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John Lincoln.
Sergt. Ephraim Palmer.
William Mayhew.
Joshua Merritt.
Thomas' regiment, served from May 3, 1775, to Aug. 1, 1775, and was constituted as follows :
Capt. Nathaniel Winslow. Elisha Joy.
Lieut. - Barstow. William Jones.
Ens. Nathaniel Chitten- den.
James Jeffreys.
Sergt. Lawrence Litch- field.
Isaac Stetson.
Daniel Merritt.
Micah Ilinds.
Ebonezer Totman.
Matthow Stetson.
Nehemiah House.
Capt. Nathaniel Winslow's company, in Col.
Thomas Holmes.
John Ellms.
John Wright.
This company again went into service Oct. 6, 1775. Capt. Nathanich Winslow also commanded a com- pany that served two months and eleven days in 1776, in which company were the following Scituate men :
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Capt. Nathaniel Winslow. Sergt. Colburn Barrell.
Benjamin Woodworth. Josiah Litchfield.
Ezra Hayden.
Ezekiel Jones.
Elijah Delano.
Daniel Dunbar.
Abijah Clapp. E. Dingley.
Abner Curtis.
Joel Silvester.
Ebenezer Bates.
Israel Turner.
Elisha Stetson.
Barnabas Simmons. Barnabas Webb.
Josiah Hatch.
Joshna Merritt.
William Ford.
Adam Cushing.
David Ford.
Stephen Tower.
Nathan Stetson.
Lemnel Lapham.
Benjamin Studley.
James Lapham.
Elijah Sylvester.
Peleg Honse.
Samuel Ramsdell.
Charles Litchfield.
Issachar Wade.
Stephen Vinal.
Elisha Hayden.
Abner Honse.
Joshua Sprague.
Abner Litchfeld. Reuben Curtis.
On the expedition to Bristol, R. I., March, 1777, the company of Capt. Hayward Peirce was called out of Col. John Cushing's regiment, and served about fifteen days. On the pay-roll for this service are the following Scituate men :
Capt. Hayward Peirce. Lot Litchfield. .
Lient. Calvin Peirce.
Isaac Collier.
Lieut. Israel Litchfield.
Jonathan Collier.
Clerk James Jenkins.
Sergt. Benjamin Bailey. Sergt. Micah Mott.
Corp. Eleazer Peakes.
Corp. Zadock Damon.
Drummer Wm. Studley.
Matthew Peirce.
Fifer Abner Sntton.
Elisha Hyland.
Melzar Merritt.
Thomas Curtis. Paul Bailey.
Nehemiah Merritt.
Abner Bailey.
Joshua Merritt.
Elisha Litchfield.
Gideon Jenkins.
Thomas Litchfield.
Daniel Litchfield.
Barnabas Litchfield.
Robert Vinal.
Charles Litchfield.
John Studley.
John Litchfield.
Daniel Briggs.
Eleazer Litchfield.
John Cushing.
Amos Litchfield.
In Capt. Edward Sparrow's company of Col. Tyler's regiment, which served three and one-half months, were the following Scituate men :
Oliver Delano.
James Lapham.
Daniel Hayden.
Prince Witherell.
Jesse Sntton.
Richard Witherell.
The following served in 1780, though in what organization cannot be stated :
Thomas Church.
James Cushing.
William Lincoln.
Nehemiah Manson.
Asher Freeman.
George Merritt.
Samuel Stoddard.
Nehemiah Sampson.
Ezra Hayden.
The pay-roll of Capt. Joseph Stetson's company shows the following soldiers, who marched from Scit- uate to Hingham on an alarm March 24, 1776, in consequence of the taking possession of Dorchester Heights :
Capt. Joseph Stetson. Lieut. Jacob Turner.
Stephen Damon.
Daniel Edwards.
Lieut. Elisha Curtis.
Samuel Damon.
Simon Damon.
Joseph Briggs. Nathaniel Turner.
Sergt. Elisha Foster. Sergt. Lawrence Litchfield Sergt. James Nash.
Corp. William Brooks.
Corp. Consider Merritt.
Calvin Damon.
William Studley.
Josiah Damon.
Joseph Sylvester.
Fifer Nathaniel Barstow. Noah Nichols.
Isaac Torrey.
B. Simmons.
Jonathan Brown.
Samuel Simmons.
Stephen Wade.
Ensign Brown.
Josiah Wade.
David Barnes.
Thomas Lapham.
Thomas Ruggles.
Thomas Grose.
James Stockbridge.
Benjamin Curtis.
Elijah Stoddard.
Levi Nash.
Benjamin Delano.
Theophilus Corthell.
James Clapp.
Gideon Jenkins.
Joshua Merritt.
J. Prouty. Josiah Litchfield.
Peleg Curtis.
Eleazer Peakes.
Charles Totman.
Jonathan Mann.
Richard Ford.
Jabez Standley.
Thesc were in service five days at that time. In November, 1776, the same company was called out again.
In Capt. Edward Sparrow's company of Col. Dyke's regiment of new levies from Massachusetts for service in Rhode Island, December, 1777 (length of service one month and three days) were these Scituate men :
Israel Cowen. Luther Brooks.
Knight Brown.
George Merritt.
Daniel Hayden. Jonathan Brown.
Jesse Sutton.
Serving in Capt. Joseph Stetson's company, Col. Dike's regiment, from Dec. 1, 1776, to February, 1777, werc Scituate men as follows :
Capt. Joseph Stetson. John Gibbs. Calvin Jenkins.
William Brooks.
Israel Nash. Gamaliel Curtis.
Thomas Lapham. Michael Clapp.
Charles Turner. Benjamin Briggs.
Amiel Studley. H. Stoddard.
Thomas Church. Benjamin Curtis.
Abiah Clapp. Theophilus Corthell.
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Caleb Litchfield.
Abijah Turner.
Nathaniel Jones. 27
Noah Stoddard.
Laban Sprague. Calviu Bowker.
Seth Bates. Warren Torrey. Nathaniel Tower.
Ensign Francis Cushing. Sergt. Benjamin Holmes.
Nathaniel Brooks. Levi Wade. Laban Sprague.
Corp. Gathebus Cowing.
Corp. Benjamin Vassall.
Drummer John Doroty.
Elijah Clapp. Seth Merritt. John Wade.
John Whitcomb.
Ebenezer Totman.
Joseph Venal, Jr.
John Damon.
Joseph Damon. Levi Newell.
Seth Merritt.
George Torrey.
Thomas Farrar. Amos Dunbar.
Silvanus Clapp.
Calvin Jenkins. Abner Briggs.
Isaac Lapham. Asa Lapham.
Sergt. John Sutton. Fifer Silvanus Pero.
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Frederick Hammond.
Abnor Dwelley.
Isaiah Stoddard.
John Brown.
- - Hayden.
Isaae Brown.
John Whiteomb.
Robert Erskine.
Issachar Wado.
Thomas Grace.
Georgo Torrey. Abijah Clapp.
Following arc the names of Scituate men who en- listed for six months in 1780 to reinforce the Conti- nental army :
Ezra Hayden. William Lineoln.
Samuel Stoddard.
Nehemiah Sampson.
Asher Freeman.
George Merritt.
Nathaniel Jordan.
Nehemiah Manson.
James Cushing. Thomas Church.
Among the Scituate men enlisted for three years in the Continental army were the following :
Benjamin Collamore.
Daniel Corlew.
James Litehfield.
William Studley.
Gideon Stetson.
William Nicholson.
William Mayhew. Winsor Baker.
Anthony Collamore. Asaph Jacobs.
John Wright. Peleg Hayden.
William Mann. John Gibbs.
Benjamin Woodworth.
Seth Oreutt.
Abial Turner.
Frederiek Hammond.
Consider Turner.
Elisha Gross.
Joshua Gannett.
The most of these appear to have served in Capt. Jacob Wales' company in the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, and to have received the United States bounty of three hundred dollars, namely :
John Wright. Seth Orcutt.
William Mayhew.
William Nicholson.
Anthony Collamore.
Consider Turner.
Frederick Hammond.
Peleg Hayden.
Winsor Baker.
Benjamin Woodworth.
Daniel Corlew. Ebenezer Totman.
William Mann.
William Studley.
These were enlisted in 1777, 1778, and 1779, and served until some time in 1780 or later. Simeon Granderson, Noah Barrell, Edward Humphrey, Lynde Tower, and Robert Cook also served in that war. Capt. John Jacob and Capt. John Clapp both became colonels during the war for independence.
Under the resolve of the General Assembly of June 9, 1779, calling for nine months' men for the Continental army, the quota assigned to Scituate to raise was thirteen, and was filled by the enlistment of the following men, viz. :
Calogus Vinal.
William McNevin.
Amasa Hyland.
Thomas Church.
Josialı Lorand. Elislia Dunbar.
Calvin Damon.
Joshua Compsett (an In-
Bonjamin Turner.
dian).
James Cushing. William Hyland.
Daniel Corlow.
For three years' service in the same army, under resolve of General Assembly, Dec. 2, 1780, the quota
of Scituate was thirty-four men, and was filled as follows, namely :
William Perry.
Israel Mahew.
John Russell. Elisha Hayden.
James Barrell, Jr. James Stotson.
Nathaniel Cook. Benjamin Jones.
Simeon Stoddard.
Ezra Ilayden.
Asher Freeman.
Matthew Peiree.
James Barrell. Amos Perry.
Isaac J. Woodworth. Ziba Sutton.
Warren Little. Calla Brown.
Samuel Sprague.
Jolın M. Gill.
Levi Bowker.
Eli Litchfield.
Roger Clapp. George Mann.
Nathaniel Jordan. Ezekiel Merritt.
James Cushing. Nehemiah Manson.
Jonathan Brown.
Thomas Nichols.
Bela Brown.
William Lincoln.
Charles Church.
Signor Layong.
There is probably no better conclusion to be found for this sketch of the part Scituate took in the Revo- lution than in the following instructions given the town to its representatives in 1787. It lays down good, sound political doctrines, some of which are not obsolete yet :
" At this eritical and alarming period it may not be unwel- come to you that your Constituents communicate to you their sentiments. While our Constitution remains unehanged, as ordained by the People in the eivil Compaet, it is the indispen- sable duty of every eitizen to support it. At the same time, there are grievanees, as we conceive, under which the people of this Commonwealth labour, which we would instruct you at the next Session of General Court to endeavor to redress. At a time when the people feel themselves heavily pressed with public debt, wisdom, policy, and justice demand that every possible means consistent with justiee and reputation be de- vised for their relief. You will therefore endeavor to render the salaries of all public officers suitable to the abilities of the people. It cannot be supposed that infant States, however fair and promising their prospects, should launch into the ex- pence and pomp of old and affluent Nations, but that such a state must rise to respect by a conduet suitable to its situation, circumstances, and abilities. You will therefore, on investiga- tion, endeavor that sueh retrenchments be made and such reg- ulations be adopted as the reputation of our Republican Gov- ernment, connected with prosent circumstances, renders most necessary. And in order to ease tho poople as much as possible from direct taxation, we think proper to instruct you to nse your endeavor that exeises may be laid on superfluities and artieles of foreign luxury, and such domestic artieles as aro not necessaries, and especially on thoso unnecessary articles of foroign produce that lure to luxury aud dissipation.
" And whereas, we believe thero aro some people in this Com- monwealth so blind to the common good as to use their endoav- ors that a paper currency be emittod by this Government, be- lieving, as we do, that a more fatal Engino of injustice and mischiof (in our present cireumstanoos) could not bo devisod, you will romouibor that you aro instruetod by your Constituents to opposo it.
" And as without the ostablishmont of publick oredit and confidence a Nation must soon fall to oontompt and ruin, you are to ondeavor to the utmost of your powor for their rooovery
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Samuel Hyland.
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and re-establishment by maintaining public honor, honesty, and justice.
"You are also to use your endeavor that a law may be made by this General Court empowering towns to raise money by taxing polls and estates, for the purpose of encouraging men to enlist in the State or Continental service whenever called for by the Government, and providing that military officers shall not detach men from the companies in such Towns as will sea- sonably procure their proportion of men in a more equitable way by encouraging them to enlist."
War of 1812 .- The declaration of war against England in 1812 caused intense political excite- ment. It was considered by the people of Scituate as greatly detrimental to their interests, and they would rather overlook the aggressions of England than suffer the hardships of a state of war. It inter- rupted business generally, stopped their ship-building, drove their vessels into the harbor, raised the price of all the necessaries of life,-flour being eighteen dollars a barrel, corn over two dollars a bushel, and other provisions in like proportion. For these reasons not many soldiers enlisted for distant service, but they had something to do at home. A British man-of- war cruising off the coast landed some men and burned the vessels in the harbor. by which ten coast- ers and fishing vessels were lost to the town. This was in 1814. In consequence of this, and of the frequent presence of English vessels off the coast, the militia was mustered and marched to the shore, and men drafted for duty on the coast-guard. In this way many served for weeks and months, as the shore and river was constantly guarded from the time of burning the shipping till the close of the war a few months after. For these services, for which some were drafted and some volunteered, many men of Scituate and their widows have received bounty land. The feeling against those who might be held in any way responsible for this war was very strong, and showed itself in the almost fiercely cool treatment re- ceived by Col. Charles Turner on his return from Washington. He was member of Congress from that district, and was the only Massachusetts member who voted for the war. It raised such a furor of indigna- tion that his townsmen of Scituate avoided all inter- course with him, and upon his going to Plymouth he was mobbed in the streets of that old seaport. Such was the violence of the assault upon him that several persons, some prominent in business there, were ar- rested for the offense. Of those who served in this war occur the names of Capt. Edward F. Jacobs, John Clapp, Nathaniel Farrar, Lewis Gross, John Jones, Jr., John Gross, Benjamin Bowker, and Allen Clapp. These were members of the Hanover Artil- lery, Capt. E. F. Jacobs, and served with that com-
pany at Plymouth, Sept. 19 to Oct. 19, 1814. Col. Samuel Tolman did duty on the river.
The War for the Union .- The war for the pres- ervation of the Union, which began in 1861, proved that the patriotism of the present generation was worthy of their Revolutionary sires. The events of that war are too recent to require any record here, and it is sufficient to bring together for permanent record the names of soldiers from Scituate serving in the war of 1861, as they appear upon the rolls of the adjutant-general's office :
2d Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Harvey Conlyn, Thomas Jones, John Moore, Thomas Murphy Philip Rogan, Henry Wilson.
Tth Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. K, Nelson V. Hutchinson, William Litchfield, Edward H. Sylvester, corps. ; Thomas T. Bailey, Charles W. Clapp, William A. Cook, Joseph F. Crane, William Dunbar, Oliver F. Hayes, George W. Hodgdon, Edward James, Francis H. Litchfield, Galen Litchfield, Galen W. Litchfield, William G. Litchfield, Joseph O. Marsh, William O. Merritt, John B. Neweomb, Asbael T. Nott, Charles H. Nott, Hosea D. Nott, George W. Rich, David P. Robinson, Charles F. Sylvester, John Welch, Charles D. Young.
12th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. B, Nathan A. Rogers; Co. HI, John F. Cunningham.
15th Regiment Inf., Muss. Vols.
Co. F, Owen Clapp, sergt.
18th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. G, William R. Damon.
24th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. F, Nicholas Wherity.
26th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols. Co. E, Richard Walsh.
28th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. A, Elias H. Richardson ; Co. E, Michael Buckley, Francis B. Burton, George W. Rowe.
32d Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Charles N. Gardner, 2d lieut .; Co. A, Albert L. Pierce, corp. ; Co. E, Luke G. Fitts, John Tirrell (killed at Petersburg, Va.) ; Co. F, Edward L. Hyland (corp.), Elisha Brown, Joseph Brown, Edward L. Hyland, George B. Litehfield, William Litchfield.
35th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. A, James T. Andrews, Reuben L. H. Andrews, William B. D. Andrews (killed at Petersburg, Va.), William Dunbar.
38th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. D, Billings Merritt (sergt.), John Studley (corp.), Henry Brown, Anderw M. Hyland; Co. G, Hubert G. Bates (1st sergt.), Henry O. Cole (sergt.), George W. Merritt (sergt.), Charles Young (sorgt.), George W. Lee (corp.), Sumner O. Litchfield (corp.), Elias O. Niehols (corp.), D. Otis Tot- man (corp.), Setb K. Bailey, Charles E. Bates, James Berry, John Berry, James L. Brown, Samuel W. Cook, Caleb M. Jenkins, Warren S. Litebfield, Benjamin E. Stetson, Charles A. Taylor, David C. Withercll, John W. Young.
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39th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. C, Benjamin F. Merritt, Lemnol Webh; Co. G, Lorenzo Bates, Charles E. Bates, Androw J. Damon, Henry W. Leavitt, Georgo W. White.
54th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. G, Jason Prince.
56th. Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. I, Matthew Blair, Rufus W. Porter; Co. K, Georgo Knighton.
58th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. H, Thomas C. Brown; Co. I, George W. Perry (sergt.), Benjamin Brown, Jr.
59th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. E, Riley Danforth, Martin Dumphrey (killed in action).
62d Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols ..
Co. A, Oliver F. Hayes (corp.), Edward E. Brown.
1st Iowa Cavalry.
Thomas S. James.
The reference made to the patriotism exhibited by the people of Scituate in the war for the suppression of the Rebellion against the life of the nation applies equally well to South Scituate. There is not space in the limits necessarily assigned to this compilation to do even approximate justice to their devotion to their country. Their names, as they appear on the adju- tant-general's rolls, are, however, entitled to a perma- nent record here, and, as those rolls show, the soldiers from South Scituate serving in the war of 1861 were as follows :
2d Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
William A. Howard.
11th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. F, Daniel Caffrey, Michael Dunn.
16th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. B, Thomas Martin.
18th. Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
James N. Sparrell, Ist lieut. ; Co. E, Henry Poole; Co. G, Jo- seph B. Bowker, John D. Damon (corp.), George F. Stet- son (corp.), George O. Torry (corp), Henry A. Torry (corp.), Joseph B. Bowker, George H. Clapp, Stephen Clapp, Wil- liam R. Damon, Charles H. Damon, Edward Dover, Henry A. Farrar, Charles N. Gardner, Henry H. Gardner, John D. Gardner, Sidney Gardner, Joseph B. Goodrich, Henry W. Harlow, Joseph Harvey, George B. Hayden, Samuel A. Henderson, George W. Jackman, Samuel Keene, Elisha W. Lapham, John Lewis, Orlando C. Prouty, Edward Southworth, Ahner L. Stetson, George F. Stetson, Charles L. Stoddard, Joseph E. Stoddard, William T. Sylvester, Charles Tolman, Edward P'. Tolman, Jamos W. Warner, Nathaniel W. Winslow.
19th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. B, Octave Paris; Co. C, Bernard Conway, Christopher Conrad.
20th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. A, John D. Grose, corp.
26th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. D, Dennis Cronan.
28th Regiment Inf., Muss. Vols.
Co. B, James Byrnes ; Co. C, James Donovan, Charles Farrell, Patrick Monohan, Pavala Mikalical (unassigned recruit).
32d Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. A, David Bassford, Charles H. Clapp (killed at Laurel Hill, Va.), Elisha F. Coleman.
35th. Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. B, Charles H. Hawley.
39th Regiment Inf., Mas8. Vols.
John H. Prouty, 2d lieut .; Co. G, John M. Penniman (sergt.), John H. Prouty (sergt.), Alpheus Thomas (sergt.), Charles C. Young (corp.), Timothy B. Chapman, Caleb W. Clapp, John Corthell, Daniel R. Elwell, Benjamin W. French, Franklin K. Hanson, Benjamin W. Prouty, Isaac Prouty, William Prouty, Jr., Calvin F. Sherman, Thomas Simmons, William O. Thomas.
54th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. G, Benjamin F. Lee; Co. H, Warren F. Freeman, William H. Freeman, Henry T. Winslow, Richard S. Winslow.
58th Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. C, Napoleon B. Powell; Co. F, Clifton H. Vose, Ist sergt. ; Co. I, Lemuel Freeman, sergt., Addison F. Nichols, corp. (killed at Petersburg, Va.), Dennis Cronan.
61st Regiment Inf., Mass. Vols.
Co. G, John Stokes.
Municipal and Government Affairs .- From the signing of the compact in the " Mayflower" to 1639 the laws of the colony were made and executed by the Governor and his assistants. These were elected by the freemen in annual assemblage at Plymouth in March. It must have been a burdensome journey to the place of election at that season of the year for the Scituate men who had taken the oath of freemen. These assistants appear to be occasionally called the "Council." From Scituate, William Gibson was as- sistant from 1632 to 1634; Timothy Hatherly from 1635 to 1655. Oct. 5, 1636, the court ordered that four for Plymouth, two for Scituate, and two for Dux- bury should, " as a committee for the whole, be added to the Gov. and assistants" to revise the laws. The "two for Scituate" were James Cudworth and Anthony Annable. In one very important law enacted when this body met Nov. 15, 1636, the hand of thesc " men of Kent" is evident. The law of entail pre- vailed in England, by which real estate descended to the oldest son, to the exclusion from the inheritance of the younger children. But in the county of Kent there prevailed a local law called the custom of Greenwich, by virtue of which lands descended to and were divided among all the children. These Scituate men who came from that county in England knew of this law and its just and beneficial effect.
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Is it too much to assume that their influence upon this court procured the enactment of the following law, which in its ultimate reach and influence has be- come the law of the whole nation, and divides real estate equally among the ancestor's heirs ? The enact- ment is very brief, but had immense germinant in- fluence :
"Land after Greenwich hold. The inheritance to descend according to the commendable custom of Engl. and hold of Est. Greenwich."
William Gilson and Edward Foster were appointed the extra assistants the next year, 1677 ; Timothy Hatherly and James Cudworth assistants from 1655 to 1658. From that time to 1674-sixteen years- these gentlemen were excluded from being assistants because of their opposition to the persecution of the Quakers. and Scituate was not represented on the board of assistants. From 1674 to 1680, James Cud- worth was again an assistant.
During the Andros usurpation there were no as- sistants from Scituate, but from 1689 to 1691, John Cushing was assistant.
In 1639 it was provided by law that each town choose two deputies to the Colony Court, and Plym- outh choose four. Without giving their terms of office, the following appear to be the names of the deputies from Scituate, in about the order of time in which they first entered upon office : Anthony An- nable, Edward Foster, Humphrey Turner, Richard Sealis, John Williams, Thomas Chambers, Edmund Edenden, George Kenrick, John Lewis, James Cud- worth. Thomas Clapp, Robert Stetson, Edward Jen- kins, John Bryant, Isaac Chittenden, James Torrey, Isaac Buck, Thomas King, John Cushing, John Damon, Jeremiah Hatch, Samuel Clap, Joseph Syl- vester, and Benjamin Stetson, who was deputy in 1691 when the colonies were united. The assistants and deputies transacted their business as one body, though really constituting two as much as Senate and House.
After the union of the colonies the following from Scituate were elected members of the Governor's Council, Senate, and House of Representatives in the order of their first election :
John Cushing. Nathan Cushing.
COUNCILORS. Edward F. Jacobs.
SENATORS.
Charles Turner.
Caleb W. Prouty.
Nathan Cushing.
Elijah Jenkins.
Cushing Otis. Samuel A. Turner.
Horatio N. Gardner.
John B. Turner. William James.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Cushing. William Peakes.
Samuel Clapp.
John B. Turner.
Benjamin Stetson.
Samuel Deane.
Nathaniel Clapp.
Samuel Tolman, Jr.
Samuel Clapp. Ebenezer F. Fogg.
John Cushing, Jr.
John Collamore.
Samuel Clapp.
Peleg Jenkins.
John Barker. Joseph Otis.
Abiel Cudworth.
Thomas Turner.
Samuel Waterman.
Stephen Clapp.
Thomas T. Bailey.
James Cushing. Moses P. Rich.
Thomas Bryant.
Samuel A. Turner.
Amos Turner.
John Beal.
Nicholas Littlefield.
William James.
Thomas Clapp.
Ebenezer Stetson.
Caleb Torrey.
Paul Litchfield.
Ensign Otis.
Thomas Vinal.
Joseph Cushing.
Elijah Jenkins, Jr.
Gideon Vinal.
Charles Curtis.
Nathan Cushing.
William Cook.
Barnabas Little.
Erastus A. Young.
William Turner.
Thomas Conant.
Israel Litchfield.
George M. Allen.
William Turner.
George C. Lee.
Charles Turner.
Abel Sylvester.
Daniel Damon.
Billings P. Merritt.
Israel Vinal. John Manson.
Enoch Collamore. Andrew J. Waterman.
Daniel Litchfield.
Moses R. Colman.
Joseph Tolman.
James L. Merritt.
Hayward Peirce.
George W. Merritt.
Elijah Turner.
Amos W. Merritt.
Edward F. Jacob.
Thomas F. Bailey.
Jesse Dunbar.
Charles E. Brown.
Micah Stetson.
Since the incorporation of the town of South Scituate, Feb. 14, 1849, she has sent the following representatives to the General Court, viz. :
James South worth.
Samuel Tolman, Jr.
Samuel C. Cudworth. Edward Stowell.
A. Everett Stetson. Thomas B. Waterman.
Henry J. Curtis. George H. Torrey.
Horatio N. Gardner.
Joseph T. Hartt.
Lemuel C. Waterman.
William C. Litchfield.
Isaac Totman, Jr.
Alpheus Thomas.
Seth H. Vinal.
A mere mention of the names of persons who have served these towns in legislative halls is all the space allotted will allow, without any review of the char- acter and value of the services there rendered by them. That the town was always well, honestly, and credit- ably represented may be noted in passing.
The character of the earliest municipal manage- ment, and who were the first town officers, is involved in some obscurity. It has been inferred and stated that the earliest records are lost, but this is hardly probable. Some records are in a fine state of preser- vation as far back as the incorporation of the town, or near that time, and nothing is to be inferred from
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