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In the state records we find better evidence of Waltham's share in the colonial troubles. In 1740 we find that Ebenezer Bigelow - husbandman --- was in Captain Stephen Richard's company. In 1744 Captain John Cutting's name appears on the muster-rolls. In 1748 Nathan Morse and Jolin Barnard were in Captain John Catlin's company at Fort Shirley. But in 1756 and 1757 the names follow in rapid succession. In Captain Ebenezer Learned's company was Ensign Robert Smith, aged twenty-eight, born in Waltham, enlisted in Worces- ter. In Captain Timothy Houghton's company were the following, all volunteers, from Waltham : Lieutenant Ebenezer Brown, Sergeant William Cox, Clerk Jonas Cutter, Cornet Jonathan Peirce, Privates John Dean, Phineas Stearns, Joseph Wel- lington, Thomas Wellington, William Benjamin, Daniel Fisk, Abraham Hill, Abijah Brown, Thomas Harrington, Isaac Gleason, Josiah Whitney, and David Fisk. In Captain Benjamin Ballard's com- pany was William Cummings of Waltham. In Captain Livermore's company, of the Crown Point expedition, were Abraham Gregory, aged fifty-two years, and Abijah Gregory, aged seventeen years, both born in Weston, but credited in Waltham's quota. Benjamin Lawrence and Thomas Hammond also served in the army. So much for 1756. In 1757 Jonathan Peirce is a corporal in Captain
Houghton's company. In Captain William Bart- lett's company William Livermore is ensign, Isaac Gleason sergeant, John Dean corporal. In the roll of Captain Cheever's company, Elisha Hastings of Waltham is set down as a deserter. The billet- ing-roll of Captain Jonathan Brown's company, Colonel William's regiment, contains the following Waltham names : Josiah Barnard, Isaac Cory, John Whitehead, Nicholas Lines, William Cox, David Standley, Timothy Flagg, Abraham Sanderson, Lowden Priest, Jonas Steward, William Graves, Jolin Wellington, Jolin Wellington, Jr., and Phin- eas Stearns, and in the muster-roll of Captain Brown's company, in the expedition for the reduc- tion of Canada, appear again the names of Priest, Standley, Sanderson, Stearns, Steward, the two Wellingtons, Cory, Fisk, Flagg, Barnard, Whitehead (corporal), Cox (sergeant), Graves (sergeant), and in addition Trueworthy Smith and Jedidiah White.
In May, 1764, the town chose Jonas Dix as its representative, after a continuous service of four- teen years, and a total service of seventeen years from Samuel Livermore. Mr. Dix held the office for fifteen consecutive years, and altogether eigh- teen years, representing the town (save in 1779 and 1782), evidently to its acceptance, during the en- tire period when the colonies were passing through the transition from national youth to manhood. An account of the valuation of the town at this time gives the following results: Houses, 94; families, 107 ; males under 16 years of age, 145 ; females under 16 years of age, 162 ; males above 16, 169; females above 16, 174; negroes and mulattoes, males 8, females 5. Total popula- tion, 663. The number of slaves owned is put at 14, although the annexed list fails to present so many : Jacob Big(e)low owned 1; Samuel Gale, 1; Isaac Pierce, Jr., 1; Nathan Brown, 2; Sam- uel Woodburn, 1; William Goodhue, 2; Josiah Brown, 1; John Clark, 1. Payment was ordered by the selectmen for the following school-teach- ers : Thomas Fisk's daughter, Joseph Hagar, Jr.'s, wife, Joseph Bemis' wife, George Lawrence's wife, Hopestill Bent's daughter-in-law, Jonathan Sanderson, Jr.'s, wife, John Dix's daughter, Ebenezer Brown's son, and to Samuel Williams, --- the female teachers receiving £3 each. Whether these were all employed during the immediately preceding year, or whether some of the payments are for older debts, is uncertain. In March of the following year (1765) it was voted by the town that the grammar school should be a moving
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school during the remainder of the year. Leonard Williams and Elijah Brown werc school-teachers. Of the grant of £41 for educational purposes, made in September, £12 was for the women's schools. The whole sum appropriated for town affairs in this year was £161 2s. 7d.
In 1766, a dispute having arisen between Wes- ton and Waltham in regard to the boundary line, a committee was chosen to see the line rectified and confirmed by the General Court. Elijah Brown still continued to serve the town as a schoolmaster, and held the position until Septem- ber, 1769. In December (28), 1767, the town voted to adopt similar measures to those approved by Boston, " to promote Industry, economy and manufacturing." Numerous meetings were held during the year 1767, to take action in regard to building a new meeting-house, and one was finally contracted for, to cost £642 13s. 4d. In March, 1769, the workhouse was, by vote of the town, sold, the sum paid for it being £100 2s. 8d. Jonas Dix's son Jonas was engaged to keep the school beginning in September ; he held the posi- tion of teacher of the grammar school until 1772, when he resigned because of ill health. The town voted at its September meeting to build a large school-house near the old one, but took no meas- ures to carry out its vote. The year 1769 is notable in the town's history for two occur- rences : Ist, it was the last year (save in 1784) in which swine were permitted to run at large; 2d, the practice of warning out of town persons who came without apparent means of support was discontinued.
In March, 1770, the town granted money and appointed a committee to carry out its vote of the previous year in regard to the new school-house, and also ordered the old one to be repaired. Among the articles in the warrant for this meeting was one "To know the mind of the town whether they will concur with the respectable Towns of Boston and Charlestown in refusing to purchase any goods whatever of those persons who prefer- ring their own private Interest to that of the Pub- lic still continuing to Import Goods from Brittain contrary to the agreement of the Patriotic mer- chants." No action was taken on this article. In 1771 a son of Josiah Brown was teacher of one of the schools, of which there were four besides the grammar school. During this year Newton-Street bridge was rebuilt, and the committee, in rendering its bill for services, items 113 mugs and 1 pitcher
of flip ; 10 quarts and 40 mugs of cider ; 3 pints of rum and 1 bowl of Toddy ; dinners, etc., - amount- ing to £52 7s. 1d (£6 19s. 7d., lawful money). In 1772 William Fisk was engaged to teach the grammar school in place of Jonas Dix, Jr., re- signed. Miss Ruth Russell and Jonathan Ham- mond's daughter were also of the number of teachers.
We come now to the period when the seeds of revolution, sowed by the framers of the Stamp Act and its kindred impositions, are beginning to thrust their shoots through the stratum of loyalty which has hitherto held them in check, and from this time the growth is rapid and fruition speedy and complete." On the 25th of January, 1773, at a meeting of the town, a letter was read from the town of Boston to the selectmen complaining of the grievances the colonists had suffered and were suf- fering, particularly those of the Massachusetts Bay. The letter also set forth the natural, civil, and religious rights of the people. The town chose Samuel Livermore, Esq., Jonas Dix, Esq., Captain Abijalı Brown, Leonard Williams, Esq., and Dea- con Isaac Stearns a committee to draw up and consider a vote in answer. At the May (10th) meeting of the town a letter was read setting forth the barbarous, unchristian, and inhuman practice of African slavery. This matter was referred to the representative, to act therein according to his discretion. In March, 1774, the town voted to build a new school-house near the meeting-house. The committee to whom the details were intrusted reported, in September, the work accomplished at an expense of £81 5s. 3d. Jonas Dix was elected representative in May, and Jacob Bigelow in Sep- tember. The selectmen ordered four half-barrels of powder, 450 weight of bullets, and 300 flints, to complete the town's stock of ammunition. On the 30th of September the town chose Captain Abijah Brown, Leonard Williams, Esq., and Cap- tain Jonathan Brewer a committee to draft in- structions to their representative in regard to what course he should pursue on the question of the General Court's resolving itself into a provin- cial congress. In the mean time a convention of delegates from the towns of Middlesex County had been held at Concord, and among other things rec- ommended the holding of a provincial congress at that town, and that each town should appoint a committee of correspondence in order, as the war- rant for the Waltham town-meeting said, "that other Towns when they send out on any Einer-
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gency may know who to send to and that said Committee upon any emergency may send to other Town's Committees." Accordingly, at a meeting on the 3d of October the town elected Mr. Jacob Bigelow delegate to the congress, and Captain Wil- liam Coolidge, Deacon Elijah Livermore, Captain Abijah Brown, Lieutenant Abijah Child, and Ensign Abraham Peirce a committee of safety. (In the list of delegates on file at the State House -vide Mis- cellaneous (1 - 138) - Watertown has three dele- gates, Newton three, Sudbury two, Weston three, Lincoln two, Waltham two. Waltham's two are Mr. Jacob Bigelow and Captain Eleazer Brooks.) On the 12th of December a town-meeting was held, " To take into serious Consideration the Associa- tion of the grand American Continental Congress, and according to their Resolves to choose a Com- mittee to attentively observe that said Association be punctually and strictly carried into Execution." Jonas Dix, Esq., Cornet Nathaniel Bridge, and Deacon Elijah Lawrence were chosen a committee for that purpose. In November, 1774, the town voted to take down the old school-house, and build one at the northwest part of the town.
Agreeably to a recommendation of the Provin- cial Congress, the voters of the town convened on the 9th of January, 1775, to determine what should be done in regard to enlisting minute-men, and it was voted to be the mind of the town that " they will all be prepared and stand ready equipt as minute-men." At the same meeting Jonas Dix, Esq., was elected delegate to the Provincial Con- gress to be holden at Cambridge in February. In March the town voted to pay the money collected for taxes to Henry Gardner, Esq., treasurer of the provincial government. The selectmen, in the same month, appointed a committee to take an exact state of the town's ammunition, and report in writing. Nothing appears in the town records to indicate the struggles at Lexington and Concord, and it is difficult to determine how many of Wal- tham's sons took part in those conflicts, but some were there. David Smith, an apprentice to Phineas Stearns, was wounded by the bursting of his gun at Lexington, and Abram Child, a native of Wal- tham, took part in the pursuit of the retreating English soldiery. On the day following these skirmishes the Central Committee of Correspond- ence issued a stirring appeal to the sub-committees of the colony, which concluded in these words : " We beg & entreat that as you will answer to your Country to your Consciences and above all
as you will answer to God himself, that you will hasten and encourage by all possible Means the Enlistment of Men to forin the Army." At a meet- ing of the selectmen, May 13, they delivered to each of the following men a good blanket, in accordance with the " Recommendation of the Provincial Con- gress, they being inlisted into the Service of the Massachusetts, for the Defence of the Liberties of America ": Eliphalet Hastings, Jonas Lawrence, Elijah Cutting, Elisha Cox, William Lock, Samuel Roberts, John Glynn, Josialı Convers, Cutting Clark, Abraham Parkhurst, Matthew Peirce, Josiah Bemis, Jr., Daniel Warren, Elijah Mead, Samuel Mulliken, Amos Fiske, Zechariah Weston, Job Priest, David Smith, Benjamin Gallop, Amos Har- rington, George Wellington, Micah Bumpo (negro), Jonas Smith, Jr., John Viles, Josiah Lovett, Eli- sha Harrington, Habakkuk Stearns, Jesse Goodell, Nathan Wright, Asa Gould, Bezaleel Wright, Abijah Fisk, Rufus Stacey, Isaac Bemis, Elisha Stearns, Renben Bemis, Timothy Flagg, Eliphalet Warren, Moses Warren, William Sprague, Thad- deus Child, Andrew Benjamin, John Symms, and Edmund Lock. In May Jacob Bigelow was chosen to the Provincial Congress, and in July and Au- - gust Jonas Dix filled the same position. A pro- test against Dix being allowed his seat in the Con- gress, signed by twenty-six citizens, appears in the state records, the complainants alleging that his election was illegally procured, inasmuch as he used his influence to prohibit the votes of such of the men serving in the army as were known to be opposed to him. In the troublous times of the early breaking out of the Revolution neighbor seemed to eye neighbor somewhat askant, and every suspicion was intensified by the fever of the times. Of the number of the suspected was one John Milliquet, a tavern-keeper, whose wife, having a child in Bostou, passed through the lines, and ob- tained it, and returned, and was thought to have fur- nished information to the enemy. The selectmen, however, in their reply to the Central Committee of Correspondence, cleared the family of the charge ; in fact, Milliquet was licensed as an innholder the following year as a person friendly to his country. Another suspected one - suspected by his own neighbors - was, singularly enough, Lieutenant- Colonel Abijah Brown. The selectmen, in a letter to the Provincial Congress in May, accuse Brown of slandering the Congress, threatening that the army would rebel against its authority, etc. The committee appointed by Congress to examine into
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the charges completely exonerate Colonel Brown, and turn the tables on those who have denounced him to the selectmen. In a letter to the Board of War, dated May 19, 1775, Brown writes that he has removed the cannon under his charge at Wal- tham to Watertown, and delivered them to the Committee of Safety, " and shall have my company in readiness to march to Cambridge to-morrow morning." In June the Provincial Congress recom- mends that Brown, who is holding the position of lieutenant-colonel under Colonel Woodbridge, be commissioned, and on the 23d of that month he acknowledges the receipt of his commission. Another unfortunate had inadvertently bought a few pounds of tea, but was speedily made to realize his offenee. Of the part taken by the men of Wal- tham at Bunker Hill there appears to be no rec- ord, save here and there an item telling of some one wounded or some one losing a gun or aceou- trements. Captain Jonathan Brewer was among those wounded, and Eliphalet Hastings lost a bayonet. It is probably safe to infer that the entire number enumerated as enlisted were in that battle.
At the meeting held March 18, 1776, Captain William Coolidge, Thomas Wellington, and Lieuten- ant Samuel Stearns were chosen the committee of correspondence. In the warrant this committee has also the terms " inspection " and " safety." This was in accordance with a resolve of the General Court, February 13, 1776, uniting the three eom- mittees in one, and directing the annual choice by the several towns. Those familiar with the colo- nial history of this period will remember the many difficulties that the colonists labored under through lack of saltpetre, and its manufacture was urged upon the people. At the March meeting the town chose Jacob Bigelow, Samuel Harrington, and Elisha Cutter a committee to inquire into the feasibility of manufacturing it in private families in Waltham. At the meeting in May (27th) Jo- nas Dix, Esq., was chosen representative, and at the same meeting, " the question being put to know the mind of the Town whether they will advise their Representative that if the Honorable Con- gress should for the Safety of the united Colonies Declare them Independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain they the said Inhabitants will Sol- emly engage with their lives and fortunes to support them in the measure. And it passed in the affirma- tive." At a meeting held June 25 the town voted to excuse from paying a bounty tax those who had
served in the army or who should join the Canada expedition. A bounty of £6 6s. 8d. was voted to each non-commissioned officer and private enlisting for that expedition. A committee to whom the raising and disbursing of this bounty was intrusted reported the following names of recruits : John Coolidge, Ezra Peiree, John Gleason, Elisha Liver- more, William Hagar, John Hagar, Josiah Sander- son, Edward Brown, Elias Hastings, Eli Jones, Abijah Brown, Jr., Benjamin Ellis, Isaiah Edes "for my Negro," Josiah Wyer, David Stearns, Jonathan Stearns, Abijah Fisk, John Lawrence, Samnel Gale, Jr., Samuel Bigelow, Stephen Will- man, Eliphalet Hastings, Nathan Sanderson, John Rieliardson.
The council of the colony having ordered a printed copy of the Declaration of Independence to be sent to the minister of each parish, of every denomination, and by him to be read immediately after the close of the service of the Sabbath follow- ing its receipt, the copies then to be delivered to the town clerks, and by them entered on the town or distriet reeords, " there to remain as a perpetual Memorial thereof," we find it copied at lengtlı in the records of this period. On the 28th of Oe- tober the town refused to give its sanction to the formation and enactment of a state constitution. In December the following named men were en- listed for Waltham, under Captain Blaney, in Colo- nel Thatcher's regiment, for three months : Samuel Lufkin, Solomon Keyes, John Glode, James Davis, William Chambers, Timothy Brown, Samuel Luf- kin, Jr., Timothy Farrar, Tristram Davidson, Jere- miah Williams, Lemuel Wheeler, Abel Parker. The school-teachers paid during this year were William Fisk and Paul Litchfield.
On the 3d of March, 1777, the town re-elected the same men for its committee of correspondence, and a committee was chosen to devise some equita- ble manner of proportioning the assessments levied on account of filling Waltham's quotas in the army. In May Representative Dix was instrneted to join with other members of the General Court (if he should think proper) in the formation of " such a Constitution of Government, as he shall Judge best Calculated to Promote the happiness of this State; and when compleated cause the same to be printed in all the Boston News Papers, and also in hand bills, one of which to be transmitted to the selectmen of each Town, or the Committee of each Plantation, to be by them laid before their respective Towns or Plantations, at a regular meet-
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ing of the Inhabitants thereof, to be called for that purpose ; in order to its being by each Town and Plantation duly considered." Jonas Dix, Jr., and William Fisk taught school during the year.
On the 9th of February, 1778, a meeting was held, at which " the Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the United States of America was read to the Town and mnaturely con- sidered by them, the Town unanimously agreed that the said plan of Confederacy is well adapted for the securing the Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence of the United States of America," and the representative was instructed to vote that the state delegates be authorized to ratify that in- strument in Congress. At the March meeting Mat- thias Collins, Lieutenant Isaac Hagar, and Peter Ball were chosen committee of correspondence, in- spection, and safety. In May Abner Sanderson was chosen representative. On the vote to ratify the state constitution the town stood six in favor, twenty-two opposed. On the 28th of September a committee was chosen " to Estimate what eachı one had done in the war by Bearing Arms Person- ally or their paying money to Encourage others to do the same & proportioning the same by a Tax upon the Polls and Estates of the Town," etc. This committee reported on the 19th of October. In their report they give the following names of the thirty men which Waltham sent for the eight monthis' campaign : Colonel Jonathan Brewer, Col- onel Abijah Brown, Captain Abijah Child, Captain Abram Child, Lieutenant Oliver Hagar, Captain Jedediah Thayer, Josiah Convers, Elisha Wel- lington, Lieutenant Isaac Bemis, David Smithı, George Wellington, Reuben Bemis, Josiah Bemis, Jr., Amos Fisk, Abijah Fisk, Timothy Flagg, Jonas Lawrence, William Lock, Josiah Leaverett, Edmund Lock, Elisha Stearns, Daniel Warren, Thaddeus Wellington, Zachariah Weston, Eliphalet Warren, Amos Harrington, Moses Warren, Charles Warren, Moses Mead, Jr., and Francis Brewer. These the committee judged should have £ 3 12s. each. The town sent nine two-months men to the Joseph Brown, Elishia Stearns, Ezra Peirce, David Stearns, George Stearns, Thaddeus Bemis, Jonathan Smith, Elijalı Smith, Timothy Flagg, Charles Cutter, Josiah Hastings, Flagg, Jonathan Sanderson, 3d, and Samuel Green went to the Dor- chester Hills and Boston lines ; that service being easy, the committee think 20 s. each should be al- lowed. Warham Cushing, James Priest, and Ben- jamin Hagar each hired a man to serve for three Cambridge lines, namely : Lieutenant Isaac Bemis, Josiah Wier, Samuel Gale, Jr., Samuel Goodin, Phineas Warren, Jr., John Kidder, Joel Har- rington, Thaddeus Goodin, and Ebenezer Phillips ; they should receive 188. each. Captain Abijah Child, Josiah Convers, Josiah Bemis, Jr., Captain Jedediah Thayer, Jonas Lawrence, Thaddeus Wel- lington, and Edmund Lock went into Canada ; they should be allowed £15 each. Colonel Jonathan.| years or the war; each should be allowed £30.
Brewer, Captain Abraham Child, William Lock, and Jonas Lock were in the service in the Jerseys in 1776, losing baggage, etc .; they should be al- lowed £4 each. Captain Isaac Gleason, Lieuten- ant John Clark, Jonas Dix, Jr., Josiah Sanderson, Nathan Sanderson, William Bridge, Elisha Liver- more, Jr., Joseph Hagar, Jr., William Hagar, Jona- than Stearns, Ephraim Hammond, John Lawrence, Samuel Gale, John Gleason, Samuel Bigelow, and Abijalı Livermore, choosing to hire rather than give personal service, paid £6 each above the regular bounty ; Captain Gleason and Ephraim Hammond refused the town's bounty, and paid £ 12 6s. Sd. each. Colonel Abijah Brown, Jonathan Hagar, Jo- siah Wier, Stephen Wellinan, Ezra Peirce, David Stearns, Edward Brown, and John Coolidge, re- ceiving only the state and town bounty, should be allowed £6 each to put them on the same terms as the others. Deacon Elijah Livermore, Amos Brown, and Jonathan Fisk each paid £6 to pro- cure men to go to the " lines at Boston." Leon- ard Williams, Esq., Captain Isaac Gleason, Beza- leel Flagg, Matthias Collins, Lieutenant Samuel Stearns, Daniel Cutting, Deacon John Sanderson, Ephraim Peirce, Phineas Lawrence, Nathan Víles, and Zachariah Smith procured men to go to White Plains, and Lientenant Isaac Hagar and Isaac Parkhurst go in person; each should be allowed £10. Ensign Samuel Harrington, Jacob Bigelow, Samuel Gale, Josiah Mixer, Captain Abraham Peirce, Peter Ball, John Durant, David Townsend, Captain William Coolidge, Benjamin Stratton, Benjamin Green, and Elijah Livermore each paid £ 6; Jonas Dix, Esq., Deacon Jonathan Sanderson, Cornet Nathaniel Bridge, Lieutenant Daniel Child, Jonas Smith, Jolin Dix, Jonas Brown, Josiah Whit- ney, Abraham Bemis, Thomas Fisk, Jonathan San- derson, Jr., and Moses Mead, £5 cach ; Elisha Livermore, £ 10; Elisha Cutler, £14; and Joseph Wellington, £3, to procure Waltham's quota towards reinforcing the army, and should be allowed these respective sums. Lieutenant Isaac Bemis,
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The following named individuals contributed the sums annexed to hire men to serve in the army : William Brown, William Wellington, Eleazer Bradshaw, Jonas Child, Isaac Peirce, Silas Stearns, Isaac Stearns, Jr., Joshua Stearns, Samuel Fisk, and Abner Sanderson, £10 each; William Fisk, Isaac Child, Jr., and William Coolidge, Jr., £8 each ; Joseph Wellington, £7; Cornet Nathaniel Bridge, Samuel Peirce, Jonas Dix, Esq., Jonas Smith, Moses Mead, Jonas Viles, Captain Wil- liam Coolidge, Uriah Cutting, David Townsend, John Durant, Peter Ball, Benjamin Green, and Elijah Lawrence, £6 each ; George Lawrence, Samuel Dix, Joel Dix, Josiah Hastings, Josiah Whitney, Abraham Bemis, Thomas Fisk, Jonathan Dix, Ephraim Peirce, Jonathan Sanderson, 3d, and Thomas Livermore, £5 each ; Captain John Clark, Jonathan Fisk, Josiah Sanderson, Abijah Liver- more, Peter Warren, and Elisha Cutler, £4 each ; Abraham Bemis, Jr., Deacon Jonathan Sanderson, and Daniel Child, £3 each ; Jonas Brown, Amos Brown, William Bridge, Jonas Dix, Jr., and Dan- iel Taylor, £2 each; and Phineas Lawrence, £ 1. Lieutenant Isaac Bemis, Jonas Lawrence, and Jacob Mead went to Rhode Island ; they should have £6 each. Daniel Stearns, Abraham Bemis, Jr., Ephraim Peirce, Jr., Thaddeus Bemis, and Thaddeus Goodwin were drafted to go to Benning- ton, and either went or sent some one; for their service they should have £30 1s. 11d. eaclı, ex- clusive of what they received. The sums annexed to the following names were paid " at that time to Encourage those that turned out and went ": Dea- con Elijah Livermore, Leonard Williams, Samuel Gale, and Isaac Parkhurst, £30 each ; Ensign Josiah Bemis, £ 10 ; Phineas Lawrence and Joshua Mead, £ 6; Jonas Dix, Esq., Jonas Dix., Jr., Joel Dix, Jonathan Stearns, Cornet Nathaniel Bridge, William Bridge, Abraham Bemis, Jacob Bemis, Captain John Clark, Silas Stearns, Daniel Stearns, Jonathan Sanderson, 3d., Josialı Hastings, Abijah Livermore, Thomas Livermore, Jolin Lawrence, Moses Mead, and Joshua Stearns, £5 each ; Jacob Bigelow, Samuel Peirce, John Sanderson, Peter Edes, Jonathan Fisk, Amos Peirce, Jonas Smith, and Josiah Sanderson, £4 each; David Smith, Nathan Viles, William Fisk, Zachariah Smith, Jonas Viles, and Isaac Peirce, £3 each ; and Peter War- ren, Lieutenant Daniel Child, Elisha Livermore, Jr., and Nathan Sanderson, £2 each ; which should be allowed. William Peirce and Moses Lawrence served at Dorchester Hills three months ; they
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