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William Currier
Timothy Curtis
Nicholas Moody
Israel Colley
Simeon Bartlet
Benjamin Noyes
John Currier
Stephen Howard
Jonathan Colby
Samuel French
John Weed
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Benjamin Wadly .
John Titcomb
Obadiah Badger
John Butler
Thomas Bagley
Thomas Stanwood
William Tucker_
John Coffin
Joshua Toppan Philip Osgood Samuel Sweatt
Joshua Pettengell
Jacob Hodgkins
Joseph Morrill Ephriam Hoyt
Stephen Norton
Reuben Eastman Enoch Collins
Thomas Newman Moses Harriman
Benjamin Morrill John True Simeon French
Eliphalet Pilsbury Nathan Hatch
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William Ceser
William Pike Abel Jackman
William Follansbee
Samuel Pilsbury
Nicholas Currier David Bartlet
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Jabez Merrill
Samuel Hoyt
Robert Mansfield
David Blaisdell
Stephen Merrill Zebulon Sargent
Benjamin Sweatt
William Morrill
Isaac Colby John Huse
Obadiah Colby
Willis Currier
Ezekiel Barnard William Davis
Joseph Morss
Benjamin Collins
Gideon Colby
John Stevens
Sergeant Harvey John Waters
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Jacob Currier
Samuel Merrill
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Captain Richard Titcomb was from Newburyport ; but many of the officers and men named in the above list were from Newbury, and a few probably were from Newburyport and Amesbury. Their places of residence are not given in the muster roll, and it is impossible therefore to say how many should be credited to each town. The company was stationed at West Point on the Hudson river in September, 1780. From the diary of Joshua Davis, who was a sergeant in the company, it appears that when Benedict Arnold, in order to avoid capture and death, escaped in a barge to an English ship lying at anchor several miles away, he took with him several boatmen to aid him in his flight. Two of these boat- men were Newbury men, John Brown and Samuel Pilsbury, who enlisted for three months' service in Captain Titcomb's company .*
A list of the six months' men raised to re-enforce the Continental army in the year 1780 : - t
Benoni Eaton Knap.
Benj Willet
Richard Shay
Wm Plummer
John Harris
Seth Plummer
James Cordy
John Thomson.
Elipt Poor
Aaron Rogers
Enoch Dole.
Moses Rogers.
Wm Currier.
Richard Martin
John Burbank
Wm Read
John Dow.
Micajah Lunt
Isaac Plummer
Jonan Martin
* Coffin's History of Newbury, p. 253 ; also, " Revolutionary Heroes," by Miss Emily A. Getchell, in Putnam's Historical Magazine, June, 1899.
t Massachusetts Archives ( Rev. Rolls), vol. xxvii., p. 7.
SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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James Martin Jacob Burrel John Currier Moses Somerby John Lull Moses Read John Thurston Prince Brown
· Jonan. Bartlit Stephen Davis Caff Downey Simeon Chace John Harvey
Jonn. Lyfford John Bean London Roger Paul McPherson John Archer Josiah Conner Lancaster Rich James Scott James Huntries John Randall
Sam'l Randall
Joseph Pillsbury
A pay roll for the soldiers detached from the militia of the town of Newbury in the year 17So to serve in the army of the United States for the term of six months : __ *
James Martin Sergt. Private
John Lull.
Jonathan Martin
John Thompson
Richard Martin
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Seth Plummer
William Beed
Benjn. Willet.
Moses Reed
John Burbank.
Moses Somerby. John Currier
Jonathan Morse
William Currier
Joseph Conners
William Plummer.
Micajah Lunt.
Isaac Plummer.
James Swett.
Moses Rogers.
Eliphalet Poor
Aaron Rogers.
John Been
Jacob Burrel.
Jonathan Lyford
John Thurston. Simeon Chase Jun. Jonathan Bartlet [Prince ?] Brown. Cuff Downey. John Dole.
London Rogers Isaac Taylor
James Hantrys
John Randall
Samuel Randell
Joseph Pilsbury
Enoch Dole.
A duplicate copy of the above list was filed by Ezra Hale, clerk of the town of Newbury, in the month of September, 1838, and acknowledged before William Woart, justice of the peace, to be the original list "taken from papers on file in the clerk's office." t
. Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. iv., p. 199 . t Ibid., vol. xlix., pp. 38, 39.
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A descriptive list of the new levies raised for six months, ... includ- · ing all that are apportioned to the. several infantry regiments from Newbury in 1780 :-*
John Thompson
Sam! Dudley
Richard Martin.
Jonathn Steward
Jona Martin
John Woodbery
Moses Reed
Sam1 Webber
'Willm Reed
James Woodbury
Micajah Lunt
Nathaniel Hant
John Burbank
Eben' Haynes
Sam1 Randel
James Smith
John Archer
Oliver Richards
Josiah Maloon
Benjn Woodbury
David Maloon
Enoch Foot
Paul Mc'Pheirson
Moses George
Ezekiel Stearns
Benjn Cotton
Jonathan Calley
John Harris
Eliphalet Calley
David Dorman
Jeremiah Smith
Benoney Knap
Stephen Smith
Richard Shay
Benjamin Smith
Moses Titcomb
Caleb Tobb
Sam1 Colby
George Sanders
Moses George, Jun
Daniel Gale
James Thomas.
Return of Newbury men raised agreeable to resolve of December 2, 1780 :- t
Samuel Currier
Joseph Holmes
Joshua Bodwell
Patrick Rowland
Samuel Chase
Joseph Winter
Jonn Cadwell
James Cavinaugh
John Lewis
William Connolly
William Contee
James Vernon
Daniel Cochrain
John May
Joseph Conner
Elisha Lake
Joseph Hancock
William Youlan
Stephen England
John Richards
Jacob Annis John Stone
Richard Little
Joseph Noyes
Joseph Lambert
Silas Noyes
Boston Pickering
Wm Perry
Juba Merrill
Pero Hall
John Dimond
John Rimmack
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xxv., p. 219.
t Ibid., vol. xxviii., p. 181.
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Soldiers re-enlisted in 1781 who had previously served in the Con- tinental army for several years : -
Aaron Mellen
Elipht Noyes,
Sergt
Stephen Mitchell
Samuel Stocker, Drummer
James Pendon
Roger Lord, Sergt
Daniel Goodrich
Thomas Emerson
John Stockman
William Poor Corp.
Oliver Lunt
Pomp Jackson
Benjamin Murray
Robert Creaton
William White
John Tucker, Sergt
A full and complete list of the men credited to the town of Newbury for military service from 1775 to 1785, arranged in alphabetical order, will be found in "The Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," a work compiled and published by order of the General Court of Massachusetts.
* Massachusetts Archives (Rev. Rolls), vol. xxix., folio 99.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE EMBARGO AND THE WAR OF ISI2.
ON the twenty-second day of December, 1807, the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled, passed an act laying an embargo on all vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and forbidding, under heavy penalties, their clearance or departure for any foreign port. Friends of the embargo asserted that it was enacted for the purpose of protecting American merchant ships and sailors from seizure or capture on the high seas, and compelling France and England, who were then at war with each other, to repeal certain restrictions that had been imposed upon American commerce.
Although the inhabitants of Newbury were at that date largely engaged in agricultural pursuits, yet ship-building was a flourishing industry within the limits of the town; and many prominent citizens were associated with the merchants of Newburyport in the development of trade with the West Indies and the continent of Europe. All business of a commercial character was necessarily suspended. The rope- walks were deserted, sail-makers were idle; while shipwrights and sailors could find but little employment.
At a town meeting held August 22, 1808, resolutions were adopted condemning the embargo act and demanding its repeal. The selectmen were instructed to prepare a petition, to be sent to the president of the United States, remonstrat- ing against the further continuance of a policy that threatened to absolutely destroy all foreign trade, and asking that ship merchants and captains might, at least, have free and unin- terrupted commerce with the inhabitants of Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies .*
The subject was again brought to the attention of the
* Town of Newbury Records.
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legal voters of the town January 23, 1809; and a memorial was prepared, requesting the General Court to exert its influ- ence to secure a change in the policy of the national govern- ment .*
March 1, 1809, the embargo act was repealed by Congress ; but all trade and intercourse with France and England was strictly prohibited. The law, however, could not be enforced, and led to many perplexing and irritating complications, that finally resulted in a declaration of war against Great Britain on the nineteenth day of June, 1812.
Spirited resolutions, opposing the war, were unanimously adopted by the inhabitants of Newbury on the twenty-ninth day of June. These resolutions were subsequently printed, and sent to every town in the county of Essex .* On the fourteenth day of July, "Mr. Richard Pike, Capt Thomas Carter, Capt Abraham Wheelwright, Silas Little, Esq., Eben' March Esq. and M' Daniel Emery " were chosen delegates to a convention to be held at Ipswich on the twenty-first day of July "to consult upon the present alarming condition of the country." *
Privateers were fitted out in Boston, Salem, Newburyport, and other towns along the seacoast, to prey upon English commerce. In the summer of 1813, English cruisers pursued and captured several small American vessels in the vicinity of Cape Ann and the Isles of Shoals.
An observatory was erected on March's hill, in Newbury, near the head of South, now Bromfield, street, Newburyport, from the top of which the movements of vessels approaching the mouth of the Merrimack river could be distinctly seen. Alarm posts were established on Plum island, and two gun- boats were stationed in the harbor of Newburyport from the middle of October until the following spring.t
An English frigate, or "razee," called the "Majestic," carrying fifty-four guns, captured a schooner at the Isles of Shoals on the twenty-fifth day of November, 1813. A report that she had landed a company of soldiers at Plum island for the purpose of seizing and destroying the sloop-of-war
* Town of Newbury Records. t Ante, p. 484, note.
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" Wasp," then lying at anchor in the Merrimack river, was widely circulated, but proved to have no foundation in fact .*
January 31, 1814, a committee, consisting of Hon. Eben- ezer March, Capt. Ebenezer Wheelwright, Mr. Robert Dodge, Mr. Richard Pike, and Mr. Paul Thurlo, was ap- pointed to prepare a petition, or memorial, requesting the General Court to use its influence and to co-operate in pro- curing relief from the restrictive laws enacted by Congress. This memorial, or petition, was published in the Newbury- port Herald February 4, 1814, signed by the selectmen, the moderator of the meeting at which it was adopted, and the town clerk. It began with an eloquent appeal to the friends of liberty and free trade.
THE VOICE OF FREEMEN !!!
Citizens of Massachusetts, Inhabitants of Maine.
The guardians of your liberty are now at their posts. Let them know what aid they may expect from you in making a firm stand against the encroachments on your constitution by the late infamous Embargo Law.
Arouse ! and in the respectful and decided language of freemen, call upon your Legislators to vindicate your rights, or be contented dis- gracefully to shrink from your duty and starve; follow the examples set before you by Deerfield, Amherst and New Bedford,-and this day by Newbury, the largest Agricultural Town in the County of Essex - Let Town Meetings be called without delay throughout the State and show your Legislators that they will receive a firm support in every energetic measure which they in their wisdom think proper to adopt at this momentous crisis, when life, liberty and property are all at stake.
Be not deluded by the prospect of peace. The friends of War are not yet glutted, thousands of lives, millions of property, and the sov- ereignty of every State (unless the Arm of Tyranny be arrested) yet remain to be sacrificed to their fury and ambition.
It condemned the war with Great Britain as "wicked, wanton and unjust, commenced in consequence of wrongs, which, whether real or pretended, bear no comparison to those which we were at the same time suffering from
* Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette.
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France." It criticised the policy and denounced the methods by which "the resources of the nation have been dissipated and wasted in expeditions planned without wisdom and conducted without courage or skill, and the energies of the government prostituted in burning and ravaging villages and oppressing and destroying unoffending men." In conclu- sion, the General Court was urged "to adopt measures to protect and defend the rights and liberties of the people and secure the repeal of the iniquitous laws restricting the freedom of trade and commerce."
We call on our State Legislature to protect us in the enjoyment of those priviledges to assert which our fathers died; and to defend which we profess ourselves READY TO RESIST UNTO BLOOD. We pray your honourable body to adopt measures, immediately, to secure to us espe- cially our undoubted right of trade within our State.
We are ourselves ready to aid you in securing it to us, to the utmost of our power " peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" and we pledge to you the sacrifice of our LIVES and PROPERTY in support of whatever measures the dignity and liberties of this free, sovereign and indepen- dent State may seem to your wisdom to demand.
SILAS LITTLE, Moderator. EZRA HALE, Town Clerk. JOSEPH NEWELL DANIEL EMERY MOSES S. MOODY Selectmen. JACOB PERLEY
NEWBURY, January 31, 1814.
At that date, the sloop-of-war " Wasp," built in Newbury, was being fitted for sea in Newburyport. Almost every . writer of prominence describing the naval battles of that period, assumes that she was built by the ship-carpenters of Portsmouth, and that her crew was composed of able-bodied seamen from that port; but the following advertisement, printed in the Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette, September 24, 1813, and republished at frequent intervals during the next two or three months, proves that a large proportion of the officers and men sailed in the ship from Newburyport : -
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To Men of Patriotism and Promoters of a Navy.
SLOOP OF WAR WASP.
All able bodied Seamen who are desirous of entering into the Navy of the United States may now have an opportunity by repairing to the Rendezvous which is now open at Mr Samuel Wheeler's, Union Hall, for the U. S. Ship of War, called the Wasp, now laying in Newbury- port, Johnston Blakely, Esq., Commander. All able bodied seamen will receive two months pay in advance.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1813.
On the sixteenth day of November following, the Newbury- port Herald announced that the " Wasp" was being rapidly fitted for sea, and that a considerable part of her crew had been secured. She sailed for Portsmouth February 22, 1814, and arrived there the same day. After taking on board heavy guns, ammunition, and other supplies, she left that port, in the month of May following, to cruise on the English coast .*
During her brief but brilliant career, the " Wasp " captured thirteen vessels, destroying twelve of them and sending one into port. On the ninth day of October, 1814, in latitude 18° 35' N., longitude 30° 10' W., she spoke the Swedish brig " Adonis," and took from that vessel " Lieut. McKnight and Mr. Lyman, a master mate, both late of the Essex, on their way to England from Brazil." She was never heard from after that date, and is supposed to have sunk at night with all her crew, during a severe engagement with an Eng- lish frigate, in the month of November following.
She was as good a ship, as well manned, and as ably commanded as any vessel in our little navy ; and it may be doubted if there was at that time any foreign sloop of war of her size and strength that could have stood against her in fair fight.t
The defenceless condition of the seacoast, exposed to assaults and attacks from heavily armed ships flying the
* Ante, p. 488. t " Naval War of 1812," by Theodore Roosevelt, p. 332.
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English flag, alarmed the inhabitants of Newbury, and led to the appointment of a committee, September 12, 1814, to make suitable provision for the defence of the town, and to apply to the governor of the commonwealth for the money, arms, and ammunition needed for that purpose .*
On the sixteenth day of September following, the governor ordered "that the several companies and regiments in the towns of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly, Gloucester, Newbury, Newburyport, Amesbury and Salisbury be assembled for the purpose of Instruction, in military tactics, two days in each week, until further orders." Detachments from these com- panies were stationed in Newbury, for the protection of the in- habitants, until the middle of October and perhaps longer. The names of the officers and men, on file in the archives of the adjutant-general's office, are as follows : -
LT COL EBENEZER HALE'S REGIMENT SECOND BRIGADE SECOND DIVISION
Service at Newbury between Sept 30 & Oct 4 1814
CAPTAIN LANCASTERS COMPANY
Thomas Lancaster
Captain
Michael Cressey
John Remick
Lieut
Joseph Coffin
John Morrill
Ensign
John Coffin 2d
Jacob Morrill
Sergt
Jonas Dick
Oliver Hall
Paul Emery
Saul Woodman
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Abner Kinston
Eliphalet Hall
66
Tappen Kinston
Timothy Gordon
Corpl
John Kent
Ja's Whittimore [Miltmore ?]
Saul Sand [Land ?]
John Miltimore
66
Thos Merrill 3d
Enoch Merrill
Musician
Edmond Nichols
Chas Flanders
Henry Page John Pellion
PRIVATES
David Reed
Richard Adams
Joseph Stiles
John O W Brown
Edward Tappen
Solomon Babb
Amos Wood
Daniel F Coleman
Nicholas B Webb
* Newbury Town Records.
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CAPTAIN ORDWAYS COMPANY
Peter Ordway
Captain
Amos Chase
Geo Little
Lieut Josiah Chase
Nath! Ordway
·
Ensign
Noah Jackman
Stephen R Fox
Sergt
Sam'l Jackman
John Ordward [Ordway?]
Mathias Jackman 3rd
Eliphalet Rendol
Enoch Morrill
Jacob Chase
Wm Moulton
John Brewster
Corpl
Wm Merrill 3rd
John England
James Ordway
Henry Chase
. Benj Ordway 2d
Moses Low
, Richard Ordway
Eben Poor
Musician
David Parsons
John Poor
Sam'l Parsons
Sam'l Poor
PRIVATES
Thos Poor
Israel Bartlet
Wm Rogers
Charles Bartlet
Thos S Pendergast
Isaac Bartlet
Rufus Severance
Wm Bartlet
Wm Stevens
James Burrill
David Wickes
Anthony Burrill
Henry Chapman
David Bartlet
CAPTAIN ALLENS COMPANY
Samuel Allen
Captain
Amos Pillsbury
James Carry
Lieut
Dan'l Pillsbury
Asa Chamberlin
Ensign Sergt
John Pillsbury
Benj Lunt
Nath'l Pearson
Enoch Jaques
66
Ezekiel Rogers
Elias Hunt
Oliver Rogers
Henry C Jaques
PRIVATES
Nath' Babb
James Rogers
David Clifford
John Carlton John D Farley
Stephen Sargent Sam'l Safford Wm Sargent
Silas Floyd
John Titcomb Dan'l Rand John Gould
Charles Jaques
Geo Berry 2d
Dan'l A Lunt John Noyes
Joseph Rogers
Gideon Rogers Theodore Rogers
Joseph Hoyt Wade Ilsey
John Robertson Joseph Battice
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Danl C Haysen Richard Page Moses Bartlett
John Thompson Benj T Tenney 3rd Geo Campbell Ist
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CAPTAIN MERRILLS COMPANY
Sam'l Merrill
Captain
John Hills
Josiah Titcomb
Lieut
Chas Hills
John Northend
Ensign
Joseph N Jackman
Stephen Adams
Sergt
David Jewet
Greenlief [?] Tilton
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Isaiah Jewet
Chas Dennett
Robert Jewet
Gorham P Tenny
66
David Lord
Obadiah Hill
Corpl
Wm Moody
Sam'l Scribner
Adams McMaster
Dan'l Noyes
Dan'l Nelson
Joshua Noyes
PRIVATES
Abel Pearson
Giles Adams
Henry Pearson
Patrick Burrill
Moses Pike
Abner M. Cheany
Eliphalet Poor
Jonathan Cheany
Enoch Poor
James Dow
David Poor
Joshua Dummer
Benj Poor
Sam'l Dummer
Chas Ramsey
Oliver Davis
John A Roberts
Richard Davis
Dan1 Rogers
John Davis 2d
Aaron Shute
Jedediah Dole
John Thurlow
Enoch Dole
Saml Thurlow
Jacob Dole
Parker G Thurlow
Enoch Floyd
Stephen Woodman
Frederic Gray
CAPTAIN EMERYS COMPANY
Eliphalet Emery
Captain Lieut
Abner Baily
Nicholas Emery
Ensign Sergt
James Baily
Cornelius C Felton
John Chase
Nicholas Durgen
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James Davis
Henry Mowatt
Saul Davis
Stephen M Emery
Ebenezer Farrington Moses Morss
PRIVATES
Joseph Morss
James Bartlet
Saul Morss
Charles Merrill
Moses Burnham
Wm Bartlet
Benj Stanwood
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Chas Moody
Isaac Tewksberry
Aaron Tibbits
Saul Atwood
Sam'l Gould
Nath'l Plummer
CAPTAIN WOODWELLS COMPANY
John Woodwell
Captain
Danl Goodwin
Enoch Hall
Ensign Josiah Goodwin
David Pearson
Sergt
Nath1 Goodwin
Michel Stevens
66
Thos Goodwin
PRIVATES
Benj Atkinson
David Ayers
Thomas Bayley
Jas Janvrin
Saul Coffin
Richard Jackman
John P Clark
Joseph Morse
Wm Coker
Nath! Pettengill
Moses Chase 3d
Moses Stevens
Wm Collins
Jas Thurlow
Enos Floyd
Gideon Woodwell
Mark Griffin
Dan'l Willis
Jacob Greenleaf
Cuttin Pettengill 3d
Amos Goodwin
Enoch Pierce 2d
James Thurlow
CAPTAIN HEATHS COMPANY
Richard Heath
Captain
Saml Bailey 3d
John Osgood
Lieut Elias Bootman
Sam1 Tenney
Ensign Tappan Bailey
Benj Brown
Sergt
Moody Brickett
Geo Gordon
Geo Burrows
Danl Moulton
Danl C Baily
Wm Noyes
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Thomas Chase Danl Chase
Moses Brown
Musician
Benj Caldwell
Henry Clark Enoch Dole
Thos H Chase
Greenleaf Dole
PRIVATES
Danl Downer
Gideon Baker
Jacob Emery Jonathan Eaton
Dan! Bailey
Major Goodwin Saul Goodwin
Benj W Hall
Wm Hall
Thos Rogers Ja's Ridgway Saul Sawyer Abner Greenleaf Thos Noyes Robert Howell
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John Follansbee Parker Greenough
Amos Morss
Enoch Noyes Wm Ordway
Enoch Follansbee David Goodrich
Abner Rogers
Dudley Heath
David Richardson
Eliphalet Hills
John Richardson Jr
Edmun Hills
David Rogers
Ephraim B Horne
John Sawyer
Wm Ilsey
Edward Sealy
Moses Jaques
Sewell Short
Moody Jaques
Dan'l Silloway
Wm McKinstey
Stephen M Little
Saml W Smith
John Little
Caleb Smith
Abiel Lovejoy
Jedediah Sanders
John Ladd
Benaiah Titcomb
John Marshall
Edmund North
Laban Merrill
Benj Wadleigh
CAPTAIN SMITHS COMPANY
Daniel Smith
Captain
Joseph Kent
Stephen Plummer
Lieut
Benj Leigh
Stephen Little
Ensign
Joshua Mace
Aaron Rogers
Sergt
Peter Noyes
Michael Little
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John Noyes
Wm Brown
Moses Pettengill
PRIVATES
John Adams
Joseph Magowan
Enoch Dole
Joseph Adams 3d
Eli Adams
John Robbins Moses Rolf
Hanson H Adams
Richard Bartlet
Richard Smith Henry Short
Jesper Blake
Charles Stickney Lemuel Smith 3d
Moses Floyd
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Joseph Knight Silas Knight
Moses Knight Benj Hewiston Paul Isley
Wm Knight
Nathan Taylor Wm Sweet
John Knight James Knight
Sam'l Russell
David Pettengill Wm Plummer
Joseph Plummer Wm Plummer Jr David Plummer Insley Page
John Buswell
James Bray
James Smith
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Sam'l Lunt Richard Leighton Benj Halmer [Holmes ?] Jas McThos
Joseph Goodwin Richard Lunt Eben Adams Isaiah Plummer
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On the twenty-fourth day of December, 1814, a treaty of peace was concluded at Ghent, by duly accredited agents and representatives of England and the United States. A mes- senger, with a copy of this treaty, sailed a few days later for New York. He arrived early in the month of February, 1815; and on the eighteenth day of that month President Madison issued a proclamation announcing the termination of hostilities and the return of peace.
CHAPTER XVIII.
WAR OF THE REBELLION.
AT the beginning of the War of the Rebellion the inhabi- tants of the town of Newbury were earnest and active in their efforts to sustain the government, and with great unanimity voted to uphold and defend to the best of their ability the constitution and laws of the United States.
At a town meeting held April 30, 1861, resolutions were adopted denouncing the men "who have succeeded in plung- ing a portion of our country into open rebellion and civil war," and pledging financial aid and support to those who voluntarily enlisted in the military service from Newbury. Three hun- dred dollars was appropriated for the equipment of a company of riflemen, already organized, but not fully equipped for active service ; and the treasurer of the town was authorized to hire the sum of three thousand dollars "for contingent war ex- penses." The families of soldiers were supplied with the com- forts and necessaries of life by a committee appointed for that purpose ; and " a committee of vigilance, correspondence, and safety " was chosen to take such action as might be deemed expedient in regard to persons residing within the limits of the town " who are inimical to the government of the United States." *
July 30, 1862, the town voted to pay one hundred and fifty dollars to volunteers enlisting within one week from that date ; one hundred and twenty-five dollars to those enlisting within two weeks ; and one hundred dollars to those enlisting after the middle of August. It soon became necessary, however, to offer a more liberal bounty, in order to fill the quota of Newbury under the President's call for three hundred thou- sand men; and August sixteenth the selectmen were au- thorized to pay " to every person hereafter mustered into the
. Town of Newbury Records, April 30, 1861.
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service of the United States from Newbury " the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars.
Subsequently the amount was reduced or increased accord- ing to circumstances, and private subscriptions were relied upon to make good the deficit in case the appropriations of the town were unavailable or inadequate. March 5, 1866, the town voted "to reimburse those who advanced money for the purpose of filling the town's quotas and furnishing men for the late war."
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