capf Louring Campbell 5/1° age Complection Where Born artificial mark 40 Light Parish of Ken more Boston Febyis"' 1779 Rece? of the Town Treasurer of Groton by the hand of the Honf'= Oliuer Prescott Esqf a note of hand for one Hund? & forty pound payable in one year with Interest as a Bounty from S? Town of Groton to John M'^Gee a Soldier Enlisted During the War in Colo! James Wessons Regement f ' B White Brookline Feb? 12'" 1779 This may Certifie that John Ma'^Gee is a Soldier in my Regiment & Enlisted during the War & is Returned for no Town in the State & at liberty to be Returned for y"^ Town of Groton ; Jemes Wesson Revolutionary Papers 169 Groton August y? 24: 1779 then R? of Jonathan Stone one Bushel of Rye for the Use of my family ^f Jemima Longley [Indorsed] D"! Longleys wife Reef The Town of Groton Df for three Day I spent in hireing men for the Contanental Army & Rhod Island Service ;^7 : 4 : o Amos Lawrance Ju" Groton Oct 42 I 2 Joshua Parker i>^ 2 Simeon Kemp i I Worcester ss. Fitchburg 1787. A List of the names of those Persons belonging to the Town of Groton, who took and Subscribed the Oath of Allegiance Before me Thos Cowdin Jus Pads Vizf 1787 Feb. 24'^ Amos Adams, [Addressed] For The Town Clerk of Groton Common Wealth of Massachuseti-s ; Middlesex ss. To the Town clark of the Town of Groton in said county; Sir This is to certify you, that the persons hereafter named, haveing taken a part against Government, in the late Insurrections, have voluntarily, delivered up their arms ; and taken and subcribed the the [sic] oath of Allegience ; to this common Wealth, (agreeable to an act of the General Court; passed February 16'!' 1787 :) before me ; Israel Hobart Justice of Peace. The Shavs Rebellion These following had as they Say no arms of their own but borrowed or lent or was other ways ading to wit Oliver Hartwell John Graves Says he had one he carried of Samuel Gragg William Parker Benjamin Parker Eleazer Green Jonathan Stevens Joel Kemp John Woods Sampson Prescott Jotham Woods Naum Woods Jacob Gragg Ju' Rober Ames Ju' David Prescott Jonathan Frost John Derumple Elisha Sever Joseph Kemp i8 dated at Groton the 21'" day of March A D [Addressed] For the Town Clerk of Groton 183 Joseph Shed Asa Kemp Jonas Stone Ephraim Kemp Jonathan Blood Samuel Hartwell Ezekiel Shattuck David Lakin Nathaniel Blanchard James Woods Oliver Kemp Solomon Gillson Shattuck Blood Ju' Jonas Tarbell Oliver Fletcher Ju' John Blood Salmon Lawrence Oliver Woods Oliver Shed Oliver Shed Jur Eben Tarbell Joseph Frost Royal Blood 23 1787 Israel Hobart Harvard March y= 21 1787 A return Of the names of those that Came before me that belong to the Town of Groton in the County of Middlesex, and took and subcribed the Oath of Allegiance to the Commonwelth of Massa chusetts, and Delivered up their arms according to law. there names are as follows. Viz Joseph Wetherbee of Groton Blacksmith Ebenezer Farnsworth of Groton Laboror Abel Wetherbee of Groton Laboror Eleazer Davis of Groton Cordwainer 1 84 Groton during the Revolution Abel Morse of Groton wheelwright Jesse Stone of Groton Laboror Abel Davis Jun'- of Groton a miner Ben^ Frost of Groton a miner Timothy Stone of Groton a miner Joseph Park of Groton yeomon John Moore of Groton yeomon John park Jun' of Groton stone cutter Josiah Whitney Jus^. peace To THE Town Clark of Groton [Addressed] To M' Isaac Farnsworth Groten town Clark [Indorsed] Justice Whitneys return put in to my hand by Jonas Stone Sunday April 81!! 1787 To THE Town Clerk of Groton Sir I herewith Exhibit the Name of y" person in Groton who has taken and Subscribed the Oath of allegiance to y'^^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts before me and delivered up his Arm agreeable to Law viz Robert Ames Eben" Champney J Pads March 23 1787 To the Town Clerk of Groton, Sir, I herewith Exhibit the names of such persons in the Town of Groton, as have taken & Subscribed the oath of Allegiance to this Commonwealth, before me, & Delivered up their arms agreeably to Law ; viz. Moody Chase Joseph Allen Jacob Chase Jonathan Tarbell Thomas Tarbell Solomon Tarbell William Lawrance Asa Lawrance March 23'? 1787. The Shays Rebellion 185 Abel Stevens Jonas Blood Samuel Hodgskin Benj" Morse Samuel Morse I am, sir, yf Humble Serf Oliver Prescott Just peace N. B. Jonas Blood had no Gun & very poor and week in body & mind[Addressed] Town Clerk of Groton Pepperrell March 23: 1787 This may certify that Joh[n] Bowers Peter Blood Asa Blood and Oliver Parker of Groton have delivered up there arms and taken the oath of Allegiance according to Law before me W- Prescott Justice of Peace [Addressed] To the Town Clerk of Groton JulyAugust 4 August 1 1 Septemb"' i Sept 6 Sept 15 Sept. 22 Septem October Octob 27 1788 To the Gentiemen SelectMen To tod 4 mugs sider 2 mugs To liquor To 4 mugs of tod 2 mug of cider To Flip tod and brandy To 4 mugs of flip I half-pint of brandy To 4 mugs of flip To tod flip and brand To hors bating To the comty by order of the selectmen To 4 mugs of tod 3 mug of flip To 4 mugs of and i Pint of brandy To 6 mugs of tod 4 mug of lip 2 mugs of sider 0 3 4 0 8 9 0 3 5 0 7 2 0 3 8 0 3 0 0 3 8 0 I 0 0 5 8 0 5 3 0 4 4 0 7 10 i86 Groton during the Revolution Novemb i To I Quort of brandy 4 mugs of flip 2 sheets paper Nouem 15 To Liquor and Paper Nov 22 To 2 mugs of tod To brandy and tod December 18 To Liquor To I mug of flip geneway i To flip and tod and biscit genew 19 To Vittles and drink To 2 horses up to hay Febrewary 2 To I mug of tod I glass of brandy 4 sheets of paper To 2 mug tod 2 mug of flip To 2 horsbtins to 2 mugs of tod I Pint brandy To 2 mugs of sider 2 mugg of tod 2 of flip To 2 mugs of flip 4 mug of tod I half Pint brand To I half mug of tod i gil of brandy Febrewary 12 To flip and tod and sider Febre 16 To Liquor Febre 20 To Liquor and hors bating Feb 23 To Liquor 0 5 10 0 5 3 0 I 6 0 2 3 0 6 8 0 0 9 0 10 2 0 9 3 0 0 9 0 I 4 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 3 6 0 5 2 0 0 8 0 7 3 0 6 I 0 s I 0 4 7 i88 Groton during the Revolution Counter-stamp Stamp fssued under the Act of 1765 Revolutionary Items 189 Revolutionary Items The following articles relating to the Revolutionary period have already been printed, for the most part, in the " Groton Historical Series." As a matter of general convenience both to the reader and the student, they are now brought together in this volume where they have been arranged mainly in chronological order. In a few instances, however, changes have been made in the body of the article, when it is not given as a quotation. The Stamp Act I give herewith an engraving of a half-crown stamp, in exact size, issued under the authority of the famous Act of 1765, which was affixed to certain papers, documents, etc., by order of the British government. It was the resistance to this impost, on the part of the American colonies, that brought about their separation from the mother country. The Act was soon repealed, however, as the crown authorities found it impossible to enforce the law. On a public occasion once, in an after-dinner speech on April 19, 1850, Mr. Edward Everett, holding up a specimen of the stamp, said: " Yes, sir, that bit of dingy blue paper, stamped with the two and six pence sterling, created the United States of America, and cost Great Britain the brightest jewel in her crown." In the autumn of 1854 I procured at the American legation in London one of these memorable stamps. A few years previously a certain number of them had been found by the 190 Groton during the Revolution Commissioners of Inland Revenue during their removal from Old Broad Street to the Somerset House, London. Some of the specimens were given at the time to Americans who were interested in the matter ; and it was one of these that I was lucky enough to obtain. Apparently with a die an impression was made on faded blue paper pasted over parchment, and fastened to the back of it by a narrow strip of tin-foil ; and a small piece of white paper, bearing a device as described below, was stuck over the ends of the tin-foil. The impression on the blue paper is not very deep, but yet quite distinct. It contains a crown, with the word America over the top, and the letter A on one side ; and the money value of the stamp is given at the bot tom. In the centre of the impression is a double Tudor rose surrounded by the motto of the Order of the Garter. In the cut the foil is represented on the right of the rose. The coun ter-stamp, or small piece of white paper which was stuck over the ends of the tin-foil on the back, has a crown with the letters " G R," — one letter on each side, — and the figure 3 slightly below ; and a double cipher or monogram of G. R. under the whole. The blue stamps were intended for deeds, wills, and other formal documents, and the price varied according to circum stances. All the specimens that I have seen appear to have been cut out of the corners of parchment, which have been duly embossed, but never used, as the odious Act was re pealed so soon. The stamps for " paper for printing " were made by a cut or a die. I have seen a copy of " The Halifax Gazette : or the Weekly Advertiser," Thursday, February 13, 1766, which bears on the last page such a stamp in red ink, to which has been added a rude engraving in type-metal, rep resenting the Devil with a four-tined fork, on his domestic hearth, in the act of pitching the stamp into the fiery furnace. In the Supplement to Lossing's " Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution " (II. 877) is given an engraving of what pur- Revolutionary Items 191 ports to be one of the stamps made for the American colonies in 1765, but this is an error. It is not a stamp struck for the colonies at all, but for home use in England, and does not bear the word America over the crown. The Tea Tax The following " Proceedings " are taken from " The Boston Evening-Post," January 3, 1774. It will be noticed that the meeting was held on the day of the Boston Tea- Party. Proceedings of the Town of Groton. AT a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Groton, assembled at the Public Meeting-House in said Town, on Thursday, Dec. i6th, 1773. To Consider what is proper for this Town to do relative to the large quantities of TEA, belonging to the Hon. East-India Com pany, arrived and expected to arrive in this Province, subject to an American Duty. Chose JAMES PRESCOTT, Esq ; Moderator. Then the Committee of Correspondence for said Town laid be fore them a Letter which had been agreed upon by the Committees of several Towns, to be sent to all the Towns in this Province, in order to know their minds at this critical Juncture ; and having read the same, as also the Votes and proceedings of the Town of Boston, at their late Town Meetings in Nov. last : — The Town came into the following Resolves and Votes unanimously, That we highly approve of the Conduct of the Town of Boston at their late Town Meetings aforesaid, and the several Resolves they came into, relative to the TEAS sent by the East-India Com pany to America. — And as we Esteem the late Act of Parliament for the benefit of said India Company as an intollerable Grievance, and a very subtle plan of the Ministry to ensnare and enslave the Americans, preferring the Public Happiness to our own private advantage. We will readily afford all the assistance in our Power, to the Town of Boston and all other of our opprest American 192 Groton during the Revolution Brethren, and heartily unite with them in every Constitutional method, to oppose this and every other scheme that shall appear to us, to be subversive of American Rights and Lilaerties, and dis- honorary to his Majesty's Crown and Dignity, at the risque of our Lives and Substance. Voted, That our most Cordial Thanks be presented to the In habitants of the Town of Boston, for their wise, prudent and spirited Conduct at this alarming Crisis, and for their repeated Vigilance and unwearied Endeavours, to recover and preserve the Rights and Liberties of America. Upon a motion made, Voted unanimously. That the Inhabitants of this Town, will not buy, sell, or make use of any TEA, while subject to an American Duty. Voted, That the Committee of Correspondence for this Town, be desired to wait upon the several Shop-keepers and Traders, within this Town, and desire them not to buy, sell or any way dispose of any TEA while subject to an American duty, as they would avoid the odium of the Town. Voted, That the Committee of Correspondence for this Town be desired to forward an attested Copy of the Proceedings of this Meeting, to the Committee of Correspondence in the Town of Boston. Voted, That this meeting be dissolved. — And it was accordingly dissolved. A true Copy. Attested. OLIVER PRESCOTT, Town-Clerk. AT a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Groton, Assembled May 8th, 1773. Voted and chose James Prescott Esq ; Oliver Prescott Esq ; and Josiah Sawtell Gent, a Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Groton, unanimously. Attest, OLIVER PRESCOTT, Town-Clerk. Revolutionary Items 193 The Boston Port Bill Colonel Thomas W. Higginson, on page 174 of his " Young Folks' History of the United States" (1898), speaks of the effect of the Boston Port Bill on the public mind, and says : — Of course, the sympathy of other towns, and even of the other col onies, was at once excited. So a great variety of gifts began to be sent into the suffering town, — gr^in from Groton, and salt fish from Marblehead, and a flock of two hundred and fifty sheep from Windham, Conn. The southern colonies sent flour and rice ; and the middle colonies corn and iron ; and many towns sent money for the poor ; so that the effect of the Boston Port Bill was entirely different from what the British Government expected. In this description Colonel Higginson took his main facts from Volume IV. (fourth series) of the " Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society," where is found a copious correspondence between a committee of the town of Boston and various contributors for the relief of the sufferers by the Boston Port Bill. The following letter written by the town clerk of Groton and the reply by the Boston Overseers of the Poor, found on pages 7-10 of the volume, are highly creditable to all concerned : — Groton, June 28th, 1774. Gentlemen, — The inhabitants of the Town of Groton, in gen eral, are deeply affected with a sense of our public calamities, and more especially the distresses of our brethren in the Capital of the Province, as we esteem the act of blocking up the harbor of Boston replete with injustice and cruelty, and evidently designed to compel the inhabitants thereof to submission of taxes imposed upon them without their consent, and threatens the total destruction of the lib erties of all British America. We ardently desire a happy union with Great Britain and the Colonies, and shall gladly adopt every measure consistent with the dignity and safety of British subjects for that purpose. 13 194 Groton during the Revolution In full confidence that the inhabitants of the Town of Boston will, in general, exhibit examples of patience, fortitude and perse verance, while they are called to endure this oppression for the preservation of the liberties of their country, and in token of our willingness to afford all suitable relief to them in our power, a number of inhabitants of this Town have subscribed, and this day sent forty bushels of grain, part rye and part Indian corn, to be de livered to the Overseers of the Poor of said Town of Boston, not doubting but the same will be suitably applied for that purpose ; and we earnestly desire you will use your utmost endeavor to pre vent and avoid all mobs, riots, and tumults, and the insulting of private persons and property. And while the farmers are cheerfully resigning part of their substance for your relief, we trust the mer chants will not oppress them by raising upon the goods which they have now on hand and heretofore purchased. And may God pros per every undertaking which tends to the salvation of the people. We are. Gentlemen, your friends and fellow-countrymen. In the name and by order of the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Groton. Oliver Prescott, Clerk. To the Overseers of the Town of Boston. Boston, July sth, 1774. Sir, — Your obliging letter directed to the Overseers of the Poor of this Town, together with a generous present from a number of the in habitants of the Town of Groton, for the relief of such inhabitants of this Town as may be sufferers by the Port Bill, is come to hand. In behalf of the Committee of this Town, appointed for the reception of such kind donations, I am now to return to you and the rest of our benefactors the most sincere thanks. The gentlemen may be assured their donations will be applied to the purpose they intend. We are much obliged to you for the wise cautions given in your let ter, and we shall use our best endeavors that the inhabitants of this Town may endure their sufferings with dignity, that the glorious cause for which they suffer may not be reproached. We trust that the non-consumption agreement, which we hear is making progress in the country, will put it out of the power of any of the merchants to take unreasonable advantage of raising the prices of their goods. You win, however, remember, that many heavy articles, such as Revolutionary Items 195 nails, &c., will be attended with considerable charge in transporting them from Salem. As the bearer is in haste, I must conclude, with great regard for your Committee of Correspondence and the inhabitants of the Town of Groton. Sir, your friend and fellow-countryman. Signed by order of the Overseers of the Poor, Sam. Partridge. To the Committee of the Town of Groton, in Massachusetts. Committee of Correspondence September 6, 1774. THE Inhabitants of the Town of Littleton being assembled at the Meeting-House in said Town ; First voted and chose Mr. Robert Harris Moderator of said Meeting. 2. Chose Captain Jonathan Reed, Mr. Robert Harris and Mr. Aaron Jewett, a Committee of Correspondence for Littleton. 3. Voted that the present Committee should go to Groton, to meet the Committees of the several Towns in the Neighbourhood on Friday next, agreeable to the Desire of said Committees. 4. Voted, That the Proceedings of this Meeting be published in the publick News-Papers. A true copy of the Proceedings, Attest. OLIVER HOAR, Town-Clerk. "The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal," Monday, September 19, 1774. Rev. Samuel Dana It is well known that the Reverend Samuel Dana, minister of Groton from the year 1761 to 1775, at the outbreak of the Revolution, was in sympathy with the Crown. His political views made him unpopular, and caused his dismissal from the parish. An account of the difficulties is given in Mr. Butler's History (pages 179-181). The following notice, by no means clearly expressed, is found in " The New-England Chronicle : or, the Essex Gazette," June 8, 1775 : — 196 Groton during the Revolution Groton, May isth, 1775. THE Inhabitants of Groton in Town-Meeting assembled, the Rev. Samuel Dana offered that to the Town with Regard to his political Principles and Conduct, with which the Town voted themselves fully satisfied, and that he ought to enjoy the Privi leges of Society in common with other Members, and we hope this, with the following by him subscribed, will be fully satisfactory to the Publick. Oliver Prescott, \ ^ . , -r n J. I Committee of James Prescott, I ¦' T ¦ T c ^ 71 { Correspondence Josiah Sartell, \ -^ Lsaac Farnsworth, \ -^ Moses Child, ) G''°™''- I The Subscriber, being deeply affected with the Miseries bro't on this Country, by a horrid Thirst for ill-got Wealth and unconsti tutional Power — and lamenting my Unhappiness, in being left to adopt Principles in Politics different from the Generality of my Countrymen ; and thence to conduct in a Manner that has but too justly excited the Jealously and Resentment of the true Sons of Liberty against me, earnestly desirous, at the same Time, to give them all the Satisfaction in my Power ; do hereby sincerely ask Forgiveness of all such for whatever I have said or done, that had the least Tendency to the Injury of my Country, assuring them that it is my full Purpose, in my proper Sphere, to unite with them, in all those laudable and fit Measures, that have been recommended by the Continental and Provincial Congresses, for the Salvation of this Country, hoping my future Conversation and Conduct will fully prove the Uprightness of my present Professions. SAMUEL DANA. Groton, May 22, 1775. "The Essex Gazette" newspaper, at the beginning of the Revolution, was removed from Salem to Cambridge, where it was published under the name of " The New-England Chron icle : or, the Essex Gazette." It was printed in Stoughton Hall, Harvard College, and the first number under its new title is dated May 12, 1775. Revolutionary Items 197 The following paper is found in Peter Force's " American Archives" (fourth series, II. 1109) : — To the Honourable Gentlemen of the Provincial Congress of New- Hampshire : That whereas, Jason Russell and John Tarbell, both of Mason, in said Province, did, in a felonious manner, on or about the 20th of May last, retire to a pasture in said Town belonging to Samuel Dana, of Groton, and took from thence a three year heifer, and killed and converted it to their own use ; whereupon, early notice being given to the Committee for said Town, they met, and required of the offenders full satisfaction therefor, but each of them peremp torily refusing to comply therewith : The advice of Committees from the neighbouring Towns being called in, viz : New-Lpswich and Temple, and the criminals being cited to appear before said Com mittees, not only neglected to make their appearance before us, but, as we learn, have fled to the Army ; and finding ourselves unable to settle the unhappy difficulty by reason of their escape, came into the following Resolution, viz : Resolved, To refer the matter to your judicious consideration, begging that you will, in your wisdom, take cognizance of the offence, and deal with them in this and in such like case for the future. Ephraim Adams, Chairman. David Blodgett, Scribe. Mason, June 26, 1775. It is probable that Mr. Dana's tory proclivities at this period had some connection with the affair. John Tarbell, who is mentioned in the preamble, was of Groton descent. Rev. Samuel Webster s Sermon The following is the title of a sermon, mentioned on page 4, which was preached before the Groton minute-men, on Feb ruary 21, 1775 : — 198 Groton during the Revolution Rabshakeh's Proposals | Considered, | in a | SERMON, | De livered at Groton \ February 21, 1775. | At the Desire of the Officers of the | Companies of Minute Men in that | Town. | By I Samuel Webster, A.M. | Pastor of the Church at Temple, | in New-Hampshire. || Boston : Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street. 1775. 8vo. pp. 30. The sermon is singularly meagre in details, and made up largely of theological opinion, perhaps as valuable now as then, but not so highly prized. The author says that a large majority of the town, agreeably to the plan of the Provincial Council, had promised to hold themselves in prompt readiness to act in the service of their country. Parole and Countersign According to the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Histor ical Society (XV. loi) for October, 1876, the parole at the camp in Cambridge on the night of May 21, 1775, was " Groton," and the countersign " Pepperell." These words, doubtless, were suggested by Colonel Prescott, a native of Groton and a resident of Pepperell, who was then command ing a regiment in the Provincial Army. Battle of Bunker Hill Groton Men Killed in the Fight -a' One commissioned officer and ten enlisted men, residents of Groton, were either killed or mortally wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The roll of honor comprises the names of Lieutenant Amaziah Fassett, who fell wounded and died a prisoner in Boston, a few days later, on July 5 ; Sergeant Ben jamin Prescott, eldest son of the Honorable James Prescott, Revolutionary Items 199 and nephew of Colonel William Prescott, the commander on the American side ; and Privates Abraham Blood, Chambers Corey, James Dodge, Peter Fisk, Stephen Foster, Simon Hobart, Jonathan Jenkins, Robert Parker, and Benjamin Woods. This loss was the largest suffered by any one town in the battle, and shows the patriotic character of the citizens at that period. These soldiers were serving in five different companies of Colonel Prescott's regiment, and their names now appear on the bronze tablets which have been placed on Bunker Hill by the city of Boston in memory of the brave men who fell in that historic engagement. It is highly prob able that Amos Fisk, killed in the battle, was another Groton soldier who fell on that day. See page 45 for a statement of the facts. Colonel Prescott, the commander of the American forces, and at least three of the Pepperell soldiers who lost their lives in the fight, were natives of Groton. Error on Bunker Hill Tablets In connection with the names that are given on the tablets set up by the city, there is a singular error worth noting. David Kemp, of Groton, is named as one of the men who was killed on the Seventeenth, though fortunately he was only captured in that engagement, and afterward was carried to Halifax. By mistake he was reported as dying while a pris oner in Boston, and for a long time his family mourned him as dead. It is not recorded when they first heard of his safety, but probably it was many months after the battle. In " The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal " (Water- town), July 29, 1776, it is said : — Last Tuesday Evening came to town from Halifax, Lieut. Scott of Peterborough, in New Hampshire Government, who was wounded and taken Prisoner at the memorable Battle of Bunker Hill the 17th of June, 1775, and has been a Prisoner ever since. He 200 Groton during the Revolution informs, That he with 13 others broke Goal about 5 Weeks ago, and betook themselves to the Woods, where they seperated ; that Captain Martindale and his first and second Lieutenants, John Brown Rifleman Leonard Briggs of Ware, and himself arrived at Truro at the head of Cobbecut river, after a travel of 3 days, where they procured a boat and got to the Eastward; that Richard Carpenter formerly Barber in this Town, Philip Johnson Beak, David Kemp of Groton, and Cogporal Cruse of Virginia, and two others took the road to Windsor where they were apprehended and confined in irons ; that Benjamin Willson of Billerica, one of the Bunker Hill Prisoners, died lately [on June 10, 1776,] in goal ; and that he left Master James Lovell still confin'd, in high health and spirits. From the foregoing newspaper account it appears that David Kemp did not die in Boston on September 10, 1775, as is recorded on the Company Return (LVI. 70) among the Massachusetts Archives ; and furthermore, that he was alive nearly one year after the memorable engagement. The fol lowing petition, printed in the Journal of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, September 13, 1776, gives the exact date of Kemp's escape as well as other interesting facts: — A petition of David Kemp, of Groton, setting forth, that his son David Kemp, jun. a soldier in Capt. Parker'^ company, in Col. Prescot's regiment, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Bunker's- Hill, the i^ih. June, 1775, and carried to Halifax, where he re mained till the 13th June last ; that he was not made up in said Parker's roll, only to the 17th June, therefore praying that his wages to this time may be allowed him. Read and committed to Capt. Kimball, Mr. Lngals and Mr. White. (Page 104.) A Groton Man Shot Pitcairn In a note-book of the Reverend Jeremy Belknap, accord ing to an extract printed in the Proceedings (XIV. 93) of the Massachusetts Historical Society for June, 1875, it is recorded : — Revolutionary Items 201 A negro man belonging to Groton, took aim at Major Pitcairne, as he was rallying the dispersed British Troops, & shot him thro' the head, he was brought over to Boston & died as he was landing on the ferry ways. It has long been known that Pitcairn was killed by a negro, but this is the first account which has ever connected him with Groton. First Man to Fire In the account of Chelmsford, prepared by Henry S. Per ham for Hurd's " History of Middlesex County " (II. 249), is found the epitaph of Joseph Spaulding, who died in that town on July 31, 1820. It is there stated that : — He was among the brave asserters & defenders of the liberties of his country at Bunker Hill, where he opened the battle by firing upon the enemy before orders were given : &, after enjoying for many years the blessings of civil & religious liberty in common with others He, " sunk to rest With all his countrys honors blest." First Man Killed Amos Foster, a private in Captain Walker's company. Colonel Bridge's regiment, writes, under date of August 3, 1825, as follows: — I was close by Asa Pollard [of Billerica] when he was killed. He was the first man that was killed. The ball struck the ground and hopped along before it struck him. Foster's letter is printed in " The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" (XII. 121, 122) for April, 1858. Substantially the same statement appears in the Genealogical Register of Hazen's "History of Billerica" (page 113). 20 2 Groton during the Revolution First Man Wounded In Holland's " History of Western Massachusetts " (II. 420), the author says : — At the battle of Bunker Hill, Aaron Barr of Myrifield [now the town of Rowe] was the first wounded man brought into Cambridge, from the field. He belonged to Capt. Maxwell's company. He was struck by a cannon ball in the morning, had his leg taken off, and died the same day. There has been a discrepancy of statement in regard to the first man killed in the action, as some persons claim the distinction for Pollard, and others for Barr. The evidence appears to be that Pollard was killed instantly, while Barr was carried from the field and died some hours later in Cam bridge. The authority for the statement that Barr was the first man killed is the following writing pasted on the Com pany Roll among the Massachusetts Archives: "Aron Barr, the first man killed on Bunker Hill June 16 [sic], 1775." It appears to have been placed there many years ago, but long after the date of the original record. He was a member of Captain Maxwell's company. Colonel Prescott's regiment, and not of Captain Nutting's company, as stated in the volume of " Bunker-Hill Memorial Tablets " (page 80, note), published by the city of Boston. Last Man to Leave the Field In Glazier's " History of Gardner," Massachusetts (page 25), it is recorded that David Foster " was engaged in the Revo lutionary war nine months, and was the last man who fled from the enemy at the battle of Bunker hill." DIED — In Andover, Dea. Isaac Abbott, 91. He was the last to leave the field at the battle of Bunker Hill." " Boston Daily Advertiser," August 13, 1836. I leave it for others to settle the discrepancy between these two statements. Revolutionary Items 203 An Anniversary of the Fight The following notice of a death is given in "The Boston Recorder," July 22, 1847: -— In Jamaica, Vt., June 15, Mr. Eleazer Randall, 94, a native of New Braintree, Mass. He was in the battie of Bunker Hill, and was buried 17th June, 1847, at the same hour of the day in which he was engaged in conflict. Rev. Joseph Thaxter, of Edgartown Professor Franklin B, Dexter, of Yale University, writes me, under date of November 18, 1896, that he has temporarily in his possession a copy of President Quincy's Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Jr., which contains an interesting note on a fly-leaf. The book was presented to the Reverend Joseph Thaxter (H. C. 1768), of Edgartown, by Abbott Lawrence, on June 17, 1825, when the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill Monu ment was laid at Charlestown, The note is in the hand writing of Mr. Thaxter, and reads as follows : — This was given me by the son of Capf [Samuel] Lawrence of Groton who belonged to Prescots minute Regiment to which I be longed & to whom I preached a military sermon at a regimental muster at Westford the Fall before the Concord Fight. John Robinson of Westford was the Lieutenant Col" & led the People with Major Buttericks at Concord Bridge. Cap' Lawrence was at his Sons in Boston. It gave me Pleasure to see him the 17 of June at Breeds Hill. In the year 1774 Mr. Thaxter was preaching as a candidate at Westford, and later received a call to be settled as the min ister of the town, which he declined. He served as a chaplain in the army for a while, and in 1780 became the pastor of the church at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where he remained until his death, on July 18, 1827. 2 04 Groton during the Revolution Petitions and Accounts The following Petitions and Accounts, relating to Groton soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, are found in the printed Journal of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, under their respective dates as noted : — Tuesday, October 17, 1775 (Afternoon). A Petition of Oliver Prescot, praying Compensation for a Fire lock and Accoutrements supply'd by him to James Dodge, who fell in Batde at Bunker's-Hill. Read and committed to Mr. Wood, Col. Grout and Mr. Hayward. (Page 172.) Asa Lawrence's Petition, praying for Allowance for Cash ex pended in procuring Tools for Gun Smiths, on Desire of the Com mittee of Safety, together with his Account. Read and committed to the Committee on Accounts. (Page 172.) Thursday, October 19, 1775. THE Committee on the Petition of Oliver Prescot, praying Compensation for a Firelock and Accoutrements supplied by him to James Prescot [Dodge], as is set forth in the Petition; made Report, which was ordered to lie for the present (Page 174.) Thursday, December 7, 1775. An Account oi Jonathan Tarbell, for Time of his Servant, Gun, &c. and Cloathing, lost in the Battle of the 19th of April\?LSt ; com mitted to the Committee appointed to consider the Losses sustained in the Battle of the 17th oijune last. (Page 23.) Thursday, March 21, 1776 (Afternoon). An Account of David LCemp, for Loss of Cloaths and other Arti cles, sustained by his late Son David Kemp, taken in the Engage ment on Bunker's-Hill, on the seventeenth of June last, and since dead. [See page 200.] Revolutionary Items 205 Read and thereupon Resolved, That there be paid out of the public Treasury of this Colony, to James Prescott, Esq ; for the Use of David Kemp, the Father of the deceased, the Sum oifive Pounds, in full. Sent up for Concurrence. An Account of James Prescott, Esq ; for Loss of Cloaths and other Articles sustained by his Son Benjamin Prescott, killed in the Battle of Charlestown, on the seventeenth of June 1775, with a Report thereon. Read, and thereupon Resolved, That there be paid out of the public Treasury of this Colony to James Prescott, Esq ; the Sum of four Pounds eighteen Shillings and eight Pence, in full for the Articles lost when his Son Benjamin Prescott, was killed in the Battle of the seventeenth oijune last. Sent up for Concurrence. (Page 29.) Benjamin Prescott was the eldest child of the Honorable James and Susanna (Lawrence) Prescott, and born on April 16, 1753. He was a minute-man in Captain Asa Lawrence's company, which marched to Cambridge, on April 19, 1775, and was a sergeant in Captain Moors's command at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In " The Prescott Memorial " (page 74), by Dr. William Prescott, it is said that Benjamin was a Lieuten ant ; but this is an error. For a short notice of him, see Richard Frothingham's " History of the Siege of Boston " (page 175), where he is again spoken of as a Lieutenant. The Poor of Boston During the siege of Boston many of the inhabitants re tired to other places in the State ; and certain families, unable to do likewise for want of means, were assigned to par ticular towns and sent at the public expense. The following extract from the printed Journal of the House of Representa tives, November 3, 1775, seems to indicate that the Selectmen 2o6 Groton during the Revolution of Newburyport had asked to be relieved from the care of certain families sent to that town ; and at the same time it gives the names of some who came to this neighborhood : — The Committee on the Memorial of the Selectmen of Newbury- Port, reported. Read and accepted, and Resolved, that the Poor of the Town of Boston, that are now in the Town of Newbury-Port, be destined in the Manner following, viz. To the Town of Groton, Capt. Phillip Bass, Wife, and three Chil dren ; the Widow Bounds and two Children, and Peter Mers and Wife. Andover. — Christopher Brazen and Wife, and five Children ; Christopher Brazen, jun, Wife and one Child ; fames Henckes, Wife and two Children ; Lewis Pollings and Wife. Leominster. — Mrs. Joanna Trovoy & three Children ; Ambross Colby, Wife and three Children ; Mrs. Patterson and two Children ; Mrs. Mary Calf a.nd Daughter in Law, and two Children. Lunenburg. — Walter Piper,Wiie. and five Children ; Walter Piper, jun. Wife and Mother, and seven Children ; Joseph Grant and Wife, and Mother and four Children. Littleton — 'Y\\t.W\do'^ Elizabeth Bascom; the Widovi Johnson; the Widow Mary York. And the Selectmen of the Towns of Groton, Andover, Leominster, Lunenburg and Littleton, are directed to apply to the Selectmen of Newbury-Port for their Proportion of said Poor, and by receiving a Certificate that they are of the Poor of Boston, and their Names , Age, and the Time when they came out of Boston ; and they are to transport them to their several Towns, according to their Destina tion, and to be paid out of the public Treasury for the Cost in procuring and Transporting said Poor of Boston to their respective Towns ; and the Secretary is hereby directed to furnish each of the Towns of Groton, Andover, Leominster, Lunenburg and Littleton, with an attested Copy of this Resolve, as soon as may be. Sent up for Concurrence. (Pages 227, 228.) Revolutionary Items 207 Coat Rolls The following copies are made from the original papers among the Massachusetts Archives, found in the two volumes marked " Coat Rolls " on the back. Under an early Resolve passed by the Provincial Congress, each soldier of the Province was entitled to a coat, and, so far as was practicable, one made in his own town. This item proved to be of some importance toward the soldier's pay, and was duly claimed by every man, or by his heirs, if he himself did not live to draw the coat. The various orders for these coats, still on file at the State House, contain many historical facts and other minor details not recorded elsewhere. The orders, hereinafter given, are found unnumbered in Volume LVII. of the " Revolutionary Papers," File 7. Fortunately the men could fight better than they spelled ; and their personal prowess outweighed any deficiency in their early education. Camp att Cambridge Novf 17 : 1775 To the Committy of Clothing in Wartertown Wee the Subscriber Belonging to groton In Cap' moors Compney In Coll W^ Priscott Regf Dirser [desire] you to Deliuer to Cap' Joseph Moors for Each of us a Coat menefactered att groton agaree- bell to the order of the Last Congerss Sam*-.^ farnsworth Josep moors Jur Abel amsden Benj. Sawtell Phins Hemenway Leonard Taylor JosEP Taylor Ephram Warren Oliver Tarbell Zac Longley 13 Groton Coits @ 23/9 £0 — 16 — 3 Joseph Taylor Jur 7 Rehoboth D? 4 — 1 Phinhes Keemp I — o — 4 Dauid archibel TioMOTHY Woods Tho? Colins 2o8 Groton during the Revolution Peter Davis Jonas Davis Joseph Cowing John Clough 2 0 Eben'? Purkins Rec? the Contents of the within Order as by my Receipt of this date on Book may appear Novf 17".' 1775 Joseph moors Cap' [Indorsed] 20 Coats Del'^ to Cap' Moors in Coll. Prescott Reg' Nov' 17!' I77S Sewells Point Novemf 16'!' 1775 To the Comittee of Clothing in Watertown Wee the Subscribers Belonging to Groton in Cap' Henry Farwells Compney in Co- ^- Prescotts Regiment Desire you to Deliver Lieu' Benj? Ball for each one of us A Coat Manefactred at Groton A Greeable to the orders of the Last Congress Henery ""^Neill Jonathan Jenkins Novf 16. 1775 Rec? 25 Coats within named for which I have given a Reef on Book of this Date Benj* Ball L^ut [Sewall's Point is in that part of Brook line, now known as Longwood.] Joslah Stevens Sarf Josiah Warren Zaccheus Farwell moses chase Asa White David Jenkins URIEL Whitney Joseph frost Ebenezer Kemp Ephraim Robbins William Derumple James Davis Jonas Brooks Joseph Page Joel Jenkins Peletiah Russell Jon'"' Sawtell Nath Sawtell his Daniel x Foster mark Revolutionary Items 209 SAMf- Lawrence Frances White OBiDLAH Jenkins 25 Phinehas Hubbard [Indorsed] Lieuf Balls Reef for 25 Coats Capf Farwells Compy Col? Pres cotts Regf Novf 16. 1775 R- of the Barer Timothy Moors Three Coats one for Zac*" Longley one for Ep- Russell & one for Timothy moors all of Groton & all of my Company in Con- Prescotts Reg2 Cambrige, October y? 26: 1775 f Henry Farwell Capt test Ephraim Brown Benj^ Ball Let^ JOSM.H RiCARDSON [Indorsed] 3 Coats Del? by the Selectmen of Groton to 3 men in the Army in Capt Farnwell Company in Col Prescoott Reg' Ocf: 28 Cambrige Octobr 30 y^ 1775 To the Comity of Soplys Beples to Diliuer to Asa Lawrence Cap' in Colonel W!s Presents Rigement Each a fusane [fustian] Coat to which our names are under Subcribe. Elisha Hoit John Kilburn Esekiel nutting David Prescott Jonathan woods Jonathan Capron Jacob williams Ruben Woods Jeremiah hobart Asa Porter Nathaniel Shaduck ephraim nutting Obadiah Witherell Nehemiah Parker LouY Parker Abel Nutting Eleazer Parker BENJ'^ Blood Lemuel Parker John Ames Lemuel Parker Jr Simeon Williams Daniel Shed Eleazer Green Joel Porter Nathan Cory Solomon Gilson Jonathan Colburn 14 2IO Groton during the Revolution Kiled & Taken Jeams Dogg [Dodge] Stephen Foster Abraham blood Ben!!! Wood Simon Hobart Robert Parker Robert Bizel Josiah Lakin Jonas Tarbell Oliuer Patch Leme^'- Blood David Hason John Shiple [Indorsed] 35 Coats Del? to Cap' Lawrance Men in Coll Prescotts Regf To the honorbel Commete of Clothen plese to pay unto the barer hereof Elias Dickey what is alowed me for my Coat and you will oblidge your humble Serf Benj* Peirce Groton Apriel the 8 1777 [Indorsed] p? i Soldier in Capt Lawrances Compy in Col Prescotts Regt April 9'!; 1777 To The Honorable Commite of Clothing for the armey att Cam bridg for the year 1775 This may Certify that Benjamin Perce in my Companey and in Colonel Presents Rigement has not Rec? a Coat nor the pay for one according to a Resolve of Congress April th 7 r 1777 ^^^ Lawrence [ | these May Certify that Oliver Parker of the late Capt Ephf coreys Company Never Reced his Coat nor the Value of itt he Belonging to Coll W"" Prescotts Regiment Nath'- Sartell Z/ March 14"" 1776. [Indorsed] Cash Paid for i Coat to a Soldier in the late Cap' Corys Compy in Coll Prescotts Regf March 14'.'' 1776 Revolutionary Items 211 Groton February lo'? 1776 This may Certify that amos Farnsworth Belonging to my Company in Col": W" Prescotts Reg' Last year has Never as yet Received a Coat or aney thing in Consequence thereof which was Promised to the Soldiars of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay By reason of his Being wounded and Sick and so Absent from Camp Henry Farwell Capt [Indorsed] p'' i Soldier in Capt Farnwells s Compy in Col Prescotts Reg' Feb \(fi^ 1776 Groton Dece^ i : 1775 This Certifys that I have Impowed James Prescott Esqf to Draw all the wages Cloathing &c. that was Due to my late Husband Peter Fisk a Soldier in the american army under Capt. Parker in Co- Prescotts ridgement, & Desire the Same may be Paid to him & his recipt shall be a full Discharge therefor her Abijah Prescott Rachel X Fisk mark I have re? of y^ Comfss pay for one Coate for my Son Benj? Prescott Cap' moors Comp'' James Prescott [Indorsed] Cash Y3!\^iox two Coats to i Soldier in Cap' Parkers Compy and I Soldier in Cap Moors CompY both in Coll Prescotts Reg' Jany 12 1776 According to the following certificate Chambers Corey was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He belonged in Groton, and his name duly appears in the list on the Bunker Hill tab lets. Oliver Parker, who signs the certificate, was captain of the company at the time of the Battle. Captain Parker was the same person as Lieutenant Oliver Parker in Captain Law rence's Company of minute-men, who marched from Groton to Cambridge on April 19. See Return on page 49, where is found an earlier record of Corey's death. The date of the paper is there incorrectly printed as October i, instead of October 7. 2 12 Groton during the Revolution this may Sartefie whome it may Consarn that Charmbres Cory Son to Samwell Cory Never receued his Cote nor the money for it for he was in my Companey and was killed at Buncker Hill Jentelmen I Never had any Nolleg of any body Drawing any Cot or mony for y' Decesed Charmbres Per me Oliver Parker Capt [Indorsed] [ ] Capt Parkers Comp in Col" Prescotts Regt June 20"" 1776 See page 200 for a notice of David Kemp, mentioned below. Groton Decef 6: 1775 Sir please to pay to James Prescott Esqf all the Wages Due to my Son David Kemp & all the Cloathing Due to him &c & his recipt shall Discharge you in full & you will oblige your Hum! Serf To Cap. Parker In Co'.' Prescott ridgef DAUID KEEMP [Indorsed] Cash Paid in lieu of a Coat to A Soldier in Cap' Parkers Compy in Coll Prescott Regf Jany 12 1776 To the Comitty of Clothing att Watteroun pleas to Pay Capf Abijah Wyman 25 Shilling for a Coat granted me By the Honrebel Congress of this Provin I Being a Soldier In Cap' Wymans Compeny & Co'.' Prescotts Reg' and Belong to the town of groton Daniel Gillson Cambredg November 10 1775 the within Named person Belongs to my Company & pleas to Deliver the money to L' Brow Abijah Wyman Cap/ Dece' 28. 1775 [Indorsed] Dannil Gilson order to the Committy of Supplys p^ i Soldier in Capt Wymans Compy in Prescotts Regt Decf 29. 1775 i — 5 — o To Cap' Joseph moors Please To Deliuer the Barer Abraham Ireland my Coat & this Shall Be your Discharge from me for the Same NovSy':9: 1775 ABRAHAM IRELAND JUNR [of Lunenburg] we do hereby Cerety that the above named Abraham Ireland Jun' is a Soldier in our Company Joseph moors Cap'- IsAAC Dodge Lieft Revolutionary Items 213 Winter Hill Nov' y"= i6 : 1775 Re'^ of George Kimball the Barer the Coat within mentioned and I Desier you would give him an order for the same To Cap' Joseph moors Abraham Ireland Watertown Nov' y'' i6"' 1775 Re" of Cap' Joseph moors twenty five Shillings for the above mentioned Coat George Kimball Captain Corey s Company There were so many Groton men in Captain Corey's com pany, that I give the Coat Roll in full. See page 49 for a list of the Groton members. Evidently, from their names, several of the company were negroes. Camp at Cambridge Od 31 : 1775 to the Commite of Clothing at wortertown we the Subcribers Whose Names are here under Ritten Belongeing to a Company Commanded by Ephs Corey in Coll William Prescott Reg'- Desire you to Deliver a Coat for Each of us to Lf Eph!!i Corey agreable to the orders of the Late Congress Silas Corey John Parker Joseph Skinner Cornelius Teigh MOSES Grimes John Whitney Eph- Wheeler Joseph gorson John Dwinell Benj- Bennet Oliver Laken michel Barney David Porter Smith Colborn Joseph mcfarling Ceaser Dickerson Samson Cobvrn Darias Hudson Abijah Lewis Cuff Hayes Philip Corey Cato Tufts Prince Hull Joseph Verriel Pomp Fisk Asa underwood TITUS Colburn Abial Parker Richard Giles Ceaser Weatherbee Robart Parker Abel Parker 2 14 Groton during the Revolution Chester Parker mathew Bright Benj" Goold John Bodge Silas Taylor Robart tyng Joseph adams Abner Whitney Benj- Parker James weir 42 Coats Rec? the Contents of the within Order EPHli Corey Cap' [Indorsed] 43 Coats Del'' to 42 of Cap' Corys men in Coll Prescott Reg (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Papers, LVII., File 7) Major Samuel Lawrence The following article on Major Samuel Lawrence, written by the late Miss Emily Seaver, of Rutland, Vermont, a great- granddaughter, was printed in " The American Monthly Mag azine" (V. 107-110) for August, 1894, where, it appears in connection with a similar sketch of Colonel Timothy Bige low, of Worcester, under the heading of " Two Revolutionary Soldiers." It is a just tribute to the memory of an old soldier, and gives an interesting account of certain events in his life. He ended his days at Groton, on November 8, 1827, surrounded by a large family of children, whom he lived to see grow up and prosper. Samuel Lawrence The foUowing is a brief account of two soldiers of the Revolu tion, written not because they were distinguished or great, but just because they were examples of the spirit and tone of the common people, for the time has passed away forever when History con- Revolutionary Items 215 cerned herself only with the heroic deeds of kings and knights and lords, and we realize that we can best understand any great struggle by the record of the popular sentiment ; by the sacrifices the com mon people were willing to make for it. Of the two portraits in this sketch, one is that of a farmer, a true son of the soil, the other a mechanic in what was then the first town of importance in Massa chusetts. Unlike in all other circumstances, yet animated by the same spirit of patriotism, with " unfailing loyalty they gave all they had to give to the cause of their country's independence." Samuel Lawrence was the son of Captain Amos Lawrence, and descended from John Lawrence, who came over from England about 1630. John settled originally in Watertown near Boston, but after wards removed to Groton, about thirty miles inland, and was one of the original proprietors. Many of his descendants of the eighth generation are still living there. Samuel was born April 24, 1754. He was consequently just twenty-one at the commencement of the War of Independence. The news of the Concord fight reached Groton about ten o'clock on the morning of the eventful 19th of April. Samuel was a corporal in one of the Groton companies of Minute Men, and he was plowing his father's field in the sweet April sunshine, his neighbor, General Oliver Prescott, rode up, shouting, " Samuel, the British are coming ; notify your men ! " Leaving the plow and mounting the general's horse, Samuel made a circuit of seven miles, calling on all the men of his company, and returned to his father's house in fifty minutes. The company met at the church, where a brief religious service was held, arms and ammunition were distributed, and at one o'clock the two Groton companies and the Pepperell company were on the road and marched with all possible dispatch to Concord and Lexington. They were, however, too late to take part in the batde, and so marched on to Cambridge, where were the headquarters of the American Army, and that night, which marked the commencement of the siege of Boston, the Middlesex companies were on duty guarding the roads which led to the town. And now the mUitia from far and near flocked to Cambridge. Most of the farmers, hastening from the fields, brought nothing with them but their guns and the clothes they had on. It was, therefore, a welcome sight when, as soon as he could collect a wagonload of provisions, Captain Amos Lawrence drove to the lines with welcome stores for his son and neighbors. 2i6 Groton during the Revolution The Middlesex regiment was commissioned May 26, and he was orderly to its commander. Colonel Prescott. The regiment took an active part in the battie of Bunker HUl. Ensign Lawrence was near Dr. Joseph Warren when he was shot. Captain Farwell, of his com pany, was severely wounded, and he himself received a wound in the arm, while a bullet passed through his hat. Had he been a little taller it would have passed through his brain. Ensign, after wards Adjutant, and then Major Lawrence, remained in the Army for more than three years, his regiment being in active service all the time in Massachusetts and New York, where he was on General Sullivan's staff ; in New London, and, finally, at the battle of Rhode Island, during which time he was at home for only two brief fur loughs. The first of these was in July, 1777, when, the regiment being again in Cambridge, he asked and obtained leave to go home for a few days for the express purpose of marrying Miss Susanna Parker, to whom he had been engaged for more than two years. The marriage took place at this time in compliance with the advice of Major Lawrence's mother, who said that if anything happened to Sam, Susan had better be his widow than his forlorn damsel — not a very cheerful reason for a wedding ; nor was the ceremony con cluded before the ringing of the bell gave the alarm caUing all the soldiers to arms. Hardly were the young couple pronounced man and wife when they were separated, and within an hour the bridegroom was on his march again to Cambridge. The alarm proved to have been unnecessary, and his colonel granted the young soldier leave to return for a few days to provide for his bride's comfortable sojourn in his father's house. He was allowed another short furlough at the end of the year, the regiment being in winter quarters in Rhode Island. In September, 1778, imme diately after the battle of Rhode Island, the last battle fought on New England soil. Major Lawrence resigned his commission and left the Army, returning home to his native town. Here he lived for nearly fifty years, rearing a large family, exercising a boundless hospitality (his daughters said they might as well keep a tavern), interested in every undertaking for the growth and welfare of the town, and one of the trustees of the Groton (now Lawrence) Academy. It is a curious illustration of the way in which his mili tary life was merged in that of a civilian that he was never called " Major," but always " Deacon " Lawrence, having been made a Revolutionary Items 217 deacon of the church at the age of twenty-nine. The brief romance of his early life seemed to have quite faded with the light of com mon day, and yet not wholly so, for with his Groton comrades he formed a club where the veterans met to recall the stirring events of their youth ; and as at the close of a wintry day we have seen the eastern hills all glowing with crimson splendor from the rays of the setting sun, so one last gleam gilded the last days of the good man's life. On the 17th of June, 1825, the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument was laid. General Lafayette, the idol of the Amer ican Army, was present by special invitation, having crossed the ocean in a vessel sent by the American Government to bring him, and Daniel Webster pronounced the oration. Seated before him were the veterans who had " toiled all night and fought all day " fifty years before, and among them Major, now Deacon, Lawrence. Into every human fife comes at some time, sooner or later,' one drop at least of perfect and unmixed happiness, and when Mr. Webster in the course of his oration (one of the three finest that he ever de livered) addressed these old soldiers, "And you, venerable men," and they rose by a common "impulse to their feet, they tasted that perfect draught. It was too much bliss for the hero of this sketch, for he received the next day a paralytic stroke from which he never recovered, though he lived for more than two years. Testimony given by Groton Men The following Certificate and Declaration are printed, with other similar ones, in the " Boston Patriot and Daily Chron icle," June 13, 1818, and were collected at the instance of General Henry A. S. Dearborn who had written "An Ac count of the Battle of Bunker HiU." Each paper is num bered with Arabic figures in brackets. The Account was first published in "The Port-Folio" (Philadelphia) for March, 18 1 8, and was the occasion of some criticism. For the purpose of answering the strictures the author printed these papers : — 2i8 Groton during the Revolution [No. 13.] Certificate of the Rev. Daniel Chaplin, D.D. of Groton, and the Rev. John Bullard, of Pepperell. This may certify the public, that we whose names we have given, were in the habits of intimacy with Col. W. Prescott, of Pepperell, a man of the strictest integrity, during most of the period after he left the revolutionary army untU his death ; that at sundry times in conversation with him about the war, particularly about the battle of Bunker Hill, so called, he uniformly told us, that Maj. General Warren came to the Fort on Breed's Hill, which had been formed the night preceding, a little before the British made an attack on the works ; that he, Col. Prescott, said to General Warren, ' I am happy to see you, General, ' or using words to the same effect, ' for you will now take command, and I will obey your orders, and am relieved.' Said General Warren, to him in reply, ' I have no com mand here, Col. Prescott, I am a volunteer, I came to learn actual service.' Prescott said, ' I wish then you would look at the works we have thrown up, and give your opinion.' Warren replied, ' you are better acquainted. Colonel Prescott, with military matters than I am.' After which they immediately parted, and met not again. Col. Prescott further informed us repeatedly, that when a retreat was ordered and commenced, and he was descending the hUl, he met General Putnam, and said to him, ' why did you not support me. General, with your men, as I had reason to expect, according to agreement ? ' Putnam answered, ' I could not drive the dogs up.' Prescott pointedly said to him, ' if you could not drive them up, you might have led them up.' We have good reason to believe further from declarations of some of our parishioners, men of respectabUity, whose veracity cannot be doubted, who belonged to Col. Prescott's regiment and were present through the whole ser vice, that General Putnam was not on Breed's Hill the night pre ceding, or on that day, except that just before the attack was made, he might have gone to the fort and ordered the tools to be carried off, that they might not fall into the hands of the enemy in the event of his carrying the works, and holding the ground, and that he and his men, with Col. Gerrish, remained on the side of Bunker HUl towards the neck during the whole action. Signed, Daniel Chaplin, Groton, June 1^, 1818. John Bullard. Revolutionary Items 219 [No. 14.] Declaration of Deacon Samuel Lawrence, of Groton. I, Samuel Lawrence, of Groton, Esquire, testify and say, that I was at the battle of Bunker Hill, (so called) in Colonel William Pres cott's regiment; — that I marched with the Regiment to the point on Breed's Hill, which was fixed on for a redoubt ; that I assisted in throwing up the breast-work, and in forming a redoubt, under Col. Prescott, who directed the whole of this operation. — The work was begun about nine o'clock in the evening of June i6th, 1775. I was there the whole time, and continued in the redoubt, or in the little fort, during the whole battle, untU the enemy came in and a retreat was ordered. General Putnam was not present either while the works were erecting, nor during the battle. I could see distinctly the rail fence and the troops stationed there during the battle, but General Putnam was not present as I saw. After the retreat was ordered, the troops retreated towards Bunker Hill, and continued over and on the side of the hill (I was on the side of the hill) towards Charlestown neck. Just before the battie commenced. General Warren came to the redoubt. He had on a blue coat and white waistcoat, and I think a cocked hat, but of this I am not certain — Col. Prescott advanced to him, said ' he was glad to see him, and hoped he would take the command.' Gen. Warren replied, 'no — he came to see the action but not to take command ; that he was only a volunteer on that day.' Afterwards I saw General Warren shot ; I saw him when the ball struck him, and from that time until he expired. I knew General Warren well by sight, and recollected him perfectly when Col. Pres cott offered him the command, and was sorry to see him so dan gerously situated, as I knew him to be a distinguished character, and thought he ought not to have risked his life without command on that occasion. No British officer was within forty or fifty rods of him, from the time the ball struck him, untU I saw he was dead . I have read General Dearborn's account of the battle, and think it correct, particularly with regard to the occurrences at the gateway of the redoubt. (Signed) Samuel Lawrence. 2 20 Groton during the Revolution Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex, June 5, 18 18. Personally appeared Samuel Lawrence, Esq. and made oath, that the above declaration by him subscribed, is just and true in all its parts, according to the best of his knowledge and belief. Before me, (Signed) Samuel Dana, Justice of the Peace throughout said Commonwealth. Survivors of the Battle in 1825 In the " Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Asso ciation at the Annual Meeting, June 17, 1895," are given the names of the survivors of the Battle who applied for the allow ance provided by the State for attendance at the laying of the corner-stone of the Monument, June 17, 1825. The list gives the rank of the soldier and his age, as well as the regiment in which he served, and his residence at the time. Doolittle's Regiment. Elnathan Sawtell Private 72 Groton. (Page 45) Bridge's Regiment. Daniel Nutting Private 69 Westford. ( " 46) Jonathan Beard " 75 Harvard, Capt. B. Walker's Co. ( " " ) Baldwin's Regiment. Abraham Childs Lieutenant 84 Groton. ( " " ) Prescott's Regiment. Obadiah Perry Corporal 78 Westford, Capt. Parker's Co. (" 47) Samuel Lawrence Corporal 72 Groton. (" ") John Pushee Private 77 Westford. (" ") Sampson Wood " 65 Groton. (" ") Moses Blood " 75 Pepperell. (" ") Amos Farnsworth " 71 Groton. (" ") Revolutionary Items 221 Dr. Nehemiah Abbot Amos Lawrence {b. 1716, d. 1785) married Abigail Abbot, and one of their four sons was Deacon Samuel Lawrence; and hence later the surname was brought into the family as a given name. Deacon Lawrence, the executor of the estate advertised below, was a nephew of Dr. Nehemiah Abbot, who died on July 13, 1785, without children. He had a son born on December 16, 1792, whom he named "Abbott"; and this son afterward became somewhat noted in various ways. By order of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Middlesex, Will be sold at Public Vendue, on Monday, the loth day of January next, at two o'clock, P. M. at the House of OLIVER BARRON, Esq. Innholder in Chelmesford, in said county, TWO-THIRDS of the Real Estate of NEHEMIAH ABBOT, late of Chelmesford, Physician, deceased, lying near the Meeting-House in said town, for the payment of the debts of said deceased, and charges of sale. The conditions of sale may be seen at the time and place aforesaid, or by applying in Groton, to SAMUEL LAWRANCE, Executor. Groton, December 6, 1790. " Independent Chronicle : and the Universal Advertiser" (Boston), Decem ber 23, 1790. Lieut. Amaziah Fassett In Richard Frothingham's " History of the Siege of Boston " (fourth edition, page 347, note), there is a reference to Amos Lawrence {b. 1786, d. 1852) with an allusion to his father. Deacon Samuel Lawrence, and to " his uncle,'' Lieutenant Amaziah Fassett, who fell mortally wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and died, a prisoner in Boston, on July 5, 1775. While years ago I had heard of a relationship between the 2 2 2 Groton during the Revolution Lawrence famil)' and the Fassett family. I was unable then to trace the connection ; and this circumstance has led me anew to investigate the subject, which I have done with the following result. Amaziah Fassett was born in the year 1742 at Westford, where he married Ede Richardson, who was born in 1745 also at Westford. She was a daughter of Abiel and Sarah (Po\n- tonl Richardson; and her mother, after the death of Mr. Richardson, became the second wife of William Parker, of Groton, and the mother of Susanna Parker, who was Deacon Samuel Lawrence's wife. In other words, Mrs. Fassett and Mrs. Lawrence had the same mother but different fathers, and consequently were half-sisters. As Samuel and Susanna were not married until July 22. 1777, long after Amaziah's death, the kinship between the two soldier."^, at the time of the Battle, was only of a prospective character. The first progenitor in this country of the Groton family of Fassetts was Patrick, an inhabitant of Maiden and Billerica, and perhaps an Irishman. According to " The Boston Weekly News-Letter," July ::6, 1753, Abiel Richardson of Groton, was killed on July 18 of that year, by falling from a rafter, while helping to raise the frame of a meeting-house in Dunstable ; and without doubt this man was the father of Mrs. Fassett. The following Resolve, passed by the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, and numbered XC\T. in the official volume, refers to Lieutenant Fassett, but the name is there misspelled. Ri-so/:r on the Petition of Elisha Rockwood ; pass,-d .-Vpril 0, 1777- On the petition of Elisha Rockwoihl, Executor to the last ^^'ill and Testament of Amaziah Tcsset [Passi'tt], late of Groton, deceased, Rcsoh'i-ii, That the rra\cr of the Petition be granted, and that the Petitioner, Elisha Rockwiml. be and he hereby is impowered to make Sale of all the Real Estate mentioned in said Petition, for the most it will fetch, and make and execute a good Deed or Deeds to the Purchaser or Purchasers, he observing the Rules and Revolutionary Items 223 Directions of the Law relating to the Sale of Real Estates by Ex ecutors and Administrators, and giving Bond to the Judge of Pro bate for the County of Middlesex, that the Proceeds arising from such Sale shall be applied for the Benefit of the Heirs at Law of the said deceased, in the same Proportion as though the same had not been sold. (Page 23.) Capt. Samuel Tarbell The following Resolves were passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts, and are found in the several editions of " Re solves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts- Bay " of their respective dates.- The petition, printed on page 225, refers to the estate mentioned in Resolve CLIIL, and shows furthermore that Tarbell was dead in the early part of 1 78 1. See Hill's " History of Mason," New Hampshire (page 220), for an allusion to him. The decease of his son. Captain Samuel Tarbell, is announced in the " Columbian Centinel " (Boston), March 12, 1796, under Deaths, as follows : — At Groton, the 4th inst. Capt. Samuel Tarbell, late an officer in his Britannic Majesty's American Dragoons. This son was a refugee in New York during the early part of 1 78 1. See page 225 for an allusion to the fact. LXXXIX. Resolve impowering Perez Morton to bring forward a Prosecution against ?,a.mvie]. Tarbell; passed April 23, 1778. WHEREAS Samuel Tarbell of Groton, in the county of Middle sex, husbandman, on the fourth day of December last, by his bond became bound and obliged unto the Government atid People of said State, in the penal sum of two thousand pounds, conditioned that the said'S>2ivaVi€i Tarbell, shall well and truly from time to time during the several Sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature, is'c. in any and all the counties within this State, and during the several Sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature, &'c. within and for the several counties within the State of New-Hampshire, (s'c. personally appear 2 24 Groton during the Revolution and attend at every of the said Courts, and give evidence in behalf of the Government and People of either of said States. But the said Tarbell has nevertheless absconded and failed of appearing agreeable to the conditions mentioned in tlie bond aforesaid; and there is great danger of his disposing of the whole of his estate, and the public thereby be defrauded. And whereas the Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Esq; Attorney General to this State, being necessarily absent attending the Superior Court: Therefore Resolved, That Perez Morton, attorney at law be, and hereby is impowered and directed to bring forward a process upon the bond given by said Tarbell on the fourth of December last, in behalf of the Government and People of this State of Massachusetts-Bay, and pursue the same to final judgment and execution ; and law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. (Page 25.) CLIIL Resolve impowering /««« Prescott, Esq; to lease out the Estate oi Samuel Tarbell oi Groton; pass'd April 10, 1780. Wliereas this State by their Attorney did in the year \iiZ put in suit one certain obligation and recovered a judgment of court against Samuel Tarbell, then of Groton (since pled to the enemy') for the for feiture of the penalty mentioned in said obligation, and have since levied execution upon some real estate to satisfy said judgment, which real estate consisting of some land and buildings are now become the property of this State, and no person authorized to take care of the same : Therefore, Resolved, That James Prescott, Esq ; be and he is hereby ap pointed and fully impowered to lease out for one year, ending the ist day oi April I'jSi, the aforementioned lands and buUdings for the most they will fetch, and to call upon any person or persons for any money justly due to said State for the past improvement of said estate (if any there be) and to pay in all such sums of money as he may receive to the Treasurer of this State, taking duplicate receipts therefor, and lodge one of said receipts in the Secretary's office. (Page 229.) Revolutionary Items 225 The Lawrence Farm To the Honourable the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts now convened at Boston — Humbly shews Amos Lawrence of Groton that Captain Samuel Tarbell late of said Groton Deceased — died Seized of a Farm con taining about one hundred acres of Land that after his Death the same was divided into nine shares two whereof has been set off to his son Samuel Tarbell now a Refugee in New York that the same two shares have been since taken in execution for a Debt Due to the Government, and your Petitioner having purchased the other shares, it hath become necessary in order to his making a proper improvement of the same that he should have the two shares afore said wherefore he Humbly prays your Honours to take the matter under Consideration and to suffer him to purchase the same the Consideration which he gave for the other shares was sixty pounds silver money for Each and he humbly hopes that your Honours would not demand more of him than the other proprietors he would further observe that the buildings are not fit to Live in & no part can be repaired without the whole that the Fences are decaying and the Land ContinuaUy growing the worse and these together with the Rates Constantly arising will render the Interest but of very Little Value in a year or two whereof he hopes for the Interest of the Government as well as for his own inconvenience that he may be allowed to purchase and he will pray &c February i6th 1781 Amos Lawrance This may Certify that the subscribers with some of the other heirs of Captain Samuel Tarbell Deceased sold their shares in said Tarbells Farm in Groton for sixty pounds a share to Captain Amos Lawrence February i6th 1781 Henry Farwell Samuel Reed [Ind3rsed] Amos Lawrence^ Petition & Report Capf Mitchell Capt. Water man M' Lewis (Massachusetts Archives, CCXXXI. 452) IS 2 26 Groton during the Revolution Commonwealth of ) In The House of Representatives Massachusetts — J March 3'' 1781. On The Petition of Amos Lawrence of Groton in the County of Middlesex, praying that he may be allowed to purchase Two ninth parts of the Farm in the said Town of Groton which Capf Samuel Tarbell deceased died seized of, which Two ninths was Set of to his son Samuel Tarbell, & has since been taken by Execution for a debt due to this Government Resolved that the Committee who are appointed to sell Confis cated Estates in the County of Middlesex be & hereby are Author ised & impowered to sell at publick or private sale as they shall think most Beneficial for this Commonwealth, the above mentioned Two ninths of the Farm which the above said Cap' Samuel Tarbell Deceased, died seized of, & was set of to his son Samuel Tarbell & make & Execute a good& legal deed or deeds of the same, & they are hereby directed to pay the neat proceeds Arising by said sale or sales into the Treasury of this Commonwealth taking dupli cate Receips therefor one of which to be lodged in the Secretary's office. Sent up for concurrence Caleb Davis Spe'. In Senate March 3? 1781 — Read & Concurred Jer : Powell — Presi'^ Approv'd John Hancock [Indorsed] Rec'' pge 320 Resolue on the Petition of Amos Lawrence em powering the Agents appointed to sell confiscated Estates in the County of Middlesex to sell the Farm mentioned March 3'? 1781 (Massachusetts Archives, CCXXXI. 451) At this time the Honorable James Prescott, of Groton, was one of a Committee of three appointed for Middlesex County, to sell forfeited estates. Amos Lawrence, the petitioner, was the father of Deacon Samuel Lawrence ; he died on June 20, 1785, when his son inherited the farm, which still remains in the possession of the family. Revolutionary Items 227 Col. William Prescott At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held on June 9, 1887, Dr. Samuel A. Green made the foUowing remarks : — In the early part of last month (May 4) I had the pleasure of meeting a kinswoman of Colonel William Prescott, who is probably the only person now living who ever saw the hero of Bunker HUl, and certainly the only one who ever knew him or ever talked with him ; and her recollections are interesting. I refer to Mrs. Sarah (Chaplin) Rockwood, a resident of Cortland, Cortland County, New York, who was the youngest daughter of the Rev. Daniel Chaplin, D.D., of Groton, the last minister of the town during the period when it formed but a single parish. Her mother was Susanna, eldest daughter of Judge James Prescott, Colonel Wil liam's elder brother. Mrs. Rockwood was born at Groton on November 8, 1785, and Colonel Prescott, her great-uncle, died on October 13, 1795, — so that she was ten years old at the time of his death. The date of her birth was duly entered in the town-records, and the entry corresponds with that in her family Bible. She describes him as a tall, well-proportioned man, with blue eyes and a large head. He usually wore a skull-cap ; and he parted his hair in the middle, wearing it long behind, braided loosely and tied in a club with a black ribbon, as was common in those days. He had a pleasant countenance, and was remarkably social and full of fun and anecdote. He was dignified in his man ners, and always had the bearing of a soldier. I am satisfied that her recollections of that early period are clear and distinct. She shows in many ways that her memory of events long since past is still good, as it is of more recent ones. Although she has entered upon the second year of her second century, she reads the newspapers, and takes more than an ordinary interest in public affairs. Mrs. Rockwood died at Cortland, New York, on November 26, 1889, having reached the remarkable age of 104 years and 22 8 Groton during the Revolution 1 8 days. Her funeral took place on November 29; and it is a source of sad satisfaction to me that I was enabled to be present at the last rites paid to her memory. According to the church-records she was baptized on November 13, 1785. Prescott Monum,ent In the autumn of 1879 a monument was erected by the town of Groton, which bears the following inscription : — COLONEL WILLIAM PRESCOTT COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN FORCES AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL WAS BORN ON THE 20''" OF FEBRUARY 1 726 IN A HOUSE WHICH STOOD NEAR THIS SPOT It Stands on the heater piece, near the southerly end of Main Street; and in connection with two other memorial stones it was dedicated with appropriate exercises in the Town Hall, on February 20, 1880, when an historical address was delivered. By a vote of the town, on April 2, 1894, this plot of land was named Prescott Square. See Frontispiece for a cut of the monument. A bronze statue of Prescott was set up within the grounds of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at Charlestown, on June 17, 1 88 1, when an address was delivered by the Hon orable Robert C. Winthrop.- It was made by William W. Story, the eminent sculptor; and, as there is no portrait of Colonel Prescott extant, Mr. Arthur Dexter, a great-grand son, then living in Rome, was taken in a general way as a model for the features. Revolutionary Items 229 Capt. Asa Lawrence Asa Lawrence, mentioned below, commanded one of the two companies that marched from Groton to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 1775. He was a son of Peleg Law rence, and lived on the farm known later as the Governor Sullivan place. It is situated on the Lowell road and took its name from James Sullivan, who was afterward Governor of the Commonwealth. Sullivan was the Justice of the Peace, who took Lawrence's deposition on February i, 1779. See page 8 for references to the skirmish at Chelsea ; and for a fuller account see Amos Farnsworth's diary printed in the " Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society " (second series, XII. 81) for January, 1898. It wUl be noticed that Captain Lawrence speaks of the action as a " Battle." To the Honourable the Council and -, , \ House of Representatives in general Massachusetts Bay ) 0 .. ui j •' Court assembled Humbly shewes Asa Lawrence of Groton in the County of Mid dlesex that he was in the Engagement of the 1 7th of June at Charles town and there lost goods an account whereof is hereunto annexed — and that at the Battle of Chelsea he risqued his Life at the Com mand of general Putnam to Burn one of the Enemies armed Vessels and after many attempts he finally effected the same whereby there was an acquisition of twelve peices of Cannon to the Public, and also that he served seven weeks in the late Expedition against Rhode Island as a Volunteer and has never had any reward for said services or Compensation for his said Losses. Wherefore he prays that a due allowance may be made him for his services and losses aforesd and he as in duty bound shall ever pray &c. Groton 28th January 1779 ASA LAWRENCE The State of M Bay to Assa Lawrence D' for Loss at Bunker Hill 17th June 1775 To I Gun & Bayonet 38 To I Coat 40/ Blanket 30/ 310 Knapsack & Tumphne 12/ .... 12 7 10 230 Groton during the Revolution State of ) Masstts Bay ) Middlesex ss Feby ist 1779 then the sd Assa Lawrence appeared and made oath to the Truth of the above account before me Ja Sullivan _/«.f^ Peace Mar. 23. 1780 Coll Gerrish Capt Newton Capt Bonney A Grant of ;^ 100 to Asa Lawrence for Losses sustained at Bunker HiU May 4— 1780 — N" 71 [Indorsed] Asa Lawrence Petition (Massachusetts Archives, CLXXXIV. 388) Miscellaneous f terns Several days before the Battle of Lexington, a hostile incursion by the English soldiers stationed in Boston was expected by the patriots. Its aim was the destruction of stores collected for the use of the Provincial cause ; and on this account every movement of the British troops was closely watched. At this time the Committees of Safety and of Supplies voted that some of the stores should be kept at Gro ton ; and, if their plan had been fully carried out, it is among the possibilities of the War that another battle might have been fought in Middlesex County, and that the township of Groton might have been its scene of action. But open hos tilities began so soon afterward, that no time was given to make the removal of the stores. It was ordered by these Committees, April 17, 1775, that the four six-pounders be transported from Concord to Groton, and put under the care of Colonel Oliver Prescott. On the next day it was voted that all the ammunition should be deposited in nine different towns of the Province, of which Groton was one, and that one-half of the musket cartridges be removed from Stow to Groton. It was also voted that two " medicinal chests " should be kept at different places in the town, and that eleven hundred tents be deposited in equal quantities in Revolutionary Items 231 Groton and six other towns. See " The Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of Safety" (pages 516-518). Mr. WheUdon, in his " New Chapter in the History of the Concord Fight," reprinted near the end of this volume, gives other facts relating to these orders by the Committees of Safety and of Supplies. During this period a committee was appointed to inspect the stock of powder in the Province, and report the amount on hand in the various towns. This they did on May 25, 1775, when there was, according to the Report, a barrel of powder in Groton, — kept probably in the powder-house or magazine which, two years later, was enlarged by the Board of War. This magazine was built on the land of Benjamin Bancroft, afterward owned by the Honorable James Prescott, Jr. It was situated in the roadway of the present High Street, — which then was not laid out, — perhaps thirty-five rods from its north end. It was a stone building, about twelve feet square, and taken down probably in the summer of 1829. For a long time previously it was not used for any purpose, and became much dilapidated. Some of the material from the building was used in stoning a well, dug near the Meet ing-house in order to supply in part Mr. Hoar's barns with water. The following papers, found at the State House, relate to the magazine, as well as to the Guard having it in charge : State of Massachusetts Bay. Council Chamber, July 10. 1777- Whereas it appears that it is absolutely necessary that a Magazine for powder should be erected in some Interior part of this State the other Magazines being insufficient or unsafe Therefore Voted that it be and hereby is recommended to the Board of War to Enlarge the Magazine at Groton in the County of Middle sex Sufficient to Contain five hundred barrels of Powder Read & Accepted Jn? Avery Dp^ Sec' [Indorsed] Order of Council recommending to the Board of War to enlarge the Powder Magazine at Groton July 10. 1777 (Massachusetts Archives, CLXXIII. 274) 232 Groton during the Revolution State of the Massachusetts Bay CouncU Chamber July 17'? 1777- Whereas the Board of Warr have deposited five hundred Barrills of powder in the magazine in Groton in the County of middlesex for the use of this State and it appears necessary that a Guard be Constantly kept at s? magazine for the Security thereof, Therefore ordored that one Corporal and four privates be ap pointed by the Brigadier of the County of middlesex afores? from the militia in the s? Town of Groton for that purpose, who shall be allowed such pay and Subsistance as the General Court shaU hereafter order ; And the said Brigadeer is also ordered to take special Care that no person be inlisted into said Guard that is not known to be attached to the American Cause. Read & Accepted Jn? Avery Dp' Sec' [Indorsed] Order of Council to the Brigadier of the County of Middlesex to detach a Guard to guard the Magazine in Groton July 18. 1777 (Massachusetts Archives, CLXXIII. 290) State of the Massachusetts Bay Council Chamber Novf 7'.'' 1777- Whereas it hath been represented to this Board that the Guard which hath been kept at the magazine in Groton in the County of middlesex in Consequence of an order of Council passed July 17'? 1777, is not Sufficient for the Security of the Stores deposited therein for the use of this State Therefore ordered that the Brigadier of the County of Middlesex be & hereby is directed to inlist or Cause to be Drafted from the militia in the Town of Groton afores? one Sergeant & nine privates, to serve as a Guard for the afores? Stores, untill the further order of Council, who shall be allowed such pay & subsistance as the General Court shall hereafter order read & Accepted Jn? Avery D' Sec' [Indorsed] Order to the Brig^ of the County of Middlesex to detach a Guard of a Sergf & 9 Privates for the Stores in Groton Nov!; 7. 1777 (Massachusetts Archives, CLXXIII. 549) Subsequently, on February 3, 1778, the General Court passed a Resolve " That there be allowed and paid out of the public treasury of this State unto the men stationed at Groton, for a guard, the same wages and rations that are allowed to the sea-coast men." Revolutionary Items 233 Two years later, on January 13, 1780, another Resolve was passed, directing Joseph Hosmer — forthwith to remove all the powder in the magazine at Groton, to the following towns, viz. one third of it to Concord, one third to Billerica, and one third to Woburn, to be dehvered into the care of the Select men of said towns, he taking their receipt therefor, which he is directed to lodge with the Board of War, and as soon as said powder is removed that the guards now doing duty at said magazine in Groton, be discharged from any further service there, and that said Joseph Hosmer, Esq ; lay his account of the expence of removing the same before the Committee on accounts for allowance and payment. This Resolve was afterward so far modified by the General Court, on May 4, that Joseph Hosmer was ordered " to deliver one third part of the powder aforesaid to the care of the Selectmen of Groton, and take their receipt for the same, the Resolve of the 12th [13th] oi January to the contrary notwithstanding." The foUowing application to the CouncU, from Dr. Oliver Prescott, relates to the Revolutionary period, and will explain itself : — May it please your Hon'.^ The windows of the Publick meeting House & School house in the Town of Groton are very much broken and it is not in the power of the Selectmen to purchase a Box of Glass Unless it be from the Board of Warr, who have been so obliging as to inform me they would Sell a Box for that purpose by your Hon'f permission Therefore [I] earnestly request an order for that purpose which will much oblige the Town & your Honour! most ob' & very Hm' Ser' Octf I6'^ 1779 Oliver Prescott To the Hon!.' Council Massachusetts-Bay Underneath is written the action of the Council, as fol lows : — 234 Groton during the Revolution In CouncU Octf I6'^ 1779 Read & Ordered that the Board of War be and they hereby are directed to deliver the Honble Oliver Prescott Esqf One Box of Glass, he paying for the same. Attest John Avery D Se' [Indorsed] Application of Hble Oliver Prescott Esq' for a Box Glass — wft Order to Board of War for y^ Same Oct' I6'^ 1779 (Massachusetts Archives, CLXXV. 647) Such papers give us a glimpse of some of the privations and annoyances to which the people were subjected during the Revolution. Powder-Mill at Pepperell The following letters, written during the Revolution by the Honorable James Prescott, of Groton, are found among the Massachusetts Archives at the State House, and have some local interest. At that period Mr. Prescott was a prominent character in the affairs of the town, and, whatever may have been his accomplishments in the way of spelling, he exerted a wide influence in all public matters. He filled many im portant offices; and at the beginning of the Revolution he was a member of the Provincial Congress and of the Board of War. His dwelling stood on the knoll, perhaps half a mile southeast of the village, on the Boston road, near the house of the late Phineas Gilman Prescott. For site of the powder-house, mentioned below, see page 231. Groton Apriel 2? 1778 Dear Sir Yesterday I recived yours of the 26 : of March, There is now in the House 159 bb'.' of Powder, it will hold about 100 bb'.'^more, the Powder you mentiond is not yet arived, the Snow fell this week with us 8 Inches Deep, which makes it Exceding Bad Cartging. I have Got 50 or 60 Shirts on hand, Several webbs out in Doing, but when they wUl be Done is Very uncertain, also about thirty pf Revolutionary Items 235 of Shoes — labour is So Dear now I have Come to a Stand untiU I have further Directions from y? Board, I will Send what is on hand if y? Board think Best, But it will be Very Expencive to Send on purpose, therefore Should Chuse to wait for a Convenient oppertunity. I am Still lame, But Gifting Better, (Very unhappy night to me) the Bisness of the Board is Very Extencive & Important, I know your unwearied pains & Labour by night & Day to Serve both Publick & private, without Even the prospeck of reward, hope I shall Soon be able to attend the Board, it would give me Grate Pleasuer, if by any thing I Can Do, it would Contribet to the Publick Good, or in any measuer Serve to liten your heavy Burden I am Genf with Sincear regard your most obediant Hum' Serf James Prescoti [Superscribed] Hon'e Presedent of the Board of War Boston [Indorsed] Letf f"" Col" Prescott April 2" 1778 (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 324) Groton 24 : of July 1778 Sir Abner Whitney a young Gent? Brought up by mf Lewis in his Shop & Counting room applied to me for Some Imployment & mentioned that he had heard there was a Vacancy at the Board — he is Desireous of making tryal — I Can recommend him as Very Honest faithfull young man may be Depended upon in anything he undertaks if it is agreeable to the Board to take him into there Service upon tryal they will oblige him & I hope he may Serve them to acceptance I am very lame again the old wound is Broke out — when I shall be able to ride to Boston is uncertain I am with respect your most obediant Serf James Prescotp Hon' Sam: Phil: Savage Esq^ [Superscribed] The Hon'. Presedent of the Board of War [Indorsed] Lett' from Jas Prescott Esq' Aug.'. 24',!' 1778 (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 407) 236 Groton during the Revolution Jonathan Clark Lewis, mentioned on the preceding page, was a trader of Groton, whose shop stood a short distance north of the site of the present Town House. c, Groton 16: of Octof 1778 Sir I have Sent 15 Barrils Powder that quantity I Judged a full load for the Horses — I beleve they will meet with Difficulty to git along with it — agreeable to your Desire have Cautioned the Gard not to leave one momint hope it will arive safe — you have Sent me a wag? But no tacklin to Draw with therefore it will be useless till I am furnisht no Such tackin Can be got here — There is about 90 bar'.' of forrain powder left & 40 of Andover no news here, am Very lame, unable to ride or walk, have set stUl almost yf whole of y? time since I Came home my Comple'.'' to the Board I am with respect your Hum'? Serf James Prescott The Hon. Sam. Phps Savage Esq^ [Superscribed] Hon'. Sam. Phps Savage Esq^ Presedent of the Board War Boston [Indorsed] Letter from James Prescott from Groton Oct' 16'.!" 1778 (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 422) Groton 5: of June 1779 Dear Sir I rec? yours this morning at three o'Clock by m'. Wendel wherein you request me to Send one Hundred Barrils of powder — I have procuer? most of the teems, you may Expect the Powder in next wensday morning very Early, the teemsters will Expect their money paid them on Delivering the powder, as they turn out at such Season & no warning I am with Grate respect your most Obediant Serf Sam. P: Savage Esq^ James Prescott [Superscribed] Sam. P. Savage Esqf Presedent of the Board of War Boston (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 473) Revolutionary Items 237 Groton 5: of June 1779 Sir I Send you 100 BarrUs of powder — the teemsters will Expect their money if it will be Conveniant for the Board to pay them as they Turn out in this Extraordinry Bissey Season — the lowest Sum I Could agree for the Jorney is twenty Shillings pf mile the amount is 40;^ Each — I have Exerted myself & hope it will be acceptable — in Grate hast am your most Obediant Ser' James Prescott N B: I have given in Charge if it rains to Secure yf powed in yf Best manner they Can & if they are Detained a Day on their Jorney by reason of rain they are to have the addition of their Expenses while they are Detained The Presedent of the Board of War pray yf Board to Give order for my Bag of Coffee & Caug of Rum [Indorsed] James Prescott July 5ff' 1779 deliverd 99 bb'^ ullage I 100 Bbls (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 480) Groton 14: of July 1779 Gen''' You write me that one Barril in Bartlets Cart was Broke, & was one thurd out when it arived, & Chuse to know the State of facts before you pay him — I was present when the powder was loaded, & took all the Care I Could in that Hurry there was one Barril put into the Cart that was tender, Bartlet was Sum Consernd about it when it was put into the Cart, it was well Stowed, I was not ap prized of its Being so week, the Barrils have Stood So long that the hoops want Driveing, But at that time Could not Git a Cooper to assist, I have Sent by him all the powder heretofore, know him to be an Honest faithfull man. I Do not think he was Negligent or Carless, as to the Barrils not being full, is no rule to Judge by, for when I opened & Shifted the powder, some of the Barrils wanted about 1-3? & 1-4 of being full, I am Informed the Sittuation of the Bar! in the Cart was Such, that the Bar! Did not Burst, but one head 238 Groton during the Revolution Sprung out on one Side, So that the loss of the powder was not very Considerable, I shall not be at Boston Soon is accation of my Give- ing you the trouble of this letter, the man is poor & wants his money, if you Gentlemen are Satisfied that he was not in fault hope you will Send him the money by the Barer hereof — Docf Prescott — I am with real Regard your Frind & very Hum' Serf James Prescott The Board of War [Superscribed] The Presedent of the Board of War Boston [Indorsed] Groton 14 July 1779. Col? Prescot's Letter (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 484) Groton 20: of July 1779 Gentle- I Rec? your favour of the ig'!" Instant at Nine o'Clock in the Evening, agreeable to your Desire Send you a return of the powder in the magasine at Groton, there is 33 Barrels of foreign & 16 of american powder, in the whole 49, it is very rainny this morning ; Shall Dispatch the messenger as soon as he Can ride, am much obliged to you for the Newspapers I Rejoyce to here the fleet have Sail? Sincerely hope thay will meet with the Desired Suckcess I am with the Gratest respect Genf your most obliged Hum' Serf James Prescott The Board of War [Indorsed] July 1779 returns powder at Groton (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 485) Groton 9: of August 1779 Sir You write me to Send you a load of powder in the Cover? Wagon now with me, which I Cant Compile with, for I have no Tacklin Sent with it to Draw by, therefore if I Send the powder as you propose I must Git Some Horse Tackin fitted for that purpose only which wiU be an Expence I wish to avoide, I suppose you may Send two of Co!' Revers Soldiers with 4 : or 5 of your Horses, let them ride two & lead the others with Sutable tackin to Draw by in a bagg &c. I have Got the Sadie for the Horse that Goes behind only Bring the Revolutionary Items 239 tackin for the other Horses, this I think will be the Best way & most Saving to the publick. But you are Good Judges of this matter & will Direct as you think proper, if you think Best not to Send for it in the way I have propose? Give me a line & I wUl Send you the powder without Delay — Docf Lawrence has Deliver? the fifteen Barr!s you mention? in your last Shall send your letter now re? Immediatly agreeable to your request — I hope with you we Shall Soon hear Good news from Penobscot, I sincerely wish Suckcess to American Arms which way So ever they are turn? I am with real respf Your most obediant Ser' Sam. p. Savage Esq'.- James Prescott , [Superscribed] Sam' P. Savage Esq'. Presedent of the Board War Boston. [Indorsed] From Col? Prescott respg Powder Augf 9. 1779 (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 493) State of the powder mUl at Pepperrell is as follows Built on a Large Stream, a full Supply of Water — goes with sixty Pestles — said mill is thirty Eight feet in Length & twenty Eight feet in wedth well Covered : now fitt for use with a little repairing of the Sives &c and some other of its, Utenciles ; A Drying House built near by ; prepaired for Clarifying yf Nitir & Drying & Stoaring yf Pow der &c. Have made only about two Tuns of powder for this State is'; of which I deposited in the Magaziene last Week at Groton according to order of Board of War. about 25? now at y" mill not proof, by reason of yf Nitir & Sulphur not being pure, as Colo: Burbeck Certifies : (tho well made & dryed) For further Information See General Prescotts Letter. Gentm. Your most Obedf hum'= Servf to Serve You in what I may Ephm Lawrence Pepperrell Aug' 12. 1779. To Honrab''= Sam'-.'- Phil: Savage Prest. to Communicate [Indorsed] From EpP Lawrence giving an accf of y= State of y<= Powder Mill under his care Augf 12. 1779 (Massachusetts Archives, CCV. 501) 240 Groton during the Revolution This powder-mill was situated near the west end of the upper bridge over the Nashua River in the village of East Pepperell. It stood close to the present site of the brick counting-house of the paper-mills, and the water-power was afterward used for a fulling-mill. The drying-house was on the opposite side of the road. Ephraim Lawrence, who signs the statement, was a physician at Pepperell, and probably in charge of the mill. He was a son of Deacon Peleg and Ruth Lawrence; and at the time of his death he left a large family of children, among whom was the late Dr. Ebenezer Lawrence, of Hampton, New Hampshire. When the Revolution broke out. Dr. Oliver Prescott, — the younger brother of James, "ho wrote the preceding letters, and of William, the hero of Bunker Hill, — was perhaps the most noted as well as the most influential man in Groton. He was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1750, and a member of various scientific societies. The following suggestion made by him to the Committee of Safety is found in Peter Force's "American Archives," fourth series (II. 38S):- Groton, April 24, 1775. Gentlemen : I think if an order should pass for the establish ment of a Town Guard, to be kept in a prudent manner, in every Town in this Province, it would have a great tendency to deter and detect villains and their accomplices. The passes that people bring this way are generally without date, or assignment to any person or place, so that a man may pass to Africa with the same order. Par don my freedom, and allow me to subscribe, gentlemen, your most obedient, very humble servant, Oliver Prescott. To the Committee of Safety. Another letter written by Dr. Prescott, who at this time was a Brigadier General, is preserved among the Shattuck Manuscripts of the New England Historic, Genealogical Soci ety. It gives some interesting facts concerning the Middlesex militia, and is as follows : — Revolutionary Items 241 Sir, In persuance of your ordors Rec? the 14'.'' I have caused the militia of the County of middlesex to be mustered and have caused to be Drafted therefrom every fifth able bodied man under fifty years of age &c agreeable to the Resolves of the Gen! Assembly of this State of the I2'^ instant, and formed the s? men into Companies and appointed their Respective Officers in the following manner, viz. N? I. Cambridge 33 men Charlestown 7 Maiden 9 Medf ord 13 Capf John Walton of Cambridge i^Lf 2? D? 62. N*; 2. Watertown 15 Newton 19 Waltham 13 Weston 18 Capf Edward Fuller of Newton I? Lf Josiah Capen of Watertown 2? D'; Isaac Hager of Waltham 65- N"; 3. Woburn 20 Reading 26 Wilmington 1 3 Stoneham 4 Capf Samuel Belnap of Woburn II' Lf 2? D"; 63- N"? 4. Concord 23 Lexington 16 Acton 1 5 Lincoln 12 Capf Simon Hunt of Acton il' Lf Samuel Heald of Concord 2? D'^ Eben' White of Lexington 66. N"! 5. Sudbury 35 Marlboro 3 1 Stow 16 Capf Amasa Cranson of Marlboro r" Lf Nathl Sergeant of Stow 2? D'; Nath'.' Smith of Sudbury 82. 16 242 Groton during the Revolution N° 6. Framingham 27 Sherburn 15 Hopkinston 20 HoUiston 15 Natick 9 86. N? 7. Groton 29 Pepperrell 1 7 Townshend 15 Ashby 8 69. Capf Aaron Gardner of Sherburn i^' Lf Lawssen Buckminister of Fram ingham 2? B°. Isaac Clark of Hopkinton. Capf Thomas Warren of Townshend i^' Lf James Lawrance of Pepperrell 2? D? Joseph Rockwood of Groton N? 8. Chelmsford 21 men Capf Zach. Wright of Westford Dunstable 12 i^ L' Nath'! Holden of Dunstable Dracutt 18 2? D"; Robf Spaulding of Chelmsford Westi'ord 18 69. N? 9. Billerica 22 Tukesbury 12 Bedford 10 Littleton 12 Shirley 9 65- Capf Solomon Kidder of Billerica i"' Lf Daniel Kimball of Littieton 2? D° Tim'! Rogers of Tukesbury I have also formed the afores? Companies into one Regf and appointed Eleazer Brooks Esqf of Lincoln to be the Col? Micah Stone Esqf of Framingham Lf Col? Ebenf Bancroft Esqf of Dunstable Major Mf Moses Adams of Framingham Chaplain Mf Joseph Hunt of Acton Surgeon Mate Daniel Loring of Sudbury Adjut. Samuel Hartwell of Lincoln Quartermaster Revolutionary Items 243 I have directed the s? Col? Brooks to ordor the several Captains afores? to march their Respective Companies, as soon as possible, in the best & most proper Road, to Horse Neck [West Greenwich, Connecticut], according to the Resolves of the Gen! Assembly of this State, & agreeable to the Directions and for the purposes therein Expressed. Col? Brooks informs me this day that he hath given marching ordors for Saturday next for the whole Regf I am, Sir, with the greatest Respect, your most obedient and very hbl Serf Oliver Prescott Groton Sept^ 26'^ 1776. N. B. Col? Thatcher & Col° Fox Engaged to fill up their Com panies and Return the Names of the Lieut? before the Time appointed to march. GeneraU [James] Warren [Indorsed] Brig' Prescots return of every fifth man Drafted from his Brigade Sep'. 1776 Daniel Farnsworth The following notice taken from " The Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser" (Boston), January 2, 1777, shows the want of postal facilities which existed during the Revo lutionary period. At that time there were but few post- offices in New England, and letters for Groton were sent first to the Boston Office, and afterward forwarded through private channels. This explains the statement that " letters are uncertain." To Mr. DANIEL FARNSWORTH, of Groton, in the state of Massachusetts- Bay : SIR, THE privateer you are concerned in has taken and sent a prize to a safe port. I take this method to acquaint you of it, as letters are uncertain. When I see you shall be able to give a more particular account about it. From your friend and humble servant, D. R. Providence, December 25, 1776. 244 Groton during the Revolution Dr. Samuel Gelston Before the Revolutionary period Dr. Samuel Gelston was a well-known physician in the Province of Massachusetts. At one time, in connection with Dr. John Warren, he had a hospital at the barracks in Castle William, Boston Harbor, for the treatment of patients who had been inoculated for small-pox. An advertisement, setting forth the general details of the establishment, appears in "The Boston Post- Boy & Advertiser," March 5, 1764. At another time he lived at Nantucket, having previously managed a smaU-pox hospital on Martha's Vineyard. In the early part of the Revolutionary War he was a tory of a pronounced type, and both by word and deed incurred the bitter hatred of the patriots. The feeling was so strong that the attention of the General Court, then sitting at Watertown, was called to his case, and by their order he was arrested at Falmouth. On January 17, 1776, the Council passed a Resolution con cerning Dr. Gelston as a person " unfriendly to the Liberties of this Country," and putting him under bonds of one thou sand Pounds for his future behavior and appearance before the Court, whenever wanted ; but the House of Representa tives non-concurred, and passed another Resolution much more stringent. Six days later it is recorded in the printed Journal of January 23 : — Joseph Palmer, Esq ; brought down the Resolve of the House for confining Doct. Gelston, with the following Vote of Council thereon, viz. In Q,o\ir\d<\, January 22d, 1776. Read and concurr'd, and the Board having reconsiderd their former Vote, passed the following Resolve, viz. That the said Samuel Gelston, be sent to the Town of Groton in the County of Middlesex, and that he give Bond with two good Sureties to the Treasurer of this Colony in the Penal Sum of One Thousand Pounds, the Condition whereof shall be, that he the said Revolutionary Items 245 Samuel will not depart out of the Limits of the said Town of Groton, until the further Order of this Court, and that he will not in any wise assist or correspond with any of the Enemies of this Country, and that he will be of good and peaceable Behaviour towards all Persons who are friendly to American Liberty, and that he will at any Time appear and answer to any Complaint which may be made against him, when he shall be thereto required by Order of this Court, and that he will abide their Order thereon ; And on failure of the said Samuel's giving Bond as aforesaid. Resolved, That he be committed to the Goal in Newbury Port, until the further Order of this Court. Sent down for Concurrence. Read and non-concurred, and the House adhere to their own Vote. (Pages 194, 195.) From the tenor of the Resolve passed by the House, it is evident that that body thought that Dr. Gelston should not have his freedom under any contingency, and that he should be securely guarded in jail. While the Council and the House were at variance. Dr. Gelston escaped from the messenger of the General Court and ran off, though he was subsequently retaken at Newport, Rhode Island, and brought back to Watertown. John Brown, another tory, who was bribed to aid Gelston in this attempt, was captured at the same time with him ; and they both were brought back to gether. After this episode the two legislative bodies soon came to an agreement, when they ordered the men to be confined in some jail, until they should be set free by the Council, though no particular jaU was specified. At the time of his capture Brown had in his possession about ten pounds of India tea, which was ordered by the General Court to be burned publicly, at five o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, February 3. " The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal " (Watertown), February 5, 1776, gives the following account of the affair : — Saturday last was burnt in this town, pursuant to an order of the General Court, by the door-keeper, a quantity of Bohea Tea, 246 Groton during the Revolution taken from one John Brown, a person who for Fifty DoUars, rescued and convey'd away, from the custody of the Court's Messenger, Dr. Samuel Gelston, who had been apprehended by the Court, for supplying the Enemy with Provisions ; he was retaken with the said Brown at Rhode-Island and bro't back to this Town, where they now are under close Guard. For an account of the Gelston Family, see " The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" (II.. 131-138) for July, 1 87 1. There is in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society a small hand-bill, which reads as follows : — AD VERTLSEMENT. Watertown, January 26, 1776. 'DAN A WA Y from the custody of the Messenger of the ¦*- *¦ General Court, a certain Dr. Samuel Gelston, belonging to Nantucket, a short well set man ; had on when he went away a reddish Sheepskin coat, dress'd with the wool inside, and a scarlet waistcoat ; he was apprehended as an enemy to this country, 'tis suppos'd he will attempt escaping to the enemy, by the way of Nantucket, Rhode-Island, or New- York. Whoever will take up said Gelston and deliver him to the messenger of the House of Representatives, shall be well rewarded for his time and expence. William Story, \ Committee of Nathaniel Freeman, /-the House of Ebenezer White, > Representatives Capt. fohn Williams A notice, signed by Colonel Rufus Putnam, is printed in "The Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser" (Boston), May 29, 1777, which gives a list of the officers then engaged in recruiting for his regiment. Among the names there men tioned is that of John Williams, of Groton, who soon afterward was commissioned as a captain in the army, and later became Revolutionary Items 247 an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cin cinnati. In the Memorials of that association (Boston, 1890), edited by James McKellar Bugbee, the following sketch of him, as well as of his son, John, Jr., is given : — 31ot)n WiUiantB!. He was the son of John, Jr., and EHzabeth (Cutter) Williams ; b. Groton, Mass., 4 July, 1746; d. there i July, 1822. He was an ensign in Prescott's reg. at Bunker HiU ; ist lieut. in 1776 ; com. capt. 7 July, 1777, in the 12th reg., and was in Vose's (ist) reg. from 1781 to its disbandment, 3 Nov. 1783. He m. Molly Everett, and had twelve children, five of whom d. young. JOHN WILLIAMS. Eldest son of Capt. John, whom he succ. in 1826 ; b. Groton, Mass., I April, 1774; d. in Dover, Mass., leaving a widow, Sally B., who was se. 77 in 1859. (Pages 516, 517.) According to an advertisement in the same newspaper, three weeks later (June 19), the town of Groton was to receive ninety-eight bushels of salt out of the public stores belonging to the State. William Nutting's Diary William Nutting was a son of Lieutenant William and Jane (Boynton) Nutting, and was born at Groton, on July 10, 1752. He was a corporal in Captain Lawrence's company of minute-men that marched from Groton on April 19, after the Lexington alarm. A large part of his Diary is printed in the Groton Historical Series (III. 383-399). To a casual reader the following memoranda may seem trivial and unim portant ; but any fact connected with the events of the Revo lutionary period has some interest. 248 Groton during the Revolution May 15"" [1777] Training day; 16 men drafted for 9 months. I paid my rates for Town & State yearly Tax to Oliver Fletcher Constable for 1776 3 — 2 — 9 — 0 also a rate for raising men &c a tax wholly on acct of yi war — ;^5— 5- I — I to Ezekiel Fletcher Constable for 1777 [July] yf 23 yf Companies met in yS Trining field, to get one half y^ men to go to Providence — Rhode island Octo' I- 1777 Set out towards y.' Northard Army £ s D Expences while gone to yf Army &c 3 — 11 — 10 Novemf s'.*" Came home from yf Army [July] yf 3o'^ [1778] was alarm, men wanted to go to Rhode Island [Aug.] yf 22? was training to Raise men &c. [Nov.] yf I6'^ the Comp? of metrosses met at y? meeting house. W? [March] 315-' [1779] y? Northend Comp'ny Chose Capf Job Shattuck for their Capf instead of Capf Shattuck Blood. [June] y^ 13'!" [1780] Spent i day warning a Town meeting for yf Purpose of Raising men for yf Army July 6"", 7"*, & 8'? ; I spent 3 days in warning a Town meeting for yf purpose of Raising men for yf Army, & Raising money for yf Town. Monday July yf lo'!! 1780 the Town met for yf Above purposes. I spent j4 day. July 31,^' 1 78 1, gave my Note to Thom? Wasson of Shirley for Sixty Dollars Silver — endorst fifteen Dollars on s? Note. I paid Eight Dollars & 6 coppers. M!: Gragg Paid 41/8 — S? Note is for a bounty to s* T. Wasson to engage him to go into yf Army for 3 months for Class N? 10 of Groton Wed. 23'' [Oct., 1782] Training 2 companys. Tues!' 7'i [Oct., 1783] General Training Col! Woods' Regt the Metross Comp?' Din'd at Lf Abel Bancroft's expence 2/6 each at Dinner. Sat^ 22? [Feb. 1800] attended a meeting at the meeting house where mf Dana D? an Oration on the Death of Washington — the Several Companies of Militia met &c &c. Revolutionary Items 249 Moses Child A few years ago Samuel Mitchell Child, Esq., a lawyer of Boston, placed in my hands for examination certain old papers which once belonged to his great-great-grandfather, Moses Child, of Groton. The earliest of these papers is dated at Watertown, March 31, 1763, and signed by John Remington, Collector of the Duties of Excise, giving to Mr. Child permission " to sell Rum, and other DistUled Spirits and Wine." Another paper is dated at Cambridge, May, 1774, and informs the Selectmen of the town that Messrs. John SawteU, Moses ChUd, and George Peirce were licensed as Innholders during the pre vious year, and also that Jonathan Clark Lewis, Jonas Cutler, and William Swan were licensed as Retailers for the same period ; and then notifies the Selectmen that the time for renewing the licenses would be on Tuesday, September 13. Among these old papers is Mr. Child's account-book, bearing date June 5, 1761, which was in use for seven years ; and from the numerous charges to his customers for rum, brandy, and flip, it would seem as if he was a wholesale dealer in liquors rather than a retailer. In one place he writes : " March ye 7 [1773?] Capt Shattuck and Isaac Bowers begun, to Take the Newspapers ; " and later, in another place, he says : " Capt Asa Lawrance paid for three months for the Nues papers -£o : 3 : 4 : o." Did he furnish his neighbors with their weekly papers as well as with their liquid stimulants 1 Moses Child was the second son of Isaac and Anna (Adams) Child, and born at Watertown, on April 6, 1731. He was married to Sarah StUes, of Lunenburg; and they settled at Groton, where their eight children were born. During the French and Indian War he held a commission as Ensign, which is now in the possession of the Maine His torical Society at Portland, according to Blood's " History of 250 Groton during the Revolution Temple," New Hampshire (page 211). In November, 1775, he was one of two persons, commissioned by General Wash ington, and sent at the public expense to Nova Scotia, " to inquire into the state of that Colony, the disposition of the inhabitants towards the American cause, and the condition of the fortifications, dock yards, the quantity of the warlike stores, and the number of soldiers, sailors and ships of war there; and to transmit the earliest intelligence to Gen. Washington." His commission for this service is printed in full in the " Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families'' (page 546). Mr. ChUd served also as an officer in the Revolution, and was present at Burgoyne's surrender. A grant of land lying within the District of Maine was made to him and others for their military services. The tract was then called Tyngstown, in honor of Capt. James Tyng, but is now known as Wilton, and lies in Franklin County, Maine. Among these ChUd manuscripts is a list of the original proprietors of the town ship, and other papers relating to the laying out of that settlement. About the year 1790 Mr. Child removed to Temple, New Hampshire, where he lived until his death, which took place on February 8, 1793. His widow survived him for a quarter of a century, and died on June 3, 1818. The foUowing copies are made from manuscripts among these papers : — Pepprill April y- 28- 1778 This may Certify that I have accepted of Amos Blood to do a turn in the Service of the four Newengland States till the first Day of January next for and in the room of Joseph Rockwood. Joseph Boynton Cap' May th" 7 1778 this may Certify that Asa Kemp of groton have inlisted and Ingaged to Serve in the army of the vnited State til the first of January next under Cap' Joseph Boynton of pepperril In Behalf of Benjamen Tarbel of Groton Joseph Boynton Cap' Revolutionary Items 251 May 1777 to Two months Service of my son John at Rhode Island April 1778 to Three months Service of my self at Cambridge Augf 1778 to six weeks Service of my son John at Rhode Island Peter Stevens Capt. Abraham, Childs The following notice of an aged citizen appeared in the "Columbian Centinel," January ii, 1834. During the last century Captain Childs built and occupied the house in Groton where the late Charles WooUey in recent years lived for so long a time, situated on School Street, near Hollis Street. He bought the parcel of land of Jephtha Richardson, a tavern-keeper and son of Converse Richard son, a blacksmith, who before this time had a shop on it, nearly opposite to the site of the late Nathaniel Livermore's house. Captain Childs's eldest son, David, married Mrs. Su sanna (Bentley) Woolley, widow of Captain Charles WooUey {b. 1768, d. 1802), as her second husband. The article was written by George Fowle, a schoolmaster of Boston, from facts furnished by Mr. Woolley. Such sketches of Revolutionary characters are always of value, inasmuch as they have an interest for the inhabitants as weU as for the local historian. Captain Childs's wife was Rebecca Stowell, of Waltham, who died on November 14, 1830. He speUed his surname with a final " s," but the chUdren dropped it. The following very interesting sketch of one of our Revolution ary heroes, from a correspondent, will be read with great interest. Such characters add a degree of romance to the history of the Revolution. Biographical Sketch of Capt. Abraham Child. Died, at Groton, (Mass) on Friday, the 3d inst., after a short indisposition, Capt. Abraham Child, aged 92. The remnant of our revolutionary worthies is fast disappearing, and it is useful to 252 Groton during the Revolution collect their testimony of the ' heroic age ' of our fathers, as each assists in bringing the struggle more home to our bosoms. The subject of this sketch was born at Waltham, August 12th, 1741. The estate on which he was born, has been in the possession of the same famUy for more than a century — a fact worthy of notice, as evincing the sound judgment and untiring industry, which are peculiar traits of their character. At the age of fifteen, Abraham was apprenticed to a blacksmith, with whom he continued 2 years ; when, no longer controlling his patriotic ardor, he joined the company of Capt. William Jones, of Medford, in the regiment of Col. Saltonstall, of Haverhill, and marched to join the army under General Amherst, appointed to invade Canada. After aiding in the captures of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and being engaged in several skirmishes, he wintered with the army at Crown Point, 1760. Marching in the spring upon Montreal, they were compelled, after a severe action at Silsery, to fall back upon Quebec ; from whence, finally concentrating their forces under Amherst, upon Montreal, the reduction of Canada was effected, and our soldier enabled to resume his trade, at which he continued until 1762, when he again entered the service under Capt. WUliam Baldwin, of Chelmsford, of Col. Hoar's regiment, marched to Boston, took shipping to Halifax, and thence sailed to aid in the reduction of some French posts in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Upon the accomplishment of which, returning to Halifax, he there spent the winter, working at his trade. At the peace of '63, he returned home. In 1 767, he married one, whose subsequent conduct proved her a fit partner for a " Son of Liberty." In 1774, when the Pro vincial Congress deemed it necessary to organize more thoroughly a military force, he was appointed Lieutenant of Capt. Abijah Child's company of ' Minute Men.' In the following year he warmly engaged in the pursuit of the English at the battle of Lex ington. Then entering the States' service for 8 months, as Lieuten ant of Captain J. Williams's company, in Col. Baldwin's regiment, he assisted in proving " Yankee Cowardice " upon Bunker's Hill. At the expiration of his time he enlisted for one year. After the evacuation of Boston, he marched to New York, and suffered at the defeat of Long Island, in the summer of '76. Retreating with the main army through the Jerseys, into Pennsylvania, he was one of that determined band, which, headed by Washington, resolved to Revolutionary Items 253 turn the current of success, or perish ere their country's chains were rivetted. Victory at Trenton crowning the endeavor, our soldier returned home with the rank of Captain in Colonel Western's regiment. In 1777 he took command of 300 men, whom he had assisted in recruiting, and joined General Gates in time to aid at the capture of Burgoyne. Returning to the main army, he passed the winter at Valley Forge, where he endured hardships, compared with which, his former sufferings were pleasures. But the following summer, as he stated, he thoroughly warmed himself at Monmouth. Water not being attainable, his soldiers stove in a hogshead of brandy, and madly assuaged their overpowering thirst, without more effect arising therefrom than if it had been so much water. In 1779 he was appointed to the command of a company of Light Infantry, under Major William Hull ; and on the 15 th of July, as senior Captain of the Infantry, he headed the assault at the storming of Stoney Point. General Wayne, to prevent the possi bility of early discovery, ordered the muskets to be unloaded, and the flints withdrawn. Advancing thus, in solid columns to the assault, they suddenly displayed [deployed] to the right and left, sprang boldly to the walls, under a murderous fire of grape and musketry from the now aroused Britons, and gained the ramparts with the exulting shout of " Hurrah ! the fort is ours ! " We have the authority of the late General Hull, to state, that the first man who gained the rampart and raised the cry of victory, was our enthusi astic Captain. In the act of parrying a thrust from a British officer. Captain Child received a slight wound in the hand, which was the only injury he received through all his campaigns. Soon after this, domestic affairs imperiously calling for his pres ence, he bade a final adieu to the army. His wife, meanwhile, had nobly proved herself the virtuous and patriotic matron. She had almost, through her own exertions, (her husband's pay being almost nominal,) clothed and maintained her children comfortably — had educated them as well as the times admitted, (several of them in after years taught our country schools,) and indeed, to the time of her death, in 183 1, proved herself worthy of those times of closest trial. After residing several years in WendaU, he removed in 1795, to Groton, Mass. In 1818 he applied for, and received, the half- pay pension. During the remainder of his eventful life, beloved 254 Groton during the Revolution and respected, he calmly pursued his course, retaining all his faculties and strength to the last, and finally expired — " Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch " About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." A Singular Petition The following paper is found among the manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society : — Colonel Read — Sir Whereas we your unworthy Petitioners, having Sometime since made choice of a Number of Persons for officers in this 2- Company in your Honf= Rigement ; and having Since, been more fully ac quainted with Said Persons conduct, & capacities for Such offices ; we beg Leave to Inform your Honf that it is our oppinion, that Some of Said men who have been unadvisedly chosen by this com pany, are men of Such Low, and week capacities, that they are neither capable of doing Service to your Honour, or of disephning of us, (their Soldiers,) Neither of advancing the Noble cause of Liberty, (in which we voluntarily & chearfuUy engage ;) we there fore humbly confess, we have chosen men to Stand in offices, in your Hon? Regiment, which (upon further consideration) we think, are not Suitable Persons for Such offices : — Therefore, may it Please your Honnour, to Grant this company the liberty of a New choice of officers in this company : (viz) the North-end company of Groton) — For in So doing your Honf will much Gratifie us your unworthy Petitioners of S? Company ; and Shall have our best endeavours to Promote & advance your Honour ; and the Noble Cause of Liberty in which we chearfuUy Engage — Jacob Parker Jacob Williams Nathaniel Shattuck Levi Parker John Hazen Dauid Woods William Farwell William Derumple BENjf Hazen Jonathan Woods Dauid Hazen Reuben Cumings Ezekiel Nutting Samuel Boyden Ezekiel NuTriNG Juf Bejamin Simson Asa Porter Groten may y" il' 1776 Revolutionary Items 255 An Exception The record of Groton men who enlisted during the Revolu tion was highly creditable to the town, and there is no reason why the exceptions should be kept back. Her soldiers served throughout the war with honor and distinction ; and the fol lowing item from " The Independent Chronicle. And the Uni versal Advertiser " (Boston), May 22, 1777, does not materially affect their good name and reputation.: — At a General Court Martial, held in this Town last Week, by Order of General Heath, Lieut. Col. Thomas Farrington, of Groton, State of Massachusetts, being found guilty of receiving and passing counterfeit Money, knowing it to be such, was unanimously ad judged to be discharged from the Army, and rendered incapable of acting any more as an Officer in the Continental Service. He was committed to Goal on Monday last, to be dealt with by the Civil Law, according to his attrocious Crime. Farrington, I fear, was a man of bad repute ; and the follow ing declaration, found in " The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal," July 7, 1777, does not add to his character : — Boston, July 5, 1777. I THOMAS FARRINGTON, of Groton, in the County of Mid dlesex, and State of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, Esquire, of lawful age, testify and declare. That whereas it hath been publicly, and by many persons reported, that William Smith, of Fish-Kills, in the State of New- York, Esquire, lately employed in the Continental service as an engineer, hath been concerned, either in counterfeiting, altering, or passing bills in imitation of bills of the Continental currency, and that I know him to be, in some way or other, concerned as aforesaid. I hereby publish to the world, that I never knew the said William Smith concerned either in counterfeiting, altering, or passing any such bills, or any other, but such as he might lawfully pass to any person whatsoever ; and that I never had any reason to think that he hath been concerned in any such mal-practices, either directly or indirectly : And I further 256 Groton during the Revolution declare, that I cannot account for the forementioned report, con cerning said Smith's being any way concerned with counterfeit money than this, viz. I was once in company with said Smith at a public house in Medford, in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, and when the said Smith there opened his pocket-book to pay his reck oning, I thought I saw one or more bills therein of the Continental currency, which at the distance I stood from him appeared to me to have a pale complexion, which made me suspect them to be counterfeits ; but I have no reason to think that the said Smith knew them to be so, or that the said Smith was ever concerned either directly or indirectly, in counterfeiting, altering or passing any bill or bills in imitation of any bill or bills of public credit whatsoever, as before by me declared. THO. FARRINGTON. Mass. State, Suffolk County, "i ' I 'Homas Farrington personaUy Boston, July 5, 1777. ) appeared, and made oath to the truth of the within written declaration by him subscribed : Taken at the request of the within-named William Smith, Esq ; in perpetuam rei meroriam [memoriam] . P , Sam. V'smses.to'^,) Justices of the Peace Joseph Gardner, > and of the Quorum. Absentees NOTICE is hereby given, that on Monday the 27th day of March next, at i o'clock afternoon, will be leased at public auction, by the committee of safety, &c. for the town of Groton, to the highest bidder, for one year, from the ist day of April next, all the real estate of Mr. Martin, an absentee, lying in the said town of Groton ; the vendu to be at the dwelling house on the premises. Groton, Feb. 23d, 1780. "The Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal," February 28, 1780. This farm is advertised again in the same newspaper of February 26, 1 781, to be leased for one year; and Martin's Christian name is then given as William. Revolutionary Items 257 Charles Ward Apthorp, pf New York, was another absen tee, who owned real estate in Groton, which is advertised in the same journal of December 24, 1781. It is described as " A messuage and tract of land situate in Groton, in said [Middlesex] county, containing about one hundred and seven acres, with the houses, barns, and buildings thereon, being bounded southwesterly on Samuel Farwell's land, northerly on land of Matthias Farnsworth, easterly on Little Pond, southerly by Common Land." Outlaws The following advertisements are found in " The Inde pendent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser" (Boston), February 13, 1783. The outlawry which they declare is not to be taken in a literal sense, but indicates only a severe penalty. Thomas Sackville Tufton was a trader, who died probably in the winter of 1787-8, as letters of administration were taken out on his estate, February 6, 1788. Outlawry. Pursuant to a Writ of Scire facias Utlagatum, hearing Test the 20th Day of January, A.D. i 783, to me directed — I hereby give Notice, unto Thomas Sacville Tufton, of Groton, in the County of Middle sex, Trader, That unless he appear before the Supreme Judicial Court, next to be holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the 2d Tuesday of AprU next, and maketh Answer to the several Charges specified in three Indictments of a Grand Jury, in the Supreme Judicial Court, of uttering and passing sundry counterfeit Bills and Notes, of the Denomination of Fifty Dollars, and of the Tenor and fabricated in Imitation of the good, lawful and current Bills of Credit of the United States of America, established by the Congress of the said United States of the same Denomina tion, knowing the said BUls to be counterfeit ; and also of having in Possession sundry other counterfeit BUls of the same Denomina- 17 258 Groton during the Revolution tion, knowingly with an Intent to utter and pay the same to some of the Inhabitants of said United States, as at large set forth in the Indictments aforesaid — and shall abide and perform the Judgment that may be given thereon — he will then and there be declared an OUTLAW. LOAMMI BALDWIN, (Sheriff of Middlesex. Outlawry. Pursuant to a Writ of Scire facias Utlagatum, bearing Test the 20th Day of January, A.D. 1783, to me directed I hereby give Notice unto Nathan Raymond, of Groton, in the County of Middlesex, an Infant, That unless he appear before the Supreme Judicial Court, next to be holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middle sex, on the 2d Tuesday of April next, and maketh Answer to the Charge by the Indictment of a Grand Jury in the Supreme Judicial Court, of uttering and passing one false and counterfeit Note and Bill, of the Denomination of Fifty Dollars, to one Asa Lawrence, for, and as, a good, lawful, current Bill of Credit of the United States of America, knowing the same to be counterfeit — and shall abide and perform the Judgment that may be given thereon — he will then and there be declared an OUTLAW. LOAMMI BALDWIN, (Sheriff of Middlesex. Capt. William Scott On the third page of " The Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal," July 16, 1792, is printed a long extract from "a Philadelphia paper of July 2," giving an account of a severe hurricane that swept over the eastern part of Pennsylvania on July I. The storm did much damage in Philadelphia and its neighborhood, but fortunately there was no great loss of life. At the end of the extract the following episode is given, with some editorial comment of the Gazette within brackets, as here printed : — Since writing the above account, we further learn, that a boat from this city to the Jersey shore was overset within fifty rods of Revolutionary Items 259 Samuel Cowper's wharff. There were in the boat Captain Scott, Mr. Blake, his wife and four small chUdren, a young woman, and Mr. Betis, in all nine persons, none of whom could swim but Capt. Scott, The Captain, by the most astonishing and praise-worthy exer tions, was able, providentially, to save them all. He swam ashore with one child hanging round his neck, and one to each arm ; and he returned to the boat amidst the boisterous waves raging in a furious and frightful manner, and brought the others, who had with much difficulty held by the boat, safe to the land. For the honor of Captain Scott, an old and valiant Soldier, a Son of Massachusetts, this circumstance should be handed down to posterity. Those who revere the virtues of the benevolent Howard must ever remember, with veneration, those successful exertions of Cap tain ScOTT. [The above mentioned hero, is Capt. Wm. Scott, of Groton, in this Commonwealth ; and an invalid officer of the United States. — At the commencement of the late war in the Battle on Bunker's Hill, he received several wounds, was taken prisoner, and confined in goal in this town, when in possession of the British — and suf fered much maltreatment.] The "Columbian Centinel" (Boston), July 14, 1792, also mentions the same incident, but does not give so many particulars. William Scott was a son of John and Mary (Chamberlin) Scott, of Groton, where he was born on July i, 1742. It will be noticed that the act of heroism was performed on his own birthday, — on the day when he was fifty years old, — and this fact may have incited him to make special exertions. During the Revolutionary War he saw much military service, and at one time was in the navy. For a sketch of his life, see Dr. Albert Smith's " History of Peterborough," New Hamp shire (page 248 of the second Part), where the account of his parentage conflicts with the statement here given. His death took place at Litchfield, New York, on September 19, 1796, at the age of 54 years. 2 6o Groton during the Revolution Groton Soldiers living in Maine The following Groton soldiers are mentioned in a list of " Names of Soldiers of the American Revolution who applied for State Bounty under Resolves of March 17, 1835, March 24, 1836, and March 20, 1838, as appears of record in Land Ofiftce," compiled by Charles J. House (Augusta, 1893). The abbreviations may be explained thus : " e " for place of residence at time of enlistment, "d" for died, "w" for widow, and " m " for married. The name of a town following that of a soldier or his widow shows the place of residence at the time when the application was made. Amos Dole, e Groton, Mass., d Orrington, July 20, 1832, w Matilda, Orrington. (Page 23.) Oliver Hartwell, Stetson, e Groton, Mass. (Page 28.) Asa Longley, St. Albans, e Groton, Mass. (Page 34.) Zachariah Longley, e Groton, Mass., d Dover June 28, 1825, w Betsey, Dover. (Page 34.) Abel Nutting, e Groton, Mass., d Lisbon January 18, 1827, w Rhoda, Lisbon, m Green. (Page 38.) Calvin Russell, Moscow, e Groton, Mass. (Page 41.) Amos Shed, e Groton, Mass., d Norridgewock, July 1 1, 1800, w Lucy, Norridgewock, m Crosby. (Page 42.) Thomas Stevens, Brooksville, e Groton, Mass. (Page 44.) Sons of the Revolution Within a few years three persons have died, whose fathers were natives of Groton and also soldiers during the American Revolution, namely: Andrew Johnson Parker (youngest chUd of Joshua Parker), who died at Charlestown, on December 31, 1894 ; the Reverend Thomas Treadwell Stone, D.D. (youngest son of Deacon Solomon Stone), at Bolton, on November 13, 1895, and at the time of his death the oldest alumnus of Bow- Revolutionary Items 261 doin College ; and Luther Lewis Tarbell (son of William Tarbell, by his second wife), at Marlboro, on July lo, 1896. For a notice of Tarbell's father, see page 284. Revolutionary Pensioners In the year 1841 " A Census of Pensioners for Revolution ary or Military Services " was published under the direction of the United States Government, which gave the names, ages, and places of residence of all pensioners then living, as well as the names of heads of families with whom they were residing. The list includes presumably all the surviving Revolutionary soldiers at that period ; and among them are the names of ten Groton men, as follows : — Names. Ages. With whom living. Abel Prescott. 80 Abel Prescott. William Prescott. 7a Merrick Lewis. Joshua Parker. 76 Joshua Parker. William Tarbell. 76 William Tarbell. Jacob Nutting. 93 Jacob Nutting. Isaac Patch. 78 Isaac Patch. Joseph Sawtell, 2d. 76 Joseph Sawtell, 2d. David Lakin. 89 David Lakin. Amos Farnsworth. 86 Amos Farnsworth. Stephen Pingrey. 82 John Pingrey. Abel Prescott was the second son of Jonas and Rebecca (Bulkley) Prescott and was born at Groton, on December 12 1759. He was married to Hannah Spalding, of Ashburnham ; and among his children were Phinehas Gilman Prescott and Charles Prescott. He died on September 18, 1841, and his widow on August 17, 1854. William Prescott was the youngest son of the Honorable James and Susanna (Lawrence) Prescott, and born at Groton, on September 5, 1768. At a Fourth of July celebration he 262 Groton during the Revolution was severely wounded in the hand by the premature discharge of a cannon, and in consequence of the injury he received a pension from the United States Government. For many years after the death of his father he lived in the family of Major James Lewis, and after Major Lewis's death in the family of Merrick Lewis, the youngest brother of James. Mr. Prescott died at Groton, on August 31, 1843. He was a nephew of Colonel WiUiam Prescott who commanded the American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and a brother of Benjamin who fell in that fight. Joshua Parker was a son of Ephraim and Azubah (Farns worth) Parker, and was born at Groton, on May 26, 1764. He was in the army near the end of the War, and he died on September 15, 1843. For a brief account of the family, see Groton Historical Series (II. 321). William Tarbell was the second son of Benjamin and Azu bah (Farnsworth) Tarbell, and was born at Groton, on Octo ber 19, 1764. He was married, on April 8, 1788, to Polly Simonds, of Groton ; secondly, on April 24, 1823, to Susan Blood, of Groton; and, thirdly, on May 13, 1840, to Mrs. Sarah (Wetherbee) Nutting, of Townsend. Mr. TarbeU's mother died on March 14, 1838, at the age of 97 years, 8 months, and 19 days, the oldest person in town at that time ; and he died on August 3, 185 1, aged 86 years, 9 months, and 16 days. The date of his birth is taken from the family Bible, and differs by a few days from that given in the town records. In the summer of 1783 Mr. Tarbell made a rude drawing of the encampment at New Windsor, just above West Point, where he was then serving. It represents the barracks and other features of the camp, and is now in the possession of his son's widow. This is the same drawing incorrectly referred to on page 284 as a view of the ground at Valley Forge. Jacob Nutting, a son of Isaac and Lydia (Nutting) Nutting, was born at Groton, on January 23, 1747, and died on May 14, 1841. Revolutionary Items 263 Isaac Patch was the second son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Avery) Patch, and born at Westford in the year 1762. He was married in 1786 to Phebe, youngest child of Reuben and Susanna (Chandler) Fletcher of that town ; and they had eight children, of whom the youngest, Sophronia, was the wife of the late Moses Titus, of Ayer. Mr. Patch died at Groton, on October 21, 1841, aged 79 years ; and his widow on January 9, 1843, also aged 79 years. Joseph Sawtell, 2d, was the second son of Joseph and Lydia (Jenkins) Sawtell, and was born at Groton, on May 8, 1764. He was married, on February 22, 1788, to Hannah, youngest daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Kemp. For many years he was sexton of the town; and he died on March 21, 1842. Another Joseph, the father of the late Ephraim Sawtell, was living in the year 1840, when this list of pensioners was made. David Lakin was the youngest child of John and Lydia (Parker) Lakin, and was born at Groton, on October 10, 1753. He died on March 3, 1846, at which time he was the oldest person in town. Amos Farnsworth was the eldest son of Amos and Lydia (Longley) Farnsworth, and was born at Groton, on April 28, 1754. After the Lexington alarm, on April 19, 1775, he marched to Cambridge in Captain Henry Farwell's company of minute-men. At the time of his death, which took place on October 29, 1847, ^^ ^^s the oldest person in town. Stephen Pingrey was the oldest son of Stephen and Anna (Jewett) Pingrey, and was born at Rowley, on June 3, 1759. After the death of his second wife, which took place at Fran- conia. New Hampshire, on June 12, 1838, in order to live with his youngest son John, he came to Groton, where he died on May 8, 1844. Many years ago I obtained the foUowing facts from Elijah Clark, of Newton, who had had some experience as a Revolu tionary pension-agent. 264 Groton during the Revolution Mrs. Olive Studley died at Groton, on March 2, 1845, aged 83 years. She was the widow of Consider Studley, who during the Revolution had served as a non-commissioned officer from Wrentham. They were married at Franklin in 1785 ; and at the time of her death she left three children, namely : Mrs. Olive Rugg, wife of Joseph Rugg, of Groton ; Oliver Studley ; and Sarah Mann Studley. Her husband died at Lancaster, on December 28, 1832 ; and in consequence of his mUitary services she received from the United States Government an annual pension of forty-four dollars. Jonathan Prentiss, a native of Groton, living in Townsend, was in the mUitary service of his country during the years 1778 and 1779. At one time he was a member of Captain Kimball's company. Colonel Sproat's regiment, and stationed at Nantasket. Samuel Gragg, a native of Groton, and a soldier of the Revolution, was an uncle of the Reverend William Gragg, who graduated at Harvard CoUege in the Class of 1820; and his wife's name was Rachel Blood. Groton, a Shire Town during the Revolution Owing to the disturbances of the War, an Act was passed by the Legislature, on February 6, 1776, removing the No vember term of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Court of Common Pleas from Charlestown to Groton. Two years later, on September 23, 1778, this November term was transferred to Cambridge, to take the place of the May term, which in turn was brought to Groton, where it remained until June, 1787. The sessions of the Court were held in the First Parish Meeting-house ; and the Court was sitting there during the famous dark day of May 19, 1780, when candles had to be used. Revolutionary Items 265 The following notice adjourning the Court of Common Pleas, appointed to be held at Groton, appears in " The Boston Ga zette, and the Country Journal," May 12, 1783, and is signed by three Justices of that Court. It is impossible now to learn the circumstances under which the adjournment took place, but they may have been similar to those mentioned in a Re solve, here reprinted immediately after the advertisement from the newspaper. On the docket at East Cambridge no explanation is given, but under date of May 20, 1783, it is there recorded that the Court, by proclamation of John Tyng and James Prescott, Esquires, two of the Justices, was adjourned to the first Tuesday of June, which fell that year on the third day of the month. WHEREAS some Circumstances that must happen wUl render it necessary that the Court of Common Pleas, by Law appointed to be holden at Groton, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the 3d Tuesday of May Inst, should be adjourned to some future Day : All Persons concerned are to take Notice, that the same Court wUl be adjourned to the first Tuesday in June next, then to proceed to Business Jurors Parties and Witnesses will govern themselves accordingly. By Order of Three of the Justices of the same Court. N. B. As the Court of Common Pleas wUl adjourn as above, it is probable that the Court of General Sessions of the Peace will be adjourned in like Manner. Middlesex ss ) ' I ""HE Clerk of the within mentioned Courts is May 9, 1 783 i X directed to publish the within Advertisement in the Papers, and to send Copies thereof to the several Parts of the County. .\ Fuller, James Prescott, Samuel Phillips Savage. A true Copy of the Originals filed in the Office of the Courts abovementioned. May 9 1783. Attest. THAD. MASON, Clerk 266 Groton during the Revolution The following Resolution was passed by the General Court on May 2, 1787, and is found in the volume of "Resolves" (page 280), where the chapter is numbered XXXI. Resolve adjourning the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas in the County oi Middlesex, to the fourth Tuesday in May inst. May 2, 1787. Whereas by reason of the sitting of the Supreme Judicial Court, at Concord, on the second Tuesday of May instant, the sitting of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas, at Groton, on the Tuesday following, may be attended with inconveniences. Resolved, That the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas, by law to be holden at Groton, within and for the county of Middlesex, on the third Tuesday of May in stant, shall be holden at Groton aforesaid, on the fourth Tuesday of the same month, and that all writs, processes and recognizances, returnable to, and all appeals made to the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas, appointed by law to be holden at Groton ; and all matters, causes and things, that have day or that might have had day, been moved or done at, in, or by the said Courts, at the time so appointed for holding the same, shall be returnable to, and may be entered, prosecuted, had, moved and done at, in, and by the said Courts, at the time herein appointed for holding the same. And the Secretary is hereby directed, to publish this resolve, in the two next Adams and Nourse's, HalPs, and Charlestown papers. It is highly probable that the Shays Rebellion, which broke out in the summer of 1786, had some connection with the removal of these sessions from Groton. The uprising in Middlesex County was confined exclusively to this neighbor hood, and the insurgents always felt a bitter spite against the Court of Common Pleas, which they had tried so hard to abolish. The action of the Legislature in making the change seems to have been in part retributive. During the period when the Courts were held here, Groton was a town much more important relatively, both in size and Revolutionary Items 267 influence, than it is at the present time. According to the National census of 1790, the first one taken, it was then the second town in population in Middlesex County, Cambridge alone having more inhabitants. In that year Groton had 322 families, numbering 1,840 persons ; and Cambridge, 355 fam ilies, numbering 2, 11 5 persons, while LoweU had no existence. Charlestown had a population of 1,583; and Newton, 1,360. Reading, with 341 families (19 more than Groton), numbered 1,802 persons (38 less than Groton). Woburn then had a pop ulation of 1,727; Framingham, 1,598; Marlborough, 1,554; and Waltham, 882. Pepperell contained 1,132 inhabitants ; Shirley, S-JJ ; Westford, 1,229; and Littleton, 854. Some Civil Officers during the Revolution First Provincial Congress of Deputies Date of Election. Term of Service. May 9, 1774 . . . James Prescott 1774 Second Provincial Congress of Deputies December 26, 1774 James Prescott 1775 Third Provincial Congress of Deputies May 22, 177s . . James Prescott 1775 Members of the Boai'd of War October 30, 1776 . Oliver Prescott, declined. November 16, 1776 James Prescott 1776-1779 Member of the Council May 29, 1777 . . Oliver Prescott i777-i779 According to the records of the General Court, when the Board of War was first chosen on October 30, 1776, "Brigf Prescot " was elected a member. This referred to Dr. Oliver 2 68 Groton during the Revolution Prescott, at that time a Brigadier-General, but it does not appear that he ever took his seat with the Board. On No vember 13, the records state that two of the members, whose names are given, had declined, and their places were at once filled; and on November 16 five more resignations were an nounced, — though no names are mentioned, — and the vacan cies then filled. Dr. Prescott was undoubtedly one of the five who declined at this time. Among those chosen at the second election was " Colonel Prescot," who was James, a brother of Oliver. It is a little singular that their Christian names are not given in the records, as both men were so well known. The Journal of the House, October 30, 1776, prints the name of "James Prescott, Esq ; " as one of the nine original mem bers chosen at that time, but this appears to be an error. Colonel Prescott attended his first meeting with the Board of War on December 18, — according to the manuscript minutes of the Board. A Revolutionary Surgeon Dr. Ebenezer Rockwood was a son of Elisha and Elizabeth (Adams) Rockwood, and born at Groton on August 13, 1746. He graduated at Harvard CoUege in the Class of 1773, and immediately afterward studied medicine, though there was then no institution in New England that conferred the degree of M.D. in course. Dr. Rockwood served for a time in the army during the early part of the Revolution. In a list of officers in Colonel Ebenezer Francis's Regiment, stationed on Dorchester Heights, November 4, 1776, — published in the " Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder " (V. 3) for July, 1888, — he appears as Surgeon's Mate. On June 10, 1779, he was married to Mary, daughter of the Reverend Daniel and Hannah (Emerson) Emerson, of HoUis, New Hampshire ; and they had nine children. In the year 1779 he received and accepted an invitation, signed by nearly all the voters of Wil- Revolutionary Items 269 ton. New Hampshire, to settle in that town as a physician; and he probably went there during the next spring, as a letter of dismissal was given to him by the church in Groton, on March S, 1780. Among his children was Ebenezer, Jr., who grad uated at Harvard College in the Class of 1802, a class mate and friend of the Honorable Samuel Hoar, whose son, the late Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, was named for him. An fnteresting Map There is in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society a map entitled " The Seat of War, in New England, by an American Volunteer, with the Marches of the Several Corps sent by the Colonies towards Boston, with the Attack on Bunkers=Hill." It was made soon after the Battle, and includes the eastern half of Massachusetts, nearly all of Rhode Island, the southern part of New Hampshire, and the eastern border of Connecticut. It gives the various town ships of the region as well as the main thoroughfares con verging at Boston, and in a rude way it shows troops coming from the several colonies on their march to the seat of war. The " Road from Stephens Fort and Crown P! " which passes through the village of Groton, is represented on the map. Stephen's Fort was situated in Charlestown on the Connecti cut River. " Rangers from New Hampshire " are shown along this route ; and an " Incampment " is represented at Worces ter, with " New York Grenadiers," "Virginian Horse," etc., in the neighborhood marching toward Cambridge. Groton Gore in New Hampshire is also represented, and appears under the name of Groton. 270 Groton during the Revolution At a Meeting of the Lnhabitants of the Town ^Groton, legally assembled on March 6th, 1770. Voted Unanimously, I^HAT we the Inhabitants of the Town of Groton, do most heartily approve of the Non-importation Agreement of the Merchants, and that we will not (knowingly) directly or indirectly, purchase any Goods of any Person that Imports the same, or that trades with an Importer, contrary to the Agreement of the Mer chants. At the same Meeting chose a Committee to inspect the Buyers and Sellers of Goods within the said Town, and to caution them against counteracting the Intent and Meaning of the Non- Importation Agreement, as they would avoid the Odium and Re sentment of the Inhabitants of said Town. Attest. Oliver Prescott, Town Clerk. "The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal," Supplement, March 19, 1770. Thomas Sackville Tufton Thomas Sackville Tufton was a trader in Groton during the Revolutionary period. According to a work on Captain John Mason, published by the Prince Society (Boston, 1887), he was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Gooding) Tufton, of Boston, and a descendant of John Mason, the famous founder of New Hampshire. He was a great-great-great-great- grandson of Captain John Mason, a great-great-grandson of Robert Tufton, who took the surname of Mason, and a grand son of John Tufton, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who dropped the surname of Mason. See page 257. The town of Mason, New Hampshire, is so named in honor of Captain John. The Shays Rebellion 271 The Shays Rebellion Committees from the towns of Groton, PeppereU, Shirley, Townsend, and Ashby met at Groton on June 29, 1786, in order to make preparations for calling a convention to con sider matters of public grievance. At this preliminary meet ing a committee was appointed to issue a circular letter to the other towns in Middlesex County, inviting them to send delegates to a convention to be holden at Concord. Captain John Nutting, of Pepperell, was chairman of the committee then appointed ; and a letter signed by him was sent to the various selectmen throughout the county. The following copy is made from one printed in " The Independent Chron icle: and the Universal Advertiser " (Boston), July 27, 1786: To the Selectmen of Cambridge. GENTLEMEN, &c. WE the Committees chose by the several towns hereafter mentioned, viz. Groton, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend and Ashby, met at Groton the 29th day of June, 1786, to consult upon matters of public grievances ; and after appointing a Chairman for that day, it was thought best to notify all the towns in this county to meet by their Committees, at the house of Capt. Brown, inn- holder in Concord, on the 23d day of August next, to consult upon matters of public grievances and embarrassments that the people of this Commonwealth labour under, and to find out means of redress, &c. By order of the Committee, JOHN NUTTING, Chairman. Groton, July 19, 1786. N. B. It is expected that a Committee from the Convention that is to set in Worcester county, the isth of August, wUl attend. The answer by the town of Cambridge is found in the same newspaper, wherein it is stated that the inhabitants 272 Groton during the Revolution were attached to the present constitution and administration of government, and that they decHned to send any committee. At the same meeting, on July 24, it was voted that the select men cause the letter and the reply to be printed, which was accordingly done. A similar answer by the town of Newton to the same letter is found in Francis Jackson's " History of Newton " (pages 21 1-2 1 3). At the present time it seems incredible that patriotic men by mob rule should have tried to correct poUtical evUs which then surely existed. Most of these misguided persons had served in the Revolutionary army, where they left good records ; but they were little used to constitutional govern ment. Captain Nutting, the writer of the circular letter, was a man of irreproachable character, and had led a company of minute-men to Cambridge, on the Nineteenth of April. See page 34 of this volume. Some years ago I bought at public sale in Boston a letter written by Dr. Oliver Prescott, of Groton, which relates to the action of the insurgents in this neighborhood, near the fag-end of the Rebellion. The letter was afterward given to the Massachusetts Historical Society, on October 11, 1888, and is printed in the Proceedings (second series, IV., 158, 159) of that date, as follows : — Groton Jan^ 22?' 1787 6? P. M. Sir I have been attending to the motions of the insurgents, & thought it was my duty to inform you that Cap' John Nutting of Pepperell marched from John Conants in Townshend at one o'clock this afternoon with about Seventy men collected from Gro ton Pepperell & Townshend & Seven sleighs with provisions & baggage ; expected to be joined by a party from Lunenburg & Shirley, & I have no doubt will make up as many more, they have rec? Expresses from the Worcester Leaders to raise as many men as possible, they are exerting themselves to the utmost — they pro pose to march all night & are at present rapid in their movements. The Bearer Capt John Williams is able to acquaint you with the The Shays Rebellion 273 particulars & wUl inform you of the disposition of the people in this part of the County & their readiness to turn out for the defence of Government if needed. I have directed the Express to return as soon as possible & if anything of importance should be discovered I shall give you intel ligence without loss of time. I have the honor to be with the greatest esteem Sir your very humble Servf Oliver Prescott Genl Lincoln [Addressed] On public Service The Hon''.'= Maji: Genl Lincoln Worces ter by Express [Indorsed] D' Prescott's letter, Jany 22'' 1787 N" 19 The two following letters, written by Dr. Prescott, are found among the Archives at the State House. They tend to show the active part which he always took in public mat ters affecting the neighborhood : — Groton 8?' Jan? 1787 Dear Sir, How is the Spirit of Volunteering in your part of the County ? Will your people turn out for the defence of Worcester Court ? I Expect Groton and Pepperrell will furnish two Companies of light Infantry ; one Company to be under the Command of Capt. Scott, the other Major Farnsworth, who are inlisting men for that pur pose ; and I am sure General Brooks will not think proper to send marching orders to this Regiment. Thirty men gave in their names last Saturday ; and I Expect a number of good men wUl ride with me, who cannot bear the fatigues of the Journey in any other mode. I turn out to give Energy to the Service, & hope you will do the same. I shall thank you for Recommending my son [Oliver, Jr.] to Gen!' Brooks in the Surgeon's department, as he has been & still is very alert, and his engaging in the service, induces many others. I hope nothing will be wanting on the part of Government to put an end to the Rebellion. I most seriously wish some of the leaders of the malcontents in the County of Worcester, might be apprehended before the sitting 18 2 74 Groton during the Revolution of the Court. If a Warrant should be made out to Scott & Brown, as was before, they could easily find some resolute, Cunning men who would go in disguise & are perfectly acquainted with the roads, and have no doubt of Success ; they would not wish for more than six or Eight men & be happy to make the Tryal. What do you think of the Experiment? The Expense would not be great. I think they would be more likely to be apprehended this week, while engaged in raising their forces ; if they find their party too small to oppose Government, they will Secrete themselves. If a few men should go from this part of the County on a trading Voyage, & mix with the people, I think it is highly probable they would Succeed ; & if you are of the Same Opinion, wish you would lay the matter before the Governor & Council ; & if they approve of it, let a Warrant be sent by Express, no time should be lost, & it is not in my power to be at Boston this week to make the Proposition. I shall not omit anything in my power for the publick good. — my best regards to yf Brother, I am. Sir, with great Esteem, y' Hum'^ Servant ; Oliver Prescott James Winthrop Esq' [Addressed] James Winthrop Esq'. Cambridge [Indorsed] Letter from Gen' Prescott Jany 8, 1787 (Massachusetts Archives, CLXXXIX. 70) Groton 3^ March 1787 Sir I beg leave to suggest to your Excellency the propriety of having a Company of Volunteers raised, & stationed in this part of the County of Middlesex for a short time, to apprehend such persons as are disqualified from receiving the pardon, as there are many such, & they ought to be secured soon, as the Spring is opening when they will retire to the woods, which is a matter they depend much upon — I suppose a company of 50 or 60 men, including non-commissioned Officers & privates would be suffi cient, & if Capt William Scott of Groton & Samson Woods & Jon" Bancroft of Pepperell should be appointed for the Commis sioned Officers ; they would be able to enlist the men ' immediately from the Towns of Groton & Pepperell, & such as have horses The Shays Rebellion 275 of their own, that upon any particular occasion might be mounted without expence to Government, so that this small company of Infantry would be equal to any service that Government might require — Any delay or relaxation in Government at this time would be extreemly hurtfuUy. M- Brown of this Town is a Regimental Quarter Master & under the direction of the Commissary General might in an easy & cheap manner supply the troops — The reason of my proposing the above persons for Officers, is, their known fidelity, courage & good con duct, as well as having served in the State army, & had commis sions, & are likely to give Satisfaction — The bearer, Capt Jo : Savage has for some time past resided in this Town, & can fully inform you of the disposition of the people, and the necessity of such a company. I have taken the liberty to order George Marsten to be com mitted to the Boston Goal, as he is not a Citizen of this Common wealth & no property, but has been very active in the present rebellion, & by his own confession was chosen an Adjutant in Shays's army he was a deserter from the British army, & for more than one year past had residence in the Town of Pepperell — ¦ I have the honor to be with the greatest esteem and respect your Excellency's most Ob' & hum'* Servant Oliver Prescot The Governor A true Copy Attest John Avery jun Sec' [Indorsed] Letter from Oliver Prescott — Groton, March 31? 1787 — (Massachusetts Archives, CXC. 405) By an Act passed on February 14, 1781, the Governor and Council were requested to appoint three of the Justices of the Peace in each County, who should have authority to commit to jail any person dangerous to the State. Dr. Oliver Pres cott was one of those for Middlesex County, and in causing the arrest of George Marsten, as mentioned in the last para graph of the letter, he was acting in this capacity. At the Centennial Celebration of the Independent Com pany of Cadets in Boston, on October 19, 1841, the Reverend 276 Groton during the Revolution Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D., Chaplain of the Corps, delivered an historical address, from which the following extract is taken : — On the 29th of the same month [November, 1786], Col. [Samuel] Bradford received orders to assemble his company at Groton, to assist the Sheriff of Middlesex in arresting Col. Shattuck, a leader of the discontented in that county. The Cadets left town [Boston] for the purpose, but before the arrival of the entire company. Col. Shattuck had been arrested. The wound, by which he was dis abled, — and consequently taken prisoner, is said to have been inflicted by Fortesque Vernon, a member of the Cadets (page 31). In the account of " Groton during the Shays Rebellion," which appears in Number III. of the first volume of the Groton Historical Series, it is said, on page 8, that Shat tuck's wound was given by F. C. Varnum, of Boston. The statement was made on the authority of Lemuel Shattuck, and is found in his " Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck " (page 126). By the light of this extract, I have no doubt that the wound was inflicted by Fortesque Vernon, whose surname was generally pronounced Varnon. The Insurgents In the year 1835 there was published anonymously at Phil adelphia, a work entitled "The Insurgents: An Historical Novel," in two volumes, written by Ralph IngersoU Lock- wood, a lawyer of New York, who died many years ago. It is based on the Shays Rebellion, and the scene is laid mainly in the Connecticut valley. In the second volume is an account of the capture of Job Shattuck, which is given with all the freedom of a novelist's pen. See page 66 for Shattuck's connection with the RebeUion. The Shays Rebellion 277 Capt. Henry Farwell In the account of the JubUee of Lawrence Academy at Groton, on July 12, 1854, published during the next year, is printed an interesting letter from the Reverend Dr. William Allen, ex-President of Bowdoin College, who in his younger days had taught school in town. He gives many reminis cences of the place in the early part of the century, and de scribes a visit made at the house of Jonathan Farwell, whose father. Captain Henry Farwell, had commanded a company of minute-men that marched from Groton to Cambridge on April ig, 1775. This veteran soldier was not afraid to show his colors, and had no sympathy with the Shays Rebellion, ac cording to Dr. Allen, who says : — I was one evening invited to the bountiful table of a neighbor, Mr. Jonathan Farwell, who had as much humor, joined to as much sense as is seldom found in his condition of life. He was usually called Uncle Jock. At his house, I went into his father's room, to see the old gentleman, then nearly eighty years old. He was a small man, but energetic and animated. Although his feet were just in the grave, he was as full of spirit as ever. He fought his battles over again. He told me that in 1745, when twenty-one years old, he was at the capture of Cape Breton. Just thirty years after that event, he was in the battle of Bunker Hill and was shot through the body. He was a man of as much spirit and energy as I ever knew ; and he had a proper reverence for law and good government. He related to me that, " In the time of Shays' rebel lion, the question was, ' Shall Jock go out and fight them ? ' I said, ' Yes. I would disinherit a son of mine who would not fight for his country. Had L as much blood as would bear a seventy-four gun- ship over Grand Monadnoc, L would spill it all in fighting those rebels!'" (Page 61.) 278 Groton during the Revolution The foUowing copy of a biU is found in the Emmet CoUec tion belonging to the New York Public Library : — Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to the Town of Groton, Df To sundry Provisions furnish'd for the Troops in the service of the Commonwealth, as follows — viz. — 1787 Jan? 27'? To 65!? Beef at 2^ per lb . . £0. 13. 6>^ 54!!^ Bread at 2? o. 9. o. 29'!!To24i!!' Bread at 2"^ 2. o. 2. 362!!= Beef at 2j^<' 3- iS- 5 880 Gills rum at I '^ . . . . i. 11. 8 To Transporting the above to Springfield & Hadley 2. 6. 8. To a Horse & Slay & Driver for transport- \ ing the Baggage of the Troops during the ( Whole expedition under GenH Lincoln | 24 days a 4/8 16. 8 Isaac Farnsworth Joseph Moors Joseph Rockwood Errors Excepted. Aaron Brown Groton, April -^^ 1787. Selectmen \ for Groton. Soldiers' Epitaphs 279 Soldiers' Epitaphs The following inscriptions are found on gravestones in the old burying-ground, and will explain themselves : — {Cherub's Head.'\ Here lies the Body of Joseph son of M- Ephraim & M'f Azubah Parker, who died Sepf 22? 1775 Aged 5 years & 2 mon! Also in Memory of Mf Nehem^ son of y° above nam'd persons, who died in his Country service at Ticonderoga Oct' 22? 1776. In y" ig* year of his age. Nehemiah Parker enlisted originally, on April 30, 1775, in Captain Asa Lawrence's Company. [Cherub's Head."] Memento mori Here lies the Body of Mf Simon Patch who was wounded in y" de= fence of his Country at y White-plains Octf 28? 1776 and died of his wound Dec' 31^'^ 1776 in y° aS'!" year of his age. The son of Ebenezer and Sarah Patch, born July 11, 1749. He was brought home on a litter from White Plains, New York, a distance of nearly two hundred miles, accompanied 2 8o Groton during the Revolution by his elder brother. The litter was made by fitting the butt- ends of two small trees into the stirrups of a saddle, and putting a sack of hay behind on the branches. Memento [Cherub'] Mori M'^ Abigail Kenrick Widow of CapT Caleb Kenrick, left her pleasant habitation in Newton, & came to her Daughter Dana's in Groton, on accoun' of y" civil War & Sepf 5. 1775. J&. 76. was remov= ed by a dysentery, to that place where yS. wicked cea^A from troubling & y'' weary are at rest. Her maiden name was Bowen, and her daughter was married to the Reverend Samuel Dana. The following epitaph is copied from a marble slab in the Lawrence lot at the Cemetery. Mrs. Bigelow's death took place in Groton at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Luther Lawrence. Her husband. Colonel Bigelow, died on March 31, 1790, in Worcester, where there is a monument erected to his memory on the Common. Here lie the mortal remains of Mrs. anna BIGELOW, relict of Col. Timothy Bigelow of Worcester, Mass. She died Aug. 2, 1809, ^t. 63 yrs. Obituary Records 281 Obituary Records At Groton 15th inst, William Blodgett, formerly of Tyngsboro', a revolutionary pensioner, at the age of 90 years and 8 months. His descendants were 6 children, 37 grand-children, 23 great- grand-children, and one of the fifth generation. He entered the army at the age of 16 years, and was one of the number to guard Burgoyne's troops at Winter Hill ; he afterwards shipped on board a Letter of Marque on a trading voyage in 1782. On his return home in the brig Iris, of Boston, they captured at the mouth of James river, in Virginia, an English brig mounting 16 guns, with about 1 00 prisoners, among whom were 30 Americans in irons. On the 2d day after the battle, they encountered a storm which drove the American brig and the prize both on shore, and dashed them in pieces, and all was lost except the crews, which were saved by the inhabitants. He next entered the service of his Savior, and remained in his service about 60 years, and as he entered the threshhold of eternity, he repeated the following lines : " I 'm not ashamed to own my Lord, Or to defend his cause, Maintain the honor of his word. The glory of his cross." "The Boston Daily Atlas," November 22, 1S52. In Groton, N. H. the 20th Nov. last, Mr. Samuel Blood, aged 67 years, a soldier of the revolution, and formerly of Groton, Mass. "Columbian Centinel " (Boston), February 3, 1S30. In Groton, ; Mr. Amos Davis, a soldier of the revolution, aged 82. "Columbian Daily Centinel " (Boston), December 6, 1S34. Isaac Farwell, born in Groton, Mass., 1744, March 28, was a lieutenant at Bunker Hill, soon became a captain, and fought in the continental army till the close of the war. He died in 1791, Dec. 31, and is buried in the Charlestown [N. H.J cemetery. Henry Swan Dana's " History of Woodstock, Vermont " (page 597). 282 Groton during the Revolution In Groton, Mass. Sept. 2, Captain Zacharias Fitch, aged 86. " Columbian Centinel " (Boston), September 9, 1820. Died, in Groton, Mass. June 24, Mr. Isaiah Hall, aged 74, a revolutionary soldier and patriot. For many years he had been gradually declining, and devoted the principal part of his time to reading and meditation. The word of God was his principal study and source of comfort, and when too feeble to read himself, nothing afforded him so much satisfaction as to hear its sacred contents often read. His last sickness, though long and lingering, was borne with that calmness and resignation which a firm faith in the religion of Jesus Christ imparts ; and the remaining days of his bereaved partner will be consoled by that hope which animated him in his last hours, and made death to him the harbinger of eternal rest. — [Communicated.] " Columbian Daily Centinel " (Boston), July 2, 1834. In Pepperell, Jan 14th, Mr Robinson Lakin, 83, a revolutionary soldier — he was a drummer in the company commanded by Capt John Nutting, in Col Wm Prescott's regiment, and was in the re doubt on Bunker Hill when the attack was made by the British army. In this battle eight of said company were killed and eight wounded. " Boston Daily Advertiser," February 27, 1838. At Groton, on the 12th instant, Capt James Lewis, aged 74, (formerly of Billerica.) In every situation in which he was placed through a long and active life, he bore an upright and honorable character. He was an officer of the militia during the whole of the revolutionary war ; the companion of Buttrick, Davis, and others who composed the valiant little band that resisted a superior British force, at the bridge in Concord, on the memorable 19th of April, 1775. He continued a uniform and firm supporter of those repub lican principles, for which he so early stood forth, and ever sup ported the character of an exemplary citizen, tender husband, and kind parent — he lived respected and died lamented. " Boston Patriot," Saturday, June 23, 1810. In Hawley, Mr. Joseph Longley, born in Groton, Mass., Aug. 17, 1744. He was a great grandson to William Longley, who, with a Obituary Records 283 part of his family, were killed at Groton, by the Indians, in 1684 [1694] — grandson to John Longley, who was Captain five years in Canada — and son to Joseph Longley, who was mortally wounded in the battle and defeat of Fort William Henry, 1758. When 16, he was in the French war one year and helped to build the stone barracks at Crown Point, 1760. He was five years in the revolu tionary war for Independence. In the first eight months' service, 1775. At Ticonderoga in '76. At the capture of Burgoyne, '77. In December following, while in the van of 100 volunteers, under Maj. Hull, pursuing a foraging party, 32 were cut off by the British cavalry, near Derby, deprived of their blankets, and put in prison at Philadelphia, where more than half died of cold, hunger, and disease. In AprU, '78, he, with others, were put on board a prison ship for New York, where he was exchanged in July, and soon after joined his regiment, and was in the battle in Rhode Island, and in that signal retreat, under Gen. Sullivan. "The Massachusetts Spy" (Worcester), August 24, 1836. According to the genealogical tables in the Appendix to Mr. Butler's History (page 417), Joseph Longley was born on August 6, 1744; and the date of his death was July 8, 1836. He was the eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Walker) Long- ley, and a brother of Edmund, mentioned below, who was born on October 31, 1746. In Hawley, 29th ult. Edmund Longley, Esq. 96 yrs and 18 days, a native of Groton. He erected the first framed house in H (then called No 7) and removed his family into it in 1781. He was sent for many years to the General Court ; was the first Plantation and Town Clerk ; held the offices of Town Clerk, Selectman, and Treas urer ; was a Justice of the Peace for nearly fifty years ; and was both a soldier and an officer in the revolutionary war. He was a subscriber to the Hampshire Gazette [Northampton] for more than fifty-six years ; and took and read the Panoplist and Missionary Herald, from their first publication, as long as he lived. " Boston Daily Advertiser," December 23, 1842. In Groton, isth inst. Mr. Joshua Parker, a revolutionary soldier, 79; . " Boston Daily Advertiser," September 23, 1843. 284 Groton during the Revolution In Groton [January 9], Lieut. William Parker, a revolutionary soldier, aged 71. " Columbian Daily Centinel " (Boston), January 24, 1833. At Groton, Elnathan Sawtell, Esq. 83. " Daily Centinel and Gazette " (Boston), September 3, 1836. Mr. Sawtell was a Revolutionary soldier, and he died on August 31, 1836. His epitaph gives him the title of Lieu tenant, which may have been acquired after the War. Stevens, Maj. Thomas, Brooksville, Me., 7 May; in his 90th year. He was a native of Groton, Mass., and a soldier of the Revolution. " The New England Historical and Genealogical Register " (VII. 295) for July. 1853. Another Veteran Gone. — Died in Groton, August 2d [1851], Mr. William Tarbell, one of the last of the Revolutionary patriots, aged 87. Mr. Tarbell joined the army when quite young, and was with General Washington during the last three years of the war, but having been appointed to draw plans and paint sketches of the various battle fields and encampments, by the commander-in-chief, he was never in any action during that time. He was with the army during its encampment at Valley Forge, and his picture of this camp ground, which was painted in the log house then occupied by Gen. Washington, is now in possession of his .son in this city, and though much faded, is stUl an object of great interest. "Daily Evening Traveller" (Boston), September 25, 1851. In Groton, 7th July, Mr. Nehemiah Whetman, a revolutionary pensioner, aged 82. " Columbian Daily Centinel " (Boston), August 5, 1835. In Groton, Mr. David Wilson, a revolutionary soldier, aged 90. His death was occasioned by falling into the fire, supposed in a fit. "Columbian Daily Centinel" (Boston), February 23, 1833. In Groton, Sth inst. Col. Samson Woods, aged 65. [A son of General Henry and Deborah (Parker) Woods.] "Columbian Centinel" (Boston), February 11, 1826. A New Chapter, etc. 285 The following paper, written by the late WUliam Willder Wheildon, of Concord, was read before the Bostonian Society, on April 14, 1885, and, five days later, it appeared in "The Sunday Herald" (Boston), April 19. It was afterward re printed in pamphlet form, and stUl later, with the writer's assent, in the Groton Historical Series. New Chapter in the History of the Concord Fight It is not very remarkable, perhaps, that the centennial period since the beginning of the Revolutionary War should be the occasion of bringing to light some new matter in relation to its early incidents, in regard to which more or less secrecy was preserved and names withheld at the time. It seems, from evidence which has lately come to the knowledge of the writer, by a casually dropped remark concerning the Concord fight, that the alarm of the movement of General Gage to seize the cannon, stores, and ammunition in Concord, was more widely known in Middlesex County than heretofore supposed. It appears, from the testimony of Mr. Artemas Wright, of Ayer, who is a grandson of Mr. Nathan Corey, of Groton, that there were several members of the Groton company of minute- men at Concord, on the morning of the 19th of April, who were in the fight at the North Bridge, and joined in the pursuit of the British troops in the retreat to Lexington. Mr. Wright's Story Mr. Wright says : his grandfather repeatedly told him the story, and often talked of the scenes of that day. A part of his narration was, that on the day before the Concord fight. 286 Groton during the Revolution April i8th, while he was ploughing in his field, some distance from the middle of the town, he received notice of a meeting of the minute-men, which, of course, demanded immediate attention. It was in the afternoon, toward evening, when he received the notification. He at once unhitched his plough, drove his oxen home, took down his gun and belt, told his wife Molly, as he called her, that he was going away, and could not tell when he should come back, and that she must take care of the oxen. He then hastened to the middle of the town and joined his comrades who had assembled there. The circumstance which had induced them to call the meet ing was the arrival of some brass cannon from Concord. Of course the presence of these immediately gave rise to discus sion and speculation as to the cause and the reason of their being sent to Groton from Concord. Various suggestions were made, the most prominent of which was a proposition that the company should proceed at once to Concord; but this, when put to vote, was determined in the negative, most of the members preferring to wait for further intelligence. This conclusion, it seems, was not entirely satisfactory to all the members of the company, and some of them deter mined to go at once; so that, as the story is related to the writer, nine of them, with young Corey among the number, started for Concord the same evening. They travelled all night, carrying lighted pine torches a part of the way, and reached Concord at an early hour in the morning, entering one side of the town some hours before the British troops entered upon the other. Mr. Corey said they all went and got some breakfast at the house of Colonel Barrett, which was afterwards visited by the British troops in search of the can non, ammunition and stores, most of which had been fortu nately removed, the day before, to places of safety. After getting something to eat they proceeded toward the centre of the town, and soon joined the men of Concord, and finally were in the ranks of the minute-men, at or near the North Bridge, where the fight with the British troops occurred. A New Chapter, etc. 287 They continued with the minute-men, and foUowed the retreating troops to Lexington, or beyond. This is the story related by Mr. Wright, as often repeated to him by his grandfather Corey ; and this, according to the accepted history of the time, and as at present understood, appeared to the writer, on the instant, as wholly improbable. It must still remain so unless it can be explained and accounted for in the transactions and events of the period. The objection to be met and answered is, how could the people of Groton, thirty miles from Boston, at about the time the British troops were moving toward their boats, on the evening of the i8th, know anything of General Gage's purpose or design to visit Concord .' Of course they knew nothing, excepting such information as the presence of the brass can non, which had arrived among them, indicated. Probably the men who conveyed the cannon from Concord could not ex plain the matter, and yet it may possibly be true that they had learned before they left Concord, or suspected, the reason why they were sent ; and, if so, would be sure to communicate it to the people of Groton. This, when we come to think of it, is not very improbable, although no reason is given in the votes of the Committee for their action. However this may be, the improbable story of Mr. Wright may possibly be explained and accounted for by the action of the Committee of Safety in the matter, by showing that the cannon were sent to Groton, and why they came to be sent there at that particular time. Explanation of the Story Almost every person familiar with the history of this period would, on the instant, reject the story as a fiction, and nothing but entire confidence in the truthfulness of the party referred to, and the little probabUity there is of his being able to invent such a relation, induced the writer to give it a moment's con sideration. Turning the history of the period over in our mind, the points of which were very familiar, we thought we 288 Groton during the Revolution could see a possible explanation of the matter, as a conse quence of the cautionary action of Warren, and the important services rendered at this time by Paul Revere. It is well known to most readers and students, who are familiar with the history of this period, that Dr. Warren, so far as is known by his own inclination, remained in Boston while the Provincial Congress was in session at Concord, ex pressly to observe the action and movements of General Gage in this trying period. In consequence of some of these move ments, especially that of launching the transport boats pre paratory for use, and taking the Grenadiers and Light Infantry off duty, Warren determined to send notice of them, and of the preparations being made, as he believed, to capture the stores at Concord, to Hancock and Adams, then at Lexington. This message was sent by Paul Revere, on Sunday, the i6th of April, 1775, to the effect that the British were preparing for an excursion into the country, and it was at once under stood that the stores and ammunition collected at Concord were the object. Revere delivered his message promptly at Lexington, and returned in the afternoon, when, before going across the river from Charlestown, he made his arrangements about the signal-lanterns with Colonel Conant, — a matter which, no doubt, he had determined and arranged in his own mind during his solitary ride from Lexington. Action of the Committee of Safety The Provincial Congress, which had been in session at Concord, adjourned on Saturday, the iSth of April, but the Committees of Safety and Supplies, who had control of the mUitary, and other public matters pertaining thereto, did not adjourn finally on that day. They remained at Concord, and held an important meeting on Monday morning, the 17th, and, no doubt, commenced their proceedings without wait ing for the arrival of Hancock from Lexington, where he had gone with Sam Adams each night during the session of Congress. A New Chapter, etc. 289 The first votes which the Committees passed, according to the records of their meetings, were as follows : — Voted, that two four-pounders, now at Concord, be mounted by the Committee of Supplies, and that Colonel Barrett be desired to raise an Artillery Company, to join the Army when raised, etc. ; and, also, that an instructor for the use of the cannon be appointed, to be put directly in pay. Voted, unanimously, that ffi, lawful money, be a Captain's pay in an artilleiy Company; that the ist and 2d lieutenants have £\ 5s. ; that the Sergeants have 42s. per month, etc. Voted, that when these Committees adjourn, it be to Mr. Weth- erby's, at the Black Horse, Menotomy, on Wednesday, at 10 o'clock. After these votes were passed, it is supposed and believed, John Hancock arrived from Lexington and joined the Com mittee in their meeting. Of course, he immediately commu nicated to them the important intelligence which he had received from Dr. Warren the day before, so that, without any reconsideration of the votes just passed, any adjournment or recess, the record shows that they continued the meeting and passed the following votes : — Voted, that the four six-pounders be transported to Groton, and put under the care of Colonel Prescott. Voted, that two seven-inch brass mortars be transported to Acton. Voted, that the two Committees adjourn to Mr. Wetherby's, at Menotomy, [at] ten o'clock. [Not Wednesday, as first voted. J The next day (Tuesday) a meeting was held, and it was voted that " the two brass two-pounders, and two brass three- pounders, be under the care of the Boston Company of Artil lery, and of Capt. Robinson's (Company)." What finally was the disposition of these cannon we have no means of knowing ; but, when the approach of the British troops became known, Dr. Ripley, in his " History of the Fight at Concord," says : — 19 290 Groton during the Revolution A considerable number of them (Concord minute-men) were ordered to assist the citizens who were actively engaged in removing and secreting cannon, military stores, and provisions. The cannon were nearly all conveyed to a distance, some to adjacent towns, and some were buried in the ground, and some under heaps of manure. Numerous other votes were passed for the removal and secretion of ammunition, provision, etc., and the Committee adjourned to the next day. On Wednesday (19th) the Committee continued its session, at Menotomy (West Cambridge, now Arlington), and passed additional votes on the same subject. Thus were the votes first passed, before the arrival of John Hancock, rescinded ; and, of course, the cannon were not mounted, no Artillery Company was formed, nor teacher employed for their instruction. All this was the result of the information from Dr. Warren, brought to Lexington by Paul Revere ; to Concord by John Hancock, and, we may almost say, carried to Groton by the cannon ! It is believed that no other explanation can be given of the discrepancies in these votes, so entirely different and adverse to each other, than that which has been sug gested, namely, the arrival of Mr. Hancock after the passage of the first named votes, and the intelligence brought by him of General Gage's movements at Boston. Sending the Cannon to Groton In accordance with the final votes of the Committee, the next morning (Tuesday, i8th) the cannon were promptly on their way to Groton, and arrived there late in the afternoon, while at Boston, the British troops were getting ready to embark in their boats for the opposite side of the river, on their way to Concord. In view of what has been said, it may now be pretty con fidently asked. What information did the appearance of these cannon at Groton communicate to the people, and especially A New Chapter, etc. 291 the minute-men of that town ? It will be recoUected that only a short time before this (26th of February), General Gage had sent Colonel Leslie to Salem to seize some pieces of cannon there, which he failed to secure, and this was probably known to the people of Groton at this time. There cannot be a doubt, therefore, putting these two things together, as to the story the presence of these cannon told, even if the men who carried them had been speechless. Action of the Groton Men The proceedings and action which followed, on the part of the Groton minute-men, were both natural and reasonable, and fully authorized the action of the volunteers, even supposing they were moved by curiosity alone, — a mere desire to see British soldiers. The minute-men, as we have stated, were promptly called together, and some of them determined to go to Concord that night ; and, whUe Colonel Smith was moving his troops over the Cambridge marshes and swamps, these patriots were on their way to meet them at Concord bridge, without knowing who they were to meet or what was in store for them. What followed has been stated. The Groton min ute-men arrived, and were among their brethren of Concord, Acton, Carlisle, Lincoln, and Bedford, in following and ha rassing the retreating troops, and it would seem, from the relation which we have given, that the improbability of Mr. Wright's story has been removed ; the cannon certainly went to Groton, and almost as certainly the Groton minute- men came to Concord. The minute-men of the other towns named were notified of the coming of the British troops by special messengers. The cannon sent to Acton, no doubt, upon their arrival there on Tuesday (i8th), told the same story as did the cannon at Groton ; but, being so near to Concord, the citizens very naturally concluded that, if they were wanted, word would be sent to them at the earliest moment, as was the case; but the Groton men, though few in number, were the first to arrive. 292 Groton during the Revolution Mr. Corey, who used to tell his story in relation to the Concord fight to his grandchUdren in his talk about the war, continued in the service of his country, and prior to his death a pension was granted to him (or afterwards to his widow) ; but nothing was ever received by either of them. Confirmatory Evidence Since the first mention of this subject by the writer. Dr. Samuel A. Green, a native of Groton, has published a hand some volume, entitled " Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Mass." One of the inscriptions, found upon the monument to the memory of Captain Abram ChUd, contains the following sentence: " He was a Lieutenant among the minute-men, and aided in the Concord fight and the battle of Bunker Hill, 1775." The remainder of the inscription shows that Captain Child went through the war with Washington, and was the oldest Captain in the service at the capture of Stony Point, in 1779. He was just the man for a night expedition to Concord. Mr. George William Curtis, in speaking of this incident in the history of the Concord fight, in a letter to the writer, says : " Your new chapter throws light upon the tradition of the horseman at Acton rousing the house with the news after midnight on the i8th. The whole legend is very interesting." And, we may add, seems to be confirmed most unexpectedly from various quarters. The Groton men, of course, came down through Acton, probably after midnight, and no doubt, with or without their burning torches, produced some excite ment on the road. Importance of the Service of Warren and Revere One result of this story is particularly worthy of notice, since it shows very clearly what has scarcely ever been con sidered, or, in fact, alluded to, and that is the importance of the service rendered by Paul Revere in his journey to Lex ington, on Sunday prior to the much more celebrated mid- A New Chapter, etc. 293 night ride which followed it. The story of this ride, quiet and peaceful as it was, has never been immortalized in the lines of the poet ; yet it shows very clearly that the preserva tion of the cannon — nearly all that the Colony possessed at that time, — and probably the largest portion of the ammu nition and stores at Concord, were saved, as we have seen, by the cautionary measures of Dr. Warren, and the essential ser vice of Paul Revere, on the Sunday previous to the fight at Concord bridge. Revere himself makes but very slight mention of this Sun day ride. He simply says : — The Sunday before, by desire of Dr. Warren, I had been to Lex ington, to Messrs. Hancock and Adams, who were at the Rev. Mr. Clark's. I returned at night through Charlestown ; there I agreed with a Colonel Conant, and other gentlemen, that if the British went out by water, we would show two lanterns in the North Church Steeple, and if by land, one, as a signal ; for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River, or get over Boston Neck. (Revere's letter to Dr. Belknap.) We see now more clearly than ever before the importance of Paul Revere's first ride to Lexington. Note Since this paper was read before the Bostonian Society, Mr. Wright has informed the writer that his grandfather, after he had told him the story about the Concord fight, gave to him an old powder-horn which he had used during the war. This powder- horn, he said, he took from a British soldier who had been shot on the retreat to Lexington, and whose body was lying by the roadside in Lincoln. Some of the other men, he said, took off his boots and some of his clothes. The powder-horn, Mr. Wright says, was quite a nice piece of work, and held just one pound of powder. It had a peculiar stopper (probably a spring snapper, like some now known), and at the larger end, on the under side (when hung over 294 Groton during the Revolution the shoulder), was engraved the English coat of arms, and on the upper side, what Mr. Wright says, they call the British Ensign. The bottom of the horn was made of brass, saucer shaped, with a hole half an inch in diameter, in the centre, serving as a tunnel, to pour in the powder, with a wooden stopper. The horn had been used by Mr. Wright and his brother, in their hunting excursions, for many years, and they agree perfectly in the description of it. It was finally lost, by the brother who owned it, in the burning of his house some years ago. After having written the above, the writer was informed by Mr. Winsor, librarian of Harvard College, that there was a powder- horn somewhat answering the above description in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The next day (June ii, 1885) the writer visited the rooms of the Society, in Boston, and was shown by Dr. Green, the librarian, several old powder-horns of a similar character, all of them quite elaborately engraved and sim ilar in many respects apparently to that described by Mr. Wright, with the exception that these all appeared to be American powder- horns, as one of them seemed to say, " To be used in the cause of liberty." Mr. Wright's story of this old powder-horn which he had, and the way his grandfather came into possession of it, and its dis tinct resemblance to those in use at the time, give additional weight and interest to the original story that the Groton men were in the Concord fight on the 19th of April, 1775. The dead soldier was probably one of those buried in the Lincoln graveyard. Appendix 295 Appendix Strictly speaking, the following articles do not belong in this volume, as they are in no way connected with the Revolutionary War. But they bear so closely on the mU itary history of the town, as a matter of convenience it has been thought best to print them here in an Appendix. Two Groton Soldiers in the Expedition against Carthagena War between Great Britain and Spain was declared on October 23, 1739 ; and early in the year 1740 the English government sent out an expedition against the Spanish pos sessions on this continent. The English provinces in America were called upon to furnish their share both of men and means toward the undertaking ; and Massachusetts sent five hundred soldiers who took part in the operations against Carthagena, the principal town on the Spanish main, in the province of New Granada. Of this number only fifty men lived to return, the others for the most part dying of pestilential disease. Among the Massachusetts Archives (XCI. 333) at the State House is an imperfect Muster Roll of Captain John Prescott's Company, which gives the names of two soldiers, natives of Groton, and presumably residents of the town, who served in that unfortunate expedition. They were Josiah Blanchard, aged 40, a blacksmith by trade, who enlisted on May 10, 1740 ; and Joshua Parker, aged 39, " Gentelman," who enlisted on July I. Probably neither lived to return, as there is no 296 Appendix later reference to them in any public record. Blanchard was an only son of James and Anna Blanchard, and was born on June 24, 1698. For eight years his father was town clerk of Groton. I am unable to identify Parker, who belonged to a family very numerous in the town. Military Warrant The following copy of a warrant was made by me some years ago, though I do not know now the ownership of the paper : — To quarter master John Russel of Littelton You are hear by Directed to see that all the Troppers in Lit telton vnder my Command and Amos Russel of haruard be warned to appear in the Training field in Groton on Tuesday the Tenth Day of October Next at Ten of the Clock in the fore Noon with arms and amonision Compleat according to Law together with your Self Thear to attend Such millatery orders and Instructions as you shaU Receiue from your Commanding officers and make Return of this warrant with your Doings thear on to my Self at or before the Day aboue sd Sr the Reason I Troubel you with the warrant Is because I Do not Know wheather we haue a Corporal in Littelton. tr Dated at Groton Sep th 25 1749 Tho^ TarbeLL Cap' [Addressed] To quarter master John Russell in Littelton Groton Artillery Company Last Tuesday se'nnight [September 30] the regiment commanded by Col. Henry Woods, and the company of artillery commanded by Capt. [Amos] Farnsworth, met at Groton, for the purpose of dis cipline. Their conduct through the whole day was such, as Appendix 297 merited the applause of a numerous body of spectators, and did honor to all those immediately concerned, and clearly demonstrated, they had in view the importance of a weU disciplined mUitia, to a rising nation. "The Independent Chronicle, andthe Universal Advertiser," October 9, 1783. The following roster of the Company is found in " The Massachusetts Register" (page 122) for the year 1788: — Artillery Company at Groton, 2d Brig. Amos Farnsworth, Captain, Abijah Prescott, Captain Lieutenant, Samuel Rockwood, yfrx^ lieutenant, Winslow Parker, senior second lieutenant, Elnathan Sartell, junior second lieutenant. The South Military Company The following copies of original papers were given me nearly twenty years ago, by the late Dr. John S. H. Fogg, of South Boston, in whose possession they were at that time. They relate to the South Company of Groton, then com manded by Captain Timothy Bigelow, who afterward became Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as also did Luther Lawrence, to whom one of the warrants is addressed. Tyler Bigelow, one of the private soldiers, was a cousin and subsequently a brother-in-law of Captain Tim othy, and the father of the late Honorable George Tyler Bigelow, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Loammi Baldwin, Jr., another private, was afterward a distinguished civil engineer, who built the Gov ernment dry docks at Charlestown and at Norfolk, Virginia. For many years there were three mUitary companies in the town, known respectively as the North Company, the South Company, and the Groton ArtiUery ; and occasionally they would parade together through the viUage streets, and drill as a battalion. 298 Appendix Middlesex ss. To John Reed sergeant. Greeting. In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn Joseph Stone sergeant. Ezra Farnsworth. Sara'. Reed sergeant. Saml. Paine sergeant. Rufus Moors corporal. Thomas Mead corporal Peter Chase corporal. Jonas Trowbridge fifer John Fitch fifer. Josiah Hazen fifer John Kemp drummer Amos Davis Jr. drummer Thomas Gass. John Adams Jr. drummer Phineas Gould Abel Farnesworth. David Fletcher. Eli Flint. Benj"? Farnsworth Stephen Farrar. Henry Farwell Jr. Silas Farwell. Sam'. Farnsworth Zachariah Fitch Jr. Benj? Buttrick Thaddeus Bailey Timothy Blood Oliver Blood 3"' Jonathan Bennet Edward Bolton Johnathan Cooper Samuel Cooke Moses Chase. Samuel Dodge Abel Davis Ephraim Farnsworth Nathan Hubbard Jr. Daniel Hart Elias Hart Joseph Hemenway Amos Harris. Noah Humphreys James Kendall Ebenezer Lampson. Amos Lampson Jr. Abel Morse Abijah Nutting Jonathan Nutting Moses Nutting Hezekiah Spaulding Thomas Bennett Jr. Simon Page Jr. John Parke. Elijah Paine. John Robbins Jr. John Rockwood Alpheus Richardson. Amos Stone Jr. Caleb Symmes Phineas Stone. Sylvanus Smith. Abraham Symonds. William Symonds. Abel Swallow. Joseph Sawtell 3'^ Peter Tarbell John Trufant. Amos Tarbell Joseph Wright Asa Wheeler Parker Wetherbee. Phinehas Nutting. All belonging to the South Company in Groton, in said County commanded by me of which Company you are the first sergeant and clerk, to appear on the publick parade, or training field, in said Groton on Thursday the 4"' day of July next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, with their arms and equipments compleat, for the pur pose of military instruction and exercise. And in case you cannot conveniently notify and warn the said persons as aforesaid yourself you are to cause the same to be done by some other non-com missioned officer belonging to said company, by giving them, or some of them, orders for that purpose in my name. Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon to myself at or before said day. Given under my hand & seal this 4"" day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. Timothy Bigelow Captain. Appendix 299 Groton, June 25"' 1799. In obedience to the within warrant I have notified and warned all the within named persons (or caused the same to be done by a sergeant) to appear at the time and place. John Reed. Middlesex ss. To Luther Lawrence Greeting. In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn Amos Davis Drummer James Farnsworth. David Darhng Jonas PhUlips Joseph Bullard Isaac Hall WiUiam Shiple Eli Faulkner Timothy H. Newman Samuel Phips Benjamin Page Junf Daniel Swallow Phinehas Gould William Stearns Aaron Jewett. Abel Holden James Kendall Jabez Parker Lommi Baldwin Junf Asa Jinneson Tyler Bigelow Stephen Kemp. William Lawrence John Wright. Ezra Farnsworth Daniel Richardson David Fletcher All belonging to the South company in Groton in said County commanded by me of which you are also a member to appear on the public parade or training field in said Groton on Tuesday the third day of May next at one of the clock in the afternoon with their arms and equipments compleat for the purpose of exami nation and view of arms, and for military instruction and exercise. Hereof faU not and make due return of this order to myself or the commanding officer at said time and place. Given under my hand and seal this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three Timothy Bigelow Captain Middlesex ss. Groton April 28. 1803. In obedience to the within warrant I have given legal notice to all the persons within mentioned (except Amos Davis, Tyler Bige low, and Daniel Richardson who are out of town) to appear at the time and place within mentioned for the purposes within mentioned Luther Lawrence. 300 Appendix A Naval Hero The foUowing extract is taken from " The History of our Navy from its Origin to the Present Day 1 775-1 897" (New York, 1897), by John R. Spears. An account is there given of the last battle fought by the United States frigate " Essex " against two British vessels in the harbor of Valparaiso, on March 28, 18 14. Owing to more men and heavier guns on the part of the enemy, Captain David Porter, the American commander, was obliged to give the order to strike the colors. At that, Benjamin Hazen, a Groton seaman (who, though pain fully wounded, had remained at his post, and at the last had joined in the request to haul down the flag to save the wounded), bade adieu in hearty fashion to those around him, said he had deter mined never to survive the surrender of the Essex, and jumped overboard. He was drowned (III. 43, 44). For several generations the name of Benjamin Hazen has been a familiar one in Groton. Heroes do not spring up, here or elsewhere, in such numbers that the town can afford to forget such a son, who long ago passed into obscurity. Hazen's name, numbered 180, is given in a list printed in the " Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean " (Philadelphia, 18 1 5), by Captain David Porter. It is found on page 9 of the first volume, where he is rated as a " seaman ; " and on page 161 of the second volume it appears again in the list of those killed in action. Benjamin Hazen was the third son and fourth chUd of Benjamin and Lydia (Woods) Hazen, and was born at Groton, on June 13, 1776. A year ago, in talking with Luther Hazen, a native of the town and a nephew of the seaman, I found that he was familiar with the circumstances connected with his uncle's tragic death. He told me that, according to family tradition, the old sailor weighted his pockets with heavy shot before he jumped overboard. Appendix 301 Groton Military Matters From the earliest period of our Colonial history training- days were appointed by the General Court for the drilling of soldiers ; and at intervals the companies used to come to gether as a regiment and practise mUitary evolutions. From this custom arose the modern militia muster. During a long time, and particularly in the early part of the present century, many such musters were held at Groton. A training-field often used for the purpose was the plain, sit uated near Capell's Mills, a mile and a half northwest of the village. Sometimes they were held on the easterly side of the Great Road, and at other times on the westerly side. During my boyhood musters took place, twice certainly, on the east ern slope of the hill on the south side of the Broad Meadow Road near Farmers' Row; and also, once certainly, in the field lying southeast of Lawrence Academy, where High Street now runs, though it occurred before that street was laid out. Musters have been held on land back of the house formerly occupied by Charles Jacobs, and in a field near the dwelling where Benjamin Moors used to live, close by James's Brook in the south part of the town. A well-known military company of the State militia, and one of the oldest in the State, was the Groton Artillery, organized on October 19, 1778, with William Swan as its first captain. (See page 296 for an early item concerning this company.) In later times, known as Co. B, Sixth Massa chusetts Militia Regiment of Infantry, it took part in the War of the Rebellion. It went into the public service on the memo rable occasion when Governor John A. Andrew called for three-months men to go to Washington, and it was one of the companies forming the Sixth Massachusetts Militia Regi ment which passed through Baltimore on April 19, 1861. After an eventful experience at the outset, the regiment re turned to Boston on August i. In the autumn of that year 302 Appendix the Twenty-sixth was recruited in Lowell, the old Sixth fur nishing the nucleus ; and the companies left Boston for Ship Island, Mississippi Sound, on November 21. The officers in the two regiments were for the most part the same ; and again the Groton Artillery company shared the lot and fortune of the new organization. It formed Co. B, and served with distinc tion during three years. In the summer of 1862, after a call for nine-months men, the Sixth Regiment was ordered into camp at Lowell, and recruited to its full strength. On Sep tember I, when it left for Washington, a company went with it which was an offshoot of the Groton ArtUlery. And stUl later the same regiment was mustered into service on July 20, 1864, for one hundred days, and left at once for Wash ington, again accompanied by the representatives of the old ArtUlery company. Upon the re-organization of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, under Chapter 204, Acts of 1876, by an order dated July 14, 1876, this historic body became Co. F, Tenth Regi ment. For one reason or another its former life and pros perity now seemed to desert it ; and by an order from the Adjutant-General's office, under date of August 15, 1876, the company, with several others at the same time, was disbanded. Near the beginning of the present century the Governor of the Commonwealth visited Groton, and was received with military honors by this same company. The fact is given in the " Columbian Centinel," July 10, 1802, as foUows : — His Excellency Governor Strong, and Lady, are on a tour to the western part, of the State of New-Hampshire. We hear from Groton, that on Thursday last [July 8], upon the departure of Governor Strong from that place, where he had tar ried the preceding night, the artillery company in that town, com manded by Capt. [James] Lewis fired a salute of sixteen guns in honor of the Commander in Chief. By a coincidence, just one hundred years before this time, Joseph Dudley, Governor of the Province, visited Groton, and Appendix 303 was welcomed with a military reception. In the autumn of 1702, Chief-Justice Samuel Sewall accompanied Governor Dudley through Middlesex County on a tour of inspection ; and in his Diary, under date of October 28, he writes : — Went to Groton, saw Capt. [Jonas] Prescot and his company in Arms. (Gov' had sent to them from Dunstable that [he] would visit them.) Lancaster is about 12 Miles Southward from Groton. Concord is 16 Miles | and Ten-Rod from Groton. (Massachusetts Historical Collections, fifth series, VI. 67.) Captain Prescott was a blacksmith by trade, and the an cestor of a long line of distinguished families. He was the grandfather of Colonel William Prescott, the commander of the American forces at Bunker HiU, who was himself the father of William Prescott, the lawyer and jurist, and the grandfather of William Hickling Prescott, the historian. Camp Stevens at Groton During the War of the Rebellion, in the autumn of 1862, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts established a military camp at Groton, on the triangular piece of land situated in the southwesterly part of the town, and bounded by the Peterborough and Shirley RaUroad, the Nashua River and the road to what was formerly known as Shirley Village, but now as Shirley. It contained eighteen or twenty acres, more or less, and at that time belonged to Joseph Cutts ; the en trance was near the angle made by the railroad and the highway. The Fifty-third Regiment of Infantry, Massachu setts Volunteer Militia, while its ranks were recruiting, was encamped on this ground. The regiment was raised from Groton, and Clinton, Leominster, Fitchburg, and other towns in the neighborhood belonging to Worcester County, and was mustered into the public service for nine months. 304 Appendix Special Order, No. 916, issued by the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth, September 19, 1862, contains the following: — A camp of rendezvous is established at Groton Junction, Mid dlesex Co., where barracks are being built, which is designated Camp Stevens. Capt. W. C. Sawyer, 23d Regt. Mass. Vols., is appointed Commandant. Due notice wUl be given when the barracks are ready for use. Special Order, No. 955, under the date of September 23, has the following : — Lindsey TUden [Charles LinzeeTilden], 20th Regt. Mass. Vols., is detaUed for Post Adjutant at Camp Stevens, Groton. The camp was so named in memory of General Isaac Ingalls Stevens, a native of Andover and a graduate of West Point, who was kUled in the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on September 6, 1862, only a fortnight before the camp was established. The Commandant was Wesley Caleb Sawyer, born in the adjoining town of Harvard, on August 26, 1839, who gradu ated at Harvard College in the Class of 1861. Soon after leaving Cambridge, he was commissioned, on October 8, 1861, as a Captain in the Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteers, and he left the State with that regiment. He was attached to the Burnside expedition, that went to North Carolina ; in the Battle of Newbern, March 14, 1862, he was severely wounded, which resulted in the amputation of his left thigh, and neces sarily he was prevented from further participation in an active campaign. The regiment left Camp Stevens, on Saturday, November 29, for New York, where it remained until January 17, 1863, at which time it embarked for New Orleans. Subsequently to the departure of the troops from Groton, the following order was issued : — Appendix 305 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Head Quarters, Boston, Dec. 20, 1862. Special Order, No. 1311. The troops which were enlisted and mustered into service at Camp Stevens, Groton Junction, having left the Commonwealth "for the seat of war, Capt. Wesley C. Sawyer, Commandant of the Camp, is reUeved from further service, and I am directed by His Excellency the Commander in Chief, to thank Capt. Sawyer for the acceptable manner in which he has performed the duties of his post. By order of the Commander in Chief, William Schouler, Adjt. General. Since the war Captain Sawyer has studied at Gottingen, Germany, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philoso phy. He has since held the professorship of Intellectual Phi losophy and Rhetoric in Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, and as a professor has been connected with the Normal School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin; but for the last ten years he has been a resident of California. The barracks and other structures used by the soldiers at Camp Stevens have long since disappeared, and not a trace of the former occupation is now to be seen. Years ago some of them were taken down, and others moved away,^ mostly to the village of Ayer. Hon. George James Burns, a lawyer of that town, wrote an interesting article for " The Groton Landmark," June 25, 1887, which traces the history of many of these buildings. In the autumn of 1862, Dr. Edward Jarvis, of Dorchester, was appointed by Surgeon-General Dale to visit the various camps in the State, of which there were ten, and report on their sanitary condition. The result of his labors may be found in two communications printed in " The Boston Medi cal and Surgical Journal" (LXVII. 364-367 and 381-384, respectively) for December 4 and 11, 1862, wherein he makes some criticism on Camp Stevens. 3o6 Appendix According to the " Record of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 " (I- 390-392), the following soldiers died in camp at Groton : Henry A. Waters, of Shirley, Co. D, on October 25, 1862 ; Spencer StockweU, of Athol, Co. E, November 20; and Daniel P. Hemenway, of Barre, Co. F, December i. Roll of Honor I86I-I865 Like many other places in New England, the town of Groton has erected a monument in memory of her sons who fell during the War of the RebeUion. It is in the form of a marble tablet, affixed to the southerly wall of the entry-way in the Town House, and bears the names of the men, as well as of their company and regiment, and the date and place of their death. The names of forty soldiers, arranged in four columns often each, are cut in the marble immediately under the legend. Unfortunately, the list was not prepared with strict historical accuracy, and, as a result, various errors, both of omission and commission, have crept into the record. Un fortunately, too, the stone-cutter has not been uniform in his use of punctuation marks ; and even the names are not placed in exact alphabetical order. The tablet measures 7 feet 9 inches in width, by 6 feet 9 inches in height, including a moulding five inches in width round the four sides. The appropriation for the cost was made by the town, on April 3, 1882, but, according to " Tur ner's Public Spirit " (Ayer), May 31, 1884, the stone was not placed in position until May 28 of that year. The expense of the tablet, as given on page 24 of the Annual Report of the Town for the year ending March 20, 1885, was $293.30. The inscriptions are as follows : — Appendix 307 THE TOWN OF GROTON. places this tablet in memory of her sons who died in the service of their country during the Civil War. 1 861 1865. John C. Alley. Co. A. 22 Mass. Regf Died at Annapolis, Md. Dec. 19, 1864. Jonathan Brooks, Co. C. 16 Mass. Reg? Killed at Fair Oaks. Va. June 18, 1862. Austin W. Bond, Co. I. 12 Conn. Regf Died in Hospital, May 29, 1863. James V. Barrett, 19 Mass. Regf Died at Salisbury, N. C. Feb. 3, 1865. Warren Blake, Co. H. 53 Mass. Regf Died at Baton Rouge, La. July 8, 1863. [The Descriptive List and the Muster-in Roll both give his name as Warren H. Blake.] EusEBius S. Clark, Co. B. 26 Mass. Reg' Died of wounds [at Winchester, Va.], Oct. 17, 1864. [The Muster-out Roll gives the place of death.] 3o8 Appendix William Crockett Jr. Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf KUled at Lookout Val. Tenn. Oct. 29, 1863. James Carlan, Co. C. S3 Mass. Regf Killed at Port Hudson, La. June 14, 1863. John B. Caldwell, Co. H. 53 Mass. Regf Died at New York, Aug. 25, 1863. James M. Chapin, Co. H. S3 Mass. Reg? Died at New Orleans. Apr. 30, 1863. Michael Donlan, Co. D. 20 Mass. Regf Died at Andersonville, Ga. June 26, 1864. Geo. S. Evans, Co. C. 16 Mass. Regf Died [at Manassas, Va.] Nov. II, 1862. [" Massachusetts in the Army and Navy" (II. 276) gives the place of death.] Geo. a. Fullick, Co. C. 26 Mass. Regf Killed at Winchester, Va. Sept. 20, 1864. Geo. a. Gleason, Co. B. 28 Mass. Regf Died of wounds [at Washington, D. C.], July 1 [June 26], 1864. [The Hospital Report on file at the State House gives the date and place of death.] Appendix 309 James A. Hartwell, Co. A. 36 Mass. Regf Died at Camp Nelson, Ky. Jan. 29, 1864. [The Descriptive List and the Muster-in Roll both give his name as Adam J. Hartwell.] Edmund P. Hall, Co. E. 30 Mass. Regf Died at New Orleans, Nov. 23, 1862. Geo. D. Haynes. Co. B. 26 Mass. Regf Died at New Orleans, Oct. 19 [Aug. 22], 1862. [The Muster-in Roll gives his name as George H. Playnes, and the Muster-out Roll gives the date of death as August 22.] Adrastus Hazzard. Co. F. 54 Mass. Regf Died at Beaufort. S. C. July 7, 1865. Charles H. Jaquith, Co. B. 56 Mass. Regf Killed in Wilderness, Va. May 6, 1864. Leander G. King. Co. C. 16 Mass. Regf Killed at Gettysburg, Penn. July 6, 1863. Leander S. Kendall, Co. B. 26 Mass. Regf Died [at New Orleans], Aug. 20 [18], 1862. [The Muster-out Roll gives the date of death as August 18, and also the place.] 3 IO Appendix William Law Jr. Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf Died July 14, 1864. Joel F. Lawrence, Co. C. 16 Mass. Reg' Killed in Wilderness, Va. May 10, 1864. Charles H. Leonard, Co. H. 57 Mass. Reg' Killed in Wilderness, Va. May I, 1864. Oliver B. Osborn, Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf Died [at Thoroughfare Gap, Va.] Nov. 5, 1862. [A. J. Boies's " Record of the Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry ' (page 153) gives the place of death.] Timothy O'Connor, Co. B. 26 Mass. Regf KUled at Winchester, Va. Sept. 19, 1864. Charles H. Pierce, Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf Died of wounds, July [i]8, 1863. [The Muster-out Roll gives the date of death as July 18.] Wm. H. Priest, Co. B. 26 Mass. Regf KUled at Winchester, Va. Sept. 19, 1864. Jerome S. Parker, Co. C. 16 Mass. Regf Died of wounds [at Gettysburg, Penn.J, July 12, 1863. [The Monthly Report on file at the State House gives the place of death. ] Appendix 3 1 Alfred A. Richardson, Co. B. 6 Mass. Regf Died at Suffolk. Va. Dec. 8, 1862. Jacob S. Raynor, Jr. Co. H. S3 Mass. Regf Died at Port Hudson, June 28, 1863. Wm. G. Rand, Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf Died of wounds, Nov. 1863. Patrick Ready, Co. B. 56 Mass. Regf KUled at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864. Edward D. Sawtell, Co. B. 6 Mass. Regf Killed at Deserted House. Va. Jan. 30, 1863. [The Muster-out Roll says at " Deserted House, near Suffolk, Va."] Andrew J. Stevens, Co. B. 26 Mass. Reg' Died at New Orleans. July 9, 1862. Luther E. Tenny, Co. B. 26 Mass. Regf Died at New Orleans. Mar. [3]i, 1863. [The Muster-out Roll gives the date of death as March 31.] Henry E. Tosier, [Co. I,J 8 Maine Regf Killed [near Spring Hill, Va.] Dec. [10] 1864. [The " Official Army Register," Part I. (page 26), gives the date and place of his death as well as the Letter of his company.] 312 Appendix John Waigand. Co. A. 2 2 Mass. Regf Died in Rebel Prison [at Andersonville, Ga.J, May 15, 1864. [A letter from the War Department to the Adjutant-General of the Com monwealth, dated October 24, 1896, gives the place of death. ] Geo. H. Williams, Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf Killed near Dallas, Ga. May 25, 1864. Andrew L. Woodward, Co. E. 33 Mass. Regf Died Nov. 8, 1864. Echo of the Spanish War A special dispatch from Fitchburg, dated February 15, 1900, and printed in " The Boston Herald " of the next day, says : — WUliam F. Duggan of Company F, 26th regiment, who was re ported killed in the PhUippines, was born in July, 1875, in Groton, being the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Duggan of Leominster. He was an employe of the Wheelwright Paper Company, and shortly before his enlistment worked in Holyoke. He enlisted from Springfield. He leaves a father, a mother, and five brothers and sisters. Index Index A. Abbot, Abigail, 221. Abbot, George, 36. Abbot, Dr. Nehemiah, 221. Abbott, Dea. Isaac, 202. Absentees, 256. "Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill," Dearborn's, 217. Acton (Mass.), 82, 136, 166, 241, 242, 289, 291, 292. Adams, Abel, 53, 56, 57, 58. Adams, Sergt. Abner, 70. Adams [Adoms, Addams], Amos, 11, 41, 54, 55. 56. 57, 108, 117, 152, 158, 161, 182. Adams, Anna, 249. Adams, Benjamin, 25. Adams, Elizabeth, 268. Adams, Ephraim, 13, 16, 197. Adams [Addams, Adoms], James, 11, 41. 54, 56, 5**, "8. Adams, John, 36. Adams, John, Jr., 298. Adams, Joseph, 119, 214. Adams, Moses, 242. Adams, Samuel, 288, 293. Adams, William, 24, 25, 26, 144, 150. Adams and Nourse's paper, 266. " Alarm lists," 3. Albany (N. Y.), 135. Alden, Colonel, 166, 167. Aldridge, George, 36. Alexander, Andrew, 140. Alexander's, 146. Allen, Joseph, 105, no, 147, 148, 150, 153, 15s, '57, 162, 184. Allen, Rev. William, 277. Alley, John C, 307. "American Archives," Force's, 197, 240. American Congress Association, the, no. American Continental Association, the, I II. " American Dragoons," the, 223. "American Monthly Magazine," the, 214. American Revolution, the, 2. Ames, Amos, 73, 75, 151, 154, 156, 160. Ames, Amos, Jr., 145. Ames [Eames], Eleazer, 81, 105, 121, 136, 139, 159- Ames, Elijah, 32, 36. Ames, John, 21, 24, ng, 209. Ames, John, Jr., 20, 118. Ames [Eames], Moses, 26, 73, 75, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 145, 170, 172- Ames, Rober, Jr., 183. Ames, Robert, 184. ^ mherst, General, 252. Amsden [Amsdon], Abel, 44, 46, 207. Amsden, Benjamin, 31. Andersonville (Ga.), 308, 312. Andover (Mass.), 25, 82, 125, 206, 304. Andrew, Gov. John A., 301. Andros, Sir Edmund, i. " Ann," the, 142. " Annabella," the, 142. Annapolis (Md.), 307. Appleton (Wis.), 305. April, Nineteenth of, I, 3, 4, 5. Apthorp, Charles Ward, 257. Archabald [Archabell, Archibel, Arche bell], David, II, 33, 44, 46, 117, 207. Arlington (Mass.), 290. 3i6 Index Ashburnham (Mass.), 261. Ashby (Mass.), 7, 13, 16, 51, 67, 145, 242, 271. Asgood, Joseph, 55. Athol (Mass.), 306. Avery, David, 35, 120. Avery, Elizabeth, 263. Avery, John, 62, 71, 76, 77, 79, 86, 8g, i6g, 231,232,234, 275. Ayer (Mass.), 42, 263, 285, 305. Ayer, Samuel, 83. B. Bailey, J., 174. Bailey, Miss Sarah L., 8. Bailey, Thaddeus, 298. Baker, Thomas, 11, 50. Baker, Timothy, 54, 56, 57, 58. Baldwin, Loammi, 258. Baldwin, Loammi, Jr., 2g7, 2g9. Baldwin, Reuben, 26. Baldwin, Capt. William, 252. Baley, John, 26. Baley, Jonathan, 69. Ball, Lieut. Benjamin, 13, 16, 208, 209. Ball, Ebenezer, 41, 68, 73, 75. Baltimore (Md.), 2, 301. Bancroft, Lieut. Abel, n, 107, 151, 154, 155, 157, 161, 164, 178, 248. Bancroft, Capt. Benjamin, 42, in, 151, 155, 157, 162, 231. Bancroft, Benjamin, Jr., 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, •32, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 144, 154, 160. Bancroft, Maj. Ebenezer, 242. Bancroft, Edmund, 35, 122, 124. Bancroft, James, 65. Bancroft, Jonathan, 274. Bancroft, Joseph, 96, 99, 102, 176. Bancroft, Thaddeus, gi, g3, 94, 95, 170. Bancroft [Bancraft], 81, William, 121, 122, 13g, 171, 175. Barber, John Warner, 116. Barker, Asa, 26. Barker, Lieut. Moses, 26. Barnes, Capt. Moses, 86; payroll of his company, 86. Barney, Michel, 213. Baron, Nat., 138. Barr, Aaron, 202. Barre (Mass.), 306. Barrett, Colonel James, 286, 28g. Barrett, James, 121, 122, 126, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134. 135, 136, 137, 138- Barrett, James V., 307. Barritt, Samuel, 68. Barron, Joseph, 26. Barron, Oliver, 221. Bartlet, Eliezer, 26. Bascom, Elizabeth, 206. Bass, Capt. Phillip, 206. Baton Rouge (La.), 307. Bayley, Nathaniel, 71. Beak, Philip Johnson, 200. Beard, Jonathan, 220. Beaufort (S. C), 309. Bedford (Mass.), 51, 242, 291. Beels, Benjamin, 165. Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, 200, 293. Belnap, Capt. Samuel, 241. Bennet [Bennitt], Benjamin, 49, 68, 213. Bennet, Jonathan, 298. Bennett, John, 140. Bennett [Bennet, Binnet], Thomas, 154, 15s, 158. Bennett, Thomas, Jr., 298. Bennington (Vt.), 52, 55, 62, 146, 147, 148. Bentley, Susanna, 251. Betis, Mr., 259. Bickford [Bigford], Jonathan, 54, 56, 57, 58- Bigelow [Biglow], Aaron, 11, 17,49, 81, 118, 122, 139. Bigelow, Anna, 280. Bigelow, Hon. George Tyler, 297. Bigelow, Simeon, 69. Bigelow, Col. Timothy, 122, 124, 130, 131, 132, 136, 138, 147, 171, 172, 173, 214, 280, 297, 298, 299. Bigelow, Tyler, 297, 299. Billerica (Mass.), 25, 44, 46, 167, 200, 201, 222, 233, 242, 282. Billings, Daniel, 53, 56, 58. Bird, Shattuck, 84. Bixby [Bigsby], Thomas, 43, 46. Bizel, Robert, 22, 210. Black Horse tavern, the, 289. Ind ex 317 Blake, Mr., 259. Blake, Warren [H.], 307. Blanchard, Anna, 296. Blanchard, James, 296. Blanchard, Josiah, 295, 296. Blanchard, Moses, 69. Blanchard, Nathaniel, go, 93, 94, 170, 183. Bliss, Lieut. Joseph, 129. Bliss, Major, 42. Blodget, Ensign Nehemiah, 52, 55, 56, 57. 64. Blodgett, David, 197. Blodgett, William, 281. Blood, Abraham, 20, 22, 24, 29, 199, 210. Blood, Amos, 250. Blood, Asa, 185. Blood, Benjamin, 20, 21,24, n8, 209. Blood, Caleb, 47, 48, io8, 122. Blood, Caleb, Jr., 81, 139. Blood, David, 35, 87, 88, 89. Blood, Corp. Edmund, 28, 80, 118. Blood, James, Jr., 29, 119. Blood, John, 81, 122, 139, 183. Blood, Jonas, 87, 185. Blood, Jonathan, 183. Blood, Lemuel, 20, 21, 24, 210. Blood, Martha, 34. Blood, Moses, 36, 220. Blood, Oliver, 148, 151, 154, 156, 160. Blood, Oliver, Jr., 151, 156. Blood, Oliver, 3d, 298. Blood, Peter, 29, 41, 119. Blood, Rachel, 264. Blood, Royal, 183. Blood, Samuel, 90, 93, 94, 95, 170, 171, 281. Blood, Lieut. Shattuck, 28, 41, 65, 79, 80, 85, 248. Blood, Shattuck, Jr., 165, 183. Blood, Stephen, Jr., 53, 62, 63. Blood, Susan, 262. Blood, Timothy, 298. Blood, William, 34. Board of War, the, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 267. Bodge, John, 214. Boies, A. J., 310. Bolten, Timothy, 26. Bolton, Edward, 298. Bolton (Mass.), 47, 260. Bolton, William, 40. Bond, Austin W., 307. Bond, Henry, 53, 57, 58. Bond, Thomas, 105, 108, 137. Bond, Lieut. Col. William, 48. Bonney, Captain, 230. Boston (Mass.), 5, 6, 65, 67, 142, 177, 194, 203 ; the poor of, 205 ; the siege of, 205, 230. Boston Company of Artillery, the, 289, 290. " Boston Daily Advertiser," the, 202, 282, 283. " Boston Daily Atlas," the, 281. " Boston Evening Transcript," the, 9, 3°- " Boston Gazette, and Country Jour nal," the, 195, 199, 245, 255, 256, 258, 265, 270. Boston Harbor, 2, 142. " Boston Herald," the, 312. Boston Jail, 59. " Boston Medical and Surgical Jour nal," the, 305. Boston Neck, 293. Boston Overseers of the Poor, the, 193. " Boston Patriot and Daily Chronicle," the, 217, 282. Boston Post Bill, the, 193. " Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser," the, 244. " Boston Recorder," the, 203. " Boston Sunday Herald," the, 285. " Boston Weekly News Letter," the, 222. Bostonian Society, the, 285, 293. Bounds, Widow, 206. Bowdoin College, 260, 277. Bowen, Abigail, 280. Bowers, Benjamen, 55, 56, 57, 58. Bowers, Isaac, 249. Bowers, James, 21, 24. Bowers, John, 185. Bowers, Lieut. Josiah, 52, 55, 56, 57, 64. Bowers, Sampson, 68. Boyden [Boiden], Jonathan, 21, 24, 29, 77- Boyden, Samuel, 19, 117, 254. Boynton, Abijah, 35. 3i8 Boynton, Abraham, 36. Boynton [Boyanton], Isaac, 13, 16. Boynton, Jane, 247. Boynton, John, 36. Boynton, Capt. Joseph, 250. Bradford, Col. Samuel, 276. Brazen, Christopher, 206. Brazen, Christopher, Jr., 206. Brazer [Brazier], Benjamin, 122, 123, 139- Brazer, William Phillips, 10. Breed's Hill, 203, 218, 2ig. Brewer, Col. Samuel, 52, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 81. Bridge, Colonel, 48, 201, 220. Briggs, Leonard, 200. Briggs, Tobias, 48. Bright, Mathew, 214. British grenadiers, the, 5. British Troops, the Advance of the, 4. Broad Meadow Road, the, 301. Brookline (Mass.), 168, 208. Brooklyn (Ct), 30. Brooks, Benjamin, 13,16. Brooks, Col. Eleazer, 77, 78, 242, 243. Brooks, General John, 273. Brooks, Jonas B., 16, 31, 208. Brooks, Jonathan, 307. Brooks, Simeon, 33, 69, 79. Brooksville (Me.), 260, 284. Brow, Lieutenant, 212. Brown, Aaron, 278. Brown, Capt. Abishai, 76; abstract of his company, 76 ; muster-roll of his company, 77. Brown, Andrew, 37, 74. Brown, Captain, 271, 274, 275. Brown, Ephraim, 13, 16, 54, 56, 57, 72, 209. Brown, Isaac, 51. Brown, John, 69, 200, 245, 246. Brown, John Campbell, 180. Brown, Thomas, 26. Brown, Woodbridge, 77. Buckminister, Lieut. Lawssen, 242. Bugbee, James McKellar, 247. Bulkley, Rebecca, 261. Bullard, Rev. John, 218. Bullard, Joseph, 299. Bunker Hill, 9, 45, 229, 230, 247, 252. Bunker Hill, Battle of, 8, 42, 45, 47, 49, Index 59, 65, 147; Groton men killed in the fight, 198; error on Tablets, 199; a Groton man shot Pitcairn, 200 ; first man to fire, 201 ; first man killed, 20I ; first man wounded, 202 ; last man to leave the field, 202 ; an anni versary of the fight, 203; 204, 205, 211, 216, 217, 218, 219, 221, 259, 262, 269, 277, 281, 282, 292. Bunker Hill Memorial Tablets, 199, 202, 211. Bunker Hill Monument, the, 203, 217. Bunker Hill Monument Association, the, Proceedings of, 220, 228. Burbeck, Colonel, 239. Burge, John, 8, 15, i6. Burgoyne, General, 250, 253, 281, 283. Burk, William, 120. Burns, Hon. George James, 305. Burnside expedition, the, 304. Bush [Boosh], William, 155, 158. Butler, Caleb, 9, 113, 195, 283. Butman [Butmon], Zebulin, 55, 56, 57. Butterfield [Buterfield], Corp. Eleazer, 13. '6, 72, 74. Butterfield, Lieut. Peter, 40, 54, 56, 57, 58, 67, 68. Butterfield, Philip, 73, 75. Buttrick, Benjamin, 298. Buttrick [Buttericks], Major John, 203, 282. Caldwell, John B., 308. Calf, Mrs. Mary, 206. Cambridge (Mass.), 3, 7, 8, 16, 17 19, 28, 33, 42, 49, 50, 51, 59. 65, 87, 115, (20, 127, 131,137, 177, 196, 202, 205, 209, 211, 212, 213, 216, 229, 241, 249, 251, 263, 264, 269, 271, 272, 277. Cambridge Jail, the, 142. Camp Nelson (Ky.), 309. Camp Stevens at Groton, 303-306. Campbell, Lt. Col. Archibald, 142, 168. Campbell, Daniel, 69. Campbell, Capt. Louring, 168. Campbell, Robart, 144, 149, 150, i Campbell, Mrs. Robart, 149, 150. , 18, 82, 178,215, 267, 167, 68. Ind ex 319 Campbell [Cambell], William, 54, 56, 57, 58. Canada, 252. Cape Breton, 277. Capell's Mills, 301. Capen, Lieut. Josiah, 241. Caprin,. Thomas, 73, 75. Capron, Jonathan, 20, 21, 24, 78, 80, 209. Capron, Jonathan, Jr., 118. Carlan, James, 308. Carlisle (Mass.), 291. Carlton, Lieut. Col. Sam, 61, 62. Carpenter, Richard, 200. Carthagena (New Granada), 295. Casco Bay, 82, 123. Castle, the, in Boston Harbor, 2. Castle William, 244. Cawin, William, 44, 46. Chace, Joshua, 31. Chamberland, John, 73, 75. Chamberlin, Isaac, 36. Chamberlin, John, 36. Chamberlin, Joseph, 36. Chamberlin, Mary, 259. Champney, Ebenezer, 184. Chandler, Rebecca, 51. Chandler, Rev. Seth, 38. Chandler, Susanna, 263. Chaney, Lieut. John, 72, 74. Chantilly (Va.), 304. Chapin, James M., 308. Chaplin, Rev. Daniel, D.D., 218, 227. Charles River, the, 293. Charlestown [Charleston] (Mass.), 4, 17, 26, 45, 123, 203, 205, 228, 229, 241, 260, 264, 266, 267, 269, 288, 293, 297. Charlestown Neck, 219. Charlestown (N. H.), 281. Chase, Abel, 68. Chase, Jacob, 184. Chase, Joseph, 113, 180, 182. Chase, Joseph, Jr., 180. Chase, Lucy, 180. Chase, Moody, 184. Chase, Moses, 13, 16, 73, 74, 96, 99, 102, 145, 176, 208,298. Chase, Peter, 298. Chelmsford (Mass.), 17, 24, 25, 36, 59, 65, 78, 201, 221, 242, 252. Chel.sea (Mass.), 7, 229. Cherry Valley (N. ¥.), 166, 167. Chicopee Row, 26. Child, Capt. Abijah, 48 ; return of his company, 48, 252. Child, Anna (Adams), 249. Child, Isaac, 249. Child Manuscripts, the, 250. Child, Moses, lot), no, in, 123, 125, 134, 137, 151, 152, 154, 155, 158, 160, 196, 249. Child, Samuel Mitchell, 249. Child, Sarah (Stiles), 249. Childs, Capt. Abraham, 220, 251, 292. Childs, Mrs. Abraham, 252, 253. Childs, David, 251. Childs, Rebecca (Stowell), 251. Childs, Susanna (Bentley | Woolley), 251. Church, Moses, 171, 173, 174. Cincinnati, Massachusetts Society of the, 247. Claremont (N. H.), 18. Clark, Elijah, 263. Clark, Eusebius S., 307. Clark, Lieut. Isaac, 242. Clark, Rev. Jonas, 2g3. Clark, Jonathan, 109. Clark, Thomas, 40. Clark, William, 68. Clarke, Daniel, 68. Clarke [Clark], John, 13, 16. Classes of Soldiers, 100-108. Clinton (Mass.), 303. Clough [Claugh], John, 44,46, 208. Clough, Joseph, 81, 140. Clough, William, 55, 56, 57, 58. Coat Rolls, 207, 213. Cobbecut River, 200. Coburn, Jonathan, 84, 85. Coburn, Sargt. Nathan, 26. Coburn, Capt. Peter, 48. Coburn, Samson, 213. Colborn, Smith, 213. Colbourn [Calbourn], Jonathan, 20, 21, 24, 119, 2og. Colbourn, Thomas, 44, 47. Colbourn, William, 11. Colburn, Titus, 213. Colby, Ambross, 206. Cole, Samuel, 81, 123. 320 Index Coher, Widow, 164. Collins, Daniel, 69. Collins, Thomas, 207. Colman, Benjamin, 69. Colman, Thomas, 81. "Columbian Centinel," the, 39, 223, 251, 259, 281, 282, 284,302. Colvin [Colven, Caluin], Thomas, 43, 46, 140. Combs, John, 44, 46. Commings [Coming, Cumens], Bris tol, 55, 56, 57. 58- Commings, Corp. James, 72, 74. Committee of Correspondence, the, 27, igi, 192, 195. Committee of Safety, the, 3, 4, 6, 230, 231, 240, 287, 288, 289. Committee of Supplies, the, 4, 230, 231, 288, 289, 2go. Common, the, 116. Common land, 257. Conant, Colonel, 288, 293. Conant, Daniel, 68. Conant, John, 272. Conant, Jonathan, 40. Conant, Lieut. Nathan, 70. Conant, Sergt, Shebuel, 40, 72, 74. Concord (Mass.), 4, 5, 76, 122, 136, 142, 151, 169, 215, 230, 241, 257, 258, 282, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 303. Concord Bridge, 203, 291, 293. " Concord Fight, New Chapter in the History of the," 5, 231, 285-294; 203, 231, 285, 289, 292, 293, 294. Concord Minute-men, the, 290, 291. Conn, William, 81, 124, 139. Connecticut River, the, 269. Connecticut Valley, the, 276. Conrey, Samuel, 43, 46. Continental Army, 39, 62 ; alphabetical list of three-years' men enlisted in, 8 1 ; list of nine-months' men, 84,85 ; list of six-months' men, 90-96. Continental Congress, the, 42, no. " Continental Journal and Weekly Ad vertiser," the, 243, 246. Cook, Enoch, 31, 117, 149, 151, 154, 156, 161. Cooke, Samuel, 298. Cooper, Johnathan, 298. Cooper [Coopper], Solomon, 68, 153^ 154,157,163. Cobs [Coas] Country (N. H.), 7, 14. Corey [Cory] Chambers, 49, 199, 211, 212. Corey [Cory], Capt. Ephraim, 49 ; re turn of his company, 49, 210, 213, 214. Corey, Corp. Isaac, 53, 56, 57, Corey [Cory], Nathan, 21, 24, 85, 209, 285, 286, 287, 292, Corey, Nathaniel, 84. Corey, Philip, 213. Corey [Cory], Samwell, 212. Corey, Silas, 213. Corey's Company, Captain, 213. Cornell, E., 88. Cortland (N. Y.), 227. Cory, Simeon, 26. Court of Common Pleas, the, 264, 265, 266. Cowdin, Thomas, 182. Cowper, Samuel, 259. Crage, David, 140, Crage, Thomas, 81. Grain, Colonel, 129. Cransom, Capt. Amasa, 241. Creige [Creack], John, 141, 167. Crockett, William, Jr., 308. Crosby, Lucy (Shed), 260. Crosby, Timothy, 55, 56, 57, 58. Crown Point, 252, 269, 383. Cruse, Corporal, 200. Cummings [Cumings], Reuben, 41,254. Cummings, Samuel, 36. Curtis, George William, 292. Cutler, Elizabeth, 247. Cutler, Jonas, in, 249. Cutler, Captain Solomon, 145, Cutter [Cuter], Nathaniel, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58- Cutts, Joseph, 303. D. "Daily Centinel and Gazette,' the, 284. " Daily Evening Traveller," the, 284. Dale, Surgeon-General Wm. J., 305. Dallas (Ga.), 312. Ind ex 321 Damond, Captain, 145. Dana, Henry Swan, 281. Dana, Rev. Samuel, in, 112, 154, 160, 195, 196, 197, 220, 248, 280. Dana, Stephen, 127. Danby (Conn.), 171. Dane, Samuel, 152. Danforth, Asa, 44, 46. Darling, David, 299. Darling, James, 73, 75. Davis, Abel, 298. Davis, Abel, Jr., 184. Davis, Amos, 281,299. Davis, Amos, Jr., 298. Davis, Benjamin, 151, 154, 155, 157, 160. Davis, Caleb, 226. Davis, Ebenezer, 69. Davis, Eleazer, 51, 183. Davis, Gideon, 83. Davis, Henry, 84, 85. Davis, Isaac, 282. Davis [Davise], James, 14, 16, 31, 208. Davis [Davise], Joel, 14, 16. Davis, Jonas, 208. Davis, Jonathan, 49. Davis, Joshua, n. Davis [Davise] Josiah, 14, 16, 69. Davis [Dauis], Peter, 43, 46, 208. Davis, Rebecca (Chandler), 51. Davis, Rebekah, 51. Davis [Dauis], Silas, 43, 46. Davison, John, 126. Dean, Hirum, 36. Dearborn, Gen. Henry A. S., 217, 219. Deney, Colonel, 81. Dennes, Arthur, 18. Dennis, John, 54, 55, 56, 58. Derby (Penn.), 283. Derumple, John, 183. Derumple [Dirumpbel], William, 13, 16, 18, 20, 41, 117, 148, 152, 154, 158, 160, 208, 254. Derumple [Derumpel], William, Jr., 117. Deserted House (Va.), 311. Dexter, Arthur, 228. Dexter, Prof. Franklin B., 203. Dickerson, Ceaser, 213. Dickerson, Paul, 35. Dickey, Elias, 36, 210. Dickson, Gilburt, 35. Dike, Colonel, 79, 80. Dimond, Mrs. Abigail, i8. Ditson, Serg. Thomas, 127. Dix, Jonas, 20. Dodge, Lieut. Isaac, 43, 46, 143, 312. Dodge [Dogg], James, 22, 24, 59, ri8, 199, 204, 210. Dodge, Job, 54, 56, 58. Dodge, Joseph, 40. Dodge, Samuel, 298. Dodge, Sybil, 121. Dole, Amos, 40, 68, 96, 99, 104, 176, 260. Dole, Matilda, 260. Donlan, Michael, 308. Doolittle, 220. Dorchester (Mass), 177, 305. Dorchester Heights, 78, 79, 268. Dover (Me.), 260. Dover (Mass.), 247. Dows, Joseph, 26. Dracut (Mass.), 48, 242. Drummond [Drummand], Patrick, 141, 142, 149. Dudley, John, 154. Dudley, Gov. Joseph, 302. Duggan, Patrick F., 312. Duggan, William F., 312. Dunstable (N. H.), 44, 47, 222, 242, 303- Dunster, Henry, 14, 16. Durant, Jacob, 55, 56, 58. Dutton, Thomas, 54, 56, 57, 58, 61. Dwinell, John, 213. East Cambridge (Mass.), g, 265. East Hoosuck (Adams, Mass.), 146. East Pepperell (Mass.), 240. East Salem (N. Y.), 30. Eaton, John, 26, 54, 55, 57, 58. Eaton, Person [Peason], 54, 55, 57, 58. Eaton's, 146. Echo of the Spanish War, 312. Edes [Eads], Charlestown, go, 93, 94, 95, 96. 99, 103, 170, 171, 176. Edes, Isaiah, 171. Edes and Gill, 198. 322 Ind ex Edgartown (Mass.), 203. Edgerton, James, 68. Egerton, Joseph, 32. Ellis, Rev. Dr. George E., 5. Ely, Justin, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95. Emerson, Rev. Daniel, 268. Emerson, Hannah (Emerson), 268. Emerson, John, 69. Emerson, Mary, 26S. Emerson, Corp. Samuel Moody, 72, 74. Emerson, Timothy, 69. Emery [Emary], John, 14, i6, 55, 57, 58. Emmet Collection, the, 278. " Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Mass.," Green's, 292. " Essex," the, 300. " Essex Gazette," the, 45, 59, 195, 196. Evans, George S., 308. Evens [Euans], David, 53, 56, 58. Everett, Molly, 247. Eustus, Capt. Benjamin, 129. Exception, An, 255. Fairfield, Capt. Matthew, 137, 138. Fair Oaks (Va.), 307. Falkner, John, 141. Falmouth (Me.), 8r, 123. Falmouth (Mass.), 244. Farley, Samuel, 21, 23, 120. Farmer, Aaron, 73, 75. Farmer, Sergt. Edward, 26. Farmer, Jonas, 14, 16. Farmer, Samuel, 26. Farmers' Row, 9, 301. Farnesworth, Abel, 298. Farnsworth, Aaron, 118, 181. Farnsworth, Capt. Amos, diary of, 5, 7; n, 13, 16,70,153, 154, 157, 160, 211, 220, 261, 263, 273, 296, 2g7. Farnsworth, Azubah, 262. Farnsworth, Benjamin, 8, 33, ng, 2g8. Fartisworth, Daniel, 243. Farnsworth, Ebenezer, 80, 84, 85, 91, 93- 94. 95, 149, 17=, 180, 183. Farnsworth, Ebenezer, Jr., 170. Farnsworth, Edmund, 81, 124,139, 166. Farnsworth, Ephraim, 298. Farnsworth, Ezra, 298, 299. Farnsworth, Harbor, 69, 77, g6, 99, 102, 176. Farnsworth, Isaac, 97, 102, no, in, 120, 122, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 141, 144. 151, 155, 156, 159, 163, 171, 1S4, 196, 278. Farnsworth, James, 299. Farnsworth, Jonas, 124. Farnsworth, Lydia (Longley), 263. Farnsworth, Matthias, 32, 33, 257. Farnsworth, Oliver, 11, 73, 74, iiS, 119, •45- Farnsworth, Oliver, Jr., 11. Farnsworth, Samuel, 43, 46, 207, 298. Farnsworth, William, 172. Farr, William, 69. Farrar, Sergt. Noah, 14, 16, 68. Farrar, Stephen, 298. Farrar [Farrer], Corp. Zebediah, 53, 55, 57, 58- Farrington, Lieut. Col. Thomas, 125, 126, 255, 256. Farrington, Thomas, Jr., 82, 125. Farwell, Abel, 78, 108, 181. Farwell, Benjamin, 79. 80, 180. Farwell, David, 82, 96, 99, 104, 125, 176. Farwell, Elizabeth, 8. Farwell, Ephraim, 80. Farwell, Hannah (Worster), 9. Farwell, Captain Henry, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10; muster-rolls of his company, 10-15, 13; return of his company, 15-17; 38, no, 118, 151, 154, 155, i6r, 208, 209, 211, 216, 225, 263, 277. Farwell, Henry, Jr., 298. Farwell, Isaac, 281. Farwell, James B., to. Farwell, Jonathan, 9, 10, 277. Farwell, Lydia (Tarbell), 9. Farwell, Samuel, 257. Farwell, Sarah (Taylor), 9. Farwell, Silas, 298. Farwell, Submit, 124, 125. Farwell, Thomas, 31, 151, 154, 156, i6i. Farwell [Farewell], William, 8, n, 28, 41.90,93-94,95, 147,254. Farwell, WiUiam, Jr., 170. Farwell, Zaccheus, 14, 16, 32, 208. Farwell's Bullet, Captain, 9. Ind ex 323 Fassett [Tesset], Lieut. Amaziah, 221, 222. Fassett, Ede (Richardson), 222. Fassett, Patrick, 222. Faulkner, Eli, 299. Fay, Samuel, 65. Fife [Fyfe], John, 11,41, 68. Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, the, 125, 172, 173, 174, 175. Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, the, 125. Fifty-third Regiment of Infantry, the, 303- First Parish Meeting-house, the, 18, n6, 264. First Parish Meeting-house, the, Pep perell, 34. Fish, Nathan, 36. Fisher, Jabez, 37, 47. Fisher, Justice, 89. Fishkill (N. v.), 84, 85, 174, 255. Fisk, Amasa, 59. Fisk, Amos, 44, 45, 59, igg. Fisk, Benjamin, 78. Fisk, Lieut. Daniel, 67, 68. Fisk, David, 68. Fisk, John, 31, 41. Fisk, Josiah, 45. Fisk, Peter, 50, 199, 211. Fisk, Pomp, 213. Fisk, Rachel, 211. Fisk, Reuben, 31. Fisk, Sarah, 45. Fisk, Thomas, 35. Fisk, Wainright, 37. Fisk's, 146. Fitch, Abigail, 51. Fitch, Betsey (Tuttle), 51. Fitch, Elizabeth (Grimes), 51, Fitch, John, 51, 298. Fitch, Joseph, 51, 182. Fitch, Lydia (Tuck), 51. Fitch papers, the, 52, 64, 83. Fitch, Rebekah (Davis), 51. Fitch, Richard, 51. Fitch, Sibyl (Lakin), 51. Fitch, William, 182. Fitch, Zachariah, Jr., 298. Fitch, Captain Zechariah, n, 51, 63; pay-roll of his company, 52-58, 60, 61, 62, 63 ; abstract of his company, 64 ; 65,83, 105, 106, 107, 108, I4g, 152, 154, 158, i6i, 163, 282. Fitch's Bridge, 52. Fitchburg (Mass.), 51, 182, 303, 312. Flagg, Eleazer, 20, 117. Fletcher, Daniel, 87, 88, 8g, go, g3, g4, 95, 125, 170. Fletcher, David, 298, 299. Fletcher, Ezekiel, 18, 105, 118, 150, 152, 154, 248. Fletcher, James, 54, 55. Fletcher, Sergt. Levi, 53, 55, 56, 58. Fletcher, Oliver, 248. Fletcher, Oliver, Jr., 183. Fletcher, Paul, 77, 154, 155, 158. Fletcher, Pelati, 138. Fletcher, Phebe, 263. Fletcher, Reuben, 263. Fletcher, Susanna (Chandler), 263. Flint, Eli, 298. Flint, Lieut. John, 25, 26. Fogg, Dr. John S. H., 297. FoUings, Lewis, 206. Forbush, Ephraim, 53, 55, 56, 50. Force, Peter, 197, 240. Ford, John, 65. Fortneau, John, 144. Fortner, John, 150. Foster, Abel, 14, 16. Foster, Amos, 201. Foster, Amos, Jr., 54, 55, 57, 58. Foster, Daniel, 14, 16, 208. Foster, David, 202. Foster, Jonathan, 69. Foster, Sergt. Silas, 53, 56, 57, 58. Foster [Forster], Simeon, 36,38, n8, 165. Foster, Stephen, 22, 24, 59, 118, 199, 210. Foster, Capt. Thomas Wait, 49 ; return of his company, 49. Fowle, George, 251. Fox, Colonel, 243. Fox, Josiah, 55, 56, 57, 58. Framingham (Mass.), 242, 267. Francis, Col. Ebenezer, 268. Francis, Richard, 73, 75. Franconia (N. H.), 263. Frankhn (Mass.), 264. Freeman, Nathaniel, 246. French and Indian War, the, 2, 3, 8, 249. 3 24 Index French, Ebenezer, 73, 75. French, Jonathan, 73, 75. Frost, Benjamin, 184. Frost, Ephraim, 127. Frost, John, 105. Frost, Jonathan, 183. Frost, Joseph, 14, 16, 85, 118, 183, 208. Frothingham, Richard, 8, 205, 221. Frye, Cato, 82, 126. Fulham (Vt.), 36. Fuller, A., 76, 86, 88, 89, go, 95, 265. Fuller, Capt. Edward, 241. Fullick, George A., 308. G. Gage, General, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291. Gammel [Gammell, Gamel], William, 53, 56, 57, 58- Gardner, Capt. Aaron, 242. Gardner, Henry, 170. Gardner, Joseph, 256. Gardner, Samuel, 123. Garfield, [Garffield, Gaffield], Jesse, 82, 127, 139. Garfield [Gafield], Thaddeus, 53, 55, S6. Gass, Thomas, 298. Gates, General, 136, 253. Gelson, John, 41. Gelston, Dr. Samuel, 244-246. Gelson, Lieut. Samuel, 40. Gelston family, the, 246. " Genealogy of the Child, Childs, and Childe families," the, 250. General Assembly of the State of Mas sachusetts-Bay, the. Resolves of, 222, 223. General Court, the, 2, 3, 27, 43, go, gi, 94, 95, 100, 144, 162, 165, 176, 177, 182, 232, 233, 244, 245, 264, 266, 267, 283, 301. " George," the, 142, 168. Georgetown (Mass.), 15, 21. Gerrish, Colonel, 218, 230. Gettysburg (Pa,), 309, 310, Gibson, Ephraim, 69, Gibson, John, 69, Gilbert, Capt, Samuel, 50 ; return of his company, 50, Giles [Jilles], Ebenezer, 73, 75. Giles, Richard, 213. Gill, Moses, 12, 32, Gillson [Gilson], Amasa, ig, 118, Gillson [Gilson], Daniel, ig, 51, 82, 117, 127, 128, 135, I3g, 212, Gillson [Gilson], Daniel, Jr,, 82, 127, 128, 139. Gillson, Jonas, 151. Gillson, Peter, 73, 75. Gillson [Gilson], Lieut. Samuel, 21, 23, 31, 67, 120. Gillson, Simon, 32. Gillson [Gilson], Solomon, 20, 21, 24, 80, 117, 183, 209. Gilson, Elizabeth, 42. Gilson, Widow, 121. Gleason, George A., 308. Glidden, Arnel, 128. Gliden, Arnold, 82. Gloucester (Mass.), 15, 3g. Glover, Gen. John, go, 91, 92,93. Goddard, John, 96, 99, loi, 176. Gooding, Ehzabeth, 270. Goold, Benjamin, 214. Gordon, Mrs., 168. Gorson, Joseph, 213. Gould [Goold], Moriah, 14, 16. Gould, Phineas, 298, 299. Gould, Simeon, 82, 140. Governor Sullivan Place, the, 229. Gowing [Gowin], Joseph, 46, 208. Gragg, Mrs. Elizabeth, 66. Gragg, Jacob, 123, 158, 159. Gragg, Jacob, Jr., 183. Gragg, John, 2g, 66, 77, 117, 152, 154, 15s, 158. Gragg [Gregg], John, Jr., 82, gz, g3, 94, 95, 140, 170. Gragg, Mr., 248. Gragg, Sergt. Samuel, 28, 77, 152, 154, 160, 183, 264. Gragg, Rev. William, 264. Grant, Joseph, 206. " Grape-vine telegraph," the, 4. Graves, John, 19, 118, 183. Graves [Graues], Wilham, 53, 55, 57, 58. Great Britain, 295. Great Road, the, 301. Green, Abigail, 27. Ind ex 325 Green, Benjamin, 28, 41. Green, Eleazer, 21, 24, 84, 85, 96, 117, 149. 183, 209. Green, Eleazer, Jr., 20, 96, 99, 102, 176. Green, James, 26. Green, Mary, 26. Green, Oliver, 54, 56, 58. Green, Samuel, 21, 24, Green, Dr. Samuel A., remarks on Col. William Prescott, 227 ; 292, 294. Green, Simeon, 21, 24. Green, Simon, 36. Green, WiUiam, 37. Green, Adj. WiUiam, 15. Greenfield (Mass.), 146. Greenock (Scotland), 142. Gridley, Hon. Richard, 49. Grimes, Elizabeth, 51. Grimes, Moses, 213. Groton (Mass.), minute-men in, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 ; Capt. Farwell's company, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 ; Capt. Lawrence's, 18- 26 ; Capt. Sartell's, 28-30 ; Capt. Saw tell's, 31-33 ; closely identified with Pepperell, 33; Capt. Nutting's com pany, 33-37 ; Capt. Haskell's, 30-42 ; Capt. Moors's, 42, 47 ; Capt. Long- ley's, 47, 48 ; Capt. Child's, 48 ; Capt. Coburn's,48 ; Capt. Corey's, 49, 213 ; Capt. Foster's, 49 ; Capt. Gilbert's, 50; Capt. Parker's, 50; Capt. Wy- man's. 51 ; Capt. Fitch's, 52-58 ; Capt. Shattuck's, 68-70; Capt. La- kin's, 71-76; Capt. Brown's, 76; Capt. Warren's, 77 ; Capt. Minot's, 79; Capt. Lyman's, 80; Capt. Hart- weU's, 80 ; Capt. White's, 81 ; alpha betical list of three-years' men, 81 ; list of nine-months' men, 84, 85 ; Capt. Barnes' company, 86 ; list of six-months' men, 90-96 ; return of three-years' men, 97 ; Hosmer's Book No. I, 99; classes of soldiers, 100- 108 ; extracts from the town records, 109-112; revolutionary papers, 113- 180 ; First Parish Meeting-house and Common, 116; the Shays Rebellion, 181, 271-277 ; revolutionary items, 189; the Tea Tax, igi ; Rev. Samuel Dana, ig5; Rev. Samuel Webster's Sermon, ig7 ; at Bunker Hill, 198-203 ; petitions and accounts, 204 ; the poor of Boston proportioned to, 206 ; coat rolls, 207 ; Major Samuel Lawrence, 214; testimony given by men of, 217; survivors of the Battle of Bun ker Hill in 1825, 220 ; Dr. Nehemiah Abbot, 221 ; Lieut. Amaziah Fasset, 221 ; Capt. Samuel Tarbell, 223 ; the Lawrence Farm, 225; Col. William Prescott, 227 ; the Prescott Monu ment, 228 ; Capt. Asa Lawrence, 229 ; miscellaneous items, 230; Daniel Farnsworth, 243 ; Dr. Samuel Gel ston, 244 ; Capt. John WiUiams, 246; William Nutting's Diary, 247 ; Moses Child, 249 ; Capt. Abraham Childs, 251 ; a singular petition, 254 ; an ex ception, 255; absentees, 256; out laws, 257; Capt. William Scott, 258; soldiers living in Maine, 260 ; Sons of the Revolution, 260; Revolution ary pensioners, 261 ; a shire town during the Revolution, 264; census of 1790, 267 ; some civil officers dur ing the Revolution, 267 ; a Revolu tionary surgeon, 26S ; an interesting map, 269; Thomas Sackville Tufton, 270 ; soldiers' epitaphs, 279 ; obituary records, 281 ; two soldiers in the expe dition against Carthagena, 295 ; artil lery company, 296 ; the South Mili tary Company, 297 ; 1 naval hero, 300 ; military matters, 301 ; Camp Stevens at, 303-306 ; roll of honor, 306-312; echo of the Spanish War, 312. Groton, u Shire Town during the Revo lution, 264. Groton Academy, the, see Lawrence Academy. Groton Artillery Company, 296, 301, 302. Groton church records, g. Groton companies, the, in the Revolu tion, i; muster-rolls, 11, 13, 15, 18. " Groton during the Shays Rebellion," 276. Groton Gore (N. H.), 26g, 281. " Groton Historical Series," the, i, 52, i8g, 247, 262, 276, 285. Groton Historical Society, the, 52. 326 Index Groton Junction, 304, 305. " Groton Landmark," the, 305. Groton Military Matters, 301. Groton Ministerial Fund, the, 27. Groton minute-men, the, 2gr. Groton School, the, 42. Groton Soldiers living in Maine, 260. Grout, Colonel, 204. H. Hacket, Daniel, 26. Hadley (Mass.), 49, 278. Hager, Lieut. Isaac, 241. Hail, Joseph, 40. Hale, Asa, 68. Halifax (N. S.), 199, 200, 252. " Halifax Gazette," the, 190. Hall, Daniel, 74. Hall, Edmund P., 309. Hall, Isaac, 2gg. Hall, Isaiah, 282. Hall, John, 26. Hall, Joseph, 32. Hall's paper, 266. Hamblet, Jonathan, 53, 56, 57, 58. Hamlin, Seth, 173. " Hampshire Gazette," the, 283. Hampton (N. H.), 240. Hancock, John, 169, 226, 288, 289, 290, 293' Harrington, Thadeus, 40. Harris, Amos, 298. Harris, Ebenezer, 30. Harris, Robert, 195. Hart, Daniel, 2g8. Hart, Elias, 2g8. Hart, Surg. John, 15. Hartwell, James A. [Adam J.], 309. Hartwell, Jeffery, 26. Hartwell, Capt. John, 80; muster-roll of his company, 80. Hartwell, Jonathan, 68. Hartwell, Mary, 153, 157, 161, 166. Hartwell, Oliver, 105, 183, 260. Hartwell, Samuel, 66, 183, 242. Hartwell, Sarah, 66. Hartwell, Sarah (Holden), 66. Harvard (Mass.), 39, 44, 46, 183, 220. Harvard College, 196, 240, 264, 268, 268, 269, 294, 304. Haseltine, Jonas, 54, 56, 57, 58. Haseltine [Hasseltine], Thomas, 54, 56, 57, 58- HaskeU, Charity (Pratt), 39. Haskell, Captain Henry, 38; muster- roll of his company, 40-42 ; 65, 67, 173- Haskell [HarseU], Jasen, 44, 46. Haskell, John, 42. HaskeU, Martha (Little), 39. HaskeU, Rebecka (Willard), 39. Hastings, Jonathan, 69. Haverhill (Mass.), 252. Hawley (Mass.), 282, 283. Hay, John, 123. Hay, Richard, 53, 56, 57. Hayes, Cuff, 213. Haynes, George D., [H.], 309. Hayward, Mr., 204. Haywood [Haward, Heywood], Daniel, 54, 56, 57, 58, 61. Haywood [Heywood], Nathaniel, 55, 56, 58- Hazel Grove, 9. Hazeltine, James, 26. Hazen [Hazin, Hazon], Benjamin, 28, 41.53,56, 58, "8, 254,300. Hazen, Benjamin, Jr., 300. Hazen [Hason], David, 21, 24, 210, 254. Hazen, John, 28, 118, 254. Hazen, Josiah, 2g8. Hazen, Luther, 300. Hazen, Lydia (Woods), 300. Hazzard, Adrastus, 309. Heald, Lieut. Samuel, 241. Hemenway, Daniel P., 306, Hemenway, Joseph, 298, Hemenway [Hemmingway, Heming way, Haminway], Phineas, n, 43, 46, 78, 118, 207. Heminway [Hemanway, Hemingway], Samuel, n, 70, 108, Henckes, James, 206. Herick, Joseph, 119, Higginson, Col. Thomas W,, 193, High Street, 116, 301, Hildreth, Abel, 69, Hildreth [HUdrick], Abijah, 14, 17, Ind Hildreth [Hildrick], Oliver, 14, 16 HiU, Aaron, 127. HiU, Alpheus, 26, Hill, Ebenezer, 44, 46. " Historical Collections," Barber's, 116, " Historical Sketches of Andover," Bailey's, 8. "History of the Battle of Bunker's HiU," Ellis's, 5, " History of Billerica," Hazen's, 201, " History of the Fight at Concord," Ripley's, 289, " History of Gardner," Glazier's, 202. " History of Groton," Butler's, 9. " History of Mason " (N. H.), HiU's, 223. " History of Middlesex County," Hurd's, 201. " History of our Navy," Spears's, 300. " History of Newton," Jackson's, 272. "History of Peterborough" (N. H.), Smith's, 259. " History of the Siege of Boston," Frothingham's, 205, 221. " History of Temple " (N. H.), Blood's, 249. " History of Western Massachusetts," Holland's, 202. " History of Woodstock, Vermont," Dana's, 281. Hoar, Colonel, 252. Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 269. Hoar, Joseph, 231. Hoar, Oliver, 195. Hoar, Hon. Samuel, 269. Hobart, Israel, 106, 126, 179, 182, 183. Hobart, Jeremiah, 21, 24, 209. Hobart [Hubbart], Josiah, 18, 103, 117, 151,155,158. Hobart, Nehemiah, 120. Hobart, Simon, 22, 24, 199, 210. Hobart [Hubburd], Thomas, 153, 154, '57- Hodgskin, Samuel, 185. Hoit, Elisha, 20, 21, 22, 23, 68, 82, ng, 129, 139, 209. Holden, Abel, 2gg. Holden, Edmund, g6, 99, 103, 108, 177. Holden, Isaac, 26. Holden, Lieut. Nathaniel, 242. ex 327 Holden, Nehemiah, 117, 119, 130, 147, 149, 152, 15s. 158, 159, 161. Holden [Holdin], Richard, 68, 78, 82, 91. 93. 94. 95. 129. 130. 139. 170. 172. Holden, Sarah, 66. Holdin, CorpU. Simon, 68. Holdin, Amos, 40. Holdin, Jabez, 33. HoUis (N. H.), 41, 46, 47, 26S. HoUiston (Mass.), 242. Holt, Daniel, Jr., 68. Hoi ten, Samuel, 29. Holyoke (Mass.), 312. Hooy, Peter, 167. Hopkinton (Mass.), 242. Horse Neck (Conn.), 243. Hosley, Capt. James, 6, 7, 10, 69. Hosly, Timothy, 120. Hosmer, Maj. Joseph, 87, 93, gS, 162, 163, i6g, 233. Hosmer's Book, No. i, gg. House, Charles J., 260. Houye, Patrick, 141. Hovey, Capt. Thomas, 87 ; pay-roll of his company, 87-go. Howard, John, 25g. Hubart, Joel, 40. Hubbard, Caleb, 32. Hubbard, Hezekiah, 31. Hubbard, Levi, 32. Hubbard, Nathan, Jr., 298. Hubbard [Hobbart, Hubburd], Phin eas, IT, 13, 16, 164, 209. Hubbard, Thomas, 31. Hubburd [Hubbart, Hubart], Nathan, 129, 150, 153, 154, 157, 163. Hudson, Benjamin, 41, 68. Hudson, Darius, 36, 213. Hugh, John, 28, ng. Hughs, John, ng. Hull (Mass.), 77, 177. HuU, Prince, 213. HuU, Major WiUiam, 253, 283. Humphreys, Noah, 298. Hunt, Joseph, 242. Hunt, Sergt, Peter, 26. Hunt, Capt. Simon, 53, 55, 56, 58, 241. Hunt, Simon, Jr., 58. Hunt's, 146. 328 Ind I. " Independent Chronicle : and the Universal Advertiser," the [Bos ton], 221, 255, 257, 271, 297. Independent Company of Cadets, the, 275. Indians, the, 2, 3, 283. lngals, Mr,, 200. Insley, Daniel, 123. *' Insurgents, The^' 276. Interesting Map, An, 269. Ireland, Abraham, 43, 212, 213. Ireland [Irland], Abraham, Jr., 46, 212. Iris, The, 281. J- Jackson, Ephraim, 76. Jackson, Francis, 272. Jacobs, Charles, 301. Jacobs, John, 43, 46. Jacquith, Charles H., 309. Jaffrey (N. H.), 36. Jamaica (Vt.), 203. James River, 281. James's Brook, 301. Jammeson [Jemmson], Allexander, 141, 142. Jarvis, Dr. Edward, 305. Jeffries, David, 76. Jenkins [Jinkins], David, 11, 14, 17, 73, 74, "8, I4S> 208. Jenkins [Jenkens, Jinkings, Jinkins], Joel, n, 13, 16, 82, ng, 130, I3g, 208. Jenkins [Jinkins], Jonathan, n, 15,17, "9, 147, 199,208. Jenkins, Lydia, 263. Jenkins [Genkins, Ginkins, Jinkins, Jenkings|, Obadiah, n, 17, 68, 76, 77, n8, 120, 147. 148, 151, 154, 155, 156, i6r, 209. Jenkins, Obadiah, Jr., 11. Jewel, Samuel, 53, 56, 58. Jewett, Aaron, 195, 299. Jewett, Anna, 263. Jewett, Benjamin, 21, 24. Jewett, David, 35. Jinneson, Asa, 299. Johnson, Josiah, 20, 37. ex Johnson, Widow, 206. Johnston, Jonah, 73, 75. Johnston, W^illiam, 166, 167. Jones, Capt. Ephraim, 65. Jones, James, 69. Jones, Capt. William, 252. " Journal of a Cruise made to the Pa cific Ocean," Porter's, 300. "Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775. and of the Committee of Safety," the, 231. Jupp, John, 40. K. Kaldor, Elexander, 150. Kaldor, Mrs, Elexander, 150. Karr, James, 26, Keene (N, H.), 145. Keenin [Kneein, Keening], Michael, 82, 131, Keep, Jonathan, 105. Kemp, Abel, 79. Kemp, Asa, 87, 88, 89, 183, 250. Kemp, Calvin, 140. Kemp, David, 33, 50, 59, 199, 200, 204, 205, 212. Kemp, David, Jr., 204, 212. Kemp [Keemp], Dudley, 17, 49. Kemp [Keemp], Ebenezer, 12, 14, 17, 208, 263. Kemp, Ebenezer, Jr., 118. Kemp, Ephraim, 12, 108, 183. Kemp, Hannah, 263. Kemp, Hezekiah, 68, 151, 154, 155, 156, 160. Kemp, Joel, 183. Kemp, John, 298. Kemp, Jonas, 87, 88, 89. Kemp [Keemp], Joseph, 44, 46, i8i, .83. Kemp, Mary, 263. Kemp, Oliver, 183. Kemp [Keemp], Phineas, 44, 46, 82, 207. Kemp, Samuel, I2, 41, Kemp, Samuel, Jr,, 54, 56, 57, 108, 118. Kemp, Simeon, gi, 93, 95, 107, 140, 1S2, Kemp, Stephen, 299, Index 329 Kemp [Keemp, Kimp], Sergt. WUliam, 12, 72, 74, 78, 82, 130, 131, 139, 145. Kendall, James, 298, 299. Kendall, Leander S., 309. Kendall, Ruben, 40. Kendrick, Abigail (Bowen), 280. Kendrick, Capt. Caleb, 280. Kent, Abner, 26. Kent, Abner, Jr., 54, 56, 57, 58. Kent, Ebenezer, 90. Kezar [Kezer], Daniel, 44, 46, 83. Kidder, Isaac, 14, 17. Kidder, Capt. Solomon, 242. Kilburn [Killburn], John, 21, 24, 31, 2og. Kimball, Captain, 200, 264. Kimball, Lieut. Daniel, 242. Kimball, George, 213. King, Abigail, 18. King, Leander G., 309. King, Lieut. Zebulon, 92. Lafayette, General, 217. Lagros, Francis, 53, 56, 58. Lakin, Abel, 73, 75, 145, 182, Lakin, Ambrus, 36, 38, 73, 75, 119, 145, Lakin, David, 29, 41, 54, 56, 57, 58, 119, 183, 261, 263. Lakin, Elizabeth, 66, Lakin, Elizabeth (Williams), 71. Lakin, Gabriel, 78, 87. Lakin, James, 35, 71. Lakin, John, 51, 263. Lakin, Joseph, 96, 97, 177. Lakin, Josiah, 21, 24, 164, 165, 210. Lakin, Lydia (Parker), 51, 263. Lakin, Miriam, 66. Lakin, Captain Nathaniel, 35, 71 ; mus ter-rolls of his company, 72, 76. Lakin [Laken], Oliver, 28, 49, 78, 96, "7, 213. Lakin, Oliver, Jr., 96, 104, 176. Lakin, Robinson, 36, 72, 74, 108, 282. Lakin, Sibyl, 51. Lakin, .Sibyl (Parker), 71. Lakin, Simeon, go, g3, 94, 95, 170, Lakin, Simon, 21, 24, Lakin, William, 66. Lamb, Abijah, 81. Lampson, Amos, Jr., 298. Lampson, Ebenezer, 298. Lamson, Esther, 121, 163. Lancaster (Mass.), 39, 59, 264, 303. Lash, Richard, 167. Lasley, William, 44, 46. Laughton, Ebenezer, 37. Laughton, John, 12, 54, 56, 57, 58, 118. Law, William, Jr., 310. Lawrance, Lieut. James, 28, 242. Lawrance, Corp. Joseph, 53, 55, 57. Lawrance, Nathaniel, 41. Lawrence, Abbott, 203, 221. Lawrence, Abigail (Abbot), 221. Lawrence [Lawrance], Capt. Amos, 31, no, ng, I4g, 153, 157, 215, 221, 225, 226, 22g, Lawrence [Lawrance], Lieut, Amos, Jr-, 133, 153, 154, 157, 163, 169, 178, Lawrence, Anna, 165, Lawrence [Lawrance], Captain Asa, 5, 6, 18 ; muster-rolls of his company, 18-21, 26; return of his company, 23-26; 59, 136, 137, 145, 146, 152, 155, 158, 184, 204, 205, 209, 211, 229, 230, 247, 249, 258, 279, Lawrence [Lawrance], Lieut, Benja min, 28, 79, 80, 152, 154, 155, 158, 160. Lawrence [Lawrance], Benjamin, Jr., 118, 134. Lawrence, Dr. Ebenezer, 239, 240. Lawrence, Ephraim, 239, 240. Lawrence, Isaac, 28, 118. Lawrence, Isaac, Jr., 87. Lawrence, Joel F., 310. Lawrence, John, 28, 118, ng, 215. Lawrence [Lawrance], Jonathan, 12, no, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 160. Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr., 12. Lawrence, Joshua, 36. Lawrence [Lawrance], Levi, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, ^70, 172, 173- Lawrence, Luther, 297, 299. Lawrence, Mrs. Luther, 280. Lawrence, Martin, 36. Lawrence [Lawrance], Nehemiah, n, 77. 153, '54, 161. Lawrence, Peleg, 18, 229, 240. 330 Ind ex Lawrence [Lawrance], Roger, 86, 92, 93. 94. 95. 170. 172. Lawrance, Roland, 79, 80. Lawrence, Ruth (Brooks), 18, 240. Lawrence, Salmon, 183. Lawrence [Lawrance'], Major Samuel, n, 12, 13, i6, 71, 72, 74, 76, 108, 153, 154. 157, 161, 203, 2og, 214-217, 2ig, 220, 221, 226. Lawrence, Susanna, 72, 205. Lawrence, Susanna (Parker), 2i6, 222. Lawrence, Thomas, 22, 24, 35. Lawrence, Thomas, Jr., 36. Lawrence [Lawrance], William, 184, 299. , Lawrence Academy, 216, 277, 301. " Lawrence Academy, the Jubilee of," 9. Lawrence Farm, the, 225. Lawrence University, 305. Lawrence's Company, Capt. Asa, 24. Leach, John, Journal kept by, 45. Lee, Francis, 36. Leominster (Mass.), 206, 303, 312. Leonard, Charles H., 310. Leslie, Colonel, 291. Lewis, Abijah, 213. Lewis, Ebeneazar, 41. Lewis, Maj. James, 262, 282, 302. Lewis, Jonathan, 21, 24, 40, 68. Lewis, Jonathan Clark, in, 152, 158, 160, 225, 235, 236, 249. Lewis, Merrick, 261, 262. Lewis, Mrs., 154. Lexington (Mass.), 3, 4, 5, 215, 241, 247, 285, 287, 288, 289, 292, 293. Lexington Battle, the, in, 230, 252. Libbie & Co., C. F., 108. Limerick (N. H.), 7. Lincoln, B., 76. Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, 273, 278. Lincoln (Mass.), 80, 241, 242, 291, 293, 294. Lisbon (Me.), 260. Litchfield (N. Y.), 43, 46, 259. Little, Martha, 39. Little, Thomas, 42. Little, Wallis, 40. Little Pond, 257. Ijttleton (Mass.), 18, 50, 51, 67, 195, 206, 242, 267, 296. Livermore, Nathaniel, 251. Lock, James, 41, 68. Lock, John, 26, 41. Lockwood, Ralph IngersoU, 276. Long Island, 252. Longley, Asa, 8z, 132, 139, 260. Longley, Betsey, 260. Longley, Edmund, 283. Longley, Jemima, 169, Longley, John, 283. Longley, Joseph, 283. Longley, Joseph, Jr., 282, 283. Longley, Lydia, 263. Longley, Mary (Walker), 283. Longley, Capt. Robert, 47 ; muster-roll of his company, 47 ; return of his company, 48. Longley, William, 282. Longley, Zachariah, 15, 31, 132, 139, 157, 260. Longley, Zachariah, Jr., 132, 139. Longley, Zachias, 44, 46, 82, 207, 209. Longley, Zachias, Jr., 82. Longwood (Mass.), 208. Lookout Valley (Tenn.), 308. " Lord Howe," the, 142. Loring, Daniel, 242. Loring, Seth, 71, 77. Lossing, Benjamin J., 190. Lothrop, Rev. Samuel K., D.D., 276. Louisburg (Cape Breton), 42. Lovejoy, Abner, 73, 75. Lovejoy, PhiUp, 68, 73, 75. Lovejoy [Louejoy], Samuel, 21, 24,73,75. Lovell, Colonel, 42. Lovell, James, 200. Lowell, Ebenezer, 31. Lowell, John, 30, 47. Lowell (Mass.), 10, 267, 302. LoweU Road, the, 18. Lund, Margaret, 65. Lunenburg (Mass.), 36, 39, 43, 44, 46, 206, 212, 249, 272. Lyman, Josiah, 49. Lyman, Capt. Oliver, 80 ; muster-roll of his company, 80. M. McCluer [McCluen], William, 43, 46. McConnen, Corp. James, 70. Ind ex 331 McCormack, Robert, 44, 46. Macentire [Makintire, Mackentire], Elias, 55, 56, 57, 58. McFarling, Joseph, 213. McGee, John, i68. M'Intosh, Archibald, 59. Mack, James, 44, 46. McKinsey, Dougel, 141. McKenzy, Ducal, 167. McNeU [McNeal, McNeill, McNeel], Henry, 14, 17, 82, 133, 139, 208. Macy, James, 83. Magee, John, 140. Maine, Groton soldiers living in, 260. " Maine Historical and Genealo'j,ical Recorder," the, 268. Maine Historical Society, the, 249. Maiden (Mass.), 64, 65, 222, 241. Manassas (Va.), 308. Manning, John, 14, 17. Manning, William, 41. Marblehead (Mass.), 142, 193. March, Sergt. Samuel, 68. Marlborough (Mass.), 61, 86, 241, 261, 267. Marr [Marrs], James, 140, 173. Marrett, Edward, 127, 131. Marshall, Colonel, 77. Marsten, George, 275. Martha's Vineyard, 203, 244. Martin, William, 256. Martindale, Captain, 200. Mason, Capt. John, 270. Mason (N. H.), 16, 197, 223, 270. Mason, Thaddeus, 265. Massachusetts Archives, the, Revolu tionary papers of, i, 10, 13. 15, 17, 20, 23. 24, 3°. 32, 33, 37, 38, 42, 44. 47. 48. 49. SO. S", 64. 65, 67, 69, 71, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, IOI, 106, 107, 200, 202, 207, 214, 225, 226, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238. 239, 273, 274, 275, 295. Massachusetts Historical Society, the, " Collections " of, 193, 303. " Pro ceedings " of, 198, 200, 227, 229, 246, 254, 269, 272, 294. Massachusetts House of Representa tives, the, Journal of, 200, 204, 205. " Massachusetts in the Army and Navy," 308. Massachusetts Line, the, 39. " Massachusetts Register," the, 297. " Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," i. " Massachusetts Spy," the, 283. Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, the, 302. Maxfield, Captain, 202. Mead, Sergt. Abijah, 53, 56, 58. Mead, Thomas, 298. Medford (Mass.), 241, 252. "Memorials of the Descendants of Wil liam Shattuck," 276. Menotomy (Mass.), 289, 290. Merium, Abraham, 26. .Merrimack (N. H.), 43, 44, 46, 83. Mers, Peter, 206. Metcalf, Jonathan, 64, 76. Metcalf, Justice, 86. Methuen (Mass.), 25. Michel, Aljner, 36. Middlesex County, 2. Middlesex Militia, the, 240. Middlesex Probate Office, the, 9. Middlesex Regiment, the, 3. Military Warrant, 296. Militia, the Colonial, 4. Militia, the Provincial, 4. Minot, Capt. John, 78 ; pay-roll of his company, 79 ; muster-roll of his com pany, 80. Minute-men, 2, 3, 4, 18. Miscellaneous Items, 230. " Missionary Herald," the, 283. Mitchel, Francis, 68. Mitchel, Samuel, 82. MitcheU, Captain, 225. Mixer, Timothy, 140. Monmouth (N. J.), 253. Montreal (Canada), 252. Moore, John, 184. Moore, S., 86. Moors, Abraham, 42, 68, 179. Moors [Moores, Moorse, Mors, Morse], Benjamin, 92, 93, 94, 95, 170, 172, 174, 185,301. Moors, David, 182. Moors, Elizabeth (Gilson), 42. Moors, Captain foseph, 6, 41, 42 ; muster- 332 Index roll of his company, 43-44 ; return of his company, 46; 68, 78, 83, 106, 126, 134.143. 150. 153, '54, 157, 159, 160, 163, 164, 165, 166, 171, 179, 205, 207, 208,211,212, 213,278. Moors [Moor], Joseph, Jr., 43, 46, 87, 141, 207. Moors, Lucy (Stone), 43. Moors, Rufus, 298. Moors, Sarah (Ward), 43. Moors, Timothy, 12, 14, 17, 41, 119, '53. '54, 157, 209. Morse, Abel, 184, 298. Morse, Miriam, 43. Morse, Samuel, 185. Morton, Perez, 13, 15, 20, 23, 32, 33, 37, 44, 67, 223, 224. Moscow (Me.), 260. Mosher, Abijah, 35. Mosher, Daniel, 36. Mosher, James, 36. Mosher, Lieut. John, 35, 159. Moshure [Moshuer], Josiah, 73, 75. Mount Hope (N. Y.), 55. Moyland, Major, 49. Myrifield (Rowe, Mass.), 202. N. " Names of Soldiers of the American Revolution who applied for State Bounty," House's, 260. Nantasket (Mass.), 264. Nantucket (Mass.), 244, 246. Nash, Ephraim, 18, 54, 56, 57, 58. Nashua River, the, 52, 240, 303. Natick (Mass.), 43, 242. A'aval Hero, A, 300. Newall, Oliver, 35. Newbern (N. C), the Battle of, 304. New Braintree (Mass.), 203. Newburyport (Mass.), 206, 245. " New Chapter in the History of the Concord Fight," Wheildon's, 5, 231, 285-294. Newell, Josiah, 35. "New England Chronicle," the, 45, 59, 195, 196. " New England Historical and Genea logical Register," the, 45, 201, 284. New England Historic-Genealogical Society, the, 240. Newhall, Lieut. Col. Ezra, 174, 175, 176. New Ipswich (N. H.), 22, 36, 44, 46, 197. New London (Conn.), 216. Newman, Timothy H., 299. New Marlborough (N. H.), 145. New Orleans (La.), 304, 308, 309, 311. Newport (R.L), 245. Newton, Captain, 230. Newton (Mass.), 241, 263, 267, 272, 280. New Windsor (N. Y.), 262. " New York Genealogical and Bio graphical Record," the, 246. " New York Grenadiers," 269. New York Public Library, the, 278. New York State, 120, i66. Nicholas, John, 41. Nichols, Corp. Thomas, 72, 74. Nissitissett River, the, 34. A^on-Associators' Advertisement, in. Norfolk (Va.), 297. Norridgewock (Me.), 260. North Bridge, Concord, the, 5, 285, 286. North Carolina, 304. North Church, Boston, the, 293. North Company, the, 297. Northfield (Mass.), 146. Northampton (Mass.), 80. North Kingston (R. I.), 74. Nova Scotia, 65, 250, Nutting, Abel, 22, 24, 209, 260, Nutting, Abijah, 182, 298. Nutting, Sergt, Benjamin, 35, 70, Nutting, Daniel, 220, Nutting, Ebenezer, 36, Nutting, Elijah, 96, 99, 102, 176, Nutting, Ephraim, 22, 24, 209. Nutting, Ezekiel, 20, 22, 24, 29, 209, 254. Nutting, Ezekiel, Jr., 119, 254. Nutting, Isaac, ig, 262. Nutting, Isaac, Jr., 117. Nutting, Jacob, 261, 262. Nutting, Jane (Boynton), 247. Nutting, Capt. John, 33; muster-roll of his company, 35, 37 ; return of his company, 38; 99, 138, 202, 271, 272, 282. Nutting, John, Jr., 28. Nutting, Jonathan, 19, 117, 298. Index Nutting, Joseph, 82. Nutting, Josiah, 35. Nutting, Lydia (Nutting), 262. Nutting, Martha (Blood), 34. Nutting, Moses, 298. Nutting, Phinehas, 2g8. Nutting, Rhoda, 260. Nutting, Samuel, 36. Nutting, Mrs. Sarah (Wetherbee), 262. Nutting [Nuting], Simeon, 108. Nutting [Nuting], William, ig, 117, 151, 154, 156, 160, 247. Nutting, Lieut. WUliam, 247. Nuttings Diary, William, 247. 333 o. Obituary Records, 281. O'Connor, Timothy, 310. "Official Army Register," the, 311. Orrington (Me.), 260. Osborn, Oliver B., 310. Osgood, Joseph, 56, 57. Oshkosh (Wis.), 305. Outlaws, lyj. P. Packersfield (N. H.), 36. Page, Benjamin, 12, 151, 154, 155, 156,165. Page, Benjamin, Jr., 2g9. Page, Daniel, 44, 46. Page, Corp. Joseph, 12, 13, 16, 70, 85, 141, 208. Page, SUas, 11, 41. Page, Simon, Jr., 298. Paine, Elijah, 298. Paine, Hon. Robert Treat, 224. Paine, Sergt. Samuel, 298. " Panoplist," the, 283. Parham, Ezekiel, 68. Park [Parke], John, 153, 154, 157, 160, 180, 298. Park, John, Jr., 141, 184. Park, Joseph, 184. Park [Parks], Thomas, 180. Park [Parks], WiUiam, 31, 33, 180. Park, William, Jr., 180. Parker, Sergt. Abel, 36, 49, 70, 213. Parker, Abial, 49, 213. Parker, Abijah, 36. Parker, Andrew Johnson, 260. Parker, Azubah (Farnsworth), 262, 279. Parker, Benjamin, 19, 49, 82, 117, 139, 183, 214. Parker, Chester, 214. Parker, Deborah, 284. Parker, Eleazer, 22, 24, 140, 209. Parker, Ephraim, 25, 180, 262, 279. Parker, Jabez, 29g. Parker, Jacob, 28, 254. Parker, Jacob Lakin, 118. Parker, Sergt. James, 68. Parker, Jerome S , 310. Parker, John, 12, 4g, 117, 140, 213. Parker, Capt. Jonas, 166, 167. Palmer, Joseph, 244, 27g. Parker, Capt. Joshua, 50 ; return of his company, 50; g6, gg, 105, 176, 182, 200, 220, 260, 261, 262, 283, 2g5. Parker, Lemuel, 20, 21, 23, 68, 70, 72, 73. 74, 75, 140, 141, '45,152, 155, 160, 2og. Parker, Corp. Lemuel, Jr., 21, 22, 140, 141, 209. Parker, Levi, 21, 23, 29, 117, 140, 254. Parker, Louy, 209. Parker, Lydia, 51, 263. Parker, Lieut. Colonel Moses, 59. Parker, Nathaniel, 35. Parker, Nehemiah, 22, 24, 31, 68, 118, 209, 279. Parker, Lieut. Oliver, 19, 20, 21, 23 117, 185, 210, 211, 212. Parker, Peter, 26. Parker, Phineas, 19, 41, n7' Parker, Robert, 20, 22, 49, 87, 199, 210, 213. Parker, Robert, Jr., 49. Parker, Samuel, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, 170, 172. Parker, Sibyl, 71. Parker, Susanna, 216, 222. Parker, Lieut. WUliam, 87, 183, 222, 284. Parker, Lieut. Winslow, 29, 36, 118, 297. Parker's, 145. Parley, Abraham, 15. Parlin, Nathan, 136. 334 Index Parole and Countersign, 198. Partridge, Samuel, 195. Patch, Corp. Benjamin, ig, 26, 79. Patch, Benjamin, Jr., 117. Patch, Ebenezer, 119, 279. Patch, Elizabeth (Avery), 263. Patch, Corp. Isaac, 40, 68, 261, 263. Patch, Isaac, 263. Patch, Jacob, 28, 78. Patch, Oliver, 19, 210. Patch, Phebe (Fletcher), 263. Patch, Sarah, 279. Patch, Simon, 279. Patch, Sophronia, 263. Patch, Widow, 154. Patt, James, 42. Patt [Patts], Jonathan, 14, 17, 73, 75. Patterson, Mrs., 206. Pearce [Peirce, Pierce], John, 31, 48, 84, 85, 96, 99, 102, 117, 133, 176. Pearce, Lieut. Colonel, 86. Peekskill (N. Y.), 25. Peerce, Edmund, 37. Peirce, Benjamin, 22, 24, 82, 133, 139, 210. Peirce, George, 249. Peirce, Jonathan, 19. Peirce, Solomon, 40. Pemberton, Samuel, 256. Penobscot (Me.), 239. PeppereU (Mass.), 15, 21, 22, 23, 31, 52 ; closely identified with Groton, 33 ; Capt. Nutting's company, 35-37 ; 38, 40, 41, 45, 51, 59, 67, 70, 71, 82, 120, 126, 215, 218, 220, 234, 239, 240, 242, 250, 267, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 282. PeppereU minute-men, 34 Perham, Henry S., 201. Perham, John, 73, 75. Perham, Oliver, 26. Perham, Peter, 36. Perry, Obadiah, 220. Peterborough [Petersborough] (N. H.), 42, 44, 46, 81, 82, 199. Peterborough and Shirley Railroad, the, 303- Petitions and Accounts, 204. PettengiU, Mrs. Caroline J. Farwell, 10. Pettengill, Henry Emmons, 10. Phelps, Sergt. Robert, 59. Phelps, WUliam, 12. Philadelphia (Penn.), 258. Philippine Islands, the, 312. Philip's War, 3. Phillips, Isaac, 82, 140. Phillips, Jonas, 299. Phillis Pomp, 25, 26. Phips, Charles, 68. Phips, Samuel, 299. "Pictorial Field Book of the Revolu tion," Lossing's, 190. Pieart [Peirt], James, 82, 134. Pierce, Charles H., 310. Pierce, Lieut. Silas, 36, 70. Pierce, Solomon, 68. Pingrey, Anna (Jewett), 263. Pingrey, John, 261,263. Pingrey, Stephen, 263. Pingrey, Stephen, Jr., 261, 263. Piper, Walter, 206. Piper, Walter, Jr., 206. Pitcairn, Major John, 200, 201. Plymouth (N. H.), 44, 46. Pollard, Asa, 201, 202. Poor, Colonel, 25, 26. Poor of Boston, the, 205. Popkin, John, 106. Porter, Corp. Asa, ig, 22, 24, 28, 77, 80, 118, 209, 254. Porter, Capt. David, 213, 300. Porter [Portor], Ezekiel, 86, 90, 93, 94, 95. 96. 99. '04, 170, 176. Porter, Ezra, 26. Porter, Ezra, Jr., 26. Porter, Joel, ig, 22, 24, 26, 28, 118, 2og. " Port-Folio," the, 217. Portland (Me.), 249. Port Hudson (La.), 308, 311. Portsmouth (N. H.), 270, Post-offices, 243, Poivder Mill at Pepperell, 234. Powell, Jeremiah, 226. Powers, Isaac, 26. Pratt, Charity, 39. Pratt, Thomas, 171. Prentiss, Jonathan, 264. Prescott, Abel, 261. Prescott, Lieut. Abijah, 105, 2n, 297. Prescott, Sergt. Benjamin, ig, 47, 117, 198, 205, 211. Prescott, Charles, 261. Prescott, David, 20, 22, 24, 183, 209. Ind Prescott, Ezra, 7g. Prescott, Hannah (Spalding), 261. Prescott, Col. James, 31, 38,40, 42, 105, no, 125, 127, 144, 148, 151, 152, 156, '57, '91, 192, 196, 198, 200, 202, 203, 205, 211, 212, 224, 226, 227, 234, 235, ^3^> 237. 238, 239, 240, 261, 265, 267, 268. Prescott, Hon. James, Jr., 231. Prescott, Joel, 54, 56, 57, 58. Prescott, Capt. John, 295. Prescott, Capt. Jonas, 261, 303. " Prescott Memorial," the, 205. Prescott Monument, 228. Prescott, Col. Ohver, 4, 33, 94, 95, g7, 107, no, ni, 112, 125, 126, 128, I2g, '30, 131. 134, '37, 144, 148. '49. '50, 156, 159, 162, 166, 167, 168, 178, 185, 192, 194, ig6, 204, 215, 216, 230, 233, 234, 238, 240, 243, 267, 268, 270, 272, 273, 274. 275, 28g. Prescott, Oliver, Jr., 273. Prescott, Phineas Gilman, 234, i6i. Prescott, Rebecca (Buckley), 261. Prescott, Samson, 106, 183. Prescott Square, 228. Prescott, Susanna, 227. Prescott, Susanna (Lawrence), 205, 261. Prescott, Col. William, n, 13, 15, 23, 35, 38, 42. 43. 45, 46, 49, 50. 51. 67, 185, 199, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 218, 219, 220, 227-228, 240, 247, 261, 262, 282, 303. Prescott, WUliam, Esq., 303. Prescott, Dr. WiUiam, 205. Prescoft, WUliam Hickling, 303. Priest, WUliam H., 310. Prince Society, the, 270, Procter [Procktor, Proctor], Charles, 82, 134. Procter, John, 19, Procter, Jonas, 43, 46, 82, 134, 155, Proctor, Cotton, 80, 86. Prospect Hill, Camp at, 48, Providence (R, I.), 178, 243, 248. Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, the First, 3, 4, 6, 59, 60, no, 207, 252, 288. Purkins [Pirkens], Ebenezer, 44, 46, 208, ex 335 Pushee [Pushe, Pushie], John, 26, 54, 56, 58, 220, Putnam, General Israel, 218, 219, 229, Putnam, Col, Rufus, 84, 127, 174, 175, 176, 246, Quebec, 15, 252, Quincy, President Josiah, 203. Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 203. R. Raby (N. H.), 36, 43, 44, 46. Rand, WUliam G., 311. Randall, Eleazer, 203. " Rangers from New Hampshire," 269. Ransom, Calvin, 56, 58. Raymond, Nathan, 258. Raynor, Jacob S., Jr., 311. Read, Col. Jonathan, 70, 71,85, 195,254. Reading (Mass.), 65, 241, 267. Ready, Patrick, 311. Rebellion, the War of the, 301, 303, 306. " Record of the Thirty-third Massachu setts Volunteer Infantry," Boies's, 310. Reed, Sergt. John, 298, 2gg. Reed, Sergt. Samuel, 225, 298. Remington, John, 249. Resolve, passed by the Provincial Con gress, 59-60. Revere, Paul, 238, 288, 290, 292, 2g3. Revolutionary Items, i8g. Revolutionary Papers, 113. Revolutionary Pensioners, 261. Revolutionary Surgeon, A, 268. Rhode Island, the battle of, 216, 22g. Richards, Mitchel, 6g. Richardson, Abel, 14, 17. Richardson, Abiel, 222. Richardson, Alfred A., 311. Richardson, Alpheus, 2g8. Richardson, Andrew, 14, 17. Richardson, Convers, 147, 154, 160, 251. Richardson, Daniel, 2gg. Richardson, Ede, 222. Richardson, Isreal, 14, 17. Richardson, Jephtha, 251. Richardson [Ricardson], Josiah, 14, 17, 209. 33^ Index Richardson, Sarah (Boynton), 222. Richardson, Corp. Zacheus, 53, 55, 57. 58- Rindge [Ringe] (N. H.), 7, 14, 145, 165. Ripley, Dr. Ezra, 289. Robbins [Robins], Ephraim, 12, 14, 17, 70, 118, 208. Robbins [Robins], Ensign John, 67, 68, 69. Robbins, John, Jr., 298. Robbins, Samuel, 69. Roberts's, 146. Robins, Ceser, 55, 56, 57, 58. Robins, Josiah, 73, 75. Robinson, Bradbury, 55, 57. Robinson, Col. John, 15, 68, 72, 74, 76, 203, 289. Roby, Silas, 44, 46. Rockwood, Dr. Ebenezer, 268. Rockwood, Ebenezer, Jr., 269. Rockwood, Lieut. Elisha, no, 154, 155, 158, 222, 268. Rockwood, Elizabeth (Adams), 268. Rockwood, John, 298. Rockwood, Lieut. Joseph, 77, 154, 155, 158, 181, 242, 250, 278. Rockwood, Mary (Emerson), 268. Rockwood, Lieut. Samuel, 12, 68, 153, '54. 155. 157, 297- Rockwood, Mrs. Sarah (ChapUn), 227. Rogers, Lieut. Timothy, 242. Roll of Honor, 306. Rowe, Mrs. Amelia Fitch, 52, 64, 83. Rowe (Mass.), 202. Rowley (Mass.), 263. Rugg, Joseph, 264. Rugg, Mrs. Olive, 264. Rumral [Rumrill], Joseph, 14, 17. Runnel, Peter, 26. Russell, Amos, 296. Russell [Russel], Calvin, 86, 96, 97,99, 177, 260. Russell, Chandler, 106. Russell, Sergt. Ephraim, 12, 14, 17, 72, 74, 135, 136, 137, 150, 209. Russell, Ephraim, Jr., 145, I4g, 153, '54, 157. '64 Russell, Jason, 197. Russell, John, 296. RusseU, Luther, 182. Russell, Nathaniel, 82, 135, 139, 150. RusseU, Peletiah, 7, 14, 17, 208. Russell, Solomon, 82, 136, 139, 182. RusseU, Walte, 123. Rutland (Vt.), 214. St Albans (Me.), 260. St. Coy, 146. St. Lawrence, the Gulf of, 252. Salem (Mass.), 196, 291. SaUsbury (N. C), 307. Saltonstall, Colonel Leverett, 252. Sampson [Samson], Levi, 41, 68. Sanders, James, 152, 154, 155, 158. Sanderson, Gideon, 69. Saratoga (N. Y.), 70. Sargeant, Ezra, 88, 8g, 95, 107. Sargent [Seargent], Capt. Nathan, 64, 65- Sartall, John, 69. SarteU [Sawtell], Lieut. Elnathan, 220, 284, 297. Sartell family, the, 27. Sartell [Seartle, Sawtell], Jonathan, 7, 12, 14; 17, 208. Sartell [Satwell, Sawtell], Captain Jo siah, z6 ; muster-roll of his company, 28-30; 38, 65,67, 76, no, in, 144, 148, 149, 151, 154, 156, 192, 196. Sartell, Mary (Green), 26, 27. SarteU [SartU], Michael, 26, 37. Sartell [Sartwell, SawteU], Sergt. Na thaniel, II, 13, 16,26, 27, 35, 118, 208. Sartell, Samuel, 12. Sartil, Benjamin, 26. Satwell, Rebeck, 154. Saunderson [Sarndersson, Sanderson], Joseph, 35, 54, 56, 57, 58. Savage, Capt. John, 275. Savage, Samuel Phillips, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 265. Sawtell [Sartall], Abel, 6g, 78. Sawtell, Abigail (Farnsworth), 30. Sawtell, Benjamin, 207. Sawtell, Edward D., 311, Sawtell, Ephraim, 30, 263. Sawtell, Hannah (Kemp), 263, Sawtell, Lieut, Hezekiah, 158, Index 337 Sawtell, Captain John, 30 ; muster-roll of his company, 31-33, 38, 46, no, 24g, Sawtell, Jonas, 47, 48. Sawtell, Joseph, 263, SawteU, Joseph, 2d, 261, 263. Sawtell, Joseph, 3d, 298. Sawtell, Lydia (Jenkins), 263. SawteU [Satwell], Richard, 154, 15S, 158, 161, Sawtell family, the, 27. Sawyer, Corp, Ebenezer, 26, Sawyer, Capt. Wesley Caleb, 304, 305. Schouler, Gen. William, 305. Scotch Prisoners, 147, 148, 149, 150, 168. Scott, Sergt. John, 40, 53, 56, 57, 58, 72, 74. 259. Scott, Mary (ChamberUn), 259. Scott, Capt. William, igg, 258, 273, 274. Seaver, Miss EmUy, 214. Senter [Center], John, 55, 56, 57, 58. Sergeant, Lieut. Nathaniel, 241. Seventy-first Regiment of Highlanders, the, 142, 167, 168. Sever, Elisha, 183. Sewall, D., 7g. Sewall, Samuel, 303. Sewall's Point, 208. Shattuck, Abraham, 68. Shattuck, David, 32, 35, 182. Shattuck, Eleazer, 40. Shattuck, Elijah, 35. Shattuck, Elizabeth (Lakin|Gragg), 66. Shattuck, Ezekiel, 183. Shattuck, Isaiah, 32. Shattuck, Jeremiah, 36. Shattuck, Jeremiah, Jr., 37. Shattuck, Captain Job, 28, 40, 65, 66 ; Ijay-roU of his company, 67 -6g ; ab stract muster-roll of his company, 70, 71 ; g4, 95, 152, 154, 15s, 158, 164, 174. 248, 249, 276. Shattuck, Job, Jr., 90, 93, 94, 170. Shattuck, John, 29, 35, 73, 75. Shattuck, Jonas, 37. Shattuck, Joseph, 32. Shattuck, Lemuel, 276. Shattuck, Margaret (Lund), 65. Shattuck, Moses, 31, 41, 120. Shattuck, Nathan, 73, 75. Shattuck [Shaduck], Nathaniel, 22, 24, 117, 209, 254. Shattuck, Noah, 66. Shattuck, OUver, 35. Shattuck, PhUip, 32. Shattuck, Reuben, 32, 120. Shattuck, Sarah (HartweU), 66. Shattuck, William, 65. Shattuck Manuscripts, the, 240. Shaw, Benjamin, 80. Shays Rebellion, the, 34,65, 113, 181,266, 271-277. Shead, David, 29. Shed, Amos, g6, gg, 101, 177, 260. Shed, Daniel, 22, 24, 68, 2og. Shed, Joseph, 21, 23, 183. Shed, Lucy, 260. Shed [Shead], Oliver, 31, 152, 154. 158, 161, 183. Shed, Oliver, Jr., 183. Shed [Shead], WiUiam, 12, 7g, 152, 154, 155, 158. Shelburne (Mass.), 146. Sheple, James, 28. Sheple, John, Jr., 28, 165. Sheple, Jonathan, 35. Sheple, Capt. Joseph, in. Sherburn (Mass.), 242. Sherrin, John, 42. Sherwin, Daniel, 14, 17. Sherwin [Sherrin], Elnathan, 55, 56, 57- Ship Island (Miss.), 302. Shiple, John, 210. Shiple, Jonathan, 2g. Shiple, WUliam, 2g9. Shipley [Sheple], Capt. Benjamin, 152, 154, 155, '58, 160. Shipley, James, 32. Shipley [Shiply], John, 22, 24, 84, 85. Shirley (Mass.), 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, 67, 242, 248, 267, 271, 272, 306. Shirley Village, 303. Shirley Shakers, the, 39 " Siege of Boston," Frothingham's, 8. Sillery (Canada), 252. Simonds, Daniel, 174, 175. Simonds [Simons], John, 54, 55, 57, 69, 108, 181. Simonds, Polly, 262. Simson, Benjamin, 41, 254. 338 Index Singular Petition, .<4, 254. " Sir Archibald Campbell," Walcott's, 142. Sixth Massachusetts Militia Regiment, the, 301. Skinner, Joseph, 213. Smead's, 146. Smith, Dr. Albert, 259, Smith, Capt, Asa, 162, Smith, Corp, Ephraim, 26, Smith, Colonel Francis, 291. Smith, Nathan, 128, Smith, Lieut, Nathaniel, 241. Smith, PhUip, 55, 56, 58, Smith, Capt, Sylvanus, 121, 122, 123, '25, 130, 131, '32. 133, 136, 137, '38, 139, 144,147,148,173,298, Smith, WiUiam, 7, 8, 15, 16, 255, 256. Soldiers, Classes of, 100-108. Soldiers' Epitaphs, 279. Some Civil Officers during the Revolu tion, 267. Sons of the Revolution, 260. South Boston (Mass,), 297. South Military Company, the, 297. Spain, 295. Spalding, Hannah, 261. Spalding, Lovil, 58, 62, 63. Spalding, Rachel, 108. Spalding [Spalden], WUliam, 43, 46. Spalding [Spalden], William, Jr., 44, 46. Spauldin, Abel, 31, 40. Spauldin, Thomas, 32. Spaulding, Daniel, 14, 17. Spaulding, Eleazer, 22, 24, 28, izo. Spaulding, Hezekiah, 298. Spaulding, Lieut. Joseph, 21, 24, 31, 201. Spaulding, Joseph, 201, Spaulding, Leonard, 36. Spaulding, Philip, 26. Spaulding, Lieut. Robert, 242. Spaulding, Ruben, 37. Spaulding, Simeon, 64, 65. Spaulding, Thaddeus, 68, Spaulding [Spauldin], Sergt, Thomas, 21,22,23,54,56,57,58, Spaulding, William, 29, Spaulding, WiUiam, Jr., 120. Spears, John R., 300. Specie Tax, the, 170. Spencer (Mass.), 81. Spottsylvania (Va.), 311. Springfield (Mass.), 90, 91, 92, 151, 278, 3'2- Spring HiU, Va., 311. Sproat, Colonel, 264. Stamp Act, the, 189. Starkweather, E., 12, 29, 32, 37. Stearns [Sterns], Peter, 53, 56, 58. Stearns, William, 299. Stephens [Stevens], John, 42, 96, 99, 103, 141, 176, 251, Stephens [Steuens, Steavens, Stevens], Jonathan, 21, 23, 29, 54, 55, 56, 58, '83. Stephens [Stevens], Peter, Jr,, 91, 93, 94. 95. 170. Stetson (Me.), 260. Stevens, Abel, 185. Stevens, Andrew J., 311. Stevens, Camp, 303, 304. Stevens, Gen. Isaac Ingalls, 304. Stevens, Joseph, 106. Stevens, Sergt. Josiah, n, 13, 16, 85, 150, 208. Stevens, Oliver, 59. Stevens, Peter, 172, 251. Stevens, Richard, 40. Stevens, Maj. Thomas, 260, 284. Stevens, Corp. WiUiam, 70. Stevens's Fort, 269. Stiles, Sarah, 249. Still River (Mass.), 39. Stimson, Stephen, 68. StockweU, Spencer, 306. Stoddard (N. H.), 7. Stone, Amos, 12. Stone, Amos, Jr., 298. Stone, Asa, 31, 147, 149, Stone, Benjamin, 153, 154, 157, 160, 161, Stone, Captain, 81. Stone, Daniel, 180, Stone, David, 43. Stone, Ebenezer, 26, Stone, Ebenezer, Jr,, 54, 56, 57, 58, 61, Stone, Elizabeth, 43. Stone, Ephraim, gi, 93, 94, 95, 170, 172, 174; Stone, Isaac, 180 Ind ex 339 Stone, Israel, 73, 75. Stone, James, 1 10. Stone, Jesse, 184. Stone, Joel, 154. Stone, John, 120, 147, 148, 164. Stone, Jonas, 31, no, 171, 183, 184. Stone, Jonathan, n, 78, 169, 180. Stone, Sergt. Joseph, 298. Stone, Levi, 31. Stone, Lucy, 43. Stone, Major, 145. Stone, Lieut. Col. Micah, 242. Stone, Nathaniel, 78, 180. Stone, Nathaniel, Jr., 78, 79. Stone, Phineas, 298. Stone, Dea. Solomon, 260. Stone, Sybel, 78. Stone, Rev. Thomas Treadwell, D.D., 260. Stone, Timothy, 7, 13, 16, 184. Stoneham (Mass.), 241. Stony Point (N. Y.l, 253,292. Storer, B., 174. Story, WiUiam, 246. Story, William W., 228. Stoughton Hall, 196. Stow, Amos, Jr., 53, 56, 57, 58. Stow (Mass.), 49, 85, 230, 241. Stow, Lieut. Nathan, 52, 55, 56, 58, 64. Stowell, Rebecca, 251. Strander [Astrander, O'Strander], An drew, 166, 167. Strong, Governor Caleb, 302. Studley, Consider, 264. Studley, Mrs. Olive, 264. Studley, Oliver, 264. Studley, Sarah Mann, 264. Sudbury (Mass.), 241, 242. Suffolk (Va.), 311. Suffolk regiment, the, 3. Sullivan, Gov. James, 229, 230. Sullivan, Gen. John, 216, 283. Survivors of the Battle in 1825, 220. Swallow, Abel, 298. Swallow, Daniel, 299. Swan, Henry, 73, 74, 145. Swan, Capt. WUliam, 102, 105, 121, 127, 145, 151, 154, 15s, 157, 159, 161, 249, 301. Symmes, Caleb, 298. Symonds, Abraham, 298. T. Tailer, G., 13. Tarbel, David, 35, 68, 139. Tarbel, James, 37. Tarbell, Amos, 298. Tarbell, Benjamin, 175, 181, 250, 262. Tarbell [Tarble], Benjamin, Jr., 90, 93, 94, 95. 96, 99. '04, 170, 177- Tarbell, Ebenezer, 91, 93, 94, 95, 170, 172, 183. Tarbell, John, 40, no, 121, 122, 130, 144, 154. '55. '57. 159, '64. 165, 197- TarbeU [Tarbel, Tarbol, Tarboll], Jo nas, 22, 24, 32, ng, 183, 210. Tarbell [Tarbel, Tarble, Terbol], Jona than, 31, 6g, 73, 75, 78, 148, I4g, 153, 154, 157, 184, 204. TarbeU, Luther Lewis, 261. TarbeU, Lydia, 9. Tarbell, Lydia (Farnsworth), g. Tarbell, Nehemiah, 117. Tarbell, Oliver, 43, 46, 119, 207. Tarbell, Peter, 298. TarbeU, Polly (Simonds), 262. Tarbell, Capt. Samuel, 9, 223, 224, 225, 226. Tarbell, Samuel, Jr., 226. Tarbell, Sarah (Wetherbee | Nutting), 262. Tarbell, Solomon, 184. .TarbeU, Susan (Blood), 262. Tarbell, Capt. Thomas, 73, 74. 145, 184, 296. Tarbell [Tarble], William, 35, 96, 99, 103, 176, 261, 262, 284. Tarble, David, Jr., 68. Taylor, Jonas, 12, 68. Taylor, Jonathan, 54, 56, 57, 58. Taylor, Joseph, 43, 46, 84, 85. Taylor, Joseph, Jr., 44, 46, 55, 56, 58, 207. Taylor, Leonard, 43, 46, 207. Taylor, Samuel, 82, 136, 137, 139. Taylor, Sarah, g. Taylor, Silas, 214. Tea Tax, the, igi. Teel, Jonathan, 80. Teel, Samuell, 77. Teigh, Cornelius, 213. Temple (N. H.),_4, 197, 250. 340 Index Tenny, Luther E , 311. Testimony given by Groton Men, 217. Tewksbury (Mass.), 25, 242. Thatcher, Colonel, 243. Thaxter, Rev. Joseph, of Edgartown, 203. Thompson, John, 19. Thompson [Tomson, Thomson], Sam- uel, 82, 137, 139. Thompson [Tompson], William, 64, 65- Thoroughfare Gap (Va.), 310. Ticonderoga, Fort, 52, 62, 63, 70, 252, 279, 283. Tie [Ty] Mills, 55, 56, 62. TUden, Charles Linzee, 304. Titus, Moses, 263. Titus, Sophronia (Patch), 263. Tiverton (R. I), 147. Tosier, Henry E., 311. Totway, 175. Town Records, Extracts from the, log- 112. Townsend, Isaac, 120. Townsend [Townshend, Townshand] (Mass.), 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 40, 41, 42. 59. 67, 70, 77, 145, 242, 262, 264, 271, 272. Train, Samuel, 53. Trenton (N. J.), 253. Trovoy, Mrs. Joanna, 206. Trowbridge, Edmund, 82, 140. Trowbridge [Trobridge], John, 73, 75, 87. '45, '72, 175- Trowbridge, John, Jr., gi, g3, g4, g5, 141, 170. Trowbridge, Jonas, 2g8. Trufant, John, 2g8. Truro (N. S.), 200. Tuck, Lydia, 51. Tuckerman, WiUiam, 2g, 119. Tufton, Elizabeth (Gooding), 270. Tufton, John, 270. Tufton, Robert, 270. Tufton, Thomas, 270. Tufton, Thomas Sackville, 251, 270. Tufts, Cato, 213. 'Tuity Brook, 9. Turner, Daniel, 40. Turner, John, 29. "Turner's Public Spirit," 306. Tuttle, Betsey, 51. Twenty-third Massachusetts Volun teers, the, 304. Two Groton Soldiers in the Expedition against Carthagena, 295. "Two Revolutionary Soldiers," 214. Tyler, Col. Nathan, 87, 88, 8g. Tyng, Capt. James, 250. Tyng, John, 265. Tyng, Robart, 214. Tyngsboro' (Mass.), 281. Tyngstown (Me.), 250. U. Underwood, Asa, 213. Union army, the, 4. Valley Forge, 253, 262, 284. Valparaiso (Chili), 300. Vanallstine [Van Alstine], Yocham, 140, r66, 167. Varnum, Ebenezer, 48. Varnum, F. C, 276. Vernon, Fortesque, 276. Verriel, Joseph, 213. " Virginian Horse," 269. Volington [Voluntine], Captain, 147, 149. Vose, Col., 247. W. Waigand, John, 312. Wait, Esther, 163. Wait [Wate], Lieut. Phinehas, 151, 154, 155, 156. 161, 165. Walcott, Charles H., 142. Walker, Capt. Benjamin, 59, 20r, 220. Walker, Mary, 283. Walker, Samson, 54, 56, 57, 58. Walker, Samuel, 68. Walker, Lieut. Zaccheus, 43, 46, 83. Waltham (Mass.), 241, 251, 252, 267. Walton, Capt. John, 241. Ward, Ephraim, 12, 118, 154. Ward, Miriam (Morse), 43. Ward, Samuel, 43. Ind ex 341 Ward, Sarah, 43. Ware (Mass.), 200. War for Independence, the, first blood shed in, 2. Warner, Jonathan, 84. War of the Rebellion, the, 4. Warren [Warrin], Abijah, 33, ng. Warren, Capt. Benjamin, g2, 93. Warren [Warran], Corp. Ephraim, 13, 16, 43, 46, 69, 207. Warren, Ephraim, Jr., 129. Warren, Hincheman, 42, 68. Warren, Isaac, 41, 84, 85. Warren, Gen. James, 243. Warren, Dr. John, 174, 244, 288, 289, 290, 293. Warren, Jonas, 37. Warren, Gen. Joseph, 60, 216, 218, 219. Warren [Warrin], Josiah, 15, 16, 68, 118, 208. Warren, Moses, 40, 68. Warren, Nathan, 68. Warren [Warrin], Oliver, 15, 17. Warren, Stephen, 68. Warren, Capt. Thomas, 77 ; return of his company, 77, 78, 242. Warren, William, 37. Washington (D. C), 302, 308. Washington, Gen. George, 165, 248, 250, 252, 284, 292. Wasson [Wason], Thomas, 40, 248. Waterman, Captain, 225. Waters, Henry A., 306. Watertown (Mass.), 60, 199, 207, 208, 212, 213, 215, 241, 244, 245, 246, 249. Wayne, General Anthony, 253. Weatherbee, Ceaser, 213. Webster, Daniel, 217. Webster, Rev. Samuel, 4. Webster's Sermon, Rev. Samuel, 197. Weir, James, 214. Wendel, Mr., 236. Wendell (Mass.), 253. Wesson, Col. James, 168. West Cambridge (Mass.), 290. Western, Colonel, 253. Westford (Mass.), 9, 15, 16, 23, 82, 138, 203, 220, 222, 242, 263, 267. Westford company, the, 59. West Greenwich (Conn.), 243. Weston (Mass.), 241. Weston [Wesson], Samuel, 15, 17, West Point (N, Y,), 25, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 262, Wetherbee, Abel, 183, Wetherbee, Daniel, 73, 75, Wetherbee, David, 22, 24. Wetherbee, Isaac, 73, 75. Wetherbee, Joseph, 183. Wetherbee, Parker, 298. Wetherbee, Thomas, 37. Wetherby, Mr., 289. Wetherell [WithereU, Wetherrell], Obadiah, 21, 23, 121, 126, 136. Wheat [Wheet], Daniel, 54, 56, 58. Wheeler, Asa, 298. Wheeler, Ephraim, 213. Wheildon, WUliam WUlder, 231, 285. Whetman, Nehemiah, 284. Whitcomb, Abner, 12, 40, 68. Whitcomb [Whetcomb], Col. Asa, 47. White, Asa, 15, 17, 96, 99, 103, 176, 208. White, B., 168. White, Lieut. Ebenezer, 53, 56, 57, 241, 246. White, Francis, 15, 17, 84,85, 209. White, John, 171, 173, 174. White, Capt. Josiah, 81, return of his company, 81, 127. White, Mr., 200. White, Pattrick, 35. White, Thomas, 31, 80. White Plains (N. Y.), 25, 78, 279. Whiting, Maj. D., 167. Whiting, William, 26. Whitney, Abner, 49 120, 214, 225. Whitney, Benjamin, 108, Whitney, John, 49, 213. Whitney, Joseph, 37, Whitney, Col, Josiah, 76, 77, 184. Whitney, Lieut, Levi, 13, 16, Whitney, Phinehas, 44, 46. Whitney, Salmon, 79, 80, gi, g3, g4, 95, 170, 172, 176, Whitney, Uriel, 15, i6, 73, 74, 119, 145, 208, Whitney's, 145. Wier [Wyer], Jeremiah, 7, 15, 17. Wigglesworth, Colonel, 138. Wilderness (Va.), 309, 310. WiUard, Daniel, 41, 73, 75, 145. 342 Index Willard, Rebecka, 39. Willas, Zebh., 46. William Henry, Fort, 283. WiUiams, Daniel, 28, 118. Williams, David, 81. Williams, Elizabeth, 71. WiUiams, Elizabeth (Cutter), 247. Williams, George H., 312. WiUiams, Isaac, 37, 73, 75. Williams, Jacob, 20, 22, 24, 119, 209, 254. WiUiams, Jason, 28, 152, 154, 155, 158. Williams, Capt. John, ig, 21, 22, 23, "7. '37. '38. 246-247, 252, 272. Williams, John, Jr. (father of Capt. John), 247. Williams, John, Jr. (son of Capt. John), 247. WiUiams, Molly (Everett), 247. WUIiams, Nathaniel, 82, 137, 138, 139. Williams, Sally B., 247. WUIiams, Simeon, 22, 24, 78, 80, 209. Williston, J., 173. Willson, Benjamin, 200. Willson, Joseph, 14, 17. Wilmington (Mass.), 241. Wilson [Willson], David, 43, 46, 284. Wilson, Reuben, 182. WUton (Me.), 250. Wilton (N. H.), 10, 268. Winchester (N. H.), 145. Winchester (Va.), 307, 308, 310. Windham (Conn.), 193. Windsor (N. S.), 200. Winslow, Col. John, 65. Winslow (Me.), 21. Winsor, Justin, 294. Winter HiU (Mass.), 213, 281. Winthrop, James, 274. Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 228. Winthrop Square, Charlestown, 45. Witherell, Obadiah, 209. Woburn (Mass.), 65, 169, 233, 241, 267. Wood, Aaron, 35. Wood, Mr., 204, Wood, Nathan, 23, Woods [Wood], Amos, 19, 41, 98, gg, 119. Woods [Wood], Benjamin, 22, 24, 199, 210. Woods, Caleb, 28, 151, 154, 156, 160. Woods [Wood], Daniel, 19, 29, 152, '55- Woods [Wood], David, 19, 152, 154, 158, 164, 165, 254. Woods, Deborah (Parker), 284. Woods, Gen. Henry, 15, 35, 284, 296. Woods, Isaac, 109, no. Woods [Wood], James, 19, 140, 151, 155, '56. 157. 183- Woods, Lieut. John, 152, 154, 158, 183. Woods, John French, 154. Woods [Wood], Jonathan, 20, 22, 24, 29, 118, 110, 209, 254. Woods, Jotham, 183. Woods, Levi, 41, 68. Woods, Lewis, log. Woods, Lydia, 300. Woods, Nathaniel, 28, 41. Woods, Naum, 183. Woods, Oliver, 140, 141, 183. Woods, Ruben, 22, 24, 209. Woods, Col. Samson, 37, 220, 248, 274, 284, Woods, Lieut. Solomon, 28, 94, 95, 97, 106, 151, 154, 155, 156, i6i. Woods, Timothy, 43, 46, 207. Woodstock (Vt.), 281. Woodward, Andrew L., 312. Wool, Zebediah, 44.' WooUey, Charles, 251. Woolley, Capt. Charles, 251. Woolley, Mrs. Susanna (Bentley), 251. Worcester [Worster], Benjamin, 152, 154, 155, 158. Worcester [Worster], Francis, 29, ng. Worcester (Mass.), n6, 214, 269, 272, 280. " Worcester Rolls Parcels,'' 24. Worster, Hannah, 9. Worster, Jonathan, 28, 119, 140, 141. Worster, Samuel, 29. Wrentham (Mass.), 264. Wright, Aaron, 53, 56, 58. Wright, Artemas, 285, 291, 293, 294. Wright [Write], David, 29, 32. Wright, Edmund, 68. Wright, John, 55, 56, 58, 299. Wright, Joseph, 298. Wright, Peter, 166. Wright, Samuel, 44, 46, Wright, Thomas, 31. Index Wright, Capt. Zacheus, 138, 242. Write, Nathaniel, 32. Wyles, Ivory, 68. Wyman, Capt, Abijah, 51 ; return of his company, 51 ; 145, 212. Wyman, Asahel, 33, 119, 153, 155, 157. Wyman, Elijah, 40. Wyman, Samuel, 73, 75, 106. Wyman, Thomas, 15, 17. 343 Y. Yale University, 203. York, Mary, 206. " Young Folks' History of the United States," Higginson's, 193. Youngman [Youngmen], Ebenezer, 44, 47 • Youngman, Peter, 82, 138, 139. 3 9002 00866 8379 ki!ki»l ' J.*^*,' -? N, 1 i 1^- ^'.-**