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Amos Upton, Jr.
Amos Upton, 3d.
Eben'r Upton.
John Clummons. Stephen Curtis.
Mr. Ezra Damon.
Mr. David Damon.
Dea. Jeremiah Eaton.
Dr. Amos Upton.
Capt. Hezekiah Upton.
John Lambert.
Eben'r Williams.
Tho. Damon.
Nath'l Evans.
Sam'l Ellenwood.
Lt. Eleazer Flint. Lt. Benj. Flint.
Mr. Jona. Flint.
Mr. James Flint.
Amos Pearson, Sergt.
John Goodwin. Benja. Emerson.
Eben'r Flint, Jr. Benj. Flint, Jr.
Wm. Parker, 66
Benj. Flint, 3d.
John Boutwell,
Jacob Walton. Benj. Butters. Sam'l Hitchens.
Benj. Flint, 4th.
Jona. Flint, Jr.
Wm. Flint.
Isaac Pratt, 66
James Foster.
Wm. Nichols, Drummer.
Benja. Foster.
Edmund Bancroft.
Jona. Eaton. Benja. Brown.
Abraham Foster.
Samuel Damon.
Wm. Brown,
Abraham Eaton.
Joseph Emerson. Joseph Gould.
Daniel Parker, Jr.
Thos. Parker, Jr.
Benj. Holt.
Benja. Parker. John Pratt.
Thos. Emerson.
John Hayward. Daniel Hart.
Richard Nichols.
Asa Hart. Ens. Joseph Lewis.
Thos. Symonds. Jethro Richardson. Wm. Foster.
Benj. McIntier.
Benja. McIntier, Jr. Nath'l McIntier.
Eben'r Richardson.
Hezekiah McIntier.
Eben'r McIntier.
Nath'l Weston. Jonathan Poole. Aaron Emerson.
* Took the small-pox at Ticonderoga, and died at the Lake George Hospital.
Benj. Boardman. Reuben Eaton. Wm. Gould. Wm. Gould, Jr. James Wiley. Amos Boardman. Nathan Green. Wm. Tarbox. James Johnson. John Pratt. Nath'l Gerry. Isaac Green. Jonas Green.
John Hawkes. Brown Emerson. Jabez Carter. James Hartshorn. John Green. Elias Boardman. Tho. Parker, Sen'r. Jacob Emerson. Josiah Green and Tho. Hay, from Stoneham.
2d Parish Co. John Flint, Captain. John Dix, Ist Lt. *Eph'm Pratt, 2d Lt.
Josiah Bryant.
Jeremiah Bryant. Jonathan Evans.
Thomas Evans. Jonas Evans. Eben'r Smith. Sam'l Felch.
Nathan Felch. John Farrier. Nathan Wolley. Cornelius Sweetser. Daniel Lewis. Timothy Bryant. Samuel Evans.
John Burnap. Mr. John Bragg.
W. Upton. Nath'I Upton, Jr. John Upton. David Upton.
Eben'r Parker. John Colman.
Timothy Eaton.
Israel Eaton. Nath'l .Eaton, Jr.
Wm Whittredge. David Wright.
Benja. Hartshorn. Jonathan Hartshorn. Eben'r Stimpson. Eben'r Hopkins. Wm. Bennett.
3d Parish Co. Thomas Eaton, Capt. Jonas Parker, Lieut. John Emerson, Ens.
Joseph Bancroft,
John Temple, Corpl. Asa Parker, ¥
Peter Emerson (died in the army, Nov. 16, 1783). Tho. Davis.
Nathan Foster.
Samuel Emerson.
Martin Herrick. Samuel Herrick. Jacob Herrick.
John Nichols.
Thos. Emerson, Jr. Aaron Nurse. Lille Eaton. Jonathan Foster. Jere'h Brown. Wm. Walton. Eben'r Walton. Oliver Walton.
Timothy Russell, Sergt.
Thos. Taylor, Jr. Samuel Taylor.
Joseph Upton.
Jacob Upton.
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Caleb Parker. Wm. Temple. Wm. Beard.
Aaron Parker.
Jona. Nichols.
Isaac Parker.
Jona. Weston, Jr.
John Hartshorn.
John Stimpson. Jacob Townsend.
Timothy Pratt. Jeremiah Nichols.
Timothy Wakefield.
John Farmer.
James Boutwell.
John Buxton.
James Eaton.
Joseph Boutwell.
Richard Mason.
Reuben Weston.
Benja. Young.
Wm. Tompson.
Abijah Weston.
Jeduthun Buxton.
John Weston.
Jonas Eaton. Edm'd Parker. Sam'l Pratt. Ephraim Parker, 2d.
Andrew Beard. Daniel Parker, Sen'r. Ephraim Parker, “ Jos. Hill. Jonathan Weston, Sen'r. Jabez Damon. Eben'r Emerson.
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REMINISCENCES OF THE REVOLUTION .*
Among the men of note who formerly belonged in Reading, the name of Dr. John Brooks, afterwards Governor of the State, stands prominent. He lived here for some time before the breaking out of the War of the Revolution, residing in the house formerly belonging to Mr. Samuel Damon, on John Street. He m. Lucy Smith, of Reading, in 1774, and was in practice here the same year, though only twenty-two years of age. His sister, Elizabeth, m. Rev. Jacob Burnap. Was Major in Bridge's regiment, and active in intrenching Breed's Hill June 16, 1775, but was not in the battle of the 17th. Feb. '76, made Major in Col. Webb's regiment, 19th, and went with it to Long Island. In '77, promoted to Lieut .- Col. of Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. In '78 made Col. of Seventh Massachusetts Regiment ; appointed by Washington Marshal and Inspector of the Revenue in '95. In War of 1812 was Adj .- Gen. of the State, and Governor from 1816 to '23. A company of minute-men was formed here before the breaking out of hostilities between the colonies and the mother country. Dr. Brooks was chosen its Captain. Not being accustomed to military drill and tactics, he watched the military evolutions of the British at Boston, where he frequently resorted, perhaps for that object, and put the knowledge thus gained into immediate practice in drilling his company here. He was in Boston on the afternoon of April 18, 1775, the day before the battle of Lexington, and saw the preparatory movements of the British. In the night following he received a message that they were moving towards Concord. He had a patient at the Hartshorn house on Haver- hill Street, then called " Pratt Row," whom he visited about midnight, and took the opportunity to notify the men of his company in. that part of the town of the movement of the British.
* Furnished by Hiram Barrus, of Reading.
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It appears that some of his company lived in what is now North Reading. Ephraim Pratt lived about a mile north of the meeting- house there, and belonged to the company, with his son Ephraim. It is said that Capt. Brooks galloped into the yard fronting his house, call- ing out in a stentorian voice, " Stand to your arms! stand to your arms !" Father and son arose, picked their flints, saw that their pow- der was dry and their bullets ready, and hastened to the field of strife.
C. P. Judd, Esq., relates that he had the information from reliable sources that this company was in constant preparation for such an emer- gency. The members had loaves of bread baked, and a supply of cheese ready to take with them at a moment's warning. They had a preconcerted signal by which they might be summoned together in the shortest possi- ble time, but as they had the night before them in which to make prepara- tion, it does not appear that the signal was required. It is understood that the chief part of the company were together in the latter part of the night near Weston's Corner, and under command of Capt., then Lieut. James Bancroft, set out upon their march in season to be at Bedford early in the morning of the day of the battle.
Edward Everett says, "Every cross road opened a new avenue to the assailants. Through one of these the gallant Brooks led up the minute- men of Reading." From this it appears that Gov. Brooks assumed command of his company when they reached the scene of action, if not before.
Hudson, in his History of Lexington, says, "The British commenced their retreat from Concord about noon. For the first mile they were unmolested ; but when they arrived at Merriam's Corner they encoun- tered a party of minute-men from Reading under Major Brooks, - Col. William Thompson, with a body of militia from Billerica and the vicinity, coming up about the same time. The Provincials on the high grounds near the North Bridge, seeing the British leaving the village, went across the 'great field ' to the Bedford road, and arrived in time to support the troops brought up by Brooks and Thompson. Here may be said to have commenced the battle of the 19th of April. At Lexington Common and at Concord North Bridge but few guns had been fired by the Americans, and though ten Americans had fallen, only one of the king's troops had been killed. But now all restraint seems to have been removed, and every true patriot felt at full liberty to fire without the bidding of any superior. Rev. Edmund Foster, then a young man and a private in the Reading company, gives a graphic account of what occurred at this point : 'A little before we came to Merriam's Hill, we discovered the enemy's flank guard of about eighty or a hundred men,
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who, on the retreat from Concord, kept the height of land, the main body being in the road. The British troops and the Americans at that time were equally distant from Merriam's Corner. About twenty rods short of that place the Americans made a halt. The British marched down the hill with very slow but steady step, without music or a word being spoken that could be heard. Silence reigned on both sides. As soon as the British had gained the main road and passed a small bridge near the corner, they faced about suddenly and fired a volley of musketry upon us. They overshot, and no one to my knowledge was injured by the fire. The fire was immediately returned by the Americans, and two British soldiers fell dead at a little distance from each other in the road near the brook. The battle now began, and was carried on with little or no military discipline or order on the part of the Americans, during the remainder of the day. Each sought his own place and opportunity to attack and annoy the enemy from behind trees, rocks, fences, and build- ings, as seemed most convenient. . .. We saw a wood at a distance, which appeared to lie on or near the road where the enemy must pass. Many leaped over the walls and made for that wood. We arrived just in time to meet the enemy. There was on the opposite side of the road a young growth of wood filled with Americans. The enemy were now completely between two fires renewed and briskly kept up. They ordered out a flank guard on the left to dislodge the Americans from their posts behind the trees; but they only became better marks to be shot at. A short but sharp contest ensued, in which the enemy received more deadly injury than at any other place from Concord to Charlestown.'"
This account shows that the Reading men were in the hottest of the fight, and among the first, if not the first, to begin the battle. It is re- markable that none of them were killed, and this fact probably is the reason why the part performed by the Reading men has not received more notice.
It appears that some of the minute-men did not go with their com- pany to the scene of action. Among these were Timothy Wakefield, Esq., Capt. Joseph Bancroft, Col. Nathan Parker, Capt. Jonathan Weston, and possibly others, who started later in the day, direct for Lexington, and encountered the British on their retreat. Capt. Wes- ton related to his grandson, Sumner Weston, that he was employed near where the Lynnfield Hotel now is, and that a man rode up on the morning of the roth, and gave the alarm. He immediately went to his house, which then was the last house in Reading on the way. to Stoneham, took his gun, and, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Sweetser,
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who lived in the first house in Stoneham, they proceeded on their way, till they reached the retreating redcoats. Shielding themselves behind a rock near a stone fence, they commenced firing upon the regulars. They were so intent upon their patriotic work that they did not observe the approach of the enemy's flank guard till they were almost upon them. Mr. Sweetser discovered their approach, and with a word of warning to Weston, who sat with his ammunition in his hat before him, started for a place of safety. Weston was so absorbed in his business that he did not recognize the note of alarm till it was repeated and emphasized by Col. Nathan Parker, who came up at that moment, when the trio, mid the whistling balls of the guard, made their escape unharmed to the woods near by.
Whether our men who had been engaged in the fight during the day returned to their homes that night, or remained in camp, we have no positive information, but it is said they returned. An account-book that formerly belonged to Lieut. Joseph Bancroft has this item, which implies that some of our men continued in the service from the day of the battle : " April 19, 1775. I was in the Province service ten days." Another item follows, indicating further service for the cause : " May 5, 1775. I carted eight barrels of pork from Reading to Watertown Bridge."
An obituary notice of Capt. James Bancroft, published in the "New England Magazine," Vol. I, July, 1831, mentions that "he became a subaltern officer in a company of minute-men, and was engaged in the skirmishes at Lexington. He then with his regiment took post at Cambridge." The town records of May 18, 1775, within a month after the Battle of Lexington, show that at that date, Dea. Jacob Emerson was chosen "selectman in the room of James Bancroft, who is gone into the army." It is evident from this act of the town and the state- ment referred to, that he soon, if not at once, gave up his time to the common cause. On the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, his company was on guard at head-quarters. Gen. Washington took command of the army under the famous Cambridge Elm, July 3, 1775. The Reading minute-men, under Capt. Bancroft and Major Brooks, were assigned one of the most honorable positions on that occasion. The company had provided themselves for use on special occasions at home a cheap paper cap that resembled those worn by the British Grenadiers. Major Brooks desired Capt. Bancroft to procure, if possible, a sufficiency of them to supply the company, in order to give the commander-in-chief as respectful a reception as possible. But the requisite number could not be had, and the august General was received by citizen soldiers in citizens' apparel.
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It would be gratifying to know the name of each person belonging to this Reading company of minute-men, but it is extremely doubtful whether they can ever be obtained. It is possible that the papers of Gov. Brooks, the first captain of the company, or those of Rev. Ed- mund Foster, who was a member of it, and who wrote that portion of the account of the battle at Concord which has been quoted, may yet furnish the desired information, but the probabilities are against it.
Gen. Lafayette, in his visit to this country in 1825, passed through this town on his way to Concord, N. H. He stopped at the hotel that then stood where the bank building now stands, for half an hour or so. He made a short address to a crowd of the citizens that came to see and welcome him. Rev. Mr. Sanborn responded, and in the course of his remarks he claimed that the company of minute-men under Dr. Brooks was the first company formed. He also stated that the com- pany was accustomed to meet in the kitchen of his house (where Mr. Grouard now resides) for drill in the use of their muskets, and that the abrasion of the plastering in the upper parts of the room, caused probably by shouldering their arms, was then visible. The marks can still be seen where they were pointed out by Mr. Sanborn.
The General was attended by another French gentleman, and several carriages containing other distinguished parties. Rev. William Wake- field, then quite a lad, was present, and still retains a vivid recollection of the interesting scene.
The sound of the guns discharged in the Lexington fight was heard, it is said, here in Reading. Mr. William Parker, father of Mrs. Wil- liam Wakefield, early in the morning heard what he believed to be the first volley fired on that memorable occasion. As he lived on the high land in the south part of this town, it is quite probable that his belief was well founded. Capt. John Parker, who had command of the Lex- ington militia and participated in the first skirmish with the British, was a son of Josiah, who was born in Reading in 1694, who was son of John, born 1664, son of Hananiah, born 1638, son of Thomas Parker, born 1609, who came from London 1635 ; was made freeman 1637, and became deacon of the first church in Reading. Jonas Parker, one of those first killed by the British on Lexington Common, was a cousin of John, the captain ; his father also was a native of Reading. It will be remembered that the two muskets in the Massachusetts Senate chamber, presented by Rev. Theodore Parker, formerly be- longed to this Capt. John Parker, one of which was used by him in the battle, and the other was the first fire-arm captured in the war for Independence.
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It is impossible to obtain, at the present time, full accounts of the time and place of service of many of the heroes of the Revolution who belonged here. The date of the death and the ages of several buried in the cemetery here are as follows : -
NAME.
WHEN DIED.
AGE.
Aaron Parker,
April 28, 1841,
84.
John Emerson,
Feb. 19, 1803,
72.
Tim. Wakefield, Esq.,
April 19, 1849,
94.
Wm. Parker,
May 13, 1850,
90.
Daniel Damon,
Sept. 9, 1844,
87.
Daniel Pratt,
Sept. 18, 1816,
61.
Jeremiah Nichols,
Feb. 12, 1813,
58.
Lieut. Jonas Parker,
Jan. 9, 1800,
72.
Joseph Boutelle,
July 4, 1840,
84.
Lieut. Thomas Eaton,
June 18, 1787,
35.
Jas. Bancroft, Esq.,
May 17, 1831,
92.
Col. Nathan Parker,
July 30, 1815,
67.
Thomas Symonds,
June 31, 1836,
91.
James Weston,
Dec. 27, 1811,
61.
Capt. Abraham Foster,
Feb. 4, 1792,
57.
John Bachelder,
July 31, 1846,
84.
Joseph Damon,
Feb. 18, 1843,
84.
Maj. Josiah Barton,
April 18, 1827,
79.
Lieut. Jonathan Pool,
Sept. 1799,
79.
Timothy Eaton,
Oct. 27, 1822.
Nathaniel Eaton,
March 1I, 1823.
Joseph Boutelle was in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Aaron Parker was in service at Ticonderoga and West Point. He received a pension. Daniel Damon, Joseph Damon, Timothy Wake- field, Daniel Parker, Ephraim Pratt, were among those who were at Ticonderoga. Daniel Damon was also at the taking of Burgoyne. Benjamin Damon, brother of Daniel, at the age of sixteen, went into the service at Winter Hill, as one of the guard over Burgoyne's soldiers during the winter after their surrender. He continued to serve in the army till the close of the war.
Capt. Abraham Foster was in the service probably for several years. A memorandum in the account book of Lieut. Joseph Bancroft, Aug. 17, 1777, reads, "Mr. Haven preached a sermon from Luke 3 : 14, to Capt. Foster and others going to the service."
His daughter Rebekah exhibited her patriotism by running bullets for the use of our troops.
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at "Ti," as they called Ticonderoga. The fort there commanded the passage into Lake George. On the receipt of the news of the Battle of Lexington, Col. Ethan Allen made his memorable capture of the fort, May 10, I'775. It was held by our forces till what was considered the ignoble surrender of July 5, 1777. It is said on the authority of Capt. Joseph Bancroft, who was there, that our troops suffered greatly for want of provisions. This indicates that he must have been there as early as 1776. A letter written from there by Capt. Thomas Weeks, of Hampshire County, in this State, dated March 28, 1777, says, "We live with the major in a good barrack, have good pork and beef, good bread and peas, and sometimes beans that grew in Massachusetts. We have but few troops, but expect more daily. The Indians are about us. They have killed four men and taken twenty more prisoners." From an abstract of the mileage of Capt. James Bancroft's company in Col. Read's Regiment from Fort Edward to Reading, numbering seventy- six men, it appears they had arrived here in Reading, Jan. 30, 1777, or previously. It is suggested, as Fort Edward was near Ticonderoga, that these men may have been those who had been at "Ti," where they had previously suffered on the short allowance of food, which it would seem, from the letter of Capt. Weeks, could not subsequently have occurred.
Capt. Bancroft continued at Cambridge during 1775 and '76, and twice in the latter year received commissions signed by the Council of the Massachusetts Bay as captain. Under date of Jan. 1, 1777, he received another commission as Captain in the 8th Mass. Reg. of the Continental Army, of which Col. Michael Jackson was Colonel, which was at West Point in 1780. This commission was given " By order of Congress," and signed by John Hancock, President, and Charles Thomson, Secretary. All these commissions are still preserved. He was at Ticonderoga and at Saratoga, where he was personally engaged in the conflict with Burgoyne, and at the head of his company stormed the British works in the regiment under the command of Col. Brooks. It was here that Sergeant Joshua Eaton fell mortally wounded, the only Reading soldier that was killed in battle during the war. Col. Brooks saw him fall, and called Capt. Bancroft's attention to it, saying, "Our brave Sergeant Eaton is gone." Eaton lived on the Ivory Murray farm, . near Squire Prescott's.
The following copy of a letter from Capt. Bancroft contains many interesting facts, some of which are not generally known.
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" CAMP VALLEY FORGE, January 5, 1778.
" Dear Sir,- While in my tent these cold long evenings, I often think of Reading, and should think myself very happy could I step in and spend a few hours with you and take a pipe and mug of cider, both which are very scarce here, and perhaps it would not be very dis- agreeable to you to hear something of our fatigues and dangers. Had I had opportunity to write before I came from the northward, I should liked to have written something particular of northward affairs, but it has got too old to write about. I could write nothing new. As we have had some trying times, perhaps you will ask how my courage held out. If you should, I can't say, as some have done, that they have no fear ; but I can say, I had not so much fear but what I could go where I was ordered ; and if it had been much worse I believe I should have tried to go.
We have a very good corps of officers (one excepted). If the regi- ment was full of officers and soldiers as good as what we now have, and should be ordered to storm Philadelphia, I am apt to think we should make one bold push for it. The whole campaign has been very hard and fatiguing, but in general healthy. I have not missed one tour of duty since I joined the army.
As to affairs here at the southward, I am at loss what to write. I don't find anything as I expected. I believe the enemy's strength is greater, and ours less, than you imagine. So far as I can judge by the movements, both armies are a little afraid to engage under any disad- vantage. There has been, I believe, some misconduct this way among officers, and our army, in most, if not all actions, have retreated, though in that of Germantown it is said they retreated from victory, and that without Gen. Washington's order. I have often heard he has offered a large sum to any that would inform him who gave the orders ; but since we arrived, though we have not fought much, we have not run away any. Though the enemy have threatened to drive us off, they have not ventured to make any attack on us ; but when we have been about to attack them, they incline to march to Philadelphia. The Battle of Ger- mantown was before we came. I find since that time it has been very sickly here among our officers ; more than a hundred have been con- fined, and some of them broke, one of them a Major-General. The most of the inhabitants here are Friends, or Quakers, who, you know, never bear arms. I believe they are Tories, which is no small damage to us ; but being Friends, or Tories, does not save them from being plundered by the King's troops when they have an opportunity. I hope
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the enemy's having some opportunity to plunder will have the same effect here that it had last year in the Jerseys, and make the Tories become good Whigs.
I hope, sir, if my family should stand in need of your assistance, you will be ready to afford it. It has been out of my power to do anything for them, even so much as to send home any money. The officers, in general, in the regiment, have been obliged to do without or borrow. The army is at present a poor place to get money. Everything is so dear we are obliged to spend considerable for provision or live very poorly. I have been obliged to give half a dollar for one pint of bread and milk ; three or four shillings for a fowl; two shillings for one pound of pork. Spirits are three or four dollars a quart, but I seldom use any. Sweetening, butter, or cheese, I have not had for near three months. I expect soon to receive seven or eight months' pay, when I hope to be able to send home some considerable to my wife. I hope the time will come when I shall have the opportunity of seeing you and my friends at Reading ; but when that will be God only knows. We have some hard trials to meet yet. If I should tell you what is believed here, that the enemy are more in numbers than we, perhaps you would disbelieve me. The regiments not being full is very great damage to the cause. Had they all been filled up I don't believe Howe would have had any footing in America at this time. They are more deficient this way than with you. Please to give my compliments to Mrs. Ban- croft. If you could write to me it will be gladly received by
Your humble servant, JAMES BANCROFT."
" To Mr. Joseph Bancroft, Reading."
From a " Return of the 4th Mass. Brigade, commanded by Col. Michael Jackson, at West Point, May 27, 1780," found among the papers of Capt. Bancroft, it appears that 504 men, rank and file, con- stituted a regiment. This 4th Brigade was made up of three regiments : the 2d Mass., Col. Bailey ; 8th Mass., Col. Jackson, to which Capt. Bancroft belonged ; 9th Mass., Col. Wesson. Two of the colonels are reported absent on furlough. Of the 18 captains only 8 are reported as present fit for duty ; 2 are on furlough ; 3 recruiting ; 2 on the staff; 2 vacancies. The brigade, when the regiments were full, should have had, rank and file, 1,512 men, but the return shows a vacancy of 1,140 men, leaving only 378 men actually belonging to it. Of these only 162 are reported as "Present fit for duty "; 19 present are sick ; I is sick at Boston, 3 at Fishkill, 2 at other places ; 99 are
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