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It is probable, also, that some citizens who received credit, even on the muster rolls, for militia service in the campaigns of 1777 and 1778, were represented in the army by substitutes who enlisted under their names. It was considered as credit- able for a citizen to send a good man in his place as to go him- self, and when the citizen was past middle age, it was better for the service. The country was in an unsettled state. There was no executive head, and the Continental Congress was often not able to pay the soldiers. The Provincial Legislature raised money by taxes on the several towns, and no service was more important than that of securing the funds necessary to enable the town to do its part in the war. It is beyond question also, that the citizens who sent substitutes, generally paid them much more than the bounty which they themselves received back from the town.
Early in 1777, Massachusetts was called upon by Congress to furnish her quota of fifteen battalions for three years' service in the Continental Army. Each soldier was to have from the province twenty shillings per month and a bounty of £20 in addition to the Continental pay. Land bounties were also prom- ised to those who enlisted to serve during the war. Oakham offered an extra bounty of £20. Some of the nearby towns offered a bounty of £30, and even £40. One-seventh of all the male population not already in the service, of sixteen years of age and upwards, were to be taken. Seventeen Oakham men in Captain Crawford's company responded to this call; seven enlisted in Captain Reed's company of Colonel Alden's, later Colonel Brooks's, 8th Massachusetts Regiment: Sergeant Luther
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Conant, Corporal Enos Hudson, Privates Israel Hill, Isaac Parmenter, James Parmenter, Zephaniah Perkins, Thomas Taylor; and ten went in Captain Holden's company of Colonel Nixon's 6th Massachusetts Regiment: Sergeant Isaac Stone, 2d, Privates Joseph Berry, Sheers Berry, Timothy Conant, Daniel Deland, Jabez Fuller, Matthew McGilligan, William Oliver, Alpheus Stone and Joshua Whitcomb. The names of Thomas Taylor, Timothy Conant, and Joshua Whitcomb are on the muster rolls as serving for the town of Oakham, but not on the town records. This was the first quota of men furnished for three years. The date of the enlistment was March II, 1777. These regiments were actively engaged in the campaign which resulted in the surrender of General Burgoyne. Both were probably in action in the battles of September 19 and October 7.
The following men served for the town of Oakham in the Continental army, for a term of three years, in other regiments: James Conant in Colonel Lee's regiment, Joshua Turner in Colonel Henry Jackson's regiment, Richard Sternes in Colonel Crane's artillery regiment, William Harper Dunn and John Green in Captain Goodale's company of Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment, Jonathan Henderson in Captain Amos Cogswell's company, Colonel Wesson's regiment. Of these only Conant, Dunn and Henderson have credit on the town records.
Shubael Wilder, Moses Doty, Elisha Pike and John Wheeler engaged for the town of Oakham in Captain Daniel Shay's com- pany of Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment, but the last three were without doubt credited to the town of Hardwick where they resided.
In the Massachusetts Spy of July 24, 1777, John Hooker of Rutland announces that he "proposes to ride post from Col. Nixon's regiment to Boston, once every month, for one year." Letters for soldiers in the regiment from their friends in Oakham were to be left at Ebenezer Foster's tavern, by the 19th of every month.
Some of the casualties among the Oakham men in the Con- tinental army are recorded, but probably not all. Timothy Conant died April 15, 1777; Israel Hill was killed August 25,
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1777, on the expedition for the relief of Fort Schuyler ; Zephaniah Perkins was killed September 15, 1777; Jabez Fuller died October 16, 1777, probably as a result of wounds received in the battle of September 7. Isaac Parmenter was wounded in battle with the Indians and Tories and was in the hospital several months. He and James Parmenter were taken prisoners at Cherry Valley November II, 1778. Isaac Parmenter was kept a prisoner nearly two years, and James Parmenter is sup- posed to have died in captivity.
Israel Hill's bounty of £20 was paid to Widow Beriah Hill by vote of the town April 13, 1778. On the same day it was voted also to pay to Zephaniah Perkins £20 as town bounty. but this was paid to Widow Mary Perkins, who had been appointed administratrix of his estate in December, 1777.
By a resolve passed May 1, 1778, gratuities were to be paid to all three-year men in the Continental Army who could bring certificates that they were in camp before August 15, I777. Each non-commissioned officer and private was to receive $100.
Under a call of April 12, 1777, a regiment was raised in Worcester, Middlesex, Bristol, and Barnstable Counties to serve in Rhode Island from May 5 to July 5, 1777. This regiment was commanded by Josiah Whitney and was stationed at North Kingston. Oakham furnished six men for the regiment, who were placed in the company of Captain Hodges: Corporal James Boyd, Privates James Forbes, Robert Forbes, John Kenny, Timothy Shaw (for Thomas White), and Nahum Whipple. John Kenny and Nahum Whipple have no credit on the town records. Robert Forbes's name is found on the town records only.
The muster rolls show that Samuel Bullard and Nehemialı Packard served at the Northward in Captain Hodges' company, from July 27 to August 29, and the town records give credit to Ebenezer Nye for fifteen days in April, on an alarm at Williamstown.
On an alarm at Providence, Captain Crawford marched July '23, 1777, with forty-five men, including officers. The following
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names are found on the muster roll of Captain Crawford's company in this campaign :
Captain, John Crawford.
Lieutenant, Alexander Bothwell, 3d.
Sergeants, Aaron Crawford and William Crawford.
Corporals, William Bothwell, John Forbes, Benjamin Foster, and Samuel Stone.
Privates, Jacob Adams, Jesse Allen, James Banks, William Banks, Heman Bassett, Abraham Bell, James Bell, John Bell, Silas Bellows, Alexander Bothwell, 2d, John Bothwell, James Boyd, John Brown, Nathaniel Bullard [Bolton], Samuel Bullard, Isaac Bullard, Joseph Chaddock, Thomas Chaddock, James Dunbar, Nathan Edson, Charles Forbes, James Forbes, George Harper, John Harper, Robert Harper, James Hunter, Abraham Joslyn, Nehemiah Packard, Rufus Parmenter, Edward Partridge, 2d, Ebenezer Rice, Jonas Rich, Benjamin Spooner, William Stevenson, Joshua Turner, William Washburn, and Ebenezer Woodis.
John Boyd also has credit on the town records for this cam- paign, and James Bothwell went, at the same time, in Captain Whipple's New Braintree company.
On arriving at Worcester, the company received orders to return to Oakham.
The exposed position of Rhode Island caused the passage of a resolve, June 24, 1777, for one thousand five hundred men to serve till January 10, 1778. The names of twenty-four Oakham soldiers are found on the roll of Captain Ralph Earll's company of Colonel Danforth Keyes's regiment: Lieutenant Isaiah Par- menter, Sergeant John Forbes, Corporal John Hill, Privates Nathan Adams, Jacob Ames, James Ames, William Banks, William Black, James Boyd, Isaac Bullard, Archibald Forbes, Charles Forbes, James Forbes, Bartholomew Green, Robert Hair, Zaccheus Hall, Jr., Benjamin Harper, Joseph Harper, Daniel Henderson, John Moore, George Rich, Jonas Rich, Samuel Stone and James Upham. Joel Hayden served in Captain Joseph Sibley's company of the same regiment.
William Bothwell, John Boyd and George Harper also have credit on the town records for this service.
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On an alarm at Bennington, August 20, 1777, Captain Craw- ford marched with thirty-one men, including officers. The follow- ing names are on the muster roll :
Captain, John Crawford.
Lieutenant, Alexander Bothwell, 3d.
Sergeants, William Crawford and Samuel Metcalf.
Corporal, Benj. Foster.
Privates, Jesse Allen, William Banks, Silas Bellows, Stewart Black, John Bothwell, Asa Briggs, John Brown, Sam1 [James] Brown, Jonathan Bullard, Jr., Silas Bullard, Thomas Chaddock, James Conant, Skelton Foster, Elijah Gilbert, Robert Harper, James Hunter, Abraham Joslyn, Ichabod Packard, Daniel Parmenter, William Parmenter, Ebenezer Rice, Ezra Washburn, William Washburn, Nathaniel Weeks, Thomas White, Ebenezer Woodis.
Isaac Stone also has credit for this service on the town records.
On arriving at Hadley, news was received of the retreat of the British from Bennington, and the company was ordered to return home. On the town records this is called the campaign to Hadley.
James Blair, James Bell, and Nehemiah Packard received from the town £8 each, and Eleazer Spooner £2 Ios. for a campaign to Bennington and Half Moon, in 1777, in Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, but the names of Bell and Spooner are on the town records only. The first three marched July 30, and all served till September 2.
The critical position of the American forces after the capture of Ticonderoga by General Burgoyne caused a resolve, August 9, 1777, directing that one-sixth of all the able-bodied men not in the service should march without delay to reinforce the army at the Northward and continue in service till November 30, unless sooner discharged. Captain Crawford set out September 7 in command of a company of forty men from Hardwick, Oakham and New Braintree, and joined Colonel Job Cushing's regiment. The Oakham quota consisted of Sergeant Samuel Metcalf, Cor- porals James Bothwell and Benjamin Foster, Privates Alexander Bothwell, 2d, Asa Briggs, Nathan Edson, Jonathan Glazier, John Harper, Daniel Parmenter, and William Washburn.
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Clarence Story Willis.
Mustered in August 5, 1917. Mustered out January 19, 1919.
Born September 1, 1896, in Wallingford, Vt., the son of Leroy Milton and Susan Ricker (Eddy) Willis. After the death of her husband on May 10, 1909, Mrs. Willis married Gardner Milton Dean of Oakham, Mass. on December 12, 1914. Although residing in Northampton when he enlisted, Willis was assigned to Oakham since he was under 21 years of age and was required to secure the consent of his step-father and mother who resided in Oakham.
Co. I, 104th Infantry, 26th Division, A. E. F. His division was the first National Guard Division to go overseas. He took part in the engagements of Soissons, Verdun, Apremont, Belleau Wood, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, Second Marne, and Meuse- Argonne. He was gassed on October 28, 1918, and invalided home. His present address is Haydenville, Mass., where he is engaged in agriculture.
[Addendum to "Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts, in the great war of 1914-1918".]
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On September 24 Lieutenant Alexander Bothwell, 3d, marched to join General Gates at the Northward, with Sergeants Asa French and Alexander Wilson, Corporals James Blair and James Hunter, Privates Jesse Allen, John Bothwell, Silas Bul- lard, Aaron Crawford, Robert Forbes, William Green, Nehemiah Packard, and Thomas White, in a company raised in Western (Warren) and Oakham, commanded by Captain Joseph Cutler of Warren. Nehemiah Packard's name is on the town records only. Ebenezer Nye and Silas Nye served in this campaign for Oakham, from September 26 to October 18, in the company of Captain Benjamin Nye.
The army of General Gates was greatly strengthened by the troops sent from New England and New York, and after two unsuccessful battles (September 19 and October 7) Burgoyne was forced to surrender on the 17th of October. Active hos- tilities after this time were mostly in the Middle and Southern colonies. A part of General Burgoyne's surrendered troops were quartered in barracks at Rutland.
During the next three years several men, in some cases, those too old or too young to be liable for service in the field, were sent by the town to serve as guards.
At Rutland: Alexander Bothwell, 2d, and John Crawford, Jr., in 1778, 1779, and 1780, Jacob Kubler, Marshall Walker, Archibald Forbes in 1778, James Black, Francis Maynard, Ebenezer Foster in 1779, George Caswell, Alexander Crawford, Jonathan Forbes, Thomas Gill, Samuel Hunt, in 1780, Daniel Deland, one year, beginning January 10, 1781.
At Brookfield: James Blair and James Brown, to guard stores, in 1778.
At Castle and Governor's Island: John Crawford, Jr., and Alexander Crawford, 2d, for a term of six weeks in 1779.
At Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown and Winter Hill: Sergeant Nehemiah Allen, Jr., from November 12, 1777, to April 5, 1778. Seven other men were sent April 1, 1778: Jacob Adams, Wil- liam Crawford, Asa Partridge, Silas Partridge, Jacob Kubler, John Butler, William Stevenson. Jacob Adams was hired Sep- tember 21, 1778, by James Brown and William Bothwell for
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further service, and probably continued at Boston till November. Nathaniel Weeks served from July 22 to December 14, 1778.
It was determined in June, 1778, to send the prisoners to the Southern states, and Corporal James Boyd, with Privates Jacob Adams, John Butler, John Crawford, Jr., Benson Dunbar, John Forbes, Robert Harper, Reuben McFarland, Samuel Met- calf, Ebenezer Nye, and Timothy Shaw were detailed by Captain Crawford to form a part of the one thousand men who were detached from the militia to serve as guards on the march in November to Enfield, Connecticut.
On the 20th of April a resolve was passed to raise two thou- sand men to serve in the Continental Army for nine months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill. Four men were called for, but as the town had not received the credit due for the men who had already enlisted, only three were sent: Caleb Church, Thomas Darling, and Loved Lincoln. The last was hired by the four Bells .*
Bowman Chaddock, James Shaw, and William Smith also served in the Continental Army nine months, from July 10, 1779, to April 7, 1780. Chaddock and Shaw were in Captain Wadsworth's company of Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's regiment.
The prospect of an attack on Rhode Island led to a call June 16, 1778, for five hundred and fifty-four men to be forwarded without delay to the headquarters of General Sullivan and to serve till the force previously ordered should be available, but the term was not to exceed twenty-one days. The names of Lieutenant Alexander Bothwell, 3d, Privates Alexander Bothwell, 2d, Benjamin Harper, Joseph Harper, Marshall Walker, and Rob- ert Wilson are found on the rolls of Captain Gilbert's company of Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment in this campaign. The names of Jesse Allen, Jonathan Bullard, Jr., Reuben McFarland, Benjamin Perkins and Eleazer Spooner are on the town records for six weeks' service in Rhode Island, but do not appear on the muster rolls. Stephen Lincoln was sent to Rhode Island to serve for six months from August, 1778. June 29, 1779, Benjamin Dunbar and James Dunbar enlisted for six months
* Town Records, Vol. I, p. 190.
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in Captain Fisher's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment, for a campaign in Rhode Island. James Blair served as Sergeant in Captain Gilbert's company of Colonel Whitney's regiment, from August 2 to September 13, 1780.
Jacob Adams, John Butler, Ebenezer Nye, John Boyd, George Harper, Asa Partridge, David Shaw, and Thomas White enlisted October 14, 1779, to serve three months at Claverack-on-the- Hudson, in response to an urgent call from the Commander-in- Chief for two thousand men to reinforce the army there. The last five received f13 each mileage money and £30 as bounty, and were attached to Captain Joseph Richardson's company in Colonel Samuel Denny's regiment.
June 5, 1780, a resolve was passed to raise three thousand nine hundred and sixty-four men to serve in the Continental Army for six months from the time of their arrival at the place of rendezvous. In response to this call, the town sent ten men: Elias Bolton, Archibald Forbes, Thomas Gill, Benjamin Harper, John Harper, Joseph Harper, John Hitchcock, Leavitt Perkins, Jonas Rich, and Joseph F. Thompson.
There was a call during the same month for nine militiamen for three months' service at West Point. The men raised to meet this call were: Corporals James Boyd and William Wash- burn, Privates Sheers Berry, Apollos Bolton, John Crawford, Jr., Josiah S. Nye, James Shaw, James Shaw, Jr., and a recruit hired by Nehimiah Allen, whose name appears to be Ignatos Adams. They were enlisted July 5, and discharged October 10, and were in Captain Timothy Paige's company of Colonel John Rand's regiment.
December 2, 1780, another resolve was passed to raise four thousand two hundred and forty men for the Continental Army, for three years or during the war. The town offered a bounty of three hundred silver dollars to each man who should enlist in this campaign. The amount paid in bounties was to be cred- ited to the town on the next State tax. The citizens were divided into seven "classes," and each class was obliged to secure one man. The men engaged were: Benjamin Harper, Thomas Gill, George Perkins, George Walls, James Bigelow, Leavitt Perkins and Jonas Rich, the last hired by Joseph Chaddock.
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Ebenezer Whitman enlisted August 18, 1781, for a term of five months in Rhode Island but was discharged November 17. He was in Captain Joseph Elliot's company of Colonel William Turner's regiment.
June 30, 1781, a call was issued for two thousand seven hundred militiamen for three months, for temporary reinforce- ment of the Continental Army at West Point. Four men were called for from Oakham, and Nehemiah Allen, Jr., James Boyd, James Forbes and Robert Harper were sent. All marched August 27, 1781, joined Colonel Luke Drury's regiment at West Point September 3, and were discharged December 3, 1781.
Cornwallis surrendered his whole army of seven thousand men at Yorktown October 19, 1781, and no further soldiers were called for from this town.
The town not only paid large bounties to its Continental soldiers, but in some cases guaranteed their wages. It was required also to provide them with clothing and to supply their families with provisions while they were in the service. During the last years of the war it was called upon to furnish the Continental Army with beef, and also with horses. The money for all these expenses was secured without borrowing from any person out of town. Some of the money raised for the benefit of the Continental soldiers was paid back by the State. In 1786 the town was able to settle a minister, and after advancing him nearly enough on his settlement to pay for a farm, it was soon out of debt and had money in the treasury. We cannot praise too highly the wisdom of the men who man- aged the financial affairs of the town during this long period of hardship and disaster.
The following citizens held the important town offices during the nine years 1775-1783, inclusive :
Joseph Craige, 1775. Isaac Stone, 1776, 1777. Spencer Field, 1778.
TOWN CLERKS
William Crawford, 1779, 1781, 1782, 1783. William Green, 1780.
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SELECTMEN
Ebenezer Foster, 1776, 1780, 1782, James Dean, 1779, 1780. 1783.
Thomas White, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779. Jesse Allen, 1775, 1778, 1779.
William Green, 1778, 1779.
Joseph Hudson, 1775, 1777.
Ebenezer Nye, 1782, 1783.
Isaiah Parmenter, 1778, 1779.
Joseph Craige, 1776, 1777, 1780.
Asa French, 1777, 1782, 1783.
Samuel Davis, 1783.
James Ames, 1780, 1781.
Daniel Parmenter, 1781.
William Banks, 1774, 1776.
Asa Partridge, 1778.
Jonathan Bullard, 1777, 1780.
John Crawford, 1775, 178I.
Isaac Stone, 1775.
TREASURERS
Joseph Craige, 1775, 1776, 1777, James Brown, 1781 (after the death 1778, 1781.
Jesse Allen, 1779, 1780.
of Joseph Craige). Jonathan Bullard, 1782. Joseph Hudson, 1783.
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE, INSPECTION, AND SAFETY Jesse Allen, 1775, 1776, 1782, 1783. Jonathan Fitts, 1776. James Brown, 1777, 1779, 1782, William Green, 1777. 1783. James Hunter, 1779. Joseph Chaddock, 1779, 1782, 1783. Isaac Stone, 1775, 1776, 1777.
Ebenezer Woodis, 1778, 1779, 1781. Jonathan Bullard, 1775, 1776.
Benjamin Joslyn, 1775. Samuel Metcalf, 1775.
Ebenezer Nye, 1779.
Daniel Parmenter, 1780.
Isaiah Parmenter, 1777.
Joseph Hudson, 1775, 1776. Francis Maynard, 1780, 1781. Thomas White, 1775, 1776. James Ames, 1775.
Solomon Parmenter, 1780. Asa Partridge, 1775. Edward Partridge, 1780.
George Black, 1776.
Joseph Craige, 1775.
Edmund Reed, 1781. William Smith, 1780.
John Crawford, 1777.
Samuel Davis, 1778.
Alexander Wilson, 1778.
Jesse Allen, James Brown and Joseph Chaddock were continued as a Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety during the three years (1784, 1785, 1786) following the close of the war.
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John Boyd, 1781.
William Crawford, 1781, 1782, 1783. Joseph Chaddock, 1778.
CHIEF AUTHORITIES
Oakham and Rutland Town Records.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War Records, Bureau of Pensions.
Vital Records of Oakham and several other Massachusetts Towns.
United States Census (1790), Heads of Families in Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut.
Worcester County Records: Probate Court, Registry of Deeds, Court of Sessions.
Massachusetts Spy (sometimes printed as Worcester Magazine).
The Crawford Family of Oakham, by William Crawford.
Biography of Deacon James Allen of Oakham, by Hiram Knight.
Stephen Lincoln of Oakham, His Ancestry and Descendants, by John E. Morris.
The Ancestry of Lydia Foster, Wife of Stephen Lincoln, by John E. Morris.
The Fobes Memorial Library, by Henry P. Wright.
MS. Records of the Oakham and Rutland Congregational Churches.
MS. Notes by Rev. J. Dana of Barre, Mass., who was clerk of the Congregational Church in Oakham from its organization in 1773 till 1779.
MS. Notes (chiefly marriages) by Rev. Daniel Tomlinson, minister of the Congregational Church in Oakham from 1786 till 1829.
MS. Notes (chiefly a record of deaths) by John Robinson.
Town Histories of Bridgewater (Mitchell), Hardwick (Paige), Middle- boro (Weston), North Brookfield (Temple), Rutland (Reed), Spen- cer (Draper) and Watertown (Bond).
Family Histories : Conant (F. O. Conant), Field (Pierce), Macomber (Stackpole), Nye (D. F. Nye), Whitman (Farnam).
ABBREVIATIONS
M. S. R. = Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War. (Figure in parenthesis after M. S. R. page number, denotes entry from top of page.)
T. R. = Town Records.
V. R. = Vital Records.
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Jacob Adams.
Served in five campaigns : (1) on the alarm at Rhode Island, July 23, 1777; (2) in the defence of Boston beginning April 1, 1778; (3) further service in the defence of Boston, in 1778, for which he was hired by James Brown and William Bothwell; (4) fifteen days with the company that guarded Burgoyne's troops on their march from Rutland to Enfield, Conn., in 1778; (5) three months at Claverack in 1779.
Jacob Adams had a farm of eighty-five acres, fifteen of which were on East Hill, above the Clampherd Meadow, and south of the farm of Joseph Osborn. His wife was named Lydia. He had children, but no record of them has been found. Febru- ary 15, 1805, he gave up to John Glazier a warrantee deed of his farm, the said Glazier agreeing "to maintain and support him and his wife during their natural lives, to provide for them a comfortable house on the premises, and a sufficient supply of firewood cut fit for the fire and brought into the house, and to provide and deliver to them eleven bushels of Indian meal and five bushels of rye meal, eleven score of good pork yearly, and to keep one cow summer and winter for their use, and to care for them both in health and sickness." He resided in Oakham till his death November 27, 1809. His widow died June 20, 18II.
Oakham T. R., i, 187, 190, 214. M. S. R., i, 49 (2), (4). Oakham V. R., III. John Robinson's notes. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, clviii, 581, clix, 417.
Nathan Adams.
Enlisted from Oakham, July 10, 1777, in Capt. Earll's Co., Col. Keyes's Regt., for the term of six months, and was dis- charged January 4, 1778, service, five months, twenty-five days.
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Nathan Adams was the son of Nathan Adams of Medway, and, March 3, 1774, received from his father one hundred acres in the southeasterly corner of Barre and in the southwesterly part of Hubbardston. He had already purchased, September 7, 1770, "from John Hucker" (Hooker) of Rutland, for £60, eighty acres in Barre, in Great Farm No. 7. A part of his land was just across the Rutland line and not far from the Craige farms.
M. S. R., i, 64 (10). Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, 1xxiii, 105, 150.
John Alden.
Enlisted June 10, 1777, for three years for the town of Temple- ton, in Capt. Gardner's Co., Col. Putnam's Regt. Descriptive list taken November 20, 1780: age 30, stature 5 feet 9, com- plexion dark, hair dark, residence Oakham.
John Alden came to Oakham from Suffield, Conn. He married Prudence Butler, October II, 1774. A son, Nathaniel Butler, was born in Oakham, November 15, 1778.
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