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in town by vote of December 20, 1779. On the same day a general order was issued:
"That as divers German Troops have been impressed into the Service of the Brittish King and sent into this Country Contrary to their Inclina- tion and in Violation of the rights of humanity to Carry on this unnatural Warr against these states, and as Every Nation has a right to weaken the Armies of the power with which it is at warr-A. it is therefore further Resolved that any person or persons who made a part of the German Troops, in the pay & Service of the brittish King employd in the American War, under the Command of Gen1 Burgoyne or others, & who have left the Service of the said King and has resided within this state for the space of three months, by producing a Certificate from the Select men of the Town or Towns, within this state where they have so resided and have taken the Oath of Allegiance & Fidelity as aforesd shall not be carried without said state, taken up or imprisoned, within it under pretence of their being prisoners of war unless the Council of said state from such persons Character & Conduct shall see fit to order it, or by general order of the General Court-B. Sent up for Concurrence."
The Council on December 21 amended the bill so as to require a certificate from the Selectmen of the town and an oath of fidelity and allegiance before some one Justice of the Peace within the State to be designated after the bill had passed both Houses. The bill became a law the same day. George Walls undoubtedly availed himself of this opportunity. Fifteen months later, on March 26, 1781, under Resolve of December 2, 1780, he enlisted in the Continental Army for the town of Oakham for three years; age 24, stature 5 feet 7, complexion light, occupation farmer.
Oakham T. R., i, 215, 239, 263 [The Deficient Man]. M. S. R., xvi, 496 (9) [Waller], 510 (3) [Wallow]. Acts and Resolves, Prov. of Mass. Bay, v, 840-843. See William O'Brien, p. 117; George Perkins, p. 130.
Kerly Ward.
Enlisted from Oakham May 10, 1775, in Capt. Seth Wash- burn's Co., Col. Jonathan Ward's Regt., and was made Corporal. He was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 19, 1775, and his name does not again appear on the muster rolls.
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He came from Paxton and was married in Brookfield to Katie Graham, of Spencer, September 28, 1773. His son Samuel was baptized in Spencer August 7, 1785, there being no minister over the Oakham church at this time.
Oakham T. R., i, 168. M. S. R., xvi, 538 (7). Brookfield V. R., 430. Spencer V. R., 108. Draper, Hist. of Spencer, 198.
Ezra Washburn.
Marched on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777.
In 1773 he purchased ten acres for £12, and lived on the county road from Rutland to Brookfield, near where the South school- house now stands. He was living in Oakham March 30, 1782, when he sold the "Washburn orchard" to John Bothwell, but removed soon after to Stafford, Conn.
Oakham T. R., i, 188. M. S. R., xvi, 653 (9) [Washborn]. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, lxxxii, 487, xcii, 435. U. S. Census (1790), Conn., 137 [Washbourn].
Lebbeus Washburn.
Enlisted for the town of Oakham, May 27, 1775, as a Private in Capt. John Packard's Co., Col. David Brewer's (9th) Regt., for a term of eight months at Roxbury, and received money in place of a bounty coat, December 27, 1775.
Oakham T. R., i, 168. M. S. R., xvi, 654 (8) [Washborn], 655 (13) [Washbun], 669 (5).
William Washburn.
Marched with a detachment from the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777, and on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777. He enlisted September 7, 1777, in Capt. Crawford's company raised in Hardwick, Oakham and New Braintree, for the Stillwater campaign, and was in the battles that resulted in the surrender of General Burgoyne. July 5, 1780, he was engaged for three months in Capt. Timothy Paige's
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Co., Col. John Rand's Regt., for service at West Point, and was made Corporal. He was discharged October 10, 1780.
William Washburn, of Stafford, was married to Lucretia Darling, of Oakham, October 9, 1783.
Oakham T. R., i, 187, 188, 252. M. S. R., xvi, 675 (7), xvii, 909 (12) [Woshburn]. Oakham V. R., 104.
Perez Waterman.
Born in Bridgewater in 1738, son of Perez Waterman who died in Bridgewater in 1793, aged ninety years.
He marched as First Sergeant with the minutemen from Bridgewater in Capt. Nathan Mitchell's company, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775, and was in the service eleven days. May 1, 1775, he reënlisted in Capt. James Allen's Co., Col. John Bailey's Regt., which was in camp near Boston. On July 10, 1780, he was appointed Lieutenant and served three months and twenty-two days in Rhode Island. The regiment was detached from the militia to reinforce the Continental Army for three months.
Mr. Waterman came to Oakham not long before 1798, when he is called in deeds "Perez Waterman of Bridgewater, Gentle- man." He purchased in 1798 of William Bothwell, for $2,900, three pieces of land : one hundred and fourteen acres lying west of the county road leading from Rutland to Brookfield; forty-two acres, "buildings included," east of the county road from Rutland to Brookfield, and north of the county road from New Braintree to Worcester, and extending to the river; and eight and one-half acres on the east side of the town road. These pieces of land constituted the Waterman farm, the greater part of which is now owned by Walter M. Robinson. A cellar-hole near the Wolf Meadow Dam, not far from the foot of the hill still known as Waterman Hill, is believed to mark the site of the original Waterman house. But Benjamin Waterman, and perhaps his father, lived in a house which was destroyed by fire in February, 1840, situated where Mr. Robinson's house now stands.
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Lieut. Waterman was prominent in town affairs, and repre- sented the town in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1806. On July 20, 1817, he was admitted to the Oakham Congregational Church. He died December 13, 1820, at the age of eighty-two years. The Worcester Spy of January 24, 1821, said of him: "He was a soldier in the old French war, an officer in the Revolu- tionary War, a worthy citizen, a professed disciple of Christ, and died supported by the Christian's hope." His widow, Abigail Waterman, was baptized and admitted to the church January 13, 1822.
Their children, the first six born in Bridgewater, were : Stephen, July 22, 1766, who led a seafaring life; Calvin, June 2, 1768, married Salome Allen in 1793; Ruth, April 7, 1770, married Nathan Hall of Bridgewater in 1790; Bethiah, May 15, 1772, married Moses Starbuck of Nantucket, January 13, 1801; Lydia, June 13, 1774, who was admitted to the Oakham Church on October 14, 1821; Barnabas, September 23, 1776, married Sally Thatcher of Wareham; Abigail, who married Perez Waterman Bartlett of Montague, February 10, 1808; Lucy, who married Samuel Kingsley, October 27, 1818; and Benjamin, who mar- ried Lucy, daughter of Alphaeus Stone in 1805, and died Octo- ber 13, 1817 at St. Mary's, Ga. All of the nine children of Perez Waterman were living in 1820 excepting Ruth and Benjamin.
M. S. R., xvi, 689 (6). Oakham V. R., 100, 104, 132. Oakham Church Records, i, 13, 18. Mitchell, Hist. of Bridgewater, 170 [Nathan Hall], 333 [The statement that Perez Waterman married a second wife, Ruth Nye of Sandwich, in 1784, is incorrect unless he married a third wife of the same name as his first. His wife, Abigail, is mentioned in his will dated 1820, and she joined the Oakham Church at an advanced age in 1822], Spy, Jan. 24, 1821 [Dec. 13=Dec. 18]. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, cxxxvii, 51, 52. Letter of Mr. Walter M. Robinson of Oakham. South Cemetery Record Book (MS.). Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Jan. 10, 1821. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., xxxix (1885), 90. Bridgewater Town Clerk's Records.
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Nathaniel Weeks.
Born in Hardwick, October 8, 1744, eldest son of Thomas and Katherine (Clark) Weeks, who were married April 3, 1743.
He has credit on the town records for a term of five months in New York in 1776. He marched August 20, 1777, on the Bennington alarm, and served as guard at Cambridge, beginning July 2, 1778.
Nathaniel Weeks came from "Way (Ware) River, County of Springfield." In 1773 he purchased, for £44, thirty-two acres in Lot No. 31, near the middle of the lot.
He married Mercie Richmond, February 16, 1769. Children : Thomas, married Ruth Willis in 1798; Lucy, married James White, son of Thomas and Sarah White, in 1788; Susanna, married Elijah Freeman, December 29, 1799; Nancy, married Allen Ripley, of Wilton, N. H., in 1811; Martin, married Hannah Foster, of New Braintree, in 1818, died of apoplexy December 27, 1841, aged fifty-nine years.
The granddaughter of Nathaniel Weeks, Susanna Freeman, born March 27, 1810, became the wife of Benjamin Labarec, President of Middlebury (Vt.) College, on October 25, 1836.
Nathaniel Weeks died January 13, 1811. His will was filed February 13, 1811. His widow Mercie died in Oakham August 31, 1850, at the age of one hundred years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188. M. S. R., xvi, 795 (3). Oakham V. R., 27, 51, 104 [Week], 132. New Braintree V. R., 121. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Gravestone Record in Pine Grove Cemetery. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Feb. 12, 1811. Oakham Church Records, i, I. General Cata- logue, Middlebury College (1890), 12. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, xcv, 448. Paige, Hist. of Hardwick, 529. Plymouth Co. Marriages, 41.
John Wheeler.
Engaged for the town of Oakham April 9, 1777, for three years in the Continental Army, in Capt. Daniel Shay's Co., Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt. He was appointed Sergeant and served
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till April, 1780. It is uncertain whether he was credited to Oakham or Hardwick.
M. S. R., xvi, 975 (3).
Nahum Whipple.
Born in New Braintree, November 18, 1760, son of Thomas and Martha Whipple.
He enlisted for the town of Oakham May 5, 1777, as Private in Capt. E. Hodges's Co., Col. Josiah Whitney's Regt., which was stationed at North Kingston in Rhode Island. He was discharged July 5, 1777, and received pay for two months and seven days, including travel home.
He was married April 11, 1782, to Lucinda Ashley. She died October 8, 1825, and he was again married to Mrs. Parmela Thompson, in April, 1826.
Nahum Whipple was living in Oakham in 1796, at the Dr. John Dean place, but later removed to New Braintree, where he died March 18, 1829, aged sixty-eight years.
M. S. R., xvii, 16 (2). New Braintree V. R., 55, 123, 160. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, cv, 445, 446.
Joshua Whitcomb.
Enlisted September 15, 1777, at Brookfield, for a term of three years in the Continental Army for the town of Oakham, and was assigned to Capt. Holden's Co., Col. Nixon's Regt.
He served also for the town of New Braintree at Ticonderoga in 1776, and on the Rhode Island and Bennington alarms, in 1777.
M. S. R., xvii, 33 (8), 34 (2).
Thomas White.
Marched with Capt. Crawford on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777. He was Private in Capt. Joseph Cutler's com-
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pany of volunteers raised in Western (now Warren) and Oakham to reinforce the army under General Gates, which marched September 24, 1777, and was in service thirty-two days. October 19, 1779, he enlisted in Capt. Joseph Richard- son's Co., Col. Samuel Denny's Regt., which was raised for three months' service at Claverack. He also has credit on the town records for four months' service in the siege at Boston and two months at Providence.
Thomas White came to Oakham from New Braintree and bought in 1762, from William Thomson, Jr., of Leicester, for £48, two hundred and forty acres in Lot No. 33, and two gussets, adjoining Lot No. 33, of forty acres and eighty acres respectively. A part of this land is at present included in the farm of C. P. McClanathan. He was six times Moderator, four times Select- man, and a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspec- tion and Safety in 1775 and 1776. When in 1775 Oakham was given the right of representation in the Great and General Court, Thomas White was the first Representative sent by the town, serving in this office in 1775, 1776 and 1778.
November 26, 1761, he married Sarah Blair, of New Brain- tree. Children, born in Oakham: Mary, September 1, 1762; Elizabeth, October 3, 1764; James, December 4, 1766; David, July 15, 1770.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187, 188, 189, 242. M. S. R., xvii, 137 (9), 138 (3), (II). Oakham V. R., 51. New Braintree V. R., 123. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, xliii, 349 [indexed as 1761 at Worcester].
Ebenezer Whitman.
Born in Bridgewater in 1752, son of Zechariah and Eleanor (Bennett) Whitman, and descendant in the fifth generation of John Whitman of Weymouth.
He enlisted for the town of Oakham August 18, 1781, as a Private in Capt. Joseph Elliot's Co., Col. William Turner's Regt., for service in Rhode Island, from which he was discharged November 27, 1781.
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In 1778 he purchased of George Slocom of Medway, for £550, "a small farm with all the buildings thereon," bounded on the north by the county road from Rutland to Hardwick, on the east by the town road that leads from the county road to the Foster corner. He lived here till 1787, when he sold this place to George Caswell and removed to what was afterwards known as the Whitman farm, in Lot No. 25, not far from the Samuel Crawford farm.
He was married, November 9, 1779, to Ruth Delano. A daughter, Sarah, was born in Oakham, October 12, 1780. A daughter, Ruth, married Seth Pratt, Jr., son of Capt. Seth Pratt, of Barre, May 24, 1819, and was living on the Whitman farm in 1857.
Ebenezer Whitman died in 1788. His widow, Ruth Whitman, married John Hooper, December 9, 1790.
Oakham T. R., i, 276, 285, 294, ii, 9. M. S. R., xvii, 199 (12) [Whit- mond]. Oakham V. R., 51, 105. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Mitchell, Hist. of Bridgewater, 336, 338. Note of Dea. Jesse Allen. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, Ixxx, 384, cv, 571. Farnam, John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., 50, 115, 116 [Spooner should be Hooper]. Letter of Mrs. Clarinda C. Hunt of Hyde Park, Mass. Baker's Map of Worcester Co.
Shubael Wilder.
Engaged for the town of Oakham early in 1777, for three years in the Continental Army, and was in Capt. Daniel Shay's Co., Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt. He was Drum Major, and served till February 17, 1780. It is uncertain whether he was credited to Oakham or Hardwick.
M. S. R., xvii, 351 (5).
Guile Willis.
Enlisted August 14, 1779, in Capt. Simeon Cobb's Co., Col. Samuel Fisher's Regt., for a term of one month in Rhode Island.
M. S. R., xvii, 505 (4).
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Alexander Wilson.
Served three months in New York in the last part of 1776, and was Sergeant in Capt. Joseph Cutler's company of volunteers raised in Western (now Warren) and Oakham, which marched September 24, 1777, to reinforce the army under General Gates and was in service thirty-two days.
He was one of the signers of the petition of June 23, 1773, for the organization of a Congregational Church in Oakham, and was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1778.
His wife's name was Huldah. They had a son, Jonathan, born in Oakham, January 28, 1769, and a daughter, Huldah, baptized June II, 1775.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 189. M. S. R., xvii, 558 (4). Oakham V. R., 52 [Willson]. Rev. J. Dana's Notes. Oakham Church Records, i, I.
Robert Wilson.
Enlisted in the summer of 1776 for a term of three months in New York and served in Rhode Island from August 2, 1778, to September 13, 1778, in Capt. Daniel Gilbert's Co., Col. Josiah Whitney's Regt.
Robert Wilson came from Rutland and was a weaver by trade. He bought of Alexander Bothwell in 1765 eighty acres, with a house and barn standing thereon, in the southerly part of Lot No. 26. In 1767, one hundred and seventy-six acres in the north- erly part of Lot No. 26, belonging to Robert Wilson, were sold to Asa Partridge of New Braintree for unpaid taxes. In 1770 he sold to Joseph Felton, for £37 16s. 8d., fifty-seven acres with the buildings standing thereon in Lot No. 25, which he had bought of James Craige, Jr. Robert Wilson was living in Oakham in 1790.
In 1779 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John Crawford. They had five sons and eight daughters. Some time after 1790 he removed with his family to the westerly part of Vermont.
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Oakham T. R., i, 168, 214. M. S. R., xvii, 547 (4) [Willson]. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230. U. S. Census (1790), Vt., 58 [Elizabeth Wil- son]. Crawford Family of Oakham, II. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, liii, 203, Ivii, 257, Ixxxi, 19.
Ebenezer Woodis.
Enlisted for two months' service in the siege of Boston and was made Sergeant. February 15, 1776, he gave receipt for ammunition to Capt. Barnabas Sears at Dorchester. He marched with Capt. Crawford in the detachment of the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777, and on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777.
Ebenezer Woodis bought of James Craige, Jr., February 20, 1766, part of Lot No. 25. He was one of the signers of the petition of June 23, 1773, for the organization of a Congre- gational Church in Oakham. That he was much respected and trusted is shown by his election for three years on the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety. In 1786, administra- tion papers were filed in settlement of Ebenezer Woodis's estate.
He married Dorothy Moore in Sudbury, September 16, 1762. Children, the first two born in Sudbury, the others in Oakham: Edward, September 8, 1763; Sarah, February 13, 1765; Eben- ezer, Jr., May 10, 1767, married Elizabeth Woolcott, January 6, 1791; Persis, August 8, 1769; Keziah, September 5, 1771; Ruth, February 27, 1774; Reuben, March 22, 1776; Nathan, March 26, 1778; John, May 16, 1780.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187, 188. M. S. R., xvii, 825 (7) [Wooddis], 827 (8). Oakham V. R., 52, 107. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Sudbury V. R., 156 [Woodes], 290. Oakham Church Records, i, I. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, lviii, 185. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, 1786.
THE WAR OF 1812
The Company Book of the Washington Grenadiers contains the Action of the Council, with the approval of the Governor, dated October 11, 1813, authorizing the formation of a company of Grenadiers in the towns of Oakham and New Braintree; the Order of Major General Caleb Burbank for carrying the same into effect; the Enlistment with the signatures of the thirty-seven men who joined the company before September 10, 1814; the daily reports of guard duty at Boston; the history of the company till 1829; and the signatures of one hundred and forty-nine men who joined after November 7, 1814.
The Biographical Sketches of the members are based chiefly on Oakham Town and Vital Records, recollections of James Allen and Stephen Lincoln, and the writer's personal acquaintance with several other members of the company.
THE WAR OF 1812.
The people of Massachusetts, and indeed of all the New England States, disapproved of the second war with England. At a town meeting held on July 13, 1812, the citizens of Oakham declared by vote (I) their strong opposition to a war with Great Britain, and (2) their disapproval of an alliance with France. At the same meeting three college graduates, Rev. Daniel Tom- linson (Yale 1781), Dr. Seth Fobes (Brown 1804), and William Crawford, Jr. (Dartmouth 1807), were appointed a committee to draw up a memorial for peace, and nine men were chosen to circulate the memorial for signatures.
But after the war was begun, and when it seemed probable that the enemy might set foot on Massachusetts soil, William Crawford, Jr., a member of the committee to draw up a memorial for peace, was one of the first to raise a company for this service.
The following report of a committee of which David Cobb was chairman, was accepted by the Council of the State of Massachusetts, October 1I, 1813, and approved by the Governor on the same day :
"On the petition of Wm Crawford Jr., and other inhabitants of the towns of Oakham & N. Braintree praying that they with such others as may herewith join them, may be formed into a Company of Grenadiers ; that their request be granted and that they be annexed to third Regiment of the first Brigade of the seventh Division, it being understood that no standing Company belonging to the said Regiment be thereby reduced below the number required by law."
By order of Joseph Farnsworth, Brigadier General of the First Brigade, Lieut. Colonel Thomas Wheeler, Commandant of the Third Regiment, transmitted, on December 13, 1813, to Wm. Crawford, Jr., the vote of the Council, and the orders for carrying the same into effect issued by the Adjutant General, and by Major Caleb Burbank, with the following note:
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"To Wm Crawford Junr.
In obedience to the above written orders you are hereby directed to cnlist a Company of Grenadier Soldiers out of the towns of Oakham and New Braintree, and when you have enlisted 34 you will make a return of their names to me so that measures may be taken to elect Officers to command said Company, you will make out at the head of your enlistment a Caption stiling it the enlistment of a Company of Grenadiers according to the afore mentioned grant."
Thirty-seven men from the two towns enlisted in the company which was called the Washington Grenadiers. The following was the enrollment:
ENLISTMENT OF A COMPANY OF GRENADIERS
We whose names are underwritten do voluntarily enlist as soldiers in the company of Grenadiers annexed to the 3d regiment, Ist brigade, and 7th division of the militia of Massachusetts, and do by this our voluntary act consider ourselves bound to all intents and purposes to perform the several duties which may devolve on us as members of said company.
James Allen
Jonas Brimhall
Lot Conant James Conant, Jr.
Thomas Haskell
Daniel Flint
Stephen Lincoln, Jr.
Richard K. Marsh Isaac Stone, Jr.
Mason Clark
Seth Stone
Zenas Dow
Michael Lincoln
Ashbel Pepper
James Barr, Jr.
Daniel Dow
Ebenezer Howard Perley Granger Ebenezer N. Barr
Jacob Pepper, Jr.
Jonathan Blake
Edward Woodis, Jr.
Sylvester Morse
Charles T. Holmes
Hiram Barr John Adams
William Crawford, Jr.
Perley Ayres Percival Hall
Samuel Thrasher, Jr. Roswell Converse Daniel Warner John Thompson George Mullett Fabian Tomlinson Elias Marsh, Jr.
Harlow Thrasher
William Crawford was commissioned Captain of the company, James Barr, Lieutenant, and James Allen, Ensign. James Conant, Michael Lincoln, Stephen Lincoln, and Edward Woodis were appointed Sergeants, and Jonas Brimhall, Corporal. John
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Thompson and Sylvester Morse were Fifers, and Lot Conant and George Mullett, Drummers.
Toward the close of the summer of 1814, after the capture of Washington and the burning of the Capitol and the President's house, it was believed that the British were planning to make an attack upon Boston, and, in accordance with orders from head- quarters, Captain Crawford issued the following : .
NEW BRAINTREE, September 10, 1814.
The company under my command being ordered into the actual service of this State are ordered to appear at Knight Whitmore's in Oakham on Sunday, the IIth day of September inst., at five o'clock in the forenoon, from thence to march to Boston to do Duty in the service of this commonwealth.
WILLIAM CRAWFORD, JR., Captain.
The company assembled according to orders, on Sunday morning on the Oakham Common, and after fervent prayer by Father Tomlinson, the soldiers parted from their friends and set out on the road to Boston. A severe campaign was expected, and those left behind had little hope of seeing again all the young men who marched that morning from Meeting-house Hill. Elizabeth Crawford wrote a few days later to her brother, Cap- tain Crawford: "I, with my sisters, were at the meeting house with heavy hearts when you marched from town, and the greater part of the people that were there, shed tears at your departure and your company's."
The regular military company of Oakham was also in training, expecting soon to be called to follow the Grenadiers. William Crawford, Sr., wrote to his son, Captain Crawford, under date of September 20, 1814: "We worked yesterday and this fore- noon on the Common and have made great alterations in it .* The company in this town is to train on Thursday this week,
* The Common was the parade ground. The old meeting-house which stood near the center of the Common had just been torn down, and there was much material to be removed and some grading to be done to make it more suitable for company movements. There was no level cleared field near the center of the town.
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and, by special orders, on Saturday to appear. with all equipment ready to march at the shortest notice.".
The Grenadiers occupied nearly three days on the march to Boston, arriving at camp at one o'clock P. M., September 13. The order to march came so suddenly that the Captain had to go without his uniform. This was made by his sisters, three school teachers, from cloth purchased for six shillings a yard from Knight Whitmore at his store in the center of the town, and taken ten days later to Boston by "Esquire Jesse Allen," who seems to have made frequent trips between Oakham and the camp at Boston while the Grenadiers were there.
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