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SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLAVERY. 217
When the meeting assembled in Torringford it was inspired with new life, energy and courage. The beacon fires of liberty and free- dom blazed much higher than they would but for the violence mani- fested in the village. Deacon Rood's spirit of defiance to the mob, took possession of the whole company, and every man and woman, enlisted in the cause, gloried in the name of abolitionist, and felt annointed for the work of preaching " deliverance to the captives in chains." Such was the beginning of anti-slavery agitation, and times, in the town where John Brown, " Ossawattomie Brown," was born.
This society, moved now, as well by the sense that despotism had come to their own doors, and threatened the very sacredness of church and homes, as by the thought of freedom for the slave, pro- ceeded to hold monthly meetings throughout the county. These meetings were held in barns and sheds, in groves and houses, and any where that the people would assemble for such a purpose. It raised funds by systematic method ; distributed tracts, books, and pa- pers. The state Charter Oak Society was organized in 1838, and employed lecturing agents, who besides lecturing, solicited sub- scribers to the anti-slavery papers, and scattered anti-slavery litera- ture.
They were opposed everywhere, and yet moved on in their work as though every body knew they were right. They were called all sorts of opprobrious names ; were proscribed and derided, as " nig- ger friends," "disturbers of Israel." Some were unceremoniously excommunicated from the churches, for no crime but speaking against slavery ; the very thing that many of the fathers had done for a hundred years without objection having been made. All ar- gument with anti-slavery men started with the Bible, where the Quakers started nearly one hundred years before, and this brought the question into all the churches as well as committees. Some withdrew from the churches because they deemed it sinful to hold fellowship with those who voted to uphold a system, acknow- ledged to be guilty of more crime than any other system in the land.
The opposition had but one argument ; namely, it offended the South; slavery was for their interest. This argument had been gradually obtaining adherents, from the time the Constitution of the United States was adopted. Before that some of the southern states was as much anti-slavery as any in the North. When the
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South changed, the spirit of proscription began to rise in the North. Hence in the first meeting house in Torrington, there was no slave pew, nor nigger pew, but in the second one there were two. These pews were located in the gallery over the stairs, boarded up so high, that when the colored people sat in them, they could see no part of the congregation, and could be seen by no one in the assem- bly. Jacob Prince, after being made a freeman by his master, Abi- jah Holbrook, joined the church in Goshen, and then being placed in such a seat, and treated in other ways by the same spirit, refused to go to church, because, as he said, he was not treated as a brother and thereafter held prayer meetings in his own house on the Sab- bath. Whereupon the Goshen church proceeded to, and did ex- communicate him for neglect of duty. This same Jacob is said to have been as fine a looking man, head and features, as nearly any one in the town, except the color of his skin.
Two such pews were in the old church in Torringford, but the Rev. Samuel J. Mills (whether as a rebuke to the spirit of cast or not is not known) always seated Henry Obookiah, Thomas Hooppo, and other tawny brethren of the Sandwich Islands, when they visited him from the Cornwall Mission school, in his own pew, in the front of the congregation, quite to the dissatisfaction of some even of that congregation.
A REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.
In the early stages of the anti-slavery struggle, Miss Abbey Kelley, a young and educated Quakeress of superior talent, and most esti- mable character, " felt the spirit moving her " to take part in the public discussion of the subject, and came into Connecticut. Dr. Hudson was then the general agent for the Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society, and she called on him and made known her purpose to speak whenever opportunity offered. Dr. Hudson kindly extended to her the hand of fellowship in the good cause, and welcomed her to the thorny field, and to the home of his wife Martha Turner Hudson, to whose companionship he committed her, and secured respectable audiences for her at Torringford and other places in adjacent towns. This movement was very disturbing to pro-slavery and conservative orthodoxy. It occurred after Father Mills's death and after Rev. Mr. Goodman was dismissed. From many pulpits in Litchfield county she was proclaimed as " that woman Jezebel who calleth her- self a prophetess to teach and seduce my servants." The watchman of Torringford uttered a cry of distress and requested the women and
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their lords to meet him at the Academy, to receive his testimony and instructions concerning the sphere of woman. (" Women obey your husbands.") The assemblage was large ; the women filled one side of the room, and the men the other, facing them. The minister presided, and after solemn preliminaries and the reading of St. Paul's epistle, adapted to the occasion, he discoursed vehemently upon the duties of woman, her proper sphere ; and the unwomanly, and un- warrantable work of woman as a public teacher ; or to address pro- miscuous audiences and thus depart from the good old ways of ortho- doxy. When he had barely closed his address, as if Providence approved his testimony, the decayed timbers in the deep cellar of the Academy, which sustained the floor, suddenly gave way on the woman's side of the house and the entire floor, and all the women were precipitated into the cellar, in one general mass of tangled con- fusion, the whole accompanied by screams, groans, and cries ; one woman exclaiming, " O Lord forgive us for having attended such a wicked meeting ;" a noise almost equal to that of the mob at the anti-slavery meeting at Wolcottville.
Whether the minister of the occasion concluded that the women then had attained their appropriate sphere, is not related in the nar- ration, but the men, after the dum-astonishment had passed away, hastened from on high to drag out their wives, sisters, daughters and mothers, with bruised limbs, torn garments and dissatisfied counte- nances ; and hastened to their homes, glad to have escaped without encountering any worse sphere of action, though this was not exactly satisfactory. What precise effect this little episode had on the min- ister's mind, or whether he became celebrated as defining woman's sphere, or whether he afterwards expanded that lecture into a book, is not revealed in the book of Torringford chronicles.
Prior to the anti-slavery agitation, the inhabitants of Torrington and of Litchfield county, and the state of Connecticut as well, had suffered a calamitous, moral shock ; a sort of æsthetic, volcanic up- heaving, by an affair which occurred at the Foreign Mission school at Cornwall. This school had been established and mainly sustained by Congregational churches, for the purpose of educating the Indians and Sandwich Islanders as missionaries to their own people. Two young ladies of Cornwall, belonging to the most respectable and best educated families, became so perverted in their æsthetic tastes, as to choose and dare to marry two of the tawny brethren, with the idea of becoming missionaries among the native tribes, The effect was
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quite shocking ; almost pestilential. Every class of society was thrown into spiritual convulsions. The mission school was threat- ened with demolition. Those sons of the forest who had been so wicked as to fascinate the belles of Cornwall and make trophies of them were compelled to depart sans ceremonie. The school was soon after closed or rather driven out of existence, not because it was not doing a good work, but because two of the pupils had married two girls, which girls wanted to marry them.
These items are but a faint illustration of the excitements, hard feelings, desperate threatenings and silly arguments that were enter- tained concerning slavery and anti-slavery. No attempt is here made to picture the contest. No human language would be equal to such a task ! If the late war of the rebellion could be fully described, there would be, in that description, some features of the terrible curse set forth somewhat appropriately ; but even then, the half would not be told. Now most people see it, and acknowledge the same. No effort is here made to sum up on this great subject. Only a few items are given as historical facts concerning the efforts on the one side in behalf of slavery, and on the other the spirit and courage of those who believed slavery to be a sin against God and humanity.
One thing is strange, that after the terrible sufferings, hardships and distresses through which the pilgrim fathers and their early de- scendants passed, for the one object and end of religious and political freedom, that any body should have supposed that the American people could have been compelled, by any means whatever, to put their necks under the yoke of slavery and submit to its dictates !
CHAPTER XVIII. TORRINGTON IN WAR TIMES.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
HE number of inhabitants in Torrington in 1774, was eight hundred and forty-three, of which there were only one hundred and thirty-two men, and one hundred and thirty-four women over twenty years of age, leaving five hundred and seventy-seven persons under twenty years of age, and in a great measure dependent on the older people for sustenance, care and protection. Besides this, the country was new, and the obtain- ing of food and comforts was much more difficult than it would have been under other circumstances. It is important to bear these things in mind, as we attempt to estimate the struggle through which the inhabitants passed in order to obtain their political independence.
The two military companies in 1774, included one hundred and sixty-nine men, or all the men in the town over twenty years of age, and thirty-seven under that age. When hostilities commenced at Concord, in this same year, these companies were not called on to go to Boston, but were notified to be in readiness at a minute's warn- ing. In the autumn session of the assembly of that year, an act was passed offering a sum of money to every member of the military com- panies of the state that would train twelve half days in the spring of the next year ; and the officers were required to report to the justices of the town, and they to the assembly and draw the pay. The fol- lowing are the reports made from Torrington. The report was made by the clerk of the company and addressed :
" To Captain Amos Wilson, 5th Company of the 17th Regiment in the colony of Connecticut ; and to John Cook, and Epaphras Sheldon, Esqrs., Justices of the peace, etc.
" This may certify that the following persons in pursuance of the late act of law of the colony, passed October last, respecting the military ; each one has trained in his own person according to order as follows :
Half days.
Lieut. Epaphras Loomis,
Half days. 12. Sergt. Eli Loomis, . 7.
Sergt. Wait Beach,
12.
66 Benj. Beach, I2.
2. Joseph Blake, 8.
Noah Wilson, . .
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Half days.
Half days.
Corp'l Abijah Wilson, .
12.
Private Roswell Coe,
6.
Elijah Barber,
II.
Roger Wilson,
. 12.
Caleb Lyman,
12.
Samuel Beach,
12.
Ariel Brace, .
IO.
Shubael Cook,
12.
Dr. Ebenezer Smith,
12.
Thomas Marshall, IO.
Private William Wilson,
I2.
Timothy Barber,
12.
56 Ashbel Bronson,
7.
Urijah Cook,
12.
Joshua Leach,
8.
Wm. Grant, Jr , .
II.
Ashbel North, .
12.
John Cook, Jr.,
7.
66 Abel Beach, Jr.,
12.
Oliver Cotton, .
II.
Asahel North,
12.
Daniel Benedict,
12.
Asahel Wilcox, .
IO.
Daniel Loomis,
12.
Benj. Eggleston, .
8.
Jacob Johnson, .
7.
Caleb Leach, .
12.
Joseph Thompson,
12.
Ebenezer North, Jr.
12.
Lott Woodruff, .
12.
Ebenezer Lyman,
12.
Noah North, Jr., .
12.
Abel Thrall,
7.
Isaac Hull,
12.
Ambros Marshall,
12.
Isaiah Tuttle,
12.
Asahel Strong, Jr.,
12.
Oliver Bancroft,
12.
Epaphras Sheldon,
I2.
John Whiting, Jr.,
I2.
Elijah Loomis, . 12.
Christopher Whiting,
I2.
Ephraim Loomis, .
12.
Joel Miller, . I2.
Epaphras Loomis, Jr.,
12.
Benoni Loomis, 12.
60 Elisha Smith,
12.
Abner Loomis, Jr.,
12.
Ephraim Bancroft,
12.
Abel Stannard,
.
3.
George Miller,
12.
John Miner,
12.
George Allyn,
12.
Ephraim Loomis, Jr., 12.
Joseph Eggleston,
II.
Joseph Drake, Sr., 12.
Joseph Thrall,
9.
Solomon Agard, 12.
John Curtiss,
II.
Roger Loomis, .
12.
66 John Beach,
12.
Ebenezer Leach,
3.
Josiah Whiting, Jr., .
5.
David Alvord, .
9.
Israel Averitt, Jr.,
12.
Joseph Holmes, 12.
James Leach,
12.
Daniel Murry,
4.
John Youngs,
12.
Pardon Thrall,
4.
James Beach,
12.
Remembrance Loomis, 4.
Joseph Beach, Jr.,
7.
Aaron Marshall,
4.
Levi Thrall,
I2.
Richard Loomis,
4.
Noah North,
II.
John Richards,
4.
Noah Fowler,
12.
Joseph Taylor, .
+
Noah Thrall,
I2.
Daniel Grant,
12.
Noadiah Bancroft,
12.
Joel Roberts,
8 .
Noah Beach,
12.
DANIEL GRANT, Clerk.
JOHN COOK,
EPAPARAS SHELDON, Justices of the peace.
Amount £24 6s. 6d.
Received payment Hartford, July, 1775. Capt. AMOS WILSON. EPAPHRAS SHELDON."
66
Charles Thrall, 12.
Friend Thrall, 12.
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THE TORRINGFORD COMPANY. "To Capt. John Strong of the 9th Company of the 17th Regiment.
Half days.
Half days.
Sergt.
Jesse Cook,
12.
Private
John Birge Jr.,
II.
Charles Mather,
II.
Stephen Taylor,
. 12.
Augustus Haydon,
·
12.
Isaac Austin,
II.
Isaac Goodwin,
12.
Nathaniel Barber,
5.
Clerk, Zachariah Mather,
12.
Elisha Kelsey,
12.
Corpl.
Daniel Stow,
12.
Asaph Atwater,
9.
Daniel Hudson,
IO.
66
David Norton,
9.
66
Roswell Olmstead,
7.
66
Return Bissell,
12.
66
John Gillett, .
4.
John Marsh,
II.
Musician Timothy Soper,
II.
66
Jesse Spencer,
12.
66
Abraham Filley,
4.
Ebenezer Rood,
9.
66
Ulisus Fyler,
II.
Hezekiah Bissell,
II.
66
Nathaniel Frisbie,
IO.
Jonathan Kelsey,
IO.
Private Benj. Bissell Jr.,
12.
Ichabod Stark, Jr.,
3·
66
Samuel Austin,
12.
Levi Austin,
II.
66
Joseph Gaylord,
12.
Thomas Matthews,
12.
66
Nathaniel Austin,
12.
John Standcliff,
12.
Abel Clark,
12.
Oliver Bissell,
12.
66
Comfort Standcliff Jr.,
12.
John Spencer,
12.
Asa Loomis,
12.
Seth Coe,
12°
66
Joseph Austin,
12.
Simeon Birge,
12.
66
Joseph Loomis,
12.
Dan Austin,
12.
Samuel Kelsey Jr.,
12.
Silas White,
IO.
Andrew D. Austin,
10.
Timothy Gillett,
IO.
Daniel Kelsey,
12.
66
Timothy Loomis,
12.
Benj. Gaylord, 12.
8.
66
Cotton Mather,
9.
Amos Miller,
6.
Ebenezer Bissell,
II.
.John Squire,
3.
Eliphas Bissell,
12.
66
Samuel Austin, 2d,
7.
Ezekiel Bissell Jr.,
12.
66 Abner Ives,
6.
Roger Sheldon,
12.
66
David Soper,
3.
66
Reuben Burr,
12.
Michael Loomis,
12.
Enos Austin,
12.
66
Nehemiah Gaylord,
12.
JOHN COOK,
EPAPHRAS SHELDON.
Justices of the Peace.
Amount £19, 6s. 6d.
Received payment,
JOHN COOK,
EPAPHRAS SHELDON.
.
12.
Samuel Averitt,
9.
Elisha Bissell, .
.
II.
66
Timothy Kelsey,
12.
Thomas Goodman,
9.
12.
66
Job Curtiss,
60
John Burr Jr.,
IO.
Daniel Winchell, 12.
Daniel Dibble,
Cyrenus Austin,
Capt. SHUBAEL GRISWOLD, as captain, was in the war of the Re- volution, as early as 1775, in the northern campaign, as the follow-
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ing receipts will show. These receipts are preserved in the pocket of the book in which he kept his journal in the French war, and which he used many years afterwards, as an account book.
" Crownpoint, July 4, 1775.
Elisha Andrus : Sir. Please to let Benjamin Gaylord have five shil- lings, lawful money worth of your stores. SHUBAEL GRISWOLD, Capt." " Crownpoint, July 26, 1775. Mr. Andrus, Suttler, Sir : Please to let Edward Fuller have of your stores, three shillings lawful money, by order of SHUBAEL GRISWOLD, Capt."
" Crownpoint, August 4, 1775. To Mr. Bemus, Suttler : Please to let Edward Fuller, have of your stores six shillings, lawful money.
SHUBAEL GRISWOLD, Capt." "Crownpoint Sept. 28, 1775.
Received of Mr. Jothem Bemus, sixteen shilling and three pence, york money, which I desire Capt. Griswold to pay out of my wages, and you will oblige, Sir Your's BUSHNIEL BENEDICT."
" To Capt. Shubael Griswold : Sir. This is your order to pay Elisha Frisbie of Torrington, two pounds money, out of what is due to me for my wages in last year's campaign, it being for value received.
Dated, Farmington the 13th day of March, 1776.
DAVID HAYDON."
James Cowles.
It is quite evident that a number of Torrington men were in this campaign with Capt. Griswold.
The following paper found in the State Library explains itself, to the credit of Torrington :
"To John Lawrence, Esq., Colony Treasurer for the State of Connecticut : Sir, these are to certify that there were forty-one soldiers, that went into the service out of the town of Torrington, in the year 1775, whose heads were all put into the common lists and county rates made thereon, 18s per head, which by a late act made and provided, they are all abated ; therefore Sir, we desire that the same may be credited to our collector, Elisha Smith, the whole thereof amounts to the sum of thirty-six pounds, 18s lawful money, etc.
These from your most humble servants.
Dated, Torrington 7th of April 1777.
JOHN COOK,
EPAPHRAS SHELDON. & Justices of the Peace.
JOHN STRONG.
AMOS WILSON, Selectmen." EPHRAIM BANCROFT,
In 1775, Goshen sent thirty-nine soldiers, New Hartford fifty-five, Cornwall twenty-nine, Harwinton thirty-two.
Early in August 1776, the aspect of affairs at New York was so threatening, that at the urgent request of General Washington, the governor and council of Connecticut, ordered the whole of the
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standing militia, west of the Connecticut river, with two regiments on the east side of the river, to march to New York city. This or- der took two companies from this town.
This year the militia of the state were called out five times. The defence of New London was met by the eastern part of the state ; and that of the western boundary in the autumn, by the west- ern towns. Therefore the Torrington companies may not have gone more than in the call to New York.
For the comfort of the militia, when they should go into the ser- vice, the assembly directed that each town should provide one tent for every £1,000 on the list, and Torrington standing £5,816.15s, was required to provide five, if not six tents. Hence, Dea. John Cook, then town treasurer, paid one order to the widow Mary Birge, by the hand of her son John Birge, for tent cloth, amounting to five pounds and six shillings, and also, paid Capt. John Strong, one of the selectmen, seven pounds and sixteen shillings lawful money, for tent cloth.
In May 1776, the necessity for regular soldiers who should remain in the army became more apparent, and the assembly made the regu- lar pay of a private forty shillings, and that of corporals and musicians forty-four shillings, and sergeants forty-eight. In December of the same year, to raise an army for the following two years, ten pounds were offered as a premium or bounty, and the same pay continued ; and in 1779, the authorities of this town paid as high as thirty pounds for one soldier, for three years or during the war.
Capt. EPAPHRAS SHELDON, of this town, was appointed cap- tain in the second, of the six battalions ordered in June 1776, to be "raised and marched directly to New York, and there join the Con- tinental army." The other officers of this company were ist lieu- tenant, John Rockwell; 2d lieutenant, Abner Wilson ; ensign, Charles Goodwin. In this company were probably two of the sons of the captain viz :
EPAPHRAS, aged twenty years, served his time, returned home, and after many years removed to Hannibal, Oswego county, N. Y., where he died in 1850, ninety-four years of age.
REMEMBRANCE, nineteen years of age, was taken prisoner by the British at Fort Washington ; was poisoned by the water and died in January, 1777.
WAIT, son of Capt. Epaphras, served in the war, and must have entered the army when fourteen or fifteen years of age ; returned, lived in this town and died in 1849, aged eighty-four years.
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The captain lived in this town until 1809, when he removed to Winchester, where he died in 1812, aged eighty years.
ELIJAH LOOMIS, son of Ichabod, was probably in this company and died a prisoner.
Capt. SHUBAEL GRISWOLD was appointed captain in December, 1776, with the following officers in his company : Jonathan Mason Ist lieutenant ; Theodore Catlin, 2d lieutenant ; Jesse Buell ensign. The men were enlisted from Torringford, Litchfield and Cornwall. The pay roll of this company is reported, in the state library, as lost ; yet Capt. Griswold made an extra roll, which he placed in the pocket of his journal, where it remained to the present, in spite of three generations of children, and more than a hundred years of wear and tear. It is well preserved, and beautiful to behold, except some hawk-eyed pictures, which have been scribbled on it either by sol- diers in the army, or those of the household.
The company marched to Sawpits where it joined the army.
The Marching Roll of Capt. Griswold's Company, March 4, 1777.
From Torrington.
From Litchfield.
John Burr,
Stephen Smith,
John Bissell,
Seth Coe,
Gideon Philips,
Solomon Woodruff,
Charles Roberts,
Abel Catlin,
Philo Woodruff,
Ambrose Fyler,
Simeon Ross,
Simeon Gibbs,
Jonathan Miller,
Timothy Gibbs,
Belah Benton.
Asaph Atwater,
Benjamin Stone,
From Cornwall.
John Birge,
Ashbel Catlin,
John Mebbins,
Isaac Filley,
Calvin Bissell,
Samuel Burton,
Timothy Loomis,
Benjamin Palmer,
Josiah Hopkins,
Ebenezer Bissell,
John Way,
Asahel Leet,
Return Bissell,
Abner Baldwin,
Solomon Johnson,
Daniel Winchell,
Philemon Wilcox,
Henry Philemor,
Frederick Bigelow,
Solomon Linsley,
Samuel Emmons,
Cotton Mather,
John Woodruff,
Israel Dibble,
Benjamin Frisbie,
Enoch Sperry,
Thomas White,
Thomas Skinner,
Dyer Cleaveland,
Elisha Damon,
Nathaniel Barber, Timothy Kelsey,
Solomon Hurson,
Joshua Hartshorn,
Noah Harrison,
Thomas Matthews, Stephen Rossiter, Elisha Kelsey.
Harris Hopkins, Timothy Linsley, Joel Taylor,
Asa Emmons,
Jonathan Bell, Simeon North.
Enos Bains,
Jernas Wadsworth,
The Torringford and Cornwall men marched eighty-five miles, and the Litchfield men seventy-five, before reaching the army, on which account the former received seven shillings and one pence, each, and the latter six shillings and three pence, as traveling ex-
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penses. Tradition says this company was in the northern campaign, going to Crown point and Montreal, taking Fort St. Johns, and re- turning in the winter, and this agrees with the reports preserved by the state.
Capt. MEDAD HILLS was appointed captain in December, 1776, and raised his company from Goshen, Torrington and Winchester, with the following officers : Timothy Stanley, lieutenant ; and John Dowd, ensign. Capt. Hills resided in Goshen, near the Torrington line, and is celebrated for the guns which he made during the war more than for the battles he fought ; for the reason that his guns have been seen more than his battles have been heard of, although he was a brave and honored soldier. He is said to have been in com- mand of two companies at the taking of New York city, by the Brit- ish and to have conducted himself and men to the honor of his country in that perilous time.
The several volunteer companies of the state this year, were put into one regiment and the assembly appointed Noadiah Hooker, col- onel ; James Root, lieut. col., and Medad Hills, major. Mr. Hills was afterwards appointed colonel.
The following persons being detached [drafted] in 1777, and paid their fines, each, five pounds of money :
Asahel Wilcox,
Samuel Beach, William Wilson,
Joseph Taylor,
Isaiah Tuttle,
George Baldwin,
Moses Loomis, Jr.,
Moses Loomis, for his son, second time,
Epaphras Loomis, Jr.,
George Baldwin, 2d draft,
Roger Wilson,
Noadiah Bancroft,
Ephraim Loomis,
Pardon Thrall,
Thomas Marshall,
Ashbel North,
Noah Fowler, Arial Brace,
[Samuel ] Cummings, Benjamin Beach.
In addition to these, Capt. Epaphras Loomis reported the fines of nine others in 1777. Twenty-three others gave their notes for these fines, and paid the notes in 1779, £115, amounting in all to two hund- red and sixty pounds. These funds were used by the town in giving extra pay to those who did go, and in hiring other soldiers. Capt. Epaphras Loomis's company received of this, forty-six pounds.
Benjamin Phelps, in January, 1779, " paid two hundred dollars for a fine for his son Jonathan, being detached and not going ; £60."
In 1779, the town treasurer paid the following sums for men as soldiers.
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" Paid Samuel Roberts for his service in the army £6, Ios. Paid an order in favor of Noah North for his hiring a man in the service, £10; to Capt. Amos Wilson for his hiring a man, etc., £10 ; to Urijah Cook for his hiring a man, etc., £10 ; to Ebenezer Leach for his service in the army, £10 ; to Daniel Grant for money paid for clothing £43, 75, 6d ; to Samuel Kelsey for his service in the army ; to Bushniel Benedect for cartouch box, £4, 45 ; to Daniel and Abraham Loomis for their hiring a man into the army £10 ; to Jabez Gillett for two soldier's blankets, £18 ; to Daniel Waller for his hir- ing a man etc., after he was detached, £10 ; to Dea. Miller for two blankets for the soldiers ££16 ; to Daniel Dibble for a soldier's blanket, £9 ; to Ambrose Fyler, a continental soldier, £13 ; to Jabez Gillett for a pot detached for the state use £12, 125, ; to Abner Loomis, to hire John Dear to go into the service in Phelps's boy's room, who paid his fine, £60."
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