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MUDGE, SAMUEL,-was the ninth son of John and Mary (Waite) Mudge, born February 1, 1759. He served as a soldier in the Revolution, from Lynn, with the following record: "In Capt. Joseph Hiller's co. Col. Jonathan Titcomb's regt, at Providence, roll dated July 6, 1777. Served from July 11, to Aug. 11, three days being allowed to go home; two mos. 6 days time." His name appears on the Ticonderoga rolls and among the names of men of Lynn, Lynnfield, and Saugus who "served at Concord battle and elsewhere."
Samuel Mudge died in Lynn January 29, 1785, of consumption con- tracted in the service. His age was twenty-five years, eleven months, twenty-nine days. Enoch, Nathan, and Samuel were brothers, with but five years' difference in their ages, who served from the town of Lynn. Their eldest brother, also named Samuel, served in the French and Indian War under Lord Amherst, and was killed in Canada in 1758, aged only nineteen years. The other brothers, John, Simon, and Ezra, also served in the Revolution, John from Vermont, Simon from Danvers, and Ezra from Deerfield. Such a record will hardly be equalled among the families of Lynn.
MULLEN, JAMES .- a New Hampshire soldier of the Revolution, died at the home of his son James, on Whiting Street, June 21, 1841, aged eighty- one, and was buried in the old Western Burial Ground. A stone and marker were erected in 1903. He was a private in Captain Nathan
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Brown's company, Colonel Perse Long's regiment, at Newcastle, from time of taking out of orders, December 7, 1776; service from September 19, 1776, seventy-eight days; residence, Newcastle; also roll from December, 1776, to January 7, 1777; also appears on a pay-roll with signature; also on pay-roll of a part of Captain Nathan Brown's com- pany, Colonel Long's regiment, who are fit to march to Ticonderoga, from January 7 to February 7, 1777.
He was discharged at Stillwater, September, 1777, by General Arnold. Late in life he was granted a pension.
MUNROE, TIMOTHY,-son of George Munroe, Jr., and Sarah Phipps, of Lexington, was born in Lexington; baptized April 20, 1735. His name does not appear in the Lynnfield records until February 18, 1775, when he was elected tax collector for the parish. He lived in South Lynn- field in a roomy old house, still standing on the Wakefield road. He was one of the most influential men and one of the largest tax-payers in that part of the town. His home was but a short distance below that of Daniel Townsend, who lived on the main road from South Lynnfield to Lynnfield Centre. On the alarm of April 19 he joined Mr. Townsend, and together they went to the Gowing tavern, whence they marched with Captain Bancroft's company. They arrived at Menotomy some time about noon, and awaited the coming of the regulars, who had passed up the highway in the morning on the way to Concord and Lexington. The story of Mr. Munroe's experiences on that eventful day has already been told. He was wounded in the action, but kept fighting until the last of the British had disappeared. He returned home that night with his neighbors, bearing the body of his friend and companion, Daniel Townsend, who had been killed by his side. In the following spring he appealed to the General Court for relief as a wounded soldier, and on March 22 a resolve was passed allowing him the sum of nine pounds to be paid out of the Provincial treasury, "in full for doctoring and nursing."
During his absence on the 19th of April it is said that his house was entered by maranders and a sum of money stolen. He was a constable in 1775, surveyor of highways in 1777, and selectman in 1784, 1785, and 1792.
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Ilis wife was Lydia, but no record of his marriage has been found. During the latter part of his life he went to live with his son, Timothy Munroe, Jr., whose home was at the corner of Market and Munroe Streets. Lynn, where the Clapp Block now stands. From Timothy. .Ir., Monroe Street received its name. Timothy Munroe, Jr., was a carpenter, and his work may be seen in many of the old buildings of Lynn, notably the old Lynn Academy building, now standing at the corner of Centre Street and Western Avenue.
The grandson of the Revolutionary sergeant, Timothy Monroe, was Colonel Timothy Munroe, who went out with the first Lynn volumn- teers in the Civil War.
Timothy Munroe, the Revolutionary veteran, died March 1, 1808, aged seventy-two, at the home of his son, in the house now standing at the corner of Whiting Street and Western Avenue. Lydia, his wife, died September 10 of the same year, aged forty. They are buried in the old Western Burial Ground, and his grave was marked in 1903 by a marble stone and bronze marker of the S. A. R.
NEEDHAM, DANIEL,-son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Moulton) Needham, was born in Danvers, December 10, 1760, and lived there until 1792, when he removed to Lynnfield. He was married by Rev. Mr. Holt. of Danvers, October 22, 1783, to Ede Flint, daughter of Samuel and Ede (Upton) Flint. Her father was killed at the head of his company at the battle of Stillwater, October 7. Samel Needham 1777. When Daniel Needham moved to Lynnfield, he settled on the then Townsend farm, and about 1800 built the large house still standing on Chestnut Street. Ile had two children, David and Caroline. David was killed by one Parker, April 25, 1827. Daniel Needham has been described as a very pleasant, very stout old man, who was a justice of the peace and always called "Squire Needham." He died February 16, 1844, aged eighty-three, and his wife died of a fall, April 27, 1840. Both are buried in the West Ground. Lynnfield Centre. In his application which was allowed April 6, 1833, he said that he enlisted as a substitute for one Symonds, in the fall of 1777, in Captain Proctor's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment, and served five months. In March, 1778, he enlisted in Captain Bodwell's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment, and served three months, and by
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entreaty of his officers consented to remain ten days longer. He was a sergeant, and all of the above time was spent in guarding Burgoyne's troops at Cambridge. In 1779 he enlisted as a corporal and then as sergeant, and served six months in Captain Putnam's company,'Colo- nel N. Tyler's regiment, and was in the campaign in Rhode Island. In 1780 he enlisted for, and served another term of, three months in Captain Peabody's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, and served at West Point. He was pensioned at $78.33 per year, beginning March 4, 1831, and received $156.66 back pay. The record found on the Massachusetts rolls agrees with the above record found in the Pension Office.
NEWHALL, AARON,-private, son of Captain Benjamin and Elizabeth (Fowle) Newhall, was born in Lynn, March 26, 1740. His father's home was upon the north side of the Town Common, and luis title was acquired in the French and Indian War, in which he served as captain. Aaron Newhall was fifth in line from the first Thomas Newhall. He was married by Rev. Mr. Henchman, December 1, 1768, to Mrs. Mary Perkins, and had one child, Aaron. He was a yeoman and cordwainer. On April 19, 1775, he served as a private in Captain Farrington's com- pany. On April 26, 1776, he was commissioned first lieutenant in Captain Joseph Stocker's 4th company, 1st Essex County regiment of militia, and a return to that effect is on file, signed Colonel John Flagg and Major David Parker. This regiment was not ordered into active service, although portions of it were from time to time sent to strengthen the Continental Army. While Lieutenant Newhall undoubtedly did guard duty, it is not known whether he saw active service after the Lex- ington alarm. His only service in the town was as warden in 1776 and 1783. He died June 28, 1811, and is buried in the old Western Burial Ground in Lynn. His estate consisted of a dwelling-house, barn, shop, and nine acres of land, amounting in all to $4,905. Mr. Newhall's two sisters, Susanna and Elizabeth, married, respectively, Thomas Stocker and Henry Burchstead, Revolutionary soldiers.
A marble stone and bronze marker of the S. A. R. were erected at his grave in 1904.
NEWHALL, ALLEN, son of Daniel and Mary (Breed) Newhall, was born in 1726, and died September 27, 1781. He married Love Breed, March 29, 1750. She died, according to the Newhall Genealogy and
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Richard Pratt, November 10, 1774; according to the Chamberlain family Bible, October 20, 1779.
On May 7, 1771, Allen Newhall bought of Hanson Newhall a dwell- ing-honse and eighty poles of land, bounding south on the county road (Boston Street), west on the Widow Potter's thirds, later known as the Burchstead Johnson place, and having a frontage on the street of six poles, thirteen feet. This seems worth noting, for it was probably a portion of the homestead of the original settler. He conveyed this to his son Charles Newhall, July 5, 1774. His two sons were Allen (prob- ably Daniel Allen Breed) and Charles. His daughters were Sarah and Love. The latter married Jesse Rhodes. Love, his wife, was daughter of Allen Breed, and was born August 16, 1731. Allen New- hall evidently moved to Danvers soon after his marriage, for in 1756 he was warned out of that town .- Newhall Genealogy.
Allen Newhall was in the Federal Square company of Captain Rufus Mansfield, of which his sons, Daniel Allen Breed and Charles, were, respectively, second lieutenant and corporal. All three went to the Lex- ington fight, and the father saved the sons from being killed. All day they had fired from behind fences and walls at the main body of the British, but the old man had his eye out for the flank guard which marched in single file on both sides of the main body. Ilis care kept them from coming between the lines and, consequently, from harm. This was the statement made by Jenks Sargent, an old-time resident of Lynn.
Allen Newhall lived and died on Boston Street, near Childs, and he was buried in an unmarked grave in the old Western Burial Ground. The spot is now marked by a stone and the bronze marker of the S. A. R.
Besides his service at the battle of Lexington he was corporal in Captain Stephen Wilkins's company, Colonel Wigglesworth's regiment, and was allowed for pay which included 210 miles' travel home from Albany; pay abstract sworn to June 15, 1777. He also appeared on a descriptive list of men who served in the Continental Army from June, 1780, to December, 1780, at which time he was fifty-four years of age, 5 ft. 9 in. in height, of a light complexion, and resident of Lynn. His service was five months, eighteen days, including 220 miles' travel. He was also a soldier of the French and Indian War. NEWHALL, AMOS,-probably son of Amos and Margaret (Southwick) New- hall, was born in Lynnfield, August 15, 1762; married by Rev.
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John Treadwell, February 28, 1782, to Sarah Croel. He was living in Lynnfield in 1790. His wife Sarah, probably a pensioner, aged seventy-four, was living in 1840.
In the muster-rolls is given the following :-
"- Newhall, mariner, brigantine 'Cntter,' privateer, commanded by Capt. Samuel Croel, aged 19 years; stature, 5 ft .; complexion, dark; residence, Lynn. Also the following: Seaman brigantine 'Ann,' Amos Mansfield, Master. England Dec. 2, 1776; discharged Mar. 7, 1777, service 2 m. 18 days, on voyage Salem to Baltimore."
From the fact that he married a Croel, the name of his captain and the age fitting well, it would seem that his earlier service might have been as a boy.
NEWHALL, ANDREW, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Potter) Newhall, and fifth from Thomas, the emigrant, was born in Lynn, March 9, 1730, and married Susannah Brown, December 21, 1752. She is said to have died July 20, 1789. He probably lived on Boston Street, and died about 1795. His children were Isabel, Bethia, who married Abel Belknap, Revolutionary soldier, Andrew, Susanna, who married Theo- philus Farrington, Revolutionary soldier, Joseph, Elizabeth, who married Isaac Orgin, Revolutionary soldier, Patty, Polly, and John Brown. Three daughters, therefore, married soldiers. A marker and stone were erected to his memory in the old Western Burial Ground, near the spot where Isaac Orgin is buried.
Revolutionary record: Private in Captain Rufus Mansfield's 4th Lynn company which marched on the alarm of April 19; service, two days; also private, Captain John Currier's company. Colonel James Frye's regiment; company return dated October, 1775; also private, Captain Joseph Hiller's company, Colonel Jonathan Titcomb's regi- ment; arrived at destination May 5, 1777; discharged July 5, 1777; service, two months, six days, at Rhode Island, including three days' (60 miles) travel; roll dated Providence; also private, Captain Miles Greenwood's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment of guards; enlisted November 11, 1777; service to April 3, 1778, four months, twenty-three days; rolls dated camp at Winter Hill; also Captain Simeon Brown's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment of gnards; service from April 3 to July 3, 1778, three months, two days; roll dated camp at Winter Hill; also private, Captain Simeon Brown's company,
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Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment; enlisted November 19, 1778; com- pany discharged at East Greenwich, R.I .; regiment raised in Essex and York Counties; enlistment to expire January 1, 1779; reported sick and absent; also descriptive list of men raised for term of six months by Lynn, agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780; returned as received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by Brigadier-General John Glover, at Springfield. July 13, 1780; age, fifty-one years; stature, 5 ft. 7 in .; complexion, ruddy; engaged for town of Lynn; residence, Lynn; marched to camp July 13, 1780, under command Captain Thomas Pritchard; also private, Captain Jeremiah Putnam's company, Colo- nel Nathan Tyler's regiment; enlisted July 10, 1779; service to December 1. 1779, four months, twenty-one days, at Rhode Island; also pay-roll for December, 1779.
The military service of Andrew Newball, Sr., and Jr., is very hard to place. The above seems likely.
NEWHALL, ANDREW, Jr.,-probably son of Andrew, Sr., and Susanna (Brown) Newhall, was born in Lynn, April 13, 1758, and evidently died without issue.
Ile was private in Captain Zadock Buffinton's company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's regiment; enlisted August 14, 1777; discharged November 30, 1777, at Cambridge; service, three months, seventeen days, in northern department; also given on list of men raised in Essex County for term of nine months from the time of their arrival at Fish- kill; returned as mustered by Henry Rutger, Jr., deputy muster-master; dated Fishkill, August 1, 1778; residence, Lynn; engaged for town of Wenham; arrived at Fishkill, July 17, 1778 .- Mass. Rolls.
NEWHALL, ASA,-fifth in line from Thomas, the emigrant, was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Bancroft) Newhall, born August 5, 1732. Ile was married November 21, 1769, by Rev. John Treadwell, to Sarah Tarbell, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Tarbell, of Lynnfield. She was baptized January 12, 1745.
In 1764 Asa Newhall bought of Samuel Devereux and his wife, Sarah, of Marblehead, the farm formerly Jedediah Newhall's, lying on both sides of the road from Lynn to Lynnfield, a little below its inter- section with the Salem and Reading road, containing about 100 acres, which had once belonged to Joseph Newhall, father of Jedediah, and before him to Joseph Newhall, the grandfather of the last pur-
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chaser. To this he added by other purchases, until he became the owner of a farm of 250 acres, besides numerous outlying lots. In August, 1807, he conveyed the farm to his only son, Asa Tarbell Newhall, at the same time giving him a bill of sale of the cattle and farm equipments, receiving from his son in return a bond for his pos- session of this estate during his natural life, and for his support and that of his wife, and for the payment of certain sums, within a year after his death, to parties named. He died May 1, 1814, aged eighty-one years. His children were Asa T., Sarah, and Mary. The old farm and buildings still remain in the hands of Asa T. Newhall, great-grandson of the soldier. A monument is erected to the memory of the latter, the first to a Revolutionary soldier in Lynn. He was a soldier of the French and Indian War as well as of the Revolution. The only record found on the rolls of Revolutionary service is the following: Private, copy of a list of men belonging to Lynn, now called Lynn, Lynnfield, and Saugus, who served at Concord battle and elsewhere (year not given). NEWHALL, BENJAMIN, son of Nehemiah and Tabitha (Brown) Newhall, was born in 1764; married Keturah, daughter of Ezra and Keturah (Newhall) Hitchings, by Rev. Joseph Roby, January 12, 1792. They had no children. A Benjamin Newhall died February 16, 1825, accord- ing to the Lynn records. Benjamin Newhall appears on a descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental Army for the term of six months, agreeable to a resolve of June 5, 1780; returned as received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by Brigadier-General John Glover, at Springfield, July 13, 1780; age, sixteen years; stature, 5 ft. 8 in .; com- plexion, light; marched to camp July 13, under command of Captain Thomas Pritchard; also company roll of six months' men so raised; marched June 27, 1780; discharged December 5, 1780; service, five months, twenty days; travel, 220 miles, included.
NEWHALL, CALLEY,-son of Increase and Susannah (Souden) Newhall, was born February 4, 1752. His father, Increase, was an officer in the Calley Newhalle Revolution, and lived on Federal Street and kept the tavern at what was after- wards known as the Orcutt place. His brother William was probably the drummer who was in his father's company. He was married April 21, 1777, by Rev. Jonas Clark, of Lexington, to Anna Harrington, of Lex-
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ington, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail (Dunster) Harrington, bap- tized February 22, 1756. Their children were Mary. Increase, John, Calley, Harrington, Albert, and Isaac, the first two of whom were born in Lexington. Several places are given as his residence, among them a small cottage where the old Witt house now stands in Market Square. This cottage was torn down, and became a part of the old John Blakeley house on Federal Street. He is also said to have lived at one time on Federal Street, and also on Boston Street, opposite Dr. Jim New- hall's. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and was a very ingenious man and could work at almost any trade, according to Jenks Sargent, who stated in one of his sketches that Calley Newhall and a man named Perley once set up and operated a windmill for the purpose of grind- ing grain. This was in 1816, and was on Sea Street at the foot of Pleas- ant. Ile also kept an evening school on Boston Street, where he taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. In front of his house was a large elm-tree, with a vane on it, the latter resting upon the mast and top- mast of an old vessel. The vane was made to represent a ship at sea, and was called the " Independence." Mr. Benjamin Skinner remem- bers Calley Newhall as an irascible old man, who disliked boys and never spoke to them. Those who lived in his neighborhood feared him. He was smooth-faced, short, and bent over. His grand-daughter, who was eight or nine years old when Washington passed through Lynn, remembered well that event, and the fact that Washington, rec- ognizing her grandfather Calley in the crowd, stopped, called him by name, and shook hands with him. This she thought very remarkable, and told it many times to her grandson, James II. Emmerton, of 68 Neptune Street, who told it to the writer in 1902. While living at Lexington, C'alley Newhall made powder for the troops. His death occurred in Lynn, August 2, 1833, and he was buried in the north-east corner of the old Western Burial Ground, where his grave remained unmarked until 1904, when a marble stone and marker of the S. A. R. were placed there. His wife died February 21, 1831.
The records of the l'ension Office give his military service as follows: May, 1775, eight months as corporal in Abner Cranston's company, Colonel Asa Whetcomb's regiment, and again for two months from January, 1776; also as private for six months in Captain George Minard's company, Colonel Benjamin Brown's regiment. He is borne
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on the record as being in the battle of Bunker Hill. The date of his application was August 14, 1832. January 2, 1833, he made oath that in May, 1775, he enlisted for eight months in a volunteer com- pany raised principally in Salem, by Benjamin West, of Salem, and was afterwards ensign, Abner Cranston being captain. He went from Salem to Cambridge, and was barracked in Stoughton Hall, one of the college buildings. Deacon Longley, the orderly corporal, dying, he was appointed to perform the duties of corporal in part in Colo- nel Asa Whetcomb's regiment. Continuing, he says: "Our regiment went down to Charlestown the night previous to the Battle of Bunker Hill to entrench. I was in Fort No. 2, in Cambridge, at that time, but hearing the regiment was in want of provisions, I set off the day of the battle and arrived there about half past two, P.M. The American line had then given way. The next day after, our regi- ment was ordered to Prospect Hill, where we remained the balance of the summer. We left Gen. Ward at Fort No. 2. In Jan. 1776, the eight months enlistment having expired, I enlisted again to go to Ticonderoga, but was discharged from that service by Capt. Cranston and remained a soldier at Prospect Hill till the British evac- uated Boston, March 17, 1776. The discharge I had from Capt. Cranston, I have lost and have no documentary evidence of being a soldier. Aug. 3, 1777, I was drafted for six months service in a regiment raised in Middlesex County, Geo. Minard, of Concord, being Captain. I was then living in Lexington. The destination of our regiment was Saratoga to oppose Gen. Burgoyne. The Lex- ington company proceeded by themselves, and went through North- ampton. I was taken sick and was left at Worthington and soon returned to Lexington. On the return of our company from Sara- toga, I was ordered to make up the time of my draft at Cambridge and was located at Fort No. 2 under Capt. Daniel Harrington. Here I was discharged. No person is now living who served with me that I know. Born Feb. 4, 1752, and lived three years at Lexington."
James Newhall says in a deposition: "My brother Calley was sup- plied by me with clothes and other necessaries from home and I visited him every fortnight. I entered the service in his absence to Saratoga and left home myself." Ezra Mudge and Elijah Downing certify and J. C. Stickney is attorney. Henry Hallowell adds his certificate.
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Pensioned at the rate of $56 per year from March 4, 1831. $112 back pay. Certificate issued April 10, 1833 .- United States Pension Records. NEWHALL, CALVIN,-private, son of Locker Newhall and brother of Land- lord Jacob Newhall, was born in Saugus, December 8, 1745. Ile married Sarah Goldthwaite, September 28, 1772. She was a daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Newman) Goldthwaite, of Danvers, born about 1752. His children were Ebenezer, Shadrach, Amos, Samuel, and Lois. Calvin Newhall served in Captain David Parker's Saugus com- pany, April 19, 1775. Ile enlisted as a private in Captain Ezra New- hall's company, Colonel Israel Hutchinson's regiment, in 1776, and marched with it to New York, where he was in the battle of Long Island. On January 28, 1777, he enlisted in the army being raised to reinforce the Continental forces, and marched on the 12th of March, 1777, as a private in Captain Nehemiah Page's company, Colonel Ebenezer Francis's regiment. Ilis enlistment was for three years, for which a bounty of £14 had been offered by the town of Lynn. He arrived at Bennington, and received a subsistence allowance until that time. On the advance of General Burgoyne his regiment fell in with the British, under General Fraser, at Hubbardton, where on the 5th of July he engaged in that bloody conflict. Ile was later in the battles preceding the capture of General Burgoyne, participating in all of the engagements. After the capture of General Burgoyne he went into winter quarters at Albany. Ile was at West Point in the spring of 1779, and was probably under the command of General Anthony Wayne when he took Stony Point on the 16th of July. At this time he was in Major Lithgow's company, Colonel Tupper's regiment. On the expiration of his enlistment he at once re-enlisted for three years as private in Captain Nehemiah Emerson's company, Colonel Benjamin Tupper's 10th Massachusetts regiment. Ile was at West Point when the treason of Arnold was discovered, and remained in the northern department until the spring of 1783, when he was honorably discharged by General Washington. Ile then walked home to Lynn, and there settled down after a service of six years for his country. On the 14th of April, 1818, he was pensioned at the rate of $8 per month. In 1819 his mind became affected, and Ellis Boynton, son of one of his old com- rades, was appointed his guardian. He died August 24, 1823, at the age of seventy-eight. Ile is buried in the old burial-ground at Saugus
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