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1 The writer is indebted to the " History of Hubbardston," by Rev. J. M. Stowe, and to Horace Underwood, Esq., for valuable information, which has greatly lessened his labor in the preparation of this work.
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most accomplished lady in town, the very elite of the ·place. And we are not sure but she possessed those elements of true politeness that, with the opportuni- ties and the culture of modern ladies, would have made her their equal. It was her evident purpose to fulfill faithfully the conditions on which the grant of land was made; aud this she did to the evident satis- faction of the proprietors, for in December, 1749, they declared that these conditions had been fully complied with, and confirmed the title of the land to the heirs of said Brown and their assigns forever.
It has always been said that Mr. Brown was killed by a deer, but all that is known about it is that on the 25th of November, 1746, he left his home to hunt in the woods. As he did not return, search was made for him, and on the 17th of January, fifty-three days after he left home, his dead body was found about three miles from home, near the Barre line. His gun stood by the side of a tree, and a large buck lay dead by his side. All else is conjecture. Of the death of Mrs. Brown there is no record. No stone marks her resting-place. The last mention of her is in the pro- prietors' records of December, 1749.
Whether the town was left without au inhabitant after her departure or decease we do not know, but there is no evidence that any one else came to live here before 1749. Probably one thing that prevented settlers from occupying these farms sooner was the fear of the Indians, who often disturbed the people of Rutland and other places near. As late as 1725 Capt. Brintnall was ordered to surround and protect with his company the meadows in Rutland, while the farmers gathered their hay. Then, as Barre and some of the other adjoining towns were previously settled, those who came from a distance would naturally locate where they would have nearer neigh- bors.
Molly Green, daughter of Israel Green, has always been reported to be the first child born in town. She died in 1826, supposed to be seventy-seven years old. If so, Mr. Green must have settled here as early as 1749. He lived on great farm No. 26. He was elected chairman of the first Board of Selectmen and Assessors. In 1770 he moved to Winchendon, that part of it now within the limits of Gardner. His four sons, who served in the Revolutionary War, were probably born here. His daughter, Susannah, be- came the second wife of Josiah Baldwin, another early settler, who moved from this town to Gardner. Many of their descendants are now living in Gardner.
Early in the settlement of the town, Charles Par- menter, Joseph Rist and Joseph Eveleth resided here.
Other early settlers were Charles Parmeter, Joseph Rist, Joseph Eveleth (who was the first one who united with the church after its formation, and was one of the first deacons), Joseph Grimes and four sons, one of whom was Ephraim Grimes, better known as "Old Eph Grimes," an eccentric character; Ben-
jamin Hoyt, Stephen Heald, Isaac Bellows, Johu Woods and Nathan Muzzey.
The following families were here prior to 1800 : Elijah Adams, Medway, 1774; Issachar, brother of Elijah, Medway, 1778; Reuben, brother of Elijah, Medway, 1786; Philemon Adams, 1780; Ralph Adams, 1780; Simeon Allen, 1776; Ephraim Allen, Rutland, 1788; John Ames, Rutland, 1769; Jonathan, son of John, 1795; Thomas Atwood, 1783; Isaac Balcom, 1795; Josiah Baldwin, 1768; Andrew Barber, 1777 ; Samuel Bartlett, 1795; Isaac Bellows, Rutland, 1772; Amasa, son of Isaac, 1790; Asaph, son of Isaac, 1796; David Bennett, Princeton, 1789; Abner Benson, 1790; Hugh Blair, 1773; Elijah Boyden, 1775; David Boynton, 1767; Ebenezer Boynton, 1767; Caleb Boynton, 1774; Isaac Bridges, 1773 ; Hosea Brigham, 1782; Asa Brigham, 1791; Samuel Britton, 1774; Eleazer Brown, Rutland, 1737 ; Ebenezer Brown, Sutton, 1788 ; Oliver, son of Ebenezer, 1798; Asa Brown, Rutland, 1787; John Browning, Rutland, 1785; Jesse Burditt, Marl- boro', 1775 ; Thomas Caryl, 1773; Jonathan Caryl, 1773; Joseph Caryl, 1773; Stephen Church, Rutland, 1774; Asa, brother of Stephen, Rutland, 1776; Eph- raim, brother of Stephen, Rutland, 1782; Reuben Clapp, 1791; John Clark, Hopkinton, 1774; John, son of John, Hopkinton, 1774; William, son of John, 1776; Moses, son of John, 1778; Isaac, son of John, 1784; Joseph, son of John, 1784; Ezra, son of John, 179 -; Luther, son of John, Jr., 17 -; John, son of John, Jr., 179 -; Oliver, son of John, Jr., 1798; Eph- raim, brother of John, Hopkinton, 1782; Samuel, brother of John, Hopkinton, 1796; Ely Clark, Barre, 1770; Benjamin Clark, 1782; Anthony Clark, Rut- land, 1768 ; Peter, son of Anthony, 1788; Amos, son of Anthony, 1789; Jonathan Clifford, Southboro', 1778; Robert Converse, 1767; Abraham Cutting, 1795; Israel Asahel Davis, Holden, 1793; Asahel Davis, 1776; Davis, 1792; Bela Davis, 1777 ; David Davis, 1790; Oliver Davis, 1781; Benjamin Davis, Holden, 1798; Joel Earle, Leicester, 1783; Joseph Eveleth, Prince- ton, 1770; David, son of Joseph, 1790; Oliver Fair- banks, 1777; John H. Falis, Germany, 1785; Ste- phen Farrington, 1773: Elijah Farrington, 1773; William Follett, Attleboro', 1766; Samuel Follett, Attleboro', 1775; Stephen Frost, Rutland, 1794; Daniel Gage, 1778; Jonathan Gates, Rutland, 1770 ; Henry Gates, Framingham, 1787; Benjamin Gates, 1793 ; Abner Gay, Dedham, 1797; Bezaleel Gleason, 1790; Thomas Gleason, 1793; Clark Gleason, 1797; Seth Gleason, 1787; Peter Goodnough, 1773; Isaac Goodspeed, Barnstable, 1782; Isaac, son of Isaac, Barnstable, 1782; Luther, son of Isaac, Barnstable, 1794 ; Heman, son of Isaac, Barnstable, 1793 ; Elijah, son of Isaac, Barnstable, 1793; Israel Green, 1749; Joseph Green, Lexington, 1773 ; Abijah Greenwood, Holden, 1770; Moses, brother of Abijah, Holden, 1770 ; Levi, brother of Abijah, Holden, 1770; Joseph Grimes, Tewkesbury, 1761; Bill, son of Joseph, Tewksbury, 1767 ; Joseph, son of Joseph, Tewksbury,
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1771; Ephraim, son of Joseph, Tewksbury, 1791 ; Calvin Hale, Leominster, 1788; Luther Hale, Leo- minster, 1788; Thomas Hapgood, Shrewsbury, Vt., 1795; Caleb Harrington, 1771 ; Abel Harrington, 1782; Ephraim Harrington, 1789; Stephen Heald, Rutland, 1762; Timothy, son of Stephen, 1785; Howard Hinds, Barre, 1778; Cornelius, brother of Howard, Barre, 1789; Eli, son of Cornelius, 1789; Nathan Holden, 1781 ; Ephraim Holt, Holden, 1797 ; Jonathan How, 1771; Dauiel How (d. 1776), 1775; Israel How, Sudbury, 1770; Buckley, brother of Israel, Sudbury, 1770; Micah Howe, Rutland, 1781; Daniel How (d. 1810), 1799 ; Ben- jamin Hoyt, Rutland, 1767; Francis, son of Ben- jamin, Rutland, 1774; Asa, son of Benjamin, Rut- land, 1776; Alexander Hunting, Marlboro', 1795; Stephen Hunting, Needham, 1779; William, son of Stephen, Needham, 1779; Stephen, son of Stephen, Needham, 1790; Converse, son of Stephen, Need- ham, 1788; Moses, son of Stephen, Needham, 1792; John Jones, 1778; Silas Jones, 1788; Ebenezer Joslin, Marlboro', 1770; William, son of Ebenezer, 1797; Silas, son of Ebenezer, 1789; Daniel Kinsman, 1770; Samuel, son of Daniel, 1793; James Lamb, Spencer, 1796; James Lake, 1790; John LeBourveau, 1767; Joseph Love- well, Needham, 1798; Bezaleel Lyon, Barre, 1771; Asa, son of Bezaleel, 1799; Ebenezer Mann, Wren- tham, 1777; William Marean, Barre, 1768; Timothy P., son of William, 1797; Paul , Matthews, 1787; John W. McClenathan, Rutland, 1774; Israel Mead, 1768; John Mead, 1768; Levi Mead, 1768; David Merriam, Westminster, 1782; Asa Metcalf, Wren- tham, 1758; George Metcalf, Wrentham, 1768; Phineas G. Miller, 1790 ; Paul Mirick, 1790; John Morse, 1768; Samuel Morse, Medfield, 1782 ; Samnel, son of Samuel, 1785 ; William son of Samuel, 1791 ; Alpheus Morse, Marlboro', 1775 ; Robert Murdock, Newton, 1776; Abiel, brother of Robert, Brookfield, 1791; Joshua Murdock, Newton, 1790; William Muzzy, Lexington, 1773 ; Timothy Newton, Shrews- bury, 1766; Joel, son of Timothy, 1793; Timothy, son of Timothy, 1799; Jonas Newton, 1785 ; Josiah Newton, 1797; John E. Newton, 1789; Joseph Newton, Northboro', 1777 ; Ebenezer, son of Joseph 1798; Jonathan Nichols, Athens, Vt., 1780; William Nightingale, 1771; William, son of William, 1788; Nehemiah Parker, 1768; Thomas H., son of Nehemiah, 1799; Hollis Parker, 1774; Levi Parker, 1786; Amos Parker, Shrewsbury, 1781 ; Daniel Park- hurst, 1782; Charles Parmenter, Rutland, 1767; Levi, son of Charles, 1792; Joseph Parmenter, 1774; Thomas Pierce, 1778; Moses H., son of Thomas, 1792; Eliab Pierce, Chester, 1789; John Phelps, Rutland, - ; Moses, son of John, Rutland, 1776; Joshua Phillips, Smithfield, R. I., 1764; James, son of Joshua, Smithfield, R. I., 1767; Richard, son of Joshua, Smithfield, R. I., 1779; Gideon, son of Joshua, Smithfield, R. I., 1786; Joel Pollard, Rut-
land, 1770; Ezra Pond, Wrentham, 1768; Levi, son of Ezra, 1785; Joseph, son of Ezra, 1778; James Potter, Holden, 1787 ; Josiah Procter, 1778; Edward Rice, Rutland, 1767; Ephraim Rice, Holden, 1766; Silas Rice, Holden, 1775; Ebenezer Rice, Holden, 1784; Edmond Rice, Marlboro', 1782; Abel Rice, Barre, 1791; Job Richardson, 1788 ; Solomon Rolph, Princeton, 1782; Thomas Sargent, Leicester, 1773 ; Samuel, son of Thomas, Leicester, 1774; John, son of Thomas, Leicester, 1776; Ebenezer, son of Thomas, Leicester, 1785; John, son of John, 1797; Edward Selfridge, Rutland, 1788; Joseph Shattuck, 1772; David Slarrow, Rutland, 1767; Samuel Slocomb, Med- way, 1779 ; James, son of Samuel, 1786 ; Peleg, son of Samuel, 1797 ; John Smith, 1774; Jonathan W. Smith, Boylston, 1782; Elisha Snell, 1779; Samuel Spring, Newton, 1785; John Spring, 1790; Nathan Stone, Rutland, 1768; Jeduthan, son of Nathan, 1790; William Stone, Watertown, 1774; Ebenezer Stowe, Concord, 1796; Joseph Taoor, 1799; Joseph Tame, 1785 ; Abel Tenney, Northboro', 1778 ; James Thompson, Holden, 1773; Samuel Thompson, Holden, 1791; Timothy Underwood, Holliston, 1771 ; Israel Underwood, Princeton, 1770; Nathaniel Up- ham, Leicester, 1776; Calvin, son of Nathaniel, 1797 ; Nathaniel Waite, Leicester, 1766 ; Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, 1792; Jacob, son of Nathaniel, 1797 ; Joseph Waite, Marlboro', 1782; Benjamin Warren, 1774; Ebenezer Warren, Rutland, 1781; Luke Warren, Northboro', 1798; Adam Wheeler, Rutland, 1766; Silas, son of Adam, 1786; Asa, son of Adam, 1791; Stephen Wheelock, 1781; John Whipple, 1781 ; Isaac Whittemore, N. H., 1797 ; Oliver Wight, 1793; Joshua Williard, Winchendon, 1785; John Williams, Lancaster, 1783; Jude, brother of John, Lancaster, 1783; David Winch, 1770; Zenas Winslow, 1793 ; Oliver Witt, Paxton, 1787 ; Daniel, son of Oliver, Paxton, 1788; Oliver, son of Oliver, Paxton, -; John Woods, Marlboro', 1771; Edward, son of John, 1795 ; Elisha Woodward, Newton, 1774; Daniel Woodward, Newton, 1776; Plilemon Wood- ward, Newton, 1776 ; Joseph Wright, Woburn, 1773.
CHAPTER CXLIX.
HUBBARDSTON-(Continued.)
Petition for Incorporation-Act of Incorporation-First Town-Meeting- Officers Elected-Various Votes.
THE petition for an incorporation of Hubbardston was under date of January 28, 1767, and in the fol- lowing June the territory was incorporated as a dis- trict. The following is a copy of the act of incorpor- ation :
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ANNO REGNI REGIS GEORGII TERTII SEPTIMO.
An Act for Incorporating the north East Quarter of the Township of Rutland, in the County of Worcester into a District By the Name of Hubbardston.
Whereas the Inhabitants of the north-east Quarter of the Township of Rutland, in the County of Worcester Labour under Many and great Difficulties, By Reason of their not Being Erected into a Distinct and Separate District, wherefore
Be it Enacted By the Governor, Council and the House of Representa" tives, that the Said north-east Quarter of Rutland, as hereafter De. scribed, viz. :
Bounded Southerly on the town of Rutland, Easterly ou Princetown, Northerly ou Templeton, and Westerly on Rutland District, Be, and is hereby Incorporated into a District By the name of Hubbardston, and that the Said District Be, and hereby is Invested with all the powers, privileges and Immunities that towns in this Province By Law Do or May Enjoy, that of Sending & Representative To the General Court only Excepted, and that the Inhabitants of Said . District Shall have Liberty, from time to time, to join with the Town of Rutland in Chusing a Rep- resentative, and Shall Be Notified By the Selectmen of Said Town of Rut- land of the time and place of Election By Giving Seasonable notice to the Clerk of Said District for the time Being of the time and place of the Said Meeting, to the end that the Said District may join them therein, and the Clerk of Said District Shall Set up in Some public place in Said District a Notification thereof, accordingly, which Representative may Be Chosen Indifferently fromu Said Town or District, the pay and allow- ance of Such Representative to be Borne By Said Town and District, io proportion as they Shall, from time to time, pay to the province Tax.
Provided, Nevertheless, and be it further Enacted, that the Said Dis- trict Shall pay their proportion of all Town, County and province Taxes, already Set on, or Granted to Be Raised By the Town of Rutland in Like Manner, 88 if this act had not Been Made.
And Be it further Enacted, that there Be Laid a Tax of one penny per acre upon all the Lauds Lying in Said District for one year only to En- able the Inhabitants of Said District to Make and Repair Roads.
Aod Be it further Enacted, that John Murray, Esqr., of Said Rutland, Be, and hereby is Directed and impowered to issue his warrant Directed to some principal Inhabitant within Said District Requiring him to warn the Inhabitants of Said District qualified to vote in towne affairs to as- semble at Some Suitable time and place 10 Said District to chuse all Such officers as are necessary to Manage the affairs of Said District.
And Be it further Enacted that the Town Clerk of the town of Rut- land Before the first Meeting of the Said District of Hubbardston Shall Deliver to Said John Murray, Eeqr., Copiee of the Last List of Valuations of the Real and personal Estates of the Inhabitants of said District of Hubbardstou in order to Determine the qualifications of Voters at Said Meeting, and that the Inhabitants who Shall appear hy Said Lists to be Voters according to Law Shall Be allowed to vote.
1767, June 12th, Passed By the Representatives to be Enacted. June 12th, Passed By the Council to be Enacted.
June 13th, Signed By the Governor.
Exam'd A. OLIVER, Sec'y.
In accordance with the above act, John Murray, Esq., issued his warrant June 25, 1767, directed to Edward Rice, a principal inhabitant of the district for a meeting for the choice of all necessary offi- cers. This meeting was held on the 3d day of July following, at the house of Edward Rice, and the following officers were chosen : John Murray, mod- erator ; Israel Green, Benjamin Nurse, Benjamin Hoyt, selectmen and assessors ; Nathaniel Upham, Stephen Heald, William Pain, surveyors of highways; David Slarrow, Ebenezer Boynton, Robert Converse, fence-viewers; David Slarrow, sealer of weights and measures; Robert Converse, field-driver; Timothy Newton, hog-reeve; William Follett, Adam Wheeler, deer-reeves; John Lebourveau, clerk; Ezekiel New- ton, treasurer ; Joseph Grimes, constable; Nathaniel Upham, warden; Ephraim Rice, tithing-man; Joseph Grimes, sealer of boards and shingles.
This place was never incorporated as a town, but became such by a general act of the Legisla- ture, passed March 23, 1786, by which all places incorporated as districts before January 1, 1777, were declared "to be towns to every intent and purpose whatever."
1767. " Voted to procure a plain of the town."
" Voted to choose a committee to collect the penny text."
1768. "Voted to allow Benj. Nurs 3s. for making the rats (rates) of the town."
" Voted to pay Adam Wheeler for Bording ye Rev. Nehemiah Parker Four Sabbaths 68. 8d."
" For bording ye Rev. Nehemiah Parker from April ye 1, 1770, to June ye 13 following, 138. 4d."
December, 1775. "Voted to pay Wm. Muzzy for attending Provincial Congress thirteen days, and expenses, 1£ 5s. 7d." (about fifty cents a day.)
1779. "Voted to choose a committee to prevent monopolizing, agreeahly to act of General Court." Which we understand to mean to prevent specula- tion in the sale of provisions and other necessaries of life, by fixing the prices of those articles. This the towns were authorized to do once in three months, by the act referred to above.
September 30, 1776. One article in the town- meeting warrant was, "To see if it be the mind of the town that John Woolson, Esq., should set up a hospital for innoculating the small pox, according to the order of the Court of General Sessions of the peace of the county." "Passed in the negative."
October 12, 1796. " Voted to allow Dr. C. Wilson and Dr. Reuben Walker to innoculate for the small pox."
March 1797. " Voted not to have a pest-house."
CHAPTER CL.
HUBBARDSTON-(Continued.)
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
Response to Circular from Boston-Committee of Correspondence-Votes- Bunker Hill-Bounties- Depreciation of Currency-Names of Soldiers.
THE first act of the town in relation to the Revo- lution was under date of December 30, 1772, when a meeting was called and a committee appointed, with John Woods as chairman, to prepare an answer to the circular from Boston, calling for an expression of opinion upon public affairs, January 20, 1773; this reported as follows :
lly. We are of opinion that Rulers first Derive their Power from the Ruled by Certain Laws and Ruls agreed upon by Ruler and Ruled, and when a Ruler Breaks over Such Laws and Rules as agreed to by Ruler and Ruled, and makee new ones, that then the Ruled have a Right to Refuse Such new Laws, and that the Ruled have a Right to Judge for themselves when Rulers Transgress.
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2ly. Wo think the Parliament of Great Britton have Taxed us Con- trary to our Charter Right, they havo made our governor independent of the people by appointing him a Salary from home, and the Judges of the Superior Court, we hear, have a Salary nppointed from home, and have reason to believe it, which appears to us eo big with Slavery that we think it enough to arouse Every Individual (that has nny Ideas of arbitrary Power above the Brutal Creation) to use his utmost indeavore in a lawfull way to Seek Redress for our Injured Rights and Privileges.
3ly. We think we aught immediately, vigorously and unanimously, to xert our Selves in the most firm, but most peaceable manner, for ob- taiuing Relief. The Cause of liberty is a cause of too much dignity to be Sullied by Turbulence and Tumult. It ought to be maintained in a manner sutable to her Nature ; those who ingage in it should breathe a Sedate yet Fervent spirit animating na to nctiona of Justice and Brav- ery ; a free people Cant be too Quick in observing, nor too firm in op- posing the beginnings of alterations in a Constitution.
Signed,
[ JOHN Woous, ! GEORGE METCALF,
JOSEPH SLARROW, JOSEPH EVELETH,
Committee-Men { EZEKIEL NEWTON,
WILLIAM MAREAN,
NATHANIEL UPHAM, EZRA POND,
STEPHEN HEALD.
The record continues :-
After being Twice Read the vote was called for and passed in the afermitive.
Voted to put this Draught on the Town Book of Records. Voted the Clerk Transmit a Coppy of the Proceedings of the Destrict of Hubbards- ton to the Selectuieu of the Town of Boston.
Atts. JOHN WOODS, District Clerk.
Atte. GEORGE METCALF, Moderator.
The first Committee of Correspondence, chosen August 22, 1774, consisted of William Muzzy, John Woods, Stephen Heald, Joseph Eveleth and John Clark. Two years later Joseph Shattuck and Wil- liam Stone were added to this committee. Septem- ber 23d they voted to send John Clark to represent them in a convention to be held at Concord, in the month of October following.
December 24, 1774, the following article was con- sidered: " To see if the District will Chuse one per- son to represent them in the Provential Congress to set the first of February next, at Cambridge, and to be Dissolved the Tuesday before the last Wednesday in May, 1775, and to give him Such Instructions as they Think proper."
The following is the copy of another article and the action thereon : "Art. 6. To see if the District will Chuse a comtte to Draw up a Covenant for the Inhabitants to sign, in order to put in force the Re- solves of the Continental Congress."
The Comtte that was Chose agreeably to the Sixth Article at the ad- journment, presented the Association Drawed up by the Continental Congress, with the additional Resolve of the provential Congress, that is, not to by aney thing that is Imported from Great Britton after the first of October Next, let it be Imported when it would, it being put to Vote nud voted in the affirmuitive.
March 7, 1775, voted "To make void the Worcester Covenant signed last fall."
In March, 1775, the town voted to raise thirty minute-men, and if they should be called out they were to have two dollars bounty when they should march. Some of these men were called out at the time of the Lexington massacre, which so soon followed.
On the 14th of June, 1776, a meeting was held " to
see if it be the minds of the Town that Continental Congress should Declare Independence of the Colo- nies to Great Britain, and whether the Town will stand by the above said Congress in So Doing."
The Question being put whether it be the minde of this Town that the Hon. Continental Congress should declare the Colonies Independent of Great Britain, it passed unanimously in the Affirmative,-then voted, Should the Hon. Congress Declare the Coloniee Independent of Great Britain, as above Said, we, the Said Town, Solemnly Engage with our Lives and fortunes to Support them in the measures.
This action was taken in response to the General Court, which body had assured Congress of the sup- port of the people of this Colony. The question was sent out for each town to act upon individually, and thus this town was 'enabled to record its Declaration of Independence nearly three weeks before it was declared by the Continental Congress.
We are unable to learn the names of all the men who first enlisted in the Continental Army, or to what extent they were in active service. But to a call that was made before the battle of Bunker Hill, thirty men responded, one of the first of whom was Isaac Bellows. Other prominent men soon followed.
In the engagement at Bunker Hill, Henry Gates received a wound in the face, by which he was so dis- figured that he was afterwards known as "Twist- mouth Gates."
In February, 1777, the town voted to send two del- egates, John Woods and John Clark, to a convention to be held in Worcester, agreeably to a call from the town of Sutton, to form a County Congress.
At this period large sums of money were needed to meet public expenses, which were voted and assessed upon the inhabitants, and the tax-bills committed to the collectors, but nearly one-tenth part of the people were totally unable to pay, and long lists of taxes were abated every year. The treasury was without funds, and the selectmen were obliged to borrow from abroad, whenever they could do so, on the credit of the town. So great were their burdens that the minute-men, to whom had been promised two dollars bounty, were not paid till nearly three years after they were called out, although in January, 1776, the selectmen were directed to give them orders upon the treasury for their money. March 2, 1778, we find the following record : " 2ly. Paid to the minute-men that marcht after Lexenton fite, Israel Skinner, Joseph Shattuck, Abijah Greenwood, Asa Hoyt, Hugh Blair, Joseph Write, Stephen Farrington, John Ames, Isaac Bellows, Joseph Caryl, Asa Metcalf, Daniel Kinsman, Stephen Church, Silas Rice, Nathan Stone, Bezaleel Lyon, Enoch Devenport, Seventeen in Number, at Twelve Shillings each man. - - 10€ - 4s-0D."
There is no evidence that the thirteen others of the thirty were called out at that time, and the probabil- ity is that those who went found they were not needed then and returned.
When it became evident that the war must con-
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tinue for a long time, calls were made for men to en- list for three years; then larger bounties were re- quired. On the 11th of May, 1778, a meeting was called to see what bounty the town would give to the men who were then to be raised. Voted "To give 30 pounds to each man. Then voted to adjourn the meeting to Moses Clark's, Inholder's, to seven o'clock this day, and there the meeting Died a natural death." Very likely the reason for such a record is that they did not succeed in getting the men to vol- unteer, for on the 25th of the same month another meeting was held, at which they voted to raise three Continental men, and also voted that the men who should be called into the service in the future should be hired, and the town taxed for the same. Then adjourned to seven o'clock, when it was voted to give a bounty of one hundred and forty pounds to each of the three men. At an adjourned meeting, on the next Wednesday, this vote was reconsidered, and one hundred pounds was voted, "and no more," and a committee was chosen to hire the men, and borrow the money. Then adjourned to June 5th. But probably this committee did not find it easy to get either the men or the money, for June 5th they re- considered the last vote, and voted one hundred and twenty pounds. Then adjourned to June 15th, when they voted to raise eight hundred pounds, to be as- sessed on the town, to hire men as needed. These records indicate that they were in straits in regard to those calls for men. At the meeting May 25th it was voted "To make an Everidge of what has been Done by the Inhabitants of the Town Since the Conti- nental men have been Raised-then voted to Chuse a Comtte of five men to make an Everidge, then voted John Woods, Thomas Sergant, Joseph Eveleth, Ezra Pond, Capt. John Clark, be a Comtte for the above said purpose to make ye Everidge and hire men into ye service."
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