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DEADMAN, WILLIAM FISKE, WAKEFIELD.
Great-great-grandson of WILLIAM DEADMAN, of Stoneham (1760- ); private in the " Colonel's Company," Colonel Nixon's regiment, from March 31 to December 31, 1779, and from January I to March 21, 1780; private in Captain Greenleaf's company, thirty-first division, June 5, 1780; private for six months under Brigadier-General Paterson; was taken prisoner at Fort Washington; a pensioner (Rev. Rolls, lxviii., 172; xxxv., 213; xxv., 224; "History of Middlesex County," ii., 479).
DENHAM, EDWARD, NEW BEDFORD.
(Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of GILES LEACH, of Halifax, (1749-1779) ; private in Captain Keith's company, Colonel Mitchell's regiment, from December 8 to De- cember 15, 1776; private in Captain Packard's com- pany, Colonel Carpenter's regiment, from July 21 to September 9, 1778, when he was discharged, and died four months later, of consumption.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL GILBERT, of Easton (1747-1814); private in Captain Williams's company, which marched from Easton to Lexington, April 19, 1775, where the company remained several days; later was ploughing with his father when a horseman passing in a road near the field told them that the patriots had fortified Breed's Hill; leaving the plough in the furrow, he started on foot for Boston, and remained several days at Cambridge ; private in Captain
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Wolcott's company, Colonel Hopkins's regiment, at the Highlands, New York, in July, 1777, and from Decem- ber, 1776, to the following July, at Fort Edward, Stillwater, and Manchester, Vermont; private in Captain Willis's company at Cambridge, from Novem- ber 12, 1777, to February 3, 1778, where he reënlisted as sergeant until April; was at the battle of Quaker Hill, Rhode Island, August 29, 1778, and marched at the Tiverton alarm in 1780.
Great-great-grandson of JOSEPH GILBERT, of Easton (1713-1802); member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776, 1777; walked from Easton to Breed's Hill, June 17, 1775, too late for action, but worked upon the fortifications for several days; was in the expedition to Rhode Island in 1777; too old to handle a gun, he drove a baggage-wagon in the army of the Hudson, part of the time for Washington, and witnessed the execution of André.
DODGE, ROBERT FRANCIS, WENHAM.
(Supplementary Application.)
Grandson of JOHN THORNE DODGE, of Wen- ham (1764-1851) ; at eleven years of age, accompanied his father, Capt. Richard Dodge, as officer's servant, and, according to the " Dodge Genealogy," continued in service as servant, guard, and steward until the close of the war; when, on April 19, 1775, he came into the house and asked " Where's father?" and was told that he had gone to the war and would never return, he replied, "Well, I'm going, too," and went.
Great-grandson of RICHARD DODGE, of Wen- ham (1738-1802); captain of a company in Colonel Gerrish's regiment in 1775, having left his plough at the Lexington alarm; captain of a company of volun- teers from the Third Essex Militia Regiment, raised under resolve of September 22, 1777, and served until November 7, when they were discharged at Cambridge ; according to the "History of Wenham" he served a
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year or more previous to 1777 ; aided with other Wen- ham men in collecting provisions for the army in 1780, more than £2,000 being paid to him for that purpose (v. " Genealogy of the Dodge Family ").
DRAPER, FRANK WINTHROP, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of ABIYAH. DRAPER, of Dedham (1737-1780) ; an officer of militia to the rank of major, and commander in that capacity of a body of minute-men at Roxbury, under Washington; was at Concord and Lexington, and at the siege of Bos- ton (v. "History of the Draper Family ; " Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 4).
DRAPER, SHIRLEY POTTER, BOSTON.
Great-great-great-grandson of ABIYAH DRAPER, of Dedham.
(v. Frank Winthrop Draper.)
DRAPER, WARREN MARTIN, CAMBRIDGE.
Great-grandson of EDWARD EVANS, of Salis- bury, New Hampshire (1736-1818); private in Cap- tain Abbott's company, Colonel Stark's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill; private in Captain Everett's company, Colonel Bedel's regiment, and took part in the expedition to Canada in 1776; private in Captain House's company, Colonel Cilley's regiment, July 18, 1777; adjutant of the Second Militia Regiment, and his commission is preserved by his descendants ; was afterwards in the First Regiment ; on the staff of Colonel Stickney, of General Stark's brigade, at the battle of Bennington ; was at Saratoga, and in some of the New York and New Jersey campaigns; served until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged (v. Dearborn's " History of Salisbury ; " Runnel's "History of Sanbornton ; " Chase's " History of Chester ; " N.H. Rolls i., ii., iii .; Kidder's "First N.H. Regiment," 1775-83).
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DUDLEY, LEVI EDWIN, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of TIMOTHY DUDLEY, of New Hampshire; was killed while on duty at the battle of Monmouth.
(v. " History of the Dudley Family.")
Great-great-grandson of DANIEL TOWNSEND, of Lynn ; private in Captain Bancroft's company, which marched at the Lexington alarm ; was killed at Menot- omy on April 19, 1775 ; a printed copy of the list of the killed and wounded on that day, issued shortly after the engagement, and reproduced within a few years, is in possession of the Dudley family; the Revolutionary Rolls contain an allowance for losses at Lexington and Bunker Hill, paid to his administrator (Rolls, xi., 243 ; cxxxviii., 388).
DWIGHT, ARTHUR SMITH, PUEBLO, COLORADO.
Great-great-grandson of JAMES MELLEN, of Milford (1739-1812); entered the army on the out- break of the Revolution, and served throughout the war; was commissioned major, and stationed on the northern boundary; an officer of the Third and Ninth Massachusetts Regiments, and commanded expeditions in New England and New York; was officer of the day at Major André's execution, and the bearer of Wash- ington's last message in answer to the major's request that his sentence be commuted to shooting; a com- mission, dated June, 1783, was deposited with the Worcester Society of Antiquity in 1889; his dis- charge, signed by Washington, is in possession of the family.
EAGER, GEORGE HENRY,"BOSTON.
Grandson of FRANCIS EAGER, of Northboro' (1737-1810); Committee of Correspondence, 1780; selectman, 1781-1782.
Great-grandson of BEZALEEL EAGER, of North- boro' (1713-1787) ; selectman, 1775; chairman of
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Committee of Correspondence, 1774-6; received from the town in 1778 £12 for services in the war, and £25 for cash given for carrying on the war (Northboro' Town Records).
Great-grandson of JEREMIAH WHITTEMORE, of Spencer (1723-1803) ; member of the Committee of Safety, 1776, 1781, 1782 (Spencer Town Records).
EDDY, FRANK LEWIS, BOSTON.
Grandson of JOHN BOIES, of Boston (1760- 1833) ; private for three years in Captain Livermore's company, Colonel Scammell's third New Hampshire Regiment; was wounded at Stillwater, and taken pris- oner ; confined twelve months in Mill Prison, England ; escaped, but was recaptured, and compelled to wear sixty pounds of iron for sixty days ; was liberated after the surrender of Cornwallis ; was engaged at Hubbard- ton, Monmouth, and in Sullivan's expeditions against the Indians; a pensioner (v. certificate of the Pension Bureau, Feb. 9, 1894).
EDWARDS, JAMES MILLER, CHICAGO.
(Amended Application.)
Son of EBENEZER EDWARDS, of Acton ; private in Captain Isaac Davis's company at Concord fight; followed the British to Boston, and was sta- tioned at Dorchester Heights during the siege (Rev. Rolls, xii., 116).
ELLIS, EMMONS RAYMOND, CAMBRIDGE.
Great-grandson of JOSHUA ELLIS, of Keene, New Hampshire (1758-1824); member of the Pro- vincial Congress at Exeter, 1775; representative, 1777; minute-man, 1776; was at Bunker Hill, where he was badly wounded, carrying three buckshot until his death.
Great-great-grandson of TIMOTHY ELLIS, of Keene, a colonel in the French-Indian war; a minute-
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man in 1776, with six of his sons and eight others of his family (v. " Annals of Keene ").
EVANS, ARTHUR WINFRED, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of GEORGE EVANS, of Allens- town, New Hampshire (1755-1804) ; private in Cap- tain Moore's Pembroke company, Colonel Stark's regiment, and was present at Bunker Hill; private in Captain McConnell's company, Colonel Stickney's regiment, General Stark's brigade, and was at Benning- ton and Stillwater (v. " Hurd's History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties," 574, 575; N.H. Rolls, i., 70).
Great-great-grandson of DANIEL EVANS, of Allenstown, New Hampshire ( -1775); member of the Provincial Congress at Exeter, 1775 ; died at Ando- ver, Massachusetts, on his way home from Bunker Hill, of wounds received there (reported killed), being a pri- vate of Captain Richardson's company, Colonel Frye's regiment (N.H. Provincial Papers, vii., 455; Mass. Rev. Rolls, lvi., 6).
EVERETT, ARTHUR GREENE, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of FRANCIS GREEN, of Charles- town (1750-1831); second lieutenant in Colonel Pat- terson's regiment, March 2, 1777; first lieutenant in Colonel Vose's regiment; captain, August 30, 1780 ; deputy muster-master in Rhode Island, February 12, 1778, to January 12, 1780; left the army November 3, 1783; vice-president of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, 1829-31 (v. " Memorials," 225).
Great-grandson of THOMAS BLAKE, of Boston ; enlisted for three years, February, 1781 ; was paymas- ter and lieutenant (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 70).
FAY, AUGUSTUS M., LAWRENCE.
Grandson of NATHAN KNOWLTON, of Shrews- bury; private in Captain Harrington's company, Colonel Dike's regiment, November, 1776, to the fol-
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lowing May, at Dorchester; corporal and musician in Captain Inglesbury's company, Colonel Cushing's regi- ment, in the expedition against Burgoyne, and was present at his surrender, hearing him call General Gates " Granny Gates ;" enlisted again, and was eight months at Winter Hill; went from Rutland to Enfield, Conn., with a division of Burgoyne's prisoners; after that to Providence and returned to Charlestown, and was discharged (from a letter of Nathan Knowlton, written December 24, 1855, at the age of ninety-five years, in possession of Mr. Fay.)
FEARING, WILLIAM, 2D, HINGHAM.
Grandson of LEVI BURR, of Hingham (1757- 1839) ; drummer in Captain Cushing's company, Col- onel Lincoln's regiment, and marched to Boston on the Lexington alarm; private in Captain Lincoln's company from May 8 to July 25, 1775; stationed at Hingham for coast defence; private in Captain Cush- ing's company, Colonel Lovell's regiment, at Hull, from June 14 to 16, and from June 23 to 25, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xi., 251; xxxvi., 119; xxv., 92, 94; " History of Hingham," i., part i., 277).
FERNALD, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of PHINEAS JOHNSON, of An- dover; private in Captain Poor's company, Colonel Frye's regiment, at the Lexington alarm; in the same company at Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston eight months; private in Captain Farmer's company at Cambridge, October 6, 1775 (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 72 ; lvii., file 1 ; cxlvi., 66; lvi., 4).
Great-great-grandson of SAMUEL JOHNSON, of Andover.
(v. George Ernest Bowman.)
FERRIS, WILLIAM MARSH, NEWTON.
Great-great-grandson of JOHN FOWLER, of Ipswich (1750- ) ; enlisted January 14, 1775, as a
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minute-man; private in Captain Wade's company, Colonel Little's regiment; marched at the Lexington alarm, and was at Bunker Hill; sergeant of Captain Low's company of volunteers, Third Essex County Regiment, from September 30 to November 7, 1777, "raised for the north-west," and guarded Burgoyne's prisoners to Prospect Hill; discharged at Cambridge (Rev. Rolls, xii., 146; xvi., 62 ; lvi., 88 ; Ivii., file 9; XX., 225, 226).
FESSENDEN, EDWARD STANLEY, ARLINGTON.
Great-great-grandson of FRANCIS BROWN, of Lexington.
Great-great-grandson of EDMUND MUNROE, of Lexington.
Great-great-great-grandson of JONATHAN HAR- RINGTON, of Lexington.
(v. Louis Francis Brown.)
Great-great-grandson of JONAS FISKE, a surgeon in the Continental Army during the Revolution ; sur- geon's mate, March 16, 1777 ; surgeon, April 17, 1779; was present at the surrenders of Burgoyne and Corn- wallis (v. " History of Lexington ").
FIELD, JAMES BRAINERD, LOWELL.
(Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of ELISHA HOLTON, of North- field (1756-1827); private in Captain Merriman's company, Colonel Wright's regiment; at the battle of Saratoga and surrender of Burgoyne (v. "History of Northfield," pp. 331, 461, 463).
Great-great-grandson of CALEB BENYAMIN, of Montague ; private in Captain Oliver's company, Colonel Williams's regiment, which marched from Con- way at the Lexington alarm, April 22, 1775, fifteen days' service ; first lieutenant of the Second Montague Com- pany, Captain Gunn, of the Sixth Hampshire Regiment,
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commissioned May 7, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 21; xliii., 313 ; xxviii., 114; xlix., I).
Great-great-great-grandson of JOHN JOSLIN, of Woburn ( -1797); a captain at the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777 (v. Vinton's “ Richardson Memorial," p. 572, note).
FOSTER GEORGE B., BOSTON.
Great-grandson of EBENEZER PEABODY, of Boxford (1742-1829) ; lieutenant of Captain Lane's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Alden's regiment, from January 1, 1777, to December 31, 1779 ; was at Cherry Valley when burned by the Indians; lieutenant of Captain Richard Peabody's company, Colonel Wiggles- worth's regiment, in 1776; was at Bunker Hill; first lieutenant in Colonel Brooke's regiment in 1779, and was at Burgoyne's surrender ; served with General Sul- livan against the Indians ; his widow a pensioner (Rev. Rolls, x., 245 ; 1xxiv., 7 ; lxvi., III ; xi., 26; xxi., 182).
FOSTER, GEORGE W., ANDOVER.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL FLINT, of Danvers (1733-1777); captain of the Danvers company at Lexington ; was at the siege of Boston; was drafted, with three other captains, to go to New York; was killed at Stillwater, October 7, 1777, and was the only officer from Danvers slain in the Revolution (v. Han- son's " History of Danvers ; " " The Flint Genealogy ").
FREEMAN, HARRY S., LAWRENCE.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL FREEMAN, of Sandwich (1741-1827); chairman of the Committee of Correspondence and Safety, 1773; leader of the " Body of the People," 1774; member of the Provincial Congress at Watertown, 1775 ; member of the General Court, 1775, '78, '79, '80; lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Barnstable militia regiment in 1775, and marched on the Rhode Island expedition; briga-
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dier-general, 1781 ; delegate to West Point on an im- portant mission in 1779; delegate to provide accom- modations for the commander-in-chief at Cambridge in 1775 (v. Freeman's " History of Cape Cod," i., 430; "American Archives," vol. ii.).
FREEMAN, JAMES F., LAWRENCE.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL FREEMAN, of Sandwich.
(v. Harry S. Freeman.)
FREEMAN, OTIS, LAWRENCE.
Grandson of NATHANIEL FREEMAN, of Sand- wich. (v. James F. Freeman.)
FRISBEE, MARTIN LUTHER, BOSTON. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of ANDREW PHILLIPS (1748- 1830) ; private in Captain Fay's company of North- boro' at the Lexington alarm; took part in the defence of Piscataqua Harbor (Rolls, xii., 60).
Great-great-grandson of DANIEL BILLINGS (1723-1790) ; second lieutenant of Captain Holbrook's Third Company of the Second York County Militia Regiment, Col. John Frost, commission (now in ex- istence) given at Watertown, May 29, 1776; served at Dorchester Heights, at Moon Island, when the British fleet was driven out of Boston, and at Fort Sullivan in the defence of Piscataqua (Mass. Rev. Rolls, ii., 64; xliii., 189; xix., 89, 193 ; N.H. Rolls, i., 240).
FRISBEE, OLIVER LIBBEY, BOSTON. Great-grandson of ANDREW PHILLIPPS. Great-great-grandson of DANIEL BILLINGS. (v. Martin Luther Frisbee.)
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FULLER, GEORGE FRANCIS, SPRINGFIELD.
Great-grandson of ASA FULLER, of Medway (1752-1836) ; private in Lieutenant Adams's company, Colonel Smith's regiment, at the Lexington alarm ; private in Captain Josiah Fuller's company, Colonel Wheelock's regiment, which marched from Medway to Warwick, Rhode Island, on the alarm of December 8, 1776; private in Captain Cowell's company, two months and five days, in 1780.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH DANIELS, of Med- way; private in Captain Partridge's company, Colonel Smith's regiment, at the Lexington alarm, and in Cap- tain Bullard's company on the alarm of April 30; captain of the first company of Medway, doing Continental and militia service from April 19, 1775, to June, 1777.
Great-grandson of GEORGE BARBER, of Med- way; private in Captain Partridge's company at the Lexington alarm.
Great-grandson of THOMAS JONES, of Medway ; private in Captain Lovell's company, Major Metcalf's regiment, January 1, 1777 (v. Jameson's " History of Medway ").
GILBERT, SHEPARD DEVEREUX, SALEM.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH GILBERT, of Brook- field (1733-1776) ; marched to Roxbury at the Lex- ington alarm at the head of a company of minute-men ; on the 17th June, at the request of General Ward, passed and repassed Charlestown Neck, under a constant fire from the enemy's ships and batteries ; lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Worcester County Regiment, February 4, 1776; elected colonel April IO, but reported deceased (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 101 ; Temple's " History of North Brookfield ").
GILMAN, GORHAM DUMMER, NEWTON.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL DUMMER, of Newbury (1755-1815) ; private in Captain Nowell's
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company from November I to December 31, 1775; private in Captain Nowell's company, Colonel Tit- comb's regiment, for service in Rhode Island, from May 4 to July 4, 1777 ; marched to Providence, where he was commissary of prisoners; private in Captain Evans's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, from July 6, 1778, to January 1, 1779, for service at North Kings- ton, Rhode Island (certificate of Secretary of State, April 14, 1894).
GILMORE, JOSEPH HENRY, JUNIOR, ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-great-great-grandson of JEREMIAH PAGE, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire (1730-1807) ; member of the Committee of Safety, 1775 ; member of the Pro- vincial Congress, 1777, 1778, 1780; delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1778 ; first representative of Dunbarton to the General Court; a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
Great-great-great-great grandson of CALEB PAGE, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire ( 1705-1785) ; member of the Provincial Congress, 1775, 1776, at the age of seventy years (v. Lyon's " History of Dunbarton ").
GOING, HENRY AUGUSTUS, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of CONVERS BIGELOW, Wes- ton (1775- ); private in Captain Lawson's militia company, which marched at the Lexington alarm, three days' service ; private in Captain Wheeler's com- pany, Colonel Robinson's regiment, one month, twenty- eight days, to March 6, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xii., 170; lii., 36).
Great-great-grandson of JOSIAH BIGELOW, lieutenant of Captain Whittemore's artillery company, of Weston, which marched to Concord, April 19, 1775, four days' service (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 203).
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GREEN, CHARLES MONTRAVILLE, BOSTON. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-great-grandson of DAVID BENT, of Rutland (1730-1798); captain of the Rutland company in Colonel Sparhawk's regiment that marched to Cam- bridge at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xi., 219) ; lieu- tenant of Captain Bowker's company of Colonel Whitney's regiment, raised to reënforce the Continental Army, February, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 100) ; captain of the Rutland company that marched at the Bennington alarm, August, 1777, eleven days' service (Rev. Rolls, xvii., 49) ; captain, from August 21 to November 19, 1777, in Colonel Cushing's Worcester militia regiment (Rev. Rolls, xvii., 180) ; selectman, 1782 (v. "The Bent Genealogy," N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, July, 1894).
GREENOUGH, DAVID STODDARD, BOSTON.
Great - great - grandson of Captain THOMAS GREENOUGH, of Boston (1710-1785) ; member of the Committee of Correspondence through the war, an active patriot and a man of large influence; the Greenough mansion at Jamaica Plain was used for military and hospital purposes by the Government during the Revolution; General Greene occupied it during the siege of Boston (v. Drake's "History of Roxbury," p. 415, etc.).
HALE, FRANCIS WILBUR, STOW.
(Amended Application.)
Great-grandson of BEZALEEL HALE, second, of Stow (1759-1851); lieutenant in Captain Benjamin Munroe's company, of Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's regi- ment; in service in Rhode Island in 1778, at North Kingston (Rev. Rolls, lii.).
Great-great-grandson of ABRAHAM RANDALL, of Stow (1741-1815) ; served four days as private in Captain William Whitcomb's company, at the Lex-
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ington alarm; lieutenant, December 16, 1777; chair- man of the selectmen of Stow, and very active in obtaining recruits (v. Drake's " History of Middlesex County," ii., 355 ; iii., 279).
Great-great-grandson of AARON SMITH, of Need- ham (1730-1795); captain of the Needham company in Colonel William Heath's regiment of Massachusetts militia, marching to Concord at the Lexington alarm (v. " History of Norfolk County," p. 518).
Collaterally descended from Lieutenant Jonas Hale, Ensign Charles Hale, Ensign Jacob Hale, Jonathan Hale, Josiah Randall, Silas Randall, Edward Wilkins, and Aaron Smith, Jr., soldiers of the Revolution.
HASKINS, LEANDER MILLER, BOSTON.
Grandson of BENNETT HASKINS, of the fifth parish of Gloucester, now Rockport; private in Captain Rowe's company, Colonel Bridge's regiment, at the battle of Bunker Hill (v. "History of Rockport," p. 90.)
HEATH, NATHANIEL HENRY, MALDEN.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL HEATH, of Boston (1732-1812) ; major of guards doing duty at Boston, January, 1779 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 59).
HOSMER, AUGUSTINE, ACTON.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN HOSMER, of Acton; private in Captain Minot's company, Colonel Bullard's regiment, August 14, 1777, and served one month, sixteen days (Rev. Rolls, xxi., 79).
HOWARD, WILLIAM JAMES, WHITMAN.
Great-grandson of ELIAKIM HOWARD, of Bridgewater (1739- ); captain of the First Com- pany of the Third Plymouth County Militia Regiment ; his commission, signed March 23, 1776, being in pos- session of his great-grandson; ordered to march to
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Braintree Neck, March 4, 1776; marched from Bridge- water to Bristol, Rhode Island, on the alarm of Decem- ber 8, 1776, fifteen days; marched on the Rhode Island alarm of July 30, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, ii., 80, 112; xix., 216; xxviii., 20, 104).
HOWARD, WILLIAM JUSTIN, SPRINGFIELD.
Great-grandson of WILLIAM HOWARD, of Mans- field, Connecticut (1747-1776) ; private in Captain Lyon's company, of the Eleventh Regiment, and was killed at the battle of White Plains (Conn. Rolls, p. 403).
HUNNEWELL, JAMES FROTHINGHAM, BOSTON.
Grandson of JOSEPH LAMSON, of Charlestown, (1760-1808); private in Captain Dodge's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment of guards, serving at Charles- town, November II, 1777; detached, November 5, to guard Burgoyne's army ; discharged February 3, 1778 ; reënlisted February 3, discharged April 3, 1778; in the guards at Cambridge ; in the same company at Win- ter Hill, February, 1778 ; corporal in the same company, July 18, 1778; discharged December 16; a letter to his father, dated Camp Danbury, Conn., January 28, 1780, and inscribed, " He that is a soldier's friend, carry this to its journey's end," is still preserved by his grandson ; private in Captain Gage's company, Colonel Webb's regiment, September 14, 1781; discharged December 3; detached from Colonel Dana's regiment to join the Continental Army for three months ; stationed near West Point; on a pay-roll in Captain Gage's company, December 20, 1782.
HUTCHINS, CHARLES LEWIS, CONCORD.
Great-grandson of GORDON HUTCHINS, of Con- cord, New Hampshire (1733-1815); captain of one of the three companies of that town which marched under Colonel Stark, and were present at Bunker Hill,
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where he was wounded; promoted to colonel, and marched with his regiment to join the Continental Army in New York; many of the soldiers being taken sick en route, and no medicine being provided in the public stores, he purchased a quantity at his own expense ; subsequently raised a company and joined General Stark at Bennington (N.H. Rolls; Bouton's " History of Concord ; " the " Autobiography of Levi Hutchins ").
JEWETT, WALKER KENDALL, FITCHBURG.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL GREEN, of Waltham (1740-1816); private in Captain Brooks's company, Colonel Dike's regiment, three months' service, guard- ing stores at Boston, from December, 1776, to March, 1777; private in Captain Peirce's company, Colonel Thatcher's regiment, from September 2 to 6, 1778; doing duty at Cambridge in expectation of British troops landing in Boston (Rev. Rolls, liv., file F, p. 7; xxii., 65).
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