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" Voted, That James Penniman, Esq., Col. Edmund Billings, Azariah Faxon, Capt. John Vinton and Capt. Peter B. Adams, be a committee to use their influence with proper authority, to suppress any vexatious lawsuit, that may be brought by Dr. Baker against any of the inhabitants of the town, and that said committee shall be allowed for their time.
" Messrs. William Penniman and Joseph Spear entered their dissent to the last vote as being illegal and improper, as there was no such an article in the warrant, only on general terms."
Dr. Moses Baker was then a practicing physician in the South Precinct, now Randolph.
Even in this war, when the country was struggling for her national existence and independence, the love of money by the citizens of the town was paramount to their ardor for patriot- ism, as will be seen by the following extract taken from Mrs. Adams' letter to Mr. John Adams, then absent as a member of the Continental Congress, on the spirit of the times :- "I am sorry to see a spirit so venal prevailing everywhere ; when our men were drawn ont for Canada, a very large bounty was given them, and now another call is made upon us; no one will go without a large bounty, though only for two months; and each town seems to think its honor engaged in out-bidding the others. They draw out the persons most unlikely to go, and then are obliged to hire men. Forty men are now drafted from this town. More than one-half from sixteen to fifty are now in the service. If it is necessary to make any more drafts upon us the women must reap the harvests. I am willing to do my part; I believe I could gather corn and husk it, but I should make a poor hand at digging potatoes."
1779. " The town allowed to each non-commissioned officer
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or private that marched to Ticonderoga, Fort George and New York, seven pounds and ten shillings for their services, and the commissioned officers who went to Canada were paid ten pounds for their extraordinary services this year."
We find the names of the following Braintree men in Luke Howell's company, in Col. Nathan Tyler's Regiment, which did service in the State of Rhode Island for the month of December, 1779 :--
" L. Hayden, Sergeant; Seth Hunt, Gideon Hunt, Isaac Hunt, Nathaniel Hunt, John Hunt, Ebenezer Holbrook, Gideon Stet- son, Samuel Ludden, Abraham French."-Muster Rolls, Vol. II, p. 114.
The following Braintree men enlisted in Capt. Nathaniel Belcher's company, from the County of Suffolk, raised by an order of the Honorable Council, dated Angust 6th, 1779. Did duty on the Castle, under the command of Maj .- Gen. Hancock. Time of service, three months, six days.
" Nathaniel Belcher, Captain ; Richard Belcher, Isaac Smith, Joseph Mann, Samuel Porter, one name illegible."-Muster Rolls, Vol. XXV, p. 21.
A true return of the time and service of Capt. Joseph Bax- ter's company, of Braintree, in General Lovell's Brigade, who marched on an expedition to Rhode Island, in Angust, 1779, and in September, said company was discharged, sixty-nine miles from home. Served from Aug. 5th to Sept. 14th, 1779.
"Joseph Baxter, Captain; Abiah Whitcomb, 1st Lieutenant ; Zachariah Whiton, 2d Lieutenant; Nehemiah Whiteman, Ephra- im Thayer, Robert Gardiner, Ambrose Bates, Sergeants ; Samuel Lovell, Daniel Hayward, Laban Hunt, Aaron Pratt, Corporals ; Joseph Adams, Thomas Belcher, Asa Coplin, Sampson Dunbar, Job Field, Elijah French, Abraham French, James Hayward, Enoch Hayden, Nathaniel Hayden, Nathaniel Hayden, Jr., Ed- ward Savil, Jacob Spear, Caleb French, Zachariah Thayer, Silas Holbrook, Jonathan Oliver, Laban Pratt, Joshna Pratt, Ariah Pratt, Solomon Pratt, Luther White, John White, David Whit- man, Samuel Hunt, Jacob Joy, Thomas Gools, Abel Whiter, Thomas Rnbbuck, Jonathan Farrar, (illegible) Lane, Levi Lane, Thomas Wilder, Robert Wilder, Daniel Wilder, (illegible) Her-
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sey, Cushing Burr, Reuben Hearsey, Canterbury Bains, Stephen Stoddard, Thomas Stoddard, Theodore French, Daniel Wilder, Timothy Thayer, David Gardiner, George Whiten, Elisha Whiten, Cornelius Bates, John Hunt, Eli Lane, Malach Tower, James Stodder, Zebulon Willicut, Jacob Lincoln, Charles Burr." -Muster Roll, Vol. XVII, p. 193.
A pay roll for the men that were detached from the town of Braintree as a reinforcement to the Continental Army, in the year 1780, in compliance with the resolves of the General Court. Time of service, six months, two days. Discharged 240 miles from home.
"Charles Newcomb, Sergeant; Benjamin Pain (matross),1 John Lovell, Isaac Hollis, Stephen Pratt, Enoch Hayden, Nath. Hayden, Amos Thayer, Samuel Trask, Jr., William Hayden, 2d, John Savil, Amminidab Hayden, Jos. Arnold, Nath. Belcher, Jr., Stephen Cheesman, Samuel Hobart, Abraham Tower, Job Field, Joshua French, Jr., Elijah Belcher, Jr., Jotham French, James Holland, Robert Milton, Samuel Spear, Daniel Ilayden, Isaac Lufkin, Silas Lovell, Colly Wallis, John Kneeland (ma- tross), Peter Blackman, Bryant Newcomb, Lewis Glover, Greg- ory Clark, Nathaniel French, John Williams (matross), Thos. Hayward, William Hayden."
Six months' men raised to reinforce the Continental Army, agreeable to two resolves of the General Court, in Jan., 1780.
"Gregory Clark, Bryant Newcomb, Lewis Glover, Samuel Hobard, Samuel Spear, John Williams, Job Field, Elijah Bel- cher, Nathaniel Belcher, John Savil, Stephen Cheesmen, Abra- ham Tower, Isaac Hollis, Peter Blackman, John Kneeland, Robert Milton, Benjamin Pain, Joshua French, Isaac Luskins, Amminidab Hayden, Silas Lovell, Jotham French, Stephen Pratt, Joseph Arnold, Enoch Hayden, Amos Thayer, Nathaniel Hayden, William Hayden, John Savil, Nathaniel French, Daniel Hayden, Samuel Trask, Cornelius (negro), James Holland, Thomas Haywood, Charles Newcomb, William Hayden."-Mus- ter Rolls, Vol. XXVII, p. 3.
1. The term " matross " attached to a person's name denotes that the indi- vidual was designated to mount the forts or fortifications on the coast shores, or what would now be called heavy artillery.
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A pay roll of Capt. Thomas Newcomb's company, in Col. Ebenezer Thayer's Regiment of new levies from the County of Suffolk, raised for three months, to reinforce the Continental Army, 1780. A part of this company was stationed at West Point and part at Rhode Island.
"Thomas Newcomb, Captain ; Edmund Soper, 1st Lieuten- ant ; Samuel Horton, 2d Lieutenant ; Jonathan Arnold, William Horton, Anthony Hunt, Barnabas Thayer, Samuel Babcock, Sergeants; David Hersey, Drum Major; Obadiah Hayward, Fifer ; William Thayer, Nathaniel Vose, Ebenezer Hunt, Henry Field, Ralph Crane, Corporals ; Jonathan Cleverly, Gideon Her- rick, Matthew Pratt, Francis Newcomb, Zebah Thayer, Peter Pratt, Eliphay Thayer, Amasa Penniman, Amasa Thayer, Jacob Denton, Seth Hunt, Paul Wild, Luther Thayer, Nathaniel Arnold, Ebenezer French, Abner Thayer, Enoch Niles, Joseph Crane, Isaac Horton, Charles Whitmarsh, William Pierce, Rob- ert Vose, Joseph Tower, Samuel Hunt, Lemuel Hunt, Rufus Gulliver, John Burrage, Thomas Vinton, Gideon French, Caleb French, Zeany French, James Penniman, James Reed, William Henshaw, Lemuel Horton, Henry Crane, Samuel Fenno, Nathan- iel Ludden, Jacob Hayden, Timothy Thayer, John Thayer, Zebah Thayer, John Lee, Ebenezer Penniman."-Muster Rolls, Vol. XXI, p. 65.
Names of Braintree men raised for three years, or during the war, in 1780.
"John Burridge, John Lee, Henry Field, Wm. Gooch, Isaac Thayer, Jr., Matthew Pratt, Jacob Jones, Ziba Hayden, Samuel Hunt, Rufus Stetson, Amminidab Hayden, Thomas Brackett, Lewis Hayden, Richard Merrett, John Tomlin, Eben Penniman, Jr., Jacob Copeland, Nathaniel French, Nath. Hubbard, John Niles, Cornwallis Freeman, Samuel Belcher, Enoch Niles, Gideon IIerrick, Samuel Trask, Jr., Samuel Hubbard, William Hayden, Josiah Faxon, David Arnold, Thomas Hayward, John Williams, Gulliver Cato, Rawson Cato, Samuel Jones, Elisha Niles, Jopannschard Shallpasse."
It will be seen that there were several negro servants enlisted in this company, as it was the custom for principals to enlist their servants, to get their wages and bounty.
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Mrs. Adams relates in her letters that " The Continental Cur- rency had depreciated to so great an extent, that all the necessa- ries of life were advanced nearly to starvation prices. Writing paper, ten dollars per quire. Linens, twenty dollars per yard. Calicoes, thirty and forty dollars per yard. Broadcloths, forty pounds per yard. Potatoes, ten dollars per bushel. Corn, thirty pounds per bushel. Rye, twenty-seven dollars per bushel. Flour, from a hundred and thirty to a hundred and forty pounds per hundred. Beef, eight dollars per pound. Mutton, nine. Lamb, six, seven and eight. Butter, twelve dollars per pound. Cheese, ten dollars per pound. Sheep's wool, thirty dollars per pound, flax twenty. Sugar, from a hundred and seventy to two hundred pounds per hundred. Molasses, forty-eight dollars per gallon. Tea, ninety. Coffee, twelve. Cotton wool, thirty dol- lars per pound. Exchange from seventy to seventy-five, for hard money. Labor, eight dollars per day. Board at fifty and sixty dollars per week."
1780. At this time there was a great scarcity of men to go into the army, owing to the constant drain made upon the town to supply the requisition of the Continental Congress the years previous. To meet the present call of the government for more fighting material, the town assembled in a public meeting and agreed to pay the following large bounty as an inducement for men to fill the quota of Braintree. It was agreed to give each man one thousand dollars as a bounty, also half a bushel of corn for every day from the time they marched to the time they were discharged, or were obliged to leave the army, and half a bushel of corn for every twenty miles they shall be from home when they were discharged, and the town will pay them forty shil- lings per month, promised by the State in hard money, if the soldiers enable the town to receive the forty shillings from the State, unless it will be a greater accommodation to the soldiers to receive it from the Commonwealth themselves. The patriot- ic General Palmer made the generous gift of one thousand and eighty dollars, to be equally divided among thirty-six men who would first engage in the six months' service as a reinforcement to the Continental Army. For this munificent gift General Palmer justly received the thanks of the town. In June of the
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same year, General Palmer made the same liberal offer to nine men to fill the quota of the town, as he did for thirty-six men, which was thirty dollars each.
June 5th, the Hon. Joseph Palmer was chosen a delegate from Braintree, by a written ballot, to attend the convention for completing the constitution for the formation of a State Govern- ment.
July 17th, 1780, the town made the following agreement with the three months' men :- " We whose names are hereunto sub- scribed, agree to go into the public service for three months, upon the following conditions :- Provided, the town agree thereto, we to receive five hundred dollars currency in hand, half a bushel of corn per day or the value thereof in current money, at six months from the date hereof, also five hundred dollars more on our return, Provided we serve the three months, or in proportion to the time of service; the said last five hundred dollars to be increased or diminished according as depreciation or appreciation shall take place, and to receive the State pay and mileage as usual for traveling home. And the town to supply the families of such soldiers who are now gone, or are going into the army, with money as they may want for the support of their families."
First vote of the town for State officers was Sept. 4th, 1780, when John Hancock received 95 votes for Governor, and James Bowdoin, Esq., 11 for the same office.
1780. In October of this year the town agreed to raise the sum of sixty thousand pounds to pay for beef for the army and other town charges.
Jan. 11th, 1781. "The town assessed upon the polls and estates, seventy thousand pounds, for the purpose of procuring beef and other charges. After further consideration, an addi- tional amount of one hundred and thirty thousand was decided upon, to be assessed on the polls and estates, making in the whole, two hundred thousand pounds for the purpose of engag- ing men for the Continental Army, and for purchasing beef, and that the Assessors are instructed to use their discretion in assessing the above sum between landlord and tenant."
" All money lent to the town for the purpose of engaging men
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for the Continental Army, shall be exempted from a town tax. The Selectmen and Treasurer are requested to call on Colonel Quincy and ascertain of him whether he will lend the town a sum of hard money, and on what terms.
"Capt. John Hall was allowed eighteen pounds for a bill he received for taxes, it having proved counterfeit, as he had said. Thirty-six pounds was allowed Zebah Hayden for two counter- feit sixty dollar bills he received in payment for taxes."
April 2d, 1781. Capt. Joseph Baxter, one of the town's com- mittee, or recruiting agent to engage soldiers for the Continen- tal Army, stated that John Williams, the bounty-jumper, had agreed to serve as a soldier in the army for three years or during the war, and that he had also agreed to serve for the town of Boston, and is recorded one of their quota of men for the army, and that John Williams did by law belong to the town of Brain- tree, and that Joseph Baxter in the behalf of the town of Brain- tree, put in his claim for the privilege of securing Williams as a soldier for the town of Braintree, but was opposed by the com- mittee of Boston, and by them was driven to every extremity to have justice done him in obtaining Williams for the town, which he finally accomplished. The Boston committee then re- quested Mr. Baxter to return to them the fifteen guineas which they had paid to Williams as a bounty. Captain Baxter refused to comply with their demand and informed the committee he would refer the whole matter to the town of Braintree for them to take such action as they might deem proper. A public meet- ing of the inhabitants was called, and the question submitted to them whether the Boston committee should be reimbursed for the fifteen guineas paid by Boston to Williams, and it was de- cided in the negative.
In 1781, the privatcer Essex, of twenty guns, was fitted out at Salem, in which the following persons from Braintree en- listed, viz :- Job Field, Lemuel Clark, Samuel Curtis, Edward Savil, Josiah Bass, Thomas Vinton, Jas. Bass (colored), Greg- ory Clark, Lewis Glover and Bryant Newcomb.
They sailed for the coast of England and Ireland, in hopes of securing or capturing rich prizes. After having been fortunate in taking one valuable prize, they soon were unfortunate enough
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in having their high hopes blasted by being taken by the British ship, Queen Charlotte, of thirty guns, on the east coast of Ire- land, June 4th. They were put in irons and transported to Portsmouth, England, where they went through the hardships of prison life until their release, in 1782.
Another illustration of the depreciation of the currency will be seen by the instructions given by the town to the Collector of Taxes, in 1782, as to the basis on which he was to receive the Continental money for hard money, which was as follows :-- " One dollar of the new emission for forty dollars of the old, or one dollar in silver for one hundred and twenty in paper."
The following are some of the receipts for bounty paid for ser- vice in the Continental Army :-
" Boston, April 1st, 1782.
Received of Mr. JOSEPH SPEAR, Chairman of Class No. 11, for the town of Braintree, the sum of sixty pounds, lawful money, as a bounty to serve in the Con- tinental Army for the term of three years.
Witness my hand, JAMES ITOWARD. " Boston, April 12th, 1782.
Received of Capt. JOSEPH BAXTER, Chairman of Class No. 5, for the town of Braintree, the sum of fifty-seven pounds, lawful money, for the term of three years service in the Continental Army.
JOHN DAVIS. " Boston, April 2d, 1782.
Received of MATHIAS CHASMAN, Chairman of Class No .- , for the town of Braintree, the sum of sixty-nine pounds, lawful money, as a bounty to serve in the Continental Army for the term of three years.
Atest : Gardiner Gould, GEORGE WEST.
Nathan Smith."-Mass. Arch.
We have given the names of all the individuals of Braintree that we have been able to find who served in the land forces of the Revolutionary War. Still we do not claim that we have given all of them, as many of the muster rolls have been lost; especially was this the case in the last part of the war. Neither
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have we given any of those who served in the Navy, such as it was, which consisted principally of cruisers or privateers ; as on the rolls of enlistments for this service the place of residence is not given. We find many Braintree names on the list, such as Abel Hayden, Joseph Bass, Cleverlys, Sanders, Thayers, &c., but we should have to conjecture where they were from ; and this we do not desire to do.
The citizens of Braintree had just as much reason to rebel as the other towns that went into Shay's Rebellion ; the poverty of the times bore as heavily upon her inhabitants as it did upon other portions of the State. To relieve her grievances, she took the wiser course in adopting peaceable means, instead of the sterner method of resorting to open warfare, as will be seen was unsuccessfully done in many parts of the Commonwealth. To accomplish an amicable solution of her troubles, she called a town meeting, and there drew up and passed a code of reform- atory instructions for her Representative to the General Court to be governed by.1
1. " To Col. Ebenezer Thayer, Sept. 25th, 1786.
SIR,-This town having made choice of you to represent them in the Great and General Court this present year, apprehend it their indispensable duty as well as undoubted right to instruct you relative to some very important matters which ought to be so far a rule of your political conduct, as we have but just immerged from the horrors of a most tedious and unnatural war, and taken rank among the Royal Powers of the World, or ever had entered the possession of that darling freedom which cost us almost everything that was dear. The clouds are gathering over our heads, pregnant with the most gloomy aspect. We abhor and detest violent measures. To fly to clubs or arins to divert the impending ruin, the consequences of which would render us easy victims to foreign and inveterate foes. No, as Loyal subjects and citizens, inflamed with true patriotism we feel ourselves cheerfully willing to lend our aid at all times in supporting the dignity of Government, but inasmuch as there are numerous grievances or intolerable burthens by some means or other lying on the good subjects of this republic, our eyes under heaven are upon the Legislature of this Commonwealth, and their names will shine brighter in the American annals by preserving the invaluable liberties of their own people, than if they were to carry the terror of their arms as far as Gibraltar. We therefore, under these considerations, do instruct you that in the next session you give your close attention and use your utmost efforts that the following grievances and unnecessary burthens be redressed, viz :-
" 1st,-That the public salarys of this Commonwealth, be reduced in an equitable manner. We feel ourselves willing that every public officer should
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The roll of Capt. Elisha Wales' company of militia, in Col. Ezra Badlam's Regiment. This company was organized in a few hours, at Brackett's Corner, to assist in putting down Shay's Rebellion,1 and marched from Braintree, Jan. 19th, 1787, and was discharged at Northampton, Feb. 22d, of the same year.
" Elisha Wales, Captain ; Wm. Allen, 1st Lieutenant ; Daniel Baxter, 2d Lieutenant; Benjamin Hayden, Clerk ; Jos. Crane, Samuel Allen, Daniel French, Sergeants ; Nathan Tirrell, James Penniman, Jonathan French, Abraham Newcomb, Corporals ; Moses French, Drummer ; Thomas French, Samuel V. Turner, Jacob Clark, Silas Pain, Samuel Jones, Dennis Ryan, John Clark, Jonathan French, Isaac Hollis, Jos. Kingman, Seba Pain, John
receive a Quantum Meruit, but not an extravagant salary, and also that the number of salary men be reduced.
"2d .- That the Court of Common Pleas and the General Sessions of the Peace be removed in perpetuam rei memoriam.
"3d,-That the money raised by import and excise be appropriated to pay our foreign debt.
"4th,-We are of opinion that there are unreasonable grants made to some of the officers of Government.
"5th, -We object against the mode adopted for collecting and paying the last tax.
"6th,-We humbly ask that there may be such laws compiled as may crush or at least put proper check or restraint on that order of gentlemen denominated lawyers, the constitution of whose modern conduct appears to us to tend rather to the destruction than the preservation of this Commonwealth.
"7th,-That the General Court be removed from Boston.
" 8th, -That Real and Personal Estate be a tender for all debts when called for, provided the interest be punctually paid.
" 9th,-That certain premiums be granted to encourage our own manufactures.
"10th,-That if the above grievances cannot be redressed without a revision of the Constitution, in that case for that to take place.
"11th,-It is our earnest request that every Town Clerk be a Register of Deeds for the same town.
"The foregoing instructions were read this day in Town Meeting, and the town then voted that their Clerk should serve their Representative with a copy of the same, and that he record them in the Town Book, and that they be pub- lished in the publick print."
1. Shay's Rebellion, so called, was a sort of a communistic movement, which began in 1781, and broke out into active aggression in 1786-7. The familiar cry was raised that the rich were increasing their wealth at the expense of the poor. The predisposing cause of this outbreak was largely owing to the bankrupt state of the community at the close of the Revolutionary war. Depreciated Continental currency, excessive taxation, the great private and public debts,
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Bent, Samuel Ripley, Nedy Curtis, Seth Bass, Samuel Savil, Abel Hayden, Eliphalet Chandler, Micah Adams, Jonathan Mil- ler (who had served in Burgoyne's army), Peter Burrell, Caleb Hayden, John Spear, Elisha Hayden, Joseph Curtis, Nathaniel Hayden, Abraham Thayer, Benjamin Thayer, Bethner Penni- man, John White, James Thayer. The whole amount of the company's expense on this expedition was £155 9s. 4d."-Mass. Arch., Vol. CXCII, p. 189.
QUINCY LIGHT INFANTRY.
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This old and venerated company was incorporated in 1790,1' and was celebrated for its high military character. During its existence it was called upon to perform escort duty on all public occasions. In its ranks, for over half a century, were found many of our most influential citizens. The company was first
and as they considered the unjust method by which legal means were taken for the collection of claims. This created a strong prejudice against the Courts, and in some of the counties they were closed by the mob. The head of this insur- rection was one Daniel Shay, formerly a captain in the Revolutionary service. It however was of short duration, as the military of the State, true to the honor of the old Commonwealth, soon put it down, a few were killed; a large number taken prisoners, some of which were tried and convicted of treason ; "six were convicted in Berkshire County, six in Hampshire, one in Worcester, and sub- sequently one in Middlesex, all of whom received the sentence of deatlı ; while a number of others convicted of seditious words and practices, were variously sentenced; one, in particular, a member of the House of Representatives, was subjected to the ignominious punishment of sitting on the gallows, with a rope about his neck, and was finally let off by paying a fine of fifty pounds, and was bound to keep the peace for five years." Those desirous of becoming more familiar with this important transaction can find an extended account of it in Minot's Insurrection, and Holland's Western Massachusetts.
1. The following is a petition of the citizens of Quincy, for an Infantry company :-
" Jan. 18th, 1790. We, the subscribers, wish for the liberty of forming our- selves into an Infantry Company, that when our numbers amount to thirty-six, we may choose our officers, and that it may be augmented to the number of forty-eight rank and file including Corporals, on condition it does not reduce the other company below what the law requires. We agree that when said company is incorporated, we will readily obey the command of our own officers from time to timo, and will be obedient to such other officers as havo lawful
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organized by making choice of Mr. Daniel Baxter as Captain; Peter Brackett, Lieutenant ; John Newcomb, Ensign ; Eliphalet Chandler, Drummer; Benjamin Cleverly, Fifer, who agreed to fife for the company when on regular duty for three shillings per day-all other times, gratis. The captain agreed to furnish him with a uniform coat, the cloth to cost twelve shillings per yard, with the understanding that Mr. Cleverly was to return the uniform when he resigned his position.
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