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Charles Gray.
Samuel Wheeler.
William Anderson.
Solomon Atwood.
Amos Dunham.
William Watson, Jr.
James Waterman.
Lewis Weston.
Ebenezer Luce.
William Weston.
William Doten.
Thomas Jackson (3d).
Jabez Doten.
Samuel Jackson, Jr.
David Bartlett.
David Drew.
Thomas Lewis.
Reuben Washburn, corp.
Zachous Harlow.
William Barnes, corp.
Ebenczer Cobb.
James Dunham.
John Churchill, corp.
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HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
John Weston.
Jamos Drew, Jr.
William Mayhew.
Elkanah Bartlett. Jonathan Bartlett. Cornelius Holmes.
In May, 1775, the following Plymouth men en- listed for eight months' service in the neighborhood of Boston, under Col. Cotton :
Thomas Mayhew, capt.
Charles Gray.
Nathaniel Lewis, lieut.
Thomas Faunce.
Benjamin Warren, ensign.
Levi Harlow.
George Dunham, sergt.
Thomas Howard.
William Curtis, sergt.
William IIoward.
John Churchill, sergt.
Ebenezer Howard.
Josiah Cotton, sergt.
William Holmes.
#Nath1 Carver, ensign.
Ebenezer Dawes.
Simeon Hall.
*Thomas Additon.
Seth Sprague.
Ziba Witherell.
Wait Bradford. John Bourn.
Thomas Dingly.
Wait Atwood.
William Anderson.
Daniel Lawrence.
Eleazer Bixly, corp.
*Samuel Doten.
Consider Glass. Ezekiel Bradford.
Isaac Robertson.
Oliver Bisbee.
Robert McFarlen.
Francis Cook.
*Thomas Doggett.
#Stephen Cornish.
#Josiah Morton.
#William Bartlett.
#Samuel Darling.
#William Morton.
Aaron Chandler.
#Enos Churchill.
George Cushman.
Benjamin Smith.
John Ozier. Nath1 Hodges.
*Edward Doty.
Isaac Bonney.
Benjamin Parish.
Joseph Joslyn.
Nath1 Washburn.
Charles Ramsdel.
*John Douglass.
Albert Smith.
#Joseph Tinkham.
*Benjamin Darling.
Josiah Perkins.
Asaph Bisbee.
Oliver Sampson.
#Lemuel Morton, corp.
*Zaccheus Morton.
Gamaliel Diman.
Seth Parry.
Aaron Bisbee.
John Ramsdell.
Samuel Stetson.
Hall Bourn.
*Charles Clark.
Sylvanus Bryant.
Richard Tillayd.
#Isaac IIolmes.
John Taber. Foord Bates.
David Rickard.
Charles Tentes.
Jonathan Riokard.
Thomas Sylvester. Abner Holmes.
George Lemote. John Crawford. William Atwood.
Lemuel Barnes.
John Rogers. Nehemiah Atwood.
John Morton.
Jonathan Churchill.
Elkanah Ridor.
Nath1 Thomas.
Thomas Trumblo (Trib-
Prince Wadsworth.
hle).
Nogro Quam.
In the company of Edward Hammond, of Roches- ter :
Samuel Rogers. Jonathan Holmes. Barzillai Stetson. John Green.
The following company served at the Gurnet in Plymouth harbor in 1776. The Plymouth men are marked with a star :
#William Weston, capt.
Philemon Foster.
Andrew Sampson, 1st Ansel Gibbs.
lieut.
John Kent.
Josiah Smith, 2d licut.
William Finney.
Richard Bagnall, corp.
Jabez Harlow.
Robert Dunham, corp.
Caleb IIolmes.
William Hueston.
Silas Morton, corp.
John Ilosea.
William Jones.
Abijah Keyes.
*Jabez Doten, corp.
Beniah Sampson, corp.
Joseph Heaney, corp.
Nath1 Randall.
David Burbank.
Abner Morton.
Zenas Macomber.
David Morton.
William Bartlett.
Joseph Plasket.
Caleb Bartlett.
John Paty.
David Bartlett.
Lemuel Robbins.
Thomas Cushman.
Eliab Richmond.
Branch Churchill.
Samuel Sherman.
Nathaniel Curtis.
Elijah Sherman.
Amos Dunham.
Charles Scobey.
Josiah Dunham.
Levi Shurtleft.
Samuel Drew.
Elkanah Tolman.
Stephen Drew.
James Waterman.
George Dunham, Jr.
John Washburn, Jr.
William Doten.
Samuel Wheeler.
Jabez Doten.
Robert Wharton.
Job Foster.
Martin Wright.
In the company of John Bridgham, of Plympton :
Benjamin Chubbuck.
Timothy Swinerton.
Thomas Clark.
Eleazer Sınith.
Samuel Doten.
Abel Thrasher.
John King.
Perez Wright.
Caleb Raymond.
Jacob Tinkham.
Henry Richmond.
In the company of Joshua Benson, of Middleboro' :
James Savory.
John Phillips.
Elijah Harlow.
In the company of Peleg Wadsworth, of Kingston :
Jonathan Delano.
Joseph Covell.
Nath1 Torrey. Joshua Totman.
Charles Perio.
John Lincoln.
Truolove Brewster.
Dimond Perry.
*Lemuel Leach.
Charlos Foard.
Richard Humphrey.
The following company served at the Gurnet in 1776 after the discharge of Capt. Weston's company. The known Plymouth men are marked with a star :
Eleazer Morton.
Ebenezer Luce.
Crosby Luce.
John Hawkes, sergt. #Stephen Paine, sergt. James Cox, sergt.
Jeremiah Dillingham, sergt.
Bildad Washburn, drum- mer. Josiah Barker, fifer.
Jonathan Thomas.
*Eleazer Faunce.
Mendall Churchill.
#Samuel Sampson. Joab Fish. Eliab Sampson.
#Ichabod Holmes. #John Paty.
#Hallet Rider.
Job Turner. Christopher Smith. Thomas Chamberlin. Joab Hill.
*Thomas Bartlett.
Gersham Ramsdell. David Standish.
Joshua Briggs.
Samuel Bacon, corp.
Abner Churchill, drum- mer.
Benjamin Hoye, fifer.
Joseph Bramhall.
John Butterworth.
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#Jesse Harlow, capt.
James Churchill, Ist lieut.
Timothy Goodwin, 2d lient.
#Samuel West.
Isaac Churchill for Nathaniel Jackson.
James Eaton for Isaac Symmes.
Charles Gray for John Goodwin.
Martin Wright for William Harlow, Jr.
#Nicholas Smith.
Levi Everson.
George Atwood for Thomas Matthews.
#Samnel Cobb.
David Ripley.
William Johnston.
#Israel Dunham.
William Bradford.
Oliver Morton for Ebenezer Nelson, Jr.
Zenas Bryant.
Nathaniel Ripley.
Abner Morton for Richard Brown.
#Francis Churchill.
Nathaniel Bradford.
Tilden Holmes for Isaac Le Baron.
#Asa Dunham.
*William Barnes.
Isaac Holmes for Samuel Harlow.
Robert Cobb.
*Zaccheus Barnes.
Lemuel Crooker for Samuel Kempton.
Isaac Wilson for Lazarus Goodwin. William Davie.
Enlistments for three months' service in Rhode Island, April, 1777 :
William Morton. Edward Cotton.
James Savery.
Lemuel Robbins.
Ebenezer Luce.
John King for Elkanah Bartlett.
Thomas Doggett.
James Doty, of Kingston, for Cornelius Cobb.
Caleb Raymond. Perez Wright.
Enlistments for thirty days' service in Rhode Island in September, 1777 :
Nath1 Goodwin, capt.
William Blakeley.
Josiah Tomson, 1st lieut. James Cushman.
Bartlett Holmes, 2d lieut. Joseph Bramhall.
Amaziah Harlow, 3d lieut.
James Cole for John Russell.
Solomon Atwood, Jr.
Benjamin Morey.
Elijah Morey for Daniel Di- man.
Branch Carver for Joseph Bartlet.
Thomas Macan.
Joseph Ripley for Wm Hall Jackson.
Thomas Clark. Nath1 Harlow.
John King.
Perez Wright for Thomas Jackson, Jr.
John Bates. James Wright.
Hallet Rider. . Edmund Bartlett.
John Atwood.
George Holmes.
Josiah Drew.
Elijah MeFarlin for Abraham Hammatt.
Lemuel Raymond for Joseph Croswell.
George Morton for Benjamin Drew.
Reuben Damon.
Ezekiel Raymond for Joseph Rider.
Jonathan Churchill for Wm Weston.
Thomas Torrey. Thomas Morton, Jr.
Zaccheus Barncs. Samuel Bradford.
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Thaddeus Faunce.
John Totman.
Benjamin Rickard.
Isaiah Thomas.
Nathan Rider.
Ebenezer Cobb.
Joseph Perkins.
#Robert Dunham.
Luther Cole.
#Lemuel Stephens. Josiah Waterman.
John Chandler.
₹William Morton.
William Cobb.
#Amaziah Doty.
# Asa Sherman.
#Thaddens Repley.
Nathaniel Ellis.
Joshna Holmes.
#William Hueston.
Zenas Davis.
Lazarus Harlow.
Zadock Cook.
#Zaccheus Harlow.
Zenas Cook.
Nathaniel Spooner.
Isaiah Cushman.
Nehemiah Weston.
The following company served at the Gurnet in 1776, after the discharge of Capt. Harlow's company. The known Plymouth men are marked with a star :
Andrew Sampson, capt.
Josiah Smith, lieut.
Beniah Sampson, sergt.
Harris Hatch.
Ebenezer Barker, sergt.
Nathaniel Kent.
Stephen Paine, sergt.
Zabdiel Weston.
Samuel Chandler, corp.
Thomas Carver.
Nathan Sampson, corp.
Abraham Pierce.
Abel Turner, corp.
Nathaniel Washburn.
Bildad Washburn, drum- mer.
George Winslow, fifer.
Ebenezer Cobb.
Sylvanna Bryant.
Nathaniel Burgess.
Nathaniel Weston.
Malachi Delano.
George Cushman.
Uriah Sprague.
Jonathan Chandler.
Samuel Sprague.
Luther Delano.
#Lemuel Doten.
Ebenezer Rider.
Robert Sampson.
Eleazer Faunce.
Colson Sampson. %Mendall Churchill.
Samuel Delano.
# Abner Sylvester.
Levi Sampson. Nebemiah Weston.
William Morton.
Elijah Sampson.
:Thomas Trumbull (Trib- ble).
William Sampson. Peleg Gulliver. Thomas Chandler. Oliver Sampson.
Solomon Davis.
Edward Doten.
Enlistments for five months' service in July, 1776 :
Samnel West. Aza Sherman.
Lemuel Stephens. Holmes Thomas.
Enlistments and drafts in December, 1776, for three months' service in Rhode Island :
Samuel Bryant for Stephen Sampson.
Thaddeus Ripley for Benjamin King.
James Newbury. Jabez Gorham.
Judah Bartlett, Jr.
Zadock Churchill. Jonathan Harlow.
Frank Cobb for Job Cobb.
Lemuel Crooker for Lemuel Cobb.
Josiah Cornish. Bartlett Holmes. John Darling.
Charles Churchill.
Benjamin Churchill.
Solomon Bartlett. Jesse Churchill. Seth Rider. Ichabod Holmes, Jr. Silas Dunham. Barnabas Dunham. George Bartlett.
Jonathan Thomas.
Peleg Oldham. James Glass. Aaron Bisbee.
Isaiah Sampson. Josiah Barker.
#Peleg Faunce. #William Bartlett. John Kent. Joshua Chandler.
#George Dunham. William Davie.
#Nathaniel Cobb.
Holmes Thomas. *Elias Churchill. Onesimus Randall.
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Abiel Washburn for Isaac Lothrop.
Nath1 Leonard for George Wat- son.
James Churchill for Benj. Barnes.
Wilson Churchill.
Plymouth enlistments in Capt. Sawyer's company, Col. Dykes' regiment, in 1777, for an unknown term of service :
Ezra Holmes. Joshua Bramhall.
William Rider.
Williauı Blackmer.
Elkanah Holmes. Rufus Robbins.
John Marshall. Lemuel Bartlett.
Ebenezer Robbins.
Samuel Wheeler.
Ebenezer Robbins, Jr.
Barnabas Holmes.
Peter Lanman.
Plymouth men drafted for nine months in 1778:
Nath1 Spooner. Jonathan Holmes.
John Bacon. Joshua Battles.
Joshua Wright.
John Rider.
Isaac Torrey.
The following company of Plymouth men was raised to march with the prisoners of war taken in the British ship "Somerset" in 1778:
Wm. Crow Cotton, capt. Burnet Holmes.
John Goddard, lieut. Ebenezer Robbins.
Amaziah Harlow, sergt. Samuel Robbins.
Thaddeus Faunee, sergt. William Keen.
William Barnes, sergt.
George Morton.
Ebenezer Cobb, corp.
Edward Morton.
Nathan IIolmes, corp.
Richard Durfey.
Job Cobb.
Ebenczer Nelson.
John Peckham.
Zaeeleus Morton.
Zadoek Churchill.
William Holmes.
Cornelius Cobb.
Joseph Nelson. William Drew.
Men raised to serve as a guard under Gen. Heath in and about Boston, in 1778, for three months :
Oliver Morton. Thaddeus Ripley .
Caleb Morton. William Hunt.
John Southworth. John Chubbuck.
Thomas Winslow. Samuel Kempton, Jr.
Ebenezer Morton.
Noah Bisbee.
John Phillips.
Asaph Bisbee.
Cornelius Holmes.
William Ripley.
John King.
John Perkins.
William Lucas.
Men raised April, 1778, for nine months, to march to Fishkill :
Joshua Wright. Isaae Torrey.
Joshua Battles. John Ridor.
Patriek Wells. Amasa Delano.
Nathaniel Spooner.
William Ilunt.
Jonathan Holmes.
John Hunt.
John Bacon.
Men raised April, 1778, to march to Peekskill for eight months' service :
James Shurtleff.
Mendall Churchill.
Samuel Holmes.
Levi Ilolines.
Plymouth cnlistments in the regiment of Col.
Aaron Willard, for the expedition to Lake Champlain, in January, 1777 :
Samuel N. Nelson, eapt. Zadock Barrows.
Thomas Burgess. William Holines.
Patrick Welsh for Wm Wat- son. William Drew.
Dolphin Negro for Elkanah Watson.
Amos Pettee for Andrew Cros- well.
Nath! Holmes.
John Bacon for Sylvanus
Howes.
Thomas Sears.
Solomon Holmes. John Witherhead.
Joseph Wright for John
Thomas.
George Ellis.
Charles Morton, Jr., for John Kempton.
Nath1 Clark. Lemuel Morton, Jr.
Men raised to serve as guard to the prisoners who surrendered with Gen. Burgoyne, October, 1777, for five months :
Nath1 Torrey. Samuel Holmes.
Nath1 Barnes.
Daniel Howland.
Thomas Dogget for John Cobb. .
Ebenezer Rider, Jr.
William Cassady for James Doty.
John Harlow, Jr.
John Witherhead for John Russell.
Lemuel Doten.
Wm Bartlett.
Benjamin Watson.
Josiah Morton.
William Blakeley.
Levi Paty.
James Collins.
Israel Clark.
Edward Morton.
Stephen Doten.
Benoni Shaw.
Thomas Ellis.
George Churchill.
The following company, composed of men from the South Precinct of Plymouth, served three months in Rhode Island in 1776 and 1777, under Col. Thomas Lothrop, of Plymouth :
Zaecheus Bartlett, capt. Jonathan Harlow.
John Bartlett, lieut.
Cornelius Morey.
Braneh Blaekmer, sergt.
James IIolmes.
John Cornish, sergt. Barnabas Ellis.
Seth Ilolmes, sergt. Silas Valler.
Andrew Bartlott, sorgt. Ezekiel Raymond.
Nath1 Bartlett, corp.
Nath1 Cornish.
Abner Bartlett, corp.
Thomas Clark.
Jacob Johnson.
Lothrop Clark.
James Wright.
Plymouth enlistment in the company of Capt. John Russell, of Barnstable, in the regiment of Col. Gama- liel Bradford, of Duxbury, in 1776 :
James Sharpe, deserted.
Plymouth enlistment in the company of Capt. Joseph Stetson, of Scituate, in the regiment of Col. Dyke, in 1776:
Bartlett Holmes, ensign.
Pelog Faunee.
Abner Sylvester for Robert Davie.
John Holmes for Eliab Rich- mond.
Diman Bartlett for George Thrasher.
James Bishop for Isaae Doten. Thomas Foster.
Thomas Lanman.
Noah Perkins for John Bart- lett.
Ezra Harlow.
Eleazer Holmes, Jr.
Judah Bartlett.
George Sampson. Edward Doten. James Churchill.
Peter Holines.
Robert Harlow. Jamos IInrlow, capt.
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HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH.
Men raised June, 1778, to march to Providence for six months' service :
Haviland Torrey. John Darling.
Samnel Calderwood. Stephen Gibbs.
Zadock Barrows. Ezekiel Raymond.
Patrick Morris.
Lemuel Leach.
William Blakely.
Josiah Morton (3d).
George Davie.
Men raised July, 1778, for six months' service under Gen. Heath in and about Boston :
Solomon Bartlett. John Douglass.
Nathan Churchill.
Cornelius Morey, Jr.
Samnel Kempton. Levi Tinkham.
Thaddeus Riply.
Men raised for two months' service under Gen. Sul- livan, in Rhode Island, July, 1770 :
William C. Cotton, capt. William Barnes.
Abiel Washburn.
Zaccheus Barnes.
Samnel Holmes.
Ichabod Holmes, Jr.
John Hiland. Barnabas Dunham.
David Gorham.
William Davic.
John Phillips.
Caleb Sampson.
John King. Samnel Bryant.
Jonathan Thrasber. Samuel Holmes.
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Josiah Morey. Wilson Churchill.
Zaccheus Barnes.
Samuel Rogers.
Plato Turner.
Henry Riebmond.
Silas Morey.
Joshua Battles.
Josiah Soule. Thomas Kelley
Miscellaneous enlistments :
Josiah Connett.
William Brown.
Daniel Lothrop.
George Tomson.
Ebenezer Howard.
Ralph Barrow.
Roger Magoon.
James Patterson.
Joshua Winship.
Solomon Bartlett, Jr.
Benjamin Clark. Andrew Debarrow.
Joshua Sylvester.
Stevens Mason.
Cato (negro). David Cobb.
Quash (negro).
Philip Foster.
Joshua Holmes.
Cornelius Holmes.
John Black. Caleb Bartlett.
Samuel Hollis.
Isaac Lucas.
William Boies.
Seth Morton.
John Bates.
Richard Cooper.
Michael Bowes.
Lemuel Simmons.
Levi Tinkham.
Men raised, for forty days, to reinforce Count de Rochambeau in Rhode Island, February, 1781 :
Seth Churchill. Silas Doty.
William Atwood. Ezra Lucas.
Solomon Bartlett.
Jesse Harlow, Jr.
Thaddeus Robbins. Lothrop Turner.
William Mackey. Ebenezer Sampson.
Frank Churchill. Ephraim Holmes.
John Harlow. Diman Bartlett.
Rufus Bartlett. William Morton.
Ansel Lucas. James Finney.
Abraham Jackson. Ephraim Paty.
John Rogers.
Joseph Holmes.
Michael Poor. Plato Turner.
William Boier. George Churchill.
William Cassady.
Men raised for two months' service, August, 1779 : Samuel Holmes. Thomas Johnson.
William Garret.
Men raised to march to Tiverton on three months' service, July, 1780 :
Nath1 Torrey.
Robert Jackson.
Nath1 Holmes.
Ebenezer Lucas.
Issachar Howland. Benjamin Washburn.
William Robbins. William Barnes.
Samuel Nelson. Corban Barnes, Jr.
Nathan Churchill. Levi Holmes.
Ebenezer Churchill. Joshua Battles.
Thomas Spooner. James Wright, Jr.
Samuel Bates. John Rider.
William King. Sylvanus Paty.
John King. Asa Dunham.
Israel Dunham. Charles Morton.
Enlistments for six months in 1780 :
Timothy Battles. Joseph Fuller.
Diman Bartlett. Patrick Morris.
Seth Thrasher. Thaddeus Ripley.
Epbraim Paty. William Holmes.
William Clark.
Benjamin Chubbuck.
Cornelins Holmes.
Ephraim Hunt.
James Churchill.
William Cassady.
William Drew.
Levi Paty.
Michael Poor.
Josiah Cornish.
Elnathan Lucas.
William Cornish.
Joseph Bnrbank.
Lemuel Bartlett.
William Coye.
Ephraim Norris.
Lemnel Robbins.
Ebed Meleck.
Lewis Weston, 2d lient.
Men raised to serve three months in and about Boston, under Gen. Heath, September, 1778 :
Cornelins Holmes, for John Ansel Harlow.
Kempton, Jr. Benjamin Chubbuck.
Caleb Sampson.
Men raised to serve three months under Gen. Sul- livan, in Rhode Island, September, 1778 :
Michael Power. - Trask.
Cornelins Holmes.
Men raised to serve two months under Gen. Sul- livan, in Rhode Island, May, 1779 :
Levi Tinkham. Samuel Holmes.
Enlistments in Capt. Edward Sparrow's company, Col. Nathan Tyler's regiment, for six months' service in Rhode Island, in 1779 :
Nath! Bartlett. Timothy Battles.
Elnathan Lucas.
Ephraim Paty.
Haviland Torrey.
Men raised for nine months' service, June, 1779 :
Stevens Mason. Zaccheus Bartlett.
John Bates. Levi Tinkham.
William Brown. John Chubbuck.
Nath1 Holmes, Jr. Joseph Sylvester.
Enlistments of an unknown date for three years' service :
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James Anthony.
Roger Daniol.
Thomas Burgess.
Frank May.
James Beaton.
William MeCadden.
Joshua Bramhall.
Job Morton.
Joshua Battles.
Abram Morton.
Benjamin Balston.
James Morris.
Samuel Bryant.
John Marshall.
Ralph Bacon.
Paul MeFarlen.
Solomon Bartlett, Jr.
David Morton.
John Black.
Joseph Plasket.
Joseph Bartlett.
Joshua Polden.
Jonathan Beleher.
James Patterson.
Joshua Bullen.
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William Polden.
John Cooper.
James Polden.
Benjamin Cleaveland.
William Polden, Jr.
Cato (negro).
John Finney.
Thaddeus Churchill.
Joshua Poekemet.
Benjamin Clark.
David Page.
Josiah Conant.
Peter (negro).
John Clark.
John Paty.
Samuel Dunham.
Oliver Remington.
Dan (negro).
Nath1 Rhodes.
Joseph Delano.
John Ring.
Robert Dunham.
John Rogers.
Samuel Drew.
Daniel Robhins.
Samuel Duteh.
Rufus Robbins.
Samuel Dunham, Jr.
Richard (negro).
Jabez Delano.
Henry Richmond.
Nath1 Ellis.
James Rich.
John Foster.
William Robbins.
William Freneh.
Silas (negro).
George Gamble.
Adam Shute.
William Greenway.
Peleg Stephens.
David Geffrey.
Levi Shurtleff.
John Hosea.
Barzillai Stetson.
Thomas Haekman.
Joshua Sylvester.
Ebenezer Howard. Jabez Holmes.
Stephen Torrey.
Zacheus Holmes.
George Thompson.
Benjamin Hoye.
John Totman, Jr.
Elijah Harlow.
Thomas Trumble (Trib- hlo).
William Jones.
Thomas Torrey, Jr.
Robert Keyes. John King.
Joshua Totman.
Amaziah King.
David Thrasher.
Oliver Kempton.
Simon Valentine.
Thomas Lake.
Joshua Winship.
George Lemote.
Luke Wheeler.
Abijah Luee.
Samuel Wheeler.
Daniel Lawreneo.
Isaae Wilson.
Ephraim Luee.
Martin Wright.
Pero (negro).
Many of these enlistments and drafts were made from organized militia companies, composed of all males between the ages of sixteen and sixty capable of bearing arms. Of these companies there were five in Plymouth at the beginning of the war. The first included the district of Manomet Ponds, and was commanded by Zaccheus Bartlett, eaptain; John Bartlett, first lieutenant; Bartlett Holmes, second licutenant. The second included the Chiltonville District, as far north as " Jabez Corner," and was
commanded by Robert Finney, captain ; Philip Leon- ard, first lieutenant ; Thomas Morton, second lieuten- ant. The third included the district between Jabez Corner and Town Brook, and was commanded by Sylvanus Harlow, captain ; Stephen Churchill, first lieutenant ; Nathaniel Carver, second lieutenant. The fourth extended from the brook to Middle Street, and was commanded by Benjamin Rider, captain ; Richard Cooper, first lieutenant; John Torrey, Jr., second lieutenant. The fifth extended from Middle Street to the north limits of the town, and was commanded by Nathaniel Goodwin, eaptain; William Morton, first lieutenant; William Crow Cotton, second lieu- tenant. These companies included two classes,-one- quarter aetive or training members, called the train- band, and filled up either by enlistments or lot, and three-quarters, called the alarm-list, equally liable to be ealled on for active service, having a voice in the choice of officers, but on ordinary occasions relieved from training or muster service. All requisitions for men during the war were made through brigade, regi- mental, and company officers, and filled by enlistment, if possible, or otherwise by draft. At a later day Amaziah Harlow and Nathaniel Barnes took the places of Stephen Churchill and Nathaniel Carver, Stephen Churchill took the place of Sylvanus Har- low, Samuel Bartlett took the place of John Torrey, Jr., William Crow Cotton took the place of Nathaniel Goodwin, John Goddard of William Morton, Lewis Weston of William Crow Cotton, John Torrey be- came adjutant, and Nathaniel Goodwin was appointed military superintendent for Plymouth County, and afterwards lieutenant-colonel of the First Regiment.
At a still later day Peter Kimball took the place of Samuel Bartlett, Thaddeus Churchill of Nathaniel Barnes, Branch Blackmer of John Bartlett, Thomas Ellis of Bartlett Holmes, Philip Leonard of Robert Finney, Ezekiel Morton of Philip Leonard. These companies, together with two of Duxbury, one of Kingston, four of Plympton, and one of Halifax, composed the First Regiment, of which Theophilus Cotton, of Plymouth, was colonel; Thomas Lothrop, of Plymouth, lieutenant-colonel, and John Torrey, of Plymouth, adjutant. In 1779 a company of artillery was added to the regiment, of which Thomas May- hew, of Plymouth, was eaptain, with the rank of major; Thomas Nieolson, of Plymouth, first lieuten- ant, and John May, of Plymouth, second lieutenant. Before Col. Cotton commanded the First Regiment, succeeding Col. Gamaliel Bradford in that command, he commanded an eight-months' regiment at Roxbury in 1775, ealled the Sixteenth, the first company of which was under the command of Thomas Mayhew,
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captain ; Nathaniel Lewis, lieutenant, and Benjamin Warren, ensign. The above list of officers would be incomplete without the addition of James Warren, paymaster-general in the Continental army, major- general of the militia, and the successor of Gen. Jo- seph Warren as president of the Provincial Congress ; of Dr. William Thomas, surgeon in the army, and his four sons .- Joshua. on the staff of Gen. John Thomas; Joseph, captain of artillery ; John, surgeon's mate under his father; and Nathaniel, who served in some capacity unknown to the writer. All these officers were at some time in the field, and complete the list of eight hundred and twenty-six separate enlistments contributed by Plymouth to the war of the Revolution. Of this number three hundred and ninety-eight received in hard money for bounties paid by the town three thousand and fifty-six pounds, seven shillings, and three pence. According to the returns made in 1777, the number of men above the age of sixteen able to bear arms was six hundred and sixty-eight. That so heavy a drain of men and money should have been made on the resources of the town is abundant testimony to the energy and patriotism and self-sacrifice of its people.
During the war, aside from its distant horrors and their own sorrows and pecuniary burdens, the people of Plymouth felt nothing of its desolation. Away from the track of armies and beyond the sound of battles, their contribution of men and means and the rigid economy in living which the war enforced alone reminded them of the struggle going on. Among the interesting incidents of the period with which Plymouth was associated may be mentioned the ap- pearance of Lieut. (afterwards Admiral) Nelson in the bay, and his capture of a schooner owned by Thomas Davis, and commanded by Nathaniel Carver. After the capture the admiral of the French fleet lying in Boston harbor, hearing of Nelson's presence in the bay, put out in chase. Capt. Carver, being familiar with the coast, was used by Nelson as a pilot, and safely carried the ship through the intricate channels of Vineyard Sound, and thus escaped the pursuer. Nelson afterwards returned into the bay, and sent Capt. Carver ashore in one of the boats of the frigate. Mr. Davis, learning the loss of his vessel from his captain, determined, if possible, to re- cover her. Loading a boat with fresh meats and provisions, he and Capt. Carver put out into the bay, and, running alongside the ship, passed the word to the lieutenant that he had brought him a present. They were at once asked on board, and invited to be the guests of the commander at the dinner at which he was just seating himself. At the close of the
dinner Nelson ordered his writing-desk, and wrote the following certificate, the original of which is in the author's possession :
"These are to certify that I took the schooner 'Harmony,' Nathaniel Carver, master, belonging to Plymouth, but on ac- count of his good services have given him up his vessel again.
"Dated on board His Majesty's ship ' Albemarle,' 17th Au- gust, 1782, in Boston Bay.
" HORATIO NELSON."
It is a little singular that no papers in the Admi- ralty office and no records of Nelson's life contain any reference to his presence on the coast of Massa- chusetts during the war. While Abbott Lawrence was our minister to England, in 1850 or 1851, at a dinner where he and the Professor of History in the College of Edinburgh were guests, the conversation turning on Nelson, Mr. Lawrence, having seen the above certificate, ventured to allude to it, much to the surprise of the professor, who expressed great doubts as to the accuracy of the allusion. At the request of Mr. Lawrence, fac-similes of the certifi- cate were taken and sent to him at London, for the purpose of removing, as they effectually did, the pro- fessor's doubts. Thus this small scrap of paper has been the means of rescuing from oblivion one of the events in the life of a man whose every act has now an importance and interest in the eyes of the world.
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