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Oakham T. R., i, 171, 199, 207. M. S. R., xi, 646 (4).
Joseph Osborn, Jr.
Baptized in Hopkinton, March 23, 1755, second child and eldest son of Joseph and Jennett (Hodge) Osborn, who were married December 31, 1751. His father, Joseph Osborn, was son of John and Jenat Osborn, and was born in Hopkinton, September 27, 1722. He had eight children, all born in Hopkinton.
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Joseph Osborn, the father, came to Oakham in 1770, and October 18, purchased of James Craige, Jr., for £88 6s. 8d. one hundred and thirty acres in Lot AA. This land was above Clampherd Meadow (now Walter Dean's reservoir) and his house was near the residence of Jacob Adams. He died March 22, 1800, aged seventy-seven years.
Joseph Osborn, Jr., was a soldier, perhaps the Joseph Ors- born "listed for Quebeck" in Capt. Agrippa Well's Co., Col. Asa Whitcomb's Regt., but more likely the man enrolled as John Osburn in Capt. Joseph Thompson's Co. of Col. Thomas Nixon's Regt. who died at North Castle, September 21, 1776. On April 18, 1777, the town "Voted that Joseph Osburn's Campagn rate of £3-5-10 be allowed him for his son Joseph's Service in the war, who is now deceased."
Oakham T. R., i, 171. [M. S. R., xi, 682 (6) [Orsborn] (?), 694 (6) [John Osburn] (?)]. Oakham V. R., 126. Hopkinton V. R., 144 [Ozborn], 145 [Ozburn], 336 [Orsborn]. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, 1xxxiii, 306, cxxviii, 599, clix, 417.
Ichabod Packard.
Born in Bridgewater, August 1, 1738, son of George and Mary (Edson) Packard. George Packard was son of Nathaniel Packard, and a descend- ant on his mother's side of that branch of the Eliot family to which belonged John Eliot, "the Apostle of the Indians."
Ichabod Packard was a soldier in the French War. He was with General Winslow in 1755, when that officer was sent by Governor Shirley to Annapolis (Port Royal), Nova Scotia, to remove the Acadians, and served again under General Winslow in the following year at Fort William Henry.
He has credit on the town records for two months' service in New York in 1776. August 20, 1777, he marched with Capt. Crawford on the Bennington alarm.
He came to Oakham from Bridgewater in 1770 and purchased from Thomas Whipple of New Braintree, for £26 13s. 4d., a farm with the buildings thereon, in the northwest corner of Lot X, on the county road leading from Rutland to Brookfield (the Parley Packard farm). In 1777 he purchased of his brother-in-
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law, Jesse Allen, land in Lot No. 22, the farm lately owned by James Shearn, and on this place he lived till his death, November 23, 1813. He was admitted to the Presbyterian Church in Oakham on profession of faith, but was one of the signers of the petition of June 23, 1773, for the organization of a church in Congregational form.
On May 3, 1757, he was married to Ruth Allen, sister of Jesse Allen, who came to Oakham with him in 1770. Children, born in Bridgewater : Nehemiah, October 27, 1760; Ichabod, Jr., May 27, 1763; Lydia, March 6, 1766; Isaac, February 9, 1769; born in Oakham: Caleb, February 7, 1771; James, 1775; Martha, 1782.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188. M. S. R., xii,'347 (4) [Pickard]. Packard Family (MS.) by Mr. Charles M. Packard of Westboro. Oakham Church Records, i, I. Rev. J. Dana's Notes. Mitchell, Hist. of Bridgewater, 255, 259. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, 1xx, 435, cxcvi, 8.
Nehemiah Packard.
Born in Bridgewater, October 27, 1760, son of Ichabod and Ruth (Allen) Packard.
Nehemiah Packard enlisted May 16, 1775, when fourteen years of age, in Capt. Simeon Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt., for eight months' service at Roxbury. He marched with the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777, and served in a campaign to Bennington and Half Moon under Capt. Edmund Hodges in Col. Job Cushing's Regt., from July 27 to August 29, 1777. He was also in Capt. Cutler's company, which was raised in Western (now Warren) and Oakham, and which marched September 24, 1777, with Lieut. Alexander Bothwell to join the army under General Gates.
In 1780 he married Lucy Nye of Barre. Children: Hannah, born May 14, 1780; Ruth, born October 26, 1783; Susanna, born November 7, 1785: Rebecca, born December 21, 1786; Nathan, born June 29, 1789; Sally, born April 27, 1792 ; Parley, born March 30, 1794.
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Nehemiah Packard died in Oakham, January 24, 1830, aged sixty-nine years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 180, 187, 188, 189. M. S. R., xi, 747 (6) [Packer], 816 (14) [Parcard], 892 (9) [Parker], xii, 105 (12) [Pekard]. Oakham V. R., 40, 41, 90, 126. Packard Family (see above).
The Parmenter Family.
Aaron Parmenter came from Sudbury at the time of the first settlement of Oakham.
He was married to Jean, daughter of James and Rachel (Wallis) Craige, November 26, 1747. Children: Rebecca, born March 16, 1748; Rachel, born November 3, 1751; Jacob, born January 3, 1754; Hannah, born March 16, 1756; Anna, born March 10, 1758; James, born July 3, 1760; Daniel, born August 5, 1762; Aaron, Jr., born January 25, 1765.
Oakham V. R., 41. Sudbury V. R., 35 [Creage], 246.
Daniel Parmenter.
Born in Sudbury, November 30, 1740, son of William and Mary (Pep- per) Parmenter. His mother, Mary Pepper of Framingham, was married to William Parmenter September 25, 1740.
Daniel Parmenter was Sergeant in a company that served two months at Roxbury in the early part of 1776, and marched as Private on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777. Septem- ber 7, 1777, he enlisted as Private in Capt. Crawford's company which was raised in Hardwick, Oakham and New Braintree and sent to reinforce the army of General Gates at Saratoga.
He came from Sudbury to Oakham, and purchased in 1764 of James Craige, Jr., for £30, ninety-one and one-half acres in Lot No. 25 (the farm occupied one hundred years later by Orlando Russell), and thirty-two acres in Lot O. He was Selectman in 1781, 1792, and 1793, and was on the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1780.
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September 20, 1764, he was married to Mary Knight, and had seven children, born in Oakham: Anne, February 18, 1767; Samuel, August 29, 1768; Daniel, Jr., February 27, 1771, died January 19, 1810; Mary, May 23, 1773; Tamer, August 8, 1775; William, March 29, 1778; Spencer, May 12, 1785.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188. M. S. R., xi, 812 (9) [Pameter], 938 (5). Oakham V. R., 41, 42, 127. Sudbury V. R., 104, 246, 248. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, Iviii, 227.
Isaac Parmenter.
Born in Oakham, March 30, 1756, son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Craige) Parmenter.
He enlisted in the Continental Army, March II, 1777, for three years in Capt. John Reed's Co., Col. Alden's Regt., and received £20 bounty from the town of Oakham. He was wounded in the action at Cobleskill, May 31, 1778, when the small American force under Captains Brown and Patrick were drawn into an ambuscade by a large party of Indians under Brant. After five months in hospital at Schenectady, he rejoined his regiment. November II, 1778, he was taken prisoner in the Indian raid at Cherry Valley. In his application for pension, dated April 20, 1818, he thus describes his service :
"Marched from Oakham to Peekskill, to Albany, to Fort Ann, and met Burgoyne. Marched to Saratoga, then to Albany. Next spring in command of Capt. Patrick at Cooniskill, there met the Indians of the enemy, was wounded and put in hospital at Skanantoda. After recovery, went to Cherry Valley, joined Alden's regiment, and there met Brant and Butler of the enemy, and the place was practically destroyed. Said Parmenter taken prisoner by Indians and kept eleven months and taken to Canada. Then given up to the British and kept by them thirteen months. Then exchanged with Col. Butler and a Miss Campbell of Cherry Valley."
He received by will from his father a farm of sixty-three acres, being the northeasterly part of Lot No. 8, situated between the homestead given to his brother, William Parmenter, and the farm of Ebenezer Foster.
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October 4, 1781, he was married, in Hardwick, to Lydia Furness. In 1818 he was living at Cohocton, Steuben Co., N. Y. He died April 26, 1826.
Oakham T. R., i, 171. M. S. R., xi, 943 (4) [Parmeter], 947 (4) [Parmiter]. Oakham V. R., 91. Pension Application, Apr. 20, 1818 [March 30, 1756 = March 27]. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Apr. 6, 1790 [ Solomon Parmenter].
Isaiah Parmenter.
Born in Sudbury, July 16, 1742, son of William and Mary (Pepper) Parmenter.
He was First Lieutenant in Capt. Crawford's company of minutemen who marched April 19, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm; and Sergeant in Capt. Samuel Dexter's com- pany, which was raised in Hardwick, New Braintree and Oak- ham for six months' service in the siege of Boston. This company formed part of Col. Ebenezer Learned's regiment, and went into camp at Roxbury, May 19, 1775. He served also, with rank of Ensign, in New York, in the latter part of 1776, and again as Lieutenant in Capt. Ralph Earll's Co., Col. Dan- forth Keyes's Regt., from June 27, 1777, till July 27, 1777, at Providence.
Isaiah Parmenter was Selectman of Oakham in 1778 and 1779, and was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspec- tion and Safety in 1777. He was one of the signers of the petition of June 23, 1773, for the organization of a Congregational Church in Oakham.
January 28, 1762, he was married in Sudbury to Lydia, daugh- ter of Uriah and Hannah Hayden. Children: Thaddeus, born July 27, 1762; Winser, born March 27, 1766.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188. M. S. R., xi, 938 (7), 949 (8) [Parnenter]. Oakham V. R., 42. Sudbury V. R., 64, 106, 246. Oakham Church Records, i, I.
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Jacob Parmenter.
Son of Aaron and Jean (Craige) Parmenter, was born in Oakham, January 3, 1754.
He was one of the minutemen in Capt. Crawford's company that marched April 19, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm. While still in service as a minuteman, he enlisted, April 27, in Capt. Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt., for a term of eight months at Roxbury. September 13, 1777, he enlisted as a Private in the Continental Army, residence Oakham. He appears to have been in Col. William R. Lee's regiment, when in 1780, at Morristown, this and three other Massachusetts regiments were incorporated into one regiment, under command of Col. Henry Jackson, agreeable to the arrangement of April 9, 1779. Said Jacob Parmenter appeared among men belong- ing to Col. Lee's regiment who had been discharged from the rolls prior to this agreement. He had been reported deserted September 6, 1778, his family living in Oakham. By the report of a committee for settling disputes between towns as to soldiers credited to them (year not given), said Parmenter of Oakham was allowed to Northfield. He has also credit on the Oakham town records for service at Ticonderoga in 1776 and I777.
He was married to Ruth Bellows August 12, 1776.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 171. M. S. R., xi, 938 (8), 943 (5) [Parmeter], 945 (12) [Parmetur], xii, 178 (2) [Permenter], 178 (9) [Permertor]. Oakham V. R., 41. Rutland V. R., 177.
James Parmenter.
Born in Oakham, July 3, 1760, son of Aaron and Jean (Craige) Parmenter.
He enlisted in the Continental Army March II, 1777, for a term of three years, in Capt. Reed's Co., Col. Alden's, afterwards Col. Brooks's Regt., and received £20 bounty from the town of Oak- ham. He was in the battles of Saratoga that resulted in the
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defeat of General Burgoyne. In the massacre at Cherry Valley, November 11, 1778, he was taken prisoner by the Indians, and is supposed to have died in captivity.
Oakham T. R., i, 171. M. S. R., xi, 943 (7) [Parmenter], 947 (6) [Parmiter]. Oakham V. R., 41.
Rufus Parmenter.
Born in Sudbury, July 4, 1752, eldest son of Samuel and Mary (Tower) Parmenter, who were married November 14, 1751.
He marched with Capt. Crawford's company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777.
Rufus Parmenter lived in a small house at Lincolnville which was occupied by Stephen Lincoln, Jr., from 1834 to 1857. The jury-box still used by the town of Oakham was made by him.
In 1778 he was married to Hannah Mann of Paxton. Chil- dren, born in Oakham; Elijah, December 26, 1779, died of spotted fever, March 21, 1810; Edmund, March 26, 1782; Elisabeth Mann, October 21, 1784, died November 20, 1822; Luke, April 29, 1787, died September 17, 1787; Lucy, August II, 1788; Ezra, April 30, 1792, died September 5, 1794.
Mr. Parmenter died in Oakham, February 16, 1814, aged sixty-one years.
Oakham T. R., i, 187. M. S. R., xi, 940 (8). Oakham V. R., 41, 91, 127. Sudbury V. R., 108, 248. Recollections of Mr. Stephen Lincoln.
Solomon Parmenter.
Born in Sudbury, September 14, 1721, son of Solomon and Deborah Parmenter.
He has credit on the town records for four months' service at Boston in 1776. As he was then fifty-five years old, he evidently sent for this campaign his son William, whose name appears on the pay roll of the company of Capt. Ezekiel Knowl- ton of Templeton, dated Dorchester, November 20, 1776. This
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was one of the eight companies raised "for the defence of Boston," in accordance with the Resolve of April 9, 1776.
Solomon Parmenter came from Sudbury at the time of the first settlement of Oakham and bought of James Craige in 1758 two hundred and fifty acres of land and two-fifths of the Craige saw-mill. He was Assessor in 1760, and a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1780.
May 10, 1748, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of James and Rachel (Wallis) Craige. Children, born in Oakham : William, in 1752; Betty, in 1754; Lois, who married Timothy Underwood; Isaac, March 30, 1756; Lucy, who married Elijah Holt of Fitchburgh, April 17, 1781; Betty, October 24, 1761 ; Grace, August 17, 1763, married Richard Dean in 1788; Moley, March 24, 1769, married Amasa Maynard in 1793.
Betty Parmenter died March 29, 1761, aged seven years. Her grave is the only one in the old cemetery, on the hill south of Coldbrook, that is marked by a tombstone. This was the first lot set apart for a burial ground in Oakham.
Solomon Parmenter died in Oakham, December 19, 1789, aged sixty-nine years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168. Oakham V. R., 41, 80, 127. Gravestone Record of Betty Parmenter in Coldbrook Hill Cemetery. Sudbury V. R., 35 [Creag], 109, 248. Pension Application of Isaac Parmenter (see above). Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Apr. 6, 1790. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, lxiii, 418.
William Parmenter.
Born in Oakham in 1752, the eldest son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Craige) Parmenter.
He was sent by his father to serve for four months in 1776 as a Private in Capt. Ezekiel Knowlton's Co., Col. Dike's Regt., and was stationed at Dorchester Heights. Pay abstract for travel home (67 miles) was dated Dorchester, November 20, 1776. He also marched with Capt. Crawford on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777.
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William Parmenter received by will from his father the homestead farm, including the whole of Lot No. 9, with all his tools, cattle, horses, and sheep; also one-half of the saw-mill standing near the said homestead.
In 1776 he was married to Jenney Boyd, probably a daughter of Samuel Boyd. A daughter, Mahittable, was born March 3, 1778. His wife Jenney died in Oakham, June 13, 1783, aged twenty-eight years, and he was again married to Kathrin Dean in 1783.
Mr. Parmenter died in Oakham, February 10, 1827, aged seventy-five years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188. M. S. R., xi, 812 (II) [Pameter], 940 (12). Oakham V. R., 41, 92, 127. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Apr. 6, 1790 [Solomon Parmenter].
Asa Partridge.
Born May 23, 1736, in Medfield, son of Edward and Sarah (Jones) Partridge. Edward Partridge was grandson of William Partridge who settled in Medfield, where he died in 1692.
He was Sergeant in Capt Ezekiel Knowlton's Co., Col. Dike's Regt., which was at Dorchester Heights. Pay abstract for travel home, sixty-seven miles, was dated November 20, 1776. He served also from October 19, 1779, to November 23, 1779, at Claverack, as Private in Capt. Joseph Richardson's Co., Col. Samuel Denny's Regt. He has also credit on the town records for a campaign to Boston, beginning April 1, 1778.
He came to Oakham from New Braintree and bought at Public Vendue, June 23, 1767, for £78 19s. 7d., one hundred and seventy acres of land in Oakham, being the northerly part of Lot No. 26, belonging to Robert Wilson and sold for unpaid taxes.
Asa Partridge was Selectman of Oakham in 1778, and mem- ber of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1775. He was one of the signers of the petition of June 23, 1773, for the organization of a church in Congregational form,
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and was chosen "Quorister" at a church meeting, October 26, 1775.
December 25, 1758, he married Rachel Banister of Brookfield. Children, the first four born in Brookfield and the last four in Oakham: Pamela, December 17, 1759; Katherin, January 16, 1762; Calista, October 7, 1763; Rachel, August 2, 1765; Mary, August 2, 1767, in New Braintree; Lurana, August 23, 1769; Asa, October 15, 1771; Frederick, December 5, 1773; Sarah, March 6, 1779. His wife was admitted to the Congregational Church in Oakham August 8, 1773, on letter from the Third Church in Brookfield.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 189, 242. M. S. R., xi, 985 (2), (3). N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., 1xiii (1909), 90, 93. Oakham V. R., 42. Oakham Church Records, i, I. Rev. J. Dana's Notes. Brookfield V. R., 171, 382. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, Ivii, 257.
Edward Partridge, 2d.
Born in Medfield, May 23, 1738, son of Edward and Sarah (Jones) Partridge, and brother of Asa and Silas Partridge.
He has credit on the town records for five months' service in New York, ending December 1, 1776, and marched July 23, 1777, with Capt. Crawford on the Rhode Island alarm.
Edward Partridge purchased of Jesse Allen, in 1772, the farm on which Charles H. Trowbridge now lives. He was one of the petitioners, June 23, 1773, for the organization of a church in Congregational form, and was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1780.
In 1770, he was married in Franklin to Hannah Legg, who was born March II, 1749, and died in Oakham, April 25, 1832. Chil- dren, the first born in Franklin, the others in Oakham: Chloe, November 1, 1771; Bernard, November 1, 1773; Hannah, November 21, 1775; Elias, August 11, 1778; Adin, October 19, 1780; Olive, July 29, 1783; Edward, 3d, December 17, 1785; Reuben, January 31, 1788; John, March 10, 1790; Sarah, May 12, 1794.
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Edward Partridge, 2d, died October 19, 1815, aged seventy- eight years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187. M. S. R., xi, 986 (6). N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., lxiii (1909), 93, 94, 95. Oakham V. R., 42, 127. Oakham Church Records, i, I. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, lxxviii, 58.
Silas Partridge.
Born September 2, 1744, in Medfield, son of Edward and Sarah (Jones) Partridge.
He has credit on the town records for five months' service in New York, ending December 1, 1776, and for a campaign to Boston, beginning April 1, 1778.
Silas Partridge lived on the Partridge place in Lot X. He was married, April 22, 1773, to Sarah Pray, who was born in 1745. He died in Oakham, September 25, 1819, aged seventy- five years. His widow, Sarah, died in Oakham November 30, 1822, at the age of seventy-seven years.
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Oakham T. R., i, 168, 189. N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., 1xiii (1909), 93. Oakham V. R., 127. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, xcix, 196.
Benjamin Perkins.
Born in Bridgewater, July 9, 1735, son of Solomon and Lydia (Sprague) Perkins, and great grandson of David Perkins who came from Beverly to Bridgewater before 1688. His brother, Solomon Perkins, served in 1755 in the French war, under General Winslow.
He has credit on the town records for six weeks' service in Rhode Island, beginning July 1, 1779.
In 1779 he purchased from Ichabod Packard, for £40, thirty- seven acres in the south part of Lot X, which Mr. Packard had purchased of Robert Harper. This was probably on the road that leads from Lover's Lane, near the old Bothwell mill.
July 28, 1761, he married Hepzibah Washburn of Middleboro. Benjamin Perkins, who was residing in Oakham in 1790, and Leavitt Perkins, were probably his sons.
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His estate was settled in 1781. James Dean, Joseph Chad- dock and William Bothwell took inventory. Hepzibah, his widow, was administratrix. His small farm of thirty-seven acres was valued at £97 IOS.
Oakham T. R., i, 215. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, Ixxxii, 488. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, 1781. Mitchell, Hist. of Bridgewater, 265, 266. May- flower Descendant, xiv, 184. Bailey, Early Mass. Marriages, ii, 127. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230.
George Perkins.
George Perkins was a British soldier who had served in the 33d Regiment under General Burgoyne, and was taken prisoner at Saratoga in October, 1777. He had either escaped or obtained a pass to go at large from the prison barracks in Rutland, together with William O'Brien, a member of the 9th Regiment, and, in the fall of 1778, the two men came to Oakham, where they found employment as nail-makers with Thomas Mann. They were received as citizens and married. George Walls, probably a Hessian, who had also escaped or been paroled from Rutland, joined them later. The people of Oakham were glad to get skilled workmen and encouraged them, and others like them, to remain in town. At a meeting of the citizens on July 13, 1779, the following resolution was passed :
"Voted as the mind of the people at this adjournment that the assessors should strike out the last of the rates now in Mr. Green's and Mr. Brown's hand, the rates for the polls of George Walls and George Perkins, two [British] regulars."
On October 12, 1779, the Council at Boston, on the ground that the privileges allowed the prisoners were "big with mis- chief," gave a general order that all escaped or paroled prisoners should be returned to the Commissary of Prisoners. Perkins and O'Brien petitioned :
"That the said O'Brien & Perkins Deserted from sd Convention Troops about fourteen months since with a full design to become inhabitants of this Country & not to return to the British Troops any more, and have
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ever since laboured with the good People of this State in a peacable manner in the usefull Business of nail making, having each of us been Rated & paid Taxes the year past-And that your humble Petitioners are very Desirous of being true and loyal Subjects of this State, of taking the Oath of Allegiance & fidelity, & of paying & doing our part for the support of the war & all other Taxes-Therefore pray Your Hons to grant us the favours as above, and such protection as you Shall see meet, and that we may not be taken up or sent to the British troops to be punished for Appearing in the Cause of American Liberty, and as in Duty bound ask leave to pray."
The Selectmen and Assessors of Oakham, and Thomas Mann, certified to the sincerity and industry of Perkins and O'Brien, and on December 20, 1779, the House of Representatives resolved :
"That the said George Perkins & William O'Brien, who have produced Certificates from the Select men of the Town where they reside, that they appear attached to the Government of this state and bid fair to be usefull members of society, have liberty to reside in this State during the Courts pleasure."
George Walls was probably included in the general order of December 21, 1779, welcoming to American citizenship, without formal action by the Legislature in individual cases, any person or persons who made a part of the German Troops of Burgoyne.
All three men later enlisted, in 1781, for a term of three years in the Continental Army under Resolve of December 2, 1780, Perkins and Walls from Oakham, and O'Brien from Paxton. Perkins enlisted January 20; age 22, stature 5 feet II, com- plexion light, occupation blacksmith. He received from the town of Oakham a bounty of three hundred silver dollars, was assigned to Capt. Elnathan Haskell's Co., Col. William Shepard's Regt., was at York Hutts in December, 1781, and at Verplanck's Point in January, 1782.
Oakham T. R., i, 215, 239, 262. M. S. R., xi, 918 (7) [Parkins], xii, 143 (4) [Perkens], 153 (12), 800 (2) [Prkins]. Acts and Resolves, Prov. of Mass. Bay, v, 840-843. See William O'Brien, p. 117; George Walls, p. 146.
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Leavitt Perkins.
Enlisted in the Continental Army in 1780 for six months, and according to the Resolve of December 2, 1780, reënlisted for the town of Oakham April 3, 1781, for three years; age 17, stature 5 feet 5, complexion light, occupation farmer.
Oakham T. R., i, 251, 263. M. S. R., xi, 919 (3) [Parkins], xii, 163 (7), 441 (10) [Pirkones], 850 (9) [Lovat Purkins].
Zephaniah Perkins.
Born in Bridgewater in 1742, son of David and Alice (Leach) Perkins, and grandson of David Perkins who came from Beverly and settled in Bridgewater before 1688, and who was the first Representative of Bridge- water in the General Court in Boston after the union of the two colonies in 1692. John Perkins, whose name appears on the Oakham Town Records, April 10, 1780, was probably his brother.
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