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David Keyes
Jonª Powers
Jonas Pierce
Jos. Hosley
Abram Savage
John Brigham
Jonª Eady
John Watson
Joel Sawin
Abram Gale
Ichabª Fisher
Curtis Fowl
Joshua Stiles
5 Sept. 1774. Officers Resigned under Colº Murray by sending ye following Letter .- Honrd Sir. Having Recd Comm's of Hon" under your Command - Taking it for granted you was a friend to y' Country the contrary of which we were unwilling to believe - But since you have accepted of ye late appointmt as an Unconstitutional Counsellor, which we must own sur- prized us - Allow us to Enform y' Honor, that we no longer hold our Commissions under ye Present mode of Goverment.
5th Sept 1774. The Inhabts of ye Town of Princeton Being Assembled at ye Meeting House in sd Town after having passed several Votes - T'was put to see if the Town would Choose Military Officers to Lead and Order them in case of an Invasion of Arms, to put ye Late Acts into Execution.
Josiah Davis
Ricd Baxter
Amos Spring Reub" Parman™
Chamb™ Eustis
Elisha Gibbs
Eben" Colburn
Amos Sargent
James Curtis
Solo" Rolph
Alphes Hews
Luther Rice
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Voted in ye Affirmative - They then proceeded to Choose
Officers of till ye Eben" Jones Capt. -
Result of ye Gen1 Caleb Mirick Ist Lieut.
Congress be made
Jos. Sargent 2nd Lieut.
Publick.
Ep m Hartwell Ensign.
9th Novr 1774. The Military Company in Princeton being met for Exercis- ing & Dr. said Company in ye Art Military It was thought Proper to Raise a Company of men to be Ready at a minute's warning In case of an Allarm: as many other Towns in ye Province had done - According Officers were chosen by ye Company to Draw out or Inlist sd Company (of minute men so called) Viz
Boaz Moore Capt John Jones Ist Lieut. ye Last Page.
A List of ye Company on
Adonh How 2d Lieut. [Not given]
Field Officers Chosen by Commission Officers and Commission Officers Chosen by ye People in ye County of Worcester -
Thirtyeth of Sept 1774. Commission Officers met at Rutland District and made Choice of Field Officers for the Regiment in ye County of Worcester Viz.
Nathan Sparhawk of Rutland Dist Colonel Jonathan Grout of Petersham Lieut Colonel Jonas Wilder of Templeton Major -
Field Officers for ye Rigement of minute men Chosen at Worcester for Rut- land Paxton Hutchinson Princeton Holden Hubbardston Templeton &ct Viz
D of Petersham Colonel Benjamin Holden of Princeton Lieut Colonel Willard Moore of Paxton Major
Oct™ 1774
June Ist ] Records of ye Sad Divided state of ye English Nation and Not- 1774 J withstanding ye Disaffection between Great Britain the Colonies, has been for several years standing This Record bears date from the first of June 1774 when British Troops were Landed at Boston and Encamped on ye Common - with their Artilery levelled at ye Town of Boston - His Ma- jestys Ships of war in Boston Harbour, to stop all Trade and Commerce.
In July following Recd accounts from Gt Britain that his majestys Coun- sellors for ye Province of Massch. Bay were appointed Unconstitutionally from Home - which proved true - accordingly the most of them were Sworn - the latter end of Augt Large numbers of People Openly Visited many of those who had accepted of their appointments, and obliged them to Resign their Offices - A General Concern through the Country - Dis- tressing Events - Rushing in the flood, threaten to Distroy. Thos. Gage Governor in chief, Invested Power and authority from his Majesty to put
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the late Acts of Parliament in force - which if affected - fatal to ye Nation - many Unhappy Disasters happen.
Second of Sept Regular Troops take about two hundred barrels of Powder from ye Powder house in Mistick near Cambridge - the whole Province Allarmed being informed that the Powder was taken & six men killed almost every Town General march'd but were stoped by a second Information Viz. that no lives were lost, all Returned - Princeton Company march'd as far as Lancaster 3rd Sept. Setting of ye Court ye 6 & 7 Sept prevented by a meeting of a Large Number of Peopleon sd 6th & 7th days of Sept at Worcester for that Purpose
Committees of Correspondence in ye Several Towns in ye County of Worcester met at Worcester in Augt & Sept Several times, past many Resolves, Notes, &ct Respecting the Distressed Circumstances of America .-
American Congress Sit at Philedelphia in Sept.
Provincial Congress Sit at Concord fifth Oct".
Continental Congress Returned in Nov 1774.
It has been found impossible to ascertain the exact number of Princeton men who served in the Revolutionary army. The town furnished its full quota of men under the several calls, with one exception (in 1778) when it was deficient one man and paid the required fine of $100. There are no town records from which any reliable estimate can be made of the whole number of soldiers nor of the expenses incurred by the town.
A careful examination has been made of the military rolls and papers in the State Archives (many of which are in a very imperfect condition), and every name thought to belong to this town, has been copied and appears in the list below. Many of these men, probably a large proportion, especially during the first few years of the war, were volun- teers but it is impossible to determine the facts in all cases, so that our list includes the names of all persons credited to Princeton, for any service during the war - volunteers and drafted men as well as those that were hired. It is possible that some names have been omitted, and equally possible that a few of the names should be credited to other towns, but it is believed that the list is nearly correct. It should be remembered that some persons, remembered as Revolutionary Soldiers and living in this town, made it their place of residence subsequent to the war, and hence their names may not appear in this list.
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Captain Boaz Moore's Company in Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's Regiment from 19th of April, 1775.
Days
Capt. Boaz Moore
13
Elisha Gale
9
Lt. John Jones
9
Jacob Morse
I6
Lt. Adonijah How
18
David Haws
8
Sergt. Thomas Mason
18
Samuel Robbins, Jr.
6
Abraham Gale
9
Eleser Packard
8
John Barke
II
Andrew Barber
8
Corp. Chamberlin Eustis
9
Levey Wyman
Humphrey Moore
IO
Uriah Newton
8
Curtis Fowl
8
Joel Sawin
8
Fife Samuel Ferrington
8
Ichabod Fisher
8
Drum William Whitaker
9
Isaac Kendal
8
James Curtis
8
Thos. Nappar(?)
16
Isaac Parker
9
Norman Clark
II
David Everitte
8
Jabez Mynan(?)
8
Joseph Eveleth
9
Jona Geary
II
George Parkhurst
8
Jesse Fisher
8
Ephraim Hartwell
9
Phineas Gregory
IO
Josiah Mirick
9
Abijah Herrington
6
Ephraim Roper
8
Soldiers of the Revolution A
This list includes " Lexington Alarm " men and enlisted men belonging to or credited to Princeton. The names with an asterisk are those of men hired by the town, and no effort has been made to identify them.
t Died before pension act of 1818. # On pension lists. § Grand Marshal.
ABBOTT, ISAAC.
BALL, NATHAN.
BALL, SAMUEL.
BARBER, ANDREW.
BARKER, JOHN.
§tBEAMAN, JONAS.
BENNETT, DAVID.
Leicester, Vt., 1818. Died, Princeton, March 27, 1804, aged 54. Died, Hubbardston, Apl. 30, 1825, aged 74.
BILLINGS, SILAS.
BOARDMAN, WILLIAM.
+BOWEN, JOHN.
BRIGHAM, JOHN.
+BRIGHAM, MOSES.
§+BROOKS, CHARLES.
Died in service, December, 1777, aged 21. Died, Acworth, N.H., Apr. 2, 1841, aged 83. Died, Delaware, Canada, Aug. 13, 1814, aged 61. Died, Princeton, March, 1798, aged 66.
II
Isaac Thompson
18
David Rugge
8
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§CHEEVER, BARTHOLOMEW. CHEEVER, JACOB. #CLARK, NORMAN.
§tCOWDIN, ROBERT. +CURTIS, JAMES. CUTTER, BENJAMIN.
CUTTER, JOSIAH.
CUTTER, NATHANIEL, JR.
DARLING, TIMOTHY. DAVIDSON, GEORGE. DAVIS, ISAAC. +DAVIS, MICAH. Died, Princeton, -, 1785, aged 22. Died, Princeton (?).
DAVIS, OLIVER, JR.
DAVIS, SAMUEL (of Concord). §DAVIS, SIMON.
DODDS, WILLIAM.
+EUSTIS, CHAMBERLAIN.
STEVELETH, JOSEPH.
+EVERETT, DAVID.
Died in Army, June 26, 1775, aged 30.
FARRINGTON, ELIJAH. FARRINGTON, SAMUEL. FISHER, ICHABOD. FISHER, JESSE.
Died, Paris, N. Y. (?) Died, Paris, N. Y. (?)
#FOWLE, CURTIS. FOWLE, JOHN. +FROST, JOHN. Died, Princeton, -, 1783. GALE, ABRAHAM. Died, probably in New Hampshire. GALE, ELISHA. Died, Barre, Vt., Jan. 17, 1827, aged 84. Died, Brighton, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1836, aged 84.
GALE, HENRY.
GARFIELD, DANIEL. #GEARY, JONATHAN. +GEROULD, JABEZ.
GIBBS, DANIEL.
GIBBS, ELISHA. GIBBS, JOSEPH.
+GLEASON, JESSE. GOODNOW, DANIEL. GOODNOW, TIMOTHY. GRANT, THOMAS.
Died, Princeton, Jan. 8, 1838, aged 80.
Died, Clarksville, N. H., May 25, 1842, aged 99 years, 5 mos.
Died, Princeton, Oct. 3, 1785, aged 55. Died before 1789.
Died, Fort Ann, N. Y., Mch. 5, 1846, aged 84. Died, Watertown, May, 1833, aged 70. Died, Grafton, Vt., Sept. 4, 1841, aged 81.
Died, Princeton, Jan. 29, 1828, aged 69. Died, Princeton, Oct. 28, 1833, aged 85.
Died, Rutland, - -, 1801, aged 57. Died, Princeton, Oct. 11, 1790, aged 58.
Died, East Smithfield, Pa., June 12, 1802, aged 54. Died, Peterboro, N. H., Sept. 25, 1824, aged 73. Died, Orono, Me., 1846, aged 93. Died, Ashburnham, Mch. 19, 1829, aged 73. Died, Princeton, June 11, 1783, aged 34.
Died, Lancaster, probably.
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*GRAY, DANIEL. §GREGORY, PHINEAS. HAPGOOD, THOMAS. HARRINGTON, ABEL.
Died, Princeton, Dec. 2, 1821, aged 78.
§HARRINGTON, ABIJAH.
HARRINGTON, ISAAC.
HARRINGTON, URIAH.
HARRINGTON, MOSES. HARRIS, LUKE.
+HARTWELL, EPHRAIM. HASTINGS, CHARLES. HAWES, DAVID.
Died, New Ipswich, N. H., 1816, aged 70. Died, Ashburnham, Nov. 28, 1850, aged 90.
§HOLDEN, BENJAMIN, COL.
Died, Princeton, Nov. 24, 1820, aged 92.
HOSLEY, JOSEPH.
§+How, ADONIJAH.
§tHow, PEABODY.
Died, Princeton, Sept. 10, 1800, aged 63. Died, Princeton, May 9, 1806, aged 70.
HUDSON, REUBEN.
§tJONES, EBENEZER, MAJOR.
tJONES, EBENEZER, JR.
§tJONES, EPHRAIM.
Died, Princeton, June 21, 1784, aged 27.
tJONES, JOHN, CAPT.
Died, Crown Point, July 4, 1776, aged 33.
JONES, NATHAN.
Died, Ashburnham, Apl. 8, 1827, aged 74.
KENDALL, ISAAC.
§ĮKEYES, ISRAEL.
Died, Princeton, Sept. 18, 1841, aged 81. Died, Princeton, July 21, 1822, aged 79.
KEYES, PEABODY.
Died, Jackson, Tioga Co., Pa., after 1802.
+MASON, PAUL.
Died, Princeton, Feb. 20, 1799, aged 85.
§+MASON, THOMAS.
+MAYNARD, JABEZ.
*MCALLESTER, REUBEN.
*McMALLEN, WILLIAM. *MCMILLIN, SAMUEL. MEED, JABEZ.
+MIRICK, JAMES.
+MIRICK, JOHN.
+MIRICK, JOSIAH.
+MOORE, ABIJAH, CAPT.
§+MOORE, BOAZ, CAPT.
§tMOORE, HUMPHREY.
§MOORE, URIAH (of Bolton). MOORE, WILLARD.
+MORSE, JACOB.
+MORSE, JOSHUA.
Died in Army, at Boston, Dec. 8, 1778, aged 45.
Died, Weston, - -, 1782, aged 60.
Died, Princeton, June 15, 1790, aged 49.
Died, Boylston, -, 1796, aged 72. Died, Princeton, Oct. 9, 1802, aged 67. Died, Princeton, Dec. 19, 1790, aged 49. Died, Princeton, May 25, 1820, aged 66.
Died, Princeton, April 15, 1819, aged 73. Died, Sherborn (?) Apl. 1, 1787, aged 63.
Died, Princeton, Nov. 28, 1814, aged 81. Died in Army (Canada?), 1776, aged 22.
§KEYES, JONAS.
Died, Princeton, Nov. 4, 1779, aged 53. Died, Boston, before 1814.
Died, Princeton, May 27, 1821, aged 78.
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MOSMAN, ABEL. MOSMAN, JOSHUA. #MOSMAN, OLIVER.
Died, Henderson, N. Y., Apl. 30, 1835, aged 75.
NAPPER, THOMAS.
NEWTON, JONATHAN.
Died, Alstead, N. H. (?).
¡NEWTON, URIAH.
Died, Princeton, May, 1805, aged 69.
+NORCROSS, EPHRIAM.
Died, Princeton (?), Apl. 18, 1781, aged 18.
+NORCROSS, ISAAC.
Died, Royalston, May 2, 1817, aged 78.
tNORCROSS, JACOB.
Died, Princeton, Nov. 25, 1805, aged 54.
OAK, SILVANUS. OSBORN, JOHN.
+PACKARD, ELEAZER.
PARKER, ISAAC.
+PARKER, LEVI.
+PARKHURST, DANIEL.
PARKHURST, EFHRAIM.
PARKHURST, GEORGE.
PARKHURST, WILLIAM.
§İPARMENTER, LUTHER. PARMENTER, REUBEN. PATERSON, ANDREW. PEIRCE, JONAS. POWERS, JONATHAN. RAYMOND, DANIEL.
Died, Ashby, Sept. 30, 1835, aged 71.
RAYMORE, JAMES.
RAYMORE, JOHN.
RAYMORE, JONAS.
RAYMORE, THOMAS. ROBBINS, PHILEMON. +ROBBINS, SAMUEL, JR. +ROGERS, ELIPHALET. +ROPER, EPHRAIM.
Died, Weston (Warren), June 14, 1815. Died, Royalston, May 4, 1815, aged 78 ?. Died, Sterling, Dec. 5, 1793, aged 78.
RUGG, AMOS. RUGG, DAVID. +SARGENT, JOSEPH, CAPT. SAVERY, THOMAS. +SAWIN, JOEL.
Died, Princeton, Mch. 22, 1797, aged 65.
Died, Princeton,-, 1780. Died in service.
+SAWYER, JAMES. SOLOMON, PETER. STEARNS, BENJAMIN. #STEARNS, ELI. STEWART JOHN. STILES, JOSHUA. STRATTON, SAMUEL.
Died, Lancaster, Mch. 7, 1825, aged 67.
Died, Boylston, May 14, 1828, aged 70. Died, Holden, Jan. 13, 1838, aged 74.
Died, Plainfield (Mass .? ), 1803, aged 76.
Died, Royalton, Vt., Mch, 1813, aged 60. Died, Princeton, July 17, 1810, aged 54. Died, -, before 1798.
Died, Princeton, Aug. 1, 1850, aged 94. Died, Princeton, Dec. 30, 1823, aged 75.
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SUMNER, JOEL.
§THOMPSON, ISAAC. THOMPSON, JAMES. THOMPSON, SAMUEL.
Died, Princeton, Feb. 16, 1833, aged 94.
TILLER (or Tillotson), JONA- THAN, JR. TRASK, JOHN. TREADWAY, BENJAMIN. ĮVANES (or Vance), WILLIAM.
WHITNEY, SAMUEL.
WHITTAKER, WILLIAM. Died, Princeton, July 22, 1830, aged 86.
WHITTELOW (or Whitten), MATTHEW. WILDER, ELISHA.
WOODS, SAMUEL, JR.
WOOLSON, EDWARD.
WYMAN, JOHN (of Lexington or Lunenburgh). WYMAN, LEVI.
B
This list includes those who at time of enlistment were not inhabitants of Princeton, but either before or subse- quent to the war resided in the town. The identity of those names marked with a * is not clearly established. +ALLEN, SIMEON. Shrewsbury.
§BABCOCK, AMOS. Sherborn.
Died, Hubbardston, Dec. 28, 1805, aged 55.
Died, Princeton, Nov. 15, 1835, aged 76.
+BIGELOW, SAMUEL. Newton.
BOWKER, MICAH. Sudbury. +BOWMAN, SOLOMON. Cambridge.
+BOWMAN, THADDEUS, JR. Winchendon.
+BOYDEN, JABEZ. Medfield. ĮBRIANT, ISAAC. Rutland.
Died (killed), Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, aged 34.
Died, Weathersfield, Vt., Apl. 1815, aged 72.
Died, Ticonderoga, Sept. 9, 1776, aged 27.
Died, Rutland, June 4, 1836, aged 74.
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CHANDLER, JOHN.
Lancaster. Died, Princeton, March 26, 1832, aged 82.
CHEEVER, DANIEL.
Rutland or Lancaster.
Died, Princeton, Sept. 9, 1822.
DRESSER, OLIVER. Lancaster. EAGER, FORTUNATUS. Lancaster. +ESTABROOK, SAMUEL, JR. Holden. Died, West Boylston, 1816, aged 69.
§EVERETT, JOSHUA.
Westminster. Died, Princeton, Feb. 4, 1825, aged 84.
#FASSETT, JONATHAN, CAPT.(?). Shrewsbury.
Died, Boylston, 1834, aged 89.
FAY, SILAS. Northborough (?).
Died, Camden, Me., after 1816.
GALE, AMOS. Grafton.
Died, probably in New Hampshire.
GILL, MICHAEL.
Westminster.
Died, Princeton, August 10, 1840, aged 89.
+GOODNOW, EDWARD. Northborough. Died, Princeton, July 17, 1798, aged 56.
GREGORY, ISAAC. Weston. #HAGER, ABRAHAM.
Died, Weston(?).
Died, Rutland, Sept. 29, 1847, aged 92. Shrewsbury. +HARVEY, ZACHARIAH. Westminster.
Died, Chesterfield, N. H., February 15, 1801, aged 90.
HARVEY, ZACHARIAH, JR. Westminster. +KEYES, CYPRIAN (3d). Shrewsbury. KEYES, THOMAS. Northborough. §ĮKILBURN, CALVIN. Lancaster. +MAYNARD, ARTEMAS. Shrewsbury.
§+MIRICK, STEPHEN. Sudbury (?). MOSMAN, TIMOTHY. Bolton. MUDGE, JOSEPH. Needham.
Died in Army.
Died, Fairfax, Vt., Nov. 2, 1845, aged 90. Died, Princeton, Jan. 23, 1852, aged 94. Died, Sterling, -, 1808, aged 74. Died, Princeton, May 20, 1827, aged 70.
Died, Westminster, Nov. 9, 1822, aged 69.
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MUNROE, TIMOTHY. Rutland.
MUZZEY, WILLIAM. Hubbardston.
NORCROSS, SAMUEL. Westminster. §PARKER, EBENEZER. Lexington.
§PARKER, NEHEMIAH. - - (?).
RAY, ASA. Westminster.
RICHARDSON, MOSES.
Roxbury.
ROPER, BENJAMIN. Lancaster.
#ROPER, JOHN. Lancaster.
ROZIER, ROBERT. Rutland. SARGENT, DANIEL. Holden.
§+SAVAGE, SETH.
Rutland.
+SAWIN, EZEKIEI ..
Natick.
SKINNER, WILLIAM. Hubbardston.
SMITH, HUGH. Rutland.
+SPRING, AMOS.
Westminster.
+SPRING, THOMAS. Newton. STRATTON, ISAAC. Rutland. ¡TAINTER, BENJAMIN. Westborough.
THACHER, JOHN.
Attleborough.
§THACHER, OBADIAH. Attleborough.
§THACHER, THOMAS. Attleborough.
Died, Princeton, Feb. 7, 1836, aged 89. Died, Hubbardston, Oct. 10, 1830, aged 97.
Died, Princeton, Oct. 19, 1839, aged 89.
Died, Princeton, Jan. 12, 1850, aged 89.
Died (Roxbury?), -, 1835, aged 88. Died, Princeton, Nov. 1, 1826, aged (70?) Died, Princeton, April 10, 1833, aged 73.
Died, Worcester, May 17, 1838, aged 88.
Died, Princeton, Aug. 21, 1807, aged 76. Died, Princeton, July 21, 1817, aged 65.
Died [killed] in Army, Sept. 19, 1777.
Died, Worcester, N. Y., 1798, aged 65.
Died, Harford, Penn., Jan. 8, 1841, aged 82.
Died, Harford, Penn., 1838, aged 81.
Died, Harford, Penn., May, 1823, aged 68.
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TOWER, ISAAC. Lancaster.
+TOWER, JEDUTHAN. Rutland.
TOWER, JONATHAN. Rutland.
+TOWER, JOSEPH. Hingham.
+WHEELER, ISAAC. Rutland.
+WHITCOMB, ASA, COL. Lancaster.
§+WHITNEY, ANDREW.
Newton.
WILSON, EPHRIAM. Chelmsford. §WILSON, EPHRIAM (DR.). Northborough.
CRAFTS, THOMAS. No. Bridgewater.
§+HAYNES, AARAN. Sudbury.
BARTLETT, SAMUEL. Acton.
Died, Bristol, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1823, aged 71.
Died, Paris, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1817, aged 61. Died, Rutland April 20, 1846, aged 88. Died in Army, 1776, aged 26.
Died, Rutland, April 22, 1817, aged 82. Died, Princeton, March 16, 1804, aged 84. Died, Princeton, Oct. 16, 1818, aged 64.
Died, Bernardston, Nov. 17, 1839, aged 78.
Died, Middlebro, Feb. 27, 1819, aged 60. Died, Princeton, Feb. 16, 1842, aged 83.
Died, Tharsalin, N. Y., a boy 13 years old who worked all night before battle of Bunker Hill.
Markers have been placed over the graves of the fol- lowing named soldiers of the Revolution.
In the old Cemetery.
BEAMAN, JONAS. Died, March 27, 1804, aged 54.
BROOKS, CHARLES.
Died, March , 1798, aged 66.
CHEEVER, BARTHOLOMEW.
Died, Jan. 8, 1838, aged 80.
COWDIN, ROBERT.
Died, Oct. 3, 1785, aged 55.
EVELETH, JOSEPH. Died, Oct, 11, 1790, aged 58.
HARRINGTON, ABIJAH.
Died, May 27, 1821, aged 78.
HOLDEN, COL. BENJAMIN.
Died, Nov. 24, 1820, aged 92.
HORR, ADONIJAH.
Died, Sept. 10, 1800, aged 63. Died, May 9, 1806, aged 70.
HORR, PEABODY.
JONES, MAJ. EBENEZER.
Died, Nov. 4, 1779, aged 53.
JONES, EPHRAIM.
KEYES, JONAS.
Died, June 21, 1784, aged 27. Died, July 21, 1822, aged 79.
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MASON, THOMAS.
Died, Nov. 28, 1814, aged 8r.
MOORE, CAPT. BOAZ.
Died, Oct. 9, 1802, aged 67.
MOORE, HUMPHREY.
Died, Dec. 19, 1790, aged 49.
MOORE, URIAH.
Died, May 25, 1820, aged 66.
SAVAGE, SETH.
Died, Aug. 21, 1807, aged 76.
THOMPSON, ISAAC.
Died, Feb. 16, 1833, aged 94.
WHITNEY, ANDREW.
Died, Oct. 16, 1818, aged 64.
In North Cemetery.
EVERETT, JOHN.
Died, Feb. 4, 1825, aged 69.
GREGORY, PHINEAS.
MIRICK, STEPHEN.
Died, Dec. 2, 1821, aged 78. Died, May 20, 1827, aged 70.
In East Princeton Cemetery.
PARKER, NEHEMIAH. Died, Jan. 12, 1850, aged 89.
In East Cemetery.
BABCOCK, AMOS.
PARKER, EBENEZER.
Died, Nov. 15, 1835, aged 76. Died, Oct. 19, 1839, aged 89.
In South Cemetery.
KEYES, ISREAL.
PARMENTER, LUTHER.
Died, Sept. 18, 1841, aged 81. Died, Aug. 1, 1850, aged 94.
In West Cemetery.
DAVIS, SIMON. Died, Jan. 29, 1828, aged 69.
HAYNES, AARON.
Died, Feb. 16, 1842, aged 83.
KILBURN, CALVIN. Died, Jan. 23, 1852, aged 94.
Pensions. Prior to the year 1818, Congress passed no pension laws except for the relief of those officers and soldiers who were disabled in the service; consequently, all those who were not disabled, and died between the close of the Revolutionary war and the year 1818, could receive no pension, for all the pension laws require that the soldier shall be living at the date of the passage of the law.
Act 1818. Granted pensions to those who served nine months or more in the Continental army alone, or those forces raised by Congress and serving in the regular army of the United Colonies, and those serving in the Conti- nental navy (who were in need of support).
From the records and files in the office of the Secretary of State every item relating to Princeton has been copied,
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but a large proportion of the references consist of payments for mileage, arms, clothing, and supplies furnished families of soldiers. These items afford no clue to the number of men furnished or the cost to the town, and only a few are given below.
Bounties paid to three years men.
1777-79, 20 men £762. Currency
1778-79, 4 men £ 56
6 months service R. I.
1780 19 men £22200.
6 months and 3 months.
178I 7 men £ 103.4 Specie 3 months and 5 months.
" Bounties paid for different services of soldiers during the late war £2549.2 Paper Currency" (This cannot in- clude all the bounties paid by the town)
1777 Jan. 2I Mileage
14 men
1779 Sept.
4 men to Springfield
1779 June
6 men to Peekskill
1779 June
4 men to Providence
1780 March
8 men
1780 Sept.
II men to Claverick
1781 August
9 men to Springfield
1781 March
8 men to Springfield
Quota of the town.
1776 Jan. 19
II Men.
1782 Mch. 7
4 Men.
1780 Dec. 2
9 Men.
1780 June 3 1777 Jan. 26
9 Men.
22 Men in all being one seventh of the male inhabitants of the town (the town could supply but 21 men and was fined £100.)
1777, Sept. 25.
"Delivered to Adonijah How for Princeton 116 lbs. of Lead 90 Flints 4 Gun Locks"
1779 Jan. 13. 1776
To this date delivered Princeton 54 Arms. 13 Blankets
1779, Sept. 10.
Allowance to Zachariah Harvey "for Clothing Lost in a Retreat from before New York Sept. 1776 £6.18."
1776 Sept. to Jan. 1780 "Due for Supplies for Soldiers families £306.19.5 1778, Oct. I Clothing Supplied by town Io shirts at 8 Dollars each 24.0.0
9 Pairs of Stockings 24/each 10.16.0
13 Pairs of Shoes 42/each 27.6.0 62.2.0
Capt. Boaz Moore carried these to Brook- field at an ex- pense of £1.16.
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1780 Feb. 5. Clothing Supplied by town
Shirts 21 at 120/£126. Shoes 21 at 144. £151.4.0
Stockings 21 at 80/£84. Allce. to Selectmen £20.0.0
£381.4.0
1782, Jan 26.
16 Shirts 12/ £ 9.12.0
16 Shoes IO/ 8.0.0
16 Hose 6/ 4.16.0
16 Miles 4 Days 2.0.0
8 Blankets
9.12.0
£34.0.0
1782, May. I
Io Shirts at 40
400.
13 Shoes
40
520.
9 Hose
24
216.
20 Miles
60
4 Days
84
1280.00
Account of Bounties.
Oct. 30, 1779.
Timothy Mosman
6.
Levi Wyman 30.
John Bowen
6.
Curtis Fowle
25.
John Fowle
25.
Eli Stearns 30.
John Trask
30.
Reuben Hudson 30.
Oliver Mosman
30.
Isaac Davis
40.
Thomas Grant
40.
William Vance
45.
James Sawyer 45.
William McMillan
34.
John Wyman
50. 1777
Peter Soloman
30.
Samuel McMillan
34.
Mathew Whittelow
34.
Jonathan Tillotson
34
Jonathan Geary
30
Luther Parmenter
20.
Account of Supplies
Jan. 1, 1780. Current Price
Levi Wyman Apl. 1779 to Dec. 1779
£108.11.9 2.12.12
Jonathan Geary Mch. 1779 to Dec. 1779
164. 0.6 4.5.13
1774, Aug. 9. Gill at Worcester Conv. of Committees of Correspondence & delegates.
1774, Oct. Provincial Congress at Salem
Gill Holden delegates.
1776, Feb. 66
Cambridge
1776, May
Watertown CC
Daniel Gray
34.
1775, Mch. 21. The town voted "not to procure a Cartridge Box & Bayonet for the Minute Men", but "to procure 72 Dollers for their acct.", "the Select Men be a Commtt for sd purpose & that they procure the aforesd Dollers immediately & give Security for the same, & that they deliver out sd money to each Man two Dollers." Voted "that 26 Men
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agreable to the Report of a Commtt including officers be Intitled to the Money aforesd when they March."
1775, April 23. The town sent provisions to the army for which the sum of £18.15.7 was allowed.
1775, May. 24. "Voted to receive 24 of the poor of Boston". How many of this class were actually received does not appear, but in 1776 the town received from the treasurer of the Province £30.15 for "keeping poor" and later "for Boston Poor" £10.18.11.
1775, June 15. The towns were requested by Prov. Congress to deposit with treasurer firearms and bayonets the treasurer to pay for them and to be reimbursed by the Committee of Supplies.
Princeton's quota 8 8 1775, June 17. Same firelocks
1775, June 30. Great want of Powder in public magazines and the towns of Hampshire and Worcester Counties being least exposed to the ravages of the enemy, earnestly recommended that the Selectmen deliver the whole of town stock of Powder to the Committee appointed by this Congress, except so much as is allowed to be kept in each town. Princeton town stock 12 bbls. to be kept } bbl.
1776, July 5. 13000 coats ordered to be provided and proportioned among the towns as they paid the last province tax - Princeton 24.
1777 July 5. Committee of Safety "Eight guns collected in Princeton, were received of Mr. Ephraim Woolson by the hands of Sylvanus Oakes amounting by appraisement to fourteen pounds seven shillings, for which a receipt was given him by the Secretary."
1777 Salt to be distributed from public stores by Government, 42 bushels to Princeton at 108 per bushel if wanted.
1777. Proposals to build barracks at Rutland Dec. 19.
1778, "Princeton December 28, 1778. Recd of Maj" Ebenezer Jones Leit Robert Cowdin & Mr Abijah Harrington Fifty Pounds in Cash to purches Nine Small Arms at Boston of The board of warr. Moses Gill".
1779. 12I pounds 3 shillings pd for transporting 30 bushels corn from Westmoreland.
1779, June 30. "then Recd of the Select men the Sum of one Hundred and twenty one pounds three shillings for transporting thirty Bushels of indian Corn from Westmoreland to Princeton said corn was for them fameleys that were the Towns Care.
pr. Elisha Gale"
1780. Among the expenditures of the town this year are noted £4900. for five horses (£1400. for one horse) Corn at fio. per bushel, Butter £2/10/per lb. Board of school mistress £27. per week. All in the "depreciated currency."
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