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Gentlemen of Abington, who have held commissions in the local militia higher than that of Captain.
Major General, Benjamin King.
Brigadier General, Benjamin King, Henry Dunham.
Colonels, Aaron Hobart, Luke Bicknell, David Gloyd, Benjamin King, John Cushing, Henry Dunham, Albert Whitmarsh, Daniel Gloyd, and Brackley Cushing.
Lieutenant Colonels, David Gloyd, John Cushing, Henry Dunham, Albert Whitmarsh, Joshua F. Winslow.
Majors, Luke Nash, David Gloyd, John Cushing, Micah White, Henry Dunham, Albert Whitmarsh, Zichri N. Whitmarsh, Daniel Gloyd, and Quincy T. Harding.
TOWN OFFICERS, 1873-4.
Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. - Marcus Reed, Henry A. Noyes, E. R. Studley.
Town Clerk. - Henry A. Noyes.
Treasurer. - George A. Beal.
School Committee. - James H. Gleason, Samuel Dyer, Franklin Poole.
Constables. - John A. Floyd, Paul Baker, James L. Corthell, Josiah Cushman, Watson Bates, Owen Maginnis, George F. Wheeler, Joshua Crooker.
CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church. - Union St. East Abing- ton. Organized April 10, 1871. Dedicated April 20, 1871. St. Bridget's Catholic Church, - Abington Centre. Erected in 1861.
Population in 1870, 9,313.
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First Baptist Church. - South Avenue, South Abington. Organized October 17, 1822.
Second Baptist Church. - Union Street, East Abington. Incorporated September 1, 1856. Organized May 1, 1854.
Second Congregational Church. - Washington Street, South Abington. Organized August 19, 1807.
Fourth Congregational Church. - North Abington, Pastor, ; Deacons, James Ford, Charles Stetson ; Clerk, Cyrus Orcutt.
Third Church in Abington. Organized August 27, 1813.
First Universalist Church. - Washington St. Abington Centre. Organized April 20, 1836.
New Jerusalem Church. - Abington Centre. Organized 1835. Rev. Joseph Pettes, Pastor ; E. W. Cobb, Clerk ; Lucius Faxon, Superintendent Sunday School.
Masonic. John Cutler Lodge. Chartered A. L. 5860. James E. Smith, W. M. ; Samuel F. Ring, S. W .; Albert F. Kelly, J. W. ; E. M. Nash, Secretary.
SOCIETIES, &c.
Old Colony Commandery, Abington. Chartered A. L. 5863. A. Sumner Stetson, E. C; James F. Cox, G .; Boalis Sanford, Jr., C. G. ; E. M. Nash, Rec.
Puritan Lodge, South Abington. Chartered July 21, A. L. 5869.
Abington Council, Chartered 5869. H. F. Copeland, M. I. R. ; H. F. Whidden, R. I. M .; A. S. Stetson, I. M .; E. M Nash, Rec.
Pilgrim Royal Archi Chapter, Chartered 5862. Wm. H. Maine, H. P. ; George L. Richardson, K. ; Hiram C. Alden, S. ; E. M. Nash, Secretary.
Knights of Pythias, Old Colony Lodge, No. 43, East Abington. Instituted July 11, 1870.
David A. Russell Encampment, Post No. 78, G. A. R. South Abington. Charles D. Nash, Com. ; Charles F. Allen, S. V. Com. ; Andrew C. Brigham, J. V. Com .; James E. Bates, Adjt. ; J. II. Wetherell, Quarter Master. Fraternal Division, No. 77, S. of T. North Abington. Organized December 20, 1859.
Home Division, No. 49, S. of T. Instituted August 21, 1857. G. E. Pratt, W. P. ; William R. Gilson, R. S.
Mount Vernon Cemetery Association, Abington Cen- tre. Incorporated August 5, 1852. Directors, Freeman Foster, Henry A. Noyes, William R. Gilson, Merritt 12
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Nash, Josiah Cushman, Daniel Blanchard, Albert Cham- berlin, C. W. Howland, S. Stillman Atwood. Freeman Foster, President ; H A. Noyes, Secretary. ; Josiah Cush- man, Superintendent.
Harmony Lodge, No. 86, I. O. of G. T. Organized January 15, 1866, East Abington. Number of members, 120. W. C. T. Elijah Thompson ; W. Sec., Robert D. Warren.
Waverly Lodge No. 278, I. O. of .G T. North Abing- ton. Meets every Thursday Evening. Noah Shaw, W. C. T. ; Hattie Beal, W. V. T. ; Elwin Orcutt, W. S.
Adelphian Lodge, I. O. G. T. Abington Centre. Alonzo F. Chase, W. C. T .; Jennie Freeman, W. V. T .; Ara- bella T Sears, W. R. Secretary.
Young Men's Christian Association, East Abington.
Rooms Phoenix Block, East Abington. Richmond J. Lane. President ; Josiah A. Torrey, Joseph E. French, Vice Presidents ; Nathan Beal, Rec. Sec. ; Richard Holbrook, Treasurer ; Frank N. Lawrence, Auditor ; Sol- omon H. Shurtleff, Librarian ; J. A. Torrey, Elijah Thomp- son, William W. Pool, Charles L. Rice, Joshua Curtis, Jacob Whiting, Francis M. French, Lorenzo Perkins, J. C. Gleason, Directors ..
Post 74, G. A. R. East Abington. McPherson En- campment.
Post No. 73, G. A. R. M. N. Arnold Com., Abington.
Pilgrim Lodge, No. 75, I. O. O. F. Centre Abington. Merritt Nash, N. G. ; William Tribou, V. G .; F. G. Shaw, R. S .; William A. Hurd, P. S .; C. A. Floyd, T .; L. Gibson, W.
Population of Abington, 9,313.
CARVER.
This town was first settled by the white. people, in or about 1638, and for many years formed a part of Plymouth.
It was first set of from Plymouth in June 1707, forming a part of Plympton, incorporated as a new and distinct town on the 4th day of June, in that year. Carver continued to be a part of Plympton from June 4th, 1707, to June 9th, 1790, when it was incorporated by the name that it still bears.
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The succession of ministers in the old, or original Congre- gational Church, have been as follows :- Othniel Campbell, from 1734 to 1743; . John Howland, from 1746 to 1804; John Shaw, from 1807 to 1815. Luther Wright, from 1821 to 1825; Plummer Chase, from 1828 to 1835; Paul Jew- ett, from 1836 to 1839. Jonathan King, from1839 to 1846; Ebenezer Gay, from 1846 to 1851; Stillman Pratt, from 1851 to 1854; William C. Whitcomb, and Henry L. Chase.
There are also in town a Baptist and a Methodist Church and Societies.
Carver is about eight miles from Plymouth, and 38 from Boston.
In the late war of the Great Rebellion, Carver furnished one of the companies that responded to the first call of the country, and promptly repaired to the field of strife in Vir- ginia, serving three months, at and near Fortress Munroe. It was a part of Colonel David W. Wardrop's Regiment, in Brigadier General Ebenezer W. Peirce's Brigade. Entered the service in April, and was mustered out in July 1861.
Carver lost heavily in the war, the names of soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the cause of their country, together with the dates of their deaths, being as follows :
George E. Bates, May 21, 1863; William H. Barrows, July 2, 1863 ; John Breach, May 11, 1863 ; Benjamin W. Dunham, October 26, 1862 ; Harry Finney, -; Lucius E. Griffith, November 6, 1863 ; Lucian T. Ham-
mond, July 30, 1862 ; Eli Atwood Jr., December 14, 1862 ; Allen S. Atwood, September 7, 1862 ; Josiah E. Atwood, July 11, 1863 ; James McShea, January 13, 1863; Wilson McFarlin, August 30, 1862 ; Archibald Sturges, - ; Levi Shurtleff Jr., October 7, 1862 ; John S. Robbins, Au- gust 30, 1862 ; George H. Pratt, about October 1864 ; El- bridge A. Shaw, June 14, 1862 ; Bartlett Shaw, August 30, 1862; Joseph F. Sturges, August 29, 1862; Alonzo D. Shaw, April 18, 1863 ; James H. Sturges, April 29, 1862.
Gentlemen of Carver, who have held commissions in the militia, higher than that of Captain : Colonel, Benjamin Ward ; Lieutenant Colonel, Matthias Ellis ;, Majors, Ne- hemiah Cobb, John Shaw, Benjamin Ellis, Stillman Shaw, and 'Thomas B. Griffeth.
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1873-4.
Town Clerk. - Peleg McFarlin.
Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. - Alvin Perkins, Andrew Griffeth, H. A. Lucus.
School Committee. - E. T. Pratt, Solomon F. McFarlin. Treasurer and Collector. - Thomas Cobb.
Constable. - Robert M. Dempsey.
CHURCHES, &c.
Methodist Episcopal Church. - No settled Pastor. · Baptist Church. - No settled Pastor.
Congregational Church. - Rev. William Livingstone, Pastor.
Second Advent Church. - John P. Boynton, Pastor.
Union Church. - No settled Pastor.
Rescue Lodge, No. 4, I. O. of G. T. - William Breech, W. C. T.
Population of Carver, 1,092.
PLYMOUTH.
This town is situated 37 miles south-west of Boston, at the bottom of a harbor on the bay of Massachusetts.
Patuxet was the Indian name of Plymouth. The fine plain on which it was built, slopes toward the sea. The soil of this plain is poor, but the land adjoining is good along the seaboard. The area of Plymouth is large, and there are more than fifty ponds in the town, covering 3000 acres.
In the rear of the village is Burying Hill, formerly Fort Hill. It overlooks the sea, being 160 feet above sea-level, and embraces about 8 acres.
On this height the Pilgrims built a fort in 1675, on the approach of King Philip's war, one hundred feet square, strongly palisaded, ten and a half feet high. The hill is now covered with the graves of former generations.
Among them may be seen the humble monuments of Hon. Major William Bradford, (son of the Governor), who died in 1703-4. Edward Gray, Gent , died in 1681. Mr. Thomas Cushman, a ruling elder, died in 1691. Mr.
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Thomas Clarke, who came over in the Anne, and died in 1697, aged about 98 years.
Cole's Hill, just back of Plymouth Rock, was the first burial place of the Pilgrims. About 50 of the passengers of the May Flower, were buried here-among them Gov. Carver, and Rose Standish.
Plymouth was the first town built in Massachusetts, by Europeans. There is now' no one of the early houses standing, but the monuments of the Pilgrims are seen all over our glorious country. These are the institutions of learning, philosophy, and republican government where- ever the descendants of the Plymouth pioneers spread themselves, and established their homes.
The landing at Plymouth Rock was first made Decem- ber 11, 1620, O. S, The Shallop containing Carver, Brad- ford, Winslow, Standish, and others, with 8 or 10 seamen came near shore, and found a harbor fit for shipping.
A part of their number landed and. examined the coun- try. Near the shore they found Indian corn had been planted two or three years before.
A beautiful brook was near, and springs of pure water. So they judged it a good place for settlement.
On Saturday the 23, they began to cut timber for build- ing. The story of their sufferings, and final success has often been told.
These people are our ancestors, and I take pleasure in recounting their exploits. They were brave, noble souls, though too zealous and enthusiastic, if not bigoted in their religious character. Most of the great spirits of our age praise them ; and there never was a more praiseworthy cause than the planting of that colony, for the sake of liberty.
I have gleaned facts about them from old records, monu- ments, books and papers.
STEPHEN HOPKINS.
Stephen Hopkins came over in the Mayflower. His name stands 14th among the signers of the compact made on board that vessel, with the honorable prefix of " Mr." He brought two servants or laborers with him, Dotey and Leister. His chldren were Giles, Con- stance, Damaris, Caleb, Deborah, Ruth, Elizabeth, and Oceanus, the last born on the sea coming over. He joined the emigrants in England, not having been at Leyden with Robinson's congregation. As the pilgrims
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first came to the shore to mend their shallop, Capt. Miles Standish was sent out with sixteen men, armed with mus- ket, sword, and corslet, to examine the wild country around. Wm. Bradford, Stephen Hopkins, and Edw. Tilley were joined to this band for counsel and advice. Hopkins had been on two previous excursions from Cape Cod Harbor. He seems to have been cool, brave and faithful in times of danger. Samoset was lodged for safe keeping at his house 16 March, 1621. He went with Winslow to see Massasoit at Pokanoket in July 1621. Subsequently Mr. Hopkins was much in the public service, being Governor's Assistant several years. He was my mother's ancestor, his son Giles being the great-grandfather of her great-grandfather. From this grandfather Giles, I have several papers handed down to me through the six generations. A more partic- ular account of these may be seen in the sketches of towns on the Cape.
Mr. Hopkins had 6 acres of land assigned him in 1623, for a garden, on the south side of the brook. No other one of the company had so much land except William Brewster, the venerable elder.
The first wife of Stephen Hopkins died in England leav- ing two children, Giles, and Cnstance who married Nich- olas Snow.
In 1632, Mr. H. was a member of the Council of New Plymouth, also in 1633. January 2, of the latter year he was taxed £1,07 shillings. July 7 he was chosen with Capt. Standish, John Doane, Joshua Pratt, Edw. Bangs, Jona. Brewster and Robert Hicks to divide the meadow ground in the bay equally among the purchasers, according to their original shares. Jan. 3, 1633, he was chosen As- sistant to the Governor, also Jan. 1, 1634-5, also Jan. 5, 1635-6.
June 7, 1636, John Tisdale, yeoman, entered an action in court against him for assault, the said John being dan- gerously wounded by him, as he affirmed. The jury ad- judged him to pay £5. to the King and 40 shillings to the plaintiff.
March 7, 1636-7, he is added to the Governor's Assist- ants to advise upon the trade with the Indians in furs, corn, beads, &c.
In 1637, he is chosen with Edward Bangs and others to view and apportion the bay grounds between Eel River and Plymouth. The same year Mr. Hopkins and John
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Winslow are appointed for the town of Plymouth to be added to the Governor and Assistants to assess men toward the charges of the soldiers, that are to be sent forth for the aid of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut, in the In- dian war,
October 2, same year, he is fined 40 shillings for suffer- ing servants to sit drinking in his house on the Lord's Day, and to play at shovel-board, and such like misdemeanors. But he is released from the fine.
June 5, 1638, he is presented before the Grand Inquest for selling beer for two pence per quart, not worth one penny a quart ; also for selling wine at excessive rates. Kenelm and John Winslow swore against him, and he was fined.
August 7 of the same year, liberty is granted him by the Court of Assistants to erect a house at Mattacheese, (Yarmouth), and cut hay there this year, to winter his cat- tle with, provided it be not to withdraw him from the town of Plymouth. February 4, 1638-9 Mr. Stephen Hopkins is committed to ward for his contempt of the Court.
December 3, 1639, Mr. Hopkins, upon his presentment for selling a looking-glass for 16d. the like whereof was bought in the Bay for 9d., is referred to further informa- tion.
August 20, 1644, Captain Miles Standish and Mr. Wm. Bradford, deposed to the last will and testament of Mr, Stephen Hopkins, deceased. He was living the year be- fore.
Mr. Stephen Hopkins' house, or the house that was his, was in 1652, taken by the Government "for an arsenal, and for the meetings of the Committees and Juries and other suchlike uses."
Of Stephen Hopkins' standing in 1634, Mr. Moore, in his Lives of the Governors, thus speaks :
"Twenty-four of the 41 Signers of the Compact of 1620, had fallen before the pestilence ; and of those who remained, Stephen Hopkins, Miles Standish, and John Alden, were the most prominent individuals.
Hopkins was then one of the principal magistrates ; and Alden seems, like him, to have been content with the bur- thens of the same office, which he shared for more than forty years, outliving all the other signers of the compact.
Captain Standish, the hero of the settlement, was be-
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ginning to feel the infirmities of age, and possessed a tem- per too natural to his profession to fit him for the duties of the chief magistracy.
The Fortune had brought in 1621, a new accession of estimable men to the colony, who were received with wel- come, and the standing and qualifications of Mr. Prence, caused him to be selected from among their number, as the successor of Governor Winslow, in 1634.
This gives me an opportunity to introduce some facts about other forefathers, in whose fame I rejoice.
THOMAS PRENCE.
Gov. Thomas Prence was born in 1600, at Lechdale, a small parish in Gloucestershire, England, on the north bank of the Thames, where his family had resided for several gen- erations, being probably independent yeomen, and his father, at least, a Puritan.
From the time of his arrival to his death, Governor Prence was nearly always in office, as Assistant, President of Councils of War, or Governor. For 12 years he was Commissioner of the United Colonies.
His administration was rendered illustrious by his ear- nest efforts to introduce a regular system of free schools in the Colony. For a time he met with great opposition, and at first succeeded only so far as to establish a free school at Plymouth, which was supported by the profits of the fisheries at Cape Cod.
However, before he died, he had the satisfaction to be- hold the system for which he had struggled valiantly, and which was fraught with incalculable benefits to posterity, in successful operation in most of the towns of this colony, and supported at the public expense.
In his inventory after his decease, 44 school books are enumerated, showing him to be a scholar, or at least, a lover of learning. These books were probably intended for distribution among the public schools.
Mr. Moore says also in the work above quoted, " Mr. Prence and his associates in 1643, obtained a grant of lands at Nauset, and went resolutely forward with their new plantation.
These persons were among the most respectable inhabi- tants of Plymouth. The church regretted their departure, viewing herself as a mother grown old and forsaken by her children, if not in their affections, yet in their company and personal assistance. But however, the emigration
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might have been lamented at that time, it was productive of good to the colony ; and eventually led to the settle- ment of all the lower part of the county of Barnstable ; in consequence of which the Indians there, who from their numbers were a formidable body, were over-awed, and their good will obtained, and they were prevented from joining in hostilities against the English, in the wars which afterward occurred."
He was taxed in 1633, £1. 07 shillings. His first wife having died he married Mary Collier, daughter af Mr. William Collier, April 1, 1635. I am descended from this marriage.
In 1636, Mr. Prence was chosen treasurer of the colony.
In 1661, liberty is granted to him by the court to pur- chase a parcel of land at Satucket, in reference to his mill there, and to some other lands he hath there. Satucket was the Indian name of what is now West Brewster, ad- joining Yarmouthport.
He resided sometimes at Duxbury, and most of the 16 years he was Governor, at Plymouth, because the people wanted their chief near the seat of government.
Indeed the court declared it indispensable, that the governors should reside there. So, from Eastham, where he had dwelt since 1644, he removed to Plymouth in 1663, and died March 29, 1673, being buried at Plymouth April 8.
THOMAS CLARKE.
Thomas Clarke, who was buried on the hill, came over in the Anne, in 1623, being then 23 years old.
He was probably a seafaring man, as well as carpenter. It is recorded that in 1635, he lost a boat worth £15 in a great storm in Eel River.
He had for his garden plot in 1623, one acre on the south side of the brook. In 1637, he was the first to vol- unteer to go against the Pequot Indians. In this roll are Mr. Stephen Hopkins and his two sons, Caleb and Giles. At this date he dwelt at Eel River, and was styled " yeo- man."
In '42, he was surveyor of Plymouth. In'51, one of the Plymouth committee. He appears to have been a very active, trading, speculating man. In 1629, he bought an acre of land on the south side of the town for 30 pounds of tobacco and the next day sold it to Governor Bradford. He purchased a lot of land at Eel River in 1630, for £10.
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He resided at Plymouth in 1643, and 58. December 3, 1639, he was fined 30 shillings for extortion, in that he sold a pair of boots and spurs for 15 shillings which he had purchased for 10 shillings. Before 1631, he had mar- ried Susanna, daughter of widow Mary Ring. Stephen Dean married another of Mrs. Ring's daughters.
Mr. Clarke was elected one of the deputies of Plymouth in 1655, and again in 1656.
March 6, 1654-5, he was presented before the Grand Jury for taking six pounds for the bare loan of twenty pounds one year, which the jury " conceived to be great extortion, contrary to the law of God and man." At his trial the traverse jury cleared him. It was probably a false charge.
The wife of Samuel Jenney dying about 1659, left a legacy to her daughter, and placed the child and her por- tion in the custody of Mr. Clarke. But on petition of Mr. Jenney, the court delivered to him his child, but al- lowed the property to remain in custody of Mr. Clarke. He died at Plymouth, 24th March, 1697, aged 98 years.
An artillery company was raised at Plymouth " in the days that tried men's soul's," and the organization com- pleted July 8, 1777, when Thomas Mayhew was 'chosen Captain, and Thomas Nicholson, Lieutenant. Thos. May- hew was the name of the first captain of the Plymouth Ar- tillery Company. Thomas Mayhew was also the name of the first man from Plymouth killed in battle in the late war of the great Rebellion. He was struck in the head by a cannon ball, that passed between the color bearers of the 29th Regiment, taking off the bayonet of one of the color guard, as he carried his gun at the shoulder. The 29th Regiment in the battle of " Gaines Hill" (June 27, 1862), carried both the State and National colors, but dispensed with the former soon after. Thomas Mayhew, the man slain, was a second Lieut. but acting as first Lieut. of the color company (of the 29th Regiment), his proper position as first Lieut. placing him where he stood when killed.
Colonel Ebenezer W. Peirce, commanding the Mass. 29th Regiment at the battle of Gaines Hill, was on horse- back, immediately behind the colors of the regiment, and the cannon ball just cleared his horse, and struck Lieut, Mayhew, who at the time was near enough to touch the colonel's horse with his hand. The story that the colonel's
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arm was shot off with the same ball that killed Lieut. Mayhew, was not true. The Colonel did not lose his arm until June 30, 1862, and the cannon ball that took off his arm, cut a soldier almost in twain, after taking off his arm. Both the colonel and Lieut. were in their private or per- senal history somewhat allied to, or connected with, the Plymouth artillery company, Lieut. Mayhew having been formerly a member of the same, and, at the same time, too, that the colonel was Major of the regiment to which the Artillery company belonged, colonel Peirce having been the first who held the office of Major of the 4th Regiment, after the Plymouth company was made a part of that Regiment.
The Plymouth Artillery company for many years formed a part of an Artillery Battalion, consisting of the Artil- lery companies of Plymouth, Abington, and Hanover, and during that time the following named Plymouth gentlemen held the office of Major Commandant of the Battalion. Jos. Thomas, William Pearson, and Ephraim B. Holmes. About 30 years since, it was made part of a newly formed Artill- ery Regiment, and Wendall Hall of Plymouth, (who had performed duty in the Plymouth Artillery company twenty one years), was commissioned Colonel, Ephraim B. Rich- ards of Boston, Lieut. Colonel, and Ebenezer W. Peirce of Freetown, Major.
The Plymouth Artillery company performed duty in two wars, viz., the " Revolution" and war of 1812, or last " war with England," as it is frequently called, and very generally known.
Captain William Davis Jr., was captain of the Ply- mouth Artillery company, at the breaking out of the war of 1812, and by the resignation and discharge of Major Joseph Thomas, Captain Davis for a time commanded the Battalion as senior officer, and thus continued until the elec- tion and commissioning of Micah White of Abington, as Ma- jor Commandant.
Major Thomas resigned in the early part of 1811, and Major White succeeded him in July 1812. Drafts were frequently made about that time, and the Plymouth, Abington and Hanover Artillery companies were sometimes required to furnish one third of a company each for duty as Artillerists in the " coast guard" and sometimes the en- tire force of each were ordered to the posts of danger.
The Plymouth Artillery company was disbanded about
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twenty years since. Another company of volunteer mili- tia existed in Plymouth for several years. It was called the "Standish Guards." Captain Coomer Weston, was the first commander.
At the first call for soldiers in the late war of the " great Rebellion," Plymouth furnished a company for the Third Regiment of Mass. infantry, commanded by Col. David W. Wardrop, of New Bedford, and in the brigade of Brigadier General Ebenezer W. Peirce, of Freetown, and performed a tour of duty three months in Virginia. Dr. John H. Jennings, of New Bedford, a Virginian by birth, was then Major of the third regiment, and he soon after succeeded D. W. Wardrop as Colonel.
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