USA > Massachusetts > Worcester County > Sutton > History of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, from 1704 to 1876, including Grafton until 1735, Millbury until 1813 and parts of Northbridge, Upton and Auburn > Part 65
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70
Before he left the city, he gave an order in behalf of the British Government for this and the accompanying machines, some six on eight, which amounted to forty thousand dollars.
The machines were built at Chicopee, shipped to England, and have been in use there from that day to this.
This recognition of, Thomas Blanchard's genius by the British government, usually. so slow to do justice to Ameri- can inventors, is an, honor which very few American, mechan- ics have ever achieved.
769
TOWN OF SUTTON.
Blanchard had no ambition for fame, did nothing merely for the sake of extending it, and very little in the way of defending it. He brought a few suits against the most open violators of his patents, and this he was compelled to do to protect those to whom he had sold rights; but of the vast horde of them probably not one in twenty was ever prose- cuted at all, so that many of them now claim to be the originators of what they really stole.
He left no heirs, and, so far as the writer can learn, no relatives to vindicate his name and fame.
97
HISTORY OF SUTTON.
Part VI.
MILITARY, CIVIL AND STATISTICAL.
SUTTON IN THE REVOLUTION.
BY COL. ASA H. WATERS.
On the breaking out of the revolutionary war, few towns in the Commonwealth rallied to the cause with such spirit and unanimity as the town of Sutton. The first gleaming ray from the torch of liberty kindled to a flame the whole surrounding region, and volunteers flocked to its standard in great numbers. Long before the battle of Lexington, they had formed a band of "minute men," well mounted and armed, and under the command of Col. Jonathan Holman, who had been a veteran in the British service in Canada dur- ing the old French war.
As soon as the news of that fight reached them, they sprang to their saddles, and, riding with all speed through the whole night, reached Concord just as the enemy were retreating to Boston.
It was not thirty days after that fight before Sutton and the neighboring towns had raised a full regiment of ten com- panies, all volunteers, and they were on the march to the field of action.
772
MILITARY RECORD.
They were organized under the command of Col. Eben- ezer Larned of Oxford; marched to Roxbury, where they arrived more than two months before Washington came to take command of the army.
A complete roster of all the officers of this regiment, including captains, lieutenants and ensigns, may be found in Force's Archives (Vol. II., 4th series, page 823), with the following documentary evidence :
" IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, " Watertown, May 23d, 1775.
" Resolved, That commissions be given to the officers of Col. Larned's regiment, agreeable to the above list."
Soon after the arrival of Col. Larned's regiment at Rox- bury, occurred the famous battle of Bunker Hill, " all of which it saw, a part of which it was," although it was not actually engaged in the fight on the hill. It formed a part of the right wing of the army, under command of Gen. John Thomas, which was stretched round from Dorchester through Roxbury to Boston line, to prevent the enemy from break- ing through and making a flank movement.
Quite a number of casualties occurred in this regiment. Whether these men were killed or wounded by shot and shell from the enemy's ships, whose cannon swept the sur- rounding region, or whether they were volunteers from the ranks who rushed into the fray, which many did, can now never be known.
This regiment enlisted for eight months, from May 1, 1775 ; served in and around Boston till January 1, 1776, when, their time having expired, the men were regularly discharged.
Another regiment was immediately formed, of men com- ing from "Sutton, Oxford, Sturbridge, Charlton and Dud- ley, including adjacent lands," and placed under the command of Col. Jonathan Holman of North Sutton.
The following entry is found in the journal of the Massa- chusetts Council :
-
773
TOWN OF SUTTON.
" MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL, Feb. 7, 1776.
" In the House of Representatives : The House made choice by ballot of the following gentlemen for Field Officers of the Fifth Regiment of Militia in the County of Worcester, viz: Jonathan Holman of Sutton, Colonel ; Daniel Plymp- ton, Lieut. Colonel ; William Larned, First Major; Jacob Davis, 2d Major.
" In Council : Read and Concurred."
This regiment, being composed largely of men from Sut- ton, and under the command of a Sutton officer, was usually known and styled as " The Sutton Regiment." It was des- tined to a very severe and long continued service of nearly two years, during which it was engaged in many battles with the enemy, and finally, if we accept the evidence of a high British authority, in the great decisive battle of the war, the battle of Saratoga.
Being incorporated into the army of Gen. Washington at Cambridge, they began their march with him soon after the evacuation of Boston, and proceeded first to Rhode Island, where they remained some two or three months; thence to Long Island, where they were engaged in battle ; thence up the Hudson river to White Plains, where the American army had a hard fought battle, in which the Sutton regiment bore a prominent part.
Some of the soldiers, in their pension affidavits, testify that "they were greatly outnumbered by the enemy, but their colonel obstinately refused to yield until they were nearly surrounded, and when at last the order came to fall back, he was nearly the last man to leave the field."
In Force's Archives, fifth series, volume two, page 327, is found "A return made September 11, 1776, of the army in the service of the United States, in and near the city of New York, commanded by his excellency, George Washing- ton, General and commander in chief."
In this return are included seventy regiments, among them Col. Holman's, which contained six hundred and six men, and is the largest number of any one regiment returned, the
774
MILITARY RECORD.
next highest being five hundred and sixty-nine. A like return made September 21, 1776, shows the same fact.
Another return of the army under Washington, then massed in the vicinity of White Plains, made probably after the battle, shows sixty-eight regiments, and Col. Holman's regiment numbered five hundred and seventy-two men, and though somewhat reduced, was still the largest in the whole list, eleven being reported dead since last return, one hun- dred and two sick or wounded in camp, and eighty-four ditto absent.
To show the relative aid afforded by the towns in Worces- ter county in men and supplies, a few data, out of many, are presented.
January 19, 1776, there was a call for more men, and a levy was made upon all the towns in the State, the number to be raised being apportioned according to the size and strength of the towns.
For Worcester county the drafts were as follows :
Brookfield, forty-nine ; Lancaster, forty-six ; Sutton, thir- ty-nine; Mendon, thirty-three; Worcester, thirty-two; Hardwick, twenty-nine; Shrewsbury, twenty-five; Bolton, twenty-three ; Lunenburg, twenty ; Sturbridge, seventeen ; Westboro', seventeen ; Charlton, sixteen ; Douglas, fifteen ; Grafton, fifteen; Dudley, twelve; Leicester, thirteen ; Uxbridge, thirteen ; Oxford, eleven ; Northbridge, six ; and so on.
In a levy made upon the towns for blankets, they were apportioned as follows: Lancaster, thirty-three; Sutton, thirty ; Brookfield, thirty; Worcester, twenty-seven ; and so on in lesser numbers.
In the provincial congress held at Watertown, May 1, 1775, provision was made for the support of the people who had been driven from their homes in Boston by the entrance of the British army.
They were assigned to the several towns in the State, to be supported as far as necessary.
In Worcester county they were assigned as follows : Lan- caster, one hundred and three persons; Brookfield, ninety-
775
TOWN OF SUTTON.
nine; Sutton, ninety-eight; Worcester, eighty-two; Men- don, seventy-six ; Hardwick, fifty-five; and so on in lesser numbers.
In the apportionment of coats for the army among the towns of the Commonwealth, made by the provincial con- gress, July 5, 1775, the assignment to the towns in Worces- ter county, furnishing the largest number, was as follows : Lancaster, one hundred and sixteen ; Brookfield, one hun- dred and twelve ; Sutton, one hundred and eleven ; Worces- ter, ninety-three.
The evidence, therefore, appears to be conclusive, that in the great and arduous struggle to gain our independence, Sutton ranked among the forty-three towns in Worcester county as the third : Brookfield and Lancaster alone having a better record, they being larger towns.
After the battle of White Plains, the Sutton regiment, under Col. Holman, was ordered to Bennington, Vermont, where it campaigned in and around that region for several months, to hold in check the advancing hosts of Gen. Bur- goyne. In the meantime the famous battle of Bennington was fought under Gen. Stark; and among the trophies of that victory was the brass drum which now ornaments the senate chamber of the Massachusetts State House. They were next ordered to join the army of Gen. Gates, then massed near Saratoga. In the battle that ensued, Col. Holman's regiment was actively engaged, and that they acquitted themselves bravely may be justly inferred from the fact that after the battle this regiment was designated "to take possession of Fort Edward, and to hold it, until the dispersion of Burgoyne's army," which they did.
The regiment was then honorably discharged and the men returned to their homes.
This battle, followed by the surrender of Burgoyne and his whole army, virtually ended the war in New England. The British, after fighting the obstinate Yankees for two years and a half, became discouraged and moved the theatre of war down south.
Sir Edward Creasy, M. A., in a book published in Lon- don, 1872, and entitled "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of
776
MILITARY RECORD.
the World, from Marathon to Waterloo," singled out the battle of Saratoga as the decisive battle of the revolution.
At first view, some Americans demur at the correctness of his decision, but when they take into view the whole facts and circumstances, they generally agree with him. The British considered that the whole head and animus of the rebellion lay in New England, and they formed a grand design to crush it out at one all powerful blow.
They sent a large fleet to New York and up the Hudson, laden with soldiers and munitions of war, to form a line on the south; then they massed large bodies of troops in Can- ada, which were to march down, under Burgoyne, from the north; and, when these two forces met, it was expected they would crush or capture every rebel caught between the lines.
The plan was good, but the execution a miserable failure. Had it succeeded, the British would immediately have taken possession of all the territory between New York city and the lakes, and between the coast and the Canadas; includ- ing all New England, for there would have been no forces left sufficient to resist them. Such a disaster must have crushed the rebellion, at least for a time.
Sutton may well be proud of her contribution to the grand result; and, in common with all the towns of the Common- wealth, her glory is still more enhanced by the fact brought out by Charles Sumner, in his celebrated debate with Senator Butler of South Carolina, in which he proved by documentary evidence from the war and treasury departments, that, in the revolutionary war, Massachusetts alone furnished MORE MEN, and MORE MONEY, than all the Southern States com- bined.
The following is furnished by Rev. I. N. Tarbox, D. D., of Newton :
To show the exact position of Col. Holman in the month of May 1775, I copy from Force's Archives (Vol. II., fourth series, page 823), the following enrollment and organization of the regiment of Col. Ebenezer Learned :
"Col. Learned's regiment : J. Danforth Keys, Lieut. Colonel ; Jonathan Hollman, Major; - Banister, Adju-
777
TOWN OF SUTTON.
tant. Captains : Peter Harwood, Adam Martin, John Granger, Joel Greene, Samuel Billings, William Campbell, Arthur Daggett, Nathaniel Healey, Samuel Curtis, Isaac Bolster. Lieutenants : Asa Danforth, Abel Mason, Mat- thew Gray, David Prouty, Barnabas Lean, Reuben Davis, Jonathan Carriel, Salem Town, Samuel Learned, John Hazelton. Ensigns : Benjamin Pollard, Benjamin Felton, Stephen Gorham, Thomas Fisk, John Howard, William Podry.
" In Provincial Congress, " Watertown, May.23, 1775.
"Resolved, That commissions be given to the officers of Col. Learned's Regiment agreeable to the above list."
As to Washington's confidence in Rufus Putnam :
It was November 17, 1775, when Washington first indi- cated this. On that day he wrote a letter to Major General Artemus Ward, requesting him, as also "General Thomas, General Spencer and Colonel Putnam, to meet me at your head-quarters to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock that we may examine the ground between your work at the mill and Sewall's Point and direct such batteries as may appear necessary, for the security of your camp on that side, to be thrown up without loss of time."
Artemus Ward was then in command at Roxbury. On the arrival of Washington, in July, he took Major General Israel Putnam to be near himself, and placed Ward at Rox- bury. This Colonel Putnam is Rufus, and Washington has already discovered his skill as an engineer. He used him afterwards still more largely in the fortifications on Dor- chester Heights.
We now give the names of officers and men, furnished by Sutton, for the French and Indian, the revolutionary, and the late civil war. The lists for the French and Indian, and the revolutionary wars, are incomplete ; but we have given all the names that we could, by careful research, obtain. The record for the war of the rebellion is complete.
98
.
778
MILITARY RECORD.
OFFICERS AND MEN FROM SUTTON IN COLONIAL SERVICE, FOR VARIOUS LENGTHS OF TIME, FROM 1755 TO 1761.
Carriel, Jonathan Fry, John Holman, Solomon
CAPTAINS.
Learned, John Taplin, John
Paine, Samuel Clerk Sibley, John
LIEUTENANTS.
Rich, Elisha
ENSIGNS.
Sibley, Jonathan
King, Samuel
SERGEANTS.
Jepperson, Elias
Sibley, Samuel
Johnson, Matthias
Waite, William
Kenney, Nathan
Woodbury, Benjamin
CORPORALS.
Elliot, Joseph Greenwood, James
Putnam, Fuller
Parker, Thomas
DRUMMER.
Sibley, Elijah
PRIVATES.
Allen, John, jr.
Bigelow, Joshua
Calhone, Alexander
Allen, Josiah
Bolster, Isaac
Campbell, John
Allen, Josiah, jr.
Bolster, William
Carpenter, Eliphalet
Baker, Samuel Bancroft, Raban
Bond, Jonas
Carriel, Bartholomew
Bond, Josiah
Carriel, Daniel
Bowers, John
Carriel, Jonathan
Banister, Seth Barton, David Barton, Edmund
Brindley, James
Carriel, John
Barton, Elisha
Buckman, Joel
Carriel, Samuel
Barton, Ezekiel
Buck, Jonathan
Carter, Joshua
Barton, Samuel
Burbank, Isaac
Carter, Stephen
Barnard, Jonathan Barnard, Joshua
Burdon, John Burnham, Offen
Case, Amos Chamberlain, James
Bartlett, Roger
Burnham, William
Burnap, Timothy
Chamberlain, Thos.
Bastow, Ebenezer Bates, David Bigelow, Jedediah
Burnet, Henry
Chase, Francis
Caldwell, James
Chase, Isaac
Gale, Isaac
Holman, Solomon, jr.
Hall, Willis Holman, John Johnson, Elias
Buffington, John Chase, Abel
Buckman, Jeremiah
Carriel, Nathaniel, jr.
Carter, Timothy, jr.
779
TOWN OF SUTTON.
Chase, Isaac, jr.
Harwood, John
Lilley, David
Harwood, Jonathan
Lilley, David, jr.
Harwood, Joseph
Long, Joseph
Haskell, Elias
Lord, Stephen
Hawes, Daniel
Lord, Thomas
Hawes, Eleazar
Lovell, George
Comstock, John
Hawkins, George
Lyon, Edward
Comstock, Michael
Hawkins, Joseph
Manning, Samuel
Crowell, Andrew
Hayden, Asa
March, Daniel
Cummings, Moses
Haywood, John
Marble, Malachi
Cunningham, David
Hazeltine, Asa
Marble, Samuel
Curtis, Elisha
Hazeltine, Silas
Marsh, Benjamin
Curtis, Jonas
Hicks, Samuel
Marsh, Ebenezer
Curtis, John
Hicks, Zachariah
Marsh, Daniel
Cutler, Amos
Hill, Abratha
Marsh, George
Cutler, Thomas
Hill, James
Marsh, Joshua
Dagget, Samuel
Hill, Joshua
Marsh, Silas
Davenport, Thomas
Hodges, Edmund
Marsh, William
Davenport, William
Holland, John
Mason, Abel
Davenport, Wm., jr.
Holman, David
Maxee, Benjamin
Day, Daniel
Holman, Edward
Merriam, Robert
Dike, Benjamin
Holman, Jonathan
Miles, Richard
Dike, Daniel
Holman, Stephen
Minard, Samuel Minot, Samuel Moore, Isaac
Dwinnel, Henry
Holton, Timothy
Morton, Benjamin
Eady, Hezekiah
Howe, James
Morey, William
Elliot, David
Howe, Samuel
Mosley, Richard
Elliot, John
Howard, John
Murphy, James
' Elliot, Joseph, jr.
Houghton, Timothy
Nichols, Henry
Foster, Timothy
Hovey, Daniel
Nichols, Isaac
Fuller, John
Hovey, Daniel, jr.
Nichols, Jonathan
Funnell, Pompey
Hovey, John
Nichols, Jonathan, jr.
Gale, Daniel
Humes, Stephen
Nichols, Thomas
Gale, Josiah
Humphrey, Arthur
Nichols, William
Gale, Nehemiah
Hull, James
Odel, Ichabod
Garfield, Benjamin
Hutchinson, Nathan'l
Parker, Archelaus
Gates, Benjamin
Jacobs, Jonathan
Parker, Ezra
Gates, Scipio
Jennison, Robert
Parks, Amariah
Gates, William
Jipperson, Jedediah
Perkins, Jacob
Gawbel, Joseph
Johnson, Matthias
Phillips, Daniel
Gleason, Simon
Kenney, Asia
Phillips, Joseph Pierce, Isaac
Goodale, John
Kenney, Henry
Pratt, Davld
Gould, Caleb
Kenney, Israel
Pratt, Israel
Gould, Daniel
Kenney, Jonathan
Pratt, Jabez
Gowing, Nathaniel
King, Henry
Prime, Joshua Jewet
Greenwood, James Grow, Samuel
King, Jonathan
Pulsifer, William
Hall, Emerson
Ladd, Ezekiel
Putnam, Andrew
Harris, Noah
Learned, Elijah
Putnam, Cornelius
Harwood, Danlel
Learned, Samuel
Putnam, Daniel
Dwinnel, Amos
Holton, John
Dwinnel, Moses
Howe, Benjamin
Goodale, Eleazar
Kenney, Daniel
King, John
Prince, Stephen
Chase, March Chase, Philip Clafflin, Timothy Clark, Samuel Collar, Jonathan
780
MILITARY RECORD.
Putnam, Ebenezer
Sibley, Joseph
Thayer, John
Putnam, Edward
Sibley, Joseph, jr.
Titus, Lenox
Putnam, Elisha
Sibley, Stephen
Toby, Peter
Putnam, Isaac
Sibley, William
Towne, Asa
Putnam, John
Sibley, William, jr.
Towne, Bartholomew
Putnam, Luke
Sifford, Ebenezer
Towne, Edmund
Putnam Orpheus
Sifford, John
Towne, Elijah
Putnam, Rufus
Simpland, William T.
Towne, Jacob
Putnam, Samuel
Simpson, William
Towne, Josiah
Putnam, Stephen
Smith, John
Towne, Silas
Putnam, Stephen, jr.
Smith, Nathan
Tracy, George
Putney, Benjamin
Smith, Phineas
Waite, Jonathan
Randal, Samuel
Small, Stephen
Waite, Nathaniel
Rich, Benjamin
Snow, Jacob
Wakefield, Amasa
. Rich, Samuel
Southworth, Stephen
Wakefield, Jonathan Wakefield, Jona., jr.
Rich, Thomas
Stockwell, Absalom
Richards, Israel
Stockwell, Benajah
Walker, James
Richardson, Ralph
Stockwell, Daniel
Walker, Obadiah
Roberts, Asa
Stockwell, Jeremiah
Walker, Obadiah, jr.
Rockwood, Thomas
Stockwell, John
Ward, Samuel
Roper, Daniel
Stockwell, Jonathan
Waters, Ebenezer
Rowell, Eliphalet
Stockwell, Stephen
Waters, Elijah
Severy, Benjamin
Stockwell, William
Waters, Jonathan
Severy, John
Stone, Ambrose
Waters, Nathaniel
Severy, Joseph
Stone, Archibald
Webster, John
Severy, Thomas
Stone, Daniel
Wheeler, Jonathan
Shear, John
Stone, Daniel, jr.
White, David
Shepherd, Simeon
Stone, Elijah
White, John
Sherman, Peter
Stone, Francis
White, Jonathan
Shumway, Peter
Stone, John
Whitney, Ebenezer
Sibley, David
Stone, William
Willey, John
Sibley, Elisha
Tainter, Joseph
Wilmouth, Ebenezer
Sibley, John, jr.
Taylor, Ebenezer
Woodbury, Peter
Sibley, Jonathan, jr.
Taylor, James
781
TOWN OF SUTTON.
OFFICERS AND MEN FROM SUTTON IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
Bolster, Isaac
Dagget, Arthur
LIEUTENANTS.
Carriel, Jonathan Hazeltine, John
SERGEANTS.
Bancroft, John Gould, Jonathan Hall, Willis
King, John
Pierce, Joseph
Lovell, Ezra
Roberts, John
CORPORALS.
Allen, Jonas Brown, Ebenezer Buxton, Joseph
Chase, Nehemiah
Pring, Simeon
Holman, Daniel
Sibley, David
Howland, John
Tainter, Nahum
DRUMMER.
Safford, John
FIFERS.
Elliot, John
Todd, Thomas
PRIVATES.
Allen, Eleazar
Buxton, John
Cutler, Aaron
Allen, Elijah Daniel
Caise, John
Cutler, Nahum
Bacon, Abijah
Caldwell, Joseph
Dagget, Samuel
Bacon, William
Carriel, Aaron
Dagget, Simeon
Bancroft, Jacob Barrett, Oliver
Chandler, Joseph
Davidson, Benjamin
Barstow, William
Chase, Aaron
Davidson, John
Bartlett, Richard
Chase, Amaziah
Day, Samuel
Billen, John
Chase, Timothy
Demon, Richard
Bixbee, Samuel
Childs, John
Dennison, Richard
Blanchard, Thomas Blundon, Elisha Brigham, Amariah Buckman, Joel
Cole, John
Dike, Jonathan
Burdon, Jonathan
Cook, Solomon
Dobson, Henry
Burnap, Ebenezer Burnap, Timothy
Cristy, John
Drake, Seth
Cummings, Moses
Dike, Benjamin
Childs, Samuel Claflin, Timothy Cole, Burnet
Dike, Daniel
Dike, Daniel, jr
Chamberlain, Asahel
Dagget, Gideon
Dunston, Samuel
Howard, John Leland, Solomon
CAPTAINS.
782
MILITARY RECORD.
Dwinnel, Aaron
Koel, John
Sanders, John
Dwinnel, Archelaus
Leland, Ebenezer
Sappaentrot, Hendrick
Dwinnel, Amos
Lewis, Eliphalet
Severy, Edward
Dwinnel, Solomon
Lynde, Thomas
Severy, Reuben
Eady, Hezekiah
Marble, Daniel
Shepherd, James
Eaton, Jonathan
Marble, Joel
Sibley, Daniel
Elliot, Jonathan
Marble, John
Sibley, David
Elliot, Samuel
Mason, John
Sibley, Richard
Farrar, Seth
McCade, James
Sibley, Stephen
Fitts, Edward
Melendy, John
Sibley, William
Follard, John
Metchel, Samuel
Sigourney, Andrew
Foster, George
Meurs, John
Smith, John
Giles, James
Miller, James
Smith, Silas
Gilding, Francis
Minard, Samuel
Smith, Thomas
Gleason, Bezaleel
Mockelen, John
Snow, Timothy
Goddard, Robert
Nash, Richard
Snow, William
Goulding, John
Nelson, Francis
Stockbridge, John
Hanson, Gideon
Negro, Onesimus
Stockwell, Aaron
Harback, Henry
Nichols, Benjamin
Stockwell, Reuben
Harback, William
Nichols, Thomas
Stockwell, Reuben, jr.
Hardy, Samuel
Odel, Ichabod
Stockwell, Solomon
Harrington, Edward
Park, Joshua
Stone, Daniel
Harrington, John
Perkins, Jacob
Stone, Jonathan
Harris, Willie
Perkins, Thomas
Tiffany, Joel
Hayden, Joel
Phelps, Ebenezer
Todd, Archibald
Haywood, Simeon
Pierce, Jonathan
Todd, Paul
Hazeltine, Benjamin
Potter, Edmund
Torrey, Samuel
Hazeltine, Stephen
Pratt, Benjamin
Towne, Jonathan
Hector, John
Prentice, Shubal
Towne, Robert
Herrick, Joshua Holman, John
Prime, Josiah
Waite, William
Holman, Samuel
Prince, Asa
Walker, Asa
Holman, Stephen
Putnam, Ezra
Walker, Elisha
Hoyt, Charles
Putnam, Howard
Walker, Gideon
Humes, Stephen
Putnam, Jacob
Walker, John
Jeir, George
Putnam, John
Walker, Judah
Jennings, Solomon
Putnam, Levi
Walker, Perley
Jennison, Elias
Putnam, Luke
Wakefield, Benjamin
Jennison, Robert
Putnam, Samuel
Waters, Joseph
Jennison, William
Rawson, Jonathan
Waters, Simeon
Jordan, William Juel, James
Rich, Stephen
Whipple, Solomon
Kedug, William
Roberts, John
Woodbury, Benjamin
Kenney, William
Robertson, Jonathan
Woodward, Jacob
Killicute, Thomas
Robinson, Jonathan
Woodward, Samuel
King, Henry
Rogers, Thomas
Rowell, Eliphalet
Knox, William
Rixford, Simeon
Witham, Simon
Preston, Amos
Truce, David
783
TOWN OF SUTTON.
MINUTE MEN FROM SUTTON,
WHO MARCHED TO CONCORD ON THE ALARM, APRIL 19TH, 1775, IN COLONEL EBENEZER LEARNED'S REGIMENT.
Elliott, Andrew
Putnam, John
LIEUTENANTS.
Bolster, Isaac
Woodbury, John Woodbury, Jonathan
Waters, Asa
SERGEANTS.
Hazeltine, John
Sibley, Joseph
Waters, Abraham
Howard, John
Severy, John
Whipple, Simeon
Kidder, James
Tenney, Simeon
CORPORALS.
Batcheller, Abraham Dwinnel, Jacob Lovell, Ezra
Pierce, Joseph
Tainter, Joel Wakefield, Amasa
Waters, Joseph White, Jonathan
FIFER.
Clastin, Timothy
ENSIGN.
Bancroft, John PRIVATES.
-
Allen, Jonas
Gould, Joseph, jr.
Sibley, Daniel
Armsby, Ebenezer
Hardy, Samuel
Sibley, Elias
Bacon, William
Holland, John
Sibley, Gideon
Batcheller, Abner
Holman, Abel Sibley, Peter
Brown, Ebenezer
Holman, Daniel Sibley, Samuel, jr.
Carriel, John
Holman, Elisha
Sibley, Tarrant
Child, Timothy
Kidder, John
Sibley, William
Colwell, James
Leland, Thomas
Sibley, -
Couse, - Davenport, Richard
Marble, Stephen
Snow, Benjamin
Dudley, David
Mellody, -
Snow, Jacob, jr.
Dwinnel, Amos
Minard, Samuel
Stone, Nathan
Easty, Edward
Morse, Moody, jr.
Tainter, Nahum
Eaton, Reuben
Lyon, Eleazar
Small, Samuel
Nichols, William
Taylor, Abraham
CAPTAINS.
784
MILITARY RECORD.
Eaton, Samuel
Pierce, John
Torrey, Daniel
Elliot, James
Prince, David
Towne, Reuben
Elliot, Jonathan
Putnam, Archelaus
Waite, Joshua
Fletcher, Ephraim
Putnam, Ebenezer
Wakefield, Luther
Follensbee, John
Putnam, Elisha
Fuller, John
Putnam, Ezra
Wakefield, Samuel Wakefield, Silas
Giles, James
Putnam, Gideon
Waters, Gardner
Gleason, Bezaleel
Putnam, James
Waters, Simeon
Goodale, Asa
Putnam, Peter
Wheeler, Zaccheus
Gould, Jonathan
Sibley, Abel
COLONEL JONATHAN HOLMAN.
The public and patriotic services of this gallant commander of the Massachusetts Fifth, or " Sutton regiment," so called, having been described in " Sutton in the Revolution," need not be repeated. But justice to his memory seems to require that a few words should be added as to his private history and personal character.
Colonel Holman was a descendant in the third generation from Solomon, who came from Newbury, and was one of the earliest pioneer settlers of Sutton north parish. He was born in 1732, and was forty-three years of age when the revolutionary war broke out. He embraced the cause of freedom with great ardor, devoting to it most of his time, and as it proved in the end, most of his property. As he had been thoroughly trained in military tactics in the British service during the " French war," which preceded, by a brief interval, the American, it was very natural he should be called to the front when the latter began. Great Britain had, in that French war, made frequent levies upon the colonies for troops, and while she reserved to her men the higher grade of officers, she conferred most of the regimental ones upon the colonists, little dreaming that she was training up a corps of officers who were destined ere long to cope with her in the field, and finally to vanquish her. Washington served as Lieutenant-Colonel under General Braddock. Israel Putnam had seven years of the hardest service as captain. Ebenezer Larned of Oxford, and Jonathan Holman of Sutton, had both served long and suffered much in the
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.