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CHAPTER XVI.
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
CAPT. MOSES LITTLE, of Newbury, was appointed colonel in the Massachusetts army June 15, 1775, "he having five hundred and nine men in eight companies ready for immedi- ate service." Two additional companies were organized a week or ten days later. The captains in command of the several companies were as follows : -
Capt. Gideon Parker of Ipswich
Capt. Nathaniel Warner of Gloucester
Capt. Abraham Dodge of Ipswich -
Capt. Joseph Roby of Cape Ann
Capt. Benjamin Perkins of Newburyport
Capt. Jacob Gerrish of Newbury
Capt. Ezra Lunt of Newburyport
Capt. Nathaniel Wade of Ipswich
Capt. Timothy Barnard of Amesbury Capt. John Baker of Topsfield
The company commanded by Capt. Parker was composed of men from Ipswich, Gloucester, and other towns in Essex county, including John Hollerday, Chase Rogers, John Sillo- way, and Jonathan Buswell, who were credited to the town of Newbury .*
The officers and men under the command of Capt. Perkins were credited in the muster roll to Newbury,; and in the pay roll to Newburyport.# They were evidently inhabitants of the last-named town, and therefore are not included in this list of Revolutionary soldiers.
A muster Roll of the company under command of Capt Jacob Ger- rish in Colo Moses Little's Regiment from April 24, 1775, to August 7, 1775.§
* Massachusetts Archives Rev. Rolls), vol. Ivi., p. 81. In the muster roll, vol. xv., p. 91 the four men named above were credited to Newburyport.
t Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xv., p. 85.
# Ibid., vol. Ivi., p. 85. § Ibid., vol. xv., p. 8.
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Jaco: Manuel Captain
Moses Rollins
Silan andamong st Lieut
Benj Carr
Amon arkin 2nd Lieut John Choat
Nathaniel Pearson Sergeant
Eben Choat
Stephen Lunt
John Cheney
William Searl
Joseph Choat
Nath1 Adams
Jonathan Cheney
Jacob Hale Corporal
Enoch Flood
Wm Morgaridge
William Flood
Eliphalet Kilburn
Jacob How
Joseph Carr
Daniel Goodridge
Oliver Goodridge
PRIVATES.
John Lunt
Enoch Adams
Thomas Lunt
Josiah Adams
Jacob Low
Mark Anthony
James Moody
Edward [ ]
Annis Merrill
John Burbank
Christopher Merrill
Benj Beedle
Richd Martin
Jacob Chisamore
Peter Ordway
John Currier
Moses Pettingale
Jedediah Currier
Joseph Lunt
William Currier
Stephen Smith
Saml Place
Michael Stockman
Daniel Adams
John Stockman
Benj Poor
John Sawyer
Amos Poor
Abram Thorla
Elipht Poor
Joshua Toppan
Joseph Pearson
John Toppan
Joseph Rogers
John Woodbury
Richd Rolfe
Capt. Gerrish's company was composed of Newbury men, except William Searl, Jacob Low, and John Sawyer from Rowley, and John Choat, Eben Choat, and Samuel Place from Newburyport.
The pay roll of the company gives the names of the officers and men substantially as printed above; but the residences in some instances are slightly changed, and the following names are added : - . *
Nathan Adams Drummer & Fifer Newbury
Benjamin Newman .6 66 Newburyport
John Spring 66
John Carvanaugh Soldier
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. Ivi., part i., p. 86.
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
The officers and men in Captain Lunt's company were from Newburyport, except John Holoday, John Harbut, Zachariah Sawtel, and Samuel Phipps, who were from Newbury .*
The pay roll of the company commanded by Capt. Timothy Barnard, of Amesbury, gives the names of the following offi- . cers and men from Newbury : - +
Thomas Brown First Lieut
Benjamin Cotton Private
Nicholas Titcomb Serjeant
Jacob Cooper
John Coock, Corporal
Makepiece Colby
John Brown,
Aaron Davis
Isaac Howard, Drumer & Fifer
Jeremiah Farnham 66
John Brazier Private
Nath'l Godfrey. 66
John Hussey, Solomon Obbins, Daniel Pike, and William Ray, credited to Newburyport in the pay roll, were entered in the muster roll as soldiers, in Captain Barnard's company, from Newbury.#
Charles Casity was credited to Newbury in the company commanded by Captain Baker.§
Four companies in Colonel Little's regiment were armed and equipped in season to take part in the battle at Bunker Hill. They lost during that engagement forty men, killed and wounded.
In 1776, Colonel Little was in Major General Greene's division of the Continental army, and took part in the battles at Long Island and at Harlem Heights. In June, 1777, he was commissioned brigadier-general, and appointed to the com- mand of the forces to be sent on an expedition to St. Johns, N.S. In a letter addressed to Hon. John Avery, deputy secretary of the State of Massachusetts, he wrote as follows :
. . . the broken state of my Health occasioned by the severe services of the last campaign & the peculiar Situation of my Family at this Time obliges me to decline this honorable appointment. |
. The regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Gerrish, of New- bury, in 1775, was composed of men from Newbury, Rowley,
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xv., p. 52 ; also, vol. Ivi., part i., p. 87.
+ Ibid., vol. Ivi., p. S9. # Ibid., vol. xiv., p. 15. § Ibid., vol. Ivi., p. Sr.
Il Massachusetts Archives, vol. cxcvii., p. 176.
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Ipswich, Gloucester, and Wenham in Essex county, and from Malden, Reading, Woburn, and other towns in Middlesex county. The officers and men who served in Capt. William Rogers' company, in Colonel Gerrish's regiment, from May to August, 1775, were as follows :
William Rogers
Captain
Nehemiah Follinsbee
Samuel Carr
Ist Lieut
John Flanders
John Noyes
2nd 4
Joseph Goodrige
Wadleigh Noyes
Sargent
Obadiah Hills
Joseph Newell
Samuel Hills
Nathaniel Hills
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Thomas Hills
Joshua Brown
William Hale
Samuel Pilsbury Stephen Morse 66
Isiah Isley
Moses Moody
66
Parker Knight
Joseph Noyes
66
Joseph Knight
Daniel Pilsbry
Drummer
Jonathan Latherbee
Ephraim Emery
Fifer
Aaron Molton
PRIVATES
Jacob Merick
Joshua Chase
Parker Noyes
Joseph Chase
John Nichols
Aquela Chase
Josiah Richardson
Samuel Chase
Benjamin Plumer
John Chase
Joseph Perry
Nathaniel Chase
Benjamin Pettingell
Pearley Chase
Thomas Sargent
Thomas Doyle
Sollomon Lattle
James Dwinells
Moses Smith
John Downing
Jonathan Thurston
Stephen England John Eliot
John Woodbury William White
Ezekiel Fellows
Samuel Write
Benjamin Flanders
Francis Dean
Thomas Follinsbee
John Bartlett
All the men named in the above list were from Newbury except Thomas Doyle and Jonathan Latherbee from Water- town, James Dwinnels and Joseph Perry from Bradford, John Downing from Newburyport, Ezekiel Fellows from Salisbury, and Thomas Sargent from Amesbury.
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xvi., p. 9.
Moody Morse
Corporal
Samuel Jaquish
HISTORY OF NEWBURY
The colonel of the regiment, Samuel Gerrish, had served as captain in the provincial army in 1759, and was colonel of the second regiment that marched from Essex county to Cambridge April 19, 1775. In the month of May following, he was appointed colonel of the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts regiment, composed of Essex and Middlesex county men ; and on the seventeenth day of June he was ordered to join the American forces at Bunker Hill. Owing to the un- organized condition of the men under his command, he was unable to render efficient service on the battlefield, although two or three companies, led by Adjutant Febiger, a Danish soldier of experience, fought valiantly until the conflict was over. Colonel Gerrish was subsequently ac- cused of timidity and conduct unworthy of an officer. He was found guilty, and dismissed from the service. The regiment was placed under the command of Lieut. Col. Loammi Baldwin .*
Col. James Frye's regiment, at the battle of Bunker Hill, consisted of companies under the command of
Capt. John Currier of Amesbury, Capt. James Sawyer of Haverhill,
Capt. Nathaniel Gage of Bradford
Capt. Benjamin Farnum of Andover
Capt. John Davis of Methuen
Capt. Jones Richardson of [ ]
Capt. William H. Ballard of Amesbury.
Capt. William Perley of Boxford
Capt. Jonathan Evans of Salisbury.
In the pay roll of Captain Evans' company, Peer Hall and Dennis Wise, privates, are credited to the town of New- bury.t
A muster Roll of the Company commanded by Captain Stephen Kent in the Service of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay Stationed in Newbury from the Time of their Inlistment to the first Day of November 1775. ₺
· Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. Ivi., pp. 256-266.
t Ibid., vol. Ivi., p. 8.
# 1bid., vol. xxxvi., p. 133 ; also, Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. xxxv., p. 162.
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605
Stephen Kent Captain [ st Lieut
David Boynton
Dudley Colman
Samuel Pettingell
Richard Pettingell 2nd .
Isaac Adams
Daniel Knight
Sergeant
Josiah Pettingell
John Pearson
Joseph Allen William Bayley-
Josiah Goodrich
Hezikiah Goodhue
Richard Flanders
Parker Jaques
Corporal
John Hidden
Stephen Mitchell Daniel Knight Jun John Dole William Brown
Edward Swazey
Samuel Pearson
Drummer
George Blunt
Fifer
PRIVATES
Joseph Lunt
Enoch Hale
Andrew Stickney
James Safford
John Bly Benjamin Woodwell Elias Cook Amos Stickney
Moses Akers
Benjamin Jackman jun.
Isaac Tilton
Benjamin Maine
Ebenezer Moody.
Cutting Pettingell jun.
Joseph Poor John Sweat
Amos Morse (who died
October 14, 1775).
The same officers and men were engaged in the same service from the first day of November to the ninth day of December, 1775, with the addition of Daniel Stickney in place of Amos Morse, deceased .*
In the company commanded by Capt. Moses Greenleaf of Newburyport, in Col. Benjamin Tupper's regiment, the fol- lowing named persons were credited to the town of Newbury, January 25, 1776 :-- +
Joseph Hidden. Josiah Hunt. John Smith, Jun. Stephen Stickney
John Stickney. Jacob Lunt. Newport Rudeisland. John Smith.
Other men in this company were credited to Newburyport, Haverhill, Chelsea, Medford, and Rowley.
The following named officers and men from Newbury served
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xxxvi., p. 136. t Ibid., vol. xi., p. 71.
Silas Dole Caleb James John Cheever David Stickney
Ebenezer Brown
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
in 1776 Mahou of Capt. Robert Dodge's company, in Col. Ebeneza- fares regiment :
Ste1 Mwicy, Pillsbury,
Lieutenant
Issac Plumer
Benjamin Chase
Zariah Hazeltine
PRIVATES
John Emery
Jonathan Plummer
John Bennett
Joshua Moody
Moses Aeyrs
James Folinsby
James Poole
Richard Martin
Joshua Ilsley
Jonathan Carleton
Barker Chase
The rest of this company was composed of men from Ips- wich, Rowley, Topsfield, and Wenham.
Muster roll of Capt. Ezra Badlam's company in the Twenty-sixth Regiment under the command of Lieut .- Col. Loammi Baldwin, from January to April, 1776 :- t
, Ezra Badlam
Captain Lieutenant
Pearly Chase
Samuel Carr
Thomas Chase
John Noyes
Wadleigh Noyes
Ensign
Aquilla Chase
Stephen Morse
Seargent
John Chambers
Moses Moody
Ebenezer Crow
Joseph Noyes
William Davis
Joshua Noyes
John Downer
John Pratt Samuel Chase
Corporal
William Dodge
Stephen England
John Smith
Thomas Follansbee
Charles Davis 66
Benjamin Flood
Ephraim Emery
Levi Flanders Saml Hills
Naptt Newall
Thomas Hills
PRIVATES
William Hale
Jonathan Bayton
Jonathan Hale
Joseph Ames
Nathaniel Donnels
Enoch Chase
Isiah Ilsley
Moses Chase
John Chase
Stephen Michael Aaron Molton
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xviii., p. 156.
t Massachusetts Archives, vol. Iviii., p. r, file 5. The residences of the officers and men composing Capt. Badlam's company are not given in the muster roll, but many of them were inhabitants of the town of Newbury.
Joseph Couch
Moses Lull
Ensign.
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
607
John Malcom John Murry
Stephen Ragler
Thomas Rollins
Obadiah Morse
Thomas Ridgway
Benja Morse Jacob Merrick
John Stokes
Aaron Noyes
James Stanley John Smith
Eleazer Newell
William White
Parker Noyes
Samuel Write
Humphree Nichols
Jacob Wyatt
Ezra Newell
Thomas Snelling
Parker Knight
Lot Killam
John Nichols
John Downing
Benjamin Pettingel
Joseph Buck
Samuel Pratt
Francis Dean
Benjamin Pressey
Joseph Percy
Samuel Pettingal
Stephen Corporal
Joseph Perry
Samuel Hill
Cutting Pettingell
Henry Williams
Nath! Ridgway
Simeon Finch
The pay roll of Capt. Thomas Brown's company in Col. Aaron Willard's regiment gives the officers and men of that company mileage from Newbury "to Charlestown No. 4" [N.H.] in 1776, and also credits them with mileage on their return " from Fort Edward to Newbury," but does not give the names of the men or the towns where they resided .* It is not unlikely, however, that they came mainly from New- bury and Newburyport. Wages were computed and paid Captain Brown, two lieutenants, one ensign, four sergeants, six corporals, and fifty-four soldiers.
July 11, 1776, the General Court elected Edward Wiggles- worth, of Newburyport, " Colonel of the Battalion to be raised in the counties of Essex, York, and Cumberland for the Con- tinental service." +
William Rogers, of Newbury, was appointed major. The other officers were from Berwick, Beverly, Danvers, and Haverhill.# July 5, 1777, Dudley Colman, born in Newbury August 13, 1745, was appointed lieutenant colonel of this regiment.
· Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xvii., p. 159.
t Ibid., vol. xi., p. 49. Col. Edward Wigglesworth was born in Ipswich January 3, 1742, and died in Newburyport, December 8, 1826. # Ibid., p. 36.
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
In the muster roll of Capt. Daniel Pillsbury's company in Col. Edward Wigglesworth regiment, ten men were credited to Newbury, as follows : - *
Ephrm Emery
Willm Murry
Stephen England
Charles Canaday
Aaron Milton
William Gudridge
Stephen Mitchell
Jonathan Taymouth
Jonathan Martin
Roger Lord.
Eighteen men in Captain Pillsbury's company whose names are not included in the above list were credited to Newbury- port.
In the company commanded January 30, 1777, by Capt. Joshua French of Salisbury, in Colonel Wigglesworth's regi- ment, the following named officers and men were from New- bury :- t
Nathaniel Adams, Lieutenant
Jonathan Thirstain
Silas Rogers,
Sergeant
Timothy Sanders
John Flanders,
Moody Morse
Eliphalet Kimbal,
John Brown, Corporal
Samuel Jaquish
Nathaniel Chase Drummer
James Barker
PRIVATES
David Hale John Copp
Nehemiah Follinsbee
Stephen Thirstain
Thomas Bolles
Benjamin Woodbury Jacob Pettengill Daniel Bradley
John Akiss
Silas Rogers
Samuel Lankester
Joseph Rogers
Abel Greenleif
Dudley Colman, town clerk of Newbury from September 23, 1773, to April 9, 1776, served as lieutenant from July eleventh to December 9, 1775, in Capt. Stephen Kent's com- pany, raised for the defence of the sea-coast of Massachusetts. He was appointed major in General Nixon's brigade October 8, 1776; lieutenant colonel in Col. Samuel McCobb's regi- ment, June 10, 1777; and lieutenant colonel in Col. Edward Wigglesworth's regiment, July 5, 1777. He sold his house in
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xi., p. 41. t Ibid., vol. xix., p. 55.
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Abner Kimball
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
609
bury April 29, 1780, and removed to Boston. He died . Brookfield, N.H., November 16, 1797 .*
Capt. Paul Moody, of Newbury, and Capt. Elias Davis, of Newburyport, commanded companies in Col. Timothy Picker- ing's regiment, and were ordered to march to Danbury, Conn., in December, 1776 .¡ The officers and men of the Newbury company were as follows : - ¿
Paul Moody Captain
Thomas Davis
Caleb Kimbal First Lieut
Amos Dwinell
John Atkinson Second “
Joseph Rawlings
Joseph Danforth
David Rawlings
Stephen Adams
Henry Dwinell
Oliver Goodridge Amos Poor 3d
Ezekiel Flanders
Eliphalet Poor
William Plumer
Nath1 Dummer
Isaac Plumer
Samuel Adams
Joseph Russel
Enoch Flood
John Acors
Israel Flood
Seth Plumer
Richd Dummer, Jr.
Enoch Merrill
Stephen Lunt
Isaac Currier
John Emery, Jr.
Peter Ordway
Enoch Huse
John Grayhanı
John Burbank
Daniel Chandler
Thomas Thurla
Abel Greenleaf
Richd Martin
Richd Smith
Joseph Adams
Elias Greenleaf Amos Little
Francis Follansbee Willm Greenleaf
Benja Jackman
John Bartlet, Jun
Moses Hoyt
Moses Sargent Moody
Josiah Teel
Benja Fellows
Enoch Adams, Jun Josiah Hunt
Charles Walker
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Samuel Brown
Moody Hardy
Frederick Lewis
Nath! Mitchel
James Mansfield
Joseph Jennings
Henry Greenleaf
William Merden Stephen Plumer
Obed Hute
David Cheney
John Hayes
*"Ould Newbury," p. 192; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Apri!, 1*71, pp. 187-199-
t Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xxxii., p. 283.
# Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. xxxv., p. 230.
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Jonathan Thurston
David Hidden
Joseph Atwood Jun
Pero Hall
John Sawyer
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
A Pay Roll of Capt John Noyes' company in Col. Samuel Johnson's Regiment in the Massachusetts Bay militia from ye time of their enter- ing in the Service to the time of their discharge including Twelve days to go home .* (Aug. 14, 1777, to Nov. 15, 1777)
John Noyes Captain
Timothy Dorman /
Samuel Pillsbury 1 st Lieut
James Follansbee
Stephen Brown 2nd 4
Enoch Flood
Nathaniel Dummer
Sergent 66
Peru Hall
(died Sept. 19, 1'777)
Amos Dow,
¥
Parker Knight
Moses Jaques
66
Timothy Lankester
Joseph Lunt
Corporal
Stephen Morrill
Joshua Toppan
Thomas Noyes
Stephen Tappan
66
William Nichols
Thomas Thurlow
Nathan Pettingel
David Emery Fifer
William Plummer
PRIVATES
Stephen Pirkins Samuel Poore
John Akers
Eliphalet Poor
Caleb Adams
Benjamin Pettingell
Enoch Adams
Seth Plummer
Samuel Adams
Jonathan Plummer
Nathaniel Atkinson
Silas Pearson
Samuel Beverly
Michael Smith
John Bayley (Bagley ?)
Thomas Sweet
Joshua Bayley (Bagley?)
William Smith
Daniel Chipman
Abraham Thurlow
Aquilla Chase
Moses Thurlow
Benjamin Chase
Robert Thompson
Pearly Chase
Charles Walker
John Currier Amos Carlton
John Woodbury
Jonathan Carlton
Amos Whitmore
William Conley
Nathan Emery
John Downing
Benjamin Mains
Joseph Dolman
Samuel Fowler
Samuel Gould
Bezaleel Woodberry
Nathan Emery
Samuel Jaques
Richard Jackman
Joseph Williams
* Massachusetts Archives, vol. xxi., p. 171. John Noyes was born in Newbury March 18, 1740, and died May 14, 1784. He enlisted as a private in Capt. Joseph. Newhall's company April 4, 1758, and was with Col. Jonathan Bagley at Lake George. At the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, he was enrolled in Capt. Jonathan Poor's company in Col. Samuel Gerrish's regi- ment. He was second lieutenant in Col. Samuel Gerrish's regiment at Bunker Hill, and sub- sequently first lieutenant in Lieut. Col. Loammi Baldwin's regiment. He was commissioned early in the month of August, 1777, captain of a company in Col. Samuel Johnson's regiment.
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
In the detachment of soldiers sent to Rhode Island in 1777, under the command of Col. Jonathan Titcomb, of New- buryport, the following named officers and men were from Newbury : -*
Silas Adams,
Captain Serjeant
Samuel Jaques
Jedediah Currier,
Jonathan Charltons
David Adams,
66
Robert Chase
Enoch Dole,
Corporal
James Folonsbee
John Chase,
Drummer
Amos Hale
Enoch Rolfe,
Fifer
Isaac Plumer
Stephen Adams
PRIVATES
Chase Colby
Joshua Toppan
Aquilla Chase
Richard Jackman
Daniel Chaney
Amos Whitmore
Amos Emery
Moses Short
Joshua Boynton
Daniel Adams
James Martain
John Woodbury
Richard Martain
Parker Knight
Richard Rolfe
William Plumer
Amos Dwinell
David Emery
Benjamin Fellows
Other men in Capt. Silas Adams' company were from Rowley, Danvers, and Middleton.
In the company commanded by Capt. Moses Nowell, of Newburyport, in Col. Jonathan Titcomb's brigade, in Rhode Island in 1777, Nathaniel Dummer, Jonathan Emerson, Jo- seph Wright, and Joseph Wright, jr., were from Newbury. The rest of the company were from Newburyport, Amesbury, and Salisbury .;
Men enlisted in Newbury in 1777, to serve three years in the Conti- nental army : - #
Prince Brown
Joseph Dowry
William Butman
Amos Dwinnils
Charles Cassady
Edward Deacon
Benjamin Chase
William Duggins.
Eliphalet Chase
Benjamin Flanders
Joshua Chase
Benjamin Fellows
Joshua Chase, Junior.
William Goodridge
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. i., p. 23.
$ Ibid., vol. xxvii., pp. 111-134.
t Ibid., vol. iii., p. 21.
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
Daniel Goodridge
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John Graham
Richard Goodwin
Joseph Hidden, Jun.
Jonathan Martin John Nichols
Isaiah Hunt
Samuel Hills
Eliphalet Noyce -
Thomas Hardy
Joseph Noyce
Jacob How
Obadiah Nut
John Haze
Cutting Petingal Junior
John Hutchins.
Chase Pilsbury
Zebulon Ingorsoll
James Page
Michael Kingsbury
Newport Ridisland
Abner Kimball
Josiah Richardson
Jacob Lunt
Richard Rolfe
Thomas Lunt
Samuel Rameck
Moses Long
Stephen Stickney
John Lunt
John Smith, Junior
Roger Lord
John Smith
Samuel Lancaster
Samll Stockes
John Lindsey
John Smith John Smith
Richard Lowell
Samuel Wright
Aaron Moulton
William White
Stephen Mitchell
William Williams
Jacob Merrick
Jonathan Wamouth
William Murray
Soldiers enlisted in 1778 for six months' service in Capt. Richard Rogers' company in Col. Jacob Gerrish's regiment : -
Stephen Whitney
Thomas Brown
William Gould
James Bartlett
Aaron Rollins
Ezekiel Eastman
Jonathan Stickney
Joseph Hodgdon
Joseph Welch
Jeremiah Lord
John Huff
Jonathan Horsam
Samuel Bragdon
Ephraim Tibbetts Samuel Fitts
Thomas Rogers
Benjamin Burbank
Nathaniel Ramsdell
Jonathan Stone
Theodore Barker
George Moody John Nason
Daniel Briant
Moses Row
Samuel Smith
Landras Grant
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xxii., p. 186. (Company stationed at Cam- bridge )
James Martin James Mansfield William Mc'Condry
Samuel Lowell
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
613
Newbury men drafted for nine months' service in 1778 :- *
Caleb Parsons
Simon Lull
William Reed
Samuel Beaverly
David Marston
Jacob Friese
Eliphalet Canley
Jonathan Goodwin
Jacob Smith
William Parker
Jeremiah Smith
William Chambers
Daniel Gale
Josiah Maloone
Nathaniel Wadleigh
William Alld
Enoch Adams
Philip Barker
Isaac Plummer
James Sulivan
In addition to the men who were mustered into the service in 1778, the following persons were rejected for physical disabilities by the muster-master-general of the American army :- +
Sambo Carlton
Daniel Minehan
Theodore Atkinson
Nathaniel Davis
Levi Hale
Cato Seward
Joseph Leroach
Cesar Hodgdon
Thomas Churchill
Elijah Kelley
Oliver Martin
Robert Runnells
Supplementary list of men sent as part of the quota of the town of Newbury in 1778, but rejected for physical disability : - #
Samuel Currier
Joseph Holins
Joshua Bodwell
Patrick Rowland
Samuel Chase
Joseph Winter
Jonathan Cadwell
James Cavenaugh
John Lewis
Wm Connolly
William Conlea
James Vernon
Daniel Cochrane
John May
Joseph Conner
Elisha Lake
Joseph Hancock
William Jordan
Stephen England
John Richards
Jacob Annis John Stone
Joseph Noyes
Joseph Lambert
Silas Noyes
Boston Pickering
Wm Perry
Juba Merrill
Pero Hall
John Dimond
John Remmack
Richard Little
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xxviii., p. 150; also, vol. xxxii., p. 329. t Ibid., vol. xxviii., p. 179. # Ibid., vol. xxviii., p. 181.
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY
Ralph Cross, one of the selectmen of Newburyport, re- ported, February 16, 1778, the names of all the persons enlisted to serve as a part of the quota of that town in the Continental army for the term of three years. In that list were the following-named Newbury men : - *
William Pay
Daniel Collins
John Stickney William Poor
John Knight Paul Coffin
John Feilding
Jonathan Buswell
Makepeace Colby
James Delaney
Thomas Holliday
James Summers
Jonathan Morrill
William Williamson
John Stonman
Daniel Price
John Arskins
Samuel Lowell
Charles Jarvis
Richard Lowell
John Lindsey
Leonard Cotton
Morrill Whicher
John Harris.
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Most, if not all, of these men were in the company com- manded by Capt. Moses Greenleaf in Col. Ebenezer Francis' regiment in 1777.
Newbury men mustered into the Continental army for nine months by John Cushing, muster-master (Boxford, December 8, 1779): - +
Jonathan Carlton
Parker Knight
Nathan Jaquish
Oliver Clark Lunt
David Emery
Samuel Barker
David Duston
William Nichols
George Thompson
James Scott
Pero Hall
James Follansbee
Enoch Boynton
Benjamin Chase
Oliver Martyn Amos Carlton
Charles Walker
William Murray
John Bagley
Elipht Rollins
Capt. Richard Titcomb's company, in Col. Nathaniel Wade's regi- ment, made up of Newbury, Newburyport, and Amesbury men, enlisted July 3, discharged October 10, 1780. Essex county regiment raised to re-enforce the Continental army under Washington, for three months, agreeable to Resolve of General Court, June 22, 1780.#
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. liii., p. 197. t Ibid., vol. xxxii., p. 282 # Ibid., vol. xxiii., p. 142.
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
615
Richard Titcomb, Captain
Joseph Lake
Moody Montgomery,
Lieut
Jacob Wyat
John Goodhue,
Caleb Knight
Theophilus Osgood Serjent
Nathaniel Ober
Joshua Davis 66
Samuel Nowell
Joseph Adams
Joseph Stanwood
Simeon Noyes
William Appleton
William Morrill
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Elijah Mayhew
William Biscomb
Corporal
John Brown
Jonathan Merrill
Cesar Hendricks
Robert Hoyt
George Sweatt
Paul Bradbury
Joseph Woodman
Samuel Elliott
Drummer
Joseph Colley
Abm Dodge
Fifer.
James Carr
PRIVATES
William Bartlet Jacob Davis
Simeon Brasier
William Davis
William Norton
Jonathan Pearson
Bille Price
Benjamin Davis
Jonathan Sweatt
Elias Cook
Samuel Knapp
Benjamin Racklift
Joseph Wood
Joseph Currier
Matthew Pettengell
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