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bined to wreck the fortunes of their former king. And I saw him at St. Helena with his hands crossed behind him, gazing out upon the sad and solemn sea. I thought of the orphans and widows he had made -- of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said, I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes-I would rather havelived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the Autumn sun-
POLLY BEMIS, Daughter of Sylvester Bemis and great granddaughter of Samuel Bemis Sr. Born in Chester, Mass., Aug. 9, 1791. Married Elias Howe Sr., mother of Elias Howe Jr., inventor of the sewing machine. Died at Cambridge- port, Sept. 12, 1871.
I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me-I would rather have been that man, and gone. down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder known as Napoleon the Great."
To have provided the world, both sick and well with comforta- ble beds on which to sleep; to have provided means which makes
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possible transit by rail rapid and continuous, crossing rivers and spanning chasms with safe bridges; to have furnished the means whereby every article of clothing mankind needs may be quickly, cheaply and durably made, are, anyone of them, more valuable achievements than all the victorious wars of Napoleon. It is true that by these wars the feudal system of the old world was destroyed and this undoubtedly was for the best interests of mankind. It is true that he planned and partially carried out internal improve- ments in France which were of very great value, but it is also quite likely as true, that all he did was done to gratify his own ambition for power, and hence his acts are robbed of every enobling virtue, even though good was the outcome. It appears proba- ble that if the country he is said to have loved, his own France, had stood in the way of his ambition, he would have sacrificed her as readily as he did his own Josephine. Better, ten thousand times better, to have brought needed inven- tions into the world to lighten its labors and add to its comforts than to have won the most noted victories of warfare with- out some worthy motive.
And now we must close. We have learned much con- cerning the life and virtues SILHOUETTE OF ANNA BEMIS, of the founder of our town Daughter of Joshua Sr. andgrand daughter of Samuel Sr. Born in Spencer, January 2, 1784. Married Abraham Capen Sr., May 25, 1817, and died May 21, 1824; grandmother of Herbert H. and Elida M. Capen. and of his descendants that is worthy of our highest es- teem, and much that might with profit be taught in our public schools, and it is probable as the years come and go, and the centuries fade away, this story of Samuel Bemis will lose none of its interest to his descendants and to the citizens of the town of Spencer.
BEMIS REVOLUTIONARY WAR
RECORD.
The following is the Revolutionary War record of the grand- sons of Samuel Bemis, taken from the State archives :
BENJAMIN BEMIS, Spencer, private, Captain John Wol- cott's company of Rangers, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 from Brookfield and Spencer, service twelve days ; also sergeant, Captain Joel Green's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Learn- ard's regiment. Muster-roll dated August 1, 1775 ; enlisted May 3, 1775, service three months, six days ; also company return probably October, 1775 ; also First-Lieutenant Captain David Proutee's Eighth, North Spencer company, Colonel Samuel Denny's First Worcester County regiment ; list of officers Massachusetts Militia, dated Leicester, March 28, 1776. Com- missioned April 5. 1776 ; also Private Captain Ralph Earll's Com- pany, Colonel Danforth Keyes' regiment, enlisted August 20, 1777, discharged January 3, 1778, service four months, nineteen days. Roll dated Providence.
SAMUEL BEMIS JR., Spencer, private, Captain Ebenezer Mason's company, Colonel Jonathan Warner's regiment which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service thirty-seven days ; also corporal, Captain Joel Green's company, Colonel Eben- ezer Learnard's regiment. Muster-roll dated August 1, 1775. Enlisted May 26, 1775, service two months, eleven days ; also served in Captain Jonathan Carriel's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment. Receipt for advance pay dated Point Shir- ley, June 13, 1776 ; also sergeant, pay-rolls for service from date of enlistment May 17, 1776, to November 1, 1776, five months fifteen days. Roll for August to October, 1776, dated at Hull ; also pay-roll for one month, four days' service in November and December, 1776 ; also served in Captain David Prouty's company, Colonel Job Cushing's Worcester County regiment. Enlisted July 27, 1777 ; discharged August 28, 1777, service one month eight days; marched to reinforce northern army by order of General Warner.
REUBEN BEMIS, private, Captain John Wolcott's company of Rangers, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service twelve days.
JOHN BEMIS, Spencer, corporal, Captain Joel Green's company, Colonel Ebenezer Learnard's regiment. Muster roll
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dated August 1, 1775; enlisted May 3, 1775; service three months, five days ; also company returned probably October, 1775; also return of men enlisted into Continental Army dated January 1781, Colonel Shepard's fourth regiment. Enlisted March 4, 1777 , private, Captain Ebenezer Mason's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's regiment; enlisted August 16, 1777 ; discharged November 30, 1777. Service three months, twenty- three days, in northern department. Residence Spencer, enlisted during war.
JOSEPH BEMIS, Charlton, Captain Jonathan Carriel's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment ; receipt for advance
CATHERINE BEMIS,
Daughter of Joshua Sr. and granddaughter of Samuel Sr., born in Spencer, June 24, 1778. Married Jamies Howland January 24, 1779 and removed to Brookfield. To illustrate the vigor of the Bemis family, Pardon Howland, son of Catherine Bemis, told the author that he never knew what it was to feel tired until he was past fif- ty years of age. We are indebted to Pardon Howland for this excellent picture of his mother, and the best picture extant of a grandchild of Samuel Bemnis Sr. Before his'parents had become in- firm, Mr. Howland had pictures of them taken and finished in the highest state of the art known at that time.
pay dated Point Shirley, June 13, 1776 ; pay-rolls for service from date of enlistment May 17, 1776, to November 1, 1776, five months, fifteen days. Muster-roll for August to October,
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1776, dated Hull ; also pay-roll for one month, four days service in November and December, 1776.
PHINEAS BEMIS, private, Captain Abner Cranson's com- pany, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment ; receipt for wages for August, 1775, dated Prospect Hill ; also order for bounty-coat or its equivalent in money, dated Prospect Hill, November 13, 1775.
ELEAZER Bemis, Charlton, private, Captain Jacob Davis' company, Colonel Ebenezer Learnard's regiment which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Roxbury, service fifteen days ; reported enlisted into the army ; also Captain William Campbell's company, Colonel Learnard's regiment ; return dated Roxbury, October, 7, 1775 ; also order for bounty-coat or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, December 21, 1775. Muster-roll dated August 1, 1775 ; enlisted April 26, 1775 ; service three months, one week, five days; also ensign, Colonel William Shepard's regi- ment ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from January 1, 1777 to August 18, 1779 ; reported resigned ; also order for clothing dated Camp Valley Forge, May 1, 1778 ; also Captain Reuben Slayton's company, Colonel Shepard's third regiment. Muster rolls for July to November, 1778, dated Camp at Provi- dence ; reported on furlough in October, 1778 ; also Colonel's company, Colonel Shepard's regiment. Muster-roll for March and April, 1779, dated Providence. Enlisted January 1, 1777, reported on command at the Western Shore ; also lieutenant in Colonel Shepard's regiment ; list of settlement of rank of Conti- nental officers, dated West Point, November 9, 1779, made by a board held for that purpose and confirmed by Congress Septem- ber 6, 1779. Reported resigned August 13, 1779,
JESSE BEMIS, son of William Bemis, private in Captain Ebenezer Mason's company, Colonel Jonathan Warner's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, service fourteen days ; also sergeant, Captain Abel Holden's (third) company. Colonel Thomas Nixon's (fifth) regiment. Continental Army pay accounts for service from April 1, 1777, to December 31, 1779, credited to the town of Spencer ; reported as serving seven months, five days as corporal, twenty-five months, twenty-five days as sergeant, also muster-roll for May, 1779, dated Highlands, ap- pointed November 12, 1777. Enlistment three years ; also pri- vate, Captain Joel Green's company, Colonel Ebenezer Learnard's regiment. Muster-roll dated August 1. 1775 ; enlisted May 8, 1775 ; service three months, one day ; also company return (prob- ably October, 1775) ; also return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Captain David Prouty's company, Colonel Denny's regiment, dated February 13, 1778 ; residence Spencer, enlisted for town of Spencer. Joined Captain Holden's company, Colonel
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Nixon's regiment. Enlistment three years. Reported mustered by Thomas Newhall. Muster May 6, 1777.
DEXTER BEMIS,
Son of Amasa Pemis Sr., and great grandson of Samuel Bemis Sr. Born at the old homestead Oct- ober 10, 1810. Kept for a time the old hotel which then stood opposite the Congregational church After this he kept store in a building which stood on the site of the present Boston Branch grocery. In 1853 he emigrated to the State of Wisconsin.
BARNARD BEMIS, Spencer, private, Cap- tain Ralph Earll's com- pany, Colonel Danforth Keyes regiment ; enlisted August 20, 1777 ; dis- charged January 3, 1778; service four months fif- teen days. Roll dated at Providence.
DAVID BEMIS, priv- ate, Capt. Josiah White's company, Colonel Sam- uel Denny's Worcester County regiment. En- listed August 21, 1777 : discharged August 23, 1777, service five days ; marched to Hadley in Lieut. - Colonel Benjamin Flagg's division on an alarm at the northward. Roll dated Spencer.
OBADIAH BEMIS, Spencer. Return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Captain Jo- siah White's company, Colonel Denny's regi- ment, dated Charlton, February 18, 1778 ; resi- dence Spencer, enlisted for town of Spencer, joined Captain Slater's company, Colonel Shep- ard's regiment. Enlist- ment three years ; also private 'Colonel's com- pany, Colonel William Shepard's third (also given fourth regiment), Continental Army pay account for service from
January 1, 1780 to December 31, 1780; also return made
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up to December 31, 1780 dated West Point ; also private, Captain Field's company, Colonel William Shepard's third regi- ment. Continental pay account for service from March 4, 1777 to December 31, 1779; also Captain Reuben Slayton's company. Residence Spencer, enlisted for the town of Spencer ; also muster rolls July to November, 1778, dated Camp at Providence ; reported sick at Valley Forge in July and August, 1778 ; also Colonel's company, Colonel Shepard's regiment. Muster-roll for March and April, 1779, dated Providence ; enlisted March 24, 1777. Enlistment during war ; reported sick in hospital.
NATHANIEL BEMIS, sergeant, Captain John Weston's company, Colonel Eleazer Brooks' regiment of Guards ; enlisted January 12, 1778 ; roll made up to February 3, 1778, service twenty-two days at Cambridge and Charlestown guarding troops. of convention.
JONAS BEMIS JR., Spencer, private, Captain Field's com- pany, Colonel William Shepard's third regiment. Enlisted for the town of Spencer-Valley Forge Continental Army pay ac- counts for service from March 4, 1777 to December 31, 1779 ; also Captain Reuben Slayton's company, Colonel Shepard's regi- ment. Muster return dated Valley Forge, January 30, 1778. Residence, Spencer ; enlisted for the town of Spencer ; also mus- ter-rolls for July, August, October and November, 1778, dated at Camp Providence ; reported under confinement in November, 1778 ; also Colonel's company, Colonel Shepard's regiment. Muster-roll for March and April, 1779, dated Providence, enlisted March 14, 1777, during war ; also corporal Continental Army pay accounts for service from January 1, 1780 to December 31, 1780 ; also return taken to December 31, 1780, dated West Point ; also Captain James Cooper's company, Colonel Shepard's regi- ment. His name is in the return of men enlisted into Continen- tal Army from Captain Josiah White's company, Colonel Denny's regiment, dated Charlton, February 18, 1778. Residence, Spen- cer, enlisted for town of Spencer. Joined Captain Slayton's com- pany, Colonel Shepard's regiment. Enlistment three years.
AMASA BEMIS, private, Captain John Wolcott's company of Rangers which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Brookfield and Spencer. Service twelve days ; also probably a member of Captain John Cowle's company, Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment ; order for bounty-coat, or its equivalent in money, dated Cambridge, December 23, 1775.
This is a remarkable record, unexcelled in Spencer history, and it is thought rarely eqalled in the history of New England.
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BEMIS CIVIL WAR RECORD.
The data of the following soldiers of the Bemis name who went from Spencer, is taken from the roster of the Grand Army:
HENRY BEMIS, born in Spencer December 13, 1836. He entered the service July 19, 1862 at Worcester, Massachusetts, as a private in company E, thirty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers, and was discharged June 13, 1865 at Fortress Monroe, the war having closed. December 27, 1864, he was promoted to corporal, which rank he held when discharged. His first battle was at New Market, May 15, 1864. Subsequently he engaged in the battles at Berryville, September 3, 1864 ; Winchester, September 19, 1864 ; Fisher's Hill, September 22, 1864 ; Strasburg, October 13, 1864 ; Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 and Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865. At New Market, May 15, 1864, he was wounded in the thigh and at Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865, he was wounded in the ankle. During his service he was confined in the hospitals at Frederick, Maryland, Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. His most intimate comrades in the service were Henry Sibley, George P. Clark, Henry and Dwight Chickering and Henry Converse.
CHARLES A. BEMIS, born at Paxton, December 12, 1838. Entered the service at Worcester, September 2, 1862, as a private in company A, fifty-first regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and was discharged at Boston, July 27, 1863, through the expiration of his term of enlistment. The first battle in which he engaged was the battle of Whitehall. Subsequently he participated in the battles of Kingston and Goldsboro.
CHARLES E. BEMIS, born August 5, 1839, at Spencer. Enlisted in the service at Spencer, August 20, 1862, as a private in company F, forty-second regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and was discharged at Readville, Massachusetts, August 20, 1863 by reason of expiration of his term of service. He was confined through illness for three weeks in the hospital while stationed at Lake Ponchartrain, Louisana. His most intimate comrades in the service were Charles H. Allen, Henry A. Knowlton, Charles Sargeant, Charles Lyon, Henry Lyon and Sergeant Hiram Cowan.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS BEMIS, was born in Spencer, December 20, 1834, and enlisted August 23, 1861 as first sergeant in company C, twenty-first regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. February 28, 1862, he was promoted to second lieutenant, and July 28, 1862 to first-lieutenant. Four days later he was killed at
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the battle of Chantilly, Virginia. His first fight was at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 8, 1862. Subsequently he took part in the battles of Newbern, March 14, 1862, Camden Court House, April 19, 1862, second Bull Run, August 28, 29, 30, 1862 and Chantilly, September 1, 1862. The body of Lieutenant Bemis lies in an unknown grave notwithstanding much fruitless search for it. His service covers a period of one year and eight days, every day of which he was on duty and did his full duty. At the time of his death he was expecting, and doubtless would have received it, if he had lived, a higher commission in one of the
LIEUT. FREDERICK A. BEMIS.
Of Spencer. Killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Va., August 1, 1862.
new companies then recruiting in his native State. He was brave, capable, patriotic and ambitious. No braver man ever carried a musket or wore a sword. This sketch has been outlined at the request of the compiler of these narratives, Erastus Jones, by the deceased friend and companion, Capt. William T. Harlow.
ALVIN BEMIS was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 16, 1839, and entered the service September 23, 1861, at Readville, Massachusetts, as a private in Company I, twenty- seventh regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and was discharged
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at Newbern, North Carolina, April 23, 1863, for disability. His first battle was at Roanoke Island.
THE VALLEY BELOW
ELIAS HOWE INVENTOR OF THE SEWING MACHINE AND AN ILLUSTRIOUS SON OF THE
TOWN& SPENCER, WAS BORN IN 1919.
TABLET
Erected in 1901 on the' New York. Central R. R. near Howe's Crossing. Spencer, by Chas. N. Proutv, Thomas H. Clark and other pub- lic-spirited citizens.
Subsequently he participated in the battles of Fort Mason and Newbern, after which battle he was put upon General Burnside's Dis- patch and Headquarters boat and remained there until about the time Burn- side went to the Army of the Potomac. For about a month he was confined in the hospital at Ports- mouth, North Carolina. His intimate comrades in the service were John Marsh of Spencer, Horace Pike, Wm. Lamb, Freder- ick Young, and Wm. King of Charlton, A. S. Howe of Salem, and Slayton N. Dean of North Brookfield. The most important events in his service he considers were the capture of New- bern, North Carolina, and laying outside Hatteras In- let three days and nights with signals of distress fly- ing, before any help ven- tured near. He was on the Alice Price dispatch boat when it took the prisoners from Fort Mason who were paroled at their homes. He was at Eliza- beth City when Com- mander Tatnel set fire to his fleet and swam ashore, and was constantly on the move about Pamlico and Albermarle Sounds and their inlets. After re-
turning to his regiment he went to Swansboro and assisted in destroying the salt works there, and he was kept actively at work until he was sent, late in the fall, to the hospital.
ELIAS BEMIS, born in Spencer February 22, 1837. En-
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listed July 20, 1864, as a private in company F, sixtieth Massa- chusetts volunteers. Discharged November 30, 1864.
OSCAR R. BEMIS, born in Spencer, January 23, 1834. Enlisted as a private June 14, 1861, in company K, tenth Massa- chusetts volunteers. Discharged, and reënlisted in company E,
FANNY BEMIS,
Daughter of Joshua Sr., and granddaughter of Samuel Sr. Married Elijah Howe Jr., March 18, 1790. Mother of Elias, Tyler, William, Alphonzo and Elbridge Howe and grandmother of Elias Howe, Jr. Born in Spencer July 24, 1771. Died
November 25, 1852.
The following verse is on her headstone in the old cemetery :
"While o'er a dear and aged friend We drop the tear and heave the sigh, Faith whispers we shall yet ascend To meet where love shall never die."
thirty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers July 31, 1862. Died in hospital at Baltimore, August 26, 1862.
EDMOND J. BEMIS, born in Spencer August 19, 1842. Enlisted as a private August 20, 1863, in company F, forty-second regiment Massachusetts volunteers. Died of heart disease at Al- bany, New York, June 21, 1868.
The descendants of Samuel Bemis who participated in the War of the Rebellion from other places were numerous, but the author has made no attempt to trace their history.
DETACHED FRAGMENTS OF BEMIS HISTORY.
Members of the Bemis family, who were in Capt. Ebenezer Mason's company and marched to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 1775:
Bemis, Jesse, son of William, Bemis, John, son of Edmund, Bemis, Samuel, son of Samuel Jr.
Members of the Bemis family who were in Capt. John Wol- cott's company of Brookfield and Spencer rangers:
Bemis, Jonas Sr., Lieut.
Bemis, Amasa, son of Joshua Sr., Bemis, Reuben,
Bemis, Benjamin,
sons of Samuel Jr.
Revolutionary Pensioners in Spencer:
Bemis, Jesse,
Bemis, Jonas,
Bemis, Amasa.
In 1854 there were thirty-four voters of the Bemis name in Spencer, thought to be the largest number recorded in any one year.
Samuel Bemis Jr. Settles On Tucker Hill.
Samuel Bemis Jr. settled on the east end of lot 56, which he purchased of Benjamin Tucker's heirs. His house was on the southern slope of the hill about due north from the farm house owned for many years by Tucker & Woodbury. There used to be a road pass his house which commenced on the Charlton road about twenty-five rods south of the barn of Harvey Sibley and
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ran westerly to the house recently known as the Bardwell place, now owned by Leonard W. Bisco. Some portions of this road, with the wall on both sides, is still in use on the Sibley farm.
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Petition To The General Court June 20, 1757, of William Bemis and John Cunningham.
To the Hon. Spencer Phipps Esq., Lieut. Gov. and Commander in Chief of the Honorable Committee and House of Representatives setting in Boston, March 30, 1757.
The petition of John Cunningham Exr. : of the testament of Hugh Cunningham, late of Spencer in ye county of Worcester humbly shows that the same Hugh in his life time sold to William Bemis two acres and one hundred and thirty-eight perch of meadow lying in said Spencer for five pounds, fifteen shillings lawful money and received the same sum, but died before he could grant a deed and the facts are true. Your petitioner prays the said John as Exr. may be empowered by your Honors to execute a proper conveyance of said meadow to said Willianı so that justice may be done and as in duty bound we shall ever pray.
Signed JOHN CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM BEMIS.
In the House of Representatives Apr. 9, 1757, read and ordered that the prayer of this petition be granted and that the same John Cunningham be and hereby is improved in his said capacity to make and execute a good sufficient deed to the said William Bemis of the land within mentioned and that the same be and hereby is declared to be as good and valid in ye law to all intents and pur- poses whatsoever as if said Hugh Cunningham had made the same in his lifetime.
This land was a portion of the great meadows and adjoined land of Samuel Bemis Sr.
Town Records.
"Taken up and strayed by Benjamin Bemis one Brown Heffer supposed to be two years old with white hind legs up to her body, her tail white half way, white on her rump, and a star on her forehead, some white on her forefeet with small J on horns." Spencer, Nov. 7, 1757.
At a town meeting held Nov. 25, 1771, Capt. William Bemis, John Bisco, John White Jr. and John Muzzy were appointed to apprize the pews in the new meeting house. This was done and the Bemis family pur~' sed as follows:
Pew No.
Price
Capt. William Bemis,
I
12lbs 15S
Joshua Bemis,
42
7 " 5S
Nathaniel Bemis,
Benjamin Bemis,
29 44
Voted at a town meeting held June 28, 1773, "that Dea. Oliver Watson, James Ormes, Capt. William Bemis, Asa Baldwin and Moses Livermore be a committee to transact the whole affair relative to the ordination of Rev. Joseph Pope."
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