USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Mattapoisett > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Middleborough > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Plympton > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Wareham > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Hanson > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > West Bridgewater > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Lakeville > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Pembroke > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > Rochester > Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater > Part 2
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
Private Soldiers. Job Peirce, Samuel Hoar, David Thomas second, Michael Mosher, Jesse Pratt, Jacob Hayford, Job Hunt, Henry Bishop, Consider Howland, Noah Clark, Cor- neilus Haskins, John Rogers, Lebbeus Simmons, Caleb Wood, John Booth, Ithamer Haskins, John Reynolds, Nathaniel Macomber, Levi Jones, Josiah Smith jr., Malachi Howland jr., Zachariah Paddock, jr., Rufus Howland, Silva Purrington, John Fry, jr., John Douglas, jr., Ebenzer L. Bennett, Samuel Miller, Isaac Canedy, Daniel Reynolds, Ru- fus Weston, Ziba Eaton, Isaac Miller, Nehemiah Peirce, Sam- uel Bennett, Joshua Thomas, Calvin Johnson, Joshua Read, Cryspus Shaw, James Willis, Sylvanus Churchill, Samuel Macomber, Richard Omey, Israel Thomas, Ichabod Read, Samuel Ransom and Daniel Jucket.
When men were enlisted for a longer term of time, and the necessities of the the case required the raising of a Con- tinental Army, Captain Abial Peirce enlisted another com- pany, consisting of sixty-nine men, of whom five belonged in Abington, twenty-five in Bridgewater, twenty-five in Mid- dleborough, ten in Rochester, and four in Wareham. This company was a part of Colonel Dike's regiment, on duty for a time at or near Boston. Captain Abial Peirce died Dec. 26, 1811. He was buried in South Middleborough, but no stone bearing an inscription tells where he lies.
Job Peirce (a brother of Captain Abial Peirce and great grand son of the Narragansett Soldier), was born in what is now Lakeville, Nov. 29, 1737, and as a private soldier per- formed a short tour of duty in a company of the local mili-
12
HISTORY OF TOWNS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
tia (commanded by Captain Joseph Tinkham), upon an alarm in 1757, occasioned by an attack made by the French upon Fort William Henry.
In the war between England and France, that quickly fol- lowed, and which in this country acquired the name of " French and. Indian War," Job Peirce faithfully and honorably served out three enlistments, dated April 5, 1758, April 6, 1759, and March 24, 1762, receiving his final discharge at the ter- mination of the war. While serving on the first of these en- listments, he was a soldier in Captain Benjamin Pratt's com- pany of Colonel Doty's Regiment, and participated in the disastrous attempt to take Ticonderoga from the French, in which, added to other very serious losses sustained by the English, their intrepid and popular leader Lord Howe was killed.
His second enlistment was passed on duty in Nova Scotia, and at its close he took passage on board a government trans- port, bound for Boston, but encountering a severe storm they were driven far off the coast, and reduced to an almost un- manageable wreck, that at the mercy of the waves drifted about until the passengers and crew were on the verge of starvation, when they succeeded in reaching land, upon one of the West India Islands.
So long was his absence prolonged, that his parents had given him up, and mourned for him as dead, when one Sabbath morning during religious service at the church, they were overjoyed to see him enter the house and take a seat in their family pew, having reached home soon after the family had left home to attend the services of the sanctuary.
From the close of the French and Indian War, to the com- mencement of the war af the Revolution, a period of about twelve years, Job Peirce was industriously engaged in the avocation and labors of a farmer, and realizing the truth of that proverb, " the hand of the diligent maketh rich."
The tocsin of war sounding the " Lexington Alarm," so called, had no sooner reached his ear, than like Putnam, he
" Left his ploughshare in the mold, Flocks and herds without a fold, And mustered in his simple dress For wrongs to seek, a stern redress ; 'To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, To perish or o'ercome the foe."
In the company of " Minute Men," (commanded by his brother Captain Abial Peirce), Job Peirce served as a private soldier, and in the early attempts to raise a continental army
13
LAKEVILLE.
Job Peirce was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and served at Roxbury, in a company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Wood, it being a part of Colonel Simeon Carey's regiment.
May 9, 1776, Job Peirce was promoted to Captain, and the next year commanded a company of 93 men in Colonel Theopholus Cotton's regiment, on duty in Rhode Island, the " secret expedition," so called.
He was also in the field, and helped to repel the British soldiers and frustrate their attempt to burn the village of Fairhaven, September 17, 1778.
Twas not alone as a soldier, brave, self-denying, and patient in the endurance of hardship, that Job Peirce acquired the esteem, love and respect of those with whom he had to do, for his were the triumphs of peace as much, and perhaps even more, than those of war. His courage in war was not ex- ceded by his good conduct in peace, for he was ever " diligent in business, serving the Lord," and both by precept and ex- ample, ever exercising a healthfull moral and religious in- fluence. To religious and benevolent enterprises his heart and hands were always open, and no other man of his time in Middleborough, bestowed so much money on objects of char- ity. He was the donor of Peirce Academy. He died July 22, 1819.
Henry Peirce, a brother of Captains Abial and Job Peirce, was born in that part of Middleborough now Lakeville, in or about 1743, and at an early age imbibing the military spirit of his brothers, enlisted into the army and performed a tour of duty in the field when only seventeen years of age.
This his first tour of duty was performed in Captain Abial Peirce's company, of Colonel Willard's Regiment.
March 24, 1762, Henry Peirce, commenced upon the duties of a second enlistment, and in the company of Capt, Ephraim Holmes, in which command his brother Job Peirce served at the same time.
Their services closed with the ending of that war termina- ted by the treaty of peace concluded at Paris, in France, Feb. 10, 1763. At the "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775, Henry Peirce served in the company of " Minute Men" com- manded by Capt. Isaac Wood, of Middleborough, and re- paired to Marshfield, to administer a quietus to those people of that town who had banded together under the name of " Associated Loyalists." He soon after assisted Captain Levi Rounsevill of Freetown, in raising a company for Colonel Brewer's regiment, in Patriot army of Revolution, in which company he received the commission of a Lieutenant.
14
HISTORY OF TOWNS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Capt. Rounsevill's company was enlisted in the towns of Freetown, Dartmouth, and Middleborough, and as some of those enlisted in the town last named, resided in that part now Lakeville, we give the Middleborough list entire. Lieut. Henry Peirce ; Sergeants, Joseph Macomber, Job Hunt and David Trouant; Corporals, Hilkiah Peirce, and Richard Peirce ; Drummer, Leonard Hinds ; Privates, William Arm- strong, Joseph Booth, Ephraim Douglas, Henry Evans, An- thony Fry, Levi Simmons, and Nathan Trouant.
At Rhode Island, in 1777, Henry Peirce, who had been promoted to a Capt. commanded a company in Colonel The- opholus Cotton's regiment, and several of this company lived in what is now Lakeville. Capt. Henry Peirce's company on that tour of duty consisted of the following named persons. Henry Peirce, Captain ; Peter Hoar, Lieutenant ; and George Shaw, Ensign. Non Commissioned Officers ; Amasa Wood, Daniel Ellis, Joseph Wood, Roland Leonard, Geo. Hackett, William Hall, James Le Baron, Nathaniel Cole, Israel Eaton, and Haziel Purrinton.
Private Soldiers : Churchill Thomas, Jeremiah Thomas, Andrew Cobb, Samuel Sampson, James Palmer, Elijah Shaw, David Fish, Jacob Soule, Hazael Tinkham, Jabez Vaughn, Samuel Barrows, Joseph Bennett, John Morton, John Mor- ton, 2nd, Roland Smith, Rounsevill Peirce, Peter Thomas, Edmund Weston, Joseph Tupper, Lemuel Lyon, William Littlejohn, Daniel Cox, Thomas Pratt, David Pratt, Abia, Booth, Ebenezer Howland, Josiah Kingman, Jacob Perkins, Luther Pratt, Seth Wade, Noah Haskell, Lemuel Raymond, Manasseh Wood, Francis Le Baron, Asaph Churchill, Sam- uel Thomas, Nathaniel Thomas, Edward Washburn, William Bly, Joseph Macomber, Lemuel Briggs, Jonathan Wescott, Ephraim Dunham, Isaac Harlow, Nathaniel Cobb, Andrew Ricket, Jonathan Porter, James Porter, James Sprout, and John Thrasher. Commissoned 3, Non-Commissioned, and Musicians 10, Privates 50. Total, 63.
About three years later viz., in the month af Aug. 1780, Capt. Henry Peirce was again on duty in Rhode Island, com- manding a company in the regiment led by Lieut. Colonel Ebenezer White, of Rochester, the members of which com- pany were nearly, if indeed not quite all residents of what is now Lakeville, and whose names were as follows : Henry Peircc, Captain ; Peter Hoar, Lieut. ; Ezra Clark, Ensign. Non-commissioned Officers ; Ebenezer Hinds, Robert Hoar, Joseph Booth, Nathaniel Macomber, Benjamin Booth, Henry Edminster, and Ebenezer Hayford. Private Soldiers, Josiah
15
LAKEVILLE.
Holloway, Ezra Reynolds, John Reynolds, Benjamin Rey- nolds, Elections Reynolds, Isaac Reynolds, Enos Reynolds, Ebenezer Howland, Samuel Howland, John Howland, Joshua Howland, Eseck Howland, John Hoar, John Holloway, Rich- ard Parris, Samuel Parris, Uriah Peirce, George Peirce, Seth Simmons, Lebeus Simmons, Jacob Sherman, Earl Sears, Na- than Trouant, Daniel Collins, John Church, and Roger Clark.
At the reorganization of the miltia consequent upon the adoption of a State constitution, Capt. Henry Peirce was com- missioned by Gov. John Hancock, to command a company of the local militia in Middleborough, (that called the " Seventh company," or more) familiarly known as " Beach Woods Com- pany." As all this company was included within the present limits of Lakeville, we give a copy of the names borne upon its roll, both of " train band and alarm list," as a means of determining who were " able bodied white male citizens" of this locality, 92 years ago.
TRAIN BAND.
Henry Peirce, Captain ; Peter Hoar, Lieut. ; Robert Hoar, William Cancdy, Bradock Hoar, -- Howland, Sergeants ; Lebbeus Simmons, Seth Simmons, Corporals; Stephen Hath- away, James Peirce, Enos Peirce, George Peirce, Simeon Peirce, Seth Keen, Joseph Keen, Philip Haskins, Josiah Holloway, John Allen, Samuel Parris, Isaac Parris, Moses Parris, Seth Borden, William Strobridge, John Haskins, John Thrasher, Joseph Booth, Benjamin Booth, Ebenezer Hafford, Barnabas Clark, Samuel Record, Isaac Smith, Jonathan Hafford, Samuel Howland, Henry Edminster, Consider Howland, Ebenezer Howland, Rufus Howland, Eseck Howland, John Hoar, Wil- liam Hoar, Isaac Hathaway, David Pratt, Seth Ramsdell, Jacob Sherman, and David Bramin, Private Soldiers.
ALARM LIST ..
Daniel Jucket, Joseph Booth, Josiah Smith, Nathaniel Clossen, Job Chase, Ezra Clark, Richard Peirce, and Abraham Pcirce. Train Band, 45 ; Alarm List, 8; Total, 53.
Captain Henry Peirce died Jan. 22, 1791, and his remains were interred in the ancient cemetery, on the southerly bor- der of Assawamset Pond, his grave being marked by suitable stones bearing inscriptions.
Seth Peirce, a brother of Captains Abial, Job, and Henry Peirce, was born in Middleborough now Lakeville, in or about 1747. At the " Lexington Alarm," he served in a company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Wood, which command, upon the records at the State House in Boston, appears under
16
HISTORY OF TOWNS IN PLYMOUTH OCUNTY.
the title of First Company of militia in Middleborough. The local militia of that town then existed in the form of four companies, of which the first and second responded at the first call, or " Lexington Alarm," as it came to be called. Removing to Shutesbury, in Hampshire (now Franklin, Coun- ty, while the war of the revolution was progressing, he was commissioned Captain of a company raised for the Patriot army, and from enlistments in the towns of Leverett, North- field, New Salem, and Shutesbury, and consisting of 75 men, with which he repaired to the fields of revolutionary strife.
July 1, 1781, Capt. Seth Peirce was commissioned to com- mand a company of the local miltia of Shutesbury, and was a Selectman of that town four years. His last years were spent at Hardwick, in Worcester county, which town he rep- resented in the general court in 1806. He married four times. He died February 25, 1809. Was buried in Hard- wick, and has suitable grave stones.
Ebenezer Peirce, another brother of the foregoing Capt- tains Abial, Job, Henry, and Seth Peirce, lost his life while serving as a private soldier iu the Patriot army of the Ameri- can Revolution, being on duty at Newport, Rhode Island.
Few families in any part of our country can show so pa- triotic a record. Of a family of six sons, all were engaged in fighting the battles of the revolution, four attaining not only to the rank and commissions, but exercising the command of Captains, on the battle-field, and one sacrificing his. life for his country, and neither of the surviving five (four of whom had served the country as soldiers in two wars), received or applied for a pension from the government.
Nor did this spirit of true manliness, uncommon devotion to noble principles and love of conntry die with that genera- ation, but was in some good degree transmitted to their pos- terity, inhabiting this and other towns of this State, and even to children's children, now residing at the far West. Capt. Abial Peirce's oldest son, William Peirce, born in Middle- borough, June 2, 1759, removed to the State of New York, and lost his life while serving in the army in the late war with England, sometimes called the war of 1812. He died Nov. 5, 1812, and consequently must have been more than fifty years of age, not liable to draft or service in the militia, and therefore a volunteer in the arduous enterprise that cost him his life.
A great grand son of Capt. Abial Peirce, who bears up and honors both the given and surname, removed to the State
17
LAKEVILLE.
of Iowa, where he was elected to a seat in the Legislature, which place he promptly resigned, that he might respond to the " first call" for soldiers, in the late war of the Rebellion. He was made Captain of Cavalry, and in the battle of " Pea Ridge" had a horse shot from under him.
June 20, 1863, Capt. Abial R. Peirce, of 4th regiment Iowa cavalry, was promoted to Major, and in the performance of the duties of which office he had five horses shot under him. Since the war, he has been elected to the Senate of Iowa.
That alarm of April 19, 1775, found the veteran captain of the " French and Indian War," at his plow in the peaceful fields of agriculture, in the ancient old colony town of Mid- dleborough, while that of April 19, 1861, eighty-six years later, was sounded in the ears of his great grand son, occu- pying a seat in the Legislative hall, of a new and rapidly growing State, and with the same alacrity that the former re- linquished his agricultural pursuits, did the latter resign his office as a legislator, with its safety and ease, honors and emoluments, and in worthy imitation of former, hasten to respond to the first call of his bleeding country.
William R. Peirce, oldest son of Capt. Job Peirce, was born in Middleborough, April 19, 1764, and was consequently eleven years of age, the day that the soils of Lexington, and Concord, were wet with the first blood ot the Revolution, and although only eighteen at the close of that war, yet had he served as a soldier in the Patriot army, at Rhode Island, · and as a sailor in the Patriot navy, was captured, carried to England, and confined as a prisoner of war, and liberated at the declaration of peace. Became a master mariner, and died on the Island of Saint Bartholemew, May 15, 1794.
Job Peirce, second son of Captain Job Peirce, was born in Middleborough now Lakeville, Dec. 12, 1767 ; on attaining to manhood he went to Assonet Village, in Freetown, where he engaged largely and very successfully in merchandise and ship building, and was noted for his great liberality, and be- nevolence. Died Sept. 22, 1805, and was buried with mili- tary honors by the military company, of which he held the commission of Captain, at the time of his decease .*
* Job Peirce, jr., was commissioned Captain of the first company in the local militia of Freetown, Aug. 21, 1801, and held that office until his death, Sept. 22, 1805. Although never a professor of religion, he was mainly instrumental in establishing the Christian denomination in . Freetown, a sect now the most numerous of any in that place, He was Town clerk in 1802, and Auditor of the town accounts in 1803.
3
FORMER RESIDENCE OF CAPT. JOB PEIRCE, JR., IN FREETOWN.
19
LAKEVILLE.
Levi, third son, born Oct. 1, 1773, (was named for his mother's brother, Captain Levi Rounsevill, Capt. of Minute Men, of Freetown, and also Captain in Continental army), Levi Peirce was commissioned Major of fourth Regiment in Ply- mouth County Brigade, June 8, 1809, Senior Major in 1812 .* Honorably dischaged in 1816. Commanded a Battalion of the coast guard in last war with England. Member of Con- stitutional Convention, 1820. Post master, and Justice of the Peace. The following is copied from his tomb stone :
" Deacon Levi Peirce, died Aug. 22, 1847, aged 74 years. At his own expense, he built the meeting house of the Cen- tral Baptist Church, in Middleborough, and liberally endowed it, and remained Deacon of the same, from the time of its formation, till his death, a term of twenty years, using the office of Deacon well. The righteous shall be had in ever- lasting remembrance." "
Peter Hoar Peirce, seventh son of Captain Job Peirce, was born March 25, 1788, died Jan. 27, 1861. He was a mem- ber of Mass. Senate, Justice of Peace, and Coroner, Capt. of militia from Feb. 18, 1814, Major, 1816, Lieut. Colonel, April 25, 1817, honorably discharged 1823.
In the last war with England, he commanded a company of the coast guard, stationed at or near Plymouth. As a part of that company resided in what is now Lakeville, we give the roll entire. Peter H. Peirce, Captain ; Luther Mur- dock, Lieutenant ; Orrin Tinkham, Ensign ; Thomas Bump, Hercules Richmond, George Shaw, Ezra Wood, and Ichabod Wood, Sergeants ; Daniel Hathaway, Andrew Warren, Abner Leonard, and Daniel Thomas, Corporals ; Oliver Sharp, and Paddock Tinkham, Musicians ; Jeremiah Wood, Levi Wood, Cyrenus Tinkham, Gideon Leonard, Peter Vaughn, Jos. Clark, Edmund Ellis, Eliphalet Doggett, Oliver L. Sears, Nathan Perkins, Josiah D. Burgess, Joseph Water- man, Isaac Thomas jr., Joshua Atwood jr., Andrew McCully, Daniel Norcut, Seth Weston, Abel Howard, Ben. Leonard, Cyrus White, Beniah Wilder, Levi Thomas, second, Calvin
* The office of Senior Major, to which Levi Peirce was promoted in 1812, was the same, and required of him the performance of precisely the duties now devolving upon a Lieutenant Colonel. A militia regi- ment, was then commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, and the other field officers were a Senior Major, and Junior Major When Levi Peirce, was Senior Major of 4th Regiment, his brother-in- law, Abial Washburn was Lieut. Colonel Commandant, and Ephraim Ward, second Major or Junior Major. On the resignation of Levi Peirce, Ephraim Ward succeeded him as Senior Major, and Peter H Peirce, was promoted from the office of Capt. to that of Junior Major'
.20
HISTORY OF TOWNS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Dunham, Caleb Tinkham, Abraham Thomas jr., Rufus Alden, jr., Daniel Weston, Joseph Paddock, Nathaniel Macomber, William Ramsdell, John C. Perkins, Edward Winslow jr., Isaac Cobb, Thomas C. Ames, Unite Kinsley, Levi Haskins, George Ellis, Cornelius Tinkham, Samuel Cole, Thomas Southworth, Daniel Vaughn, Cushman Vaughn, Sylvanus T. Wood, Cyrus Nelson, Augustus Bosworth, Lorenzo Wood, Jacob Bennett second, Andrew Bump, Josephus Bump, Na- than Reed, Benejeh Peirce, William Littlejohn jr., Warren Bump jr., Francis Billington jr., Joseph Standish, Earl Bourne, George Caswell jr., Israel Keith, Sylvanus Vaughn, Leonard Southworth, Elisha Shaw, William Cole, James Cole, Rodolfus Barden, and Sylvanus Barrows, Privates.
Beside the Nelson and Peirce families, among the early settlers of what is now Lakeville, was the Hoars, who prob- ably came from Taunton. Samuel Hoar married Rebecca Peirce, a daughter of Isaac Peirce, the soldier in Narragansett War. The children of Samuel Hoar and wife Rebecca, were Samuel, born Aug. 12, 1716, died April 5, 1736, Rob- ert, born May 23, 1719, married Sarah Willis, of Bridge- water, she died January 13, 1753, and he for a second wife married Judith Tinkham, of Middleborough, Oct. 4, 1753, and she died Feb. 26, 1761. For a third wife he married" Rachel Hoskins, Feb. 26, 1761.
· William, born Dec. 30, 1721, married Jan. 31, 1745, Sarah Hoskins, of Taunton, she was a daughter of Henry Hoskins of Taunton, a blacksmith, and born of his wife, Abigail Godfrey, and a grand-daughter of William Hoskins, of Taunton, a soldier in the Narragansett war. William Hoar, was deacon of the Calvinistic Baptist Church, herein noticed, of which the Rev. Mr. Hinds, was the first pastor. Deacon William Hoar, died April 25, 1795. Sarah, his wife, died Nov. 15, 1774. They were the parents of Braddock Hoar, a patriot soldier in the war for Independence, and who afterward removed to the State of New York. Peter Hoar, a Patriot officer in the war of American Revolution, was a son of Robert. Hoar, and born of his second wife, Judith Tinkham.
At the Lexington alarm, Peter Hoar served as a private soldier, in a company of Minute Men, commanded by Capt. Isaac Wood, and next as a Sergeant in Captain Job Peirce's company, on duty in Rhode Island, and being promoted to Lieut. served under Capt. Henry Peirce, at Rhode Island, (Col. Cotton's Regiment), in 1777, and Lieut. Col. White's regiment, in 1780. He also performed duty in the field as
21
LAKEVILLE.
Lieut. of Capt Edward Sparrows' company, in Col. Tyler's regiment. At the reorganization of local militia in 1781, he was commissioned Lieut. of the 7th company in Middlebor- ough, and promoted to Capt. of 2d company, June 6, 1793, Junior Major of 4th regiment in Plymouth County Brigade, in 1797, Senior Major, July 22, 1800, honorably discharged, in 1806. He died March 12, 1815, aged sixty years. Was a Selectman of the town of Middleborough, fifteen years; Representative to general court, three years, and a Justice of Peace from 1811, until his death. Distinguished for his gen- erosity, liberality, and benevolence.
The 7th company in the local militia of Middleborough, having been entirely within the limits of Lakeville, a list of its successive commanders properly constitutes a part of the history of this town.
Capt. Henry Peirce, from July 1, 1781, to 1787 ; James Peirce, from July 17, 1787, to 1796 ; Abanoam Hinds, from 1796, to 1802 ; Elkanah Peirce, from May 4, 1802, to 1807 ; Elisha Briggs, from 1807, to 1811 ; Sylvanus Parris, from March 20, 1811, to 1815 ; Ethan Peirce, from June 6, 1815, to 1822 ; Apollos Reed, from 1822, to 1827; John Stro- bridge, from May 19, 1827, to 1829; Samuel Hoar, from June 6, 1829, to May 30, 1831 ; Silas P. Ashley, from 1831, to 1837.
A large part of the 4th company in Middleborough, was in what is now Lakeville, and its commanders were as follows.
Joseph Leonard, from 1759, to 1773 ; William Canedy jr., from 1773, to Sept. 19, 1775 ; Job Peirce, from May 9, 1776, to 1778 ; Amos Washburn, from 1778, to 1781; Abraham Shaw, from July 1, 1781, to 17 -; John Smith, from 178 -; Ebenezer Briggs, from Aug. 4, 1794, Elias Sampson
Ebenezer Pickens, from 1807, to 1814; David Sherman, from May 3, 1814, to 1821 ; Abial Sampson, from 1821, to 1826 ; Richard B. Foster, from 1826, to 1828 ; Horatio G. Clark, from July 19, 1828, to Jan. 23, 1829 ; James Pickens, from May 29, 1829, to May 30, 1830 when the 4th company was disbanded, and the members enrolled in the 7th com- pany, then under Capt. Samuel Hoar.
The following named gentlemen residing within the limits of Lakeville, held commissions, in the militia higher than that of Captain.
BRIGADIER GENERAL. - Ephraim Ward, from January 27, 1825, to 1828.
COLONELS. - John Nelson, from July 1, 1781, to 1787. Ephraim Ward, April 25, 1817, to January 27, 1825.
..
22
HISTORY OF TOWNS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS. - Peter Hoar, from July 22, 1800, to 1806, Ephraim Ward, from 1816, to April 25, 1817, Ebenezer W. Peirce, from April 3, 1852, to Nov. 7, 1855.
MAJORS. - Elkanah Leonard, 17 -; John Nelson, from May 9, 1776, to July 1, 1781 ; Peter Hoar, from Jan. 4, 1797, to July 22, 1800; Ephraim Ward, from 1812, to 1816; Harry Jackson, from January 29, 1823, to 1823; Ebenezer W. Peirce, Aug. 1851, to April 3, 1852.
Names of gentlemen born in that part of Middleborough, now Lakeville, and who held military commissions higher than that of Captain, after going to reside elsewhere.
BRIGADIER GENERAL. - Abial Washburn, from September 4, 1816, to Dec. 1824.
COLONEL. - Abial Washburn, from July 22, 1800, to Sept. 4, 1816 ; Edward G. Perkins, from 1837, to 1839.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.