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"SIR,-I am ordered by the Brigadier-General commanding to direct that you detach two companies from your Regt. for the purpose of stand- ing guard for the night, one company to be stationed on the east, and one on the west side of the Point.
"Col. Tracy will report his detachment for guards to you. Lient. Hough is ordered to guard the Battery, who will also, if necessary, ro- port to you.
"The Brigadier-General commanding being about to leave for New London, you will consider yourself the commanding officer here until his return, and will repair for the night to Head Quarters.
" MARTIN LEE, Aid-de-Camp.
" LIEUT .- COL. WM. RANDALL, 30th Regt."
" DETACHED MILITIA,
" HEAD QUARTERS, STONINGTON POINT, " Ang. 14, 1814.
"SIR,-By order of the General Commanding you will take command at this Post, as very unexpectedly the 20th and the remainder of the 8 Regt. are orderod to Mystic and Groton Bank. Lieut. Hough's detach- ment is joined to your Regt., and you will furnish him with a copy of this order ; you will station a guard at the Arsenal, and remove all the ammunition and provision at Mr. Phelps' to that place; you will be very particular in stationing your guards, and keep a vigilant look-out for the enemy, and report from time to time all movements of the enemy, and report the strength of your Regt. as often as practicable.
" By command : G. L. PERKINS, Maj .- Brigadier. " LIEUT .- COL. WM. RANDALL, 30th Regt."
" REGIMENTAL ORDERS 30THE REGT. CONN. MILITIA, in actual Service at Stonington, Aug. 14, 1814.
" Officers commanding companies will ascertain this evening what difficiencies there are in arms, ammunition, and flints, and report the same to the Adjutant to-morrow morning at 5 o'clock A.M., and also di- rect tho men to retire to their respective Quarters precisely at 9 o'clock in the evening, and if found patrolling the streets after the time fixed, they will be taken to Head Quarters and a reasonable excuse will be exacted for a non-compliance of orders.
" WILLIAM RANDALL, Lieut .- Com. " By order : HENRY CHIESEBRO, Adjt."
On the 4th of July, 1814, a requisition from the President was made on the States most exposed for a corps of ninety-three thousand five hundred militia, with a request to the executives to hold in readiness for immediate service their respective detachments, and to fix on the places of rendezvous with a view to the more exposed points. The quota assigned to Connecticut was three thousand men. The Governor, after advising with the Council, decided to call on the militia by draft for that number of mnen, as per order annexed :
"STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
" GENERAL ORDERS.
" HARTFORD, 28th July, 1814.
"The Commander-in-Chief has received a communication from the President of the United States inviting the Executives of certain States to organize and hold in readiness for immediate service a corps of ninety- three thousand five hundred men, 'as a measure of precaution to strengthen ourselves on the line of the Atlantic,' and assigning as the quota of Connecticut three hundred artillery and two thousand seven
hundred infantry, with a detail of General and Staff Officers. The Com- mander-in-Chief having thought proper, by advice of the Council, to comply with the recommendation, directs that dispositions be imme- diately made for carrying the same into effect.
" Accordingly the number of artillery and infantry above mentioned, including the usual regimental officers, will be detached from the militia of the State, exempting from the draught such as have either in person or by substitute performed a tour of duty the present season. Volunteer uniform companies will be accepted. The whole to be formed into four regiments and duly officered, their places of rendezvous as follows. to wit : for the first regiment, Hartford; for the second, New Haven ; for the third, Norwich ; and for the fourth, Fairfield. One Major-General and one Brigadier-General will be detailed in the usual manner, also one deputy Quartermaster-General, and instead of an assistant Adjutant-Gen- eral (there being no such officer in the militia of this State) there shall be detailed one Division Inspector.
" The troops thus detachod are to be completely armed and equipped according to law, and, until otherwise directed, will be held in readiness to march at a moment's warning for the purpose of repelling invasions of the enemy, under such orders as they shall receive from the com- mander-in-chief.
" By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-chief.
" EBEN. HUNTINGTON, Adjt .- General."
BRIGADE ORDERS.
" THIRD BRIGADE CONN. MILITIA. " To LIEUT. COL. WILLIAM RANDALL, 30th Regiment.
"Sia,-In obedience to orders from his excellency the Capt .- Gen- eral, you will forthwith detach from the Thirtieth Regiment under your command your proportion of the required Quota of Militia as an- nexed, exempting from the Draught such as have either in Person er by Substitute performed a tour of duty the present season. The infantry de- tailed from the 3rd Division will form Two Battallions and the Artilleries will form one company, the whole to compose One Regt to be called the 3rd Regiment, & Norwich their place of Rendezvous. Lieut .- Col. Wm. Belcher, of the 8th Regmt is detaild to command said Regiment ; Maj. James Gordon, of the 20th Regiment, is detaild as major.
" In detaching from the matross companies, Gunners, Bombadiers, & Matrosses are to be considered as privates. The officers and men are not, in consequence of being detachd, to be considerd as exempted from any military duties in the corps to which they now respectively belong ; you will take the officers by seniority, as far as practicable, leaving no com- pany without a commissiond officer. To complete Lists of the names of the officers and men detached and two muster Rolls must be made out and transmitted to the Brigade Inspector at Norwich as soon as you have completed the Detachment, which it is expected will be without delay. Majr .- Gen1. Taylor, of the 4th Division, & Brigadier-Gen1. Lusk, of the 7th Brigade, have been detached as the Sent Officers.
"Given under my hand at New London this 4th day August, 1814.
"JIRAN ISHAM, Brig .- Genl. " By order : GEO. L. PERKINS, Major Brigade."
" REGIMENTAL ORDERS 30TH REGIMENT CONN. MILITIA.
"CAPTAIN : Sir,-To carry the foregoing Orders into execution you will forthwith detach from the company under your command your propor- tion of the required quota of Officers, non-commissiond officers, musi- cians, and Privates as annexed hereto, the whole to be mustered, in- spected, & notified to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning. Two inspection returns of those detached from your company, imbracing a list of their names and the actuals State of their arms and equipments, must be made out and transmitted to the commandant of the Regiment immediately. Giles R. Hallam, Pay Master, John Billings, Surgeon's Mate, are detached as Staff officers. Lieut. Amos Holmes, of the 7th Co., and Dan1. Frink, Ensign of the 8th Co., are detached as commissiond officers of the 30th Rigiment. The present being a period of unusual difficulty and danger, and the abso- lute necessity of being in a state of complete and constant readiness To march for the Protection and defence of our Sea Coast, which is obvious that the Lieut .- Col. commat feels confident no exertion on the part of the officers or soldiers of the 30th Regiment will be wanting to have their respective companies in a State of perfect readiness for the purpose. Given under my hand at Stonington This 15th day of August, 1814.
"WM. RANDALL, Lieut .- Comdr.
" By Order : HENRY CHESEBRO, Adjutant."
Also in pursuance of said orders forty-seven men were detached from said regiment, as follows: From
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Company 1, 5 men ; Company 2, 6 men ; Company 3, 5 men ; Company 4, 5 men ; Company 5, 8 men ; Company 6, 7 men ; Company 7, 6 men ; Company 8, 5 men,-47.
" BRIGADE CONN. MILITIA, " HEAD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, Aug. 20th, 1814.
"SIR,-I have it in charge from Brig .- Gen. Cushing, commanding. Military District No. 2, to say that the men now on duty in the Brigade under Brig .- Gen. Isham, who are detached for more permanent service under the command of Brig .- Gen. Lusk, cannot be discharged from the corps in which they now serve at the present moment; but the com- manding general assures them that immediately after the Regiment in which they are to serve shall have been formed, they shall be indulged with leave of absence a reasonable time to visit their families and pre- pare themselves for the service for which they have been drafted.
" By command of Brig .- Gen. Isham.
" MARTIN LEE, Aide-de-Camp.
" LIEUT. WM. RANDALL, Col. of 30th Regt."
" BRIGADE CONN. MILITIA,
" HEAD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, Ang. 21, 1814.
"SIR,-I have it in charge from Brig .- Gen. Cushing, commanding Mili- tary District No. 2, to say, That the Brigade of Conn. Militia now in ser- vice of the United States, under the command of Brig .- Gen. Isham, will be mustered for payment and discharged on the following days, unless the future movements of the enemy should render it necessary to con- tinue it in service a few days longer, viz. :
"20th Regiment on Tuesday, the 23d inst.
" 8th
Wednesday, the 24th inst.
"33d
" Thursday, " 25th
" 3d
' Friday, 26th "
" 30th Regt. general Brigade Staff, on Saturday, 27th inst.
" The muster to be made by the Adjutant-General or assistant Adju- tant-General of the District, and to commence at 6 o'clock A.M. of each day on the Regimental parade, and it is expected all concerned will give due attention.
" Brig,-Gen. Isham directs that the men who are detached to serve under Brig .- Gen. Lusk, who are not present with their Regiments, are immediately to be notified to join the regiment under Col. Belcher, either at New London or Groton, at whichever place he may be sta- tioned, they are to appear immediately.
"On the day the respective regiments are to be mustered and dis- charged as above, it is expected the officers and men will receive their pay.
" Five muster rolls must be made out for each company, two pay rolls and four Receipt Rolls also for each company will be required.
" To this you will instruct your Regimental Paymasters to attend without delay, as the pay cannot be received without all their vouchers.
" The Muster Rolls must contain the names of those men only who have joined their companies, with their rank and commencement of ser- vice, nothing to be noted of the termination of service, with the pay and receipt Rolls, and you will observe the same directions.
" The termination of service and amount of pay can be added after- wards.
" By order of BRIG. GEN. ISHAM, Commandant 2d Brigade. " MARTIN LEE, Aide-de-Camp."
" BRIGADE CONN. MILITIA,
" HEAD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, Aug. 22d, 1814. "LIEUT .- COL. WM. RANDALL, of the 30th Regt.
" SIR,-The Brigadier-General directs that the officers and men de- tached from your regiment in pursuance of the late General and Brigade orders, be directed to assemble at New London to-morrow, the 23d inst., at 4 o'clock P.M. You will notify them accordingly. They are ordered by the commander-in-chief of this State into service under command of Brig .- Gen. Lusk. The officers and men thus mustered into service will be mustered in the corps under Brig .- Gen. Lusk, and the indulgence promised in the order of the 20th inst. will then be granted.
" JIRAH ISHAM,
" Brigadier-General Commanding Brigade.
" By command : MARTIN LEE, Aide-de-Camp."
The battle of Stonington was not a victory for the British fleet. They doubtless intended to burn the place. In fact, they declared that, having ample means in their possession, they would destroy it, and
that they did not was owing to the bravery of its defenders. From some unaccountable neglect on the part of the authorities of the State or nation there was not a dozen rounds of ammunition for our can- non on hand at the time of the attack. It seems al- most incredible that a place as much exposed as the borough, with a succession of military detachments detailed for its protection, with three cannon and a battery erected for defense, should all have been pro- vided without ammunition for an hour's fight. But so it was, and but for the powder obtained from New London during the bombardment, and some gathered from Capt. George Fellows and others, our battery with its guns would have been wellnigh useless. Sergt .- Maj. Nathan Smith, then residing in the bor- ough, communicated to Col. Randall the approach of the hostile fleet, who gave the alarm through his signals on Grant's Hill, and hastened to the borough with all the men he could rally on his way, some five miles. Capt. William Potter, then in command of the Eighth Company of the Thirtieth Regiment, imme- diately assembled all of his command in reach, con- sisting of twenty-one men, including officers, out of a roll of thirty-four men. He joined Lieut. Hough with his detachment, numbering forty-two men, which added to the militia under the command of Col. Randall, assisted by a number of volunteers, de- fended the place as best they could during the even- ing of August 9th until nearly midnight, when the enemy ceased firing ; and but for the spirited resist- ance that the barges and launches received from the militia and volunteers under the command of Col. Randall, the enemy would have landed and burned the place. During the remainder of the night a large part of Col. Randall's regiment, observing the signals, hastened to the place, and before the break of day two hundred and twenty-seven men, including offi- cers, had reached headquarters, and were assigned to their respective companies, which, added to Capt. Potter's and Lieut. Hough's men, aggregated a force of two hundred and ninety men, not including Col. Randall's staff. Thus marshaled they awaited the coming day, and at the early dawn of August 10th another attempt was made by the enemy to land from their barges and launches, coming around on the east side of the borough, firing shot and shell into the place. As soon as the approach of the enemy was discovered some of the volunteers drew the four-pounder across the Point to prevent the enemy from landing. Col. Randall observing the movement of the enemy, ordered his whole force down to the lower end of the Point to meet them, and when he reached the battery he ordered a detach- ment of his men and the volunteers who were acting under military orders to draw one of the eighteen- pounders across the town, so as to repel the appre- hended landing. The gun was manned and directed by Ensign Daniel Frink, of Capt. Potter's company, and so well was it handled that the enemy was com-
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pelled to recede and seek safety in flight. The prompt assembling of Col. Randall's regiment, and their presence at this moment, prevented the enemy from attempting another landing during the bombard- ment of the place.
During the engagement on the east side of the place the brig "Despatch" was working up towards the battery, doubtless intending to protect and cover with her guns the landing of the enemy, but was too late for that purpose. She came to anchor within a half-mile of the battery, and opened a well-directed fire on the town and battery, which had been manned by volunteers, some of which belonged to the militia, some were seafaring men, and others residents of the town. It is difficult to tell at this distance of time how many men actually entered the battery and handled the guns on the 9th and 10th of Au- gust, 1814, or how many assisted in bringing am- munition to them or making cartridges for their use. From the best attainable information on hand the Stonington borough men were Capt. George Fellows, Capt. William Potter, Lieut. Horatio G. Lewis, En- sign Daniel Frink, Alexander G. Smith, Amos Deni- son, Jr., Elihu Chesebro, Jr., Rev. Jabez S. Swan, Luke Palmer, George Palmer, Thomas Wilcox, and Asa Lec.
The Mystic Bridge men were Capt. Jeremiah Holmes, Capt. Nathaniel Clift, Capt. Simon Haley, Capt. Jeremiah Haley, Frederick Denison, Ebenezer Denison, Isaac Denison, and Frederick Haley. From the rural districts in Stonington were John Miner, Jesse Dean, John Dean Gallup, Charles T. Stanton, Charles P. Wheeler, and Jonathan Denison, who re- fused to enter the battery, but fought the enemy from the shore with his musket at long range. The Gro- ton men were Ebenezer Morgan, Stanton Gallup, Alfred White, Frank Daniels, Giles Moran ; the New London men were Maj. Simeon Smith, Capt. Noah Lester, Maj. N. Frink, and Lambert Williams; the Massachusetts men were Capt. Leonard, Wm. G. Bush, and Mr. Dunham, and no doubt others. The fire from the battery on the 9th was under the command of Capt. George Fellows, and under the command of Capt. Jeremiah Holmes on the 10th of August. Both were brave men and true. Capt. Holmes' three years' service on board of a British man-of-war, the greater part of which he served as captain of a gun, enabled him to direct the guns in the battery with great pre- cision. He double-shotted the eighteen-pounders, and sent the shot plunging through the brig below her water-lines.
There were other volunteers who rendered impor- tant services in extinguishing fires, and in other ways, which the Government has recognized, and granted to the participants land warrants under a law of Con- gress enacted in 1856, viz. : Henry Smith, Benjamin T. Ash, Pilts D. Frink, William C. Moss, Peyton R. Randall, and Jesse Breed, and perhaps others.
Edward Stanton, a Revolutionary hero, who was
fearfully and dangerously wounded at Fort Griswold, Sept. 6, 1781, living some five miles away from the scene of action, immediately, on hearing the first gun, took his trusty musket and marched for the borough, saying, with emphasis, that he had shed a part of his blood for his country in the Revolution, and if neces- sary was fully prepared to shed the last drop of it in defense of his country.
It was plainly evident that the enemy were de- termined to burn the village of Stonington, not only from the declared purpose of Capt. Hardy, but from the use of rockets and carcasses in the bombardment.
In order to prevent the consummation of this pur- pose, Col. Randall, on the evening of the 9th, de- tached Charles H. Smith, then the second sergeant of Capt. Potter's company (and afterwards its captain), and twenty men of the regiment to follow up and extinguish all the fires that might be kindled by the missiles of the enemy. This service was bravely and efficiently done, and a large number of fires extin- guished. This duty was as perilous as a place in the battery. It is to be regretted that a list of these brave men has not been preserved. They were daily relieved by detachments taking their places. Gen. Isham and staff arrived from New London about noon, Au- gust 10th, and took command, fixing his headquarters at the dwelling-house of Capt. Nathaniel Palmer. Col. Randall's headquarters were at the house of Oliver York, that stood on the southeast corner of the Wada- wansuck Hotel grounds.
The glory of the battle of Stonington cannot all be showered upon the men who worked the guns in the battery, though they immortalized themselves by their heroic conduct and Spartan bravery.
Col. Randall, his staff, and the officers and men of his regiment, for their prompt and energetic behavior in meeting and repelling the enemy's boats in their efforts to land and burn the place on the evening of the 9th and the morning of the 10th of August, en- titles them to the highest honors. Especially should that brave band of soldiers who watched the carcasses and rockets in their fiery circles, and extinguished them before they could kindle a flame, be remem- bered with everlasting gratitude. To every one who participated in the defense of Stonington in August, 1814, Stonington cheerfully awards a full measure of praise, and will cherish their memory and gratefully appreciate their heroic services. The foregoing, with the extracts copied from the newspapers at the time, is offered as an imperfect history of the battle of Ston- ington, Aug. 10, 1814.
Col. Randall's regiment and the detachment of Lient. Hough were honorably discharged from service Aug. 27, 1814.
A Heroine .- An elderly lady, by the name of Hul- dah Hall, lived at Stonington borough during the last war with England. She was in feeble and rapidly- declining health, when Capt. Hardy, on the 9th of August, 1814, gave one hour's notice for the unoffend-
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ing inhabitants of the place to be removed. She was attended by an only daughter bearing her name, who had been her sole companion during her weary de- clining years. During the excitement and alarm caused by Capt. Hardy's order, and the hasty de- parture of the unoffending, there were no efforts made' for the removal of Mrs. Hall. Nor is it certain that she was able to be removed at the time, if an effort for that purpose had been made. The house occupied by Mrs. Hall stood close in the rear of the battle, and was dangerously exposed to the shot and shell of the enemy. During the evening of the 9th of August it became apparent that Mrs. Hall was rapidly sinking, doubtless hastened by the bombardment of the place, and on the 10th of August, amid the thunders of the bombardment and the deafening roar of the guns in the battery, she breathed her last. Beside her bed during all of the excitement and dangers of battle stood the brave-hearted daughter, tenderly watching with loving ministrations her dying mother, though shot and shell crushed through the house, and through the room where they were. No sooner was life ex- tinct than the daughter, throwing a light shawl over her head, went down to the battery amid the flying shot and shell to get assistance to remove and bury her mother. When seen approaching by the men in the battery they were awe-struck, trembling for her safety, though reckless of their own. When informed of her errand, four men were detached and went with her to the house, carefully and tenderly inclosed her remains in the bed and bedclothes where she lay, and bore her to the old Robinson burial-place in the bor- ough, attended by the daughter ; and in a deep cut made by the explosion of a bomb-shell, without any form or ceremony, except the thunders of the bombardment, they buried her remains. While cheerfully awarding the highest honors to the men who so bravely de- fended Stonington, let us drop a tear to the memory of this heroic child, believing that the viewless artists of the skies have woven for her garlands of immortal glory.
The British fleet did not again attempt to destroy the village of Stonington during the war, but an ap- prehension resting on the part of the people that they might again do so, caused them to apply for another detachment of militia to act as a guard for the place. Col. Randall detached Sergt. Peleg Hancox and four- teen men from Capt. Potter's company to act as said guard.
They served from Nov. 18, 1814, to Sept. 27, 1815, as follows, viz .: Peleg Hancox, sergeant ; Joshua Swan, corporal ; Elihu Chesebro, Jr., corporal; Pri- vates, Edward Stanton, Thomas Booth, Robert Bot- tom, George Taylor, Noyes Brown, Warren Palmer, Thomas Spencer, Nathaniel Chesebrough, George Howe, James Chesebrough, James Stanton, Joseph Swan.
Peace with Great Britain came in February, 1815, and with it universal prosperity. In celebrating the
event a young man by the name of Thomas Stanton, of Pawcatuck, was instantly killed at Stonington by the premature discharge of a cannon fired in honor of the event.
CHAPTER LXXXI. STONINGTON-(Continued).
EARLY RESIDENTS.
AMONG the early families of Stonington few have been more distinguished than the Fannings. Edmund Fanning, the pioneer settler, came to this country from Dublin, Ireland, and settled in New London as early as 1662, removed to Stonington in 1670, pur- chasing and receiving liberal tracts of land, and died in 1683. His wife, Ellen, survived him, to whom, and four sons and two grandsons, his estate was di- vided. It was from this family that Edmund Fanning, the distinguished navigator, descended, and his still more distinguished brother, Lieut. Nathaniel Fan- ning, who commanded the maintop of the "Good-man Richard," under John Paul Jones, in her famous fight with the English ship "Serapis." He so distin- guished himself in that action as to draw from Cap- tain Jones the following certificate :
" CERTIFICATE TO CONGRESS.
"I do hereby certify that Nathaniel Fanning, of Stonington, State of Connecticut, has sailed with me in the station of midshipman eighteen months, while I commanded the 'Good-man Richard,' until she was lost in the action with the ' Serapis,' and in the ' Alliance' and 'Ariel' Frigates. Hlis bravery on board the first-mentioned ship in the action with the 'Serapis,' a King's ship of fifty guns, oft Flamborongh Head, while he had command of the main top, will, I hope, recommend him to the notice of Congress in the line of promotion with his other merits.
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