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He enlisted May 16, 1775, for service of eight months at Rox- bury, in Capt. Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt. He evidently reënlisted in the early part of 1776, as he was in camp at Dorchester February 15, 1776. March II, 1777, he engaged for three years in the Continental Army, in Capt. Reed's Co., Col. Alden's Regt. He was killed September 15, 1777.
February 25, 1766, he married Mary Ford of Pembroke, prob- ably the daughter of John and Mary (Cushing) Ford, who was baptized April 18, 1742. In December, 1777, his widow, Mary Perkins, was appointed administratrix of his estate, which con- sisted of a few acres of land and small buildings lying in Oakham, valued at £23. April 8, 1778, she was the wife of Capt. John Crawford, but the exact date of marriage is not recorded.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 178, 239. M. S. R., xi, 919 (8) [Parkins], xii, 144 (5) [Perkens], 174 (6). Pembroke V. R., 89, 275 [Foord]. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Dec., 1777, Apr. 8, 1778. Spy, Jan. 1, 1778. Recollections of Mrs. Hannah Woolley. Mitchell, Hist. of Bridgewater, 265. May- flower Descendant, ii, 146, xiv, 47. Bailey, Early Mass. Marriages, ii, 129 [Mary Foard of Easton]. See John Crawford, p. 71.
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Elisha Pike.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham April 9, 1777, for three years in the Continental Army, and was in Capt. Daniel Shay's Co., Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt. He was in the service till April 2, 1780. His residence is given as Oakham and Hardwick, and it is uncertain to which town he was credited.
M. S. R., xii, 397 (1).
Asa Pope.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham, August 18, 1781, in Capt. Joseph Elliot's Co., Col. William Turner's Regt., and served three months and fourteen days at Rhode Island.
M. S. R., xii, 564 (9).
Ebenezer Rice.
Marched with the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777, and on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777.
M. S. R., xiii, 150 (9).
George Rich.
Enlisted September 1, 1777, with his father, Jonas Rich, as Private in Capt. Earll's Co., Col. Keyes's Regt., for service in Rhode Island, from which he was discharged January 4, 1778.
He and his brother Jonas, by the will of their grandfather, John Rich, of Brookfield, were to inherit, after the death of their father and mother, thirty acres of the farm on which their father was living in 1767.
Oakham T. R., i, 188. M. S. R., xiii, 192 (3). Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, 1viii, 15.
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Jonas Rich.
Marched with Capt. Crawford July 23, 1777, on the Rhode Island alarm, and enlisted September 1, 1777, in Capt. Earll's Co., Col. Keyes's Regt., for service in Rhode Island, from which he was discharged January 4, 1778. Under the Resolve of Jan- uary 5, 1780, he enlisted for six months in the Continental Army, and marched to camp July 12, 1780. Agreeable to the Resolve of December 2, 1780, he reenlisted January 1, 1781, in the Continental Army for three years in an artillery regiment ; age 56, stature 5 feet 10, complexion light, occupation farmer ; reported rheumatic and unfit for duty.
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Jonas Rich came from Brookfield and lived on a farm of sixty acres, west of James Bell. The easterly half of this farm he purchased from his brother, John Rich, September 9, 1767, for £30. This he sold September 23, 1767, to William Smith of Barre for fio. This was probably the place where Samuel Tucker was living in 1850.
He was married in 1760 to Elizabeth Trask, and had two sons, Jonas and George.
Jonas Rich (probably the son) was living in Oakham in 1790.
Oakham T. R., i, 187, 188, 251, 262. M. S. R., xiii, 193 (6), 354 (9) [Ritch]. Brookfield V. R., 397. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, Iviii, 15, 16.
John Robinson, 2d.
John Robinson, grandson of William Robinson of Watertown, was born in Newton in 1722. He was married to Lydia Warren of Waltham, September 20, 1753, in Sudbury, and died in Newton in 1770. Their son, John, 2d, born in Newton, April 23, 1760, came to Oakham in 1790 and bought the place on which he and his descendants have lived for one hundred and twenty-five years.
Lydia Warren was baptized in Watertown, November 24, 1728, and died in Oakham, September 10, 1798, aged seventy-one years. She was daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Harris) Warren, and a descendant, through Caleb Church, of Richard Warren who came to America in the Mayflower, and landed at Plymouth, December 20, 1620. His name is twelfth on the list of signatures to the Compact signed in the cabin of the Mayflower.
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He enlisted in the Continental Army for six months, agree- able to the Resolve of January 5, 1780; age 21, stature 5 feet II, complexion light. Engaged for the town of Northboro. Marched from Northboro July 2, 1780, discharged December 6, 1780, service five months and fifteen days, two hundred miles travel.
October 6, 1778, in Northboro, he was married to Susannah, daughter of Thaddeus and Thankful Fay. Children, first five born in Northboro: William, December 7, 1779; Peter, Novem- ber 18, 1781, married Mary Bullard in 1811; Catherine, May 19, 1784; Thaddeus, October 8, 1786; Sally, May 1, 1789, married Isaac Stone, 3d, February 27, 1815; Polly, November 8, 1791; Betsy, October 7, 1795, married Zadoc Preshoe May 5, 1817; Susannah, August 29, 1797, married Otis Stone June 9, 1818; John, 3d, generally known as Colonel John Robinson, February 18, 1800, married Susan Stone December 2, 1824; Lurana, October 29, 1802, married James C. Fairbank June 9, 1825; Abraham Fay, October 3, 1805; Jeremiah, October 5, 1808, married Julia M. Boyden of Brookfield in 1832.
John Robinson, 2d, died in Oakham September 8, 1818.
M. S. R., xiii, 453 (8). John Robinson's Account Book, in possession of Miss Susan F. Fairbank of Oakham. Oakham V. R., 44, 45, 96, 97, 129. Newton V. R., 167. Sudbury V. R., 262. Letter of Mrs. Walter North of Buffalo, N. Y. Northboro Town Clerk's Records.
Thomas Ruggles.
Son of Benjamin and Alice (Merrick) Ruggles of Hardwick, was baptized June 24, 1750.
He served for the town of Hardwick as a minuteman in Capt. Simeon Hazeltine's Co., on the Lexington alarm in 1775, and reënlisted later in Capt. Samuel Dexter's Co., Col. Learned's Regt., at Roxbury. On the Bennington alarm in August, 1777, he was Corporal in Capt. Timothy Paige's Co., Col. James Converse's Regt.
July 19, 1778, he married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Winslow. Thomas Ruggles was a shoemaker by trade and
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removed to Oakham not later than May 17, 1798. Children, the first three born at Hardwick, and the last four at Oakham: Miriam, October 23, 1778, married Ebenezer Foster, Jr., of Oakham, June 8, 1806; Willard, September 4, 1780, married Susannah Packard of Oakham in 1806, died at Oakham July 3, 1809; Charlotte, October 3, 1782, died at Oakham March 28, 1824; Arathusa, married Richard Howe of Poultney, Vt .; Rhoda, 1787, died June 21, 1809, at Oakham; Philena, August, 1790, married Benjamin Rice, Jr., of Barre, December 15, 1814, died September 16, 1837; Joshua, December 1, 1792, married Olive Holton, died September 3, 1852; Reuel, March 27, 1796, died December 13, 1873 ; Hannah, May 17, 1798, married Samuel Warner Smith of Barre in 1822, died January 6, 1857; Thomas, Jr., December 14, 1800; Harriet, January 24, 1803, married Richard Howe, died in October, 1861; Seraph Howe, born February 23, 1806, married Norman B. Thompson, August 16, 1827.
Thomas Ruggles and his wife Hannah both died in Oakham, the former on May 12 [or 21], 1808, the latter on March 3, 1832.
M. S. R., xiii, 655 (3). Oakham V. R., 45 [Ruggals], 97 [Rugals], 129 [Ruggals, Rugles]. Paige, Hist. of Hardwick, 483, 485-486 [Jan. 24=June 25. March 3=28].
David Shaw.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham in Capt. Joseph Richard- son's Co., Col. Samuel Denny's Regt., raised for service at Claverack-on-the-Hudson in 1779.
Oakham T. R., i, 242. M. S. R., xiv, 42 (5).
James Shaw.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham July 5, 1780, in Capt. Tim- othy Paige's Co., Col. John Rand's Regt., for three months' service at West Point; discharged October 10, 1780.
Oakham T. R., i, 252. M. S. R., xiv, 51 (3).
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James Shaw, Jr.
Engaged for nine months in the Continental Army for the town of Oakham, and was mustered in, July 7, 1779; age 19, stature 5 feet 6, complexion dark. July Io he joined Capt. Wadsworth's Co., Col. Bradford's Regt. He was discharged April 9, 1780, and reënlisted July 5, 1780, in Capt. Timothy Paige's Co., Col. John Rand's Regt., for three months' service at West Point.
Oakham T. R., i, 242, 252. M. S. R., xiv, 50 (II), 51 (4).
Timothy Shaw.
Private in Capt. Ezekiel Knowlton's Co., Col. Dike's Regt., for service at Dorchester, ending December 1, 1776. May 5, 1777, he enlisted for a term of two months at Rhode Island, in Capt. Hodges's Co., Col. Whitney's Regt. He was also detailed by Capt. Crawford, in place of Thomas White, for service in Col. Gerrish's regiment of guards which escorted the troops of the Saratoga Convention from Rutland to Enfield, Conn., in 1778.
This is probably the Timothy Shaw who was born in New Braintree September 1, 1758, son of Andrew and Anna Shaw, and married Silva Howard September 30, 1784.
Oakham T. R., i, 165, 187, 214. M. S. R., xiv, 71 (9). New Braintree V. R., 44, 112.
William Smith.
Served four months for the town of Barre in Capt. Ezekiel Knowlton's Co., at Boston in 1776. He has credit on the Oakham town records for three months' service in New York in 1776; and in 1779, for nine months at West Point, in the Continental Army.
William Smith came from Barre. September 23, 1767, he bought for fro one-half of the farm in Oakham on which Jonas®
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Rich was then living. In 1780 he was a member of the Com- mittee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety.
He married Rebecca Parmenter in 1766, being then a resi- dent of Barre. Children, all born in Oakham: Anna, May 28, 1767; Elisabeth, September 3, 1769; Aaron, February 2, 1772; Joab, September 9, 1774; John, August 14, 1776; James, Feb- ruary 23, 1780; Farrington, October 27, 1782; Ephraim, December 16, 1784; Rebecka, September 7, 1787.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 242. M. S. R., xiv, 578 (6). Oakham V. R., 46, 99. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, lviii, 16.
Asa Snell.
Enlisted June 5, 1775, from Oakham, in Capt. Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt., and was entitled to a bounty coat at Dorchester, November 27, 1775. From April, 1777, to June, 1783, he served in the Continental Army. On January 10, 1781, a descriptive list was taken : age 25, stature 5 feet 6, complexion light, hair light. His residence when a Continental soldier was given as Barre, Hubbardston, and Rutland. In his application for a pension he wrote: "Served in Army during whole of war. Was in the battles of Breeds Hill, Monmouth, Jamestown, Brandywine, and at the capture of Cornwallis."
June 24, 1774, he and David Wheaton purchased together fifty acres of land in Barre, lying in Great Farm No. 6, near the Princeton line. In 1818 he was living in Sutton, Mass., and was sixty-three years of age.
M. S. R., xiv, 588 (7), 589 (2), 598 (5) [Snill]. Pension Application, . Apr. 14, 1818. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, lxxvii, 152.
Benjamin Spooner.
Was born in Dartmouth, Mass., in 1737, and removed to Oakham later than his brother Eleazer.
He marched with the detachment from the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777.
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His wife's name was Mehitabel. He died in Oakham in 1820.
Oakham T. R., i, 187. M. S. R., xiv, 734 (14). Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Letter of Mrs. Julius W. Brown of Springfield.
Eleazer Spooner.
Baptized November 15, 1734, in Dartmouth, Mass., a descendant in the fifth generation of William Spooner, who was in Plymouth in 1637.
He has credit on the town records for the Bennington cam- paign in August, 1777, and for six weeks' service in Rhode Island in 1778.
Eleazer Spooner came to Oakham in 1776, and purchased of Jesse Allen, for £383 6s. 8d., a tract of land with the buildings thereon, containing about one hundred and fifty-five acres, on which he lived till his death.
He married Mehitabel Allen, born October 22, 1740, daughter of Andrew and Abiah Allen. They had nine children, the last four born in Oakham, the others in Dartmouth: Moses, Novem- ber 30, 1765; Prince, December 15, 1768; Eleanor, 1770; Benjamin, September 16, 1772; Polly, September 27, 1774; Ruby, 1777; Lois, 1779; Andrew, May 18, 1781; Mehitabel, 1783.
His brother Benjamin was in the Revolution, and three grand- sons, Andrew, Albert and Edwin C., sons of Deacon Andrew Spooner, were in the Civil War.
Moses Spooner was married to Susanna Conant October 24, 1790. Among his children born in Oakham were: Lucius, April 4, 1791; Elijah Blackman, June 27, 1792; Eleazer, 2d, June 28, 1794, father of Pardon, Joseph and Luther; Albert, August 20, 1796, a student at Dartmouth College, and a lawyer in New York City; Moses, February 8, 1804; Caleb, February 23, 1806.
Eleazer Spooner died in Oakham in March, 1813. His widow died October 2, 1821.
Oakham T. R., i, 188, 214. Oakham V. R., 46, 47. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Spy, Oct. 17, 1821. Letter of Mrs. Brown (see above).
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Richard Sternes.
Was credited to the town of Oakham for service in the artillery in the Continental Army, in Capt. Buckland's Co., Col. Crane's Regt., during the years 1777-1779.
M. S. R., xiv, 931 (2).
William Stevenson.
Private in Capt. Crawford's company of minutemen which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and in the Oakham detachment on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777. He served also in a campaign to Boston, beginning April 1, 1778, and was stationed at Winter Hill.
In 1791 he owned a house on East Hill, south of the Goodale farm, probably the Drury place. In 1768 he was married to Mary, daughter of George and Katherine Harper.
Oakham T. R., i, 187, 189. M. S. R., xiv, 923 (8) [Stephens], 927 (13) [Stephenson], 990 (5). Oakham V. R., 100. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, cxiii, 500.
The Stone Family.
Isaac Stone was born in Lexington, Mass., in 1731. In 175I he removed from Lexington to Rutland, where he built the west part of the tavern and kept an inn for several years. In 1765 he removed from Rutland to Oakham, and on Septem- ber 16 of that year purchased from Thomas Hubbard of Boston for £75 one hundred and seventy-five acres, one-half of Lot No. 12, now known as the Austin Adams farm. This deed, recorded October 21, 1765, was the first deed recorded of property said to be in Oakham instead of in Rutland West Wing. To this he added, on March 25, 1766, 128 acres in Lot No. 22, by purchase from John Murray.
Isaac Stone was one of the most prominent citizens of Oakham during the next thirty years. His name first appears
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on the town records March 4, 1766, when he was chosen Mod- erator, Town Clerk, Selectman, and Assessor. He served the town nine times as Moderator, thirteen times as Assessor, seven times as Town Clerk, and six times as Selectman. He was chosen unanimously to represent the town in the Provincial Congress at Cambridge in 1775, and was a prominent member of that body. Mr. Stone was a member of the Committee of Correspond- ence, Inspection and Safety in 1775, 1776 and 1777, and has credit on the town records for the Bennington alarm.
September 8, 1748 he was married to Martha Munroe of Weston, and had nine children: Abner, born in Lexington, December II, 1748, O. S .; Pattee, born in Rutland, March 12, 1751, O. S., married Rev. John Strickland, the first minister of the church in Oakham, October 29, 1767; Isaac, 2d, born in Rutland, June 2, 1753, O. S .; Abigail, born in Rutland, May 20, 1755, married Heman Bassett in 1776; Alpheus, born in Rutland June 6, 1757; Luke, born in Rutland April II, 1763, died June 25, 1763; Frederick Munroe, born in Rutland Feb- ruary 6, 1765, married Pattie, daughter of Jonathan Bullard in 1784; Electa, born in Oakham December 16, 1766; Lucretia, born in Oakham November 22, 1772, married Henry Kelley May 23, 1793.
Mr. Stone died in Oakham December 3, 1794, aged sixty-three years.
Oakham T. R., i, 188. Oakham V. R., 47, 48, 82, 100, 130, 131. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Lexington V. R., 152. Reed, Hist. of Rutland, 148. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, liii, 178, 1xxxiii, 295. Records, Worc. Co. Court of Sessions, 1758 on.
Alpheus Stone.
Born in Rutland, June 6, 1757, the son of Isaac and Martha (Munroe) Stone and brother of Isaac Stone, 2d.
He armed himself at his own expense and enlisted March II, 1777, in the Continental Army for three years, in Col. Nixon's 6th Mass. Regt., which served in the Northern Depart-
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ment. He was in Capt. Toogood's company, and later in the company of Capt. Heywood. Like his brother, he was not absent, except on furlough, between August 15, 1777, and February 16, 1779. In his application for pension dated April 22, 1818, he wrote :
"Served most of his time in the State of New York, was in skirmish at Danbury when our stores were burned by enemy, was in escort of Gen. Lincoln from Ticonderoga in 1777, in skirmish at Kingsbury with Indians at same time, was in whole siege, features and hardships at taking of Burgoyne's army."
He was discharged at Soldier's Fortune, N. Y., March II, 1780, by Major Heywood.
Alpheus Stone was Town Clerk of Oakham in 1788, and Selectman in 1789, 1790 and 1799. In 1786 he subscribed £2 toward the building of a house for Father Tomlinson.
He was married in 1781 to Lucretia Nye, daughter of Ebenezer Nye, and lived on the farm afterwards owned by Dr. Charles Adams and now by Wallace Grimes. Children, born in Oakham: Betsy, February 18, 1782, married Ezekiel Goodale of Hallowell, Maine, in 1804; Polly, December 29, 1784; Lucy, January 21, 1786, married (1) Benjamin Water- man in 1805, (2) Peres Fobes, June 2, 1831 ; Lucretia, February 18, 1788, married Knight Whittemore; Allis, March 30, 1790, married Peres Fobes in 1808; Harriot, September 5, 1792, married Jesse Fitts, March 19, 1816; Otis, October 9, 1795, married Susan Robinson June 9, 1818; Adaline Augusta, Octo- ber 26, 1798, married John Hammond, June 29, 1818; Louisa, July 28, 1801, married Joel Brimhall in 1822; Susan Maria, April 28, 1804, married Col. John Robinson, 3d, December 2, 1824, and, after Col. Robinson's death, married John Hammond, December 31, 1846.
Alpheus Stone died in Oakham, March 31, 1829, aged seventy-two years.
Oakham T. R., i, 171. M. S. R., xv, 83 (4). Oakham V. R., 47, 48, 97, 100, 10I, 104, 130. Pension Application, Apr. 22, 1818. Subscription Paper for Mr. Tomlinson, May 3, 1786 (MS.).
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Isaac Stone, 2d.
Born in Rutland, June 2, 1753, O. S., the son of Isaac and Martha (Munroe) Stone.
Isaac Stone, 2d, was one of the minutemen who marched with Capt. Crawford on April 19, 1775. Nine days later, April 27, he enlisted for eight months in the 5th Co. of the 8th Mass. Regt., commanded by Col. John Fellows and stationed at Roxbury. On March II, 1777, he enlisted for three years' service in the Continental Army, in Col. Nixon's 6th Mass. Regt., and was made Sergeant. The regiment served in the Northern Department under General Gates and his successors. He was not absent from the service between August 15, 1777, and February 16, 1779, except on furlough, and was in the engagement at Danbury, Conn., and at the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga. He was discharged March II, 1780.
He was married in 1782 to Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Bullard, and lived on the New Braintree road one mile west of the Oakham meeting house, on what is now known as the Butler farm. He had eight children, born in Oakham: Hannah, July 23, 1783, married Seth Goodspeed in 1804; Achsah, January 25, 1785, married William Broad in 1803; Salva, October II, 1787; John, August 15, 1789, died March 1, 1790; Claracy, March 9, 1791, died July 30, 1793; Samuel, April 5, 1793, died April 10, 1793; Isaac, 3d, June 19, 1794; Sukey, August 16, 1797, married James Conant, December 24, 1816.
His son Isaac, 3d, married February 27, 1815, Sally, daughter of John, 2d, and Susannah Robinson. They had two children. The eldest, Washington, was the father of George W. and John E. Stone, soldiers in the Civil War.
Isaac Stone, 2d, the Revolutionary soldier, died November 25, 1828, aged seventy-five years.
Oakham T. R., i, 165, 171. M. S. R., xv, 96 (2), (3). Oakham V. R., 47, 48, 100, 101, 130, 131. Pension Application, Apr. 22, 1818.
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Samuel Stone.
Samuel Stone enlisted for a term of two months at Dorchester in 1776. He served as Corporal on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777, and enlisted again August 1, 1777, in Capt. Earll's Co., Col. Keyes's Regt., for a six months' campaign in Providence.
His wife's name was Prudence. Children, born in Oakham: Samuel, December 13, 1772; Daniel, June 19, 1774; Benjamin, February 27, 1776; Mary, June 20, 1778. He was chosen "Quorister" at a church meeting in Oakham held October 26, 1775.
A Samuel Stone was living in Oakham in 1790.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187, 188. M. S. R., xv, 118 (4), 119 (7). Oakham V. R., 47, 48. Rutland V. R., 95, 197. Rev. J. Dana's Notes. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230.
James Swinerton.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham, May 1, 1775, in Capt. John Grainger's Co., Col. Ebenezer Learned's Regt., for a term of eight months in the siege of Boston. .
Oakham T. R., i, 165. M. S. R., xv, 321 (15).
Thomas Taylor.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham for the term of three years in the Continental Army at Brookfield, September 15, 1777, residence Oakham. He joined Capt. Reed's Co., Col. Alden's Regt.
M. S. R., xv, 458 (3).
Amos Temple.
Enlisted May 28, 1775, for the town of Oakham, in Capt. Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt., for a term of eight months
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in the siege of Boston, and received a bounty coat November 27, 1775, at Dorchester.
M. S. R., xv, 473 (4) [Tempil. Oakham = Fulham], (14).
Joseph F. Thompson.
Enlisted in response to the Resolve of June 5, 1780, in the Continental Army for six months, passed muster, and was put in Capt. Joseph Bates's Co., Lieut. Col. John Brooks's (7th) Regt. He received £18 bounty from the town of Oakham.
. Oakham T. R., i, 251. M. S. R., xv, 648 (4).
Joshua Turner.
Born in 1757, son of Joseph and Mercy (French) Turner. At the age of six years he was given by his mother to her brother, Lieut. Asa French, to bring up till he was twenty-one years of age.
He enlisted May 2, 1775, in Capt. Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt., for a term of eight months in the siege of Boston. In December of the same year he reënlisted in Capt. Barnes' Co., Col. Ward's Regt., for a term of one month. He marched with Capt. Crawford on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777. August 8, 1777, he enlisted in the Continental Army for three years, residence Oakham, and was placed in Capt. Hastings' Co. of the 16th Mass. Regt., commanded by Col. Henry Jackson, and was in the battle of Saratoga. April 30, 1780, he was in camp near Morristown, in a regiment under Col. Henry Jackson, made up of Massachusetts men from three decimated regiments, by an arrangement of April 9, 1779. He was discharged August 8, 1780, at Verplanck's Point, on the east side of North River.
Joshua Turner died December 21, 1820, at Hadley, N. Y., aged sixty-three years.
Oakham T. R., i, 165. M. S. R., xv, 854 (9) [Torner], xvi, 177 (3). Pension Application, Apr. 18, 1818. Statement of Lieut. Asa French, in Addenda. Bailey, Early Mass. Marriages, ii, 81.
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James Upham.
Born in Spencer, October 26, 1760, son of Jacob and Zerviah (Smith) Upham.
He enlisted for the town of Oakham, August 15, 1777, in Capt. Earll's Co., Col. Keyes's Regt., and served four months and twenty days in Rhode Island. He served also for the town of Spencer in a campaign at Boston in 1776 and 1777, and in the Continental Army in 1779 and 1780. A descriptive list was taken July 7, 1780; age 19, stature 5 feet 9, complexion dark.
M. S. R., xvi, 262 (2), (3), (4). Spencer V. R., 107. Draper, Hist. of Spencer, 258.
Marshall Walker.
Served from March 30 to July 2, 1778, guarding troops of the Saratoga Convention at the barracks in Rutland. He was also in Capt. Daniel Gilbert's Co., Col. Josiah Whitney's Regt., from August 2 to September 13, 1778, under General Sullivan in Rhode Island.
Oakham T. R., i, 214. M. S. R., xvi, 467 (6).
George Walls.
George Walls was a soldier in the British Army, probably a Hessian, who was taken prisoner at Saratoga. He had either escaped or been paroled from the prison barracks at Rutland and, before July 13, 1779, he had found employment on a farm in Oakham. On that date his tax-rate was remitted by vote of the town on the ground of his being a British Regular. On October 12, 1779, the Council at Boston ordered all escaped or paroled prisoners to be returned to the Commissary of Prisoners and individual cases of British soldiers were brought before the House of Representatives for consideration. George Perkins and William O'Brien of Oakham were granted leave to remain
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