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Pvt. Robt. W. Lake
Pvt. Amie Lamore
Corp. William G. Laplante
Sergt. Albert Laville
Sergt. Cornelius Lawrence Lieut. Robt. A. Lawton Pvt. Arthur Lenesque Pvt. Abraham Lipsky
Lieut. Patrick A. Finnegan Pvt. Lester R. Fletcher
Pvt. Ernest S. Fortier Sergt. Ernest W. Foster Pvt. Wm. Peabody Freke
Pvt. Henry J. Germin
Pvt. Winfred J. Gosselin
Pvt. Geo. W. Merrill
Lieut. R. G. Sprague Pvt. C. H. Starvis Pvt. Daniel J. Sullivan
Lieut. Glenn G. Hall
Pvt. Jere. E. Moynihan
Pvt. Leo E. Sullivan
Shipwriter P. H. Hamilton
Machinist Sylv. J. Healey
Seaman John L. Herbert Sergt. H. P. Hicks
Pvt. Harry Musch Corp. A. D. Mclaughlin Pvt. Philip McMurrer Col .- Sergt. M. D. Noonan Pvt. Thos. O'Connell
Sergt. Herbert A. Tobey Pvt. Michael Usuriello Pvt. Geo. Vordoukas
Sergt. Hollis V. Hooke
Pvt. Fred B. Horsch
Corp. Fred O. Donnell
Pvt. Geo. N. Jennings
Sergt. Albert B. Jerard
Pvt. Peter E. Kalouniris
Pvt. Alfred B. Perkins Pvt. Frank E. Pickering Sergt. Karl H. Pitcher
Pvt. Arthur G. Pottie
Pvt. Herbert G. Raymond
Pvt. Abraham Riebstein
Pvt. Melvin F. Rice Pvt. Daniel T. Ribg Pvt. Le Roy G. Rivers Pvt. Milon D. Rowe
Sergt. Geo. A. Roberts
Pvt. Arthur Roux
Pvt. James LoConte
Corp. Leon A. Sadler
Seaman James Lord
Pvt. G. Lucci Seaman Frank B. Marinaro
Corp. Hypo. Sartirpoulas Pvt. Herbert T. Slattery
Pvt. Pasquale Gullo
Pvt. Luke F. Moran
Pvt. Jos. M. Sweetser
Pvt. Nathan M. Webster Pvt. Hernbert G. Whitney Seaman H. S. Wightman Pvt. Stanley F. Wood.
Nahant-In 1812 the schooner "Dolphin" was sold to John Phil- lips, of Swampscott, from fear of the English cruisers, which left the settlement without a vessel. Soon after peace was restored, Caleb John- son bought of Mr. Crowinshield the sloop "Jefferson" of Salem, which had been used there as a privateer. In the War of 1812-14, English ships frequently visited Nahant, opposite Bass Point, so near that the men could be seen on the deck of the frigates. One skipper was cap- tured and brought alongside of the vessel, refusing to allow the captain to take his fish without paying for them, which so amused the officers that they paid him for the fish, remarking, "Let the exacting Yankee fisherman go, but if we catch you again, we will keep you, fish and all."
In Civil War times, 1861-65, Nahant was not by any means new in military history, for several early settlers had taken part in the Indian wars, while one of the naval officers from Nahant had served in war and his ancestors had fought in the French and Indian War. So when the Civil War came on, in the spring of 1861, Nahant had many descend- ants of her early settlers ready to enter the service when the call was made by President Lincoln. A war meeting was held at Nahant, April 23, only a week after Fort Sumter had been fired upon, the people in at- tendance meeting in the vestry of the church. Patriotic speeches were made and a Home Guard was organized at once. Luther Dame was elected captain of a company, to which nearly every ablebodied man in town subscribed his name as a member. Arms were bought by sub- scription, and military drill commenced at once. Members of the com- pany furnished their own uniforms. The first public parade was in union with the Guards at Lynn. A flagstaff was raised at the top of Bass Beach Hill, and soon the starry banner was seen fluttering in the breeze. It was then that Captain Dunham, who had served in the War of 1812
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and the War with Mexico, had command of the gun. He applied the match, sending the report thundering over the sea and land, amid the applause of the assembled citizens. Soon actual soldiers were demanded, and many men enlisted from Nahant, thus lessening the size of the Home Guard company. Mortimer L. Johnson, the first to enter the regular service, was assigned to the U. S. frigate "Sabine," as midshipman. He made a fine record on the seas, being more than once cited for his bravery and tact.
Several hundred dollars were paid in bounties for soldiers, and the aid rendered the families of soldiers was considerable. Nahant furnished forty-two men for the war, a surplus of five over its quota. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was $6,508. During the whole of the war, the ladies of Nahant held meetings to make underclothing for the soldiers, which, with boxes of provisions and small stores, were sent to the Sanitary Commission.
Again in 1917, when war was declared against Germany, Nahant was called upon to do her duty and it was performed in a praiseworthy manner. The following list of men furnished by the "little neck out in the sea" tells the story. In the summer of 1921, the committee appointed to provide a suitable, permanent tablet, containing the names of the men furnished by Nahant in the recent World War, decided that the following, and possibly a few others, were entitled to a place on the proposed tablet :
Anderson, Frank,
Fuller, Andrew,
O'Brien, Ralph C.,
Athey, John,
Gallery, Charles C.,
Olsson, Olaf A.,
Athey, Martin,
Gelleo, George,
Blanchard, Harold,
Gove, Frank A., Jr.,
Boyden, Charles,
Gove, Frank,
Bradley, Thomas S.,
Guild, Henry R.,
Butler, Alfred J.,
Guild, Edward M.,
Coakley, Bernard,
Guild, S. E., Jr.,
Coakley, Frank W.,
Heptonstal, William H.,
Coakley, John J.,
Hyde, Edmund J.,
Coles, Elmer F.,
Johnson, R. Howard,
Coles, Frank E.,
Kelley, Henry,
Russell, A. Lebaron,
Coles, Robert T.,
King, Barthy, J.,
Scannmon, Charles F.,
Connelly, Thomas,
Lewis, Benj., I.,
Conroy, James E.,
Lewis, Harry W.
Stanton, Irving W.,
Crocker, Francis B., Jr.,
Lewis, Harold W.,
Sturgis, George,
Crocker, J. Arthur,
Lewis, Mayland P.,
Taylor, John M.,
Crocker, John W.,
Lewis, Philip H.,
Tierney, James C.,
Delano, Leon M.,
McLaughlin, Wm. J.,
Timmins, Fred L.,
Deveney, Timothy L.,
McLauglin, Henry,
Dodge, Lawrence W.,
Melanson, Leonard, Meyers, Clifford,
Waitt, Lyman W.,
Doyle, Patrick,
Meyers, Kenneth R.,
Wickens, Geo. W.,
Dwight, Joseph,
Motley, J. Lathrop,
Walton, Richard J.,
Fay, Arthur D.,
Motley, Warren,
Welby Patrick,
Fay, J. H.,
Murphy, Henry,
Ward, Edward A.,
Fay, Richard D.,
O'Brien, Andrew,
Yokelson, William,
O'Malley, Thomas F., Parrott, Ralph N., Patterson, Roland, Philbrick, Everett G., Prendiville, Thomas, Robbins, Mortimer G.,
Robertson, Arthur H., Roland, Phillips H., Rooney, Patrick J.,
Collins, Eugene H.,
Lane, Peter T., Jr.,
Smith, Howard B., Southwick, Rollin W.,
Turner, William, Vary, Charles D.,
Donnelly, John,
Boxford-It was in 1674 that the General Court gave the people Boxford the liberty "to train at either place they saw fit." As soon as the
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town was incorporated, a military company was formed. The first stock of ammunition was procured in 1689, and consisted of "powdr & bullets and flents." The officers of the First Parish military company were Asa Perley, captain; John Hale, lieutenant; Thomas Andrews, ensign. A powder-house was built in the town in 1801, and in 1856 it was sold and taken down. In 1832 the two millitary companies were united, and in 1840 a general State militia law disbanded such companies. The Box- ford Washington Guards was formed in 1836, the last of that kind of military companies. In 1840 the town built this company an armory and the company continued to exist about ten years. The first actual service performed by the military men of the town was in King Philip's War, in 1675. Joseph Bixby served in the company of Capt. Brockle- bank of Rowley, hence escaping the fate which overtook many of his neighbors. Robert Andrews was killed at Ft. Narragansett, Rhode Is- land.
Boxford men were stationed at Scarborough in 1748-49, and at Gor- hamtown and New Marblehead in 1750, as well as along the eastern frontiers in 1755. Some of the Boxford soldiers assisted in depopulating the province then known as Acadia (now Nova Scotia) of many of the French families who were supposed to be neutral in the war with the French, but who were not true at all times to their promises. Fifteen of these Acadians were brought to Boxford, and were supported by the province until 1760, when they were sent to Canada.
In the time of the French and Indian War, the town had two com- panies, one under Capt. Israel Herrick, and another under Capt. Francis Peabody. Boxford greatly resented the Stamp Act and other like bur- dens, and in May, 1770, voted at a town meeting "that they will to their utmost encourage the produce and manufacture of all such articles as have formerly been imported from Great Britain and used among them ; that they will not use foreign tea, nor suffer it to be used in their fam- ilies (save in case of sickness) until the duty shall have been entirely taken off." Seventeen days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this town voted unanimously that in case the Continental Congress should declare their independence, they would solemnly engage their lives and fortunes to support them in such measure. When finally the Revolution commenced, the two militia companies of Boxford were ready. There were ninety men in these companies, and in the Minute- men company there were fifty-two. They all marched to Lexington, but arrived too late to take part in the first engagement in the Revolution- ary War. The militia returned home, but the minute-men went on into Boston, in the rear of the British, as they retreated. These Boxford men also were present at Bunker Hill; eight of their number were left dead on the field. Captain Knowlton, so successful in defending the rail-fence there, was a native of Boxford, and General Israel Putnam had called Boxford his early home.
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In 1775 saltpeter was made in Boxford for the purpose of manufac- turing gunpowder, and blacksmiths' forges were utilized for running lead into bullets. During the more than seven long years of the Revolution, Boxford men never wavered. Enos Reynolds a Boxford man, was one of the personal-guard in the cell of Major André on the night before his execution. At Valley Forge and Monmouth many a brave Boxford man gave up his life, while others were tortured at the hands of the savage Indians.
In the War of 1812, which was not a popular measure in New Eng- land, Boxford was loyal to the demands made upon her by the govern- ment.
Coming down to the dark days of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, Box- ford sent far more men than was her quota, as well as appropriating for war aid at home, $10,756. The volunteers numbered ninety-two. Of these, two died in Andersonville prison and one in Libby prison, twenty succumbed to the fatal rifle balls and Southern diseases, while thirteen more were wounded and died later as a result of such wounds. Thirty men were drafted from Boxford, five others entered the navy, and served well their country until death or until discharged. In reading or think- ing about the soldiers from the town of Boxford, one should bear in mind that they were early in the conflict and were caught at Bull Run and Cedar Mountain, while others were among the fallen heroes of Port Hud- son, Antietam, Spottsylvania, Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain.
Camp Stanton at Boxford in 1861-63 was named for Secretary of War Edward M. Stanton. Since then the State Guards have used these grounds as their camp. In 1874 Jonathan T. Barker gave the West Par- ish $1000, to which the citizens added as much more, and with it the handsome soldiers' monument was erected. On its faces are inscribed the names of the men who fell in that conflict.
In the recent World War, Boxford was fully up to the sister towns in sending forth men and raising money and supplies for the aid and re- lief of the men sent to do the fighting. From out the number sent, these sacrificed their young lives on the altar of their country: Ernest W. Foster, of pneumonia, 1918; Robert W. Lake, killed in action, 1918; Franklin Taylor Cooper, died of pneumonia, 1917.
Ipswich-Though situated better than many places in Massachusetts in relation to Indian troubles, yet the people had to ever be on the alert and prepared to defend themselves against the savages. The farmer and professional men had to carry their trusty rifles with them daily, in order to be safe. The town kept a regular watchman out, day and night; com- panies were formed and the entire populace were really minute-men. In 1633, it was ordered that Saugus, Salem and Agawam assist Boston in building a fort. The next year the Ipswich assistant was ordered to so- licit recruit funds for a movable fort at Boston; every man must be trained for service. Daniel Denison and Nicholas Easton were to have
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charge of the powder at Ipswich. The town was to receive its share of ammunition, muskets, bandoleers and rests, just then imported, and the use of two sakers, if they would provide carriages for them. In 1635 the company was ordered to maintain its officers; eight swords were added to their equipments. In 1636 the military force of the jurisdiction was divided into three regiments-Saugus, Salem, Ipswich and Newbury mak- ing one, with John Endicott, of Salem, colonel. The next year it was or- dered that "no person shall travel above one mile from his dwelling, ex- cept where other dwellings are nearer, without arms, upon pain of 12 shillings for every default." Each town had to have a watchhouse, and keep a watch; eight annual trainings were ordered; Daniel Denison was commissioned captain.
In 1636 occured the Pequot War, wherein Ipswich was represented by twenty-three soldiers, and William Fuller as gunsmith. The Indians met with an overwhelming defeat. Francis Wainwright attacked a knot of Pequots, expended his ammunition, broke his gun over them, and brought in two scalps. Judge Wedgewood was wounded and taken pris- oner, and John Sherman was wounded in the neck. The following were granted from two to ten acres of land for their services: John Andrews, John Burnum, Robert Castell, Robert Cross, Robert Filbrick, Edward Lumus, Andrew Story, William Swynder, Palmer Tingley, Francis Wain- wright and William Whitred.
The records show that in 1639 a reservation was made for a fort on Castle Hill, where the land was granted to John Winthrop, Jr. The town had two barrels of powder, and might sell on the county's account, at two shillings per pound ; the following year the meeting-house was used as a watch-house. In 1642 there was a general alarm, believing that the various Indian tribes intended to annihilate the white race in this country. It was then ordered that Ipswich, Rowley and Newbury should disarm the Merrimack sachem. Forty men went the next day, and not finding the chief, they took away his son as a hostage. That year a retreat for wives and children was to be provided; twelve saker bullets were allowed the town; when going to a house to sound an alarm, the watchman, in case of an attack, was to cry: "Arm, Arm!" In 1643 worshippers were order- ed to go to church only when properly armed.
In 1652 a company was to consist of sixty-four or more privates, and to have at least two drums. General Denison in 1653 ordered a squad of twenty-seven men from Ipswich and Rowley, to "descry the distant foe, where lodged, or whether fled; or if for fight in motion or in halt"; for it had been reported, as ten years before, that a general conspiracy had been formed against the whites. Each private was allowed a shilling for four days' service.
King Philip's War in 1675, when it really commenced, was a long struggle. He was a powerful monarch, sagacious and crafty. His eagle eye scanned the encroachments of the English upon his lands and hunting
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grounds, and he was prepared for a bitter contest. The Indian lurked in every forest and glen; he watched for the lonely settler as he opened his door in the morning, as he was busy with his field work, or attempted to attend church services. The settler, too, was on the alert for every skulk- ing Indian. This war cost the Colonies more than a million dollars and six hundred precious lives, forty of these from Ipswich. Every eleventh house in the colony was burned, every eleventh soldier killed. Ipswich was represented in Captain Prentice's troop and in the "Flower of Essex" that perished at Deerfield, and she furnished her quota for the next year's 460 men. In this war fell Edward Coburn, Thomas Scott, Benjamin Tappan, Freegrace Norton, and Sergeant John Pettis.
Queen Anne's War soon followed, and fell mercilessly on all New England. Ipswich was true to the cause of the settlers. It was repre- sented at Port Royal in 1707, where Samuel Appleton had command. In 1710 William Cogswell was killed. Also in the conflict with the Aus- trians, known as King George's War, wherein Louisburg was reduced by 4,000 fishermen and farmers, including those from Ipswich. Soon after 1748 came the great French and Indian War, which was a deciding step in many national affairs between the English, French and Indian people.
After a century and a fourth came on the Revolution, just after the startling warwhoop of the savages had subsided from the forests and shorelines of New England. The seed planted in the "Mayflower" was now to bear fruitage in the Declaration of Independence. Ipswich met the great issues, on the very start, with no uncertain sound. She record- ed her instructions to her representative, October 21, 1765: "We must maintain our Charter." In 1774 Daniel Noyes and Deacon Stephen Choate, Captain Michael Farley, John Choate and Nathaniel Farley were voted a committee to "see what could be done in this distressing time." The same year a lot twenty-five by fifty feet was granted just east of the town house, for military purposes. The wages of minute-men were fixed by the town. In 1775, that memorable year in American history, found Ipswich hiring money to pay minute-men and looking after coast defences. The first clash of arms was at Lexington, April 19, 1775. It was Paul Revere and William Dawes who started at the same time to give the alarm. The ringing of bells and firing of guns told the first story of what was to be a long eight years of ruthless warfare between the Ameri- can colonies and England. On the 19th, five companies marched from Ipswich to the scene of conflict. They were led by Captains Thomas Burnham, Daniel Rogers, Abraham Dodge, Elisha Whitney, Abraham How and Nathaniel Wade. Nearly three hundred stout-hearted yeomanry left home and fireside in what they believed to be, and, what proved to be, a holy cause. The State archives show Ipswich minute-men found in that conflict to be: In Company One, Captain Thomas Burnham; Com- pany Two, Captain Nathaniel Wade; Company Three, Captain Abraham How; Company Four, Captain Daniel Rogers; Troop of Horse, Captain
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Moses Jewett. As the war proceeded, Ipswich furnished her full quota of men. These soldiers might have been seen in every part of the coun- try, doing service as only brave men can. Their bloody footprints through Jersey and their intense sufferings at Valley Forge were no myth, but facts that tested the metal of men. While the soldiers were at the seat of battle, the home-folk were paying out money for the support of their fam- ilies, and in all ways denying themselves every comfort of life. It was by these brave, sacrificing acts, here as elsewhere, that America won her liberty, and the same quality of patriotism obtains in their children's chil- dren even to this day.
In the hard, long winter campaign of the Shay's Rebillion, 1786-87, Ipswich furnished twenty-five men.
The War of 1812-14 with the Mother Country came on. June 19, 1812 the United States declared war. Of course, whatever was required at the hands of loyal Ipswich, was granted.
In the prosecution of the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, Ipswich never lagged, but sent her brave sons to the front, and gave her tens of thou- sands in aid of the home war activities. She sent out about 375 men. Fifteen of her men were commissioned officers. At the end of the war she had furnished a surplus of thirty-three men. She expended $53,000, exclusive of State aid, which was $12,000 more. In 1869 the town erect- ed a handsome, solid monument centrally situated, at a cost of near $3,000.
Concerning the Spanish-American War of 1898, little can be written on account of the Commonwealth not having published its reg- ular adjutant-general's report on that war. The most of the soldiers called out were members of the National Guard; and where there was no company located, few volunteered; however, it is supposable that a number went from Ipswich and were credited to other places.
The part taken in the late World War by the citizens of Ipswich be- speaks well for the place and for the patriotism and liberality of its people. Though many are of foreign birth, all proved themselves true Americans in spirit in those stirring days from 1916 to 1919. While it is not practicable to enter far into details concerning the activities of Ips- wich in this war, it would be unbecoming on the part of a local historian not to mention a few of the more important features of the part which Ipswich had in the conflict.
The Ipswich Protective Volunteers, recruited to the number of sev- enty-three, took the oath of allegiance Wednesday evening, October 3, 1917, and were incorporated into the Massachusetts State Guard as Com- pany 141, of the 15th regiment. Ipswich had appropriated $2,000 in September to buy equipments. A drill was compulsory for all members on Tuesday evening each week at the town hall. Uniforms were worn after November 8th. Company N, 15th Massachusetts State Guard, was mustered into the service of the Commonwealth October 3, 1917, by Col.
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Edward H. Eldridge. Those mustered into service at that date were: Walter H. Hathaway, captain; W. Quincy Kinsman, first lieutenant; William T. Dunbar, second lieutenant ; Walter M. Atkinson, W. R. Bailey, Charles H. Bagley, James R. Bell, August F. Benedict, Herbert E. Bowen, John H. Cameron, Frank Carr, Timothy F. Carey, Charles L. Chance, Albert Churchell Chouinard, Henry A. Cogswell, Woodbury L. Cole, James E. Cowperthwaite, Elmer C. Curtiss, George H. Day, Herbert M. Dolan, Henry M. Doughty, H. N. Dieuham, John Fessenden, Walter D. Fewkes, Louis M. Frost, J. M. Gagne, Napoleon Gallant, Manuel Gilligan, Charles H. Goditt, William H. Goodhue, Geeorg E. C. Gonsalver, An- tonio P. Gwinn, L. R. Herd, John Hill, Ralph C. Holland, Ed J. Hull, Charles G. Hull, James H. Jean, Jr., William G. Johnson, Elon B. John- son, Winfield L. Kelly, William J. LaCount, Ralph R. Ladien, Winfield S. Lenuix, R. Little, Edgar Lord, Farley C. Lord, George T. Lord, Har- old F. Manthone, George N. Manzer, Arthur W. Martel, Joseph L. Mathe- son, Eugene McCormick, Stanley C. Miller, Joseph H. Paige, Edward H. Poirier, Joseph A. Roper, Harry H. Scofield, George A. Sheppard, Jr., Lionel Smith, Dexter M. Smith, Gordon Smith, Richard H. Smith, Jr., Julian D. Smith, George Stanley, John J. B. Strongman, Oliver E. Super, Thomas H. Wilkinson, Zebulon Withans, William C. Worcester. To fill vacancies, these enlisted : Burke Harland, Frank O'Malley, Raymond W. Perkins, Foster C. Russell, Elliott Appleton, Samuel W. Durgin, Elmer A. Hertle, James G. Kneeland, Fred S. Sonza, Guy E. Wells, Henry S. Arnold, L. O. Adams, Charles W. A. Pickard.
April 4, 1917, the Senate of the United States voted, 82 to 6, that a state of war existed between the governments of the United States and Germany and the House of Representatives passed a similar vote April 6, standing 373 to 50. The President urged the Declaration of War im- mediately. A fine group of Ipswich manhood entered the service on the Mexican border in the summer of 1916. Sergeant Eugene V. H. Gilbert and Corporals Elmer S. Cowperthwaite, Chas. A. Mallard and his brother Frank W. Mallard, Terrence T. Saunders, Chester A. Scahill, Dennison Wallace and Dennis J. Warner were enrolled in Company H, 8th Massa- chusetts Infantry. Also the following entered Company A, 1st Massa- chusetts Field Artillery: Sergeant Floyd R. Bruce, Carl W. Conant, Ar- thur Drapeau, Henry Lavoie, Frank H. Morgan, Ellery S. Webber, Roger S. Winch.
When it was known that America was really to enter the World War, preparations were immediately set on foot and each county in the United States, as well as the towns and cities, had their public safety commit- tees. One was organized for Ipswich and vicinity. Dr. Frank W. Keyes was chosen chairman, Charles E. Goodhue secretary, and Howard N. Doughty treasurer. Many sub-committees were appointed. Many ap- plications were made for small tracts of lands for garden purposes. Land holders usually freely granted the use of these lands, that all possible
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crops of vegetables might be produced. The executive manager of such work was Howard N. Doughty. The town voted $500 toward the cul- tivation of a larger tract on railroad lands near the depot. In all, twenty- three boys and girls tended garden patches and raised a large amount of valuable vegetables. The ages of these children ranged from ten to fourteen years.
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