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In the return of men killed and taken at Long Island, General Jede- diah Huntington, under date of August 27, 1776, says "Ralf Lindsey has been found in the hospital since." (Original doement in Library of Congress.)
Other service, which is not certainly distinguished from that of his cousin, is as follows :-
Private, list of men returned as having served on the main guard under Colonel L. Baldwin at Prospect Hill, dated July 16, 1775; also captain Addison Richardson's company, Colonel Mansfield's regiment; order for advance pay signed by said Lindsey and others, dated Cambridge. June 8. 1775; also company receipt given to Captain Addison Richard- son, for wages due to August 1. 1775, dated Cambridge; also Captain
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Richardson's company, 19th regiment, commanded by Lieutenant- Colonel Israel Hutchinson; company receipt for wages for September, 1775, dated camp at Winter Hill; also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated camp at Winter Hill, October 27, 1775.
LISH, GEORGE,-private, list of men returned as having served on main guard at Prospect Hill under Lieutenant-Colonel Loammi Baldwin, dated July 16, 1775; also Captain Addison Richardson's company, Colonel John Mansfield's regiment; order for advance pay signed by said Lish and others, dated Cambridge, June 14, 1775; above men reported as having taken the oath in Middlesex County, July 1, 1775, required by Congress to be taken by the Massachusetts army; also private, same company and regiment; muster-roll dated August 1, 1775; enlisted May 22, 1775; service, two months, fourteen days; also Captain Richardson's company, Colonel Mansfield's 19th regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Israel Hutchinson; company receipt for wages for September, 1775, dated camp at Winter Hill; a portion of wages reported paid master of said Lish; also company return dated October 6, 1775; also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated camp at Winter Hill, October 27, 1775 .- Mass. Rolls.
LUCOMB, ALEXANDER,-list of men belonging to Captain Lindsey's com- pany who took the oath in Middlesex County, July 6, 1775, required by Congress to be taken by the Massachusetts army.
Appears on a list of deserters from the 24th regiment, commanded by Colonel John Greaton, Captain Whiting's company; age, twenty- two years; stature, 5 ft. 4 in .; complexion, dark; residence, Lynn; reported deserted March 18, 1776 .- Mass. Rolls.
Desire, wife of Alexander, warned from Danvers in 1779. LUZGRIDGE, WILLIAM,-return of men raised in Essex County for Conti- nental service, agreeable to resolve of December 2, 1780; engaged for the town of Lynn; engaged September 11, 1781; term three years. Descriptive list of file in Colonel Hutchinson's Orderly Book.
LYE, JOSEPH, Sr .- This would appear to be the man described in the fol- lowing extract from the muster-rolls at the State House: "Sailor, brigantine 'Rover,' Adam Wellman master. Descriptive list of officers and men sworn to July 30, 1780; age, thirty-eight years; stature, 5 ft. 6 in .; complexion, dark; residence, Lynn."
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Owing to the faulty description often given in the records, he may have been a little older, thus making it probable that he was the father Joseph Lye of Joseph, called in the records Joseph, Jr., born in 1759. The elder man is described as a fisherman in his will, and Joseph, Jr., always as a cordwainer. Letters of administration were granted upon the estate of Joseph, Sr., July 12, 1792, Joseph, Jr., being named as executor. His estate was appraised at £79 1s. and 6d., of which £65 was for dwelling-house and garden adjoining.
LYE, JOSEPH, JR.,-son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lye, was baptized in Marblehead, February 4, 1759. He was married August 19, 1787, by Rev. Obadiah Parsons, to Anna Hart, daughter of Joseph and Eunice (Burrill) Hart, born April 12, 1766. Their children were Elizabeth, Anna, Joseph, Eunice, Burrill, Mary, John, Robert Gray, Sally Graves. Hle was a farmer and shoemaker and lived on the corner of Mall and North Common Streets. Ile died October 16, 1807, aged forty-eight, and was buried beside the fenee near Elm Street in the old Western Burial Ground. The stone which marks his grave bears the following inscription :-
" Thou faithful husband, tender parent, friend, Here rest in sweet repose till time shall end: Then wake immortal and behold the day Which honors saints and wipes their tears away."
His wife, Anna, died October 17, 1848, aged eighty-one, and was buried by his side. At the time of her application for a pension, some facts were given concerning her husband's service as a soldier. Her own testimony was that her husband was a private soldier in the Massachu- setts line, and served in Captain Ezra Newhall's company, Colonel Mansfield's regiment, and she believed he served twenty months or more, and that he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington. She had often heard her husband relate his sufferings and services in the army, and in particular the conversation which he had with General Wash- ington about removing some ammunition during the engagement which. she thought he said, was at Fort Washington; that he told her he was in prison a long time in New York, and was released on New Year's
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Day; that she thought he served eight months in the year 1775, and in 1776 he enlisted for one year. He was a native of Marblehead.
Daniel Watts testified that he had heard Joseph Lye say that our men fired away all their ammunition at Fort Washington, and that he, Lye, took a piece of chain from a carriage of a gun, having nothing else to fire. That was his last shot before they surrendered, and he thought it did good execution among the Hessians.
Micajah Burrill's testimony was that Joseph Lye told him that he was confined on the prison-ships, and that it was suspected that the British poisoned many of our men.
Anna Lye was pensioned from March 4, 1843, at $40 per year. In the administration of his estate he was described as a cordwainer, and house, barn, and land were valued at $3,000; also ten acres in a field bought of Daniel Witt, $1,000,-in all $4,930 real, and $506 personal. MAIDEN, JOHN,-return of men raised for the Continental service, agree- able to resolve of December 2, 1780; engaged for the town of Lynn; engaged April 23, 1781; term three years; age, seventeen; stature, 5 ft. 2 in .; complexion, light; hair and eyes, light.
MANSFIELD, ANDREW,-son of Deacon Daniel and Lydia (Newhall) Mans- field, brother of William, was born in Lynnfield, September 21, 1757; married March 13, 1777, by Rev. Benjamin Adams, to Jane Breed. Children were Andrew, Jane, Lydia, Nancy, Isaac, Jacob, and Polly. He died July 26, 1788, and his widow, Jane, was admitted to the Lynn- field church, May 24, 1789. Her death occurred July 31, 1838. Both are buried in the South Lynnfield cemetery.
His name appears in a "descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental Army, agreeable to a resolve of June 5, 1780; return as received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by Brigadier-General John Glover, at Springfield, July 11, 1780; age, twenty-two years; stature, 5 ft. 6 in .; complexion, dark; marched to camp July 11, 1780, under command of Captain Webb; also list of men raised for six months' service and returned by Brigadier-General Patterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, October 25, 1780; also pay- roll for six months' men raised by the town of Lynn for service in the Continental Army during 1780; marched June 27, 1780; discharged November 11, 1780; service, four months, twenty-seven days; travel, 220 miles. included."-Mass. Rolls.
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MANSFIELD, ANDREW,-son of Andrew, was born in South Lynnfield, December 2, 1740, and was fifth in line from Robert Mansfield, the emigrant ancestor. He was married by Rev. Benjamin Adams, April 28, 1763, to Mrs. Mary Mudge, daughter of John and Mary (Waite) Mudge, born April 25, 1740. Her brothers, Ezra, Enoch, Simon, Nathan, and Samuel, all born in Lynn- Andrea Manifest field, were Revolutionary soldiers. Soon after his marriage he built the stately colonial home still standing on the road from South Lynnfield to Danvers. The house was in the former town, but the dividing line ran through the yard, leaving him so near Lynnfield that all his affiliations were with that parish. He was a farmer, and very active in town affairs. In personal appearance he was short and stout, very nervous and energetic. It was often said that in driving his oxen to Danvers he travelled three times the distance by walk- ing in front of them and frequently going back to goad them on. It is known that he early espoused the patriot cause and joined the com- pany of Captain Bancroft. The account has already been given of his response to the Lexington alarm. On that day he saw active service, and was so near Daniel Townsend, when the latter was killed, that he stum- bled over his dead body in trying to escape from his perilous position between the flank guard and the main line of the enemy.
The children of Andrew Mansfield were Andrew, born October 26, 1764 (the son who carried him to the Gowing tavern on the 19th of April, 1775), John, Joseph, Mary, and Daniel, and most of them lived to a great age. Mr. Jonathan Bryant, of Lynnfield, still remembers the old patriot (1903), and says that he used to come to meeting on horseback, and was familiarly called "Old Field Andrew." His great- grandson, Andrew Mansfield. is one of the present selectmen of Lynn- field, and lives upon a portion of the land granted to his ancestors. The old clock of Andrew Mansfield still ticks in the home of William Mans- field. of South Lynnfield. He died May 19, 1831, aged ninety-one years, five months, and eighteen days. His wife died August 5, 1821, at the age of eighty-one years. Both are buried in marked graves in the old ground at South Lynnfield. A marker of the S. A. R. was placed at his grave in 1904.
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MANSFIELD, BENJAMIN,-private in the Saugus company of Captain David Parker, was the son of Thomas and Mary (Hawkes) Mansfield, and born in Saugus in 1743. He was a farmer, and lived in the ancient Mansfield house still standing. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Stocker, May 14, 1765, and had twelve children,-Samuel, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Content, Bethia, Lydia, Benjamin, Benjamin, Amos, Sally, Betsy, Ephraim. Served with his brothers, Samuel and Thomas, in the fight of April 19, 1775, and died March 24, 1816. His wife died September 14, 1816. They are buried with their kin in the old burial-ground in Saugus Centre. A marble gravestone and bronze marker of the S. A. R. were erected to his memory in 1903.
MANSFIELD, DEACON DANIEL,-son of Andrew and Sarah (Breed) Mans- field, of Lynnfield, was born November 24, 1717. He was a farmer and a man of much prominence. He lived at South Lynnfield in an old house of which a portion is still standing. He married, August 6, 1738, Lydia, daughter of Captain Elisha and Jane (Breed) Newhall, born January 16, 1717. His children were Lydia, Andrew, Daniel, Ezra, of Jaf-
Daniel manfield frey, N.II., Elijah, William, Love, who married Ezekiel Newhall, Su- sannah, Levi, of Rindge, N.H., and Jacob. His wife, Lydia, died of dropsy, May 15, 1776, aged sixty-one. She is buried near him in a marked grave in the South Lynnfield ground. He married, second, September 21, 1777, Mrs. Ruth (Bancroft) Newhall, widow of Joseph Newhall and daughter of John and Ruth (Newhall) Bancroft, born January 15, 1735. She died April 30, 1796. Deacon Daniel was treasurer of the parish in 1754, 1756, 1757, 1760, 1764, and 1782, select- man in 1783. In 1782 he was one of the committee of the North Parish "to agree on terms to set off sd. parish." He was chosen deacon of the Lynnfield church, March 9, 1756. He was selectman almost continuously from 1755 to 1775; warden in 1760 and 1782; moderator in 1769, 1770, 1773, and 1775; assessor in 1772; on the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety in 1776 and 1778; a delegate to the Ipswich convention, August 22, 1774. Four days after the battle of Lexington he was chosen one of the Committee of Safety.
He died April 2, 1797, and is buried in a marked grave in the South Lynnfield cemetery. The old black stone is cracked and nearly fallen
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over. Ilis sons, Daniel and William, lie near him. A marker was placed at his grave in 1904.
MANSFIELD, DANIEL,-son of Deacon Daniel and Lydia Mansfield, was born December 27, 1741, and died March 29, 1816. This Daniel removed to New Ipswich, N.II., where he appears on an alarm list of men who marched on the morning of April 20, 1775, on the news from Lexington; service, five days. He died in New Ipswich.
There was another Daniel, brother of Samuel, born October 8, 1740; married July 2, 1761, to Eunice Fiske. He may have been the man whose name appears on a receipt dated Fort Washington, August 17, 1776, signed by said Mansfield and others, belonging to Captain Addi- son Richardson's company, for wages for November and December, 1776.
MANSFIELD, EBENEZER,-sergeant and corporal, was born March 14, 1724-5, and was son of Jonathan and Martha (Stocker) Mansfield. He married Mary Norwood, October 15, 1747, and the following, at least, were his children: Ebenezer, Trevitt, and Samuel. Ile married, second, Hannah Williams, May 2, 1769. Of his Revolutionary ser- vice the Massachusetts rolls give the following:
Corporal, Captain Ezra Newhall's company of minute-men which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, fourteen days; also same company, Colonel John Mansfield's regiment; order for advance pay signed by said Mansfield and others, dated Cambridge, June 8. 1775; also corporal, same company and regiment; muster-roll dated Cambridge, August 1, 1775; enlisted May 3, 1775; service, three months, five days; also Captain Newhall's company, Colonel John Mansfield's 19th regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Israel Hutchinson; company return dated August 6, 1775; also order for money due in lieu of a bounty coat dated camp at Winter Hill, November 4, 1775; also sergeant, Captain Newhall's company.
MANSFIELD, EPES,-son of Robert and Mary (Newhall) Mansfield, was born in Lynn, March 24, 1757; married January 10, 1788, by Rev. Samuel West, to Sally Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Hunting) Smith, born in Needham, in that part now called Wellesley, December 13, 1760. Their children were John, Robert, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, and Rebecca. Ile died in Needham, to which place he had removed after the war, on the 9th of May, 1832, at the age of seventy-five. His
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wife died September 5, 1854, aged ninety-three. During the latter years of her life she received a small pensiou on account of her hus- band's services in the war. He was buried in the Smith family tomb at Wellesley.
Epes Mansfield was a younger brother of Robert, who muarched with the Lynn companies on the morning of April 19, 1775. Epes was only twenty years of age when he enlisted, two years later, in the company of Captain Miles Greenwood, in Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment of guards, stationed in and around Boston during the presence of General Burgoyne's captured army. He served also in Captain Simeon Brown's company, in the same regiment, some eight months in all, or from November 11, 1777, to July 12, 1778.
MANSFIELD, JOHN,-sergeant, was probably son of Joseph and Sarah (Stocker) Mansfield, born in Lynn, October 16, 1748. His brother was Rufus Mansfield, captain of the 4th Lynn company of militia. The only service performed by John Mansfield was on the Lexington alarm in Captain Farrington's company, when he served five days. Nothing further is known of him.
MANSFIELD, RICHARD,-son of Robert and Mary (Rann) Mansfield, was born in Lynn, June 17, 1744. He was married January 7, 1768, by Rev. John Treadwell, to Elizabeth Whittemore, born February 22, 1748, daughter of Edward Whittemore, of Salem, and died in Lynn, April 3, 1793, leaving wife and twelve children,-Joseph, Richard, Anna, Robert, Edmund, William Perkins, Zachariah, Mary, Nabby, Parmelia, John, and Elizabeth. His wife died April 13, 1836, and both are buried in the old Western Burial Ground. A marker of the S. A. R. and marble stone mark his grave.
The old house in which Richard Mansfield was born, built about 1666, is still standing at the corner of Moulton and Boston Streets. He was a farmer and cordwainer, and owned much land in the vicinity of Carnes and Boston Streets. His only known Revolutionary service was that in Captain Rufus Mansfield's 4th Lynn company, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. His service was two days, according to the Massachusetts rolls.
MANSFIELD, ROBERT,-private, son of Robert and Mary (Newhall) Mans- field, was born in 1752 in an ancient house which stood until thirty years ago at the corner of Chestnut and Boston Streets. His father,
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Robert Mansfield, was born in Lynn, July 4, 1729, and bought this house about the time of the birth of Robert Mansfield, Jr. The latter was a member of Captain Farrington's company, and did duty on the 19th of April. His name has come down simply as one of the valiant men who responded to the first call to arms. He was probably at home during the rest of the war, although the records obtainable are very incom- plete. He was married November 2, 1776, by Rev. Mr. Treadwell, to Elizabeth Nourse, sister of Private James Nourse, a soldier of the Revolution. She was probably born in Danvers, but the record is lacking. Their children were John, Robert, Epes, Elizabeth, James, Matthew, and Robert. Ile was a regular attendant at the "Old Bowery" meeting-house, as the following certificate, still preserved by his grandchildren, indicates :---
"This may certify that Robert Mansfield, of Lynn, attends public worship with the methodists of Lynn and freely contributes to the support of the ministry. Jesse Lee."
Like most of his townsmen, he was a yeoman and cordwainer. Ilis son Matthew married Miss Jane Goodridge, of Lynn, who is still living (November, 1904) at the great age of one hundred and three, retaining her faculties to a remarkable degree, and recalling the events of ninety years ago with considerable accuracy. Her father was a soldier of the War of 1812, and she recalls distinctly the passing of soldiers along the old turnpike during the second conflict with Great Britain. She attended the funeral of Robert Mansfield, being twenty-four years old at the time of his death, had a personal acquaintance with many of the Revolutionary soldiers, and had heard many times the story of inde- pendence from the lips of the venerable survivors of the conflict.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mansfield died January 18, 1821, and the death of Robert occurred very suddenly, August 28, 1825. Both are buried in the old Western Burial Ground, just inside the main entrance, at the left. \ marble stone and bronze marker of the S. A. R. were erected at his grave in 1904.
MANSFIELD, RUFUS,-captain, son of Joseph and Sarah (Stocker) Mans- field, was born December 28, 1739; married September 1, 1763, by Rev. Nathaniel Henchman, to Lydia Merritt. His home was on
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Waterhill Street, opposite May Street. He was not only one of the prominent men of his time, but had the distinction of leading a com- pany on the morning of April 19, 1775, being captain of the 4th Lynn com- pany. He was a nephew of Colonel John Mansfield, a shoemaker, and one of the incorporators of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. His children were Rufus, John Merritt, Joseph, and Hannah. He died February 13, 1810, at the age of seventy, and his wife died February 8, 1829, aged eighty-four years. Both are buried in the old Western Burial Ground, and his grave is marked by a slate stone and the marker of the S. A. R.
Additional service in the war is also given in the Massachusetts rolls, as follows: Captain, 8th company, Ist Essex County regiment of Mas- sachusetts militia; list of officers chosen in said regiment, as returned by Lieutenant-Colonel Flagg and 2d Major David Parker, dated Lynn, April 24, 1776; ordered in Council, April 26, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; commissioned April 26, 1776.
MANSFIELD, SAMUEL,-corporal, was born in Saugus in 1750. He was son of Thomas Mansfield, who owned the water privilege at the " cinder banks," where the iron-works formerly stood. He there had a grist- mill and a fulling-mill. His line back to the emigrant ancestor was Samuel5, Daniels, Daniel3, Andrew2, Robert.1 He was a member of Captain David Parker's Saugus com- pany, and his brothers, Benjamin and Thomas, were with him in the Lexing-
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ton fight. Their home at the time was in a venerable house still standing in Saugus Centre. Its immense chimney and overhanging gable proclaim it one of the oldest houses in Lynn and contemporary with the Boardman house. At the time of the alarm Samuel Mansfield was "keeping company" with Rachel Roby, born June 2, 1753, daughter of Parson Roby, and on December 10, 1775, he was married to her by her father. He followed the business of a housewright, but nothing more is known of him. His children were Lucy, Lydia, and Joseph. He died in Saugus, March 1, 1809, aged fifty-nine, and his wife, Rachel, died May 21 of the same year, aged fifty-six. His estate was valued at over $3,000. He is buried with
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his wife in the old cemetery in Saugus Centre, and their graves are marked by slate stones provided by his executor. On his gravestone is the inscription, " I must go to him, but he will not return to me." Upon hers, "It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth to him good." In 1903 a marker of the S. A. R. was placed at his grave.
MANSFIELD, SAMUEL,-private, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Benjamin) Mansfield, was born at Waltham, December 22, 1750. He was mar- ried March 20, 1770, by Rev. Benjamin Adams, to Hepzibah Williams, of Lynnfield, daughter of William and Tabitha Williams, born July 7, 1751. He was at this time "of Reading," but both owned the covenant of the Second Parish Church, October 22, 1775. Mr. Mansfield served at the Lexington alarm in Captain Nathaniel Bancroft's Lynnfield company, and drew his pay for two days' service. He removed to Henniker, N.H., during the Revolution, where September 23, 1783, he was chosen "To Tune the Psalm in Publick Exercises." He after- wards moved to Brownfield, Me., where he died, October 5, 1828. He is buried in the cemetery at East Brownfield, where a slate stone marks his grave.
MANSFIELD, SAMUEL,-son of Ebenezer, was born in Lynn, April 30, 1758; married March 26, 1789, Mary Rhodes, daughter of Ignatius and Sarah (Merriam) Rhodes, born August 24, 1764. She had four brothers in the Revolution. He died November 18, 1837, and his widow, who died May 17, 1842, was pensioned at the rate of $33.33 per year. He had been pensioned previously, Samuel Mansfiets on the 14th of August, 1832, when he appeared (at the age of seventy-four) and deposed that in September, 1775, he enlisted in Captain King's company for seacoast defence; in 1777 he served two months in September and October, guarding stores; was in service in Boston when Burgoyne surrendered, and he joined in the general rejoicings. He remembered standing sentinel at the quarters of General Heath, in Boston, at that time. He served two months in Rhode Island in 1778, under Captain Cox and Harris Chadwell, and was with the boats which brought off the Americans under General Sullivan. He said that the first night the provisions were carried to Tiverton, and the next night the troops were landed by the boats; that all was haste and bustle; but that he saw General Lafayette he
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had no doubt. Henry Hallowell and Harris Chadwell testified to the truth of his statements. He was pensioned from March 4, 1831, at $33.33 per year, with $49.49 back pay. The aged William Hudson, living in 1903, remembered Samuel Mansfield well, and said that he was a tailor who lived for many years in the old house opposite the Lynn Hospital, now known as the Reynolds house. His shop was near the corner of North Franklin and Boston Streets, and across the street was the home of Captain William Farrington. The frame of the Mansfield house was being raised on the morning of the battle of Lexington, and Ebenezer, the owner, father of Samuel, was a corporal in Captain Ezra Newhall's company, and marched away, with most of his neighbors, on the alarm. Samuel, although he did not go with his father, remembered and often related to Mr. Hudson the fact of seeing the Danvers men come over the old Boston road on the way to the fight, and that he particularly noticed the peculiar stockings of one of the men. This man was one of those slain that day, and Samuel Mansfield saw him with four others brought back over the road in a cart.
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