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GRAVES, JACOB C.,-private, was not a native of Lynn, so far as is known.
The only reference to him in the Lynn records appears in 1766, when Mrs. Sarah Graves, together with her children, Abigail, Hannah, Jeru- sha, and Jacob, were warned out of Lynn, her husband being Jacob Graves, shipwright, formerly of Boston, Boston town records give the marriage of Jacob Graves, of Boston, and Sarah Pierce, April 7, 1737, Rev. John Webb performing the ceremony. A careful search of the records of neighboring towns gives no further light, and it is possible that the above Jacob Graves is not the man borne on the roll of Captain Farrington's company. His service of two days at the time of the Lexington alarm is the only authentic record known. He may have been the Jacob Graves who was captured by the British and
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brought to Boston, October 8, 1778, in the cartel "Silver Eel," to be exchanged for British prisoners. He is noted by the commissary of prisoners as a seaman. Administration was granted upon his estate, October 3, 1785, at which time he was described as a shipwright. A marble gravestone and bronze marker of the S. A. R. were erected to his memory in the old Western Burial Ground in 1904.
GREEN, JAMES .- Nothing is positively known of this man who was a pri- vate in Captain Rufus Mansfield's (4th) company which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. A James Green was warned out of town November 17, 1756; also married March 25, 1759, Lydia Ramsdell, who died in 1760. He married again, March 5, 1761, Sarah Moulton, sister of Ezekiel and Ezra Moulton. According to the Lynn records a James Green died in Lynn on March 13, 1831.
HADLEY, THOMAS,-probably son of Anthony and Abigail Hadley, was born in Stoneham, Mass., March 4, 1726. On April 11, 1752, he was published to Mary Cox, of Stoneham, and on April 12, 1762, he came from Stoneham to Lynnfield. He was warned out of town two days later. He continued to live in Lynnfield, however, where he had mar- ried his second wife on the 26th of November, 1761. She was Rebecca Hinkson, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Jeffords) Hinkson, born July 28, 1722. His home was between South Lynnfield and Lynnfield Centre, east of the Gerry cider-mill. The old house occupied by him has long since disappeared, and the house now standing on the spot is the home of Mr. Sprague. The wife of Thomas Hadley was acci- dentally drowned January 9, 1771, in crossing the stream above the mill pond (Pilling's Pond). She had left her house to visit an acquaint- ance. Not returning, search was made, and her body found on the 26th.
Mr. Hadley appears on the muster-roll of Captain David Parker's Saugus company of minute-men, but this is probably an error. The rolls were made up many months after the battle of Lexington, and it is not strange that errors should have occurred. Mr. Hadley was a Lynnfield man, and undoubtedly marched with his neighbors in Cap- tain Bancroft's company, reaching the scene of the conflict in Menotomy, where the enemy was met on the return to Boston. Like his friend and neighbor, Daniel Townsend, he was caught between the flank guard and main line of the British, and was instantly killed. This was at
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about half-past five in the afternoon. His body was later in the even- ing taken into the home of Jason Russell, and there laid with those of his comrades. His remains were buried with others in the field back of the house where he was killed, and there rested until 1848, when the town of Arlington caused the bodies of these patriots to be removed to the Arlington cemetery and a monument erected to their memory. Mr. Hadley was one of the oldest men in the company, being over fifty years of age.
HALL, JAMES, -son of Ephraim and Mary (Brown) Hall, was born October 12, 1757. Only his Revolutionary record is known, as follows: -
Return of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from 1st Essex County regiment, dated Lynn, February 16, 1778, and sworn to at Salem by John Flagg, first military officer of the town of Lynn; residence, Lynn; engaged for the town of Lynn; joined Captain Brown's company, Colonel Putnam's regiment; term three years or during the war; also private, Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment; Continental Army pay accounts for service from January 28, 1777, to June 30, 1779; deserted; also Captain John Williams's company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's (4th) regiment; return dated Albany, February 9, 1778; mustered by John Cushing, Esq .; also descriptive list of deserters, dated November 20, 1780; age, twenty years; stature, 5 ft. 6 in .; complexion, dark; hair, brown; occupation, seaman; residence, Lynn; engaged for the town of Lynn for three years or during war; deserted June 30, 1779 .- Mass. Rolls.
HALL, JOHN,-of Kittery, was engaged for service for the town of Lynn, February 16, 1778, by John Flagg .- Mass. Rolls.
HALL, THOMAS,-son of Ephraim and Mary (Brown) Hall, was born Sep- tember 26, 1755; married April 5, 1781, by Rev. John Treadwell, to Jerusha Brown, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Merriam) Brown, born October 27, 1754. The death of Thomas Hall occurred June 11, 1805, and, in the administration which was asked for in August following. the estate included "an old house on land of John Willis." John Willis was brother-in-law of Thomas Hall, having married Dorcas, Thomas's sister. Both men were soldiers of the Revolution, having at one time enlisted together on the same day in Zadock Buffinton's company.
The children of Thomas and Jerusha Hall, so far as is known, were Sally, Hannah, Ebenezer, John, and James.
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The Revolutionary record is given as follows:
Private, Captain Ezra Newhall's company of minute-men which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, seventeen days; also order on Colonel Asa Whetcomb, payable to Captain Ezra Newhall. dated Cambridge, June 10, 1775, signed by said Hall and others for advance pay for one month; also private, Captain Ezra Newhall's company, Colonel John Mansfield's (19th) regiment; muster-roll dated August 1, 1775; enlisted May 6, 1775; service, three months, two days; also Captain Newhall's company, Colonel Mansfield's regiment, com- manded by Lieutenant-Colonel Israel Hutchinson; company return dated October 6, 1775; also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated camp at Winter Hill, November 4, 1775; also, prob- ably private, Captain Zadock Buffinton's company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's regiment; enlisted August 19, 1777; service to November 30, 1777, three months, twelve days, in northern department; con- pany raised to serve until November 30, 1777, was discharged at Canı- bridge. Roll sworn to at Salem .- Mass. Rolls.
HALLOWELL, EDWARD .- The Hallowells of Lynn were descended from Joseph Holloway or Holway, who came to Lynn from England in 1636. Edward Hallowell, son of Samuel and Charyty (Mansfield) Hallowell, was born May 10, 1728. According to the Massachusetts rolls he was a private in Captain James Burt's company, Colonel Asa Whet- comb's regiment; muster-roll dated August 1, 1775; enlisted April 24, 1775; service, eight days; reported deserted May 2, 1775. Ile was at Fort William Henry, December 11, 1756.
HALLOWELL, HENRY,-son of Samuel and Mehitable (Breed) Hallowell, was born November 21, 1754, and died April 3, 1839, at the age of eighty-four years, four months. He was one of three brothers to fight in the War for Independence, and a man of special interest to the readers of this book from the fact of his having left the long account of his experience which is here published for the first time. One of the few men now living who remembers him is Mr. Benjamin S. Skinner, now eighty-seven years of age. lle describes Mr. Ilallowell as a little man, rather stout in his later days, with a round, smooth, jolly face. Ile was known to everybody, and his poetry was rather famous among his townsmen. Everybody called him "Uncle Henry." "How old does a man have to be in order to be called " Uncle' by everybody ?"
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he once asked. We know not the reply, only the fact of his familiar title, which indicates, if not his age, the esteem and affection in which he was held.
The home of Henry Hallowell was the old Hallowell house on the north side of the Common, a little west of the spot where the public library now stands. The old house was torn down a few years ago, and a modern house built on the site by his grandsons. Mr. Hallo- well was twice married, the first time on March 30, 1780, by Rev. John Treadwell, to Lucretia Newhall, and the second time to Martha Newhall, January 6, 1813, by Bishop Josephi Soule. By the former union he had six children, Henry, James, Sarah, Polly, John, and Lucretia. All of these children lived to grow up. He had none by the second marriage. His trade was that of a shoemaker, and after the manner of those days, he hired apprentices. He worked at the business for many years. His publie career may be said to have begun when he enlisted in the Continental Army, January 1, 1776. For four years, or until January, 1780, he served his country faithfully and well. During a part of this period, because of his skill in penmanship, he was detailed for service as private secretary to General John Glover, of Marblehead. His experiences in the war are best told by himself in his narrative. The principal events of his life are set forth in his own simple account. The office of town clerk which he held for six- teen years was one which he performed most faithfully, the books being kept with great care and neatness. Not a blot is to be found on his pages, and many of the entries are made with remarkable force and clearness.
The Lynn Transcript of September 19, 1876, published a short sketch of his life from which the following extracts are made: "His habits were frugal and economical, and, like most of those old worthies with whom he was contemporary, his wants were extremely moderate. In those days, rents were cheap and taxes low. Men worked for a dol- lar a day, and thought it good wages. In Breed's End if a shoemaker made a living and had thirty cents left at the end of the week, he was considered to be getting rich. It was so all over town among the better class of shoemakers, and Mr. Hallowell was not an exception. He lived a quiet, simple, Christian life, cheered by the society of a few con- genial friends who knew him well and loved his society. He never
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aspired to what he could not reach, but was content with what God gave him. He had learned this lesson :-
'The farm, the ship, the humble shop, have each Gains which the severest studies never reach.'"
His own sketch of his life is as follows :-
"I was born on the 21 of November 1754 on Warter IIill so calld in Lynn Massachusetts, of poor parentage. My mother Died when I was 2 weeks old and my education small there being only one town school. When between 13 and 14 years of Age I was put out to Rufus Mansfield to learn the Shoemakers Business and servd about 6 year, then was so out of health that my brother Theops. Ingaged to see my master sattisfied for what time I had to serve. Some time after I let myself to Decon John Burrage for four Dollars a month to Do light work on his farm and after a While I paid sd master & while on bis farm I teachd an evening school, Being about twenty years of age. This was before the Revolution when between twenty and twenty-one I ingaged and servd six months in 1775 in the state service and after- wards servd in the Continental Army until 1780. On the 20th March same year Was married and that Spring Begun the shoemaking and fislung Business and in a few years had twelve in family Including journeymen & printisses and my father and for several springs teachd an Evening school. In 1791 joyned the Methodist church as a member and not long after chosen clerk of sd society and still carried on fishing and shoemaking tho in a smaller Way.
"Also chosen Clerk of Capt. Robinson's company of Militia and one year chosen assessor. As to my business of Shoemaking & fishing my Shoes I carried to Salem on foot fifteen years & fishing I followed fifty years more or less and out lived three open Botes & 1 Deck Bote. In 1804 was chosen Town Clerk Selectman & Assessor 14 year and then seprate clerk for two years, then left town business in 1820.
"Privious to this was chosen representative for one year in 1809. And Also been appointed Agent for repairing the great Bridge Between Saugus & Lynn and appointed juryman twice. In 1814 myself and selectmen had to represent to the general court the proprity of send- ing 6 representatives to sd court there election being contested tho they held there seats. Myself only had to appear at sd court to Answer to the Name of Sulvan being spelt wrong not by me.
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"I bad to appear at Salem Suprem Court respecting a pretended riot which was none. I had to appear at Court in Salem also respecting Jeremiah Bulfinch Being Chosen Town Clerk Pro tim While poling the voters on the Common.
"I have had to notify a number of people to refrain from strong Drink otherway the selectmen Would git a guarden for them. And after so many Disegreeable seens I refusd to be considered a Candate any Longer and Now Depend mostly on Government for support Being now rising Seventy Nine years of age.
"In town meeting held on the 6th of March 1820 A resolve was past by sd town that the citizens Duly Appreciateing the Long and faithful service of Henry Hallowell town Clerk during a period of Sixteen years do hereby Concur in tendering there United thanks with there Best Wishes for the Continuance of his health and happyness."
HALLOWELL, SAMUEL,-son of Samuel and Mehitable (Breed) Hallowell: was born February 9, 1748-49; married December 19, 1758, by William Collins, Esq., to Mary Alley. He was brother of Henry and Theo- philus, both Revolutionary soldiers. His home was in an old house still standing on Tremont Street, moved there from the foot of the Com- mon, where the Methodist church now stands. His death occurred April 3, 1796.
Revolutionary record: Private, Captain Samuel King's company, company return for advance pay dated Salem, September 25, 1775; also private, same company, enlisted July 14, 1775; service, six months, two days; company stationed at Salem and Lynn for defence of sea- coast; Captain Simeon Brown's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment of guards; service from April 2, 1778, to July 3, 1778, three months, one day. Roll dated camp at Winter Hill.
Matross, Captain Winthrop Gray's company, Colonel Craft's regi- ment; abstract for advance pay sworn to at Boston, June 8, 1776.
Private, Captain Addison Richardson's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment; enlisted October 18, 1779, discharged November 22, 1779; service, one month, fifteen days; at Claverack, including twelve days' (240 miles) travel home; regiment detached from militia of Suffolk and Essex Couuties to reinforce army under Washington.
Also Captain Simeon Brown's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment, of guards; service from July 2, 1778, to July 12, 1778, ten
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days; company raised for ten days' service. Roll dated camp at Winter Hill .- Mass. Rolls.
HALLOWELL, THEOPHILUS,-private, son of Samuel and Mehitable (Breed) Hallowell, was born on Water Hill, Lynn, September 21, 1750. He was descended from Joseph Holloway or Holway, as the name was first spelled, who came to Lynn in 1636. He was a member of Captain Farrington's company, and marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. doing active duty with his fellow- Theophilus Hallowell townsmen. He was married Novem- ber 13, 1777, by Rev. Mr. Treadwell, to Bridget Newhall, born in Lynn. February 15, 1753. He had eight children, including three pairs of twins, Benjamin and Samnel, born 1778, Martha, born 1780, Me- hitable, 1783, Theophilus and Bridget, born 1788, and Theophilus and Lydia, born 1791. Like most of his townsmen; Mr. Hallowell was a cordwainer and followed his occupation in a little shop which adjoined his house, then located on the northerly side of the Common a little east of Hanover Street. He was a short man, weighing barely a hundred pounds, but active and of great endurance. It is related that in his later years he often walked to Boston and dragged a side of leather home with him. In 1780 he was chosen deacon of the First Church, and remained a member of that society until the famous seces- sion to the Methodists in 1792, when he joined the tide and went over to the new society. The two deacons-the other being Captain Will- iam Farrington-took with them the communion plate of the church. an act which became a bone of contention for many years and the sub- ject of litigation. At length Captain Farrington relented and returned to his old pew, taking with him the disputed plate, but Deacon Hallowell ever remained a stanch Methodist. He was a regular attendant at the "Old Bowery" meeting-house, always appearing in a small red cap. Some of the aged people of to-day remember him, for he was one of the last survivors of the battle of Lexington in the town. His wife died August 13, 1803, and was buried in the old Western Burial Ground. Ile was married, second, April 30, 1806, by Rev. Peter Jayne, to Susannah Breed, daughter of Ephraim and Martha (Mansfield Newhall) Breed, born in Lynn in 1768. By her he had one child, Susan. She was a direct descendant from Allen Breed, who came to America in 1630.
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GRAVESTONE OF CAPTAIN EBENEZER HART
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Mr. Hallowell was one of the most respected men of the town. His death occurred September 28, 1833, at the age of eighty-three. Ilis wife, Susannah, died August 31, 1824, aged fifty-six. They were first interred in the old Western Burial Ground, but were removed some years ago to Pine Grove Cemetery. Two simple stones mark their graves on Virgilia Avenne. A marker of the S. A. R. has been placed at his grave.
HARRIS, PETER,-Captain Newhall's company; list of men taken from the orderly book of Colonel Israel Hutchinson, of the 27th regiment dated Fort Lee; reported taken prisoner at Fort Washington, November 16, 1776 .- Mass. Rolls.
HART, EBENEZER,-descended from Isaac Hart, who came to Lynn in 1640. and a soldier in King Philip's War, was the son of John Hart, Jr., and Lydia Curtis, born November 15, 1762; married October 25, 1792, Event Start Polly, daughter of Amos and Abigail Smith. He died in Lynn, March 26, 1840, at the age of seventy-seven, and is buried in the West Ground at Lynn- field Centre. Ilis widow Polly continued to receive the pension which had been granted him under the act of 1818. Her death occurred October 3, 1843, at the age of seventy-seven.
A very full sketch of the life of Captain Ebenezer Hart is given in Mr. Wellman's History of Lynnfield, in which he says that Ebenezer Hart served in the army from the beginning to the end of the war. Con- tinming, he adds: "He lived in the northerly part of the town, where he reared a large family of children, giving them all a very good com- mon-school education. Being intelligent and well-informed on matters and things in general, he took much interest in the subject of educa- tion as well as in other matters of public interest. For the opportuni- ties he had, he was a man of extensive and varied reading, and so well posted in political as well as theological history as to make him an able ‹lebater and a formidable antagonist. In private life he was a man of quiet manners, kind and courteous, but independent and flat-footed in his opinions, and fearless in expressing them, a faithful friend as well as a determined opponent. In the War of 1812 party spirit ran very high, and political subjects were discussed with great warmth and animosity. He belonged at that time to the Jefferson school of Dem-
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ocrats, and there were but two others in Lynnfield. Until the year 1814 the voters of Lynn and Lynnfield voted together for state officers, and it belonged to Lynnfield to have one of the five representatives for both towns. Captain IIart was one of those taken as a candidate from Lynnfield, and having a majority of the Lynn voters on his side, was elected over all opposition in his own town."
Ebenezer Hart entered the army when he was hardly fourteen years of age, and was a corporal at eighteen. An amusing anecdote has come down connected with his service as a soldier, in which it is related that at one time some of the members of his company, in foraging, helped themselves to some honey belonging to an old Dutchman. The latter entered complaint to the captain of the company, who professed not to doubt that his rascally fellows had it hidden away somewhere. Receiving a hint as to the place where it was, he told the Dutchman to take one side to search while he took the other. Coming to the keg which held the honey, he thrust his finger into it and said: "What's this, boys,-soap? That's right! Wash and be clean,-it's the beauty of a soldier!" Of course the honey was not found by the poor Dutch- mau, and he was sadly berated besides for presuming to doubt the honesty of such fine fellows.
Mr. Henry Danforth remembered Mr. Hart well, and said that it was the delight of the latter in his old age to come down to the tavern at the Centre, kept by his old comrade, Ebenezer Parsons, and there fight his battles over again. There was a constant flow of raillery between the two old veterans, each striving to make the record of the other ap- pear at a disadvantage, to the great amusement of the small boys who happened to hear them.
The home of Mr. Hart was a small story and a half house on Lowell Street, just beyond the Peabody road. The house was burned some years ago. His grandson, Henry E. Smith, who lives near the spot, remembers him, and says that his grandfather IIart was at the surrender of Cornwallis, and that he was the second man within the breastworks ou that occasion. He has also heard it said that his grandfather was a very strong, wiry man, and in his younger days could easily vault a seven-foot pole. His military record is given fully in the Massachusetts rolls, and also somewhat by himself in his pension application. From the rolls the following is taken: List of men raised to serve in the Con-
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tinental Army from 1st Essex County regiment, dated Lynn, February 16, 1778, and sworn to at Salem by John Flagg, first military officer for the town of Lynn; residence, Lynn; engaged for town of Lynn; joined Captain Winship's company, Colonel Putnam's regiment; term three years or during the war; also private, Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment; Continental Army pay accounts for service from February 15, 1777, to December 31, 1779; also Captain John Williams's company, Colonel Putnam's (4th) regiment; return dated Albany, February 9, 1778; mustered by John Cushing, Esq .; corporal, light infantry com- pany, Colonel Putnam's regiment; Continental Army pay accounts for service from January 1, 1780, to December 31, 1780; reported as serving five months as private, seven months as corporal; also de- scriptive list dated West Point, January 10, 1781; light infantry com- pany, Colonel Putnam's (5th) regiment; rank, corporal; age, eighteen years, one month; stature, 5 ft., 11 in .; complexion, dark; hair, dark; eyes, dark; residence, Lynn; enlisted February 15, 1777, by Captain Winship; enlistment during the war; also corporal, Captain Joshua Benson's light infantry company, Colonel Putnam's regiment; muster- roll for January, 1781, dated garrison at West Point.
In his pension claim his family is mentioned, then consisting of his wife and six children. The children, all above thirteen years of age, were Charlotte, Abigail, Lucy, Endicott, Casandra, and Adeline.
HART, JACOB,-son of John and Lydia (Curtis) IIart, was baptized Novem- ber 12, 1758; married, first, Hannah Cox, of Beverly, April 24. 1777, and, second, Hannah Brown, of Wenham, June 11, 1809; died June 5, 1833. At the time of his application for a pension he appeared be- fore the Probate Court, April 15, 1818. at the age of fifty-nine, infirm Jacob Front and in reduced circumstances, and made affidavit that in March, 1777, he enlisted as sergeant in Captain Ebenezer Winship's company of foot, Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment, Massachusetts line, during the war. He served as orderly sergeant during the whole term; was in several engagements, and was honorably discharged at West Point at the con- clusion of the treaty of peace. Ebenezer Hart, his brother, says that he served with Jacob from May, 1777, to Jannary, 1782. At the time of his application, 1818, he was a carpenter by trade, but unable to work
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half his time, and had a wife and three children, Thomas, aged eight. Lydia, eleven, and Mary fourteen. Ile was pensioned from April 15, 1818, at the rate of eight dollars per month, and received $37.33 back pay. His last days were spent in Wenham, where he died. He is probably buried in Beverly.
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