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It is worthy of notice that this list contains a very large pro- portion of the men who had been prominent in the town during the twenty-five years preceding ; prominent in offices and as citizens, and in paying taxes and sustaining England in her wars against Spain and France. Capt. John Holbrook, whose name heads the list, was the man who with his wife, Abigail, had given the land for the site of the first Episcopal church and bury-
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ing-ground thirty-seven years before, but who, on the breaking out of the war, withdrew from that church and returned to the Congregational church and supported the war vigorously to the end. Some of them had been engaged many years in exporting produce and importing all kinds of merchandise, until Derby was as well known in foreign parts as any town in the Col- onies, and especially so in the West Indies.6 Whatever, there- fore, affected the Colonies, affected Derby, and the people un- derstood the fact and prepared themselves accordingly. No locality took its position of resistance more coolly, yet decidedly, boldly and manfully, than Derby. David Wooster, although born in Stratford, removing with his father into the town when about ten years of age, retaining it as his residence fifteen or more years, had distinguished himself in the Spanish and French wars, becoming quite celebrated, now took his stand for the rights of his native land, with great decision and firm- ness, although his old Tory friends of Stratford said if he "turned against his king he ought to be shot." William Hull, a liberally educated young lawyer, accepted the appointment of his native town as captain for the Derby company, with manly de. cision to serve during the war. His father, Joseph, a sea cap- tain as well as a military, went at the first call to New York, doing noble service. Captain Jabez Thompson, of high stand- ing, went out at the first call to Boston with several other offi- cers of the town, and returned in a few months entitled colonel. And back of these stood this first committee of inspection of thirty-two first-class men. One company of thirty-two or more had been to Boston in the first campaign. The whole military company had been to New York with General Wooster in the summer of 1775. Truly, Derby's flag need not trail in the dust the first year of the Revolution; and what is said by Hinman7 may be appropriately said of Derby. "At this critical junct- ure of the war, no Colony was more deeply interested in the result than Connecticut, and none better prepared for the emer- gency. The people of this Colony had for more than a century, enjoyed one of the most beneficent colonial governments that
6Produce was at that time carted from New Haven to Derby to be shipped to foreign parts.
7Connecticut in the Revolution, Royal R .. Hinman, p. 79.
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ever fell to the lot of the subjects of a monarchical government. They had literally governed themselves, although nominally subject to the crown of Great Britain. Notwithstanding their extraordinary privileges, no colony stepped forth with more alacrity to the aid of the oppressed people of Massachusetts, than Connecticut ; and none exhibited more sympathy, or poured forth its blood and treasure more freely in the onset. In the campaign of 1775, she sent forth her thousands to the aid of Massachusetts ; and not only this, but she was the first to com- mence operations against Great Britain. Her citizens, unaided by any other colony, had conquered the forts on Lake Cham- plain, captured the garrisons, and brought the prisoners and munitions into Connecticut. She had also been the first to rally in sustaining the cause of the Revolution in the commer- cial city of New York, where she had sent her militia, under General Wooster, in the summer of 1775. Again in the autumn of the same year, her citizens had destroyed one of the most offensive royal presses in the colonies ; and finally, by the ad- vice of General Washington, Connecticut had raised a force, which, commanded by General Lee, had wrested New York from the royal authority early in 1776." In all these move- ments except the printing press, Derby had an honorable, and in some of them, a conspicuous part.
In the summer of 1776, one-third of Washington's army in New York were from Connecticut, including from nine to ten thousand militia ; all the remainder of the militia of the state were ordered to Long Island, except two regiments. It is very probable, that all the soldiers or militia of Derby were at New York, and this too just at harvest time. In this year also, a company was enlisted at Derby ; William Clark, captain ; Edward Howd, lieutenant ; Jabez Pritchard, ensign.
Joseph Hull, brother of General William, was appointed lieutenant of artillery, and went to New York where he was taken prisoner and detained two years. (See his Biog.)
The real spirit of self-sacrifice and true loyalty of the Derby people to freedom is seen in the self-sacrifice of the following votes. It is easy to be patriotic when it costs nothing, but these votes were at the expense of every man that had provisions to sell.
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"February 10, 1777. Whereas the General Assembly of this state at their session at Middletown on the 18th of December last, by an act did regulate the prices of a number of articles in said act enumerated: and whereas it appears to this town that it is of the utmost consequence to the community in gen- eral, and to this town in particular, that said act shall be imme- diately carried into effect :
"Voted, therefore, that the town will by every legal means endeavor to have the directions of said act strictly complied with ; this town being fully sensible that it is the duty of every friend of his country, to sell and dispose of the articles enu- merated in the act of Assembly fixing the price of labor, provi- sions etc., at the prices at which they are therein stated; there- fore :
"Voted, that those of us who have any of them beyond what we want for our own consumption, will readily and cheerfully sell them, either for money or produce at the prices in said act stated; and that we will esteem all persons who shall not do the same, enemies to their country, and treat them accordingly, provided such person is properly convicted thereof before the committee of inspection of this town, whom we empower to take cognizance of such offenses.
" Voted, that this town do recommend the civil authority, se- lectmen, committee of inspection, constables and grand jurors, to proportion the several prices of the articles not enumerated in the act of Assembly and make the same public, that we may all know the same."
In 1777, they first appoint a committee to take care of the families of the soldiers in the army, consisting of John Coe, Da- vid De Forest, Capt. Thomas Clark.
In the autumn of 1778, the following committee to take care of the soldiers' clothing-that is, to invite and aid persons in making and forwarding such clothing and to see that the town received pay or credit, to balance for taxes to a certain extent,- were appointed.
Samuel Hull, David De Forest, Abraham Beecher, Capt. John Tomlinson,
Capt. Joseph Riggs, Isaac Smith, Reuben Tucker, Ebenezer Gracey,
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ANNUAL TAXES.
Capt. Timothy Baldwin,
Capt. Nathaniel Johnson,
Nathan Buckingham,
Joseph Russell,
Capt. John Riggs,
Capt. Hotchkiss, Esq.,
Lieut. Samuel Wheeler,
(Noah Tomlinson,
Samuel Bassett,
Thomas Clark, Esq.,
Daniel Holbrook, jun.,
John Howd,
Capt. John Holbrook,
"The town by their vote give to each soldier in the conti- nental army that counts for the town of Derby, ten pounds money each, in lieu of the linen overalls, linen shirts and shoes that were voted to them last year as a bounty."
The following rate, fixed the same year, was the lowest im- posed at any one year during the war. "The town grants a rate of one shilling and ninepence on the pound lawful money on the grand list to pay the bounty granted to the soldiers and to defray town charges." In 1775, the rate was one-half penny. And it was not in consequence of depreciated currency that the rate was so high now, for they had just accepted the prices fixed by the Assembly, which made wheat six shillings per bushel, rye three shillings and sixpence, and all other things proportion- ate. The list for Derby stood a little less than twenty thousand pounds in 1775. The amount of tax would nearly equal one- tenth of the list ; or one-tenth of the valuation on the assessors' list. This indicates somewhat the burden sustained in that war.
The following rates of tax were fixed by town vote in the year as indicated. There may have been other additional rates in some of the years named :
1775, one and one-half penny on the pound. Eleazer Hawkins, collector.
1776, two and one-half pence on the pound. David De For- est, collector.
1777, threepence on the pound.
1778, one shilling and ninepence on the pound for bounty and town expenses.
1779, six shillings lawful money on the pound. Mr. Ebenezer Keeney, collector.
1780, two shillings on the pound, lawful money. Mr. Eben- ezer Keeney, collector.
1780, an extra rate of sixpence on the pound to pay soldiers'
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bounties ; and a committee of Capt. John Riggs, Capt. Daniel Holbrook, Capt. Bradford Steele, to enlist continental soldiers and pay them their bounty.
GRAND LIST OF THE COLONY IN 1775.
Ashford,
17,273 II
3
New Haven,
73,210 6 2
Bolton,
10,526
I 0
New Milford,
28,169 18
3
Branford,
23,472 8
I
New Hartford,
8,837 18
6
Coventry,
20,856 14 0
New London,
35,528 17
6
Canterbury,
20,730 O
C
Norwich,
66,678 19
2
Canaan,
15,212
3
O
Norwalk
41,955 18
I
Chatham,
22,88I 8
O
New Fairfield,
12,273
3
6
Cornwall,
9,358 14
6
Newtown,
23,737 II ]
Colchester,
34,763
6 O
Plainfield,
14,216 16 0
Durham,
12,205 7
6
Preston,
25,272 14 II
Danbury,
28,501 10
8
Pomfret,
27,711 12 4
Derby,
19,313 19
7
Redding,
14,263
4 4
East Haddam,
26,674 18
0
Ridgefield,
17,49I
8
6
East Windsor,
27,409 15
6
Stonington,
38,213
5 10
Enfield,
12,478 15 0
Simsbury,
30,631 8 0
Fairfield,
51,278 15
6
Suffield,
19,140
9 0
Farmington,
66,577
3 10
Salisbury,
17,087
16 0
Greenwich,
24,632
7 II
Stratford,
52,611 16
7
Groton,
26,902 6
3
Stafford,
10,412 10 0
Glastenbury,
18,752 15 7
Saybrook,
26,304
8 0
Guilford,
36,406 14
5
Stamford,
34,078 2 9
Goshen,
11,348 18
0
Sharon,
17,325 16 0
Hartford,
48,120 10 0
Somers,
9,153 19 0
Hebron,
23,815 10 0
Tolland,
1,432 8 O
Haddam,
16,591
4
7
Torrington,
5,816 15 0
Harwinton,
8,023 18
O
Voluntown,
I 3,801
4 0
Killingly,
27,907 12 4
Windham,
32,222 IO
7
Killingworth,
20,22I
I
5
Wethersfield,
32,674
0
3
Kent,
16,97I 9
6
Waterbury,
37,064
3
3
Lebanon,
41,632
7
8 Wallingford,
51,504
2 9
Litchfield,
23,396 13 0
Windsor,
24,095
2 II
Lyme,
28,570 16 2
Woodstock,
20,800 0 0
Milford,
29,181 II 5
Willington,
8,660 7 I
Middletown,
42,567 12 9
Woodbury,
56,495 14 IO
Mansfield,
22,077 18 3
s. d.
s. d.
The committees for the soldiers' families and clothing for the soldiers were continued from year to year. Sometimes the state was required to furnish a certain amount of clothing, and this was proportioned to the counties and then to the towns,
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and the town committee were required to see that the cloth was obtained and the clothes made by the inhabitants of the town.
In the midst of privations and heavy taxes ; the departure of soldiers, and the returning of the sick, or more dreaded news than sickness, there was the terrible fear of the raids of the enemy all along the shore of Long Island Sound, Derby escap- ed any very serious visitation, although General Tryon made them one call as described by Doct. A. Beardsley, as follows :
PORK HOLLOW.
During the dark days of the Revolution, Derby, in common with many other towns of the colony, suffered from the red coats of King George. Some weeks prior to the burning of Danbury, when the gallant Brigadier General David Wooster was mortally wounded, the tory Governor of New York, Gener- al Tryon, with his two thousand men, learned that valuable military stores were secreted in Derby, which was then a sea- port town in advance of New Haven, carrying on a brisk trade with the West Indies. The stores consisting mostly of pork, were packed in the old building located on the Ousatonic, on land now owned and occupied by Messrs. A. H. and C. B. All- ing, a few rods east of the rear of L. L. Lomer's brick block recently erected on Main street in Birmingham, In architec- tural beauty and finish this structure would contrast oddly with the custom houses of to-day. The lower story, its wall, three feet thick, was built of rough stone, exteriorly resembling a coarse stone wall; the upper story was of heavy wood work, roofed over with rent clapboards, many of our older citizens, including the writer, well remember its antique appearance, though demolished fifty years ago.
General Tryon, whose barbarous footprints polluted the soil of Connecticut among its first invaders, sent a detachment to New Haven to annoy the people of Derby, and as this old tory was ever bent on plunder, but when this could not be accom- plished, he delighted in applying the torch of destruction to houses, churches, barns and other buildings, scattering in wild confusion defenseless women and children into narrow lanes and public streets, he determined to visit Derby. When his
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forces arrived at New Haven, Capt. John Tomlinson, who then lived at Derby Neck, in the old mansion now owned by Truman Piper, happened to be in that city, and, mistrusting the object of their mission, quickly mounted his horse, and spurred him on in hot haste over the hills until he reached the peaceful hamlet of Derby Narrows, when he shouted at the top of his voice " The British are in New Haven ; look out for your pork, look out for your pork !"
Now this Captain Tomlinson was a reliable man, a convert to the Whitefield doctrine, and it is said he did more praying and exhorting than half the town. He labored for the good of his fellow men. He lived to be ninety years old. In his last sick- ness a neighbor was called in to watch with him who was not particularly a religious man ; and who had on a short coat, but he was soon relieved of his expected night's work. When he entered the sick chamber Mr. Tomlinson greeted him with the salutation, "Be gone, thou enemy of all righteousness, the Devil never looked worse than when in a short coat."
When Tomlinson brought the news to Derby Narrows con- cerning the British, the day was far spent and the shades of evening were closing thick and fast, but in those times Yankee Doodle, ever on the alert, ready to fight for country and fireside, was equal to the emergency. Alarmed at the near approach of the enemy, men, women, and even boys sallied out, and soon · the work of removal to a place of safety commenced. Among others, a tall, slender lad aged sixteen years, named Isaac Smith, whose son in his old age still resides on the shores of the Ousatonic, was singled out to assist in taking care of the mili- tary stores. His father, by the same name, was then an officer in the militia company from Derby stationed at Danbury, and we may here mention that the old slave, Quash, father of Gov- ernor Roswell Quash [colored] who died about two years ago, was his body guard. Young Smith full of patriotic fire, yoked his father's oxen, hitched them to his cart, and soon the work of hauling the pork from the old building was in lively opera- tion. Load after load was conveyed up the lonely cart and cow paths, zigzag here and there among the shrub oaks, guided only by the glittering stars, and dumped into the famous hollow about a quarter of a mile below the almshouse on the right of
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the main road as you now go to Seymour in West Ansonia. This hollow was dense with low shrub oaks, furnishing a capital hiding place. Yet some have attempted to establish the hollow a little to the east of the one named, but this is of little conse- quence since each is in close proximity to the other.
It is said that the British appeared on the east hill near the old Col. Jackson place, but the tory sentinels of the town, few in number, from some cause failed to connect with their allies, and thus General Tryon was cheated out of his coveted game. It has been believed by some that the hiding of pork in Derby from the tories in the Revolution was more of romance than reality, but reliable testimony obtained through patient re- searches establishes its authenticity beyond a question. Pork Hollow should live in our memories.
More than a hundred years have rolled away ; the shrub oaks are gone, and the farmers ploughshare has made smooth and even the rough places in this deep, deep hollow, yet the passer by as he lingers around this revolutionary spot, may drink in admira- tion for the noble efforts of our rude forefathers, who helped to lay deep and broad the foundations of the government under which we now live. Here the selfish patriots of to-day may learn that neither inglorious love of money, nor the rewards of ambition, were the incentives to defeat, in his madness, General Tryon, that remorseless and implacable foe to the interests of the American Colonists.
The committees appointed, and the objects for which they were appointed, constitute a large proportion of the town records of the Revolution. If the town treasurer's book for that time could be found, the amount of work and expense would more fully appear, but diligent search does not secure so valuable a prize, although the book with accounts beginning just after the war is well preserved ; when one is starved to death of what value then is abundance of food ?
1779. Committee to procure soldiers' clothing, etc. :
Benjamin Bassett, Isaac Smith, Capt. Timothy Baldwin, Joseph Chatfield, Amos Bassett,
Joseph Wheeler, Capt. Bradford Steele,
James Pritchard, Samuel Hull,
Capt. Daniel Holbrook,
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Agar Tomlinson,
. Noah Tomlinson,
Capt. John Tomlinson,
Eli Hawkins,
John Coe, Nathan Buckingham,
Abiel Fairchild, jun.,
Isaac Beecher,
Robert Wheeler,
Abraham Bassett,
Jonathan Lumm, jun.,
Capt. John Riggs,
Samuel Bassett,
Joseph Russell.
Moses Wheeler,
Early in March, 1780, another committee, unnamed before, appears, as inspectors of provisions :
Capt. John Tomlinson,
Agar Tomlinson,
Capt. Daniel Holbrook,
Lieut. John Basset,
Reuben Baldwin,
Webb Tomlinson,
Capt. Bradford Steele,
Abiel Fairchild, jun.,
Capt. Nathan Pierson,
Samuel Bassett,
Josiah Smith,
Capt. John Riggs,
Terrell Whitmore,
Lieut. Levi Hotchkiss,
Gideon Johnson,
Ithiel Perkins.
Capt. Henry Whitney,
David Tomlinson.
Lieut. Abraham Smith,
ELEGY®, BY GENERAL DAVID HUMPHREYS, ON THE BURNING OF FAIRFIELD, IN CONNECTICUT.
Ye smoking ruins, marks of hostile ire, Ye ashes warm, which drink the tears that flow, Ye desolated plain, my voice inspire, And give soft music to the song of woe.
How pleasant, Fairfield, on th' enraptur'd sight Rose thy tall spires, and op'd thy social halls ! How oft my bosom beat with pure delight, At yonder spot where stand the darken'd walls !
But there the voice of mirth resounds no more, A silent sadness through the streets prevails : The distant main alone is heard to roar, And hollow chimneys hum with sullen gales-
Save where scorch'd elms th' untimely foliage shed, Which, rustling, hovers round the faded green- Save where, at twilight, mourners frequent tread, 'Mid recent graves o'er desolation's scene.
8 Written in 1779, on the spot where that town stood.
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Lieut. Joseph Riggs,
Capt. Daniel Chatfield,
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BURNING OF FAIRFIELD.
How chang'd the blissful prospect, when compar'd, These glooms funereal, with thy former bloom, Thy hospitable rights when Tryon shar'd, Long ere he seal'd thy melancholy doom !
That impious wretch, with coward voice decreed Defenseless dooms and hallow'd fanes to dust ; Beheld, with sneering smile, the wounded bleed, And spurr'd his bands to rapine, blood and lust.
Vain was the widow's, vain the orphan's cry, To touch his feelings, or to soothe his rage- Vain the fair drop that roll'd from beauty's eye, Vain the dumb grief of supplicating age.
Could Tryon hope to quench the patriot flame, Or make his deeds survive in glory's page ? Could Britons seek of savages the fame, Or deem it conquest, thus the war to wage ?
Yes, Britons ! scorn the councils of the skies, Extend wide havoc, spurn th' insulted foes ; Th' insulted foes to tenfold vengeance rise, Resistance growing as the danger grows.
Red in their wounds, and pointing to the plain, The visionary shapes before me stand- The thunder bursts, the battle burns again, And kindling fires encrimson all the strand.
Long dusky wreaths of smoke, reluctant driven, In black'ning volumes o'er the landscape bend : Here the broad splendor blazes high to heav'n, There umber'd streams in purple pomp ascend.
In fiery eddies, round the tott'ring walls, Emitting sparks, the lighter fragments fly ; With frightful crash the burning mansion falls, The works of years in glowing embers lie.
Tryon, behold thy sanguine flames aspire, Clouds ting'd with dyes intolerable bright ; Behold, well pleas'd, the village wrapt in fire; Let one wide ruin glut thy ravished sight !
Ere fades the grateful scene, indulge thine eye, See age and sickness, tremulously slow, Creep from the flames-see babes in torture die, And mothers swoon in agonies of woe. 24
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Go gaze, enraptur'd with the mother's tear, The infant's terror, and the captive's pain,
Where no bold bands can check thy curst career ; Mix fire with blood on each unguarded plain !
These be thy triumphs ! this thy boasted fame ! Daughters of memr'y, raise the deathless songs !
Repeat through endless years his hated name, Embalm his crimes, and teach the world our wrongs.
In 1777, Congress provided that in order to pledged fidelity to the United States, persons should take an oath of fidelity in addition to the freeman's oath to the state. It was this oath of fidelity that was accepted by the following persons ; and in it Derby showed a noble list of loyalty to the new nation. Dur- itg several years thereafter two oaths were administered, the freeman's oath and the oath of fidelity.
"Derby, Sept. 16, 1777. The persons hereafter named, had the oath provided by law for freemen administered to them in open freemen's meeting, viz. :
Rev. Mr. Daniel Humphrey,
John Howd,
Rev. Mr. David Bronson,
David Johnson,
Charles French, Esq.,
John Riggs, jun.,
John Davis, Esq.,
Noah Tomlinson,
Eliphalet Hotchkiss, Esq.,
Thomas Yale,
James Beard, Esq.,
Deacon Daniel Holbrook, jun.,
Thomas Clark, Esq.,
Capt. Nathaniel Johnson,
Capt. John Holbrook,
Abraham Hawkins,
Agar Tomlinson, Joseph Durand,
Capt. John Tomlinson,
Benjamin Tomlinson,
Capt. Nathan Pierson,
Capt. Joseph Riggs, Abraham Bassett,
Daniel Todd,
David DeForest,
Peter Johnson,
Philo Johnson, John Coe,
Isaac Tomlinson,
Daniel Chatfield,
Doctor Edward Craft,
Reuben Baldwin,
Eleazer Hawkins,
Gideon Johnson, Nathan Mansfield,
Capt. Timothy Baldwin, -
Joseph Pickett,
Amos Bassett, Samuel Wheeler, jun.,
Bradford Steele,
E. Turrel Whitemore, Henry Whitney, Abraham Beecher,
Joseph Davis, jun., Jeremiah Johnson, John Botsford,
Isaac Smith,
Levi Thompson,
Webb Tomlinson,
Capt. William Clark,
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ENLISTED UNDER THE OATH.
Enos Bradley, Jonathan Hitchcock, Noah French, Daniel Todd, Joseph Pierson, Ebenezer Gracey,
David Pierson, Samuel French,
Joseph Chatfield,
Joseph Riggs, jun.,
Samuel Allen,
Ashbel Loveland,
Timothy Baldwin, jun., Benjamin Bassett,
John Adee,
Nathaniel French,
Elijah Hotchkiss, Asahel Johnson,
Abraham Downs,
Samuel Johnson, jun.
April 13, 1778.
Capt. Joseph Lumm, William Hine,
Joseph Loveland, Lemuel Lumm, Eleazer Lewis, Enoch Smith, Ebenezer Bassett, John Crawford, John Humphrey, Ranford Whitney, Isaac Durand, Jehiel Spencer, Capt. Nathan Smith, Thaddeus Hine, Ebenezer Johnson, Gold Bartholomew, Samuel Russell,
Joseph Tomlinson, Nathan Buckingham, Zechariah Fairchild, Nathan Mansfield, Freegift Hawkins, Edward Howd, Lieut. Oliver Curtiss, Samuel Smith, Nathan Davis, jun., Micah Pool, Jehiel Spencer, Joseph Canfield, Ithiel Perkins, John Roe, Israel French, jun., Hezekiah Johnson, Thaddeus Baldwin, Joseph Wheeler, Ebenezer Hitchcock, Samuel Botsford, jun., Eleazer Lewis,
Eben Hinman,
Joseph Sherwood, Nehemiah Botsford,
Samuel Hull, jun., David Hitchcock,
Noah French,
Jonathan Lumm, jun., Elijah Davis, David Bassett,
Reuben Perkins,
Thomas Horsey,
Joseph Canfield,
Doctor Silas Baldwin,
Abijah Hull, Andrew Smith,
James Humphrey, Lewis Hubbell, Nathaniel Johnson,
Moses Riggs,
Samuel Wheeler, Robert Wheeler, Andrew Smith, Beman Hall, Philo Holbrook,
Isaac Johnson,
Noah Durand, jun.,
James Pritchard, jun.,
Benjamin Carpenter, Richard Smith,
Elisha Griffin, William Burrett, Freegift Hawkins, Capt. Jeremiah Gillett, Joseph Smith, Joseph Johnson, Joseph Hawkins, Ebenezer Bassett, Daniel Davis,
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Enoch Smith,
Joseph Russell,
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