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JOHNSON, EDWARD JONATHAN, NAHANT.
Great-grandson of FRANCIS COX, of Salem ( -1783); first lieutenant in Colonel Mansfield's regiment, at the siege of Boston, from May 9 to Decem- ber 31, 1775 ; first lieutenant in Colonel Hutchinson's Twenty-seventh Continental Regiment, for the year 1776 (Rev. Rolls, Ivii., file 11; "Genealogy of the Johnson Family ;" " History of Essex County," ii., 1413).
JONES, EDWIN AUSTIN, HONOLULU.
Great-great-grandson of ISAAC BALDWIN, of Hillsborough, New Hampshire (1736-1775); captain of the company from that town which marched to Med- ford at the Lexington alarm, and was in Colonel Stark's regiment at Bunker Hill, where he was killed (“ His- tory of Hillsborough County," 398).
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KELLOGG, ELIJAH, NORTH HARPSWELL, MAINE.
Son of ELIJAH KELLOGG, of South Hadley (1761-1843) ; drummer of a company of minute-men formed in the spring of 1775; drummer in Colonel Dike's regiment for four months; stationed at Dor- chester; enlisted January 1, 1777, for three years, in Colonel Marshall's regiment, which marched to Ticon- deroga; on the expiration of his time entered Dart- mouth College, and became a minister; received a pension as drum-major (Rev. Rolls, lxiii., 25 ; xi., 109; xlviii., 349, 357 ; lvi., 169; x., part i., p. 46; xxi., 25 ; cxlvi., 531).
KELLOGG, FRANK GILMAN, MELROSE.
Grandson of ELIJAH KELLOGG, of South Hadley.
(v. Elijah Kellogg).
KIMBALL, HERBERT WOOD, BOSTON. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of AARON KIMBALL, of Grafton (1729-1807); captain of a company that marched in Colonel Ward's regiment at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xii., 151); captain of the First Company of the Sixth Worcester Regiment, 1776 (Do., xxviii., 109).
Great-grandson of SIMEON KEITH, Jr., of North- bridge (1742-1776); private in Captain Wilkin- son's company, which marched to Roxbury at the Lex- ington alarm; died there of exposure during the siege of Boston, January 3, 1776 (Alarm Rolls, xiii., 163).
Great-grandson of AARON ADAMS, of Sutton ( -1843) ; private in Captain Sibley's company from Sutton to Braintree at the Lexington alarm; sergeant of Captain Chase's company, Colonel Holman's regi- ment, which marched from Sutton to Saratoga, to reënforce the northern army, September 26, 1777 (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 107).
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LAMB, AMASA AUGUSTUS, STOUGHTON. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of NAHUM LAMB, of Charlton ; private in Captain Peters's company, Colonel Shep- herd's regiment, for one year, 1776; reënlisted, 1777, for three years in the same regiment, his brother Samuel taking his place after two years; was at Throg's Neck, 1776; at Stillwater, 1777, where he was wounded; at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778.
Great-grandson of BENJAMIN BARTLETT; private in Captain Leach's company, Colonel Sill's regiment, at Dorchester Heights in 1776.
Great-great-grandson of SAMUEL LAMB, of Charlton; private in the Charlton company, which marched at the Lexington alarm to Roxbury, two months, ten days' service.
Great-great-grandson of SETH MANLEY, of Easton; corporal in Captain Mitchell's company, which marched at the Lexington alarm, eleven days' service ; corporal in Captain Luscomb's company, May 3, 1775, six months' service; enlisted for six months July 11, 1780, and saw difficult service.
LINCOLN, FRANCIS HENRY, HINGHAM.
Great-grandson of JESSE BATES, of Hingham (1743-1783); private in Capt. James Lincoln's company at the Lexington alarm ; sergeant in Captain Hearsey's company, Colonel Lovell's regiment, at Dorchester Heights, during the siege of Boston; private in Captain Cushing's company, in the defence of Hull, in 1778 (v. " History of Hingham," vol. i., part i., pp. 278, 291).
Great-grandson of WELCOME LINCOLN, of Hingham (1729-1814); private in Captain James Lincoln's company from January to July, 1776, on garrison duty ; private in Captain Hearsey's company, as above ; private in Captain Cushing's company, as above (v. " History of Hingham," vol. i., part i., 287).
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Great-grandson of NATHANIEL GILL, of Hing- ham (1743-1818); private in the companies of Cap- tains Hearsey and Cushing, as above.
LINCOLN, FREDERIC WALKER, BOSTON.
Grandson of AMOS LINCOLN, of Boston (1754- 1829) ; member of the "Boston Tea Party ; " private in Colonel Stark's regiment at Bunker Hill; captain in Craft's artillery regiment, and at one time in charge of Castle William in Boston harbor; was at Bennington, Brandywine, and Monmouth; was aide to Governor Hancock (v. "Tea Leaves," p. cxxiv.) ; saw seven years' service (Rev. Rolls, xviii., 29; xxviii., 78, 122 ; xxviii., 174, 175, 177, 180, 182).
Great-grandson of PAUL REVERE, of Boston (1734-1818); member of the "Boston Tea Party" and "Sons of Liberty ; " rode to Lexington to give the alarm of the approach of the British, April 18, 1775 ; major of Craft's artillery regiment, and later lieutenant- colonel; took part in the Penobscot expedition, 1779.
LOW, DAVID W., GLOUCESTER.
(Supplementary Application.)
Grandson of ELIPHALET DAVIS, of Gloucester (1756-1804); drummer in Captain Cleveland's com- pany, Colonel Jackson's regiment, from April 3, 1777 to December 31, 1779; drummer in the Continental Army from January I to December 31, 1780; drummer in Lieutenant Pierce's Light Infantry Company, Eighth Regiment, enlisted February 5, 1780, for the war; private in a list of men in the Eighth Regiment, who did not receive gratuity granted by resolve of January 15, 1781 (Rev. Rolls, viii., part 1, 69; part 2, 23 ; xxv., 205 ; xxvii., 114 ; xxviii., 197 ; xxix., 103 ; xxxi., 144; ccxxxix., 120).
Great-grandson of ISAAC SOMES, of Gloucester, 1741-1782; first lieutenant of the third Gloucester company, for coast defence, December 30, 1775 ; after
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commanding the " Union," he was commissioned com- mander of ship "Tempest," November 30, 1781 (Archives, cxxlii., 74).
LYMAN, CHARLES PARKER, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of ABEL PARKER, of Westford (1753-1831); private in Captain Nutting's company of minute-men in 1774; served in Colonel Prescott's regiment, and marched to West Cambridge, April 19, 1775; stationed at Cambridge for two months; on guard in the redoubt the night before the battle of Bunker Hill, and took part in the battle the next day ; was shot in the knee and returned to Pepperell; rejoined his regiment in September, and continued until the expiration of his term at the New Year ; sergeant in Captain Shattuck's company, Colonel Read's regiment, July, 1776, and served through the campaign of that year; ensign of Captain Boynton's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, March, 1778, and served in Rhode Island until the next year ; in August was with Sullivan before Newport; commissioned lieutenant, and started to join Washington on the Hudson, but returned and left the service (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 22 ; lvi., 64, 67 ; xvi., 19; lvii., file 7; lv., 35, file L; xxviii., 59; i., 63).
MARION, HORACE EUGENE, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of Dr. ABEL PRESCOTT, of Concord (1718-1805); the brother of Colonel James and Dr. Samuel Prescott; Shattuck, in his " History of Concord," says that Mr. Abel Prescott was fired upon by the British on the 19th April, 1775, whom they saw returning from an excursion to alarm the neighboring towns, but though slightly wounded, he succeeded in secreting himself, and escaped; his name occurs in Rev. Rolls, on an order dated Concord, April 2, 1776, for medical service (liii., 190).
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MARION, OTIS HUMPHREY, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of Dr. ABEL PRESCOTT, of Concord.
(v. Horace E. Marion.)
MARSHALL, DANIEL O., GLOUCESTER.
Great-grandson of THOMAS GILES, of Amesbury (1754-1795); private in Captain Barnard's company, Colonel Little's regiment, for eight months, from May 15, 1775, and was at Bunker Hill; private in Captain Pillsbury's company, Colonel Smith's regiment, of the Continental Army, from May 3, 1777, to May 3, 1780; sailmaker on the ship "Mars," Captain Sampson, from June 8, 1780, to March 12, 1781 ; transferred to the frigate " Alliance," March 21, 1781 ; he was on the " Alliance," May 28, 1781, when she encountered the sloop of war " Atalanta," 16 guns and 130 men, and the brig "Trepassy," 14 guns and 80 men; was on board of her when she brought from France the treaty of peace; five years in the army and three years in the navy (Rev. Rolls, Coat Rolls, 1775; Roll of ship " Mars," June 8, 1780).
MCARDLE, FRED WALES, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of NATHANIEL WALES, of Braintree ; a captain of colonial militia, who served on the committee of Safety, Observation, and Inspec- tion, and on the Committee to hire men for the Conti- nental Army (v. Braintree Town Records, 1770-80).
McGLENEN, EDWARD WEBSTER, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of JOHN BRUCE, Jr., of Woburn (1749-1816?) ; private in Captain Walker's company, Colonel Greene's regiment, which marched to Concord and Cambridge, April 19, 1775, six days ; private in Captain Johnson's first Woburn militia com- pany, April 30, 1775 ; private in Captain Belknap's
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company, five months at Ticonderoga (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 155 ; lix., 529; Woburn Town Records, iv., 116).
Great-great-great-grandson of JOHN BRUCE, Sr., of Woburn (1725-1801?); private in Captain Belknap's company, which marched to Concord and Cambridge, April 19, 1775, twenty-four days; proba- bly the John Bruce enrolled in Captain Winn's com- pany, third in the train band, May 13, 1775 ; private in Captain Belknap's company, five months at Ticonde- roga; private in Captain Wyman's company, three months, at Bunker Hill in 1778 (Rev. Rolls, xi., 94; lix., 532 ; Woburn Town Records, iv., 116, 196).
MEAD, OLIVER W., WEST ACTON.
Grandson of OLIVER MEAD, of Harvard ; private in the action of April 19, 1775; private in Captain Davis's company, Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment, in May of that year (Rev. Rolls, xii., 36).
Grandson of OLIVER TAYLOR, of Acton ( 1754- ) ; corporal of Captain Taylor's company, Colonel Reed's regiment, from October I to November 8, 1777, which marched to reënforce the northern army (Rev. Rolls, xxiii., 179).
MILLER, EDWIN CHILD, WAKEFIELD.
Great-great-grandson of ELEAZAR JENCKES, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1747-1822) ; captain of a company in Colonel Mathewson's regiment in the ex- pedition to Rhode Island, from August 6 to 27, 1778 (v. the original roll deposited with the N.E. Historic Genealogical Society).
MILLER, THOMAS, SOMERVILLE.
Great-great-grandson of JAMES MILLER, of Charlestown (1709-1775); as a minute-man he op- posed the retreat of the British on April 19, 1775, when they passed through that part of Charlestown now Somerville, by firing upon them from behind a tree,
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and when closely pressed to retreat his reply was that he was "too old to run," whereupon he stood his ground and was killed (v. Drake's " Middlesex County," ii., 312).
MITCHELL, EDWIN VINALD, MEDFIELD.
Great-great-grandson of JEDEDIAH PHIPS, of Sherborn (1725- ); member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1774-75 ; of Public Safety, 1780; em- ployed by the General Court to improve the manufact- ure of gunpowder for the Revolutionary Army (v. Morse's "History of Sherborn," p. 198).
MITCHELL, WILMOT WADSWORTH, MEDFIELD.
Great-great-grandson of JEDEDIAH PHIPS, of Sherborn.
(v. Edwin V. Mitchell.)
MOODY, EDWARD FRANCIS, CAMDEN, N.J. (Amended Application.)
Great-great-grandson of PAUL MOODY, of New- bury; sergeant of Captain Gerrish's company at the Lexington alarm (Rev. Rolls, xii., 105).
MOODY, EDWARD FRANCIS, JUNIOR, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Great-grandson of NICHOLAS HARRIS, of Wal- pole ; private in the Walpole company at the Lexing- ton alarm; was at Redbank and other battles of South Jersey (Rev. Rolls, xi., 205).
Great-great-great-grandson of PAUL MOODY, of Newbury.
(v. Edward Francis Moody, Sr.)
MOODY, NICHOLAS HARRIS, PHILADELPHIA.
Great-grandson of NICHOLAS HARRIS, of Wal- pole.
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Great-great-great-grandson of PAUL MOODY, of Newbury.
(v. E. F. Moody and E. F. Moody, Jr.)
MORROW, CHARLES HARVEY, GLOUCESTER.
Great-great-grandson of SAMUEL PERRY, of Sandwich (1731- ); private in Captain Bangs's company, Colonel Dyke's regiment, during the siege of Boston (Rev. Rolls, xvii., 106).
MOSELEY, JOHN GRAHAM, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of INCREASE MOSELEY, Jr., of Woodbury, Connecticut (1740-18II) ; an officer of the Thirteenth Militia Regiment from 1760; colonel of the regiment, October 23, 1776, and was in active ser- vice till October 17, 1780, when he resigned from infirm health and the embarrassed condition of his finances; in response to his call marched to the relief of Washington at New York, August, 1776; was at Peekskill, September, 1777; at Fishkill in October; July, 1778, at Stamford and Horse Neck; August, 1778, at West Point; on the Committee of Relief of Boston and of Correspondence in 1774; Committee of Inspection, 1775 ; representative for eight sessions (Conn. Rolls, i. and ii., passim ; Cothren's " History of Woodbury ").
Great-grandson of Dr. ANDREW GRAHAM, of Southbury, Conn. (1728-1785) ; Committee of Ob- servation, 1774, and of Inspection and Safety; assist- ant surgeon in the army; was taken prisoner by the British and sent to New York, and confined in the Old Dutch Church, where he contracted disease which caused his death a few years later; was a friend of Washington, who spent a night at his house in South- bury (Conn. Rolls, i. and ii., passim).
Great-great-grandson of INCREASE MOSELEY, Sr., of Woodbury (1712-1745); representative for thirty-six sessions ; Committee of Correspondence and
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Safety; judge of the Supreme Court, 1780 (Conn. Rolls, i. and ii., passim).
MOTLEY, THOMAS LAWRENCE, GROTON.
Great-grandson of General AMASA DAVIS (1739- 1821); a staff officer and commissary to Burgoyne's prisoners; quartermaster-general of the State for twenty years.
Great-great-grandson of BENJAMIN BUSSEY, of Stoughton (1757-1842) ; private in Captain Endi- cott's company at the Lexington alarm ; private in Cap- tain Bent's company, Colonel Greaton's thirty-sixth Regiment, August 27, 1775 ; quartermaster, August 14, 1777 (Rev. Rolls, xii., 78; xiv., 13; lvi., 239).
NEWCOMB ARTHUR WILLIAM, QUINCY. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of URIAH THAYER, of Brain- tree ; turned out as minute-man on news of the march of the British to Lexington, and enlisted, April 28, 1775, in Captain Weld's company, Colonel Greaton's regiment, for eight months; during the siege of Bos- ton was stationed at Cambridge and vicinity ; private, January, 1776, in Captain Ebenezer Thayer's company for four months; private in Captain Isaac Thayer's company six months of that year, at Hull, and for two months under Captain Penniman, at Dorchester Heights; private in Captain Newcomb's company at Hull; was present at Stillwater, and at Burgoyne's surrender ; served at Castle William, and at West Point three and one-half months ; private in Captain Belcher's company in northern New York (v. Records of the Pension Bureau).
Great-great-grandson of ELISHA ADLINGTON ; private in Captain Bell's regiment, Lieut .- Colonel Symmes's regiment of guards, under General Heath, in Boston, from February 12 to May 12, 1778 (v. cer- tificate of Secretary of State of Massachusetts).
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NEWCOMB, HERBERT HARRIS, QUINCY. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of URIAH THAYER, of Brain- tree.
Great-great-grandson of ELISHA ADLINGTON. (v. Arthur W. Newcomb.)
NICHOLS, FRANK WILLIAM, LIEUTENANT, U. S. NAVY, BOSTON.
(Amended and Supplementary Application).
Great-grandson of JOHN NICHOLS, of Malden ; private in Colonel Nixon's regiment of the Continental Army, June 2, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, lxviii., 48) .
Great-grandson of AMBROSE BATES, of Hing- ham (1758-1830); private in Captain Peter Cushing's company, at Hull, December 14, 1776; private in Captain Wilder's company, Colonel Gills's regiment, at the surrender of Burgoyne; was present at the sur- render of Ticonderoga; sergeant in Captain Baxter's company, Colonel McIntosh's regiment, September 8, 1778, and served in this company in Rhode Island (v. " History of Hingham," i., pp. 298, 311, 317).
Great-grandson of ELIJA CLARK, of Hollis, New Hampshire; enlisted from that town for three years, April 5, 1781 ; private in the Eighth Company, Colonel Reid's Second Continental Regiment ; received a bounty of £60 from Hollis, and his widow a pension (v. “ His- tory of Hollis," pp. 191, 192, 203 ; N.H. Rolls, iii., 237, 275, 509, 692).
NORRIS, JOHN OSCAR, MELROSE.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN BROWN, of Fre- mont, New Hampshire; second lieutenant of the Eleventh Company, Fourth Regiment of Militia; his commission, now in existence, signed by Matthew Thornton, president of the New Hampshire Congress, being dated September 5, 1775 (v. Records of Fre- mont).
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NOYES, HARRY RICHMOND, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of MASON SHAW, of Rayn- ham (1737- ); a minute-man at Lexington; was at the siege of Boston; captain in the Third Bristol County Regiment, and adjutant under command of Washington ; adjutant on service in Rhode Island from August I to 7, 1780; adjutant of the Third Bristol Regiment on the march to Warren, Rhode Island, December 8 to 31, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 97 ; xlv., 321 ; xxvi., 358, 366; vii., 80).
NYE, CHARLES EDWARD, WEST MEDFORD.
(Supplementary and Amended Application.)
Great-grandson of ELISHA NYE, of Sandwich (1745-1843); lieutenant of Captain Grannis's com- pany, May, 1775, to the end of the year; captain of a company in Colonel Bradford's regiment from January, 1776, until the end of the year; stationed at the Eliza- beth Islands from January to April, 1777, when he retired from service ; a pensioner (Records of the Pen- sion Bureau).
Great-grandson of JOHN LOCKE, of Cambridge (1753-1799); private in Captain Benjamin Locke's company of minute-men organized at Menotomy, and actively engaged in the conflict of April 19, 1775, and at Bunker Hill (v. "Book of the Lockes," 81; Paige's " History of Cambridge," 410; Rev. Rolls, xlix., 51 ; Frothingham's " Siege of Boston," 403).
Great-great-grandson of STEPHEN NYE, of Sand- wich (1720-1810) ; representative from 1761 for eigh- teen years ; member of the Provincial Congress ; member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety (v. Freeman's " History of Cape Cod," ii., 120).
ORNE, JOEL STONE, CAMBRIDGE. (Amended Application.)
Great-grandson of AZOR ORNE, of Marblehead (1731-1796) ; member of the Provincial Congress and
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of the Committee of Safety; was recommended to Washington as one of nineteen trustworthy citizens of Massachusetts, and did effective service in furnishing supplies ; member of the State Legislature and Council, and of the constitutional convention, and is frequently mentioned in the histories of the time.
Great-grandson of MOSES STONE, of Watertown (1749-1803); corporal of Captain Barnard's com- pany, six days' service at the Lexington alarm ; five days at the fortification of Dorchester Heights ; ser- geant of Captain Stearns's company, guarding the stores at Watertown; was at Bunker Hill; sergeant of Captain Wellington's company, Colonel Asa Whit- comb's battalion, at Ticonderoga.
PAGE, CHARLES ALBERT, MELROSE.
(Supplementary Application.)
Great-great-grandson of NATHANIEL APPLE- TON HAVEN, M.D., of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire (1762-1831); assistant-surgeon, or surgeon of an armed vessel in the latter part of the Revolution ; was captured and confined on the " Jersey " prison-ship in New York, but was soon exchanged at the special request of Washington.
PARKER, CHARLES WALLINGFORD, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of PETER PARKER, of Fram- ingham (1738-1803) ; Committee of Correspondence, 1776-78; of the Committee to Provide for the Fam- ilies of Soldiers; selectman, 1777, '79, '80-82 (v. Temple's "History of Framingham," 223, etc .; "Par- ker Genealogy," 92, etc.).
PARKER, MONTGOMERY DAVIS, U.S.A. CAM- BRIDGE.
(Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of SAMUEL HOWARD, of Boston, (1712-1797) ; member of the " Boston Tea Party ; "
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second lieutenant of Colonel Hatch's Boston regi- ment, commissioned June 7, 1780, for guarding stores in and around Boston, under command of General Heath ("Tea Leaves," cxvi.) ; Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 67; xx., 3.
PARKER, PERCY, LOWELL.
(Amended Application.)
Great-grandson of ISRAEL HILDRETH, of Dra- cut, formerly Chelmsford (1755-1839) ; a privateers- man, sailing under Captain Newman, of Newburyport, capturing many British prizes (v. page 40-43, “Origin and Genealogy of the Hildreth Family of Lowell," 1892) ; private in Captain Porter's company, Colonel Denny's Second Regiment of Massachusetts Bay Militia, October 19 to November 23, 1779, at Clave- rack, N.Y. (v. Rev. Rolls, xxii., No. 7); lieutenant in the local militia of Dracut; loaned the town £341 I Is. to enable it "to pay bounties and mileage to the men that enlisted to go to Claverack," October, November, and December, 1779 (v. vol. ii., page 536, Dracut Parish Records, March 3, 1780) ; again, on February 20, 1787, paid £II IOs. 7d., "to carry the soldiers in the government service that went from Dra- cut lately" (v. vol. iii., page 108, Dracut Town Records) ; fought the naval power of Great Britain as a privateersman, 1775-1779; having equipped a com- pany of soldiers for the Continental Army, October, 1779, he enlisted in the organization as a private, and marched with it two hundred miles, to Claverack, N.Y .; discharged November 23, 1779 (v. Rev. Rolls, xxii., 7) ; he similarly advanced cash, provisions, and clothing, June, 1786, when Generals Benj. Lincoln and Shepherd needed such "for the Dracut soldiers that marched to Worcester for the suppression of domestic rebellion ; " the Dracut parish records show that he filled all pos- sible local offices in his native town. Benjamin F. Butler, his grandson by marriage, and Seth Ames,
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used to plead before his court when Israel Hildreth was a magistrate.
Great-great-grandson of ELIJAH HILDRETH, of Dracut (1728-1814); private in the company of minute-men under Captain Minot, Colonel Prescott, which marched, April 19, 1775 (v. Rev. Rolls, xii., 194); drummer, age 48 years, in Captain Minot's company, Colonel Baldwin's regiment, at Cambridge, January 12, 1776 (v. Rev. Rolls, xxi., 36) ; also in Captain John Ford's company, Colonel Robertson's regiment, Chelmsford, February 5 to April 1, 1776 (v. Rev. Rolls, liv., file H, No. 52) ; private in Captain Hunt's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment, July I to December 16, 1778, at Winter Hill (v. Rev. Rolls, xxii., page 75) ; he was called out as a minute-man by the General Court, with the companies of militia from Suffolk and Middlesex, to protect the capitol and to guard the military stores there and at Cambridge and Watertown ; this levy was made at the request of Washington, many of the troops previously stationed there having joined the expedition to capture General Burgoyne at Saratoga. For "doing his turn upon the guard at Cambridge the summer past," Elijah Hildreth was by the selectmen of the town of Dracut, February 10, 1779, ordered paid £14 for military services " upon the guard at Cambridge " (v. vol. ii., Dracut Records, page 513, said date ; also page 34, “ Origin and Gene- alogy of the Hildreth Family of Lowell, Mass.," 1892). Elijah Hildreth was trained in some of the duties of a military man by an educated soldier, Colonel Louis Ansart, colonel of artillery and inspector of foundries, who came to Dracut early in 1776, settled and died there after the close of the Revolutionary War.
PARKER, PETER, FRAMINGHAM.
Great-grandson of THOMAS SEWALL, of Augusta, Maine (1750-1833); detached from the militia in the expedition of Richard Saltonstall, of Con- necticut, against the British at Bagaduce, now Castine,
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Maine, in 1779; was taken prisoner, discharged or released (v. " History of Augusta," 156).
Great-grandson of PETER PARKER, of Framing- ham.
(v. Charles Wallingford Parker.)
PARKER, SIMON BAILEY, SPRINGFIELD.
Grandson of AMOS PARKER ; private in Captain Cox's company of rangers, Major Ebenezer Mead's detachment, three months in 1780.
Great-grandson of JACOB BAILEY, Jr., of New- bury, Vermont ; quartermaster of Colonel Bedel's New Hampshire regiment of the Continental Army, from January 1, 1778, to March 31, 1779 (N.H. Rolls, ii., 584, 485 ; iii., 306).
Great-great-grandson of JACOB BAYLEY, Sr., of Newbury, Vermont (1728-1816); a captain and colonel in the French war; commissary-general of the northern department in the Revolution ; brigadier-gen- eral of militia, and served as such in western Vermont, from August to November, 1777 ; muster-master, 1778- 80; a representative, member of the council, judge of county courts ; the reports of the adjutant-general of New Hampshire contains many of his letters to Wash- ington (v. Drake's "Dict. of American Biography," 51 ; " History of Newbury ; " N.H. Rolls, iii., 169).
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