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guard the teams to Laku George that sold provisions to General Aber- crombie's army. Early one morning the Indians gave ns battle, and killed twenty-six of our brave men, nod scalped them, and ran into the woods to Canada, and sold their scalps for a guinea a scalp to the French, who were worse than the Indians themselves, as it was said ; then Gen- Abercrombie ordered my colonel to lead oo his men to Lake George and he crossed the lake of a Thursday and landed, and Friday marched his army to take Ticonderoga Fort, where he was heat and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than umeteen hundred men ; where I tarried till my time was out ; this was in the year of '58, and then I was honorably dismissed and returned back to my good old master in Ipswich, who wes glad to see me alive, where I remained till the year '59, and then I eo- listed again under the brave General Wolf, who went and did take Can- ada, and I enlisted agaio in the year '60 to finish the war, which gave me much pleasure, and then I was honorably dismissed at Lewisburg, and shipped with Capt. John Potter, of Ipswich, to sail with him to the place of my nativity, and we sailed a Friday and lost our sails in a gale of wind, and a Sunday was close to the Isle of Sables, where we dropt auchor and rode notil our windlass bitts gave way and cut our cable and ashore we went on the island cald Sables ; this was the fifth of Decem- ber, '60, where we all got ashore alive, and glad were we for God's good- ness was wonderful to us in preserving our lives from a watery grave, and we all laid down on a sand knoll and slept alike. A boar that was shot when he was asleep we carried home and sent a part to Capt. Fur- long's meo, of Newbury, who were cast ashore three weeks before we were, who hoisted a flag on a pole; and a vessel belonging to Marblehead carried the news, and as two tishermen were missing, tbe Lord and King Hooper sent the good old Archelaus Silman to come to the Isle of Sables after ns, and the Lord rewarded him for his good works, for he took seventy men and women; but while we waited ou the island for the good old Silman, I shouldered my gno and weot fourteen miles toward the northwest barr-up jumped a sow and I shot her through the heart, and had it and the liver and lights for supper, and it was sweet as honey ; and then I killed a bull eighteen miles from our house and carried it home, which was January, 61; and then I shouldered my gun and was all alone, and I shot eight balls into a great bull who tried to kill me, but I was his master, and glad was I, for the bull and I had it rough and tough, and then I was beat out, but got home that night and told my messmates to take the hand-sled and hanl the bull home ; and three days after, which was January IS, come the good old Silmao and took us all off the Isle of Sables, seventy in number, and carried us to Halifax, and left Furlong and sixty men and women ; and then good old Archelaus Silioan brought Captain Potter and his crew, ten in number, into Marblehead, where we rejoiced and were glad, and gave him, the good old man, one hundred silver dollars and as many thanks, and got home to Ipswich, the place of our nativity, where we had gladness and joy for God's goodness in preserving us from a watery grave and returning us home to our friends, who were glad to see ns alive ; and my good old master, that built his house upon a rock, says to me, Jonathan, we read that a faithful servant shall be a dutiful son at length, and gave me his eldest daughter to wife, who was a beauty and loved me as her eyes ; where we lived till July, '63, and then we moved to Hampton Falls in New llampshire, ou a place I bought, where we lived and did prosper for a most forty years ; and as I had been in the British service three years to learn the art of war, the town of Hampton Falls chose me to be their captain, and I received my commission signed by Gov. Wentworth aod sealed with King George's seal, and all things went ou very well till King George sent that foolish Gage to Boston, who was neither weight uor measure, to buro our towns and kill our men at Lexington; and Governor Wentworth joined the British and I was angry and raised a liberty pole on the hill as high as Haman's gallows was to hang Mordecni on; which was my alarm post ; aod in the morning news came to me, that the British marched to Lexington and killed our wien ; and I ordered my drums to beat, and gave my company something to drink, and marched on to Ipswich that night, which was twenty miles, in half a day ; and in the morning we mus- tered about two hundred men, who chose me to he their captain, and the town was alarmed because two Men of Wars' tenders were in the river, full of men and would land and take twenty British soldiers out of a gaol, that was taken prisoners at Lexington battle, and would burn the town ; so we stayed that day and night, and that night was rainy, and the British landed at Marshfield, to steal cattle and left the woods afire ; and the Newbury people heard that Ipswich was burnt and that I and my men were all killed, and that the British were coming to buru Newbury ; and the people were afraid and got boats to get over the river tu run into the woods, and that news went to Exeter that
oighit, and very soon to Concord, that I and my officers were all killed ; aud in a few days I had a Colonel's commission to raise one-quarter part of Portsmouth, Dover, Hampton and Exeter militia as miante meli, and General Sullivan came to me to march off to Portsmouth with a thousand nien to fortify and defend it from being burnt, as the British had burnt Falmouth ; and in twenty-four hours I and a thousand men were at Fort Washington to give the British battle ; where we stay- el about three months ; then came a fifty guu ship to anchor one night, and in the morning, at break of day, I and my men were ready to give her battle, but she was afraid and went off; and in a few days the committee of safety, that set at Portsmonth in re- cess of Congress, sent for me to hear two letters read from General Washington and General Sullivan ; the contents were that they ex- pected the British would give them battle, and for the committee to send me oo to Mistick, with thirty-one companies of New Hampshire militia, and the committee desired me to enlist four companies of my men that were in Fort Washington, and when I asked my men, four companies, they said, " yes, we will go with you," and marched that day and got to Mistick in three days and nights, and twenty-seven companies fol- lowed on, aod were into Mistick in a few days; and the committee de- livered me the two letters to carry to the two Generals to Winterhill and Cambridge, and I mounted my horse which carried ine in less than a day, and WASHINGTON smiles and says, " NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR- EVEN ;" and further says to SULLIVAN, " Monnt your horse, and ride on with Col. Burnham to Mistick, and open all your stores to New Hamp- shire militia, without weight or measure, and go to the good meu of Mistick, who will be glad of Col. Burnham's men, for they were afraid that the British, that burnt Charleston, will come and burn Mistick ;" and says to Col. Burnham, " Do your best for the honor of New-Hamp- shire, and kill the British if they dare to come ;" but they were afraid of my Brigade ; aud towards the last of January, '76, I received orders from General WASHINGTON that he would meet New-Hampshire militia to morrow, at Winterhill, to review them ; and I mounted my horse and, at 9 o'clock, formed my Brigade and marched to Winterhill with my band of music, fifty fifes and drums, that the British might hear and see we were come on to Winterhill, to try our skill, which gave the British a fright to quit Bunkerhill in the night, and the British army aud fleet made a quick retreat, and the Boston people were glad to see it. Where we remained 'till honorably dismissed by onr Hon. General Washington, and received his thanks for our services and love, being ready at his call from New-Hampshire, and his blessings that we might return to our families and friends in safety, where we rested awhile and then part of us went to help take Burgoyne, Cornwallis and their aranes; and then we had our independence from Great Britain, and peace and plenty and the love of the whole world, and were the hap- piest uation in the world. But God must have all the glory ;- and our ministers were worthy, like Jacob, who wrestled 'till break of day, that God would bless Washington and America, and the world of mankind. Amen and Amen. And now I am an old man, this day seventy five years old, and Uut just alive, and what I have written I have seen and know to be true.
SPARTAN MOTHERS OF CHEBACCO. - Three in- stances of female patriotism and fortitude are related by the local historians,-two by Felt, concerning one and the same person, and the other by Crowell.
Elizabeth Choate, a native of Chebacco, a great- granddanghter of the first settler John, married Gen. Michael Farley, of Ipswich ; and during the Revolu- tion, three of her sons, as well as her husband, were in the military service of their country. When her son Robert, about sixteen years of age, was abont starting for the seat of war, she assisted him in put- ting on his accoutrements, and said to him, " Behave like a man." And on another occasion, when a regi- ment was about to march, in expectation of soon meeting the enemy and needed ammunition, she with her own hands filled every man's powder-horn, from a supply which had been stored in the garret of her dwelling-house.1
1 Felt's Hist, Ipswich, p. 184, Hammatt Papers, III. 99.
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The other incident is thus given by Dr. Crowell : ished, in all, for longer or shorter periods of serviee, one hundred and eighty-two men, of which number one hundred and forty-four were her own citizens. Of these three served in the Navy. Twenty-three never returned, three of them having been shot dead in battle, and five dying of wounds received in ae- tion ; one was accidentally drowned and fifteen died of disease contracted in the service, two of them perish- ing in a Confederate prison. Twenty two were wounded in battle, (including the three instantly killed, and the five whose wounds proved fatal, as .During this year [1777] a British frigate was off our bay Boats were sent from her into the harbor of Vanispiam Mrs. Marshall, a resident on Hog Hand, aid to the author that she distinctly saw the flashes, f the guns in their boats and of the guns of our people on shore. A guard of twelve men, she -aid, was quartered upon the island to prevent their 1: dling At one time their boats were seen approach- ing to effect a binding, when all upon the island fled, . Acept our resolute woman, the wife of William Choate, grandmother of the late Hon. Rufus Choate, | just previously mentioned); and of those who re- who declared she would stay and keep house if all the rest ran.1 She stayed with two of her children, and rec ived no harm." "
This paragraph, without explanation, might, per- hayes, to the casual reader, give an impression that probably the writer did not intend to leave. The statement that " all upon the island fled," undoubt- nilly referred to the women and children and to the modlitary gnanl stationed there, the words " stay and le p house," implying that other females who were housekeepers were among those who departed. Pres- ulent Brown's life of Rufus Choate makes the state- ment, which I have no doubt is entirely authentic, that the resident men of the island had previously left to drive the cattle and probably the other live stock to a place of safety. This sensible precaution was taken, I suppose, to avert the danger of their being seized to replenish the British commissariat.
Other women of Chebacco, no doubt, evinced the www patriotic spirit and an equal devotion to the cause of national liberty, willingly sacrificing personal car and comfort to encourage and sustain their hus- Sands, soons and brothers in active service.
IN THE WAR OF 1812 .- This place was represented by nineteen men, sixteen in one company and three in another. Among them was the well-known citizen, Up late Abel Andrews, who was a sergeant.
Andrew Burnham, the centenarian, who was a native of Essex, and died here in 1×55, at the age of one hundred years and two months, was also a soldier in this war. He was then a resident of Boston.
During this war, Enoch Burnham and Benjamin Andrews, of Essex, were captured in the Bay of Bis- Hay while on board the privateer brig " Essex," me were mareerated for two years in Dartmoor Phon in England. The former was a brother of Topten Parker burnham, and was himself for many ! 14 t4 a ship-muster, ailing from Boston and Balti- moore , in which litter city be married and resided for tto Lauf wyor more years of his life, and where he with 1sat, at the age of righty-five.
1. of Tin RiminiON. During the four years' tor Qu orpet iffy of the Union, Essex furn-
turned to their homes, six at least have since died of illness resulting directly or indirectly from the inei- dental hardships and exposures of the service. One who died in the army was wounded three times, once at Fredericksburg and twice in the Wilderness ; and one who survived and is living at the time of the writing of this, was wounded twice-once at An- tietam and onee at Gettysburg.3
Essex soldiers participated in battles and skirm- ishes in no less than seven different states of the South, and in the one great battle fought upon the soil of Pennsylvania; their active service extending from the first Bull Run engagement in Virginia, to the battle of Olustee in Florida. They were on the field in thirty-seven of the more important conflicts of the war, including MeClellan's series of struggles upon the Peninsula, and at South Mountain and Antietam, and all the battles of Grant's last cam- paign in Virginia.
ROLL. OF ESSEX MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
In the Army.
Allen, Harvey. Burnham, Andrew F. Burnham, Wilbur.
Allen, Joseph G.
Burnham, Charles A.
Buruham, W. Howe. Burnham, Zenas.
Bornham, Wm. H. H.
Andrews, Albuin.
Andrews, Charles E.
Andrews, Lt Cyrus
Andrews, Frank E.
Andrews, Gilman.
Andrews, II. Nelson.
Andrews, Ira, .Fr.
Andrews, Israel F.
Burnham, Harlan P.
Buruham, Ira F.6
Butman, Ancill K. Butman, John C. Callahan, Daniel. Callahan, Maurice. Chase, Lyman Hf, Channel, Jolin ('. Claiborne, Geo. C. Clifford, David K. 4. Aswell, George. Cogswell, Addison. Coose, Wm. D. Voy, Michael.
Andrews, Prince .1.
Andrews, Reuben
Andrews, Rufus.
Andrews, Stephen P.
Andrews, Timothy, Jr.
Burnham, Leonard.
Crockett. Charles P. Cook, Moses. Dugun, Daniel
Amulrews, Win. 1.5
Andrews, Wm. H. Burnham, Mark F.
Bar lett, Jacob O.
Burnham, Aburr.
Burnham, Osgood E. Burnbam, Otis.
Dealge, George.
Burnham, Albert F.
Burnham, R. W., Jr.
Dolge, Win. G.8
Bm nham, Albt. F.,2d. Burnham, Alfred 31.
Burnham, Rollins M. Burubam, Rufus.
Fiells, Charles H. Gilbert, John F.
For more minute details and particulars, see the carefully prepared and ably written chapter relative to the late war and its sohliers, con- trilmted by the Hon David Chonte to Crowell's " History of Essex. "
! Enlisted September, Is62, ut the age of fourteen.
6 Enlisted December 2, 1861, at the age of fifteen.
" Enlisted September, 1862, aged seventeen years und ten months.
Enlisted September, 1862, aged eighteen years and one month.
¿ Enlisted August, 1862, at the age of fifteen.
Burnbam, Constan-
Andrews, Albert.
tine.
Burnham, Daniel.
Burnham, D. Brain'd.
Burnham, Francis.
Burnham, Geo. Foster.
Burnliam, Geo. F., 2d. Burnham, Geo, Wash. Burnham, Horace.
Andrews, Lyman B.
Andrews, Monsieur M.
Burnham, James II. Burnham, Jns. Howe. Burnham, Jesse.
Burnham, John B. Burnham, Lamont G.7
Crafts, Franklin.
('rafts, Jolin, Jr.
Burnham, Lewis,
Dugun, Morty.
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Allen, Robt. Wallace,+
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Guppy, Geo. F. Hardy, Geo. C. Hart, John F. Haskell, Albert A.
Kimball, James B.
Mears, Samnel, Ir.
Lander, Edward W.
Morse, Charles F.
Lee, John E.
Morse, Thomas A.
Low, Aaron.
Parsons, John J.
Low, Edward.
Polaud, Jeremiah, Jr.
llaskell, James F. Ilaskell, Nathaniel. Haskell, Win. A. Haskell, Wm. 1'. Hatch, Jason.
lJayden, Luther.
Lufkin, Charles P.
Lufkin, Hervey.
Riggs, Solomon A.
Howard, Win. (.
Lufkin, William.
Sargent, Geo. H. Sargent, Oliver II. P. Story, Aaron Herbert. Story, Asa.
Howes, Erastus. Howes, Webster. Hull, Win. H.
Marston, Charles E. Martyn, John L. McEachen, John. McIntire, Edward E
Story, Otis.
Jackson, Andrew.
Melntire, Wm. H.
Swett, Simon.
James, W. Wilkins.
Mears, Francis G.
Tucker, Joseph W.
Jones, John S.
Mears, Henry C.
Varnum, John.
Jones, Samuel Q.
Mears, Rufus E.
Wentworth, Geo. S.
Kelleher, John.
Of the foregoing, six were taken prisoners by the enemy, viz. : Geo. W. Burnham, John B. Burnham, Lewis Burnham, Albert A. Haskell, James B. Kim- ball and Rufus E. Mears. Three were released.
One soldier, Mark Francis Burnham, of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, who was in fifteen or more different engagements, had four horses shot under him, two of them in the battle of Winchester, Va., under General Sheridan.
Wounded Soldiers who recovered .- Lieutenant Cyrus Andrews, H. Nelson Andrews, Stephen P. Andrews, George F. Buruham, D. Brainard Burnham, James Horace Burnham, David E. Clifford, Daniel Duggan, Erastus Ilowes, Wm. C. Howard, Wm. B. Low (wounded twice), Wm. E. Low, Thomas A. Morse, John Varnum.
DEATH ROLL .- Killed-Charles Edwin Andrews, Daniel Burnham, Jason Hatch.
Died of Wounds .- Wm. A. Andrews, Osgood E. Burnham, Jeremiah Poland, Jr. (wounded three times), Charles P. Lnfkin, O. H. P. Sargent.
Died of Illness in the Army .- Reuben Andrews, Wilbur Burnham, Charles P. Crockett, George Dodge, James Frederick Haskell, Wm. P. Haskell, W. Wil- kins James, Wm. Lufkin, John L. Martyn, Francis Gilbert Mears, Charles F. Morse, Asa Story.
Died in a Confederate Prison .- Albert A. Haskell, Rufus E. Mears.
Drowned .- George Ross, Jr.
Died soon after his arrival home .- John C. Channel.
IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. - Albion Burnham was first mate of ship " Carnation," which was sta- tioned off Port Royal, and afterwards of the squadron blockading Charleston, S. C.
Ezra F. Burnham served in United States steamer "Gettysburg," having enlisted at the early age of twenty years. He was in the engagement at Fort Fisher.
Gustavus S. Perkins served throughout the war
(four years) first, for fifteen months as second assistant engineer on board the United States steamer " Col- orado," which had been ordered to Mobile; after- wards, having been promoted to the position of first assistant engineer (virtually the acting head en- gineer), he was on board the steamer " Donaldson," and later on board the "Gettysburg," stationed for bloekading duty off Wilmington, N. C. Ile was also in the engagement at Fort Fisher.
Engineer Perkins was a machinist by trade, and was therefore from the start, by his practical knowl- edge, thoroughly equipped for the duties of his ap- pointment. Ile was undoubtedly one of the best qualified and most efficient men in the service.
SURNAMES OF EARLY SETTLERS of Chebaeco re- appear to a considerable extent in the lists of those citizens of the place who have taken part in the dif- ferent wars of the country, from the early hostilities of the Indians down to the conflict for the American Union. Of these names I find, in the aggregate, among those serving in the several wars the numbers following: Andrews, 32; Burnham, 68; Bennett, 1; Choate, 14; Cogswell, 7; Cross, I; Foster, 5; Good- hne, 2; Haskell, 5; Jones, 5; Low, 9; Lufkin, 8; Perkins, 4; Proctor, 5; Story, 17; White, 3.
Of the names of the later residents from time to time,-Cleaveland, Howes, Marshall, Mears (four each), Putnam, Crafts, Eveleth, Knowlton, Poland, Ross (three each), Callahan, Dodge, Duggan, Hayden, MeIntire, Morse, Sargent, Wise (two each).
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS FROM ESSEX, WHO SERVED, AS SUCH, IN WAR .- Colonels, Jonathan Burnham, John Choate, Jonathan Cogswell.
Majors, John Burnham, Thomas Burnham, Caleb Low.
Captains, Charles Howes, David Low, Francis Perkins, William Story.
Lieutenants, Cyrus Andrews, Nathan Burnham, Samuel Burnham, Thomas Choate, Jr., John Cleave- land, Jr., Stephen Low.
Ensign, Samuel Knowlton.
The names of these officers are not here given in the chronological order of their service, but alpha- betically, by surname, under each separate title.
CHAPLAINS .- Seven clergymen who for some time resided here, and one of whom was a native of the place, officiated as army-chaplains, -- one, Mr. Wise, in both King Philip's and the French war, and two others, the brothers Cleaveland, serving also in two wars, the war between the French and Eng- lish, and the Revolution. Rev'ds John Wise, Benja- min Choate, Ebenezer Cleaveland, John Cleaveland, Nehemiah l'orter, Temple Cutler, George J. Sanger.
AGGREGATE NUMBER IN ALL WARS .- This place, as Chebacco and Essex, has from time to time con- tributed for the military service of the country no less than three hundred and forty-two men. The names of that number are positively known from authentic records. There were others, no doubt, especially in
1 Captain Company E, Massachusetts Forty - Eighth Regiment.
2 Enlisted December 3, 1861, at the age of seventeen.
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Low, Wmn. R .?
Low, Wm. E.
Lufkin, Albert E. Luf kin, Alfred.
Prest, Robert. Procter, Charles W. Procter, Joseph, Jr. Ross, George. Ross, George, Jr.
Hayden, Wm. II.
Howes, ('harles.1
Mahoney, Thomas.
llowes, Edwin A.
Story, David Lewis.
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the carlier wars, whose names cannot now be ascer- tained.
In view of this record of patriotism of a community so limited in population, the people here, to use a Scotch phrase, can " stand unbonneted " in the pres- ence of those of any other town in the county.
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES .- Among the entire number who served in the various wars, seventeen, at least, were commissioned officers, ranking from ensign to colonel,-all of good repute as gallant, brave and trusty ; with an aggregate private soldiery equally true and meritorious.
A spirited and sensible tribute to the latter grade, found floating upon the current of periodical litera- ture, (the authorship of which, I regret to say, I have been unable to ascertain,) is presented as an appro- priate conclusion to this chapter :
" THE RANK AND FILE.
"0 blow for the Hero a trumpet ! lat him lift up bis head in the morn ; A glory of glories in battle ; It is well for the world he was burn. Let bim joy in the sound of the trumpet, And bask in the world's proud smilo ; But what had become of the Hero, Except for the rank and file !
" O, grand is the earth in her progress, In her genius and art and affairs ; The glury of glories is progress ; Let the great find a joy in their cares.
Lot the kings and the artists and statesmen Look round them and proudly smile ; But what would become of the nation, Except for the rank and file !
" And when the brief days of this planet Are ended and numbered and told, And the Lord shall appear in his glory, To summon the young and the old, For the Hero there'll be no trumpet, For the great no welcoming smilo ; Before the good Lord in his glory We shall all be the rank and file."
CHAPTER XOVI.
ESSEX-(Continued).
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THE WIRE IN HAFT DELESION. - Petition of Chebacco People in Behalf of one of the Victims. John Procter, One of the twenty person- judicially murdered during that appalling eclipse of common sense and cyclone of wiperstojon, madness and depravity, which passed wer "wem in 1692, bad for several years been a resi-
dent of thebacco, where he had the respect and con- fidence of all his neighbors and acquaintances ; thirty-two of whom signed a petition, which was headed with the signature of Rev. John Wise, and addressed to the Court of Assistants, appealing for clemency for him and his wife, who had both been convicted and sentenced. The petition failed of its object. Procter, as is well known, was hanged, but his wife escaped, simply on account of her condition at the time, which, under the English law, secured for her a reprieve; and before its expiration, the storm of delusion, frenzied malice and falsehood, had spent its force.
Procter was, in part, the victim of the spite of a ser- vant girl, named Mary Warren, who had a grudge against him. She was one of eight female witnesses in several trials, of whom only two could write their names. She admitted, in private, to more than one person, that in her testimony in some of the cases she had lied, and that the accusers, who said they were afflicted by the accused, "did but dissemble; " and another, who cried out against Mrs. Procter, acknowl- edged afterward that she had spoken falsely, and did so " for sport," saying also, "we must have some sport."
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