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BRIGGS, LLOYD VERNON, HANOVER.
Great-great-grandson of JAMES BRIGGS, of Scituate; private in Capt. Francis Cushing's com- pany, Col. John Cushing's regiment, on service in Rhode Island, December, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, i., 141).
BROOKS, ETHAN, WEST SPRINGFIELD.
Grandson of SIMON BROOKS, of West Spring- field (1760-1836) ; on guard at the Springfield ar- mory grounds; marched with the Hampshire County forces to meet Burgoyne at Saratoga.
Grandson of ELEAZAR RING, of Chesterfield ; private in Captain Webster's company, Colonel Fel- lows's regiment, April 21, 1775, at the siege of Boston (Coat Rolls, lvi).
BROOKS, GEORGE FRANCIS TARR, CHELSEA.
Great-great-grandson of JOSEPH BROOKS, of Hanover (1746- ); private in Captain Soper's North Militia company in Hanover, which marched to Marshfield, April 20, 1775 ; private in Captain Wins- low's company, Colonel Cary's regiment, which marched to Roxbury, February 12, 1776; private in Captain Soper's company, October 1, 1776, which went to Bristol, Rhode Island, for three months, and in Decem- ber for fifteen days; private in Captain Pierce's com- pany, of Colonel Cotton's regiment, which was drafted from Hanover and Scituate for a secret expedition to Tiverton, Rhode Island, September 25, 1777, and served one month and six days; private in Capt. Joshua Reed's company, in Col. John Robinson's regiment of Massachusetts Bay, 1777, and served three months, seventeen days; private in Capt. Francis Brown's company, in Colonel McIntosh's regiment,
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General Lovell's Massachusetts Militia brigade, on an expedition to Rhode Island, August 4 to September II, 1778; private in Captain Homes's company, in Colonel Reed's regiment of Guards, for duty at Cam- bridge, April 1, 1778, for three months; private in Captain Richardson's company, in Colonel Poor's regi- ment, for duty at North River, New York, July 25, 1778, for six months; member of the Committee of Safety (v. " History of Hanover," p. 128, and Mass. Rolls).
* BROOKS, GEORGE MERRICK, CONCORD.
Grandson of JOSHUA BROOKS, Jr., of Lincoln, private in Captain Smith's company, Colonel Pierce's regiment, which marched at the Lexington alarm and served five days (v. Lexington Alarm Rolls, xiii., pp. 96,97).
BROWN, CHARLES CLARK, BRIMFIELD.
Great-great-grandson of JONATHAN BROWN, of Brimfield (1717-1799) ; member of the Committee of Correspondence, January, 1773; sergeant in Cap- tain Thompson's company at the Lexington alarm ; at Cambridge in the same company for eight months ; lieutenant of a company in 1779 (v. " History of Brim- field ").
BROWN, CHARLES M., HOLYOKE.
Great-grandson of JAMES GRAY, of Epsom, New Hampshire; sergeant-major of Col. John Stark's regi- ment from April to August, 1775, and was at Bunker Hill; captain in Colonel Scammel's Third New Hamp- shire Regiment of the Continental army from Novem- ber 8, 1776, to January 4, 1778, when he left the service (N. H. Rolls, i., 49, 178, 556, 639; ii., 6).
BROWN, DAVID HENRY, MEDFORD.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL NAY, of Hampton, New Hampshire (1739-1817) ; captain of a company
* Deceased.
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in Colonel Wingate's regiment, raised for the army of Canada, but joined the Northern Army in New York, 1776 (v. N. H. State Papers, vol. xiv .; N. H. Rev. Rolls, i., 350) ; served in Col. John Webster's regiment for the defence of Rhode Island from July 7, 1779, to January 15, 1780 (v. N. H. State Papers, vol. xv .; N. H. Rolls, vol. ii.); enlisted July, 1780, in Captain Whittier's company, of Colonel Nichols's regiment, for the defence of West Point, to October 24 (v. N. H. State Papers, vol. xvi .; N. H. Rolls, iii.).
BROWN, EDWIN, BOSTON.
Grandson of DANIEL HARRIS, of Fitchburg (1752-1820) ; volunteered at Fitchburg at the Lex- ington alarm; enlisted for eight months in Captain Fuller's company, Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston ; discharged December, 1775; enlisted for six months, 1776, in Capt. William Warner's company, Colonel Whitney's regiment; served at Nantasket and assisted in the capture of the British transports "The George " and " The Annabella," the " Anne" and the " Lord Howe; " enlisted April 1, 1777, for twelve months as an artificer in Capt. Seth Oak's company, and was at Brandywine and Germantown; enlisted in the summer of 1778 for eight months ; sergeant in Capt. Ephraim Stearns's com- pany, Col. Ezra Wood's regiment; discharged Febru- ary, 1779; enlisted for three months in 1779 in Capt. Thomas Cowden's company, and for three months in 1780 in Capt. Timothy Boutelle's company, and was at West Point at Arnold's treason; in all, three years and eight months.
BROWN, FRANCIS HENRY, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of FRANCIS BROWN, of Lex- ington ; was present at the battle of Lexington, where he was wounded; assisted in guarding Hancock and Adams at Parson Clark's house; was probably at
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Bunker Hill and at Cambridge during the siege of Boston.
Great-grandson of EDMUND MUNROE; a lieu- tenant in the French-Indian war; a minute-man at Lexington ; lieutenant in Colonel Reed's regiment, July, 1776; quartermaster on the northern frontier in that year; captain in Colonel Bigelow's regiment, January, 1777 ; was present at Stillwater, Bennington, Saratoga, and Burgoyne's surrender; was killed at Monmouth, June 28, 1778.
Great-great-grandson of JONATHAN HAR- RINGTON, of Lexington ; member of the Committee of Correspondence; a minute-man at Lexington, of which his son Jonathan was the last survivor (v. Hudson's "History of Lexington," Frothingham's "Siege of Boston ; " Rev. Rolls).
BROWNELL, ABNER HOWLAND, FITCHBURG.
Grandson of STEPHEN BROWNELL, of Little Compton, Rhode Island; private in the Coastguard service.
BRYANT, ANDREW SYMMES, SPRINGFIELD.
Grandson of JOHN BRYANT, of Boston ( 1743- 1816) ; a lieutenant in Knox's artillery regiment, 1776, until he lost an arm, at Stony Point; afterwards in charge of military stores and prisoners at Springfield.
Great-grandson of DAVID MASON, of Salem (1726-1794) ; lieutenant-colonel of Knox's artillery.
BRYANT, DAVID MASON, SOUTH DEERFIELD. Grandson of JOHN BRYANT, of Boston. Grandson of DAVID MASON, of Salem. (v. Andrew Symmes Bryant.)
BRYANT, HENRY, HARTFORD, CONN. Great-grandson of JOHN BRYANT. Great-grandson of DAVID MASON. (v. Andrew Symmes Bryant.)
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BRYANT, JAMES STURGIS, HARTFORD, CONN. Great-grandson of JOHN BRYANT. Great-grandson of DAVID MASON. (v. Andrew Symmes Bryant.)
BURNHAM, WILLIAM HASKELL, ESSEX.
Son of JONATHAN BURNHAM, of Ipswich, a soldier from Bunker Hill to the close of the war; private in Captain Parker's company, Colonel Little's regiment; in Capt. Robert Dodge's company, Col. onel Johnson's regiment, 1777; in Captain Dodge's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment, from 1778 (Rev. Rolls, xxiii., 204; xviii., 147, 146) ; was a pris- oner on Long Island; at Burgoyne's surrender; a pensioner.
BURNHAM, WILLIAM WEBSTER, NATICK.
Great-great-grandson of EARL CLAPP, of Roch- . ester (1741-1836) ; captain of a Rochester company at the Lexington alarm; captain of a company in Colonel Cotton's regiment at the siege of Boston, October, 1775, eight months' service; captain in the Twenty-first Continental Infantry from January to De- cember, 1776; major detached from the militia to the Continental Army, July, 1780; was at Monmouth ; was personally acquainted with Washington and Lafayette (v. Lexington Alarm Rolls, xii., 88; Coat Rolls, Ivi., 77; Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 61).
*BURR, CHARLES HOWARD, WOBURN.
Great-grandson of NATHAN BALLARD, of Wilton, New Hampshire; first lieutenant of Captain Taylor's company, which marched from Amherst, De- cember 8, 1775, to Winter Hill; captain of a company marching from Amherst to Ticonderoga on the alarm of June 29, 1777; lieutenant in Captain Goss's com-
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pany at Bennington, and commanded the company during the battle (Histories of Wilton and Concord, New Hampshire).
BURTON, ANDREW NICHOLS, BOSTON.
Grandson of JONATHAN BURTON, of Wilton, New Hampshire (1741- ); at Louisburg, 1759; orderly sergeant in Capt. Benjamin Taylor's com- pany, of Amherst, at Winter Hill in the winter of 1775-6; lieutenant in Capt. William Barron's com- pany, in Col. Isaac Wyman's regiment, in the Ticon- deroga campaign, 1776, and served three weeks in Rhode Island in 1780; he kept a journal in his first and second campaigns, for which vide " History of Wilton," pp. 93, 98-101.
BURTON, GEORGE S., BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN BURTON, of Wilton, New Hampshire. (v. Andrew Nichols Burton.)
BUTTRICK, JAMES GARDNER, LOWELL.
Great-grandson of JOHN BUTTRICK, of Con- cord; major (afterwards colonel) of the regiment of minute-men at Concord, April 19, 1775, who led the companies, by order of Colonel Barrett, to the North Bridge, and gave the historic order, "Fire, fellow-soldiers ! for God's sake, fire !"
CALKINS, CHENEY HOSMER, SPRINGFIELD.
Great-grandson of DANIEL HOSMER, of Concord (1746- ); ensign in Captain Wheeler's company, which was raised in Concord for the expedition to Ticonderoga, June 25, 1776, and served six months (v. Shattuck's " History of Concord," 124, 354).
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CHAMBERS, DEXTER BALDWIN, CLEVELAND, OHIO.
Grandson of WILLIAM CHAMBERS, of Chelms- ford (1750-1808); private in Captain Barron's com- pany, Colonel Green's regiment, which marched at the Lexington alarm; corporal in Captain Ford's com- pany, Colonel Bridge's regiment, Continental Army, April 25, 1775; served three months, fourteen days ; receipted for pay at Ticonderoga, October 2, 1776; served forty-three days, from September 27, 1777, in Captain Ford's company, Colonel Reed's regiment, which reenforced the Northern Army (Rev. Rolls, vols. xi., xliv., lv., lvi.).
CHASE, HENRY MARTYN, NEWBURYPORT.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL LOWE CHASE (1752- ) ; a private at Bunker Hill and other battles.
Great-grandson of DAVID WILEY; fought at the battle of the Brandywine, the ground of which was included in his farm.
Great-grandson of MOSES PIDGIN; a private at Bunker Hill, and supposed to have been killed there.
Great-great-grandson of EZRA CHASE, of Ham- ilton ; private in Captain Colby's Haverhill company, Colonel Johnson's regiment, which marched at the Lexington alarm to Cambridge, he being fifty-five years of age; member of the Committee of Safety.
CHASE, THEODORE, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of TIMOTHY BIGELOW, of Worcester (1739-1790); member of the Provincial Congress, 1774; marched at the head of the Worces- ter company to Cambridge at the Lexington alarm ; major in Colonel Ward's Worcester regiment, 1775; in Arnold's expedition to Quebec, 1775; was cap- tured in the attack on Quebec; colonel of the Fifth Regiment, 1777; was present at Burgoyne's sur-
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render; at Valley Forge and West Point; in charge of the Springfield arsenal after the war.
CHOATE, ISAAC BASSETT, BOSTON.
Grandson of EBENEZER CHOATE, of Ipswich (1765-1852) ; one of the crew of the " Vengeance," on the expedition to the Penobscot in 1779, then being fourteen years of age; entered the Continental Army the same year; discharged May 10, 1782.
Great-grandson of STEPHEN CHOATE, of Ips- wich ; a Representative to the Provincial Congresses and General Court from 1776 to 1803.
CHURCHILL, GARDNER ASAPH, BOSTON. -
Great-grandson of DAVID BREWER, of Framing- ham (1762-1834); enlisted as a private April 19, 1775, for eight months, and was at Bunker Hill ; private, December, 1775, for two months; corporal in Captain Edgell's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, June 12, 1778, for six months' service in Rhode Island ; captain of the West company of Framingham Militia, Colonel Perry's Fifth Middlesex Regiment, which marched to Rhode Island by order of the Council, July 22, 1780; served to August 7th, when he was discharged (v. Temple's " History of Framingham," 311, 313, 338, 351; Records of the Pension Bureau).
Great-great-grandson of DAVID BREWER, of Framingham and Palmer (1731- ); colonel of the Ninth Massachusetts Militia Regiment, 1775 (v. “ His- tory of Palmer," pp. 170-173 ; Records of the Provincial Congress, 1775).
CHURCHILL, THOMAS LORING, CHELSEA.
Great-grandson of GAMES CHURCHILL, of Plympton; first sergeant of the Plympton company that marched to Marshfield at the Lexington alarm ; lieutenant of a company in Colonel Gooding's regi-
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ment; captain of a company in Colonel Cushing's regiment, and served through the war.
Great-great-grandson of THOMAS LORING, of Plympton; captain of the company of minute-men above mentioned ; captain in the Continental Army.
CLAPP, WALDO E., FITCHBURG.
Great-grandson of OLIVER HARRIS, of Wren- tham, private in Captain Haws's company at the Lex- ington alarm; was at White Plains; private in Captain Haskins's company, Colonel Jacobs's regiment, Janu- ary, 1778 (Rolls, xii., 141 ; ii., 85).
CLARK, ALFRED HOUGHTON, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of JONATHAN HOUGH- TON, of Boston ; first lieutenant in Captain Hastings's company, of Colonel Whitcomb's regiment, which marched to Cambridge on the Lexington alarm; served in the siege of Boston from May to December, 1775; captain in the Second Worcester regiment, March 20, 1776; was in New York with his com- pany in August, 1776.
CLARK, ARTHUR WELLINGTON, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of ELIJAH CLARK, of Hollis, New Hampshire; private in the eighth company of Col. George Reid's regiment; received a bounty of £60 from Hollis and his widow a pension (v. N. H. State Papers, xvi., 235, 275, 509, 692; "History of Hollis," 191-2, 203).
Great-great-grandson of MOSES BARNARD; surgeon's mate on the staff of Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, May 22, 1775, and served two months and four days at the siege of Boston (Rev. Rolls, xxvi., 340).
Great-great-grandson of SETH HEYWOOD ; ser- geant in Captain Sawyer's company of minute-men, in Col. John Whitcomb's regiment; lieutenant in
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Captain Richardson's company, in Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, at Cambridge, during the siege of Boston ; on the expedition to Quebec, September II, 1775 (v. Rolls, cxlvi., 156; lvi., 146; lvii., 15; xii., 15).
Great-great-grandson of JAMES LANE, of Bed- ford; sergeant in Capt. John Morris's company, Col. Jonathan Reed's regiment, at the Concord fight, and afterward in the army at Cambridge in the same regiment.
Great-great-great-grandson of PHINEAS HEY- WOOD; a delegate to the first Provincial Congress from Shrewsbury, 1774, and one of the fifteen grand jurors who, in April, 1774, refused, and in writing signed and presented to the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court at Worcester a protest against, being empanelled if Chief Justice Oliver should be present on the bench, " a judge convicted, in the minds of the people, of a crime more heinous, in all probability, than any that might come before him."
Great-great-great-grandson of ISAAC TEMPLE, of Shrewsbury; member of Committee of Examina- tion and Inspection of that town (v. "History of Shrewsbury," 38-9).
Great-great-grandson of JONATHAN HOUGH- TON.
(v. Alfred Houghton Clark.)
CLARK, AUGUSTUS PECK, CAMBRIDGE.
Grandson of YOEL PECK, of Barrington, Rhode Island (1759-1833); private in Capt. Thomas Allen's company, Colonel Crary's regiment, 1777, to March, 1778; later in the militia from 1778 to 1779; joined Sullivan's Rhode Island expedition, and was present at the battle of August 29, 1778; served one month at Newport in 1780.
Great-grandson of ICHABOD CLARKE, of Men- don (1745- ); a member and then lieutenant of a company of irregular mounted rangers, protecting farms
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and guarding the borders of the State; served in the army of General Sullivan, protecting military stores and property; was on duty at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778, and assisted in the evacua- tion of the island.
*CLARK, JAMES WILSON, FRAMINGHAM.
Son of PETER CLARK, of Hopkinton (1762- 1818); enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777; was present at Burgoyne's surrender ; wintered at Valley Forge; at Monmouth heard Washington's reprimand to General Lee: "What do you mean, General Lee? Go to the rear! go to the rear!" served in Rhode Island in 1779; sailed on the "Alliance" in 1781, carrying Lafayette to France, and discovered a plot among British prisoners on board to capture the ship; was made sergeant of marines; was twice wounded, and served on board this ship until 1783 ; was offered a lieutenant's commission, but declined on account of the attendant expense of hospitality, and returned to his farm in Hopkinton.
CLARK, MYRON ALLEN, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JABEZ TARR, of Gloucester (1759-1844) ; of the Coastguard until April 30, 1775 ; private in Captain Rowe's company, Colonel Bridge's . regiment, for eight months, including Bunker Hill; corporal in Captain Swazey's company, of Colonel Glover's regiment, for one year; went to New York and was at White Plains, and in New Jersey ; enlisted as prize-master's mate, July 1, 1782, on board a letter- of-marque ship, the " Gloucester Packet," 14 guns (v. Rev. Rolls, Ivi., 181; Coat Rolls, Ivii., 19; " His- tory of Gloucester," 171, 596; " History of Rockport," 39, 90).
CLARKE, JONAS BOWEN, BOSTON.
Grandson of the Reverend JONAS CLARKE, of
* Deceased.
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Lexington; minister from 1755 to 1805; the intimate friend of Adams and Hancock, with the latter of whom he was connected by marriage; in his house they were guarded the night before the battle; "a recognized patriot," whose services to the cause are commemorated by Hudson (" History of Lexington," pp. 161-2; chap. vi. and xiii.), and by Everett in his address at Lex- ington in 1835.
CLARKE, WILLIAM BUTLER, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of JOHN BROWN, of Pitts- field (1744-1780) ; member of the Provincial Congress ; a well-known officer in many campaigns; at Ticon- deroga with Allen, Arnold, and Easton; messenger to Canada from the Provincial Congress at the instance of the Committee of Correspondence with Canada, 1775; took Chambly, September 24; led a storming party at Quebec, December 31, under Montgomery ; after whose death he resigned, because he could not get a court of inquiry on Arnold's conduct, whom he knew and despised ; served with success in Vermont, 1777, and at Lake George under General Lincoln, in command of Berkshire men, against the Indians of the Mohawk Valley; killed at Stone Arabia, New York, October 19, 1780 (v. Smith's " History of Pittsfield ").
CONANT, SAMUEL MORRIS, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.
Great-great-grandson of WILLIAM LARNED, of Oxford; representative from Dudley in the Provincial Congress; major of Col. Jonathan Holman's regi- ment.
*COOK, ROBERT, WHITMAN.
Son of LEVI COOK, of Abington; private in Capt. Joseph Soper's company, July, 1775 (Rev. Rolls, xxxvi., 226) ; private in Captain Bates's company, Col- onel Cary's regiment, which marched from Abington
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to Tiverton at the Rhode Island alarm, six days from July 30, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, i., 36).
COOLIDGE, HORACE HOPKINS, BOSTON.
Grandson of JOHN COOLIDGE, of Natick (1752- 1823) ; private in Captain Bullard's company, Colonel Peirce's regiment, at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xi., 203) ; was at Bunker Hill and White Plains.
*COTTING, GEORGE A., HUDSON.
Great-grandson of JOSIAH CUTTING, of Shrews- bury (1730-1788) ; private in Captain Beaman's com- pany, which marched at the Lexington alarm, and was at Bunker Hill; private in Captain Maynard's com- pany, Colonel Cushing's regiment, August, 1777, and was at Bennington ; private in Captain Belknap's com- pany, Colonel Wade's Worcester County regiment, January 1, 1779 (Rev. Rolls, xi., 190; xxi., 88 ; i., 64).
COTTON, CHARLES ALBERT, DEDHAM.
Great-great-great-grandson of JOSEPH BURN- HAM, of Ipswich ( -1775); private in Capt. Abram Dodge's company, in Colonel Little's regiment, and was killed at Bunker Hill.
CROCKER, JOSIAH MORSE, SALEM.
Great-great-grandson of JONATHAN GLOVER, of Marblehead (1731-1804); colonel of the Fifth Essex Militia Regiment, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 90) ; marched to Cambridge three days after the battle of Bunker Hill, with a force which he had armed and equipped at his own expense.
CURRIER, SIMON PENDER, BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY.
Grandson of JONATHAN CURRIER, of Bow, New Hampshire (1754-1827); private in Captain Abbott's company, Colonel Stark's regiment, August I, 1775; private in Captain Kinsman's company,
* Deceased.
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in the same regiment ; private in Captain Emory's com- pany, Colonel Baldwin's regiment; private in Captain Scott's company, Colonel Stark's regiment, May 6, 1777; sergeant in the Fifth company, Colonel Cilley's First New Hampshire Regiment; corporal in Captain Marston's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Senter's regi- ment, July 1, 1777, to January, 1778, and was in the Rhode Island expedition; enlisted from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, April 20, 1778.
Grandson of STEPHEN WHITNEY, of Harvard (1762-1806) ; drummer in Captain Hill's company, in the regiment commanded by his father, Col. Josiah Whitney.
Great-grandson of JOSIAH WHITNEY, of Har- vard; lieutenant-colonel of Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, 1775; colonel, January, 1776; colonel of the Second Worcester Regiment, March, 1776; garri- soned Hull in April of that year (Rev. Rolls, xxvi., 318, 336).
CURWEN, JAMES BARR, SALEM.
Grandson of JAMES BARR, of Salem, who sailed November 4, 1777, as lieutenant of the sloop "Black Snake," William Carlton, commander; she was fifty tons measurement, and carried twelve guns and forty- seven men ; she cruised on the coast of Nova Scotia; commissioned by President John Jay, of the Continental Congress, captain of the ship "Oliver Cromwell," carrying eighteen guns and one hundred and ten men ; captain of the ship "Rover," twenty guns and one hundred men (v. Felt's " Annals of Salem," 518).
Great-grandson of SAMUEL CARLTON, of Salem (1731-1804) ; in London when news came of Lexing- ton, and hastened home to raise a company; took a pane of glass from his parlor window, replacing it with wood, on which he painted " This pays no tax;" lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Brewer's regiment raised to reënforce the army at Ticonderoga under General
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Schuyler, and served from November, 1776, to Sep- tember, 1778 (v. Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 129) ; was at Valley Forge in 1778 (v. Felt's " Annals of Salem," ii., 521).
DANFORTH, BUSHNELL, WILLIAMSTOWN.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN DANFORTH, of Warren, who, with his two sons, Joshua and Jona- than, sixteen and fourteen years of age, was at the battle of Bunker Hill; captain of a company of minute-men at Bennington.
DANFORTH, KEYES, WILLIAMSTOWN.
Grandson of JONATHAN DANFORTH, of Warren,
(v. Bushnell Danforth.)
DANIELS, GEORGE W., ACTON.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL DANIELS, of Dan- ville, Vermont; a soldier of the Revolution from that State.
Great-great-grandson of - HOWARD; a soldier from Maryland.
DAVENPORT, CHARLES, WATERTOWN.
Grandson of BENJAMIN DAVENPORT, of Ded- ham ; private in Captain Fuller's company at Lexing- ton, April 19, 1775 (v. Alarm Rolls, xii., 71).
DAVIS, GEORGE OTIS, LEXINGTON.
Grandson of THOMAS DAVIS, of Lexington ; pri- vate at Bunker Hill, Bennington, and White Plains.
DAVIS, HORATIO, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of MOSES DAVIS, a private in the company from Roxbury, at the Lexington alarm.
Great-great-grandson of AARON DAVIS; captain of the second company raised in Roxbury; delegate
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to the Provincial Congress; member of the Committee of Correspondence of Suffolk County (v. Drake's " History of Roxbury ").
DAVIS, JOSEPH ALBA, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of ROBERT DAVIS, of Boston; captain in the first Boston regiment, Colonel Vose, 1777-1780; captain of the fourth company of the Bos- ton regiment, Col. Edward Proctor, Continental Army, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 9, 38, 39).
DENHAM, EDWARD, NEW BEDFORD.
Great-grandson of SILAS DENHAM, of Plymp- ton ; private in the company which marched to Marsh- field at the Lexington alarm; enlisted in 1776, for service at Fort Edward; served forty days in 1780, at the Rhode Island alarm.
DEXTER, GORDON, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of SAMUEL DEXTER, of Boston; a member of the Council just previous to the Declaration of Independence, and refused reëlection " by the express command of his majesty."
Great-great-grandson of WILLIAM PRESCOTT, of Pepperell (1726-1795); colonel of the Middlesex regiment of minute-men, 1774, and marched to Lex- ington, April 19, 1775 ; proceeded to Cambridge and was ordered to throw up works on Bunker Hill, June 16, where on the seventeenth he encountered the British under General Howe; resigned in 1777, but joined the Northern Army as a volunteer, and was present at Saratoga.
DOBLE, FRANCIS MARION, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JOHN MATTHEWS, of Peter- borough, New Hampshire; private in the seventh company, first regiment, Colonel Joseph Cilley ; private in Captain Scott's company, Colonel Paul D. Sargent's
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