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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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MAJ GEN. ARTEMAS WARD. Stale of Massachusetts Bay. Council Chamber July 23. 1777.
Antenas Ward, Prefet.
FAMILY REGISTER
OF THE
INHABITANTS
OF THE
TOWN OF SHREWSBURY, MASS.
FROM ITS SETTLEMENT IN 1717 TO 1829,
AND OF SOME OF THEM TO A LATER PERIOD.
BY ANDREW H. WARD, Member of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society.
While a knowledge of things is good, that, of the generations of men should not be neglected.
BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL G. DRAKE, 56 CORNHILL. J. HOWE, PRINTER, 39 MERCHANTS ROW. 1847.
CORRECTION OF ERRORS.
Page 28, 4th line from top, dele see page 37.
43, 5th line from bottom, for Deering, read Dewing.
" 46, 6th line from bottom, for 1802, read 1824.
" 94, 15th line from bottom, for David Fay, read Adam Fay.
98, in the note, 6th line from top, for his children saw, read his children's children saw.
" 228, 8th line from top, for sister of the Rev. Job Cushing, read sister of the wife of the Rev. Job Cushing.
" 255, 10th line from bottom, for July 2, 1814, read July 22. 1814.
" 260, 10th line from top, for Whedlocr, read Wheelock.
The reader is desired to make the above corrections with his pen on the pages designated.
Alexander W. Bellows is not the son of John Bellows, Jun., as stated on p. 37.
PREFACE TO THE INTRODUCTION.
This publication is a portion of a work'exceeding 500 pages entitled a " History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Mass., from its settlement in 1717 to 1829, with other matter not before published, including an extensive Family Register."
While that work was going through the press, it was thought the number of copies ordered would be insufficient to supply the demand. It was then too late to extend that number ; a few copies therefore, consisting only of the FAMILY REG- ISTER, were stricken off, as an extra supply of that part of the work in which it was supposed most interest would be taken.
The introduction in this is the same as in the entire work, although the two first paragraphs and some other portion of it are irrelavant to the Family Register, yet it is inserted here entire, for the general information contained in it, and to enable him, who wishes for a copy, the better to determine which of the two to take, the History, which includes the Family Register, or the Family Register alone.
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This work is entitled a History of the Town, but is rather a History of its PEOPLE, with some particulars relating to its set- tlement and progress, to 1829, and other matters from sundry re- cords, desirable to be known in connection with the families and individuals of whom some account will be found in the Family Register.
Very little, if any thing contained in a sketch of the town, which I furnished and was published in the Worcester Magazine in 1826, will be found here ; that sketch was hastily prepared, and was imperfect, if nothing more, inasmuch as it was destitute of genealogical information.
To furnish a Family Register of the inhabitants of the town, from its settlement to a recent period, was the chief, if not the sole, cause of this undertaking ; in preparing which it became de- sirable to learn the ancestry of the early settlers ; that I have been enabled to do (of many families, and to an early period in the settlement of the country, and more diffusely than will appear here) by means of copies of records of the towns embraced in Middlesex County ; some of these records extend back to 1630, and others, to remote periods as the settlements progressed. They are voluminous, and have been procurred at great expense ; in addition to them some were obtained of other towns, whereby the field for research was enlarged, and the labor of searching out ancestry not a little increased ; for that labor I have been com- pensated in obtaining to a considerable extent, the information desired, and in acquiring a knowledge of the fact, that much can be gathered from them to gratify those, who are seeking a knowl- edge of their ancestry, whether in the line through which they descended, or of the collateral branches of the respective genera- tions. Some information of the ancestry of the early settlers will
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be found in notes under the respective family heads, and in which all will feel an interest, more particularly their descendants, and those, who have become connected with them. In tracing them before their settlement here, I have, for the most part, confined my account of thein to their line direct to the remotest ancestor in this country of whom I could obtain a knowledge in the little time devoted to it, without speaking of the collateral branches of the different generations to the extent I could have done, as the object of this work did not require it, and its limits would not ad- mit of so wide a range.
In pursuing the inquiry, my information has been extended, and my curiosity gratified.
By the records of olden time, I have been introduced not only to the ancient dead, whose works live in history, and whose deeds are related in story, but made acquainted with numerous family lines of subsequent generations and their wide spread connections.
In this compilation I introduce them to the reader, with an ac- count of some of their descendants, their families, &c., and of others, whose remote ancestry I could not, or had not time to trace. What reflections have not arisen in my mind, while pre- paring it ! What will not be produced in his, who reads it ! The aged will meditate upon it, and recall to mind many things they had forgotten, if they ever knew them; while the young, with more buoyant feelings, perusing it for information, will find it an instructive compendium of genealogy, and some of the historical matter entertaining, when drawn around the evening fireside, where more frequently occur an interchange of thoughts and a participation in feelings, that give a zest to amusement.
Such is the subject matter of it, and drawn from records to minuteness of detail, that as time passes the interest taken in it will increase and extend to distant parts, where relatives and de- scendants, having left the place of their birth, have taken up their abode with little knowledge of their ancestry, and destitute of the means of acquiring it ; to such particularly, and their children, and their children's children, the Family Register will be a valu- able source of information, while all will find in it some things they never knew before.
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Who has not a desire to know something of the people of a town, as well as of its location, its ponds, hills and natural advan- tages ? Who they were, and who their ancestors, that were here before us, and have long since departed ? Who they were, that laid the foundations, religious, political and social, on which we are raising superstructures? Who they were, that commenced, under great privations and dangers, what we are now enjoying in abundance and without molestation ? Is there not a spirit in man that yearns, as the babe for the mother's breast, to know who, and what his family, that lived of old on the place he himself now oc- cupies ? who subdued the forests, ploughed the fields and sowed where he himself now reaps? whence he came, with whom he was connected in the tenderest ties of family relation, when he died, and whom he left to uphold his name ? perhaps his ancestor .!
There is such a spirit in man, and we rejoice in the belief, that it is waking out of sleep and seeking a knowledge of them that have passed away. Under the influence of feelings, that natur- ally give rise to such inquiries, I copied from the records of the town before I removed, but merely for my own curiosity, without expecting or intending to make the use of them I now have, all the marriages, births and deaths, from its settlement to 1829, that could be found thereon, including some other matter, and a list of the town officers as exhibited herein, from 1727 to 1829, both years inclusive. Since which time, and recently, to aid in mak- ing the Register more full and complete, I have copied the records of the church from its organization in 1723 to 1824, which con- tain the admissions to, and dismissions from it, and the baptisms in it during that period, with other ecclesiastical matter on record. There I found the names and a record of the baptisms of many children, whose births had not been put on the town record ; hence I have been able to preserve the names and give an account of some children, that otherwise must have been omitted in the Reg- ister, and of whom, in little time, all knowledge would be lost, and consequently their origin unknown. They will be found under the parental head, with the time of baptism, which in early times was the next Sabbath after birth-and in several instances, as ap- pears of record, both happened on the same day. More children
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were baptized formerly than of late years, and earlier in life. Herein will be found an account of all the families that have lived in town previous to 1829, so far as a knowledge of them can be had by a record of a birth or death in any one of them, including those whose children were baptized, but had not their births re- corded. While omitting none, I have gone into a detail with all, so far as records would enable me to do ; nothing short of a detail of particulars will or ought to satisfy the reader in tracing his an- cestry and family connection. Where dates are given, they are taken from the records, but the records themselves are not always correct. Errors must be expected in a work like this ; some have been discovered and noted in an errata ; others no doubt will be found, some of them arising on my part, and some from erroneous information. The belief that such would be the case, and that errors innumerable would creep in, came near discouraging me, and more than once, when this work was half completed, I thought to abandon it altogether; but considering that, if every one should fold up his arms and attempt nothing, because he might make mis- takes, not any thing would be done, and that he who labors for good, and aims to be correct, will, even if he fails in it, have the credit of trying, I persevered, and the result is before the public.
Two years have elapsed since it was commenced ; other avo- cations have occupied most of my time by day, and prevented its earlier appearance ; it has been prepared at intervals, and much of it when others were asleep. Of the Family Register, it is not known, that one on this plan, so full and minute, in family detail, has before been attempted. In some instances it is brought down later than to 1829 of those who were there before that time ; of those who have moved into town since that period, I know so lit- tle, I could say nothing that would be satisfactory to them or my- self. In most of what I have read of genealogy I have found the females to have been neglected ; they have not received that attention to which they were and are entitled, they have often been not so much as named ; it will not be found so here. What are the lords of creation without the beauty of it !
West Newton, Sept. 1847.
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The people of New England, for many years after its first settlement, called the days of the week by numbers, and not by the names we have for them ; beginning with the Sabbath, which they called the first, the next day the second, and Saturday the seventh.
They used no names for the months. These also were called by numbers, beginning with March, which was the first month, and February, the twelfth and last in the year ; "because (says Lechford) they would avoid all memory of heathenish and idol's names."
The manner of computing time by the Julian Calendar was in use from the year 325 to 1751. By that Calendar, every fourth year was a leap year of 366 days, and, at length, was found to be erroneous; as the spring equinox, which happened on the twenty-first of March, 325, happened on the ninth of March, in 1751; when, by Stat. Geo. II., for regulating the commence- ment of the year, &c., the style was changed, the year to begin on the first day of January, 1752, and the third day in Septem- ber, 1752, to be called the fourteenth ; and every fourth year to be leap year of 366 days, excepting each hundredth year. Eleven days were thus omitted, and a leap year being omitted in 1800, one day is to be added, making 12 days, the difference now between old and new style.
Pope Gregory XIII. corrected the Julian Calendar in, 1582. The Catholic countries immediately adopted the correction ; and, to conform to it, England and her colonies adopted double dating, until 1752.
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Previous to that Stat., the year was considered as beginning on the 25th of March, and, according to ancient reckoning, March was the first and February the last month in the year. Thus, for instance, what we write 22d Feb. 1732, was then written, 22, 12, 1731-2. In this compilation, where the dates occur be- tween Jan. 1, and March 25, the year conforms to the new style, while the days of the months remain unaltered.
ABBREVIATIONS.
D. for daughter, b. born, m. married, d. died, s. son, w. wife, grad. graduate, H. U. Harvard University, D. C. Dartmouth Col- lege, B. U. Brown University, bap. baptized, chh. church, sup. supposed, chil. children, pub. published for marriage, and others which will be understood by the reader. Names of children are in italic.
ADAMS, JONATHAN, sup. from Dracut, m. Hepzibah Ba- ker, of Westboro', 1755, lived near Northboro' town line, on the old post road, d. April 22, 1802, aged 80, his wid. Hepzibah, May 19, 1802, aged 79. Chil. Mary, b. March 9, 1756, and d. June 9, 1759; Jonathan, Feb. 13, 1758; Mary, Sept. 12, 1761, and m. Timothy Underwood, 1791 ; Sarah, May 23, 1763, and m. Jasper Rand, May 15, 1803, his second w .; Hepzibah, April 7, 1768. Daniel Adams, brother of Jonathan, Sen. m. Abigail Hardy, of Westboro', May 21, 1752, and settled there.
ADAMS, JONATHAN, Jr. (s. of Jona.) m. Dorothy, D. of Dr. Eward Flint, Feb. 16, 1790. Child, Andrew, b. Jan. 24, 1791 and d. 7 days old. They removed to Barre, where she was recently living at the age of 85 years.
Mary Adams, called of Worcester, sister of Jona. Sen. m. Lewis Allen, 1770.
ALEXANDER, JAMES,*m. Deborah Thompson, of Bos- ton ; she d. March 7, 1786. Chil. William Thompson, b. Sept.
* Scotchman, naturalized by Mass. Legislature, March 5, 1786, a private soldier in Burgoyne's army, from which while on their march through this town to Boston,
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5, 1780; Ruth Thompson, Dec. 21, 1782, and m. in Boston. He next m. Hannah Hager, of S. Sept. 12, 1786. (Her D. Lovisa Howe, b. previous to her mother's marriage, m. Benjamin Morse, of Boylston March 30, 1807.) Chil. James, b. June 19, 1787; David, July 28, 1788; Warren, Feb. 20, 1790, and d. unmarried, May 9, 1836; Abraham, Jan. 5, 1792; Elisha, May 3, 1793; John, who d. June 2, 1794, 6 mo .; Hannah, Nov. 4, 1797, and m. Cyrus Drake, Sept. 22, 1819. His wife Hannah, d. Dec. 19, 1818, aged 62. He m. wid. Elizabeth Floyd, of Southboro', Sept. 14, 1819. She d. May 25, 1834, aged 76. He d. May 18, 1841, aged 87.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM THOMPSON, (s. of James,) went to Worcester, there m. Anna, lived there some years and then returned ; their D. Eliza, b. June 30, 1807, and Charlotte, who d. Oct. 21, 1821, aged 16. He m. Lucy, D. of Asa Par- ker, April 2, 1822, and removed from town.
ALEXANDER, JAMES, Jr. (s. of James,) went to Graf- ton, there m. Sarah Leland, and had a family of children, lived some years in Southboro', returned and d. here Sept. 29, 1838, aged 51.
ALEXANDER, DAVID, (s. of James,) m. Harriet, D. of Fortunatus Nichols, of Westboro'. Chil. David Hartley Phipps, b. Nov. 8, 1814 ; Cincinnatus Nichols, May 20, 1817 ; Harriet Kemble, Sept. 18, 1820, and d. Oct. 14, 1821 ; Mary Sophia, Jan. 9, 1810; Harriet Kemble, Nov. 29, 1822. His w., Har- riet, d. Oct. 4, 1830, aged 38.
as prisoners, he strolled away, and was found by the Rev. Mr. Sumner, early in the morning, in his barn, on the haymow. Mr. Sumner took him into his house, where, being relieved of his hunger, and appearing intelligent, and desirous of employ- ment, a cordwainer by trade, he remained for some time, working at his trade. Before the close of the war, to so low an ebb had paper money fallen, Mr. Sumner, having a large family, proposed to give him the amount of his salary in continental money, if he would keep his family well shod. He was a great reader ; well versed in ancient history, and a member of the church 55 years.
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ALEXANDER, ABRAHAM, (s. of James,) m. - , lived here a short time, and removed. Their D. Nancy, d. here in 1822, aged 18 months.
ARNOLD, REBECCA, m. Unity Brown, of Dorchester, Canada, now Ashburnham, Aug. 16, 1759.
ABBOT. Families of this name had arrived and settled in Massachusetts, as early as 1630; some of them from Yorkshire, England.
ABBOT, EBENEZER, from Andover, whose w. was Mar- tha, lived on the road leading from the post road towards Simon Maynard's. His house stood on the hill, northerly of the brook ; he was a miller. The remains of his mill-dam, &c., on the brook, are yet visible. Chil. Susanna, b. Oct. 13, 1759, and d. Aug. 31, 1770; Sarah, Sept. 10, 1763, and d. Sept. 3, 1770; Moody, June 29, 1765, and d. Sept. 4, 1770; John, Sept. 22, 1767, and d. Nov. 22, 1770 ; Lewis, Sept. 26, 1769; John Moody, March 2, 1771 ; Isaac, who d. Nov. 5, 1773; Isaac, Dec. 9, 1773. Their chil. d. of the dysentery, which prevailed in the town to an alarming degree in 1770. The father survived these repeated shocks but a short time. He d. July 21, 1775, aged 54. His wid. Martha, m. Henry Baldwin, Sen. 1778.
ABBOT, SAMUEL. What connection of Ebenezer, if any, is unknown. He m. Bathsheba Dustin, of Andover, 1758. Chil. Olive, b. March 30, 1760; Ebenezer, Feb. 8, 1762; Molly, June 3, 1764 ; Lucinda and Eusebia, twins, April 20, 1766 ; Asa, Nov. 20, 1768; Ward, April 15, 1771.
ABBOT MARTHA, m. Nymphas Stacy, 1781.
ALLEN, SILAS,* (s. of Noah,) came from Medfield with .a family, and lived on the Elijah Rawson farm, so called. His
*Ancient records have the name, Allyne, Allyn, Alline and Allen ; probably all one, originally.
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wife was Priscilla Plympton. She d. Feb. 26, 1824, aged 71 ; and he, April 6, 1834, aged 84. Chil. who came to S. Asahel, Noah, Silas and Elizabeth Cunningham, who m. Ephraim Hap- good, 1796.
ALLEN, ASAHEL, (s. of Silas,) m. Lucy, D. of Jonas Hemenway, May 8, 1800. She d. Feb. 24, 1804, aged 23. He next m. Mary Jennison Harrington, wid. of Josiah, and D. of Hollis Parker, April 9, 1805. Chil. by last w., Asahel Plympton, b. 1806; Lucy Hemenway, Feb. 15, 1809; Daniel Waldo, May 17, 1811 ; Elizabeth Waldo, Aug. 17, 1813. He with his family removed to New Hampshire.
ALLEN, Capt. NOAH, (s. of Silas,) m. Irene, D. of Jonas Hemenway, Jan. 1, 1804, and d. Jan. 4, 1845, aged 65g. Chil. Lucy, b. Oct. 23, 1804, and m. Uriah Bartlett ; Jonas Hemenway, Jan. 14, 1807; Hannah Almira, July, 1811, and m. John Baxter Plympton, Sept. 4, 1732; Asa Henry, Nov. - 22, 1815, and m. Catharine Black, of Holden. Chil. Eliza Lamb, Marion E. and Cyrus Bullard.
ALLEN, JONAS H. (s. of Capt. Noah,) m. Clarinda, D. of Lyman Howe, Dec. 4, 1831. Chil. Charles L. b. March 12, 1834 ; Jonas H. Aug. 21, 1836.
ALLEN, Capt. SILAS, Jr. (s. of Silas,) m. Elizabeth Lamb, of Spencer, and lives on the homestead. Chil. on record, Cyrus Bullard, b. Jan. 31, 1807, and d. unmarried in Philadelphia, some years since, of small pox ; Arnold Lamb, March 25, 1809; Simon Hapgood, Nov. 8, 1811.
ALLEN, ARNOLD L. (s. of Silas, Jr.) m. Caroline Maria, D. of Erastus Sumner, Feb. 26, 1833, and removed to St. Louis, Missouri.
ALLEN, SIMON H. (s. of Silas, Jr., m. Abigail, D. of Nymphas Pratt, Esq. July 7, 1835. Their D. Mary E. b. Nov. 10, 1838, d. Feb. 27, 1840. They removed to St. Louis.
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ALLEN, Capt. NATHANIEL, of sea-faring life, from Bos- ton, settled here as early as 1757, on the place where Col. Jos. Henshaw afterwards lived and died. He d. Nov. 1, 1770, aged 71. His wid. (her name does not appear on the town records,). removed soon after his decease, to Leicester, and d. there. He left sons, but none of their names are on record. Lewis is the only one whose name has come to my knowledge.
ALLEN, LEWIS, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Mary Adams, of Worcester, sister of Jonathan, Sen. of S. 1770. He was a rank tory in the early part of the Revolution, but, the place growing too hot for him, he removed to Leicester, and d. there.
ALLEN, EPHRAIM, from Rutland, m. Huldah Chesnut, July 12, 1757. Chil. Ephraim, b. April 9, 1763; Elisha, March 7, 1765. Huldah was probably the wid. of William Chesnut, and D. of Elisha Maynard.
ALLEN, SIMEON, m. Candace, D. of Capt Nathan Howe, Sen. 1772, and had John, b. July 20, 1772. Removed to Princeton, and there had Candace and others. Candace m. Jo- nah Howe, Esq.
ALLEN, ELNATHAN," admitted to the church here from that in Hopkinton, Oct. 11, 1730, and d. in 1734, as mentioned
# In a letter, of which I have had the perusal, from Madam Allen, widow of the late Rev. Wilkes Allen, deceased, it is said, " Matthew Allen came with Hooker's company, 1632, and settled at Mount Wollaston- thence to Newton, now Cam- bridge" - that Elnathan Allen, with his brother, Obadiah, removed from Hopkin- ton to Shrewsbury. That they were admitted to the chh. in S. from that in H., 1730, and that Elnathan died, 1734, by falling from a load of hay ;" " and that El- nathan had one son, Israel, and five daughters," &c. Hence, it may be inferred, that Matthew Allen was considered by the Rev. Wilkes Allen, (for what of geneal- ogy is in the letter, purports to have been taken from his papers,) the ancestor of the family that came from Hopkinton to Shrewsbury. After a long and extensive search, I have come to the conclusion, and I think correctly, that Elnathan was the grandson of Matthew, and son of Daniel and Mary Allen, who had David b. July 1, 1659, and Rebecca, Jan. 15, 1661, in Charlestown; Samuel, April 17, 1664, and Elnathan, Feb. 11, 1666, in Lancaster, and Ebenezer, Dec. 26, 1674, in Watertown, whither they may have retired for safety, as did many families, to that and other towns, from Lancaster, before and at the time of its destruction by the Indians.
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in note below. His wife's name was Mary, but, as it does not appear on church or town record, she had probably deceased before he came to Shrewsbury. His children appear, all of them, to have been of adult age at that time ; although not on the town record, I have the births of some of them. They were, Obediah, Irael, b. Dec. 20, 1705 ; Elizabeth, who m. Edward Newton ; Anna, who m. Amos Pratt, 1722, grandfather of " Master" Nathan Pratt ; Mary, b. July 14, 1711, and d. unmarried 3 Thankful, Dec. 9, 1713, and m. Daniel Whitney, whose D. Sarah, m. Nathan Bannister.
ALLEN, OBEDIAH, (s. of Elnathan,) and his wife, Su- sanna, came here with a family of children, chh. 1730. His wife, Susanna, d. Feb. 16, 1740. Chil. as on town and church rec. ; perhaps not all of them b. here ; Daniel, b. April 8, 1721 ; Obediah, May 6, 1723; Jonathan, June 10, 17:5; Lucy, Aug. 4, 1728; Miriam, Nov. 4, 1730; Persis, Aug. 4, 1735. He
What was Elnathan's age, who d. in 1734, does not appear; if he was the son of Daniel, as I suppose, his age was 68.
There is a record in Boston. of George and Susannah Allen having a son Elna- than, b. Dec. 26, 1653, and, had he died in 1734, would then have been 81 ; an age; that renders it improbable, that he would be on a load of hay at that time of life. These two are the only Allens, born out of this town, that I have found in all the records I have seen and examined, running through a period of 175 years, who were called Elnathan. That the Elnathan who came to Shrewsbury, was the son' of Daniel, and he, of Matthew, does not militate with any known opinion enter- tained by any of their descendants, real or supposed. That Elnathan was the father, and not the brother, of Obediah, can hardly admit of a doubt. The church record, without designating the relation they stood in to each other, says, " Elna- than and Obediah Allen were admitted, &c., to full church privilege, Oct 11, 1730, by virtue of a letter of recommendation from the church of Christ in Hopkinton."
Elnathan had sons, Obediah and Israel, and Obediah, in 1736, after the death of their father, makes a conveyance, in which he calls himself of Shrewsbury. and says, " I acquit and discharge my brother, Israel Allen, of the same town, of all dues, legacies," &c., " or land, which was formerly my Hon. father's, Elnathan Allen, late of Shrewsbury, deceased, and now in the possession of the said Israel." That farm has been in the possession of Israel's decendant's to this day. Cbediah lived on the farm now owned by Henry Cary. On the first organization of the town militia, he was one of the four first appointed sergeants. The others were William Taylor, Simon Maynard, and Gershom Wheelock. Their first names gave place to their military title, and they were afterwards known and called through fife, Sergeant Allen, Sergeant Taylor, Sergeant Maynard and Sergeant Wheelock 3 a title of more regard in that period, than that of Colonel at the present day.
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