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WILLIAMS, HORACE PERRY, BOSTON. Grandson of ROBERT WILLIAMS, Jr., of Boston. (v. Horace B. L. Williams.)
WISWALL, HERBERT, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of TIMOTHY WISWALL, of Mendon; sergeant of Captain Nelson's company, which marched at the Lexington alarm (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 23).
Great-great-grandson of JOSEPH DANIELS, of Mendon; captain of the company which marched to Roxbury at the Lexington alarm; first major of the Third Worcester County militia regiment, commissioned February 15, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 104).
Great-great-grandson of RICHARD HALL, junior, probably of Dorchester; private in Captain Robin- son's company, Colonel Gill's regiment; ordered to guard the stores at the mouth of Milton river (Rev. Rolls, xxii., 152).
Great-great-grandson of ELEAZAR FULLER, of Needham; sergeant of Captain Smith's company, Colonel Heath's regiment, which marched at the Lexington alarm; sergeant of the same company in fortifying Dorchester Heights in March, 1776; ser- geant of Captain Battle's company, Colonel McIn- tosh's regiment, at Roxbury (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 92 ; xxiii., 81).
Great-great-grandson of TIMOTHY SMITH, of Dedham; private in Captain Ellis's company, Colonel Heath's regiment, which marched at the Lexington alarm ; corporal of Captain Battle's company, Colonel McIntosh's regiment, for service at Castle Island, under Lieutenant-Colonel Weld (Rev. Rolls, xxv., 27).
Great-great-great-grandson of RICHARD HALL, Sen., probably of Dorchester; lieutenant of Captain Holden's company, Colonel Robinson's regiment, which marched at the Lexington alarm (Rev. Rolls, xii., 133).
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WOOD, WILLIAM, MILTON.
Great-grandson of WILLIAM WOOD, of Grafton (1760-1832) ; private in Captain Sherman's company two months from August, 1776; private in Captain Brigham's company, Colonel Cushing's regiment, three months from September, 1777; private in Captain Gleason's company, Colonel Whitney's regiment, two months ; private in Captain Perry's company, Colonel How's regiment, two months; was at Stillwater and the capture of Burgoyne, and in Rhode Island ; a pensioner (Certificate of the Pension Bureau, June 23, 1894).
WOODBURY, JAMES ATKINS, WINCHESTER.
Grandson of JOSEPH WOODBURY, of Beverly (1741-1816) ; private in Captain Batcheller's company, Colonel Holman's regiment, forty-three days on the Rhode Island alarm, December, 1776; private in Cap- tain Woodbury's company from August 13 to Novem- ber 29, 1777; service in the northern department (Rev. Rolls, i., 39; xxiv., 157).
Great-grandson of PETER WOODBURY, of Bev- erly (1705-1775) ; sergeant of Captain Dodge's com- pany, which marched from the Second Parish of Bev- erly on the Lexington alarm, two days' service, he being then seventy years of age (Rev. Rolls, xii., 34).
Great-grandson of JOHN PORTER, of Wenham (1717-1802); sergeant of Captain Jewett's company, Colonel Prescott's regiment, at the Lexington alarm, fourteen · days' service; adjutant of Colonel Reed's regiment, proper rank captain, March 1I, 1776; adjutant of the same regiment, in service in the northern army, March 10, 1777; adjutant of the Sixth Middlesex militia regiment, 1777; adjutant of Colonel Bullard's regiment, at Burgoyne's surrender; dis- charged November 30, 1777; adjutant of Colonel Reed's regiment, March 31, 1778; captain, October 20, 1779; detached from the Sixth Middlesex regi- ment to reënforce the Continental Army, October,
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1779; for three months by resolves of June 22, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, xii., 148; xli., 153 ; liv., 21 ; file F; xxvi., 277, 20, 24; xxviii., 7, 59, 61 ; xlvi., 25).
Grandson of ISAAC ALLEN, of Manchester (1758-1841); private in Captain Hart's company, Colonel Sargent's regiment, eight months' service in the siege of Boston; was at Bunker Hill; private in Captain Wiley's company, same regiment, October I, 1775 (Rev. Rolls, xv., 34; Ivi., 193 ; Ivii., file 20).
Great-grandson of JACOB ALLEN, of Manches- ter (1721- ); private in the Manchester company of the Lexington alarm ; private in Captain Baker's com- pany, May 8, 1775; was at Bunker Hill; private in Captain Row's company, Twenty-seventh Regiment (Rev. Rolls, xii., 189; xiii., 160, 23).
Great-grandson of JOHN TEWKSBURY, of Man- chester (1758- ); private in Captain Whipple's company, September, 1775 ; stationed at Manchester, to defend the coast (Rev. Rolls, xli., 100).
Great-great-grandson of THOMAS TEWKS- BURY, of Manchester; private in Captain Dodge's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment of guards, July 2, 1778, three months, three days, at Cambridge (Rev. Rolls, xviii., 147, 160).
WOODBURY, JOHN W., BEVERLY.
Great-grandson of EZEKIEL WOODBURY, of Barre (1734-1824) ; private in Captain Nye's company, Major Wilder's regiment, from September 26 to Octo- ber 18, 1777 ; marched to reënforce the northern army (Rev. Rolls, xxi., 129).
WOODBURY, LOUIS AUGUSTUS, GROVELAND. (Supplementary Application.)
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL HEAD, of Pem- broke, New Hampshire; second lieutenant of Cap- tain Connor's company, December, 1775; captain in Colonel Reynolds's militia regiment, July 14, 1781;
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raised and equipped a company at his own expense ; afterwards brigadier-general of the New Hampshire militia (v. N. H. Rolls, and Pembroke town records).
*WOODBURY, WASHINGTON, GROVELAND.
Son of LUKE WOODBURY, of Salem, New Hamp- shire (1751-1827) ; corporal in Captain Woodbury's company, April 23, 1775; marched to Medford in Colonel Stark's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill; sergeant 1776; at the siege of Boston until the evac- uation, and went with the forces under Washington to Albany; ensign in Captain Robinson's company, Colonel Hale's battalion, May, 1777; lieutenant, Sep- tember 20, 1777, for meritorious action at Bemis Heights; was in the Jerseys, at Saratoga and Crown Point; in command at Fort Montgomery, 1780; re- signed April 19, 1781.
WOODWORTH, ARTEMAS BROOKS, LOWELL.
Grandson of SALVENUS WOODWORTH, of Lebanon, Connecticut (1748-1798); private in the sixth company, Captain James Clark, of the Third Regi- ment, Colonel Israel Putnam ; enlisted May 13, and dis- charged December 18, 1775, and was at the siege of Boston ; helped construct the defences, and was at Bunker Hill; stationed at Cambridge (Conn. Rolls, 56).
YOUNG, CHARLES FRED, LOWELL. (Amended Application.)
Great-grandson of SHUBAEL BAYLEY, of Lan- caster (1740-1824); private in Captain Bryant's company, Colonel Mason's regiment, seven months, in 1777; his widow a pensioner, 1837 (certificate of Pension Bureau, April 16, 1894).
THE MARKER OF REVOLUTIONARY GRAVES.
The adoption by this and the National Society of a marker has given a decided impetus to the identifica- tion of the graves of our Revolutionary heroes. As already stated, the Massachusetts Society adopted a marker exhibited at the Fall meeting at Marblehead in 1893, and it was described in the book published last year. It was then voted to distribute samples of the marker to towns asking for them, and to ask the as- sistance of towns and cities in placing them on Revolu- tionary graves.
At the meeting of the National Congress in Wash- ington on the 30th of April, 1894, the report of the Massachusetts Society was read by the president of this Society. After the reading of the report Mr. Bar- rett called attention to the importance of having every Revolutionary grave properly marked.
Upon motion of General Breckinridge, and after an interesting discussion, it was resolved :
That this Society approves the marker presented by the Massachusetts Society to designate the graves of Revolutionary soldiers when not otherwise marked. That it adopts it for itself and recommends it to the State societies with the understanding that its use is distinctly confined to THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The sum of six dollars was then appropriated to have the two markers shown remain in Washington as the property of the National Society to be retained in the custody of the Society of the District of Columbia, where they will be seen by people from all over the country.
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At a meeting of the Managers of the Massachusetts Society on the 15th of January, 1894, it was voted that any sister society shall be entitled to purchase the marker of Revolutionary graves on the same terms as the Massa- chusetts Society. It was also voted that a committee, consisting of Messrs. Howe, Roe, and Ledyard Bill, be authorized to secure the legislation necessary to place this marker in the cities and towns of the Commonwealth.
At the meeting of the Board of Managers on the 13th of February a circular was presented by the historian of the Society, addressed to the selectmen of the towns of the State, in favor of the appropriation of money to pur- chase such Revolutionary markers as may be required. The circular was adopted.
At the meeting on March 30 a letter was read from the secretary of the Rhode Island Society, thanking the Massachusetts Society for the gift of a marker. Since that time, one hundred and fifty graves of Revolutionary soldiers have been located in that State, and will be marked.
At a meeting of the Board of Managers on May 10, 1894, a committee, consisting of the president, registrar, and secretary, was appointed to provide the best means of introducing the marker to the public.
At a meeting on June 15, the president read an order passed by the City Council of Boston, appropriating the sum of fifty dollars to be expended in procuring and placing markers upon the graves of Revolutionary soldiers in burial places in Boston, subject to the approval of the Board of Health. Messrs. Nathan Appleton, Levi S. Gould, and Charles H. Saunders were appointed a com- mittee to carry the vote into effect with discretionary powers.
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At a meeting of the Managers on July 19, Captain Appleton reported that the graves of the following sol- diers in Boston cemeteries had been marked :
COPP'S HILL.
Maj. Thomas Seward, Maj. Samuel Shaw, Deacon Moses Grant, of the "Boston Tea Party ; " Robert New- man, who hung out the lanterns for Paul Revere; Capt. Amos Lincoln, Maj. Nathaniel Heath, Corp. Edward Rumney, Joseph Chandler, Capt. Daniel Malcolm, a " Son of Liberty ; " Maj. Edward Carnes, of the Boston regi- ment.
KING'S CHAPEL.
Capt. Henry Prentiss, in the Derby tomb, No. 16.
THE GRANARY BURYING-GROUND.
The victims of the "Boston Massacre; " John Han- cock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Paul Revere, James Bowdoin, James Bowdoin, Jr., Capt. Edward Blake, Lieut. Edward Blake, Lieut .- Gov. Thomas Cush- ing, Capt. Nicholas Gardner, Dr. Daniel Townsend.
CENTRAL BURYING-GROUND ON THE COMMON.
Capt. James Bancroft, Lieut. and Paymaster Thomas Blake, in tomb No. 20; Marston Watson, of Plymouth (v. page 46), in tomb No. 33.
EUSTIS STREET, ROXBURY.
Brig .- Gen. John Greaton, for eight years in the Revo- lutionary Army; Ebenezer Claflin, Lieut .- Gen. Samuel Mellish, of Greaton's regiment.
FOREST HILLS.
Col. John May, of the First Boston Regiment; Maj. Ephraim May, of the same regiment; Maj .- Gen. Joseph Warren ; his brother, Dr. John Warren, surgeon at Lex- ington, Long Island, and New Jersey; Maj .- Gen. Will- iam Heath.
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JAMAICA PLAIN. Capt. Lemuel May, who was at Lexington.
NORTH DORCHESTER CEMETERY.
Thomas Lyon, John Lemist, captain and lieutenant- colonel of Webb's regiment, being then eighteen years old; Joseph Clap, Jr., of Gill's regiment, at Lexington and Dorchester Heights.
WEST ROXBURY.
Maj .- Gen. Joseph Bradley Varnum, Representative and Speaker, United States House of Representatives; Capt. Jonathan Hale, of Glastonbury, Conn.
The committee was assisted by Mr. Henry A. May, of the Roxbury Military Historical Society, who received by vote the cordial thanks of the Board of Managers.
At a meeting of the Managers on July 19 it was voted to send a marker to the city of Newburyport to be placed on the grave of Col. Moses Little, who commanded an Essex County regiment at Bunker Hill, and it was for- warded to the Hon. J. J. Currier for that purpose.
At a meeting on August 31 a beautifully prepared marker was shown, to be placed on the grave of Lafayette in Paris, and Capt. Nathan Appleton was appointed a delegate from the Society with discretionary power to place this tribute on the grave of the French soldier and friend of America.
Mention has been made of the markers placed in the Concord cemeteries previous to the meeting of the So- ciety on April 19, 1894; the names of the soldiers follow :
IN THE HILL BURYING-GROUND.
Capt. David Brown, Hugh Cargill, Capt. Jonas Mi- nott, Sergt. Jonas Wright, Col. John Cuming, Lieut. Silas
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Mann, Reuben Brown, Sen., Sergt. Joseph Chandler, Lieut. Asa Brooks, Job Brooks, Capt. Nathan Barrett, Stephen Barrett, Col. James Barrett, Capt. Thomas Bar- rett, Capt. Abishai Brown, Lieut. Samuel Brown, Sergt. Josiah Meriam, Jacob Brown, Jr., Jacob Brown, Edward Flint, Lieut. Thaddeus Hunt, Joshua Stone, Capt. Jonas Heywood, Jonathan Heywood, Jr., Lieut. Samuel Hos- mer, Nathan Meriam, John Meriam, Nathaniel Nutting, Lieut. Francis Wheeler, Lieut. David Wheeler, Josiah Meriam, Joseph Buttrick, Samuel Buttrick, Maj. John Buttrick, John Buttrick, Jr., Capt. John Stone, Nehemiah Hunt, Chaplain William Emerson, Jotham Blood, Aaron Wright, Col. Amos Wood, Capt. Jonathan Brooks, Col. Elisha Jones. In tomb next to Ephraim Wheeler tomb : Lieut. Reuben Hunt, Surgeon Joseph Hunt, Capt. Thomas Hubbard, Peter Barrett, James Barrett. In tomb in Hill Burying-Ground: Lieut. Ephraim Wheeler, William Parkman.
MAIN-ST. BURYING GROUND.
Elijah Hosmer, John Hosmer, Silas Conant, Ensign John Barrett, Lieut. Humphrey Barrett, Humphrey Bar- rett, Jr., Capt. Timothy Wheeler, Peter Wheeler, Josiah Hayward, Capt. Charles Miles, Oliver Miles, Lieut. Samuel Jones, Capt. Ephraim Jones, Daniel Holden.
IN NORTH BURYING-GROUND.
Ephraim Potter, Nathaniel French, Sergt. Ephraim Minot, Joseph Adams, Jonathan Curtis.
IN SLEEPY HOLLOW.
Ord. Sergt. Nathan Stow, Adjt. Joseph Hosmer, Red- dit Jones.
Lexington has marked the graves of fifty of her patriot sons, all that can be now identified, but only a small part of the two hundred and seventy who were in the service from that town for a longer or shorter period. Their names follow :
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Capt. John Parker, Gov. William Eustis, Dr. Joseph Fisk, Col. William Munroe, Bezaleel Lawrence, Ebenezer Simonds, John Simonds, John Muzzey, John Munroe, Daniel Harrington, Joshua Reed, John Buckman, Francis Brown, Thomas Cutler, Benjamin Estabrook, Nathaniel Mulliken, Samuel Hastings, Ist, Samuel Hastings, 2d, Jonas Stone, Timothy Wellington, Thaddeus Parker, John Chandler, Ist, John Chandler, 2d, Joseph Under- wood, Josiah Wellington, John Tidd, Reuben Locke, Jonathan Harrington, Ist, Jonathan Harrington, 2d, Benjamin Stearns, Ebenezer Munroe, Joseph Simonds, William Tidd, Isaac Hastings, Amos Marrett, Amos Muzzey, John Parkhurst, Joshua Reed, 2d, Thomas Locke, in the old cemetery.
Ensign Robert Munroe, Jonathan Harrington, Jr., Jonas Barker, Isaac Muzzey, Caleb Harrington, Ashael Porter, Samuel Hadley, John Brown, who were killed on April 19, 1775, and lie under the monument on the Common.
Abram Smith, Josiah Smith, Isaac Smith, who are buried in the new cemetery.
Thomas Locke, Joseph Robinson, who are in the cemetery at East Lexington.
The town of Bedford has marked the graves of the following soldiers :
Lieut. Eleazer Davis, Nathaniel Page, Lieut. Moses Abbott, Moses Fitch, Solomon Lane, Benjamin Bacon, Capt. Jonathan Wilson (killed at Concord fight), Capt. John Moore, Solomon Stearns, Lieut. Edward Stearns, Reuben Bacon, David Lane, Peter (a freed slave).
Acton unanimously appropriated fifty dollars to mark the graves of her Revolutionary dead. The town will also mark the house of Capt. Joseph Robbins, near the old cemetery in East Acton, where the news of the approach of the British was received from Paul Revere's
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messenger. Captain Robbins had served in the French- Indian war. He commanded the East Acton company at Concord, where, with a voice which matched his height of six feet eight inches, he ordered forward the troops on the hill, four hundred farmers, as well as the soldiers. The Hon. William A. Wilde, of Malden, will mark with a tablet the house of Capt. Isaac Davis, the spot where the Acton company met for their march to Concord. Mr. Luke Blanchard will place a monument on the site of the house from which Calvin Blanchard, Luther Blanchard, and Abner Hosmer, the first man killed at the North bridge, started for the Concord fight.
Eighteen graves were marked in Fitchburg, by the thoughtful munificence of Mr. Henry A. Willis, a former manager of this Society. The names of the soldiers thus honored are :
Gen. James Reed, Major John Goodridge, Lieut. Joseph Fox, Lieut. William Tharlo, Lieut. Kendall Boutelle, Lieut. Asa Perry, Lieut. Seth Phillips, Sergt. Ephraim Osborne, John Merriam, Aaron Derby, Daniel Harris, Samuel Harris, Joseph Downe, John Thurston, Elijah Garfield, Reuben Gibson, William Farr, Joseph Adams.
Sudbury has placed eighteen markers over the graves of Revolutionary soldiers in the cemetery in Sudbury Centre, the oldest one in the town. Their names are as follows :
Col. Jonathan Rice, Capt. Daniel Bowker, Capt. Joseph Goodnow, Capt. Jabez Puffer, Lieut. Daniel Goodenow, Lieut. Abijah Brigham, Lieut. Daniel Noyes, Sergt. Elijah Willis, Deacon Josiah Haynes, Deacon Oliver Noyes, Reuben Willis, Jonas Balcom, James Car- ter, William Rice, Jonathan Fairbank, Isaac Maynard, John Goodnow, John Maynard.
It is expected that many other graves will be similarly marked.
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Topsfield has placed twenty markers in her cemetery over the graves of the following soldiers :
Roger Balch, David Balch, David Balch, Jr., Daniel Estey, Deacon John Gould, John Gould, Jr., Capt. Joseph Gould, John Hood, Jr., Samuel Hood, Eleazer Lake, Jr., Capt. Stephen Perkins, Zebulon Perkins, Moses Perkins, Thomas Perkins, 4th, Daniel Porter, Benjamin Pike, Jacob Towne, Jacob Towne, Jr., David Towne, Jr., Moses Wildes.
Of these Deacon John Gould was a member of the Provincial Congress; the marker was placed by his great-grandson, Dr. Benjamin A. Gould, a manager of this Society; John Hood, Jr., was at Bunker Hill, and served through the war; Samuel Hood, Thomas Per- kins, 4th, and Jacob Towne, Jr., were of the guard to Burgoyne and his soldiers; the others responded to the Lexington alarm; the markers were placed by their descendants, through the efforts of Mr. John Hood Gould, of the Massachusetts S.A.R.
Besides the action taken in the towns before mentioned, markers have been placed over the graves of many Revolutionary soldiers by members or private individuals. It is impossible to give the names of all the soldiers thus honored. Some of them, however, have been ascertained in time for this publication. It is hoped that successive year books may record the names and last resting-places of many hundreds of our departed heroes. In many cases Memorial Day was selected for the purpose of marking as well as decorating Revolutionary graves. Thus on the last anniversary, a delegation of the W. C. Kingsley Post 139, of Somerville, accompanied by a member of the Hancock family, placed a marker deco- rated with flowers in front of the tomb of John Hancock, in the Granary Burying-ground. In the old cemetery in Framingham a marker was placed upon the grave of Peter Salem, the colored man who fired the shot which killed Major Pitcairn, at Bunker Hill. This grave was
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for many years neglected, but a short time ago the town placed a suitable headstone over it.
The Society presented a marker to T. B. Pike, of Salisbury, to be placed upon the grave of his grandfather, Moses Pike, a Revolutionary soldier, who was buried in the old cemetery on the beach road.
The graves of the following Revolutionary soldiers have been marked :
Colonel William Prescott, of Pepperell, by citizens of that town.
Deacon Isaac Appleton, and Francis Appleton, of New Ipswich, N.H., and Deacon Francis Appleton, of Dublin, by Capt. Nathan Appleton, a grandson of the former.
Jacob Gould, of Stoneham, and Corporal John Ed- mands, of Melrose, by manager Levi S. Gould, great- grandson of the former.
Capt. Thomas Lord, of Athol, by William G. Lord ; Lieut. James Goddard, of Athol, by Mrs. E. J. Gage.
Thomas Hartley, of Meyer, Nicholas county, Kentucky, by Isaac N. West.
Jacobus Rappleyea, of Seneca county, New York, by Hudson Rappleyea.
Capt. Aaron Kimball, of Grafton, by his great-grand- son, Herbert W. Kimball, Secretary of this Society.
Lieut. Seth Spear, of Quincy, by W. G. Spear.
William Tarbell, of Groton, by his son, Luther L. Tar- bell, of this Society.
Jesse Sprague, of Hingham, who marched at the Lex- ington alarm, and was in the coast defence, by Frank W. Sprague, of this Society.
Sylvanus Wood, of Woburn, who was at Concord fight, and served three years in the Revolutionary army, by Alvah Wood.
Charles Paine, a colored soldier, of Deerfield, by the G.A.R. Post of that town.
Col. Samuel Lamson, of Weston, a captain at Concord
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and Dorchester Heights, colonel at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, by his grandson, Daniel S. Lamson, a man- ager of this Society.
Stephen Tukey (1754-1826), of Portland, Maine, by his great-grandson, Nathan Gould, a member of the Maine S.A.R.
At the monument erected by the city of Cambridge over the remains of John Hicks, William Marcy, and Moses Richardson, who were killed on April 19, 1775, by the Hon. Charles H. Saunders, ex-president of this Society.
Royal Keith, of Grafton, by that town.
Daniel Harmon, of Durham, Maine, corporal in Colonel Fogg's Massachusetts militia regiment, which marched from Portland, December 25, 1775, to join the northern army, by his grandson, Z. R. Harmon, of Port- land, of the Maine S.A.R.
Col. Jeremiah Page, of Danvers, by William O. Hood, of this Society.
David Kennison, the last survivor of the " Boston Tea Party," who died in Chicago in 1852, being more than one hundred and fifteen years old. He was not only a member of the "party," but a soldier of the Revolution and of the War of 1812. He is buried in what is now one of the principal parks of that city, and the marker was placed upon his grave by Josiah L. Lombard, presi- dent of the Illinois S.A.R.
Lieut. Robert Edwards, William Simpson, Dennison Wheelock, of Southbridge, by Charles L. Newhall.
Mr. F. H. Rice, of our Society, has marked the graves of the following soldiers buried in West Boylston : Major Ezra Beamen, Zachariah Child, John Winn, Thomas White, John Temple.
John Low and Eliphalet Davis, of Gloucester, by their descendant, David W. Low, of this Society.
Thomas Wilson and Nathaniel H. West, of Bristol, Rhode Island, by Mrs. Lizzie R. Simmons.
Solomon Smith, of Acton, and Capt. Isaac Davis, of the Acton company at Concord fight, by this Society.
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Capt. John Merritt, of Marblehead, of Colonel Glover's regiment, by Francis Merritt, of that town.
Reuben Wharfield, of Chester, by his great-grandson, W. M. Wharfield, of Springfield, a member of this So- ciety.
Capt. John Bryant, and Lieut. David Mason, Jr., buried in Chester by their descendant, A. S. Bryant, of Spring- field, of this Society.
Capt. James Churchill, Capt. Thomas Loring, Lieut. Ezekiel Loring, Lieut. Joseph Wright, of Plympton, by their descendant, Thomas L. Churchill, of this Society.
Brookline has marked the graves of four of her soldiers of the Revolution: Capt. Isaac Gardner, who was killed on the 19th of April, 1775; Lieut. Amos Wadsworth, Sergt. James Wilcox, and Private James Peirce. They are buried in the town cemetery on Walnut street.
The cost of the marker is as follows :
In iron . one dollar.
In bronze
five dollars.
In addition to the marker a tablet in bronze, costing from $2.50 to $5.50, may be procured of the manu- facturers, upon which the name of the soldier may be inscribed.
Orders may be addressed to M. D. Jones & Co., 368 Washington street, Boston.
OFFICERS
OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1894-95.
President-General HORACE PORTER, 15 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Vice-President General J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, U.S.A., WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Vice-President General THOMAS M. ANDERSON, U.S.A., VANCOUVER BARRACKS, WASHINGTON.
Vice-President General WILLIAM RIDGELY GRIFFITH, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
Vice-President General
EDWIN SHEPARD BARRETT,
CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS.
Vice-President General JOHN WHITEHEAD, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.
Secretary General FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
Treasurer General
CHARLES WALDO HASKINS,
2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
Registrar General
A. HOWARD CLARK, NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Historian General
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