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. Plymouth also furnished one of the companies of the Mass. twenty-ninth regiment, a three-years organization, of which Ebenezer W. Peirce was the first Colonel.
Population of Plymouth in 1870, 6,238.
TOWN OFFICERS. - 1873-4.
Selectmen - Albert Mason, William H. Nelson, Lem- uel Bradford, Henry Whiting Jr., David Clark.
Town Clerk - Leander Lovell.
Town Treasurer - Curtis Davic.
Collector of Taxes - Lemuel Bradford.
Assessors - John Harlow, John Perkins, J. A. Robbins.
Overseers of the Poor - John HI. Harlow, William H. Whitman, Lemuel Bradford.
Sexton - Clement Bates.
Water Commissioners - Charles G. Davis, Samuel H. Doten, Lemuel Bradford.
School Committee - Albert Mason, Charles B. Stod- dard, term expires 1875 ; Benjamin A. Hathaway, George A. Tewksbury, term expires 1874 ; Lemuel Bradford, 2d, Charles G. Davis, term expires 1876.
Superintendent of Schools - Charles Burton.
Agawam Fishery Committee - B. H. Holmes, Richard W. Bagnell, Peleg C. Chandler.
Constables - John Perkins, Barnabas Hedge, Harvey W. Weston, Stephen Pember, Lewis S. Wadsworth.
Burial Hill Committee - Warren S. Macomber, Charles Raymond, James B. Collingwood.
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Truant Committee - John Perkins, Josiah D. Baxter, James B. Collingwood.
Surveyors of Lumber - George H. Jackson, Nathaniel Brown, Leavitt T. Robbins.
Inspector and Sealer of Leather - John Churchill.
Sealer of Weights and Measures - Samuel H. Harlow.
Committee on Plymouth Beach - Thomas B. Sears, Henry Whiting, Charles Burton, Josiah D. Baxter.
Surveyors of Highways - Albert Mason, Lemuel Brad- ford, Henry Whiting Jr., William H. Nelson, David Clark.
Field Drivers and Fence Viewers - Joseph F. Towns, Nathan B. Perry, Barnabas Hedge, Ezra Finney, Lewis S. Wadsworth, Solomon Sylvester, Stephen Doten, Edward D. Clark, Lewis W. Thrasher, Hosea C. Bartlett.
Committee on Fires in the Woods - Franklin B. Cobb, Henry Whiting Jr., Alanson Thomas, William T. Davis, Gustavas G. Sampson, Thomas Pierce, Horatio Wright, Isaac N. Barrows, Otis W. Burgess, Truman Sampson, Barnabas Hedge, Henry Whiting, Leavitt T. Robbins, Ezra Finney, George W. Cobb, Aaron Sampson, Ziba Ellis.
Superintendent of Water Works - B. A. Hathaway.
Committee on Shell Fish - Josiah D. Baxter, Barnabas Hedge, John T. Hall.
Pound Keepers - At the Almshouse, Oliver T. Wood ; at Chiltonville, Galen R. Holmes ; at Manomet Ponds, Hosea C. Bartlett.
Board of Engineers - Peleg C. Chandler, Richard W. Bagnall, Henry Whiting Jr., Charles B. Stoddard, Leavitt T. Robbins.
Number of Polls, 1,534.
Tax of Polls, $2.00.
Rate of Taxation, 1 64-100.
Valuation of Real Estate, $2,054,850.
Valuation of Personal Estate, $1,372,325.
Total Real and Personal Estate, $3,427,175.
CHURCHES.
First Parish Unitarian Church - Rev. Frederick N. Knapp, Pastor.
Second Parish Congregational Church - Rev. Mr. Brig- ham, Pastor.
Third Parish Congregational Church - Rev. George A. Tewksbury, Pastor.
Baptist Church - No settled Pastor.
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Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev. Mr. Morse, Pastor. Methodist African Church - Rev. Mr. Mason, Pastor. Universalist Church - No settled Pastor.
Advent Church - No settled Pastor.
Congregational Church, Chiltonville - Rev. William H. Cobb, Pastor.
Congregational Church, Chiltonville - No settled Pas- tor.
Methodist Episcopal Church, Chiltonville - No settled Pastor.
Episcopal Church - No settled Pastor.
Second Baptist Church, (Indian) Cedarville.
MASONIC. Plymouth Lodge, No. 54.
Mcet at Masonic Hall, Main Street, Monday Evening's, on or before the full of the moon, Harvey W. Weston, . W M. ; Charles H. Rogers, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS. May Flower Lodge, No. 54.
Mect at Adelphian Hall, High Street, Tuesday Eve- ning of each week. Cornelius F. Bradford, N. G. ; Jon- athan C. Marston, V. G. ; John Churchill, Treasurer ; Charles P. Hatch, Secretary ; Lemuel Bradford, Per. Sec- retary ; George F. Weston, Barnabas Churchill, Benjamin Bramhall, Trustees.
Sagamore Encampment, No. 45. - Meet first and third Friday Evenings of each month. Charles H. Rogers, C. P. ; Charles L. Jones, H: P. ; Charles P. Hatch, S. W. Nehemiah L. Benson, J. W. ; Lemuel Bradford, Scribe ; Cornelius F. Bradford, Treasurer.
Samoset Royal Arch Chapter - Meets first Thursday of each month, at Masonic Hall, Main Street. J. C. Fuller. M. E. H. P. ; Stevens M. Burbank Jr., Secretary.
Collingwood Encampment, Post No. 76. G. A. R.
Meets at Hall, Middle street, Wednesday Evening of each week. Charles E. Barnes, Com. ; Frank S. Finney, Adjt. and Secy.
Plymouth Public Library, at Pilgrim Hall, Court street, William T. Davis, Chrm. Board of Managers ; B. A. Hath- away, Secretary ; Joseph L. Brown, Librarian.
Pilgrim Society Officers. - President, Hon. William T. Davis, Plymouth ; Vice President, Timothy Gordon, Ply- mouth ; Corresponding and Recording Secretary, William
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S. Danforth, Plymouth ; Treasurer, Isaac N. Stoddard, Plymouth ; Trustees, Thomas Loring, Plymouth, Hon. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston, Charles G. Davis, Ply- mouth, Abraham Jackson, Boston, Hon. Edward S. To- bey, Boston, L. Baron Russell, Boston, E. C. Sherman, Plymouth, Hon. George S. Boutwell, Groton, William Savery, Carver, C. O. Churchill, Plymouth, George P. Hayward, Hingham, George G. Dyer. Plymouth, Richard Warren, New York, Benjamin Hathaway, Plymouth, Ellis Ames, Canton, William H. Whitman, Plymouth.
Plymouth Gas Company, Plymouth. Incorporated 1853, Capital $40.000, President, Winslow Drew, Treas- urer, William S. Danforth.
MARION.
This is one of the newest towns in Plymouth county, having been incorporated May 14, 1852, or a little more than twenty-one years since, and is that part of the an- cient and time-honored town of Rochester, formerly called " Sippican."
Marion is about four miles in its medium width and length, and therefore contains about sixteen square miles.
This town contributed 40 soldiers to the Union army in the late war of the " great Rebellion," and 23 seamen to the navy.
It was in what is now Marion, that Awashonks, the squaw Sachem of the Taconet Indians, with her tribe were encampedwhen found by Captain Benjamin Church, and concerning which he made mention in his very inter- esting narrative, (first published more than a century and a half ago), in these words. "Some were running races on horse back ; some playing foot ball; some were catch- ing eels and flat fish, and others plunging and frolicking in the waves."
Here too it was that this gallant native American Queen so cordially received the brave and enterprising officer, this truly good and great man, and entertained him, with fried eels, bass, flat fish and shell fish ; and around a huge blazing fire, she and her people entered into a solemn
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league of peace with, and pledged their allegiance to, the English.
The circumstances of that event, were doubtless greatly felt, and deemed more or less disastrous in their conse- quences, to King Philip and his cause, severing him, as this did, from a tribe on whom he had hoped to rely as ever faithful allies.
At no great distance from this historic spot, while the early white settlers were worshipping God, in a " * corn house" the native indians were performing their noisy wor- ship of spirits around a huge rock, the same hour sometimes by both nations being assigned to these exercises.
As Rochester sent to the field of strife two companies of soldiers to battle for the patriot cause, on that ever memorable occasion, known as the " Lexington Alarm," and afterward acted well her part in the desperate strug- gles of the " war for independence," doubtless that part now Marion did its share of the fighting, and endured in common with the parent town that suffering incident and inseparable from the trying scenes of those terrible times, that above all others in this country, were said to have " tried men's souls," and lead us with the poet to exclaim,
" God bless our ancient fathers, Their lot was hard enough."
But just such however as was required to fit and prepare them, for the troubles they were called to meet, the dan- gers they so bravely met, and hardships so nobly endured and which " kept the kernel in the shell, The British found so tough."
To the local militia of the county, the old " train band" in that part of Rochester now Marion, furnished the following named field Officers :
Colonel, David Hathaway of the Fifth Regiment in Second Brigade Fifth Division, from 1826 to 1829.
Lieutenant Colonel, Gilbert Hathawayt of the fourth Regiment in First Brigade, Fifth Division, from 1839 to April 24, 1840.
Majors, David Hathaway of the fourth Regiment First Brigade Fifth Division, from 1823 to 1826.
Gilbert Hathaway of fourth Regiment from 1837 to 1839.
* That which became a church edifice, was built by Samuel Riggs, for a corn house.
t Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Hathaway, was a son of Colonel David Hathaway. Gilbert went to Michigan, where he was a State Senator.
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Names of Marion men who laid down their lives for the cause of their country in the late war of the great rebellion :
Eighteenth Massachusetts Regiment, under Colonel Jas. Barnes, Company C. Jesse L. Swift, died December 1, 1864, and Nathan H. Weeks ; both died of disease.
Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment, Company A. Ben- jamin D. Clifton, killed in battle.
Twenty Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, Colonel Eben- ezer W. Peircet ; Company A., Richard Gurney, killed in battle.
Third Massachusetts Regiment, ; Company E. Andrew T. Pratt, killed in battle.
Ninth New Hampshire Regiment, Company I. Joseph Davis, died in rebel prison.
Of the sufferings of these brave men, it becomes us to be mindful, and often to recall, and to acknowledge, their great worth and sterling virtues, and thus give evidence of the truth that -
" The gallant man, though slain in fight he be, Yet leaves his country safe, his nation free, Entails a debt on all the grateful State; His own brave friends shall glory in his fate, His wife live honored and his race succeed
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And late posterity enjoy the deed." POPE'S HOMER.
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MARION TOWN OFFICERS, 1873-4.
Town Clerk, Treasurer, and Collector - Chas. II. Delano, James Blackenship.
Selectmen, Assessors, Overscers of the Poor -J. S. Luce, Obed Delano, Horatio N. Washburn.
Constables - Daniel IIall, Charles D. Ellis, Herring In- ' spector, Elijah Brayley.
CHURCHES, SOCIETIES, &c.
Congregational Church - Rev. C. A. Kingsbury, Pastor. Universalist Church - Henry C. Vose, Pastor. Methodist Episcopal Church - No settled Paster.
t Colonel E. W. Peirce, while leading the 20th Regiment at the bat- tle of White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862, had his right arm torn off by a cannon ball, that cut it off at the shoulder, and of which wound he was off duty only 30 days.
# The Third Massachusetts Regiment went out twice, during the war, once as a three month's Regiment, and once for nine months. .
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Protestant Methodist Church - No settled Pastor.
Masonic, Pythegorian Lodge - Meets at Freemasons Hall, Job A. T. Eddy, W. M. Joseph Blackenship, Secretary. Societies - Marion Library Association.
Natural History Society.
These two institutions were founded by the munificence of Mrs. Elizabeth Taber.
Population, 898.
EAST BRIDGEWATER.
This part of old Bridgewater, set off in 1823, was not much settled till about 1685. At that time there was a horse-bridge over Matfield river, now called "John's river." John Howard, Jr. resided on the banks of this stream, and had for his neighbors, Samuel Allen, William Brett, Isaac Harris, Jonathan Hill, Thomas Whitman, and Samuel Allen, Jr.
The East Parish was formed in 1723, at the East end of the North Parish, now called " West Parish," and sev- eral families of the South Parish were joined to the above named families, viz., Barna Seabury, Thomas Latham, Nicholas Wade, Nathaniel Harden, Charles Latham, Thos. Hooper, William Conant, Isaac Lazell, and Joseph Wash- burn, and altogether they constituted the Precinct called the " East Parish," which is now East Bridgewater. Their first minister was Rev. John Angier, ordained here in 1724. He died in 1787, after 63 years of service, and was succeeded by his son Samuel, ordained in 1763. The next minister was Rev. James Flint, ordained in 1806.
Beaver and Satucket rivers, branches of Taunton river, supply good water power and mill privileges, which are improved by various kinds of mills for manufacturing, as cotton, iron, shoes, nails, tacks, carriages, sashes, boxes, &c.
There are two villages in the town. A branch of the Old Colony Railroad extending from South Abington to Bridgewater, passes near one of the villages. Distance from Boston, 26 miles.
Population, 3,019.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
In annual town meeting W. H. Osborne was chosen Moderator.
Town Clerk - Jacob A. Rogers.
Selectmen - Elijah Latham, Moses Bates, Jacob A. Rogers.
Treasurer - Isaac N. Nutter.
School Committee - Asa S. Whitman, Ezra Kingman, Rev. A. Dodge, for three, Jarvis Burrell for one, year.
Collector - Ezra S. Whitmarsh.
Fish Committee - Samuel Keith, W. H. Osborne, B. L. Byran.
Constables - Sidney Packard, Benjamin Liddell, J. H. Scribner.
Voted for Repair of Roads and Bridges ; $3,500, of this sum $200 to be apportioned among the highway districts. For Removing Snow $200; Support of Poor $1850, Inci- dental Expenses and Abatement of Taxes, $450; Town Officers and Committees $1000, Support of Schools $5,500, School Incidentals $600, other School Purposes $600, Pay- ment of Town debt $3000. Decoration of Soldier Graves $100. Voted the sum of $100 to be expended by the Fish Commissioners. Voted that upon all taxes unpaid after October 1st., interest be charged at the rate of one per cent per month, and that all taxes unpaid Jan. 1st., be put in due course of law for collection. No discount to be made.
CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev. George W. Ander- son, Pastor ; William B. Hall, Secretary ; Samuel F. White, Treasurer ; Rev. W. F. Farrington, Supt. of Sun- day School; Francis Hayward, Samuel F. White, Frank- lin Edson, Joseph Mills, Jotham Hicks, Benjamin R. Rob- inson, George T. Mitchell, Cephas Perry, George Elwell, Stewards ; Francis Hayward, Samuel F. White, Waldo Hayward, Jothan Hicks, George T. Mitchell, Franklin Edson, William Keene, Benjamin R. Robinson, Trustees.
First Parish (Unitarian), Church-Rev. John W. Quim- by. Pastor ; Azor Harris, Charles Rogers, Deacons ; F. S. Strong, Robert Young, J. N. Nutter, Parish Committee ; Robert Young, Collector and Treasurer.
New Jerusalem Church - Elmwood Village, Rev. T. O. Paine, Pastor ; Thomas Conant, Leader ; L. W. Rich-
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ards, S. W. Keene, George A. West, Thomas Conant, Cru- dential Committee ; S. W. Keene, Clerk ; Samuel Shaw, Jr., Treasurer.
Catholic Church .- (Union and Bedford). Organized 1862.
Union Congregational Church, of East and West Bridge- water, (Pleasant, near Central), Organized June 20. 1826.
GOOD TEMPLARS.
Amaranth Lodge, No. 225. I. O. of G. T. Instituted December 20, 1866. Meets every Wednesday evening, at the Methodist Vestry. Number of members, 125. Officers for term ending August 1st, 1873. GeorgeF. Hayward, W. C. T. ; Emma Grow, W.V. T .; Isaac S. Gardner, W. S. ; Minot F. Severance, W. F. S. ; George H. Elwell, W. T.
Justin Dimmock Encampment, Post No. 124. G. A. R. Francis M. Kingman, Commander.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
Well Spring Division, No. 139. Elmwood Village. Organized January 12, 1871.
Johnny Clem Association .- Organized March 20, 1871. Named after John Clem, the drummer boy of Shiloh. Ob- jeet is to afford assistance to any patriotic purpose.
HALIFAX.
This town was incorporated July 4, 1734, and named for the Earl of Halifax.
It was within the present limits of this town, that the Nimrod of the red man in 1676, " captured the Moupou- setts and brought them in, not one escaping."
Tradition accords to one Thomas Holmes the distinction of Pioneer, or earliest settler in what is now Halifax.
The first church edifice erected in what is now Halifax, was built in 1733. Rev. John Cotton, somewhat cele- brated as an historian, was the first pastor of the church gathered here. His successors in the ministerial office
* Captain and afterward Colonel Benjamin Church, that mighty hunter of the Indians ..
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have been Rev. William Patten, Rev. Ephraim Briggs, Rev. Abel Richmond, Rev. E. S. Howe, Rev. Mr. How- land and Rev. Mr. Kimball, Rev. Mr. Brainard, and Rev. Wm. A. Forbes.
Probably the first commission ever granted to any per- son residing in what is now Halifax, was that conferred upon John Thompson, in or about 1677. All the militia of the Old Colony (now counties of Barnstable, Bristol and Plymouth), were then embodied in one regiment. Lieut. John Thompson was by trade a carpenter.
His house was burned by the indians, in " King Philip's war," that by just a century preceded that of the " Rev- olution" or " war for independence."
His gun, " lock, stock, and barrel," measured 7 feet 4 1-2 inches in length, and this interesting " heir loom," is now possessed by his lineal descendant in the eighth genera- tion, Captain Ephraim B. Thompson, of Halifax.
Halifax furnished the following named soldiers for the " continental army" in the Revolutionary War.
Nathaniel Holmes, James Tillson, Josiah Thompson, Prince Witherell, Consider Pratt, Homer Sears, Zebediah Thompson, Joshua Fonner, Elisha Faxon, Joseph Tillson, and Richard Bosworth.
This town has the oldest Infantry company in the State. The Halifax Light Infantry as it is called, was gotten up and organized about ninety years ago, and has per- formed duty in the field in two wars, viz., that of the last war with England, that commenced in 1812, and the war of the " great Rebellion", 1861. Captain Joseph S. Har- low led the company in the three months' service, viz., from April to July 1861. He was afterward commis- sioned Captain of a company raised in the State of Maine, and in leading which lost his life on the battle field.
Halifax was formerly the scene of stirring events in the history of military operations, most of the Brigade mus- ters, that formerly came off' in the county were held at Halifax.
Brigadier General Israel Fearing of Warcham brought out all the militia of Plymouth county, on a field near the " widow Dunbar's" in Halifax, in the autumn of 1803, and Brigadier General Ephraim Ward, of Middleborough thus assembled Plymouth County Brigade, on Major Thos. Drew's farm in Sept., 1826, and on Isaac Thompson's farm in the month of October, 1828.
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In the three months' service of 1861, the Halifax Infan- try was Company A. in third Regiment, commanded by Colonel David W. Wardrop, and in the Brigade of Brig- adier General Ebenezer W. Peirce. It was sent to For- tress Munroe.
HALIFAX TOWN OFFICERS, 1873-4.
Town Clerk - Edwin Inglee.
Selectmen, Assessors and overseers of the Poor - Ed- win Inglee, Abram Bourne, Martin Howland.
Constable, and Agent of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - W. H. Crocker.
CHURCHES.
Baptist Church - No settled Pastor.
Congregational Church - No settled Pastor.
Universalist Church - No settled Pastor.
Population, 619.
DUXBURY.
This town is situated six miles north from Plymouth, and thirty south-east from Boston. Its Indian name was Mattakeeset.
The first settlement was in the southern part of the town, near Plymouth, where the soil is good. The first church stood near the water. The village is on elevated ground, mostly along a street two miles in length. Blue- fish river crosses the northern part of the village. Cap- tain's Hill, part of the farm of the renowned Miles Stand- ish, is about two miles south from the centre of the town.
It is bounded on the east by the bay three miles in width.
The inhabitants are engaged in commerce, fisheries, ship-building, and the coast trade. Also considerable manufacturing is carried on.
MILES STANDISH.
Captain Standish, the military hero, settled in Duxbury in 1630. He probably gave the town its name, from Dux-
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bury Hall, the ancient seat of his family. He was born in Lancashire, England, about 1584, and belonged to a prominent family, being himself, sometime a soldier in the Netherlands. Duxbury was incorporated in 1637. Capt. Standish was sent to England in 1625, as agent of the Colony.
Captain Standish was elected an Assistant in 1633, and re-elected several times. He held other prominent offices. But his great fame arises from the brave, and dauntless manner in which he performed his part in the carly strug- gles of our pilgrim fathers. Though small of stature, he possessed a spirit equal to every emergency. No giant ever bore himself more fearlessly before his warlike foes. A splendid monument is soon to be erected to the memory of Captain Standish, near where he lived and died.
WILLIAM COLLIER.
One of the carly' founders of Duxbury was William Collier, formerly a London merchant, who was admitted to the freedom of the Colonial Government, and received the oath of fidelity Jan., 1633. In 1634, he was taxed £2.05s, that is, more than any other person except Edw. Winslow.
At this time, in the Court Records, he is styled " Mr.' the only others so styled being Wmn. Bradford, and Wm. Brewster. Jan. 1, 1634-5, he was elected Assistant. July 5, 1635, he was appointed with 4 others to collect money to build a mill with. The ten following years he was an- nually chosen Assistant. In 1642, he was elected with Edw. Winslow to go to Mass. Bay to treat about the com- bination of the two Colonies against the Indians.
These two men had authority to subscribe and seal the articles of Confederation between Massachusetts, Connec- ticut and New Haven. He was one of the Council of War. He died at his home in Duxbury at an advanced age. His wife's name was Jane.
In 1646, he was on a committee to draw up the Excise, in 57, one of the committee appointed by the Court to re- view the Laws and reduce them to such order, as they might conduce to the benefit of the Government.
This town helped to fill the quota or furnish the number of men required to be sent out to the neighboring colony of Rhode Island, under the command of Captain Michael Peirce of Scituate, about three months after the great battle with the Indians in the " Narragansett country," and in an engage-
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ment with the Indians led by Conanchet in person, that came off near the present village of Pawtucket, the following named Duxbury men were slain. Joseph Sprague, Benjamin Soule, Thomas Hunt, and Joshua Fobes. March 26, 1676, was the date of that sanguinary battle in which both the Captain and Lieutenant of the company were also killed.
Isaac Peirce of Duxbury, was a soldier in the Narragan- sett Expedition of " King Phillip's War." He removed to that part of Middleborough now Lakeville, when on the 28th of February, 1732, he died, being in the 71st year of his age.
In anticipation of the Revolutionary struggle, a com- pany of " Minute Men" was formed in Duxbury in 1773. Ichabod Alden was made Captain ; Andrew Samp- son, Lieut. ; and Judah Alden, Ensign; Samuel Loring, Peter Bradford, John Hanks, and Daniel Loring, Ser- geants ; Joshua Cushing, and James Shaw, Corporals ; John Drew, Drummer; Amherst Alden, Fifer; Private Soldiers : Samuel Alden, Thomas Chandler, Samuel Chandler, Thomas Dawes, Nathaniel Delano, Luther De- lano, Barzilla Delano, Thomas Delano, Seraiah Glass, Peter Gulliver, John Glass, John Oldham, John Osyer, Kimball Ripley, Thaddeus Ripley, John Southworth, Joshua Sprague, Thomas Sprague, Samuel Sprague, Uriah Sprague, William Sampson, Ichabod Sampson, Joseph Wadsworth, Charles Thomas, Prince Thomas, Consider Thomas, Wait Wadsworth, Sencca Wadsworth.
This, with other companies of minute men of the differ- ent towns in Plymouth County, were formed into a Regi- ment, and Theophilus Cotton of Plymouth, commissioned Colonel, Ichabod Alden of Duxbury, Lieutenant Colonel, and Ebenezer Sprout ot Middleborough, Major.
A portion of this Regiment were assembled on the 20th of April 1775, to attack the forces of Captain Balfour of the British Army, sent out from Boston to awe the pa- triots of Plymouth County.
May 1, 1775, four companies were sent to Plymouth, and these remained until the first of September.
September 1, 1775, Colonel Theophilus Cotton of Ply- mouth, with his regiment, went to Roxbury, and formed a part of the detachment ordered to throw up entrench- ments on Dorchester Heights, March 4, 1776.'
The field and Staff of this Regiment at that time con- sisted of Theophilus Cotton of Plymouth, Colonel : Ich-
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abod Alden of Duxbury, Lieutenant Colonel ; Joshua Thomas, Adjutant ; John Cotton Jr., Quarter Master ; William Thomas, Surgeon ; John Thomas, Surgeon's Mate.
COMPANY OFFICERS. Captains, Thomas Matthew, Earl Clapp, John Bradford, John Brigham, Joshua Benson, Isaac Wood of Middleborough, Peleg Wadsworth, Amos Wade of Middleborough, Samuel Bradford, Edward Ham- mond. Lieutenants, Nathaniel Lewis, Isaac Pope, Jesse Sturtevant, Edward Sparrow, of Middleborough, William Thompson, Abiel Townsend of Middleborough, Seth Drew, Archelaus Cote, Andrew Sampson, Timothy Rug- gles. Ensigns, Benjamin Warner, Charles Church, Thos. Sampson, Nehemiah Cobb, James Smith, Foxwell Thomas, Joseph Sampson, Lemuel Wood, Judah Alden, Nathan Sears.
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