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March 9, 1741 it was voted "to allow those persons on the other side of Natick Brook their part of the school money for this year provided they lay it out for schooling among themselves."
In 1836 the records seem to indicate that a School Committee was first chosen as distinct from the Selectmen. Before that there had been prudential committees for each district of the town, and this was still kept up. In 1843 the town voted that each school district appoint its own prudential committee.
In 1824 the following money was voted for the schools: to the West School $137.69, Lower Falls, $143.31, Upper Falls $22.54, South $99.73, Plain, $111.96, Brick $84.88, totalling $600.11.
In 1836 for the North District $235.92, for the West $216.92, for the South $111.17, for Great Plain $133.46, for the Centre $141.70, and for the East $100.89, a total of $940.
In 1843, for the North School $291.07, West $282.50, South, $147,46, Plain $204.23, Centre $193.68, Upper Falls, $143.06, a total of $1262. In 1850, $337.27 was voted to West School, $335.10 to the North, $280.93 to the Center, $211.90 to the East, $213.81 to the Great Plain and $203.33 to the South. In that year there were 387 children in the town from five to fifteen years of age, divided as follows: 73 for the North School, 56 for the East, 93 for the West, 50 for the South, 69 for the Center, and 46 for the Great Plain.
In 1857 winter graded schools were mentioned.
A law passed in 1862 by the General Court requiring high schools in towns of five hundred or more families resulted in the establishing of two in Needham one in the east and one in the west. The one in the west was taught alternate half years in Wellesley
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and Grantville. In Wellesley in Nehoiden Hall, in Grantville in Maugus Hall, later the Unitarian Chapel. The school was later removed to the building in Grantville erected for a school in 1854, which in 1875 was rebuilt and named the Shaw school in honor of the donor of the clock, bell and globe, Mr. John W. Shaw. In Wellesley the school was removed to the building erected on the site of the present Hunnewell school, now Fiske cottage on the College grounds, which was bought from the town by Mrs. Joseph N. Fiske of Boston and given to the College in memory of her hus- band. Very soon however the school took up its abode in the Shaw building, moving twice since-to the building on Seaward Place in 1894 and in 1907 to its present quarters on Kingsbury Street.
The principals have been T. W. H. Hussey '66 to '67, G. F. Rob- inson '67 to '69, A. B. Putnam one term in '69, J. H. Noyes '74 to '75, Miss Charlotte Cameron and Miss Julia Jennings '74 to '76, C. E. Washburn '76 to '81, F. O. Baston '81 to '86, S. L. Brown '86 to 1916 and the present principal J. A. Davis 1916.
A list, of course incomplete, is given of the very early teachers copied from the town records. In some cases the time and money paid is recorded, more often it is not. Often the teachers boarded themselves.
Dec. 1735, 4£s for keeping school 4 weeks to Francis Very at west- erly school house.
1765 school at Edes House.
1767
school near Jona. Smith's.
1767 school near Lt. Fisher's.
1769
bill to Joseph Drury £s 2 for his wife for keeping school in West End two months.
1769
to Mrs. Mary Newell £ 2-2-8 for keeping school 8 weeks in school house near Ephraim Bullard's.
1770
John Butler near Lower Falls.
Rich. Evans in Westerly part.
to Ephraim Bullard for boarding and paying Jeremiah Cowell.
to Lt. Ebenezer Fisher for paying and keeping John Butler.
to Abigail Fisher for school near Lt. Fisher.
Robert Fuller, Jr. 3 months at Brick School. 7-4.
Sarah Pratt Lower Falls 8 weeks. 2-2-8
Hannah Coller 12 months West School. 2-16
William Scales 2 months West End 15s
1771 1771 1771 1771
Widow Cheney Brick 1-12
Beulah Solemn 8 weeks West 1-17-4
1772
Widow Martha Denney 3 months West 3.
1772 Money voted for the Brick School House near Mr. M. Farris.
1772 William Fuller 5 weeks at Lower Falls 3.
1772 Hannah Blake 6 weeks & 3 days at Pine Plain at Mr. Leverett 1-6
1774
Jonathan Kingsbury at Brick School 1 month & 4 days 2-9-9 Joseph Kingsbury, Jr. at Lower Falls
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1770
Hannah Coller kept school near the Metcalf's
1770
1770 1770 1771 1770 1771
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1784 Joseph Ware West School 10 months 6-15
1785 Joseph Kingsbury-14 weeks at Aaron Smith's
1786 Dorothy Ware at Brick School £3-12 weeks.
1787 Samuel Wilson, West School.
1789 Lydia Drury, West School.
Robert Fuller, Brick 10 weeks 5-5
Mr. Holland West
Eliz. Smith, West 12 weeks £ 3
1790 Robert Fuller, Brick 10 weeks-10 £s.
Sally Townsend, Brick 14 weeks fs 2
1791 John Hunt, West
Jona. Kingsbury, Brick £s 6 10 weeks
Sally Slack, Lower Falls, 10 weeks £s 2
Sarah Bacon, West
Lucy Smith, West
1792 Chloe Felt, Brick £ 2-8 16 weeks
1792 Jona Kingsbury, Brick £ 5-8
1793 Hannah Deming, Brick 1-13 11 weeks.
1794 Sally Bacon, West
1794 Sarah Kingsbury, Brick
Samuel Cooledge, West
1794 Gibeon Hooker was paid for room for school in Lower Falls.
1795 Moses Kingsbury, West
Sally Bacon, West
1795 Moses Kingsbury, West
1795 Robert Fuller, Brick
Joseph Kingsbury, Brick
Jonathan Bacon, Jr. West
Moses Kingsbury, Jr. West
Sarah Bacon, West
Sally Greenwood at Pine Plain
1796 Arthur Train, Lower Falls
1796 Eunice Keith, Lower Falls £16 12 weeks boarding herself.
1796 Lucy Kingsbury, Brick £12 12 weeks
1796 Wm. Leverett, West near church.
1796 Col. Jonathan Kingsbury, Brick.
1796 Jona. Bacon, West
1796 £216 was voted to the prop. of West End School district for their school house.
1797 Ephraim Jackson's wife at his house at Lower Falls.
A list of more recent teachers who have been or are residents of the town includes Mary Jane Dix, Charlotte Sawyer, Abigail Ware, Peter Lyon, Hezekiah Fuller, John J. Marshall, Olivia Olmsted, Sol- omon Flagg, Jane F. Flagg, Harriet D. Adams, Calvin French, Sarah Bird Kingsbury, Emily Kingsbury, Sophronia Kingsbury, L. Allen Kingsbury, Charlotte Kingsbury, Marian Russell, Fanny Kingsbury, Malvinah Tenney, Mary Tenney, Harriet Sawyer, Sarah Southwick, Anna Shurtleff, Eliza Shurtleff, Carrie Dewing, H. A. F. Grant, Mary Longfellow, Carrie Rugg, Mary Mason, Jennie Bates, F. O. Baston,
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C. E. Washburn, Alice Phillips, Edith Phillips, Helen Webster, Mary Field, Mary Fuller, Susan Monk, Charlotte Cameron, Nellie Cope, Mary Valentine, Seldon Brown, Vina Huzzey.
Among the books used during the first part of the last century were the New Preceptor, Allen's Geography, Colburn's Arithmetic, Cumming's Geography and Atlas, Cumming's Spelling Book, Worces- ter's Geography and Atlas, Leavitt's Easy Lessons, Walker's Dic- tionary, Temple's Arithmetic, Whelpley's Compendium, Woodbridge's Geography and Atlas, Adam's Arithmetic, Marshall's Writing Book, Olney's Geography and Atlas, Paley's Small Geography, Comstock's Philosophy, Blake's Natural Philosophy.
Bills have been found, showing that various ministers of the town visited the schools during the summer, and also took the census.
In 1846 we read of medical inspection in the schools.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
There have been several private schools in the west part of the town, one kept by Miss Thayer as early as 1820, and another con- siderably later by a Mr. Roberts in the "Murilla Williams house" originally owned by Amos Lyon and then opposite Glen Road. An- other was kept by W. H. Adams and his wife and sister-in-law Miss Pettingill for young ladies and misses. This was from 1848 to 1852. Sam Pettingill, who later was the first to have an advertising agency, was also an assistant.
The following advertisement copied from the "Christian Wit- ness" of Sept. 8, 1837 is a description of a school in the vicinity:
High School at Newton Lower Falls
The next Quarter of eleven weeks will commence on Wednesday 20 Sept. The delightful situation healthfulness and quietness of the village in which this school is situated the correct and indus- trious habits of the people their well-known politeness and courtesy to strangers will (it is presumed) serve to attract scholars from abroad. Instruction will be given in the branches usually taught in our best schools and Academies. Board reasonable. No scholars received for less than a quarter without special agreement.
Terms.
English branches $6 in advance. Latin, French or Greek $1 additional. Music $10. Use of piano $2. Daily lesson in singing gratis.
References.
Rev. A. L. Baury, Dr. E. Nichols, Messrs. A. C. & W. Curtis, Messrs. L. Crehore & B. Neal, and Christian Witness office. C. Abbot, Master.
Newton Lower Falls Aug 27 1837
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The Christian Witness Dec. 28 1838 again advertises-
The Subscriber being engaged as a teacher at Newton Lower Falls, will be happy to receive into his family a few Boys to board and instruct in the different branches of the English language.
Refer to- Calvin Park D. D.
Jesse Pierce Stoughton Samuel Tollman
Rev. T. M. Clark, Boston or Rev. A. L. Baury, Newton L F
Quincy Adams,
Master
Dec W 28.
Miss Farley had a small school in the house near Wellesley Hills square now occupied by the Pierson family and owned by Isaac Sprague.
Miss Shurtleff taught in the vestry of the Grantville Congrega- tional Church, followed by Miss Emma Fuller.
But Dana Hall, long in the hands of the Misses Eastman and now under the management and ownership of Miss Cooke has long had a widespread reputation as a college preparatory and finishing school. Originally intended as a part of Wellesley College it soon became a school under separate control. The principal building, Dana Hall, was the second church edifice in Wellesley, and given to the college by C. B. Dana. It was leased by the Misses Eastman from the college, but in 1899 was bought by Miss Cooke, who has added greatly to the school plant.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
More than passing notice should be paid to the College which derives its name from the town. Wellesley College was founded by Henry Fowle Durant who was born in Hanover, N. H., February 20, 1822. He was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and admitted to the bar in 1843. In 1854 he married Pauline Adeline Fowle, daughter of Col. John Fowle of the United States Army. The death of his son at the age of eight years greatly influenced his life and turned the direction of his talents to Christian service. In this he was most efficiently aided by his wife, who has always proved a great helper and friend to the Christian education of young women in every class in life. Their decision to found an institution de- voted to the higher education of young women resulted in Wellesley College which at his express desire does not bear the founder's name.
The College is situated on Lake Waban and its grounds contain over three hundred acres of meadow and woodland, with a mile of frontage on the lake.
On August 18, 1871 the first stone was put in the ground and
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September 14, the corner-stone was laid by Mrs. Durant and the structure of the main building was begun.
The many buildings, the Memorial Chapel, the Library, Music Hall, Billings Hall, Stone Hall, the Farnsworth Art Building, the cottages on "the hill," the quadrangle with its new dormitories, the new gymnasium, and other buildings, including society houses, the heating and lighting plants, gardener's house, testify in their evidence of expansion to the wisdom and foresight of the founder.
On September 8, 1875, the main building was opened with about three hundred students, and twenty-nine professors and teachers. Today there are over fifteen hundred students and nearly three hundred officers of instruction and administration. Miss Ada L. Howard, the first president, was followed in 1881 by Miss Alice Freeman who resigned in 1887 to marry Prof. George Herbert Palmer. Her influence and memory are among the richest endow- ments of the college. Miss Freeman was succeeded by Miss Helen A. Shafer who died in office in 1894. Her presence was gracious and dignified and her work of the highest academic value to the col-
lege. Mrs. Julia Irwin was acting president until succeeded by Miss Caroline Hazard who in resigning in 1910 has given place to Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton.
"Mr. Durant died at Wellesley Oct. 3, 1881, ten years after the laying of the corner-stone. From the beginning of the undertak- ing his cares had been unremitting, his labors great and incessant. With untiring energy he devoted himself day and night to the most minute details incident to the foundation and establishment of a great seat of learning. Not only during his work of planning and construction, but for the six years between the opening of the college and his death he gave the whole strength of his soul, mind and body to it. The result was inevitable, that so putting his life into his college he should lay down his life for it. He had lived to see, if not the full accomplishment of his purpose, yet more than is given most men to see of the fruit of their labors. He had seen an idea dear to him take root, gather material forces around it, merge from the darkness, make itself known, recognized, felt, a power in the world."
"Never," says Dr. Howard Crosby, "was any great institution more completely the work of one man. To Mr. Durant belongs the credit of the plan and the execution as well as the pecuniary gift."
The endowment and building fund raised after the burning of the main building in March, 1914 is the greatest proof of the loyalty of its alumnæ and the belief of the community at large of its great usefulness and future.
Mrs. Durant died February 12, 1917, after a long life of Christian activities.
WELLESLEY IN THE WARS
In the French and Indian Wars we find plentiful proof of the patriotism and bravery of the inhabitants in the little town and records of their help and assistance.
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WELLESLEY COLLEGE (Main building destroyed by fire, March, 1914)
WELLESLEY IN THE WARS
We read of William Chub and Henry Dewing, in Captain Jona- than Prentiss' Roll June 24, 1676; of Benjamin Mills in Capt. Thomas Brattle's Roll in Service, Aug. 24, 1676, Feb. 9, 1712, a Muster Roll of the Garrison posted at Oxford under Sergeant Samuel Hay contains accounts of wages to Sergeant John Fisher in care of Natick Indians, etc .; also July 22, 1713 another warrant issued for 12-12-2 wages to Sergeant John Fisher of Needham. In 1746 the town "voted money for ammunition for the present war." There is a long list of soldiers in The French War in 1759. Dec. 28, 1764 a bill was paid to Alex Shephard of £ 1-2-10 for rent of his house for French Neutrals until said neutrals went out of said house. This harboring of the French arose from a mandate issued by the colony to that effect.
The trouble with the Indians was not concerned with land as much as with the arrogance and dislike shown them by the whites. As hostilities advanced Col. Moseley's soldiers, English rather than colonists, were more and more brutal and unjust, creating greater hatred among the Indians. Many of the Christian Indians, how- ever, remained friendly and served as spies and scouts. Forty under Nepanet, their Indian captain, were in Captain Henchman's company, fought at Hassanamasett-(Grafton) and "proved emi- nently faithful and serviceable." As an instance of their assistance we read that in April 1675 Waban warned Col. Gookin, who had been made superintendent of the Indians of Massachusetts, that the Wampawags intended mischief and were only waiting for the trees to leave out,-advice which was found to be correct.
Many of the Natick Indians who had been sent to Deer Island were brought back to aid the English and proved faithful and honest. The west part of Dedham was not attacked, though Sudbury, Med- field and near-by towns were aided by the friendly Indians and inhabitants.
During the trouble with England and the colonies before the Revolution we read in the town records in Needham that the town put in its warrant an article Dec. 4, 1773, "to see if the Town will choose a Committee to join with the Committee of Correspondence of the town of Boston Relating to the Importation of Tea." The article was not adopted, but the interest was certainly manifested. On the 31st day of August 1774 notice was given the Inhabitants of the Town of Needham "Met and assembled together who then did elect and appoint :
Captain Eleazer Kingsbury Captain Lemuel Pratt Mr. Jonathan Dewing a committee
Mr. Samuel Daggett
Captain Caleb Kingsbury
to attend a County Convention at the House of Mr. Woodward, Inn holder in Dedham, on Tuesday the sixth day of September next at ten o'clock before noon, to Deliberate and Determine upon all mat- ters as the Distressed Circumstances of the Province may Require."
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Later, Eleazer Kingsbury was chosen Representative to the Provincial Congress at Concord on the 2nd Tuesday in Oct. 1774, and again Feb. 1, 1775 at Cambridge. William McIntosh was sent to the Congress at Watertown May 31, 1775.
June 24, 1776 the town voted "to instruct and advise their pres- ent Representative that if the Honorable Congress for the Safety of the United Colonies declare their independence of the Kingdom of Great Britain that they the same inhabitants will solemnly engage with their lives and fortunes to support them in ye measure."
Other interesting entries include the following: Feb. 17, 1777, the town voted a sum of money to each man that shall enlist in the Continental Army for three years and "to make up to those men who have done a term for themselves or part of a term per- sonally." Aug. 4, 1777 twenty pounds were voted to each person who had gone to "Canady."
A committee was chosen to take care of the families of the Continental Soldiers.
Oct. 14, 1779, 3,000 pounds were voted in addition to the 4000 pounds already granted in support of the present war.
Dec. 27, 1780 it was voted to raise money for beef ordered by the General Court.
3,000 pounds was voted to hire men to fill out their quota.
In the war Needham took an active part, furnishing three com- panies for the battle of Lexington, two coming from the west side. Five of the Needham men were killed in the battle, Needham "suf- fering more severely than any town except Lexington." Ephraim Bullard kept a tavern on the Sherborn Road near the entrance of the college and where in 1911 a tablet was erected. "Bullard went up on a hill near by, and discharged a gun three times as a signal. Great fires were made in the house and bullets moulded, the women assisting in the work. The men were supplied and sent off as soon as possible. It is said that the West Needham men reached the scene of conflict a little in advance of the East Company, having received the alarm earlier."
The following is the list of the names of the men composing the West Needham companies:
"A Roll of Capt. Aaron Smith's Company of militia who marched in consequence of the alarrum made on the 19th of April last, in the Regiment whereof William Heath, Esq., was then Colonel as follows:
(The figures after the names denote the days served.)
Aaron Smith, Capt. 15
Josiah Upham, Ensign 9
Joseph Daniell, Sergt., 11.
Jonathan Smith, Corp., 13. William Fuller, Sergt., 11.
Joseph Drury, Corp., 8.
Moses Bullard, Lieut., 13.
John Bacon, Sergt., 5.
Samuel Kilton, Sergt., 5.
Enoch Kingsbury, Corp., 5.
Jeremiah Daniell, Corp., 11.
Joseph Mudy, drummer, 10.
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Privates
Jona. Whittemore, Jr., 8.
Samuel Baley, 6.
Isaac Bacon, 8.
Daniel Huntting, Jr., 2.
David Trull, 5.
Moses Daggett, 15.
Lemuel Brackett, 5.
Daniel Ware, 10.
John Slack, 4.
Samuel Daggett, Sergt., 4.
John Smith, Jr., 11.
Benj. Mills, Jr., 14.
Joseph Hawes, 14.
Samuel Pratt, 15.
William Kingsbury, 7.
Samuel Woodcock, 10.
Timothy Huntting, 12.
Jeremiah Smith, 11.
Seth Broad, 9.
Joseph Hawes, Jr., 9.
Jonathan Kingsbury, 13.
Ebenezer Huntting, 9.
Joseph Kingsbury, 13.
Jeremiah Edes, 8 .
Jonathan Dunn, 9.
Moses Huntting, 8.
Issachar Pratt, 4.
Jonathan Huntting, 5.
Philip Floyd, 8.
Aaron Smith, Jr., 9.
Samuel McIntire, 2.
Amos Edes, 8.
Peter Jenison, 5.
Samuel Smith, 5.
John Bullard, 5.
Collins Edes, 5.
Eliphilet Kingsbury, Jr., 9.
Ithamar Smith, Jr., 7.
John Smith, 3rd, 8.
Abner Felt, 4.
John Fuller, 4.
Timothy Bacon, 8.
Uriah Coller, Jr., 7.
Solomon Flagg, 5.
Moses Bacon, 7.
Jos. Kingsbury, Jr., 5.
William Huntting, 8.
Jeremiah Gay, 5.
Noah Millard, 2.
Luke Mills, 7.
Stephen Bacon, Jr., 11.
Seth Pratt, 7.
Moses Fuller, 9.
Israel Hunting, 7.
Samuel Brackett, 11.
Samuel Ward, 8.
Zebadiah Pratt, 6.
Abiel Smith-(Natick) 2.
Total amount £50 7s 2d of.
Aaron Smith, Capt.
"Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, Mar. 15th, 1776, Captain Aaron Smith, above named, made oath to the truth of the above will by him subscribed, according to the best of his knowledge, before Samuel Holten, Jus. Peace thro. the Colony."
"This copy hath been compared with the original thereof and agrees therewith.
Josiah Johnson Jonas Dix
Comm.
"Read and allowed and thereupon ordered, that a warrant be drawn on the treasurer, for £50 7s 2d in full discharge of the within roll.
Perez Morton D-Sec'y."
"A muster Roll of the Travel and Service of a Company of Minute Men in Needham under the command of Caleb Kingsberry,
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in Col. Davis' Regiment that marched in consequence of the Alarum made on the 19th of April, 1775, which is as follows,-viz:
Caleb Kingsberry, Capt., 2.
Thomas Hall, Corpl., 5.
John Bacon, 1st Lieut., killed, 1.
Eleazer Kingsbury, 2nd Lt. wounded, 2. Daniel Gould, Sergt., 5.
Samuel Daggett,, Sergt., 4. Ephraim Stevens, Sergt., 8.
Samuel Brown, Corpl., 5.
Samuel Daniell, Cor., 1. Ephraim Bullard, drummer, 5.
Privates
Ezekiel Richardson, 8.
Joseph Mudy, 1.
Josiah Ware, 1.
Henry Dewing, 7.
David Hall, 1.
Stephen Huntting, 8.
Jacob Parker, 8.
Jonathan Smith, 1.
David Smith, 2.
Moses Felt, 2.
Isaac Goodenow, Jr., 15.
Thomas Discomb, 4.
Samuel Greenwood, 2.
Abijah Mills, 11.
Theodore Brown, 5.
Josiah Lyon, 2.
Nathaniel Kingsbury, 2.
John Edes, Jr., 2.
Amos Mills (killed), 1
Nathaniel Chamberlain, Killed
Seth Wilson, 6.
Ithamar Smith, 8.
Henry Gale, 7. David Hagar, 6. John Fuller 2
Nehemiah Mills, Jr., 9.
Jonas Mills, 7.
Needham, March 24, 1776.
Caleb Kingsberry
"Colony of the Mass. Bay, March 15, 1776. Captain Caleb Kingsberry within named, made solemn oath to the truth of the within roll by him subscribed to the best of his knowledge, before Samuel Holten, Justice Peace thro' the Colony."
"Compared with the original and therewith agrees.
"E. Stark "Jno. Turner, Com."
"Read and allowed and ordered that a warrant be drawn on the Treasurer, for 16. IVs 101/2d., in full of the within roll. "Perez Morton, D. Sec'y."
The East Company was under the command of Captain Robert Smith, in Colonel William Heath's regiment and contained seventy- five men, two of whom were killed.
In 1851 in the old cemetery in Needham a monument was raised to the memory of those killed. Upon it is inscribed:
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Elijah Houghton, 2. Jesse Kingsbury, 1.
Isaac Underwood, Sergt., 2.
WELLESLEY IN THE WARS
In Memory of John Bacon, Amos Mills, Elisha Mills,
Jona' Parker
and N. Chamberlain
who fell
at Lexington April 19, 1775 for Liberty they died at last.
Amos Mills was the only man living within the present pre- cincts of Wellesley who was killed at Lexington. He lived in the place formerly owned by Abijah Stevens on Webster Road.1
Ephraim Stevens hearing the alarm left his oxen standing in the field and went to Lexington. Abel Stevens tells of his grand- 'mother telling him that her mother by putting her ear to the ground could hear the firing beyond Sudbury. Ephraim belonged to the old Colonial Guards who were ready to fight against the British at any moment.
Lieutenant John Bacon, about whom there seem to be more data obtainable than any of the others was buried at Menotomy under another name. The day of the fight he must have started very early as his horse returned by ten o'clock in the morning. He was with Elisha Mills and Christopher Mills behind a stone wall when he looked over it, and was shot. His son, John, who served throughout the war, went for his clothes the next day and discovered them in the schoolhouse.
The town furnished three hundred men as soldiers in the War of the Revolution,-a large percentage of the whole population which was then only about one thousand. The community was al- ways prompt in raising money to encourage the army, in voting bounties to men who should enlist, in sending delegates to provincial congresses and in furnishing clothes, food, ammunition, and in car- ing for the soldiers' families.
Needham men fought during the War at the siege of Boston, at Dorchester Heights, in Canada and New York, at Castle Island, and wherever they were called.
Joseph Ware, an orderly sergeant and recruiting officer during the War, was the author of a journal of the expedition to Quebec under Gen. Arnold, 1775-6, and was at the battles of Concord and Ticonderoga.2
Minute Men were recommended by vote of the town in 1794, to be trained in possible anticipation of any outbreak.
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