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THE OLD NATHAN HAGAR HOUSE, NORTH AVENUE, CORNER OF CHURCH STREET.
Built in 1786 by Deacon Isaac Hobbs, Jr., whose daughter married Nathan Hagar. Their descendants still own and occupy the house. The land has been in the possession of the same family for one hundred and eighty-three years.
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out of Concord, and directs them to go through the woods to the Lexington road, where the company strike the retreating British and follow them to Charlestown.
The Muster-roll of Captain Samuel Lamson's Militia Company .*
Length of Service in Days.
Length of Service in Days.
Captain
David Sanderson
3
Samuel Lamson
3
Abraham Harrington
John Walker Jr
Lieutenants.
Saml. Underwood
Jonathan Fiske
Eben Brackett
66
Mathew Hobbs
Oliver Curtis
66
Sergeants.
Reuben Hobbs
66
Josiah Steadman
66
Thomas Rand.
66
Josiah Seaverns
Thomas Rand Jr
66
John Wright
Benjamin Rand
66
Corporals.
David Fuller Saml. Child .
66
Abijah Steadman
66
David Livermore
66
Simeon Smith
Jonas Harrington 3d .
66
Drummer.
Jacob Parmenter
66
Samuel Nutting
Roger Bigelow
66
Nathan Hager
66
66
Jonathan Stratton
66
Convers Bigelow
66
Isaiah Bullard
William Bigelow
66
John Allen Jr .
John Stimpson
John Warren Jr
Thomas Williams
66
Jonathan Warren
66
Increase Leadbetter
Wm. Hobart
66
Elisha Stratton
66
Micah Warren
Isaac Hobbs
John Frost .
Benjamin Bancroft 66
Abijah Warren
Samuel Twitchell
Isaac Flagg .
66 William Bond Jr
Isaac Walker
John Flint
Isaac Cory
66
John Norcross
66
James Jones
66 William Cary
66
Amos Jones
66 John Bemis
66
Abraham Hews
66
Benjamin Peirce.
66
66
Thomas Corey
Elijah Kingsberry Jonas Underwood
Privates.
Josiah Corey
* The company marched from Weston under Lamson's command on the 19th of April, 1775. See Lexington Alarm List, vol. xii. p. 170.
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Length of Service in Days.
Length of Service in Days.
Daniel Lawrence
3
John Gould
7
Jedediah Bemis .
John Lamson
66
Lemuel Stimpson
Solomon Jones
66
Benjamin Dudley
Phineas Hager
William Lawrance .
66
Paul Coolidge
Nathaniel Parkhurst 66
Samuel Taylor
Samuel Fiske
Jos. Lovewell .
66
Elias Bigelow .
4
Peter Cary
William Whitney
7
Thaddeus Fuller
Abraham Sanderson
66
Joseph Peirce
Samuel Train Jr
66
Samuel Woodward
Josiah Allen Jr
Elijah Allen
Daniel Benjamin
66
Hezekiah Wyman
66
Joseph Whitney
66
Ebenezer Steadman
66
Jos. Steadman
William Bond.
Jonas Peirce
66 Joel Smith
66
Nathaniel Boynton
Joseph Jennison
Eben Phillips
Moses Peirce
Jedediah Wheeler
Daniel Bemis
Benjamin Peirce
66
Daniel Stratton
John Peirce
Amos Parkhurst
William Jones
Muster-roll of Captain Israel Whittemore's Militia Company of Artillery .*
Names.
Residence.
Rank.
March.
One Penny a Mile.
Services.
Travel.
Israel Whittemore.
Weston 66
Captain Lieutenant
Apl. 19
2:10
4 days
34 miles
Josiah Bigelow.
66
2d Lieut.
2:10
3
John Whitehead.
66
Private
66
2:10
4
66
Nathan Weston.
66
66
2:10
3
66
66
Joseph Russell.
66
66
2:10
3
3
Jonathan Lawrance.
66
66
2:10
2
James Smith Jr.
2:10
2
Thaddeus Garfield.
2:10
4
Alpheus Bigelow.
2:10
3
Thomas Russell.
2:10
4
66
66
John George.
John Pownall.
66
2:10
3
-
66
John Flagg.
66
2:10
2:10
Nathan Smith.
66
66
66
66
Sd ISRAEL WHITTEMORE, Captain.
* This company also marched from Weston to Concord on the 19th of April, 1775. The total amount paid for their services was £5 17s. 2d. See State Records, vol. 13, fol. 20. Examined and compared by Josiah Johnson and Jonas Dix, Committee.
2:10
4
66
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A new organization of the militia was made in February, 1776. The Third Middlesex Regiment was composed of three com- panies in Concord, Weston, Lexington, Acton, and Lincoln. Eleazer Brooks of Lincoln was colonel, Francis Faulkner lieuten- ant-colonel, Nathan Barrett of Concord first major, and Samuel Lamson of Weston second major, Joseph Adams surgeon. On Monday, March 13, 1775, there was a review of all the militia held at Concord, and a week later at Acton. Congress ordered that provisions and military stores sufficient for 15,000 men should be collected at Concord and Worcester.
Charlestown sent 20 loads, containing 20,000 pounds of musket- balls and cartridges, 206 tents, 113 spades, 51 axes, 201 bill-hooks, 19 sets of harness, 14 chests of medicine, 27 hogsheads of wooden ware, 1 hogshead matches, and 20 bushels of oatmeal. Boston sent 11 loads, containing 150 tents, axes, hatchets, spades, wooden spoons and dishes, 47 firkins and 2 barrels butter, and 80 barrels of beef. Marblehead sent 14 hogsheads, containing 35 half-barrels of powder, 318 barrels of flour (a part of this flour was destroyed on April 19), 7 loads of salt fish (17,000 pounds), 18 casks of wine, 47 hogsheads and 50 barrels of salt, 4 loads of tents, 1 bundle of sheet lead, several hogsheads of molasses, and a quantity of linen. Salem sent 35,000 pounds of rice. Nor is this all the stores that were collected. On April 18 these stores were ordered to be divided in nine different towns. One-third was kept in Concord, one-third in Sudbury, and one-third in Stowe. 1,000 iron pots were sent to Worcester.
At the battle of Concord and during the retreat of the British to Charlestown, of the provincials 49 men were killed, 36 wounded, and 5 missing. Captains Charles Mills, Nathan Barrett, Jonas Brown, and Abel Prescott, Jr., were wounded. Captains Isaac Davis, Abner Hosmer, and James Hayward, of Acton, were killed. Luther Blanchard was wounded, Captain Wilson, of Bedford, killed, and Job Lane wounded.
Of the British 73 were killed, 172 wounded, and 26 missing. Among these were 18 officers, 10 sergeants, 2 drummers, and 240 of the rank and file. It is stated that none of those taken pris- oners returned to the British army.
The files of the Provincial Congress give the loss at Lexington
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of property destroyed by the British on the 19th of April as £2,576 2s.,-real estate £615 10s., and personal £1,960 12s. But as this estimate was made in 1782, or seven years after the fight, the Selectmen state that the loss and damage could not be ascertained at that date.
The battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, following the fight at Concord, closed all political connection of the colonies with the British government. While that battle was a virtual defeat of the Continental forces, the victory, if so it can be called, of the ministerial party, was of the kind that in their results overturn empires, as was proved in this case. The news of this battle was taken to England by Captain Derby, of Salem. He reached England in advance of General Gage's official report. The news created a great sensation throughout the country. A strong sym- pathy was manifested for the Americans, and a London paper of that date states that a subscription of £100 had been raised for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the brave Americans who had been inhumanly murdered by the king's soldiers. The records of the town of Weston make no mention of there having been any of its inhabitants in the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. Abraham Hews, our former postmaster, once told the writer that he remembered, when a boy, sitting on his father's doorstep and hearing the report of the guns that were being fired on that day.
At a town meeting held on the 25th of May, 1775, Colonel Braddyll Smith was chosen to represent the town at a Provincial Congress to be held in Watertown on the 31st of May, and to continue as their representative for six months and no longer; "to consult, deliberate, and resolve upon such further measures as under God shall be effectual to save this people from ruin." It was also voted later that Colonel Smith should use his influence to raise more men "to defend our lines against our enemies."
It may be well here to consider the drift of the country at this time. Our grandfathers looked upon themselves as Englishmen, and were proud of England. Their determination to resist unjust measures and laws which were infringements on their charter rights (which charter they'had received at the hands of the king alone) was not associated in their minds with the idea of a sepa- ration or disaffection towards England and the king. The possi-
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bility of contending against the mother country by force of arms was thought impracticable, and not until after Concord fight and the battle of Bunker Hill did the Liberty Men of the country feel confident of success. Throughout the Revolution such facts as that the Tory element openly sympathized with the enemy; that the timid among our own people feared the country had been led too far on the road to a contest which would ultimately lead to destruction; that there existed a state of depression over defeat and want; and that universal uncertainty prevailed, the friends of freedom being goaded by the satire and ridicule of the Loyalists everywhere,-such things as these, I say, can be little understood at the present day. From the commencement two men, above all others, seem to have had a clear purpose and unfailing confidence in the result, and to have inspired others both with energy and courage in the fight for freedom. They were George Washington and Samuel Adams. At the beginning of the Revolution, Massachusetts was entitled to have one of its officers appointed to the command of the army, the more so as the contest was within her territory; but she relinquished her claim to Virginia, and Washington was made commander-in- chief. The appointment of Washington to supreme command was a great disappointment to John Hancock, who felt he was entitled to that position; but that he was not qualified for so exalted a position was best exemplified by his display of wounded self-esteem and his want of courtesy towards Washington. Washington arrived in Cambridge on July 2, 1775, and, while his headquarters were being prepared for him in the Vassal house, he was entertained at the expense of the Congress sitting in Watertown. Congress provided him with a steward and cooks. The following bill paid by Congress (Journal of Congress, pp. 493-495) goes to show that not all the spirits and old Madeira, not all the lemons and loaf sugar, were in control of the British in Boston. Washington could not have depended on the Pro- hibition vote, had he lived in our day. Temperance, as now understood, had little to do with the making or unmaking of our great men a century ago. President Lincoln was about right. When told of General Grant's intemperate habits, he inquired what liquor he drank, as he would like to send some of it to other
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generals he could name. The bill above alluded to is sufficiently curious to be given here :-
GENERAL WASHINGTON & Co.
To SOLOMON LOTHROP. £1:10:0
Dr
To 6 Bottles of Madeira
" 5 Dozen Lemons
1:3:1014
" 634 lbs. Loaf Sugar 0:11:3
" 7 Quarts Brandy
14:0
24 Dinners
2:8:0
7 Ditto for Servants
10:6
1 Bowl of Punch .
1:4
66
1 Gallon Spirits
8:0
13 Suppers
16:9
2 Quarts Spirits
4:0
13 Breakfasts
16:9
1 man to make Liquor
3:0
6 Bottles of Madeira
1:10:0
1 Dozen Lemons .
4:912
5 Do. Do.
1:5:0
3 Bottles Jamaica Rum
6:0
" 1 Bottle West India Rum
1:4
" 12 Bottles Madeira .
3:0:0
and so on, a long list, amounting to £24 6s. 9d. Congress cannot be accused of overlooking the spiritual condition of the staff .*
Washington took command of the forces before Boston on July 3. He found an army destitute of every munition of war,- of powder, in particular. The powder-house at Mystic was for the greater part stored with barrels which, instead of containing powder, were filled with sand, the better to deceive the enemy, should a spy by chance look in. Watson, in his reminiscences, tells some amusing stories of the motley gathering of inexperi- enced men, assembled to defend their country, animated with zeal and patriotism, but entirely ignorant of military discipline. While passing through the camp, he overheard a dialogue between a captain of the militia and one of his privates, which well illus- trates the character of the army. "Bill," said the captain,
* When General Washington was on his way to take command of the army at Cam- bridge, he passed over our Weston road with his staff, and stopped for dinner at the Baldwin tavern in Wayland. Mrs. Baldwin made great preparations for the dinner, but, much to her disgust, Washington went into her kitchen and asked for a bowl of bread and milk [or corn mush and milk?] which he ate there, leaving his staff to eat the formal dinner. This tavern was burned, but the property is yet in the Baldwin family.
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"go and bring a pail of water for the mess." "I shan't do it," was Bill's reply. "It is your turn now, captain: I got the last one." Even the elements of subordination had then scarcely been introduced. Officers and men had rushed to the field under the ardent impulse of a common patriotism, and the selection of the officers by the troops (or their appointment) was rather accidental and temporary than controlled by any regard to supe- rior qualifications. All the warlike stores in Massachusetts on April 14, 1775, according to a return made by the several towns, were little more than half a pound of powder to a man, as shown herewith :-
Fire Arms . 21,549
Pounds of Powder
17,441
Pounds of Ball 22,191
No. of Flints 144,699
" Bayonets
10,108
« " Pouches
11,979
In a Weston town meeting held June 18, 1776, it was voted by the citizens to instruct their representative to use his influence for independence from Great Britain, "if the Honorable Congress thinks it best for the interests of the Colony." The town also voted that their representative should not be paid out of the pub- lic chest, which was still in the hands of the royal governor. At the May meeting it had been voted that he should be allowed four shillings a day out of the town rates for one hundred and thirty- seven days' services in the Congress. At this meeting Major Lam- son receipts for the use of two guns belonging to the town 12s., and also for powder, ball, and flints from Selectmen amounting to £23 10s. 2d .* General Washington having decided to fortify Dorchester Heights, and thus command the city of Boston and force Lord Howe to evacuate that city, which he had held for
* Mr. Shattuck, in his valuable and now exceedingly rare book giving the history of Con- cord, says (p. 353): " A new organization of the militia was made in February, 1776, and Concord, Lexington, Weston, Acton, and Lincoln were assigned to the Third Middlesex Regiment in Oliver Prescott's brigade, Eleazer Brooks, colonel, Francis Faulkner, lieuten- ant-colonel, Nathan Barrett, first major, and Samuel Lamson, second major, Joseph Adams, surgeon. The captain of the Weston company was Jonathan Fiske; Matthew Hobbs, first lieutenant; Josiah Seaverns, second lieutenant. In March, 1780, the Weston company was commanded by Matthew Hobbs; Josiah Livermore, first lieutenant; and Daniel Livermore, second lieutenant."
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a year and a half, the Third Middlesex Regiment was ordered on the 4th of March to occupy the Heights, and the Weston company, which was a part of this regiment, proceeded to the appointed position under Captain Jonathan Fisk. The officers of the Third Regiment at this time were Colonel Eleazer Brooks, of Lincoln, Lieutenant-colonel Nathan Barrett, of Concord, and Major Samuel Lamson, of Weston. The names of the Weston company are as follows (Mass. Reg. Rolls, vol. 19, p. 88) :-
Captain Jonathan Fisk.
Isaac Flagg.
Sergeant Samuel Fisk.
Ebenezer Steadman.
Sergeant Isaiah Seaverns.
Nathaniel Howard.
Corporal Abijah Stedman.
Joshua Peirce.
Corporal Simeon Smith.
Thaddeus Fuller.
Fifer Abijah Seaverns.
Abraham Harrington.
Privates Isaac Corey.
James Cogswell.
William Bond.
Joshua Jennison.
Benjamin Dudley.
Elijah Kingsbury.
Isaac Walker.
Benjamin Upham.
Uriah Gregory.
Samuel Pratt.
Solomon Jones.
John Allen Jr.
Edward Peirce.
James Hastings.
Nathan Hager.
Joseph Steadman.
Michael Warren.
John Warren Jr.
Jonathan Warren.
John Wright.
Thomas Russell Jr.
John Stimpson.
Benjamin Stimpson.
Lemuel Stimpson.
David Steadman.
John Peirce.
Benjamin Peirce Jr.
Thomas Williams.
Reuben Hobbs.
Abel Flint.
Silas Livermore. John Hager.
Samuel Underwood.
Wm. Hobbs.
Benjamin Rand.
Thomas Rand Jr.
Jonathan Stratton Jr.
Jonas Underwood.
Joseph Russell.
The company travelled twenty-eight miles, and served five days. At the town meeting held in June it was voted to appoint one of the Selectmen to take a census of the town as directed by Congress. There is no record of the result of this census. It is to be regretted that the records of the town do not give the organizations, companies, and regiments to which the Weston men who fought in the Revolution were assigned. We have the
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payments made to all who served in the war and some of the campaigns in which they took part, but nothing more definite. A more detailed account would have added interest to the de- scendants of all the old soldiers. The little that has been ac- complished in identifying our soldiers in the several commands of that period has been done in searching through the rolls at the State House, and in some instances these are not complete. Returns of companies and regiments were not attended to with the promptness and regularity of our own days. There are extant records which show sharp and frequent reminders from the head- quarters of the army about the delinquency and carelessness of officers in this respect.
In town meeting held July 1, 1776, it was voted to give £6 6s. 8d. to each man (in addition to the bounty granted by the General Court); i.e., to those men that were to go to Canada. Major Lamson, Ensign Isaac Hobbs, and Captain John Warren were appointed a committee to hire the money, and the town treasurer was ordered to give his security on behalf of the town at 6 per cent. interest.
The Weston men who went to Canada at this time are Con- verse Bigelow, John Warren, Jr., Samuel Train, Matthew Hobbs, John Hager, Lemuel Stimpson, James Cogswell, Benjamin Rand, Samuel Danforth, William Helms, Paul Cooledge, John Baldwin, Benjamin Bancroft, Daniel Sanderson, Reuben Hobbs, Elias Bigelow, Thomas Russell, Jr., John Stimpson.
Nearly all of the above men were of the Weston company. The Weston men who were in Captain Asabet Wheeler's company (of Colonel John Robinson's regiment) in 1776 at the siege of Bos- ton and stationed at Cambridge were Josiah Cary, Roger Bige- low, Paul Cooledge, Converse Bigelow, Nathaniel Bemis, Elias Bigelow, Daniel Benjamin, Nathaniel Parkhurst, Oliver Curtis, Phineas Hager, Lemuel Jones, Daniel Livermore, Thomas Bige- low, A. Faulkner.
The three months' and ten-day men at Cambridge were as follows, and they received £346 11s. 2d .: Edward Cabott, Joseph Coburn, Isaac Gregory, Isaac Peirce, Artemas Cox (Wyman), Daniel Bemis, John Bemis, Joseph Mastick, Peter Cary, Simeon Pike, Keen Robinson, Daniel Rand, Thomas Harrington.
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The five months' men at Cambridge were paid £200 18s. They were Philemon Warren, Joseph Stone, John Hager, George Farrar, Jedediah Warren, Nathan Fisk, Henry Bond, Josiah Jennison, Nathan Hager.
The Weston men to guard the beacon on Sanderson Hill in Weston were as follows (they were paid £127 8s.): Jonas San- derson, Nathaniel Felch, Joel Harrington, Nathaniel Parmenter, Thaddeus Peirce, Daniel Rand.
This beacon is spoken of in General Sullivan's Memoirs, and was the connecting link of signals between the army at Cambridge and Sullivan's command in Rhode Island.
The nine months' men for the Continental army were as fol- lows, and they were paid £900 bounty money: Keen Robinson, Jeduthun Bemis, Joseph Mastick, James Bemis, Samuel Bailey, Daniel Davis, Peter Cary.
On July 4, 1776, Congress issued to the country the Declara- tion of Independence by the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, and in council at Boston, July 7, it was ordered to be printed and a copy sent to the minister of each parish, and that the ministers be required to read the same on the first Lord's Day after they shall have received it, and that it should then be copied into the town records as a perpetual memorial. The Declaration of Independence was read in Weston by Rev. Samuel Woodward on the eighth day of September, 1776.
At a special town meeting held January 27 the petition of Josiah Smith and others, inhabitants of Weston, was read :-
TO THE SELECTMEN OF WESTON, Gentlemen:
Whereas it is difficult coming to justice in drafting men to go to the service of the United States by a common draft, we think it more just and equitable to come to justice for the town to choose a Committee to hire men whenever there shall be a call for men, and to have them paid by an assessment on ye inhabitants and estates by the same rule that common town rates are made and collected and in the same way, and ye money when collected to be delivered to said Committee in order to pay ye men: And also to make an estimate of what every person has done in the service since ye 19th of April 1775.
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It was voted to choose five as such committee; namely, John Warren, Thomas Rand, Abraham Jones, Isaac Hobbs, and Samuel Livermore. This committee continued throughout the war, and did valuable service. At the same meeting it was
Voted to allow £3 to each man that was in service at Cambridge for eight months.
Voted that £10 be allowed each man in service 12 months and marched to New York.
Voted that £18 be allowed each man in service twelve months and marched to Canada.
Voted that twelve shillings be allowed each man in service two months at Cambridge, February and March.
Voted that £5 be allowed to each man in service five months at Ticon- deroga.
Voted that £2 be allowed each man in service four months in Boston.
Voted that £5 be allowed each man in service two months at Horse- neck.
Voted that £7:10 be allowed each man in the Jersies.
Voted that £1: 10 to men in service 5 months in Boston.
Voted that 18 shillings be allowed for service 3 months in Boston.
At a town meeting held February 17, 1777, it was voted to add four more to the committee on the war; and Colonel Smith, John Lamson, Deacon Russell, and Deacon Upham were chosen to be of that committee.
The close watch which the friends of liberty held over the unfriendly, or Tory, element among them, is well exemplified in an occurrence which took place in Lincoln in August of 1777. The account is taken probably from a diary, as no name is signed to the statement: "This very day a mob came, it being on Sun- day morning: the mob consisted of sixteen persons, by violence drove me away and kept me under guard for twenty six hours, insulting me to the highest degree." He then gives a list of the names of the persons who composed the mob: Colonel Abijah Peirce, Lieutenant Samuel Hoar, Lieutenant James Parks, Ser- geant Ephraim Flint, Sergeant Daniel Harrington, and eleven others. This person, whoever he was, had probably ventilated his Tory proclivities, and been arrested by a company of soldiers.
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The Third Middlesex Regiment served on the Hudson River and the Canada border, and it is probable the Weston company was with the regiment at White Plains in October; but there is no record on the town books of their services, beyond the pay- ment made to Weston soldiers. The eight months' men on North River, New York, are as follows, and were probably drafted: Oliver Curtis, Ebenezer Philips, Joseph Stone, John Hager, John Richardson. There were eight Weston men in Captain Jesse Wyman's company, of Colonel Josiah Whiting's regiment serving in Rhode Island, discharged at Point Judith: Oliver Curtis, Joseph Mastick, George Farrer, Amos Hosmer, Buckley Adams, Joseph Stone, Josiah Parks, Eleazer Parks.
A draft was ordered by Colonel Brooks of one-sixth of Cap- tain Fisk's Weston company (Records, vol. 53, p. 192), dated August 18, 1777, as follows: William Hobbs, Samuel Nutting, Silas Livermore, Alpheus Bigelow, Nathan Warren, Daniel Benjamin, Joel Harrington, Isaac Jones, Jr., Phineas Hager, Phineas Upham, Isaac Flagg, Thomas Hill, William Bond, Amos Harrington, Isaac Harrington, Jr., John Allen, Jr., Jeduthun Bemis, Daniel Weston.
Captain Fisk reports that Isaac Jones, Jr., could not be found. The six months' men who served in Rhode Island were as fol- lows: Abel Peirce, Phineas Stimpson, Jonas Parmenter, David Livermore, John Roberts, Solomon Parmenter, William Richard- son, Samuel Bond, Alpheus Bigelow, Panamuel Pratt, Daniel Bemis, Abner Mathias, Nathan Fisk, Amos Peirce, Phineas Hager, Silas Livermore, Jonas Underwood, James Peacock, James Coggs- well, Joseph Storrs, John Bemis, Joseph Walker.
When Washington was defeated at Brooklyn, the army came near being broken up by the discharge of short-term enlisted men, and Washington appealed to the Continental Congress to organ- ize an efficient army. As an inducement to enlist for the term of the war, Congress offered a bounty of £20 at the time of mus- ter and the following grants of land: to a colonel, 500 acres; to a major, 400 acres; to a captain, 300 acres; to a lieutenant, 200 acres; and 100 acres to privates and non-commissioned offi- cers. Massachusetts passed a resolve requiring each town to furnish every seventh man of sixteen years of age, excepting Quakers. By this order Weston's quota was eighteen men.
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