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John Mansfield Levi Snow Samuel Spaulding Ebenezer Shed Elijah Procter Eliakim Read
Jonathan Snow David Dun Sen. Joel Barrett William Parker
Joseph Parker Jonathan Manning
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HISTORY OF CHELMSFORD
Phinehas Chamberlin
Jeremiah Abbott
Isaiah Foster
Nathan Ames, Junr. James Heywood Joseph Heywood
Jeremiah Warren
Isaiah Blood
Joseph Foster
Jonathan Richardson
John Adams
Thomas Marshall
Robert Adams
Jacob Marshall
Josiah Parkhurst
Ebenezer Frost
Saml. Chamberlin
David Marshall
Moses Hale
Samuel Marshall
John Byam
Abel Mansfield
John Byam Jun
Timothy Manning
William Laws
Stephen Peirce
Abel Chamberlin
Seth Levingston
Samuel Sims
Joseph Peirce
Asa Hodgman
Stephen Peirce, third
Zebulon Spalding
Robert Peirce, ir.
Henry Spaulding
Stephen Peirce
Samuel Adams
Zacheus Fletcher
John Spaulding
Silas Peirce
Benja. Adams
Isaac Marshall
David Walker
Andrew Fletcher
Isaac Warren
Joseph Moors
Asa procter
Levi Dakin
Thomas Adams
Michel Carter
Jeremiah Wyer
Andrew Fletcher
Isaac Chamberlin
Willard Howard
Andrew Spaulding
Jacob Howard Juner
Jacob Howard
William Bowers
Isaac Clark
Peter Procter
John Hildreth
Samuel Parkhurst
Benja. Parker
John Adams Jur.
Joseph Parker
Timothy Adams
Jedutham Parker
Henry Spaulding Jun
Zebulan Parker
John Reed
Philip Parker
David Morrison
Samuel Hadlock
John Batteys
Moses Estherbrooks
Isaac Patten
Josiah Coben
Wilard Mansfield
George Furbush
William Mansfield
Reuben Davis
Benjamin pelsey Jonathan Adams
Josyah Simonds
Abishai Crosman Eldr of the Babtist (sic) Chh. in Chelmsford.
Chelmsford, July 16, 1787
We the Subscribers approve of Fourgoing petition the Greater part of the Signers being Freeholders and legal Voters in town.
Thos Hoadley
thomas Weber
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SHAYS' REBELLION-WARS OF 1812, 1848, 1898
A PAY ROLL OF CAPT JOSEPH EMERSON COMPANY IN LT. COL. EBENEZER BANCROFT'S REGT. CALLED UPON TO RENDEZVOUS AT LANCASTER ON THE 29 OF JANUARY, 1787, IN ORDER TO SUPPORT CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Estab. Time per month in service wages
Total
Joseph Emerson
Capt.
£8: 0:0
5 đ
1:16:8
Josiah Fletcher
Ens.
4:10:0
5 d
1: 1:8
William Fletcher
Clerk
2:14:0
5 d
0:12:4
Andrew Spaulding
Sargt.
2: 8:0
5 d
0:11:4
Oliver Baron
Private
2: 0:0
4 d
0: 8:0
Aaron Chamberlain
do
do
do
0: 8:0
Samuel Howard
66
do
do
do
Timothy Harrington
do
do
do
Francis Bowers
66
do
do
do
Oliver Baron Jr
do
do
do
Philip Spaulding
66
do
do
do
Simeon Spaulding
66
do
do
do
Ephraim Spaulding
66
do
do
do
Benjamin Walker
66
do
do
do
Joseph Fletcher
66
do
do
do
Sampson Stevens
do
do
do
Nehemiah Ab Parker
66
do
do
do
Simion Blodget Jr
66
do
do
do
Samuel Lancey
do
do
do
Parley I. Dunklee
do
do
do
Sum Total
£12:2:0
Chelmsford, April 16, 1787. Joseph Emerson, Capt.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 191, p. 208.]
Time of service includes one day for travel home. Total wages includes rations. Privates entered service January 27.
A list of names of twenty-seven Chelmsford men who went under General Lincoln in 1787. Each man received, by vote of the Town, $1, or 6 shillings, bounty.
Jacob Spaulding, Zebulon Spaulding, Jeremiah Warren, John Butterfield, Aaron Spaulding, Dennis MacLaine, Jesse Stevens, Samuel Stevens, Thomas Chamberlain, Oliver Adams, John Farmer, Stephen Willson, Levi Spalding, James Parker, William Mears, Nathaniel Chamberlain, Joseph Emerson, Jr., Timothy Haward, Benjamin Butterfield, Jr., Abel Marshall, Willard Marshall, John Macknannel, Henry Spaulding, Benjamin Adams, Silas Parker, Reuben Goold, Leonard Parker.
do
do
do
Samuel Loufkin
do
do
do
Henry Spaulding
do
do
do
Mattethias Spaulding
do
do
do
John Freland
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These names are found scattered over numerous pages of the Town records.
Allen gives "A list of those who were detached from the militia and formed a part of the Army of General Lincoln, in the memorable expedition through the counties of Worcester and Berkshire, to suppress the insurrection in 1786, commonly known by the name of the Shays insurrection. The company, formed from this and the neighboring towns, was commanded by Capt. (now Col.) James Varnum, of Dracut.
1 Lt. Daniel Procter
John Butterfield Joseph Emerson, Jr.
2 Lt. Abel Adams
Benj. Butterfield, Jr.
Timothy Howard
Oliver Perham
Jesse Stevens
Silas Parker
Henry Spalding, Jr.
Oliver Cory
Thomas Chamberlin
Jeremiah Warren Zebulon Spalding, Jr.
Samuel Stevens James Parkhurst
Oliver Adams
John Farmer
Benja. Adams
Willard Marshall
Ruben Goold, Jr.
Abel Marshall
John McClenny
Amost Prescott
Aaron Spalding
Levi Spaulding."
The following items were obtained at the office of the Adjutant General, giving Chelmsford officers at this period.
1781
Col.
July 1 Benjamin Fletcher Captain 7th Reg Jonathan Bancroft
Daniel Proctor 1st Lieut do
do
Samuel Stephens Capt. do
do
Joseph Emerson 1st Lieut do do
Jonas Pierce Capt do
do
1786
Dec 27 Joseph Emerson Capt do Joseph Bryant
Jonas Pierce Lieut do
do
Josiah Fletcher 3d Ensign do
do
1787
Sept 20 Azariah Proctor
Lieut Co 4 do
J. B. Varnum
Ebenezer Shed Ensign do do
do
Committees were chosen from various towns and met at Concord to devise measures for suppressing the Insurgents.
1788, March 1. The Town paid Aaron Chamberlain, Samuel Howard, Samuel Stevens and Oliver Barron nine shillings each expenses as committeemen at Concord in September, 1786 "on public matters relating to the Insurgents rising against the Govern- ment to stop the Courts sitting."
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FROM THE DIARY OF PARSON BRIDGE.
1787, Jan. 17. Confusion by reason of Soldiers collecting here, going out against ye Insurgents.
29. Dr. Harrington * marched yesterday * with ye soldiers to Lancaster, & so to Worcester, with a view to suppress ye Rebels under a Vile fellow named Shays in Hampshire County.
On the memorable thirtieth of January, Lincoln's men per- formed a march of thirty miles, without refreshment through deep snows, in a stormy and severely cold night; a march that would have done honor to the veteran soldiers of Hannibal or Napoleon. [Allen.]
As in the Revolution, Chelmsford was the rendezvous for troops marching westward, so it was at this time.
Nason, in his History of Dunstable, gives the route taken by the Dunstable men. "On the 17th of January, 1787, we marched to Chelmsford; on the 18th, to Lincoln; 19th, to Weston; 20th, to Sudbury; 21st, to Marlborough; 22d, to Worcester; 25th, to Western; 26th, to Palmer; 27th, to Springfield, West 25 miles; 29th, to Hatfield, 25 miles; Feb. 4th, to Petersham, 33 miles; 7th, to Amherst, 25 miles; 8th, to Northampton, 8 miles; 9th, to Chesterfield, 14 miles; 10th, to Partridgefield, 18 miles; 11th, to Pittsfield, 8 miles; 13th, to Tyringham, 20 miles; 14th, to Sandisfield, 16 miles; 22d, to Grantville; 23d, to Springfield; 24th, to Spencer; 25th, to Harvard; 26th, to Dunstable, the end of the march."
ARREST OF CAPTAIN FORD.
As in the height of the witchcraft excitement a century earlier, so, in 1787, in what might be called another popular delusion, there were many spite accusations, and the authorities, in their eagerness to put down the insurrection, were, perhaps, too ready to issue warrants for the arrest of men who might be accused or suspected. For some reason, on March 12, 1787, a warrant went forth to the Sheriff of Middlesex County, or either of his deputies, for the apprehension of Captain John Ford, which reads in part as follows: "The Governor and Council, upon information received, deeming the safety of the Commonwealth inconsistent with the personal liberty of John Ford of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex, and that the enlargement of the said John Ford is dangerous to the said Commonwealth, its peace and safety. You are therefore hereby authorized and required forthwith to apprehend the said John Ford and him to commit to any Gaol or other safe place," &c.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 189, Part I, p. 220.]
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Captain Ford was confined with the following named men:
List of Insurgents in Boston Jail, 1787.
Col. Luke Drury,
Worcester Co.
Grafton.
Rev. Caleb Curtis,
Charlestown.
Mr. Daniel Beard,
Worcester.
Mr. Aaron Broad,
Holden.
Capt. Jonah Goulding,
66
Ward.
Lieut. Henry Gale,
Princeton.
Capt. Artemas Dryden,
Holden.
Capt. Job Shattuck
Middlesex Co.
Groton.
Capt. Oliver Parker,
left Jail 6 April.
Mr. Benjamin Page
George Marsden
Pepperell.
Capt. John Ford
Chelmsford.
Capt. Moses Harvey
Hampshire "
Montague.
Justice Wright
Province of New Brunswick, formerly Northampton.
[Ford Papers.]
CAPTAIN FORD'S PETITION.
To his Exelency James Bowdoin, Esq., Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Honorable the Council of the sd Commonwealth:
The Petition of Captain John Ford, a prisoner in the Common Gaol in Boston, Humbly sheweth That your Petitioner was taken Prisoner by a State Warrant the twenty-seventh Day of March Last and committed to Prison in close confinement on Suspicion of his being a Dangerous Person to the Commonwealth.
That your Petitioner has ever endeavored to behave and conduct himself as a good subject of the Government and is Innocent of being aiding or assisting in the Late Rebellion in this State.
That your Petitioner has a Large Family at Home: which must suffer by his Detention in Prison, and a large weight of Business, which must suffer at this Particular Season of the year, by his Absence.
That your Petitioner is Disposed to Honor the Government in every Respect and conceives it consistent thereto that your Petitioner may be Liberated from his Confinement on Bail for appearance at Court to answer any charge that may be alledged against him. Your Petitioner therefore humbly requests your Excellency with advice of Council to grant that your Petitioner may be Admitted to Bail and Liberated from his present Confine- ment that his Family and Business maybe provided for, and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound will pray.
John Ford.
Boston Gaol, April 3rd, 1787.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 189, p. 226.]
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On April 11th, the Council advised the release of John Ford, he to give bonds in the penalty of £200 to appear at the Supreme Judicial Court next to be holden in the County of Middlesex.
One will read the following with a smile, and might think that Robert Treat Paine was trying to fasten the whole responsibility for the insurrection upon Captain Ford.
CAPTAIN FORD'S INDICTMENT.
Middlesex S.S. At the Supreme Judicial Court begun and holden at Concord within and for the County of Middlesex on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty seven, by adjournment to that time, by writs from the first Tuesday of the same May pursuant to Law.
The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon their oaths present that John Ford of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, being a disorderly, riotous and seditious person and minding and contriving as much as in him lay, unlaw- fully by force and arms to stir up, promote incite and maintain Riots, mobs, tumults and insurrection in this Commonwealth, and to disturb, impede and prevent the Government of the same, and the due administration of Justice from setting as by law appointed for that purpose, and to promote disquiets, uneasiness, Jealousies, animosities and seditions in the minds of the citizens of the Commonwealth on the tenth day of November last past and on divers days and times as well before as since that time at Groton within the County of Middlesex aforesaid unlawfully and seditiously with force and arms did advise, persuade, incite, encourage and procure divers persons, citizens of this Common- wealth by force and arms to oppose this Commonwealth and the Government thereof, and riotously to join themselves to a great number of riotous and seditious persons with force and arms then and there opposing this Commonwealth and the Government thereof as aforesaid, and the due administration in the same, and in pursuance of his wicked and seditious purposes aforesaid unlawfully and seditiously did procure guns, swords, gunpowder, provisions, blankets, and other warlike instruments offensive and defensive, and other warlike supplies and did deliver and cause them to be conveyed and delivered to the riotous and seditious persons aforesaid in evil example to others to offend in like manner against the peace of the Commonwealth and Dignity of the same.
R. T. Paine, Atty per Repub. A true bill.
Abijah Peirce, Foreman.
Middlesex May term by Adjournment at Concord, 1787, the said John Ford is set to the Bar and has this Instrument read to him- he says that thereof he is not Guilty and thereof for tryal puts &c Jer. Tucker, Cler.
[Suffolk Court Files, Vol. 1042, No. 149890.]
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HISTORY OF CHELMSFORD
In the Record of the Supreme Judicial Court held at Cam- bridge, folio 288, under date October 30, 1787: "John Ford appears upon his recognizance and has the leave of Court to depart."
Nothing was found against him.
Thus this fiasco came to an end, but Captain Ford, with nearly three hundred in this County, took the oath of allegiance.
Middlesex. S.S.
August 31st. 1787.
This may certify that John Ford of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, and James Mallon of Methuen in the County of Essex, Gentleman, personally appeared and Took and Subscribed the oath of alegiance Required by an act of the General Court of the 17th of June Last.
before me
Parker Varnum Justice of Peace
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 190, p. 205.]
In volume 190, page 252 of the Archives, is an interesting letter from Artemas Ward of Shrewsbury to the Governor, in which he states his belief that the Insurrection was partly due to the influence of British sympathizers who wished to see the Govern- ment meet with disaster.
These two records may be of interest.
Aug. 18, 1794. It was ordered that the Town Treasurer should pay six shillings [$1.] to each of the following (the list returned by Capt. Josiah Fletcher) "who were minute-men who were called for * * *",
Sergeant John Ford, William Cory, John Peirce, Benjamin Brown, John Glynn, James Foster, Zechariah Spaulding, Ebenezer Spaulding, Elijah Richardson, John Willard, Abel Stevens, John Putnam, Jeremiah Abbott, Simeon Richardson, James Twiss, Simeon Wilson, Philip Melvin, Joseph Hutchenson.
Regimental order.
Dracutt Dec. 22d, 1798.
The Commandant of the Regiment calls on all the Com- missioned Officers of the Regiment to meet at the house of Oliver Barron, Esq., in Chelmsford on Wednesday the 26th instant at 2 o'clock P. M. there to consult on certain papers presented. A strict attendance is wished. By order of Lt. Col. Hildreth
William Bridge, Adjt.
[Endorsed.] Public Service
Ensign Josiah Richardson,
Chelmsford
[Fiske Papers.]
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WARS OF 1812, 1848 AND 1898.
No official record has been found of Chelmsford men who served in the War of 1812 or in the Mexican War in 1848. The same is true of the War with Spain in 1898, in which John Larkin, John Finnegan and Bert Warren Chandler served. Gardner Fletcher was an orderly sergeant in 1812, stationed in Boston Harbor.
Mention has been made of Captain Thomas Pitts in the War of 1812. Nathaniel Manning was in the United States service in 1814. William M. Wheeler was a drummer in this war, serving about seventy days at Fort Warren.
A. E. Brown, in "Old Hearthstones," (page 282) quotes Mrs. Mary Shedd, daughter of Sherebiah Spaulding, as saying that her father was in the second War with England (1812.)
In 1814 the Town voted to provide cartridges and canteens to the number of 150 for the militia; also knapsacks and 18 sheet- iron kettles; the canteens to be made of white pine heads, and ash or white oak hook. All who should go into the service were to be paid $15 a month. Horses and wagons were to be engaged to carry the soldiers' baggage.
Jeduthan Parker was Captain of the militia in 1812, but his company did not go into service.
Oliver Scripture of Chelmsford was commissioned Sep. 13, 1813 as Surgeon's Mate, 3d Regt., 2d Brig., 3d Div. Removed and discharged July 23, 1819.
William Meredith, according to the record at West Chelms- ford, served and died in the Mexican War.
CHAPTER VII. THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-5 .*
TT is unnecessary to give here a history of the War of the Rebellion. The great struggle was actually begun by the bom- bardment of Fort Sumpter, April 12th-13th, and its evacuation on the 14th, 1861. April 15th, President Lincoln called for 75,000 three months volunteers. The last struggle of the war took place in Texas, May 13, 1865, where the colored troops fired the last volley. On April 9th, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appo- mattox Court House. On the 26th, Johnston surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina and on May 26th, Kirby Smith gave up the struggle in Texas, and the war was over.
The total cost of the war was more than eight billion dollars. More than two and a half million Northern men were called into the service. More than half of these saw actual service, of whom nearly 60,000 were killed in the field and about 35,000 were mortally wounded. Disease killed 184,000. The actual loss to the country, including both sides, was certainly a million men.
The young fellows from comfortable homes and bountiful tables were not fond of salt horse or pork and hard-tack. Henry S. Perham, writing home from Camp Suffolk, Virginia, in October, 1862, says: "I should like to call around to David Perham's house and get a good, warm supper tonight, say flap-jacks and molasses with a cup of milk, or good warm biscuit and a cup of tea. I can't say that I admire soldiers' fare very much. It would not be so bad if I could go to Mother's cupboard once in a while. But we have only seven months more. I suppose there are some good things on the way for me from home. Henry Putnam is expressman for the regiment and goes to Norfolk every day to look after the boxes."
At home every agency available was brought into use to furnish such relief as was possible to the soldiers at the front.
A fair and a concert of noteworthy excellence were given for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission. The singers and orchestra were Chelmsford people. The director was known as "Father" Thurston, a man of some ability in his line, who came from out of town. The concert was repeated in various places in the neighbor- hood. The Soldiers' Aid Society collected considerable money, and made or furnished hundreds of articles for the soldiers: blankets, quilts, socks, shirts, bandages, towels, mittens, comfort bags, and so forth, with articles of food such as the soldiers would not have in camp: pickles, current jelly, wine, dried apples, corn- *See the Town's action at this period in Chapter: "Annals."
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THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-5
starch. Mittens were knit with the forefinger free, to pull the trigger. Picking lint, to send for the surgeons to use, was the children's occupation.
In 1862 the officers were: treasurer, Mrs. H. W. Morse; secretary, Miss M. E. Perham. The weekly meetings were held at the homes of the following ladies: Mrs. Dr. Bartlett, Mrs. Charles Proctor, Mrs. G. D. Furber, the Misses Winn, Mrs. E. F. Webster, Mrs. H. W. Morse, Mrs. E. A. Upham, Mrs. Jabez Stevens, Mrs. Clement Upham, Mrs. Dr. Howard, Mrs. Eliza Fiske, Mrs. Joel Adams, Mrs. Solomon Parkhurst, Mrs. Joseph Reed, Mrs. David Perham, Mrs. Owen Emerson, Mrs. N. P. Dadmun, Mrs. Francis Parker, Mrs. Loammi Chamberlain, Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, Mrs. Charles E. Reed and Mrs. William Fletcher. They met at Central Hall to quilt and during the summer of 1864 met there regularly. Mr. S. S. Parkhurst received the thanks of the Society for the use of the hall.
In 1863 the officers were: president, Mrs. Joseph Reed; vice-president, Mrs. David Perham; secretary, Miss M. E. Perham; treasurer, Miss M. E. Richardson.
The next year the officers were: president, Mrs. David Perham; vice-president, Mrs. Loammi Chamberlain; secretary, Miss M. E. Perham; treasurer, Miss Nellie Richardson; directors, Mrs. J. C. Bartlett, Mrs. N. P. Dadmun and Mrs. Charles Proctor.
THE CHELMSFORD VETERANS' ASSOCIATION.
This organization was formed April 21, 1891. President, Henry S. Perham; vice-president, John C. Hobbs; secretary, George A. Parkhurst; treasurer, James P. Emerson; executive committee, Daniel P. Byam, J. R. Fletcher and Royal S. Ripley. The following is from the Record Book.
Members of Chelmsford Veterans' Association, 1915:
Charles L. Adams, South Chelmsford
Joseph E. Adams, Chelmsford
George Alexander, Chelmsford
J. A. Bartlett, Chelmsford Daniel P. Byam, South Chelmsford J. P. Emerson, Chelmsford Francis Hutchinson, Chelmsford William H. Hills, Chelmsford W. W. Kilbourne, Chelmsford C. T. Melvin, Chelmsford George H. Smith, North Chelmsford George G. Stetson, North Chelmsford A. G. Charles, Chelmsford J. J. Middleton, Chelmsford A. J. Boise, Chelmsford
H. H. Emerson, South Chelmsford
Burt Emerson, Chelmsford Thomas Smith, Chelmsford
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Members of Chelmsford Veterans' Association-Continued. J. H. Stewart, Chelmsford E. A. Bartlett, East Chelmsford Luther C. Titcomb, South Chelmsford DECEASED COMRADES.
Name
Age
Date of Death
Alfred Day
68
June
21,1894
Charles S. Reed
63
April
16, 1898
Melvin E. Dam
54
May
30,1898
Albian J. Lamphere
58
Nov.
15, 1898
John H. Nichols
70
Dec.
9,1898
James W. Patchen
74
May
11, 1899
Nathan B. Lapham
60
July
24, 1899
Charles E. A. Bartlett
63
April
4,1900
Robert Fletcher
73
Sept.
21,1902
Homer E. Thayer
64
Oct.
13, 1902
Samuel J. Garland
68
Feb.
5,1903
A. Howard Richardson
69
March 16, 1903
Henry R. Hodson
56
Oct.
17, 1903
George A. Parkhurst
70
Feb.
3, 1904
Arthur B. Chapin
72
April
15, 1904
Wm. A. Kneeland
65
Sept.
23, 1904
Henry Herbert Emerson
63
Oct.
22, 1904
Loren Loker
94
April
28,1905
George F. Locke
64
April
28,1905
Henry S. Perham
62
Feb.
25,1906
Benjamin M. Fletcher
79
Nov.
10,1906
Henry Adams Coburn
65
Dec.
7,1906
John F. Buckley
63
Dec. Dec.
19, 1907
Jonathan Wright
March 17, 1909
William R. Fowle
Oct.
22, 1909
Jessee H. Parker
Nov.
2,1909
Lorenzo Sweetser
March
2, 1910
William A. Ingham
March 16, 1910
S. L. Dutton, M. D.
May
27,1910
James Thomas
70
Jan.
28, 1911
H. L. Knowlton
69
March 21, 1912
John C. Hobbs
75
March 30, 1912
Owen Burnes
July
4,1912
J. R. Fletcher
Nov.
28, 1912
Charles M. Connell
Feb.
7,1913
C. H. Greenleaf
75
March 15, 1913
R. S. Ripley
72
March 28, 1913
Joseph Marshall
74
Nov.
30, 1913
Wallace W. Joslyn
74
Oct. 2, 1913
A. P. Goddard
1915
Riley Davis
62
July
17, 1904
Morrill C. Gove
81
April
21,1905
15, 1907
Charles D. Clark
75
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A. G. Parkhurst
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LIST OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS BURIED IN FOREFATHERS' CEMETERY, CHELMSFORD CENTRE.
David Carleton
Co. F, 23d Mass. Regt.
William Carlton Jos. B. Emerson
Co. B, 39th
Co. B, 6th
Benj. M. Hildreth Henry B. Lovering
Co. G, 33d
Calvin Allen
Fitz Henry Spalding Charity L. Dunn
Co. G, 33d
Co. K, 6th
66
Charles Rolf
C. E. A. Bartlett
Capt .. Co. K, 6th 66
Charles F. Fletcher
Co. K, 6th
George B. Lamphere Levi Lamphere Elijah N. Day
Co. D, 30th
Co. E, 26th
Co. K, 6th 66 66
George E. Reed
Paul Kitridge Nelson C. Cook
John Esty
Samuel C. Hunt
Alfred Day
Co. C, 6th Mass.
Warren A. Blackmer
Co. A, 26th 66
Adams Emerson
30th
John H. Nichols
Co. B, 2d N. H.
James W. Patchen
Co. I, 105th Ohio
Howard Richardson
Co. B, 6th Mass.
George A. Parkhurst A. J. Loker
Co. C, 34th Mass. Regt.
Loren Loker C. S. Manchester
W. A. Kneeland Edward A. Parkhurst Charles S. Reed
Co. K, 6th Mass.
Co. K, 6th
Henry S. Perham
Co. K and B, 6th Mass. Regt.
David A. Copeland
Co. A, 1st Mass. Regt.
Charles D. Clark
Co. D, 2d Wisconsin Regt.
Co. K, 6th Mass. Regt.
Jonathan Wright Samuel L. Dutton William R. Fowle
Asst. Surg., 1st Mass. Heavy Art'l'y 11th Mass. Battery
Josiah R. Fletcher
Albion J. Lamphere
John C. Hobbs
Co. A, 6th Inf.
PINE RIDGE CEMETERY.
James Thomas
1st Heavy Artillery
Co. K and B, 6th Mass. Regt.
Co. E, 57th 66
Co. B, 47th
Co. D, 9th Vt.
Herbert H. Emerson
also Co. D, 4th Cavalry Co. C, 30th Mass. Regt. Co. H, 10th Vt. 66
Co. H, 10th “
Co. K, 6th Mass. Regt. Co. E, 26th
372
HISTORY OF CHELMSFORD
LIST OF VETERANS BURIED IN RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, NORTH CHELMSFORD
William H. Davidson
30th Mass. Infy.
E. H. Ripley
Navy
J. V. Pierce
33d
Stearns L. Ripley
26th
E. F. Joslyn
42d
J. Griffin
58th
66
L. W. Campbell
33đ
J. W. Hood
1st
Cav.
R. S. Burnham
6th
-
Infy.
George H. Barton
30th
James H. Barton
26th
66
66
John H. Butterfield
John F. Sweet
6th
66
J. F. Smart
6th
66
George Lawrence
C. R. Sprague
Charles M. Connell
Vt. Cav.
R. S. Ripley
30th Mass. Infy.
Miller
33d
Also three graves of unknown comrades.
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