History of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 77

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1706

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Eleazer Hamblin, capt. George Osborn.

Increase Robinson, ens.

Thomas Osborn.

Eleazer Bisbe.

Isaac Moore, sergt. Seth Phillips, sergt.

Leonard Hill.

Lions Tower, sergt.

Simeon Records.

William Bonney, corp.

William Phillips.

Africa Hamblin.

Europe Hamblin. Levi Wade.

Abijah Levitt.

Richard Buker.

Benjamin Monroe.

William Hayford. Isaac Phillips.

Roll of travel of a military company under the command of Capt. Thomas Turner, in camp, Jan. 10, 1776 ; names of Hanson men :

Consider Cole, 2d lient. Renben Clark.

Alexander Soper. Nathaniel Chamberlin.

Daniel Crooker.

Nathaniel Soper.

Abraham Josselyn. Renben Hodges.

Perry Harden.

Thomas Lincoln. Isaac Wade. Josiah Thomas. Gershom Ramsdell. William Delano. 23

Benjamin Munroe.

Linns Tower, corp.

Isaac Wade, drummer. Increase Robinson.

Elijah Cnshing (3d).

Ezekiel Bonney, fifer.

George Osborn.

Daniel Bonney.

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Men in Capt. Ichabod Bonney's company that did duty on Castle (Noddle's) Island (in Hull) in Col. Sparhawk's regiment,-two months' service,-dis- charged Dec. 11, 1778 :

Elijah Bisbe. William Thomas.

George Osborn.

IIenry Munroe.

Peleg Osborn.

Zophaniah Ilatch.

James Cole.

Nathaniel Torrey.

Matthew Whitten.

Levi Wade.

Six months' men, under a resolve of June 5, 1780 ; served five months and twenty-eight days :

Ephraim Tillson.

Henry Monroe.

Bennett Pumpelly.

Allen Dwelley.

Peleg Dammon.

Isaac Thomas.

Michael Osborn.

Daniel Russell.

Benjamin Cox.

Joseph Robinson.

Names from the pay-roll for rations' to and from camp; also for traveling home, at the rate of one day's pay for twenty miles' travel :

Francis Josselyn.

Joseph Robinson.

Gamaliel Bishe.

George Osborn.

John Allen.

Hugh Osborn.

Reuben Harden.

Seth Cox.

David Beals.

Three years' men in the Continental army :

Lot Dwelley.

Isaac Foster.

Fisher Hatch.

Jabez Hateh.

Africa Hamblin.

Bennett Pumpilly.

Michael Peirce.

Jerrus Phillips.

Isaac Phillips. David Robinson.

Linus Tower.

Isaac Thomas.

The following took part in the war of 1812:

John Thomas.

Richard Everson.

Benjamin Thomas.

Nathaniel Cole.

Seth Foster.

John Cook.

Benjamin Bowker.

Rebellion .- During the war of the Rebellion Hanson proved itself loyal to the cause of the Union, and promptly responded to every demand made by the government, including the first, that of April 15, 1861. As quite a number were members of the Halifax company, they received their summons during the night of April 15th, and left for Boston on the morning of the next day, from whencc they departed the following morning on steamer for Fortress Monroe. The town had its representatives in every department of the army, its soldiers sharing the privations of war in field, hospital, and, worse than all, the rebel prisons.

Names of those who served the call for three months from April 16, 1861 :

Reuhen Smith, Jr.

Theodore L. Bonney.

Jacob P. Hill.

Francis C. Hill.

E. Henry Gurney.

Willard Howard.

William W. Hood.

Charles W. Corson.

Fredorie Otis Evorson.

Alonzo Capen.

John H. Perry.

William B. Harlow.

Edwin S. Thayor.

Erastus W. Everson.

Morton V. Bonney.

NINE MONTHS' VOLUNTEERS.

Seth M. Briggs.

Edwin B. Cook.

Charlos II. Stetson.

Albert M. Thayer.

Isaiah Stetson. Elbridge G. Fuller.

Benjamin II. Bearce. Josiah Bourne.

Thomas Gurney (2d).

Jacob P. Hill.

William W. Hood. Bernard C. Beal.

Augustus M. Sampson. Algernon A. Peterson.

Thomas W. Bourne.

Lawrence McGoff.

Thatcher Keenc.

Horatio N. Hood.

John Drayton.

Charles W. Whiting.

Morton V. Bonney.

John Brown.

Henry Cook.

Edward Orcutt.

Andrew C. Brigham.

THREE YEARS' VOLUNTEERS.

Charles W. Denham.

George S. Golbert.

Alonzo Capen.

Horatio Foster.

Ichabod Bosworth.

Henry L. Ewell.

Freeman P. Howland.

Francis C. Hill.

James H. Howland.

Freeman J. Gurney.

Augustus F. Elms.

Nathaniel T. Hatch.

Henry W. Whitten.

Thomas G. Clark, Jr.

Joseph E. Prouty.

Edwin W. Pratt.

Stephen Bates. Joseph L. Leavitt.

Cyrus Drew.

John C. Ames.

Austin Luther.

Andrew W. Fish.

John Drayton.

Joseph H. Everson. Philemon W. Ramsdell.

Josiah Bourne.

Josiah G. Cook.

John Barker.

Joseph B. Loring.

Orange S. Pratt.

L. Irvin Lane.

Daniel B. Daland.

Reuben Willis.

George T. Sampson.

Charles F. Stevens.

Henry A. Soper.

Michael Donnelly.

Andrew J. Shaw.

George W. Hayward.

Edward P. Mansfield.

Erastus W. Everson.

Herbert M. Luther.

John H. Perry.

Edward Y. Luther.

Thomas Gurney (2d).

Jeremiah Stetson.

Daniel Bourne.

Edwin L. Stetson.

Calvin T. Phillips.

James Coolican.

Thomas Drew.

Joseph Smith.

Thomas Drake.

Theodore L. Bonney.

Edward Orcutt.

Otis L. Bonney. Morton E. Hill.

Isaac Ramsdell.

Joseph T. Bourne.

John Lyons.

Charles H. Reinhardt.

Julius W. Monroe.

John F. Curtis.

Joseph L. Fish.

Marcus F. Ames.

Charles J. Noble.

E. Henry Gurney.

Louis C. Arnold.

Nathaniel T. Howland.

Daniel S. Smith.

Thomas F. Whiting.

John Willis.

Samuel D. Ramsdoll.

Michael Tooney.

Algernon J. White.

Georgo B. Everett.

Joshua L. Perkins.

Jason Smith.

Seth F. Turnor.

Loronzo T. Bates.

Edward Smith.

ONE YEAR'S VOLUNTEERS.

John D. Stebbins.

Robert B. Oakes.

Elbridge G. Batos. Edward Holuos.

Jason Smith.

Goorge II. Bourne.

John Jewett.

Benjamin H. Bearce.

Isaac Bourne.

David Kingman.

E.B. K. Gurney

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Albert Howland.

George T. Bowker.

John Brown.

John O. Whitten.

Florin P. Estes.

George T. Delano.

Edwin Clark.

Lyman B. Ramsdell.

Joseph E. Prouty.

Gershom B. Thomas.

Elijah T. Ford.

Edward C. Tew.

James B. Soper. George W. Turner. John Bradley.

Charles C. Moore.

William A. Lavender.

Benjamin F. Morrill.

John H. Page.

Joseph Wilson.

John F. Clancy.

Napoleon Telliee.

Nathaniel D. W. Sprague.

Simon Levis.

James P. Jordan.

George T. Sampson.

ONE HUNDRED DAYS' VOLUNTEERS.

Edwin B. Cook.

Henry J. Perry.

Joseph F. Bearce.

Gershom B. Thomas.

Charles H. Stetson. Charles H. Sprague.

IN THE NAVY.

Albert S. Barker.

Charles F. Bowman.

Gustavus Percival.

DIED IN THE SERVICE.

Edward Smith. Edward P. Mansfield.

George S. Golbert.

Horatio Foster.

John H. Perry. Daniel Bourne.

Thomas Drake. Austin Luther.

Henry L. Ewell.

Morton E. Hill.

Joseph T. Bourne. Theodore L. Bonney.

James Coolican. Augustus F. Elms.

Stephen Bates.

John Lyons.

Julius W. Monroe.

Joseph L. Fish.

Andrew W. Fish.

George Thompson.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

E. B. K. GURNEY.

E. B. K. Gurney, son of Thomas and Deborah (Keene) Gurney, was born in Abington, Mass., Sept. 24, 1808. His father was born in Abington, Dec. 18, 1789, and his mother was born in Pembroke, Jan. 11, 1788. His paternal grandparents were Thomas and Mary (House) Gurney, and his maternal grandparents were Isaiah Keene-a soldier of the Revolution-and Lydia (Bourne) Keene.

Mr. Gurney came to Pembroke (now Hanson) when but six years of age, and has resided there to the present time. He was educated at the common schools of his town, and early developed a taste and talent for music. When but a child he became quite a proficient performer on the fife, and on his twelfth birthday he, in company with another lad just his age, played the fife for Capt. Job Luther, at a mili- tary review. At fifteen he became a member of a brigade band warranted by Brig .- Gen. Ephraim

Ward, of Middleboro'. He also held a musician's warrant from Col. Jesse Reed, of Marshfield. He was leader of the Old Colony Brass Band until 1862. He also commanded a company of light infantry called " Washington Guards" for five years. Capt. Gurney has held every town office, most of them re- peatedly. He was on the board of selectmen and overseers of the poor for thirteen years (1858 to 1879), and served on committees almost every year. He has been repeatedly chosen delegate to county and State conventions.

During the war of the Rebellion he gave nearly all of his time to the raising of money to pay recruits, up to the time when the law was passed authorizing the town to vote money for that purpose. He was recruiting and enrolling officer under Provost-Mar- shal Capt. Hall, of Taunton. His two sons enlisted in the army and served nearly through the war. Mr. Gurney was for many years a shoemaker by occupa- tion, but for the last twenty-five years he has been engaged in surveying, probate business, and writing of various kinds. He has been twice married,-first to Almira Josselyn, Sept. 28, 1830 ; she was born July 11, 1809, and died May 13, 1869. Their children were Almira J., born June 4, 1831, married William H. H. Bryant, Jan. 1, 1850 ; Mary M., born June 19, 1832, married Jacob M. Bryant, June 19, 1850 ; Thomas, born Sept. 17, 1834, married Rebecca Damon, Sept. 19, 1856; E. Henry, born Nov. 25, 1836, died Nov. 21, 1838 ; Deborah, born May 4, 1839, married William W. Hood, of Turner, Me., Dec. 14, 1856; E. Henry, born Jan. 23, 1841, married Sylvania W. Everson, Jan. 27, 1861 ; she died Dec. 7, 1866; George, born March 24, 1843, died Sept. 10, 1843; George, born Nov. 11, 1845, died Sept. 14, 1846; Georgiana L. F., born Jan. 17, 1847, married Capt. Edward Y. Luther, Aug. 20, 1866 ; he died Aug. 28, 1875 ; Ella J., born Nov. 21, 1849; Helen E., born Nov. 23, 1852, died Aug. 7, 1853. Capt. Gurney mar- rried, as his second wife, Desire S. Osborne, née Hobart, Nov. 20, 1872; she was born Aug. 16, 1808.

In politics Mr. Gurney was a Union man during the war, and has been a Republican since. In religion he is broad and liberal in his views, and is what is termed a "Free-thinker." His " creed," as he graphically states it, is " to live as long as he can, take all the comfort he can, do all the good he can, and not tres- pass on the rights of others."

Capt. Gurney has been an active and useful man in the community where his life has been spent, and in the autumn of his days he has the satisfaction of knowing that he has deserved, and enjoys, the highest respect and good-will of all who know him.

HISTORY OF DUXBURY.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY SETTLEMENT, ETC.

IT is probable there were settlers in what is now Duxbury in 1630 or 1631, but the first permanent settlement occurred in about 1632 by people from Plymouth. The record of the settlement is as fol- lows :

"This year the people of [Plymouth] begin to grow in their outward estates by the flowing of many People into the country, especially into the M. C. [Mass. Colony]. By which means Cattle and Corn rise to a great price, Goods grow plentiful, and many are enriched. And now their Stock increasing, the In- crease vendible, there is no longer holding them together- They must go to their great Lots, they can no otherwise keep their cattle, and having Oxen grown, they must have more land for Plowing and Tillage. By this means they scatter round the Bay [of Plymouth] quickly, and the Town wherein they lived till now compactly, is soon left very thin, and in a short time almost desolate. The Church also comes to be divided, and those who have lived so long together in Christian and Comfortable Fellowship must now part."

The Indian name of the town was Mattakeeset. It received the name of Duxbury from Duxbury Hall, the seat of the Standish family in England.

The town, as originally bounded, included the present towns of Duxbury, Marshfield, Pembroke, Hanover, and the Bridgewaters.

" The first settlers of Duxbury," says Justin Win- sor, in his excellent history of the town, " were, many of them, of the highest respectability, and in the colony affairs took prominent and active parts. Of the twenty subscribers to the civil compact, signed in the cabin of the 'Mayflower,' November, 1620, who survived the fatal first winter, these became at some future time inhabitants of Duxbury : Elder Brewster, Capt. Standish, Mr. Alden, Mr. Howland, Francis Eaton, Peter Brown, and George Soule. Most of these were men of high repute among the Pilgrims, and often elevated to the highest offices among them, and in their number appear the names which we find, with so much honor to themselves, rc- corded in their civil and ecclesiastical history, and

imprinted on their military annals with imperishable fame. The name of Brewster is a token of their purity and religion, and that of Standish a memento of their persevering endurance, their heroism and their fortitude, while the names of Alden and of Howland have come down to us as fit memorials of that never-varying justice which has so nobly charac- terized the lives of their rulers.

" Brewster was the very soul of the colony. Striving with the holy design of meliorating the condition of his fellow-men, he voluntarily left the enticing allurements of a life at court and preferred the enjoyment with the people of God of those dear- est liberties, the freedom of conscience and the pure worship of their God in peace, even though in a wilderness it might be, to the magnificence and splen- dor of palaces and the presence of their haughty in- mates.

" Miles Standish settled in the southeastern part of the town on the peninsula in about 1631. He prob- ably built his house about the time of his first coming to Duxbury, or about the year 1632. It was occu- pied by him until his death in 1656. His son, Alex- ander, then succeeded to the estate, who, it is said, built an addition to it, in which he kept a store.

" No stone marks the resting-place of his ashes, and we must seek in vain the place where reposes what was mortal of the immortal Standish. He was prob- ably, however, buried on his farm, or perhaps in the old burying-ground in that vicinity at Harden Hill. He thus alludes to his burial in his will : 'My will is, that out of my whole estate my funeral charges to be taken out, and my body to be burried in a decent mannar, and if I die in Duxburrow, my body to be layed as nearc as conveniently may be to my two deare daughters, Lora Standish, my daughter, and Mary Standish, my daughter-in-law.'

" The landed possessions of Standish were extensive, and his estate at his death, for the times, was consid- erably large, amounting to £358 7s. His house and farm were valued at £140. Here are given some of the items of the inventory, chiefly for the purpose of

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showing the condition of the first settlers generally, as regards their domestic and household possessions : Two mares, two colts, one young horse, with equip- ments, two saddles, one pillion, and one bridle ; four oxen, six cows, three heifers, one calf, eight sheep, two rams, one wether, and fourteen swine; three muskets, four carbines, two small guns, one fowling- piece, a sword, a cutlass, and three belts. His furni- ture : four bedsteads, one settle-bed, five feather-beds, three bolsters, three pillows, two blankets, one cover- lid. four pair of sheets, one pair of fine sheets, and four napkins ; one table and table-cloth, another table, one form-chair, one common chair, and four rugs ; four iron pots, three brass kettles, a frying-pan, a skillet, a kneading-trough, two pails, two trays, one dozen trenchers or wooden plates, one bowl, and a churn ; two spinning-wheels, one pair steelyards, a warming- pan, three beer-casks, and a malt-mill. and personal apparel to the value of £10.

" John Alden settled in Duxbury in 1631, on the south side of Blue Fish River, and erected his dwell- ing near Eagle Tree Pond.

" In 1633 he was chosen a member of the Board of Assistants to the Governor, and of this body he continued, with few interruptions, to the time of his death. In 1640, however, and for the ten succeeding years, he was not of that number, being most of that time a deputy from Duxbury. In 1666 he was the first on the Board of Assistants, and through the remainder of his life he continued of that rank, and was frequently styled the Deputy Governor, and on him devolved the duty of presiding in the absence of the Governor, and on these occasions he ruled with dignity and perseverance. He was often one of the council of war, many times an arbitrator, a surveyor of lands for the government as well as for individuals, and on several important occasions was authorized to | Kemp, Kidbye, Knight, Lambert, Land, Latham, act as agent or attorney for the colony. He was chosen treasurer in 1656, and held that office for three successive years.

" He died at Duxbury, Sept. 12, 1686, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-seven years. He was, at the time of his death, the last surviving signer of that original compact of government, signed in the cabin of the 'Mayflower,' at Cape Cod, November, 1620,- the last of the first exiled pilgrims."

John Howland came here in an early day, but re- mained only a few years, and died in Kingston, Fcb. 22, 1672. aged eighty years. He was one of the leading men in the colony.

Francis Eaton, another of the " Mayflower" band, settled here in an early day.

George Soule settled here in 1637.

Of the twenty-seven heads of families, who arrived in the ship "Fortune," in 1621, these became at some future time proprietors of land in Duxbury : Robert Hicks, Thomas Prence, Moses Simmons, Philip Delano, Edward Bumpus, William Palmer, Jonathan Brewster, Thomas Morton, and William Basset. Simmons and Delano became permanent residents in the town, and here most of their descend- ants have resided.

Among other early settlers were Comfort Starr (the first physician in the town), Samuel Seabury (also a physician), William Collier, William Macomber, Rich- ard Church, Ralph Chapman, William Basset, Wil- liam Pabodie, George Partridge, Henry Sampson, Abraham Sampson, Constant Southworth, Alexan- der Standish, Christopher Wadsworth, and Edmund Weston.

Other early names in the town are Ames, An- drews, Armstrong, Arddaton, Arnold, Baker, Barker, Barstow, Barton, Bartlett, Bassett, Bates, Beare, Biddle, Bisbee, Bishop, Blush, Bonney, Booth, Bos- worth, Bowen, Bowers, Bowman, Bradford, Brett, Briggs, Brown, Bryant, Bumpus, Burgess, Burnee, Burton, Butler, Carver, Cary, Chamberlin, Chandler, Chapman, Church, Clark, Coe, Cole, Collier, Cooper, Corrannel, Cullifer, Curtis, Cushing, Churchman, Dammon, Darling, Davis, Davy, Dawes, Delano, Des- pard, Derell, Dingley, Drew, Dwelley, Eaton, En- sign, Everson, Fermside, Fish, Fisher, Forbes, Ford, Freyer, Freeman, Frost, Fuller, Gannet, Gardner, Glass, Godfrey, Goole, Gorham, Haden, Hales, Hall, Hambury, Handmer, Hanks, Harding, Harlow, Har- mon, Harris (or Harrson), Hartub, Hatch, Hatha- away, Hawes, Hayward, Hewitt, Hicks, Hillier, Hill, Holmes, House, Howard, Howland, Hudson, Hunt, Hussey, Irish, Jackson, Joice, Kein (Kean or Keen),

Lathley, Lathrop, Lawrence, Lazell, Leonard, Lenrich, Leyhorne, Lindall, Loring, Louden, Magoon, May- cumber, Maynard, McFarland, Mclaughlin, Mendall, Mendonne, Mendlowe, Mernde, Mitchell, Moore, Mor- rey, Morton, Mullins, Mynot, Ncal, Nelson, Norcut, Oldham, Osborn, Pabodie, Paddock, Palmer, Parris, Partridge, Peakes, Peirce, Peterson, Phillips, Pitt- cock, Pollard, Pontus, Prence, Prince, Prior, Ran- dall, Read, Reynolds, Richards, Richardson, Ripley, Robbins, Roberts, Robinson, Rogers, Rosc, Ronoe, Rowe, Russell, Sampson, Saunders, Seabury, Shaw, Shawson, Sherman, Simmons, Smith, Snow, Soule, South worth, Sprague, Sprout, Standish, Stamford, Starr, Stetson, Stockbridge, Switzer, Sylvester, Thach- er, Thomas, Thorp, Tisdall, Tinykin, Tower, Tracy, Truant, Tubbs, Turner, Ussell, Vincent, Wadsworth,

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Walker, Wallis, Wanton, Washburn, Waterman, Watson, West, Weston, Weyborne, White, William- son, Willis, Wilson, Wing, Winslow, Winsor, With- erell, and Wormall.

" The earliest residents were for the most part re- spectable, and some of them possessed of considerable property. The following list, containing in part the names of those in the colony who were taxed by order of the court March, 1633, will show the comparative wealth of some of them :

Mr. Wm. Collier. 2

Philip Delano .. 18

Mr. Edw. Winslow (M) .. 2 5 Francis Weston (West ?) ... 15 Christopher Wadsworth .... 12

William Basset 1 7 Elder William Brewster. 1 7

George Soule.

Mr. Jonathan Brewster .. 1 7

Francis Eaton ..

Roger Chandler.

Mr. John Alden. 1

Samuel Nash

4 Moses Symons ..

Henry Howland

Edw. Bumpasse.

Samuel Chandler. 9

" Their habitations were chiefly palisadoes, or for- tified cottages, and, in some instances, the gambrel- roofed houses, generally containing one large room, a bed-chamber and kitchen on the lower floor, with two large and two small chambers above, and sometimes an attic above all. The style of building which we sometimes see in ancient houses, that of a high front, with the roof behind reaching nearly to the ground, was then frequently employed, though this seems to have been the prevailing style of a somewhat later period. The one-story additions, now so generally adjoined to the main house, were then scareely known. Barns were very few in number, and their places were supplied by less substantial sheds and other temporary buildings. Their stock of cattle was generally abundant, usually consisting of one or more horses, with oxen, cows, sheep, and swine. Several orchards were planted at an early date by the settlers.

"Some of them owned slaves, which was not ull- common, and even to a comparatively late period. Samuel Seabury, who died in 1681, mentions in his will his negro servants, Nimrod, who was to be sold, and Jane, whom he gave to his wife. Other instances can be named.

" At a later period, Col. John Alden owned a negro slave, named Hampshire, who was married April 16, 1718, to Mary Jones, an Indian woman. Lieut. Thomas Loring, who died 1717, left three negroes, valued at one hundred pounds, and his son, Thomas, owned a ' negro man, Bill, alias William Fortune,' whom, it appears by the records, he determined (Dec. 1, 1739) to free 'from the yoke of servitude and bondage, for divers good and valuable reasons and causes and considerations,' after the 1st day of May,

1752. And, in 1759, we find in Church Records, 'Died Richard Louden's negro girl, about ten years old.'

" I have now before me a deed, dated 1741, given by John Cooper, of Plymouth, to George Partridge, of Duxbury, conveying to him 'a negro man named Dick, aged about twenty-three years, of middling stature.'

" Indians, who had been convicted of certain crimes, were condemned to be sold as slaves in the early times of the colony, as well as those who had been captured in war. A rather unpardonable offence in the opinion of the philanthropists of the present day." (Winsor.)

In 1643 the following were residents of Duxbury, between the ages of sixteen and sixty, capable of bearing arms :

Moses Simons.

John Washburn, Jr.

Samuel Tompkins.

Philip Washburn.

James Lindall.

William Bassett, Sr.

Thomas Oldham. William Bassett, Jr.

Edmund Weston.

Francis Sprague.

William Ford.

William Lawrence.

Francis West.

John Willis.

Francis Godfrey.

John Brewster.

Solomon Lenner.

William Brewster.

John Irish.

Love Brewster.

Philip Delano.

Constant Southworth.

Mr. John Alden, Sr.

Capt. Standish.

John Alden, Jr.

John Heyward.

Joseph Alden.

John Farneseed.

Morris Truant.

Thomas Bonney.

John Vobes.

Robert Hussey.

William Sherman.

Richard Wilson.

Samuel Nash.

Thomas Hayward, Sr.

Abraham Sampson.

Thomas Hayward, Jr.

George Soule.

Thomas Robins.

Zachary Soule.

Arthur Harris.

William Maycumber.

Edward Hall.

William Tubbs.

C. Wadsworth.

William Pabodie.

William Clark.

William Hillier.

Mr. Comfort Starr.

Experience Mitchell.

John Starr.

Henry Howland.

Daniel Turner.

Henry Sampson.

George Partridge.

John Brown.

John Maynard.

Edmund Hunt.

Stephon Bryant.

William Brett.

Jolın Rogers.

John Phillips.

Thomas Gannet.

Josoph Rogers. Joseph Prior. Benjamin Read.

William Mullins.

John Tisdall.

Abraham Peirce.

Nathaniel Chandler.

William Merrick.

John Harding.

William Hartub.

John Aimes.

"Yong" Joseph Brewster.

Francis Goole.

- Hadon.

John Washburn, Sr.

Samuel Chandler-80.

Gov. William Bradford .. ] Richard Church 1

Mr. John Howland .. 1

Capt. Standish. 0 18

Francis Sprague .. 0 18 Experience Mitchell 0 18

9 9 9 9 9 9

Robert Bartlett (Ply.)

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CHAPTER II.

WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.

IN 1773 the first minute company iu the town was raised, with Ichabod Alden, captain ; Andrew Samp- son, lieutenant ; and Judah Alden, ensign. The company was as follows :

Samuel Loring, sergt. Joshua Cushing, corp. James Shaw, corp.

Peter Bradford, sergt.

John Hanks, sergt.

John Drew, drummer.

Daniel Loring, sergt.

Amherst Alden, fifer.

Privates.

Samnel Alden.

Thomas Chandler.

Thaddens Ripley. John Southworth.

Samnel Chandler.

Joshua Sprague.

Thomas Dawes.

Thomas Sprague.

Nathaniel Delano.

Samnel Sprague.

Lnther Delano.

Uriah Sprague.

Berzilla Delano.

William Sampson.

Thomas Delano.

Ichahod Sampson.

Seraiah Glass. Joseph Wadsworth.

Peleg Gnllifer.

Charles Thomas.

John Glass.

Prince Thomas.

John Oldham.

Consider Thomas.

John Osyer.

Wait Wadsworth.

Kimhall Ripley.

Seneca Wadsworth.

" Some time after this a regiment of minute-men was formed out of Plymouth County, and Theophilus Cotton, of Plymouth, was chosen colonel; Ichabod Alden, of Duxbury, lieutenant-colonel ; and Ebenezer Sprout, of Middleboro', major.

" Mr. George Partridge was now chosen commander of the company.

" The officers of the two companies of militia at this time were: of the first, Captain, Levi Loring; Lieutenant, Bildad Arnold ; Ensign, Benjamin Free- man; of the second, Captain, Calvin Partridge; Lieutenant, Elijah Baker ; Ensign, Adam Fish. The next officers were : of the first, Captain, Samuel Lo- ring ; Lieutenant, Benjamin Freeman ; Ensign, Na- thaniel Sprague; of the second, Captain, Elijah Baker ; Lieutenant, Nathan Sampson ; Ensign, Cor- nelius Delano. Capt. Baker was next promoted to a major.

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History of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 77

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1706

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1706