History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902, Part 46

Author: Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. cn
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston : Damrell & Upham
Number of Pages: 1518


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Joseph Smith


George Thorla


Willm Longfellow


Moses Thorla


Neheh Noyes


Tristram Thorla


Nath1 Boynton


John Thorla Jun


Jona Thorlo


John Urier


Abraham Sayer


Moses Woodman


Abraham Brown


David Woodman


Israel Adams


Moses Wheeler


Sam1 Howsley


Jona Wheeler


Moses Wheeler


Willm Titcomb


Willm Tenney


Upon the oath I have taken this is a true and Exact List


JOHN DUMMER Clerk of st Company


In June, 1758, Gen. Abercrombie had gathered a force of fifteen thousand men at the head of Lake George; and, in the


Timothy Jackman


-


Paul Pearson


George Thorla


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month of July following, he made an unsuccessful attempt to capture the fort in the possession .of the French troops at Ticonderoga. Among the soldiers enlisted for this service was a company of one hundred men, under the command of Capt. Joseph Newhall of Newbury.


Muster Roll of a Company of Foot in His Majestys Service under the Command of Captain Joseph Newhall in a Regiment raised by the Province of the Massachusetts Bay for the Reduction of Canada where of Jonathan Bagley Esq is Colonel, viz :


Joseph Newhall


Captain


Newbury


Jonathan Pearson


Lieut


Joseph Ilsley


Perley Pike


Ensign


Sommerby Moody Sergeant


Skipper Eliott


..


John Owens


16


Seth Carver


Bridgewater


Paul Ilsley


Corporal


Newbury


66


Enoch Gerrish


66


[No residence given.]


Enoch Wells


66


Jeremiah Dalton


Drummer


PRIVATES.


John Brown


[No residence given]


Aaron Davis


Newbury


Kiah Bailey


¥


John Danforth


William Burrell


John Doty


Edmund Bailey


Abijah Dickinson


Rowley


Simon Bailey


6.


Philemon Dane


Ipswich


Jacob Burrell


Joshua Danforth


Newbury


Stephen Bailey


66


Moses Davis


James Buswell


Davis Downing


Asa Bass


Halifax


Oliver Dole


Peter Bradshaw


Boston


Ebenezer Flood


66


Joseph Bailey


Newbury


Enoch Flood


Ezra Clough


Rowley


Ebenezer Hood Jun


Nathaniel Clough


John Goodridge


Joshua Currier


Newbury


Samuel Gibson


William Cheeney


Rowley


Josiah Goodridge


Joseph Coker


Newbury


Leonard Hermon ..


Benjamin Carter


Plymouth


Carr Huse


..


* Massachusetts Archives, vol. xcvi., part ii., pp. 515, 517, ard 518.


Daniel Brackenbury


Samuel Danforth


[No residence given]


Daniel Chizemore


LOUISBOURG, CROWN POINT, AND QUEBEC


573


Aquila Hodgkins


[No residence given]


William Plumer Newbury 66


Ephraim Hoyt Jun


Jeremiah Plumer


Ezekiel Jewett Jun


Samuel Rogers


Ipswich Newbury


David Jaquis


Stephen Jackman Micah Leach


Elkanah Lunt


Halifax Newbury [No residence given]


William Sampson Joseph Swett Jun Joseph Swett


Reuben Mace


66


Benjamin Sawyer


Jonathan Martin


66


Joseph Swasey


Rowley Newbury Gloucester


John Moody


66


Eliphalet Sawyer


Newbury


Abner Mooers


Rowley


Roland Stockman Leonard Smith


Boxford


Ebenezer Morrison


Newbury [No residence given}


Isaac Sturtevant


Halifax


Henry Noyes


John Searl Jun


Rowley


John Noyes *


James Thompson


Halifax


Paul Noyes


Sargent Weed


Newbury


Ambrose Nelson


16


William Weed


[No residence given]


Nathaniel Noyes


Benjamin Woodman


Nathaniel Oben


..


William Woodman


Thomas Perrin


Rowley


Nathaniel Willett


66


Thomas Pike


John Wyatt


Simon Page


Newbury


Samuel Wyatt


Samuel Plumer


Janes Woodbury


Samuel Pulsifer


Salisbury


Thomas Follinsby


66


Thomas Pownall, governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay, recommended in 1758 the building of a fortification at the mouth of the Penobscot river, in order to prevent the French naval forces from landing there and sending out scouting parties to plunder and destroy the sea-coast towns. March 23, 1759, the General Court authorized the voluntary enlistment of four hundred men, to be divided into four com- panies and taken in transports to the place where the pro- posed fort was to be erected.


On the first day of May, one company, consisting of one hundred men from Haverhill, Bradford, and other towns in


* Mr. Eugene Noyes, of Amesbury, Mass., has in his possession a memorandum book in which John Noyes recorded the date of his enlistment and other incidents connected with his service at Lake George. The company evidently came home by the way of Concord, arriving in Newbury November 13, 1758.


Boxford Newbury


Thomas Rogers Robert Rogers Ebenezer Rawson Jeremiah Sachell


Middlebury Ipswich Newbury


Samuel Lunt


Stephen Lunt


Reuben Mace Jun


Joseph Moody


Moses Swasey


¥


James Nelson


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the vicinity, under the command of Capt. Israel Herrick, sailed from Newbury ; and on the fourth day three companies, enlisted in Suffolk county, sailed from Boston.


Joshua Bailey, of Bradford, was a soldier in Capt. Herrick's company, and carefully noted the following items in his diary of daily events : - -


Bradford March the Thirty First day in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine. Then I, Joshua Baily, voluntarily en- listed in his Majesty's service for three Months to go to Penobscot under Capt. Israel Herrick. On April 20th at three o'clock in the afternoon we marched to Newbury and arrived there about five of the clock and that night we lodged aboard Capt Bradbury's [sloop] and lay in the har- bor of Newbury on Sunday the 29th, and on Monday the 30th at nine o'clock in the morning we were drawn up four deep and marched through the Town and up to Long Wharf and took a lesson till 6 of the clock in the afternoon; And on Tuesday Gov. Thomas Pownal, com- mander in chief, arrived at Newbury, the first of May. About 3 o'clock in the P.M. on board went to sea. The number of a hundred men .*


Governor Pownall accompanied the expedition, and probable sailed from Boston with the men who had been mustered into the service there. The fort was built at a place called Wassaumkeag Point, with a block-house in the centre, sur- rounded by a deep ditch and a high palisade. It was com- pleted previous to July 7, 1759, when the main portion of the expedition sailed for home, leaving a small force to garrison the fort. In 1775, Captain Mowatt, in command of the British sloop "Canceau," dismantled the fort; and in 1779 the blockhouses were burned and the earthworks des- troyed.


After the capture of Louisbourg in 1758, Gen. Jeffrey Amherst was placed in command of the troops at Lake George. He took possession of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, July 27, 1759, after Bourlamaque, the commander of the French forces, had abandoned and partially destroyed the fortifications.+ A large number of Newbury men were in active service under General Amherst during the summer of that eventful year.


* New England Genealogical and Historical Register, vol. xiv., p. 5.


t " Montcalm and Wolfe," vol. ii., p. 239.


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LOUISBOURG, CROWN POINT, AND QUEBEC


Return of the men enlisted or impressed for His Majesty's service of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in the regiment whereof Joseph Gerrish, Esqr is Colonel, to be put under the immediate command of His Excellency Jeffry Amherst, Esqr, General and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in North America for the invasion of Canada.


Ebenezer Flood


Richrd Goodwin


Richard Hale


Benjamin Stickney


James Safford, Jr.


Thomas Jenkins


- Ezekiel Mighill


Nathan Poor


Richd Flanders


Joseph Stanwood


William Noyes, Jr.


Henry Pierce


Stephen Jackman


Moses Downing


Thomas Noyes


Jacob Morril


Asa Herriman


David Jaques


Ebenezer Flood, Jr.


David Perkins


Joseph Russel


Ezekiel Hardee


Joseph Pettingell


Moses Poor


Kiah Bayley Samł Currier Ezra Hale


Stephen Bayley-


Moses Hale


Elias Cheney


Zachary Beel "cal


Gideon Downer


John Flood


Henry Greenleaf


William Samson


Thomas Pike, Jr.


Joseph Coker


Sam! Lowel


Ichabod Colby


Sam1 Gardner


George Paterson


Stepn Richardson


Nehemiah Johnson


Sam1 Bayley


John Pike


Thomas Williams


Nathaniel Howard


Joseph Foster


John Gold


Parker Cooper


John Lakeman


Jonathan Martin


Aaron Davis


Saml Pike


Simon Page


Sam! Danford, Jr.


Samuel Dean


Saml Gerrish, 2d


James Smith


William Turner


William Hazzen


William Morgaridge


William Currier, 3d


William Stockman


Sam! Colby Make-Peace Colby


Ebenezr Morrison


Aaron Cheever


Benja Woodman John Morgaridge


Benjamin Emery


Willm Plumer


Stephen Noyes, Jr. Stephen Peirce


James Buswell


David Downing


John Hutchins


Benja Pilsbury


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Elijah Pilsbery


Jarvis Ring


Sam! Carr


Abel Davis


Joseph Cresey


Oliver Osgood


Moses Debeck


Theophilus Ring


Jacob Sawyer Aquila Hodgkins


Moses Wadleigh


Caleb Stickney


Jarvis Flanders


Joseph Dole


Jacob Thompson


Abel Coffin


Philip Chandler


Moses Woodman


Hezekiah Flanders


John Low John Hewes


John Osgood


John Carr, Jr.


Moses French


Francis Brown


Bradbury True


Joshua Kent


Abel Bagley


Richard Tucker


Josiah Clough


Stephen Clark


Jesse Turrel


Ruben Mace


James Easman


Solomon Aubin


Timo Sanders


Jonathan Godfrey


Israel True


Enoch Poor


Nehemiah Noyes


Francis Cresey


Newbury April 10, 1759 *


CAPTURE OF QUEBEC AND CLOSE OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR.


In the expedition, under the command of Gen. James Wolfe, that sailed from Louisbourg up the river St. Lawrence to Quebec, in the month of June, 1759, was a company com- posed of the following-named officers and men from New- bury : -


William Davenport, Capt.


Daniel Poor, Corp.


Thomas Swett, Lieut.


William Stevens, Drummer.


Gersham Burbank, 66


Jonathan Merrill, Ensign.


Moses George, Sergt.


Luke Sweet.


John Moody, 66


Joseph Woodman.


Thomas Barnard.


Matthew Pettingill, 66


John Brock.


Joshua Colby, Corp.


Pall Coffin.


Thomas Ford,


William Matthews.


Stephen Morse, .:


James Ward.


* Massachusetts Archives, vol. xcvii., pp. 107, 108.


PRIVATES.


Daniel Pike,


James French


.


Benjamin Bagley


J.Miller Sc:


GENERAL JAMES WOLFE.


-


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PRIVATES (continued).


John Caswell.


Edmund Baly, Jr.


Daniel Knight.


John Stevens.


Nathaniel Roby.


Andrew Hilton.


Richard Pierce.


Paul Person.


Thomas Moody.


Nathan Pabody.


Stephen Colby.


Samuel Wyatt.


Ezra Cluff.


William Cheney.


Daniel Pilsbury.


Nathaniel Brown.


Joshua Moss.


William Clarke.


Samuel Huse.


Richard Sanborn.


Eleazer Burbank.


Zebediah Hunt.


Enoch Bagley.


Michael Short.


Zachariah Beel.


Sherborn Tilton.


William Griffin.


Jacob Burrill.


Jeremiah Person. Enoch Chase.


John Currier .*


Captain Davenport's company was in the battle on the plains of Abraham, when General Wolfe was killed, on the thirteenth day of September, and assisted in digging the trenches near the walls of the town, until the white flag was raised and Quebec surrendered, September IS, 1759.1


News of the great victory was received everywhere in New England with joy and exultation. In Newbury, an ox was broiled on a huge gridiron erected on vacant land, now Market square, Newburyport, at the westerly side of the Third parish meeting-house ; and the occasion was enlivened with music and songs of triumph that continued late into the night.


For the re-enforcement of the English troops at Port Royal and Cape Breton, several regiments were enlisted in the province of Massachusetts Bay during the year 1759. One company in Colonel Frye's regiment was composed of the following-named officers and men from Newbury and the sur- rounding towns : -


A muster roll of the officers and men in Capt. Samuel Gerrish's com- pany in Col. Frye's Regiment. in service in the Province of Nova Scotia after the first of January 1760.


* Massachusetts Archives, vol. xcvii., pp. 325, 326.


t "Ould Newbury," pp. 494-497.


LOUISBOURG, CROWN POINT, AND QUEBEC


579


Samuel Gerrish


Capt Henry Greenleaf Serjeant


Hezikiah Hutchins 1 st Lieut


John Goold Corporal


Ezra Putnam


2nd 4 Thomas Pike


Pearly Pike Ensign John Lakeman 66


Richard Hale


Serjeant Jacob Currier


Stephen Clark


Nath! Noyes


Drummer


PRIVATES


Solomon Aubin


Thos Jenkins


Stephn Bailey


Nehemh Johnson


Sam! Bailey


Samuel Lowell


Ichabod Colby


Joseph Martin


Sam! Colby


Ezekiel Mighill


~ Isaac Chase Joseph Coker Makepeice Colby


Thomas Noyes


Wm Noyes Jun


John Chase


Moses Poor


Parker Cooper Elias Cheney


Stephen Pierce


Aaron Cheever


Henry Pierce


Moses Downing


Enoch Poor


Saml Dummer


Samuel Pike


Aaron Davis


Parker Pilsbury


Sam1 Danforth Jun


Nathan Poor


Benjn Emery


George Paterson


Richd Flanders


Stephn Richardson


Ebenr Flood


Joseph Russell


Ebenr Flood Jun


Joseph Stanwood


John Flood Joseph Foster Jonathan Godfrey Sam1 Gerrish


Willm Sampson James Safford


Saml Gardner


Benjn Stickney Abraham Sweet James Smith


Richd Goodwin


William Turner


Asa Harriman


Enoch Thurston


John Hutchins Ezek1 Hardy


Thos. Williams


Nath1 Howard


Nath1 Martin


Stepn Jackman


Reuben Locke *


David Jaques


Seth Woodward


On the twenty-eighth day of April, 1760, the second battle between the French and English troops for the possession of


* Massachusetts Archives, vol. xcviii., p. 457. The names of the soldiers after " Thos. Jen- kins" are not given in the muster roll in the Massachusetts Archives, vol. xcviii., p. 150 ; and the names " John Pike, Serjeant, Samuel Currier, private, and Gideon Donner, private," are added.


Davod Perkins


Simon Page


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HISTORY OF NEWBURY


Quebec was fought on the plains of Abraham. The English troops were driven back into the town. An attempt was made to carry the walls and ramparts by assault; but the opportune arrival of some English ships of war led to the withdrawal of the French forces, and Quebec was left to its fate.


When the treaty of peace was signed at Paris, on the tenth day of February, 1763, the seven years' war ended. Canada was ceded to England with other territorial posses- sions of France on the North American continent.


CHAPTER XV. -


REVOLUTIONARY WAR.


IN 1765, the Stamp Act was passed by Parliament, and stamp distributors were appointed for Newbury and Newbury- port. They were unable to enforce the law, and were ex- posed to many indignities in their efforts to execute it. The act was repealed, March 18, 1766, to the great joy of the in- habitants of Newbury and of other towns in the province ; but the right to levy and collect taxes was still asserted by Parlia- ment. In 1767, heavy duties were imposed upon paper, glass, tea, and other articles of merchandise imported into the prov- ince of Massachusetts Bay.


September 22, 1768, Joseph Gerrish, esq., was chosen a delegate to a convention to be held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, for the purpose of devising ways and means to prevent the collection of these duties, and at the same time to avoid, if possible, a conflict with the legal representatives of the king. In the month of March, 1770, a committee, consisting of six- teen persons, was chosen to obtain pledges from the inhabi- tants of Newbury " not to purchase or use any foreign tea, or buy, directly or indirectly, merchandise of any kind from any merchant known to be an importer of goods from England," until the obnoxious revenue law was amended or re- pealed .*


December 29, 1772, another committee was chosen to con- sider the deplorable condition of public affairs, and determine what action should be taken "to protect and preserve the rights and privileges granted and guaranteed by the charter of the Province." The committee was composed of the fol- lowing-named persons : -


* Town of Newbury Records ; also, Coffin's History of Newbury, pp. 236, 237.


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Capt Joseph Hale Majr Joshua Coffin Mr Dudley Colman Moses Noyes


Daniel Chute


Capt Moses Little


Majr Samuel Gerrish


Samuel Sawyer . Dea Benj Colman Mr Simeon Chase Capt Samuel Moody Dr. Peter Merrill Jacob Gerrish Joseph Coffin Esq John Moody


y Deacon Richard Adams


January 4, 1773, the committee recommended " that there be a Committee chosen by this Town, annually, or till we shall obtain a Redress of our Grievances, to correspond with the Town of Boston & with such other towns as said commit- tee shall think proper in order that there may be union and co-operation in the assertion and maintenance of our rights." *


The committee also reported a series of resolutions that were adopted by the legal voters of the town and ordered to be entered in full upon the records, " there to stand as a last- ing memorial of the sense they have of their invaluable rights and of their determination to defend them in every lawful way as occasion may require." *


Capt. Joseph Hale, Major Samuel Gerrish, Major Joshua Coffin, Capt. Moses Little, and Capt. Samuel Moody were elected members of the committee of correspondence, and ordered to confer with the provincial authorities in regard to the duties imposed by the law regulating trade with England. They were also instructed to co-operate with the committees of other towns in an effort to secure the repeal of the obnoxious law.


December 22, 1773 voted that this town will use their utmost en- deavors to hinder the importation of tea in America, so long as the duty shall remain thereon, either by the East India company, or in any other way whatever .*


At a meeting held January 4, 1774, Capt. Joseph Hale, Mr. Jacob Gerrish, Mr. Dudley Colman, Mr. Joshua Noyes, Mr. Richard Adams, jr., Mr. Edward Moody, and Mr. Samuel Noyes, who had previously been appointed for that purpose, presented a series of resolutions, fourteen in number, that were unanimously adopted, with the following patriotic appeal to the inhabitants of neighboring towns : -


* Town of Newbury Records.


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Beloved brethren let us stand fast in the liberty, wherewith God and the British constitution in conjunction with our own, have made us free, that neither we, nor our posterity after us (through any fault of ours) be entangled with the yoke of bondage ! *


Gén. Thomas Gage, who superseded Thomas Hutchinson as governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay, arrived in Boston May 13, 1774, and entered at once upon the dis- charge of his duties. When the General Court assembled on the twenty-fifth day of May, he announced that in consequence of the excitement and tumult prevailing in Boston, the session would not be permitted to continue after the close of the month. Three days later, fearing his orders would be disregarded, he considered it advisable to declare the General Court "adjourned to meet in Salem on Tuesday the seventh day of June."


The representatives and magistrates reassembled at the time and place appointed. Joseph Gerrish, esq., who repre- sented Newbury, protested with others against the arbitrary adjournment of the General Court. Delegates were elected to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and a repeal of the obnoxious laws enacted by Parliament was peremptorily demanded.


The governor, aroused and alarmed by these revolutionary proceedings, issued a proclamation on the seventeenth day of June, dissolving the General Court. The messenger to whom this proclamation was intrusted found it impossible to gain admittance to the upper hall where the representatives were assembled, and was compelled to read it on the stairs leading to the representative chamber.


At a town meeting held in Newbury on the twenty-third day of June, Col. Joseph Gerrish, Dudley Colman, Deacon Silas Pearson, Deacon Edmund Bayley, and Capt. Joseph Brown were added to the committee of correspondence ; and, in answer to a letter received from the friends of American liberty in Boston, the town "voted to discontinue all Com- merce with Great Britain and with all importers of goods from thence, until the Boston Port Bill 'is amended or re- pealed." *


* Town of Newbury Records.


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On the ninth day of August, the inhabitants of Newbury appropriated the sum of two hundred pounds " for the pur- chase of provisions to be sent to the suffering inhabitants of the town of Boston." *


October twenty sixth, Mr. Samuel Moody, principal of Dum-


mer Academy, collected and sent to the inhabitants of Boston the sum of 7. 0.0


£ sd


The members of the First Parish church Rev. John Tucker, minister, sent February 6, 1775 46. 4.2


The members of the Byfield Parish church Rev. Moses Parsons, minister, sent 10.16.4


The members of the Fifth Parish church Rev. Oliver Noble, minister, sent 9.06.0 +


At a town meeting held September 1, 1774, to consider the unhappy condition of public affairs, the following resolu- tion was unanimously adopted : -


. that we are ready at all times to unite with our Brethren, on this Continent, in consulting upon such measures as may be necessary to be carried into execution for recovering our inestimable Rights & Privileges : we do therefore heartily concur with the Town of Marble- head in the Proposal which they have made viz : of having a County Meeting & accordingly we have Chosen the Honble Joseph Gerrish Esq. Capt Moses Little, Major Samuel Gerrish, Mr Richard Adams Jur & Capt Joseph Hale to be a committee on the part of this town to meet the several committees from the other towns in this county in order to agree upon such measures as the exigency of our Publick affairs may require .*


The town clerk was instructed to furnish a copy of this resolution "for publication in the Essex Journal and Merri- mack Packet." The convention met at Ipswich on the sixth day of September, and after a brief discussion resolved to resist and oppose in every lawful way the recent appoint- ment of councillors by the king, under the provisions of " An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England."


Writs for a special meeting of the General Court to be held at Salem on the fifth day of October were issued by General


*Town of Newbury Records.


t New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. xxx., p. 374.


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REVOLUTIONARY WAR


Gage, governor of the province; and the town of Newbury, having elected Hon. Joseph Gerrish representative on the twenty-second day of September, instructed him "not to be qualified for his seat in the house by any of the councillors who have received their commission by mandamus from his Majesty, but by the Council chosen by the house of represen- tatives agreeable to the charter of the province." * It was also considered advisable, in order to secure unanimity of action in the several towns of the province, to appoint Mr. Gerrish delegate to a Provincial Congress to be held in the vicinity of Boston, " to consult and determine upon such measures as will promote the Peace, Welfare and Prosperity of the Province."


On the twenty-eighth day of September, Governor Gage, irritated and annoyed by the spirit and temper of the people, and confident that further attempts at legislation would be useless, countermanded the order issued for a meeting of the General Court at Salem. Ninety representatives, however, assembled there October fifth ; and, after waiting in vain for the governor to appear and administer the oath of office, they proceeded to organize a Provincial Congress. John Hancock was elected chairman, and Benjamin Lincoln clerk. After a brief discussion, they adjourned on the seventh to meet at Concord October eleventh. For three days the delegates were in session at Concord, and then adjourned to meet in Cambridge on the seventeenth.


Early in the month of February, 1775, the town of New- bury was busily engaged in arming and equipping soldiers for the approaching conflict. All persons enlisting in the military service were required to sign the following agreement :-


Pursuant to the Resolve of the Provincial Congress of the Massa- chusetts Bay, we, the subscribers, do voluntarily Inlist ourselves as minute men & do covenant & Engage that we will hold ourselves in Readiness to March at the shortest notice to such Place or Places as we shall be ordered or directed by our officers chosen by us agreeable to the resolve of the Provincial Congress, or such Superior Officers, as are. or shall be, appointed by said Provincial Congress & further Engage that we will pay due obedience to all officers chosen or appointed as aforesaid.t


* Town of Newbury Records. t Ibid., March 14, 1775.


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When the news of the battle at Lexington and Concord reached Newbury, the men who had enlisted and signed this agreement were hastily summoned at midnight, Wednesday, April 19, 1775, and were soon on their way to the field of action.


The names of the officers and men who served on that memorable occasion are as follows : -


The Roll of that part of the Company that marched from Newbury on the nineteenth day of April, 1775, on ye alarm on sd day under ye Command of Capt. Jonathan Poor of said town of Newbury, in ye county of Essex and Colony of ye Massachusetts & in ye second Regiment of Militia in said county whereof Samuel Gerrish, Esq. was Colonel to de- fend this Contenant from ye invasions of the ministerial troops.


Jonathan Poor Capt


Benj Todd, Sergeant


Moses Ilsley,


First Lieut


Paul Plumer


Simeon Hale,


Second


PRIVATES


Stephen Dole


John Noyes (3 days)


Henry Dole


William Plumer


David Dole


Mark Plumer (3 days)


Samuel Gerrish


Stephen Poor


John Hale


John Thirston (3 days)


Daniel Hale, Jr.


Benj Thurston


Anthony Ilsley


John Nichols (3 days)


[Mark Plumer and John Thirston are credited with sixty four miles of travel and the rest of the company with eighty six. The officers and men of the company are credited with six days service except John Noyes, Mark Plumer, John Thirston and John Nichols who served only three days]*


A Muster-roll of the Minute Company that marched to Cambridge under the Command of Capt. Moses Little, in the alarm, April 19, 1775


Moses Little, Capt. Timothy Pillsbury Lieut


PRIVATES


Thomas Brown


Amos Atkinson




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