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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
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Paul Pearson
George Thorla
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
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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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
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.
575
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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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
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
580
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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582
HISTORY OF NEWBURY
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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REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
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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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
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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