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STATUE OF COLONEL PRESCOTT, At Bunker Hill.
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Massachusetts regiment, October 6, 1775; private in Captain Stewart's company, Colonel Phinney's regi- ment, January, 1776, and was at Cambridge during the siege of Boston; a pensioner (v. Certificate of the Pension Bureau, March, 1890, and New Hampshire Rolls).
DODGE, ROBERT FRANK, WENHAM.
Great-grandson of RICHARD DODGE, of Wen- ham; captain of a company in the Third Essex Regi- ment, raised to reënforce the Northern Army, Septem- ber, 1777, and served forty days. (Rev. Rolls, xviii., 152.
DOOLITTLE, OSCAR EDWARD, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of AMOS DOOLITTLE, of New Haven, Connecticut; private in the second company of the Governor's Foot Guards, Capt. Benedict Arnold, which marched at the Lexington alarm, twenty-three days' service (Conn. Rev. Rolls, p. 18; Fiske's "Am- erican Revolution," i., 126).
DORR, JOSEPH, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of Colonel WILLIAM TURNER, an aide-de-camp to General Washington.
DOTEN, CHARLES CARROLL, PLYMOUTH.
Grandson of NATHANIEL BRADFORD, of Plymouth ; a direct descendant of Governor Bradford ; private in Captain Hudson's company for seacoast defence in 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxxvi., 40, 45).
DROWNE, LUTHER WASHBURN, BOSTON.
Grandson of SOLOMON DROWNE, M.D., of Rhode Island; a surgeon from 1776 to 1780 in vari- ous hospitals and regiments ; was in Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition in 1780; was surgeon of the private sloop-of-war "Hope; " was the friend of Lafayette and
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other French officers, who intrusted their invalid sol- diers to his care (v. "Genealogy of the Family of Solomon Drowne, M.D., with notices of his Ancestors, 1646-1879").
DUDLEY, MYRON SAMUEL, NANTUCKET.
Great-grandson of STEPHEN DUDLEY, of Little- ton; private in Captain Wood's company, Colonel Reed's regiment, at Cambridge, from April to July, 1778 (Rev. Rolls, xxiv., 56).
Great-grandson of BENJAMIN BARNARD, Sen., of Westminster (1750-1837); private in Captain Wheeler's company, which marched to Cambridge at the Lexington alarm (v. " One Hundredth Anni- versary of Westminster;" "History of Peru, Ver- mont," p. 29) ; was a pensioner.
DUSTIN, JOHN KNIGHT, JR., GLOUCESTER.
Great-grandson of NATHANIEL DUSTIN, of Haverhill; private in Captain Francis's company, Colo- nel Mansfield's regiment, eight months' service in the siege of Boston (Coat Rolls, Ivi.).
DWIGHT, ARTHUR SMITH, COLORADO.
Great-great-grandson of JAMES MELLEN, of Milford ( -1812) ; major and lieutenant-colonel of the Third and Ninth Massachusetts Regiments, sta- tioned on the northern boundary during the war; took part in the defence of Fort Schuyler, 1777 ; was officer of the day October 2, 1780, at the execution of Major André, and the bearer of Washington's last message to him in answer to the latter's request that his sentence be commuted to shooting.
EASTE, CHARLES HENRY, ARLINGTON.
Great-grandson of BENJAMIN EASTE (Estey), of Billerica ( -1775) ; private in Captain Stickney's company, Colonel Bridge's regiment, and was killed at Bunker Hill.
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EDDY, LEWIS, PLYMOUTH.
Grandson of SETH EDDY, of Middleborough, (1754-1830); private in Captain Shaw's first com- pany of Middleborough minute-men that marched to Marshfield at the Lexington alarm (Alarm Rolls, xiii, 119).
*EDMANDS, HOSEA, MALDEN.
Son of EBENEZER EDMANDS, of Dudley ; pri- vate in Captain Healey's company, Colonel Larned's regiment, at the Lexington alarm and the siege of Bos- ton (Rolls xii., 121 ; lvi.).
EDWARDS, JAMES MILLER, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
Son of EBENEZER EDWARDS, of Acton ; pri- vate in Captain Hayward's company, Colonel Peirce's regiment, at Lexington (Alarm Rolls, xii., 116).
EDWARDS, JOHN FOX, MENOMONEE, WISCONSIN. Son of EBENEZER EDWARDS, of Acton. (v. James Miller Edwards.)
ELDREDGE, EDWARD HENRY, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JAMES ELDREDGE, lieuten- ant, then captain, of the third company, Sixth Connec- ticut Regiment, May 1, 1775, and was at the siege of Boston, until December 10, 1775; captain of a com- pany in Colonel Huntington's First Connecticut Regi- ment, January 1, 1777; resigned January 2, 1778; captain in Colonel Parsons's Tenth Connecticut Regi- ment, 1777.
ELIOT, CHARLES DARWIN, SOMERVILLE.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH ELIOT, of Taunton (1749-1777) ; private in Captain Williams's company, which marched to Roxbury at the Lexington alarm; private in Captain Peters's company, Colonel Reed's
* Deceased.
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regiment, November 8, 1775; private in Captain King's company, Colonel Walker's regiment, Novem- ber 29, 1775; private in Captain White's company, Colonel Carey's regiment, at New York, September 29, 1776, and at Harlem, October 15, 1776; at Philips- borough, October 25; under General Gates at Van Schaick's Island, August 26, 1777; sick from Septem- ber, 1776, to his death, December 15, 1777.
Great-great-grandson of JOHN HICKS, of Cam- bridge (1725-1775) ; one of the "Boston Tea Party ;" on the morning of April 19, 1775, he assisted in remov- ing the planks from the " Great Bridge" in Brookline, to prevent Lord Percy from crossing with his reënforce- ments of eighteen hundred soldiers, and hastened with his gun and horse to harass the British troops returning from Lexington. He was shot dead by the British flank-guard on North avenue, Cambridge, and was buried as he fell, without shroud or coffin, in the old burial-ground of Cambridge. The city of Cambridge erected a monument in 1870 over his remains, and a granite tablet in 1880 on the spot where he fell.
ELLIS, EMMONS RAYMOND, CAMBRIDGE.
Great-grandson of JOSHUA ELLIS, of Keene, New Hampshire ( -1824); private in the Keene company, Colonel Stark's regiment, at Bunker Hill, where he was badly wounded.
Great-great-grandson of TIMOTHY ELLIS, a col- onel in the French-Indian war, who was a member of this company, with six sons and eight other members of the Ellis family ; a member of the New Hampshire Provincial Congress of 1775 (v. " Annals of Keene," 41).
EVANS, CHARLES HAROLD, GREAT BARRINGTON.
Great-grandson of TIMOTHY HIGGINS, of Con- necticut; private in Captain Perrit's company, Colonel Webb's regiment, January, 1775, one year, six weeks'
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service ; a pensioner (Certificate of Pension Bureau, April 28, 1892).
FAIRBANKS, HARRY BURNSIDE, WORCESTER.
Great-great-grandson of OTHNIEL BROWN, of Smithfield, Rhode Island (1759- ) ; enlisted at six- teen years of age, taking the place of an elder brother who had been drafted ; served in Rhode Island ; was a pensioner (v. Year Book of the Conn. Soc. S. A. R., p. 64; Senate Document, 23d Congress, 1833-4; and rolls of the Pension Bureau ).
FARNHAM, JOHN ERNEST, MALDEN.
Great-grandson of BENJAMIN FARNHAM (or Farnum), of Andover ; first lieutenant, then captain, of the Andover company of the Fourth Essex Regiment ; pursued the British from Lexington; was wounded at Bunker Hill, and never fully recovered; served in the Continental Army and was at Valley Forge.
FARQUHAR, DAVID WEBBER, NEWTON.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL BUCK (afterwards Ames), of Haverhill (1758-1852) ; a drummer, drafted from the militia for the Continental Army in 1775 and '76 ; enlisted under the call of Congress in 1777 in the second company, Ninth Regiment, and served thirty- five months (v. " History of Haverhill," pp. 393, 397, 410) ; received £14 bounty.
FAXON, JAMES, SALEM.
Son of GAMES FAXON, a musician in Captain Leslie's company ; after Bunker Hill, stationed at Fort Independence, Boston harbor; died in Washington, New Hampshire, 1842 ; a pensioner (v. N.H. Rolls).
FELLOWS, OSHEA PAGE, CAMBRIDGE.
Grandson of THOMAS HODGKINS, of Essex county ; quartermaster of Colonel Little's Essex regi-
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ment, 1775 (Rev. Rolls, xxvii., 209) ; private in Cap- tain Brown's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, on the Rhode Island expedition, 1778 (Rev. Rolls, i., 78) ; ad- jutant of Colonel Turner's regiment, on duty in Rhode Island, June, 1781 (Rev. Rolls, xxvii., 233) ; first lieu- tenant of Captain Robinson's company, Colonel Tur- ner's regiment, of five months' men, July, 1781 (Rev. Rolls, iii., 115).
FENN,, GEORGE EDWARD, MELROSE.
Great-grandson of PETER MANNING, private in Captain Warner's company, Colonel Whitney's regi- ment, in 1776 and 1777 (Rev. Rolls, xxiii., 200; xxiv., 17, 83).
FIELD, JAMES BRAINERD, LOWELL.
Great-grandson of GEORGE FIELD, of Northfield (1742-1803); sergeant in Captain Merriman's com- pany in Colonel Wright's regiment, in the expedition to the Northern Department, in response to the call of General Gates, September 22, 1777, and was present at the battle of Saratoga and Burgoyne's surrender (v. " History of Northfield," pp. 331, 443, 445).
FOLSOM, DUDLEY, QUINCY.
Grandson of JOHN FOLSOM, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire; private in Captain Kinsman's company, Stark's regiment, that marched at the Lexington alarm ; served three months, sixteen days, including Bunker Hill (New Hampshire Rolls, i., 66; " History of Gil- manton," p. 86).
FOLSOM, JAMES, WOBURN.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN FOLSOM, of Newmarket, New Hampshire; private in Captain Clough's company, Colonel Poor's regiment, June 9, 1775; private in Captain Hill's company, and in Captain Parsons's company at Peirce's Island, Novem-
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ber, 1775 ; enlisted for three years in Captain Gray's company of the Third New Hampshire Regiment, Continental Army, 1777; private in Captain Hilton's company, Colonel Wingate's regiment, in the Rhode Island expedition, twenty-eight days, from August 6, 1778; private in Captain Chase's company, Colonel Reid's regiment, February, 1781 (New Hampshire Rolls, i., 144, 563 ; ii., 571, 231) ; a pensioner.
FOOTE, CALEB, SALEM.
Grandson of CALEB FOOTE; in the Continental Army at Cambridge, and later, as prize-master in the Privateer Service; his vessel was captured by the British and carried to England, and he was imprisoned until he effected his escape; the journal of his ad- ventures is still in existence.
FORBUSH, ORRIN, BOSTON.
Grandson of ISAAC BROWN, of Andover, New Hampshire ; private in Colonel Stickney's regiment, of General John Stark's brigade; reënlisted July, 1780, for the expedition to Rhode Island, for which he re- ceived a small bounty.
Great-grandson of DAVID FORBUSH, of Acton ; orderly sergeant in Captain Davis's company of minute- men, and was covered with his captain's blood at Con- cord fight.
Great-grandson of STEPHEN HOSMER ; a pri- vate in the Acton company of minute-men.
Great-great-grandson of JOSIAH HAYWARD; representative from Acton, and delegate to the Pro- vincial Congresses, 1774, 1775.
FORSTER, EDWARD JACOB, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JACOB FORSTER, chaplain of Colonel Scammon's regiment, May, 1775.
Great-grandson of JOHN LEACH, imprisoned by General Gage, as "a spy and suspected of taking
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plans," for ninety-seven days, from June 29, 1775 (v. his "Diary in Boston Gaol; " N.E. Hist. Gen. Reg., xiv., 255).
FOSTER, JEREMIAH, GLOUCESTER.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH FOSTER, of Glou- cester (1730-1804); member of the Massachusetts Legislature, July, 1775; "leader of his townsmen," in defence of Gloucester, when attacked by the British sloop-of-war "Falcon," August 8, 1775; chosen by the Legislature, December 30, 1775, to command the sea-coast forces at Gloucester with the rank of colonel ; commissioned commander of letter-of-marque ship " Polly," by the Council, February 20, 1781 ; captured, and a prisoner of war at Halifax, July 23, 1782 ; mem- ber of the Committee of Correspondence, representative, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1779 (v. Force's Am. Archives, series 4, iii., 271 ; iv., 1246-7; Mass. Archives, clxxi, 345 ; Babson's Centennial Ora- tion, 1875 ; Babson's History of Gloucester," passim).
FREEMAN, OTIS, LAWRENCE.
Grandson of NATHANIEL FREEMAN, of Barn- stable; chairman of the Committee of Safety, 1773; lieutenant-colonel, 1775, and Colonel of the first Barn- stable regiment, 1776; brigadier-general, 1781; dis- charged, 1791.
FRISBEE, FRANK SENTER, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of GAMES FRISBEE (1735-1779) ; lieutenant in the privateer service from New Hampshire, killed in the engagement off Flam- borough Head, England, between the " Bonhomme Richard " and the " Serapis," September 23, 1779.
Great-great-grandson of ISRAEL MORRILL, (1754-1840) ; private at the Lexington alarm, April, 1775 ; artificer in Captain Titcomb's Company of Ar- tificers, from June to November, 1776; corporal in
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Captain Huse's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment, from November, 1777, to February, 1778; carpenter's mate on the privateer "Arnold," from August, 1778, to January, 1779 (Mass. Archives and Gov. Pension Rolls, i., 97).
Great-great-grandson of ISAAC KENT, Jr., (1763- ); private in Capt. Amos Shepard's com- pany, in Colonel Benjamin Bellows's regiment of New Hampshire Militia, which reënforced the garrison at Ticonderoga in June, 1777 (Rev. Rolls of N.H., i., 29).
Great-great-grandson of ANDREW PHILLIPS; private in Captain Fay's company of Northboro' at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xii., 60).
Great-great-great-grandson of JONAS BUTTER- FIELD; first lieutenant in Whitcomb's Corps of Rangers, December 14, 1776, transferred to the Second New Hampshire Continental Line, Col. George Reid, 1777; resigned February, 17, 1780 (Heitman's Hist. Reg. III; N.H., Rev. Rolls, ii., 718; iii., 203; Adj .- Gen. Report, N.H., 1866, ii., 339, 356).
Great-great-great-grandson of THOMAS HARDY (1741- ); first lieutenant in the First New Hamp- shire Continental Line, Colonel John Stark, May 23, 1775, to December, 1775; first lieutenant in the Fifth Continental Infantry, Colonel Stark, from January I, 1776, to April, 1777 (Barrie's Army and Navy of the United States, i. * 2; iii. * 9) ; first lieutenant in the Second New Hampshire Line, May 8, 1777 ; resigned August 27, 1778; he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill, Trenton, and Princeton (Adj .- Gen. Re- port, N.H., 1866, ii., 266, 300, 339; Heitman's Hist. Reg. 209).
FRISBEE, MARTIN LUTHER, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of JAMES FRISBEE. (v. Frank Senter Frisbee.)
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FRISBEE, OLIVER LIBBY, BOSTON. Great-grandson of JAMES FRISBEE. ' (v. Frank Senter Frisbee.)
GALE, WILLIAM BOYNTON, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of ELI GALE, of Shrewsbury; private in Captain Harrington's company, Colonel Dike's regiment, 1777; enlisted from Shrewsbury for three years or the war, 1777, in Captain Peirce's com- pany, Colonel Bigelow's Fifteenth Regiment of the Continental Army, and served forty-three months, six- teen days (Rev. Rolls, xxvi., 422} ; xv.).
GILMORE, JOSEPH HENRY, JR., ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.
Great-great-grandson of GAMES GILMORE, of Amherst, New Hampshire (1739-1825) ; signed the " Association Test;" private in Captain Crosby's com- pany, which marched to Cambridge at the Lexington alarm, and became the ninth company of Colonel Reid's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill; ensign of Captain Barron's company, Colonel Wyman's regi- ment, July, 1776, to reënforce the army in Canada ; discharged October 27; sergeant of Captain Brad- ford's company, Colonel Nichols's regiment, against Burgoyne, in 1777, and was at Bennington (History of Amherst, N.H., Rolls and Pension Office Record).
GLINES, EDWARD, SOMERVILLE.
Great-grandson of JOHN GLINES, of Moulton- borough, New Hampshire ; private in Captain Clough's company, Colonel Poor's regiment, at the siege of Bos- ton ; private in Captain Green's company, Colonel Bedel's regiment, February, 1776; private in Cap- tain Ambrose's company, Colonel Welch's regiment of volunteers, September 30, 1777 ; was at Saratoga, and after Burgoyne's surrender marched with the guard to
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Northampton, Massachusetts, and was discharged, November 6 (N.H. Rolls, i., 144, 269, 271; ii., 392).
GLOVER, JOHN, NEWTON.
Great-grandson of THOMAS GLOVER, of Milton ; a private in Colonel Robinson's regiment (v. Rev. Rolls, xlvi., 170).
GOODRICH, HENRY A., FITCHBURG.
Great-grandson of JOHN GOODRIDGE, of Fitch- burg (1755-1834) ; private in one of Fitchburg's com- panies of minute-men at the Lexington alarm; did not return, but took part in the battle of Bunker Hill.
Great-grandson of DAVID GOODRIDGE, of Fitchburg (1716-1786); member of the Provincial Congress (v. History of Fitchburg, p. 79).
GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP, CAMBRIDGE.
Grandson of BENJAMIN GOULD, of Topsfield (1751-1841); ensign of the Topsfield company that marched at the Lexington alarm and met the British flank-guard near Menotomy meeting-house, who attacked them, but were driven in and pursued to Charlestown ; Ensign Gould was wounded in the cheek ; private in Captain Baker's company, of Colonel Little's regiment, and was stationed at Lechmere Point under Lieut .- Col. Asa Whitcomb, but was ordered as reën- forcement to Bunker Hill during the battle ; was placed in guard of the powder-house (now in Somerville) until the powder was moved into Boston by General Ward; went to New York in Capt. Edward Burbeck's company, of Colonel Knox's artillery regiment, con- veying the large mortars left by the enemy in Boston. The British occupied New York on the day when this company reached Norwalk, Connecticut, and the guns were carried thence to Fort Washington; commanded
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guard there, and cannonaded the four British ships that went up the river ; commanded a detachment at Mor- risania, at the battle of White Plains, and brought up the rear of the army there; transferred from the Con- tinental Army to the militia, and was first lieutenant in Captain Dodge's company, Colonel Johnson's regiment ; took part in the battles of Bennington, Stillwater, and Burgoyne's surrender ; captain in Colonel Wade's Con- tinental regiment to reënforce the garrison at West Point in 1780; was captain of the guard, and was pres- ent when Arnold's treachery was discovered; was ordered with other officers to guard Major André ; took part, in Wade's regiment, in Sullivan's expedition to Rhode Island; at the final call by Congress for men to fill up the Continental Army for the remainder of the war, he enlisted anew and served until honorably discharged at the close of the war (v. History and Records of Topsfield, and " Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati ").
GOULD, EDWIN CARTER, MELROSE.
Great-grandson of JACOB GOULD; private in Captain Sprague's company, of Stoneham, which marched at the Lexington alarm (Alarm Rolls, xiii., 95).
GOULD, JOHN HOOD, TOPSFIELD.
Grandson of JOHN HOOD, of Topsfield (1760- 1836) ; on picket duty at Bunker Hill; was at Long Island and White Plains, Trenton and Princeton ; then discharged unpaid; reënlisted, and was at the Brandy- wine, Germantown, Valley Forge, and Monmouth.
Grandson of ZACCHEUS GOULD, a revolutionary soldier.
GOULD, LEVI SWANTON, MELROSE.
Great-grandson of JACOB GOULD, of Stoneham. (v. Edwin Carter Gould.)
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GOWING, HENRY AUGUSTUS, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of CONVERS BIGELOW, of Weston ; private in Captain Lamson's company at Con- cord, April 19, 1775; private in Captain Wheeler's company, in Colonel Robinson's regiment ; served one month, twenty-eight days, and was discharged, March 6,1776.
Great-great-grandson of JOSIAH BIGELOW, of Weston; lieutenant in Captain Whittemore's militia company of artillery, which marched from Weston and was at Concord, April 19, 1775 (v. Alarm Rolls, xiii., 203; " The Bigelow Genealogy ").
GREELEY, MOSES REUBEN, WEYMOUTH.
Grandson of the Reverend DANIEL MERRILL, of Rowley (1765-1833); enlisted in the Continental Army, February 1, 1781, at the age of fifteen years (v. Rev. Rolls, xxxii., 297) ; served three years, and rode in most of the States with the Rev. Israel Evans, chaplain of the army; graduated, after the war, at Dartmouth College ; studied divinity, and was the first minister of Sedgwick, Maine, where he died; was one of the founders of Bowdoin College.
GREEN, CHARLES MONTRAVILLE, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of THOMAS WEATHERBEE, of Lunenburg (1757- ) ; private in Captain Kimball's company at the Lexington alarm; private in Captain Nutting's company of Colonel Prescott's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill; private in the same company and regiment (then the Seventh) ; was wounded, disabled, and received a pension (v. Alarm Rolls, xii., 150; Records of the Pension Bureau).
GREENLEAF, JOSEPH, MEDFORD.
Son of DAVID GREENLEAF; a minute-man at Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill; was at the sur- render of Burgoyne, and served through the war.
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GREENWOOD, ABNER, ASHLAND.
Grandson of MOSES GREENWOOD, of Holliston (1752-1836) ; minute-man in Captain Leland's com- pany, which marched April 19, 1775, and went into camp at Cambridge, and was at Bunker Hill (Alarm Rolls, xii., 175); private in Captain Boynton's com- pany, Colonel Sparhawk's regiment, at Bennington ; private in Captain Griffith's company, Colonel Jacobs's regiment, June 1, 1778 ; private in Captain Dix's com- pany of six-months' men, to Springfield, July, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, xix., 137 ; xxxv., 188).
GUILD, CHARLES HUMPHREYS, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of JOSEPH GUILD, of Dedham; captain of the Dedham company, Colonel Greaton's regiment, that marched at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xii., 105) ; member of the Committee of Correspondence and Safety.
Great-great-grandson of ABIYAH DRAPER ; first major of the Second Suffolk Regiment of Militia, Colonel McIntosh, 1776 (Rev. Rolls., xxviii., 4).
Great-great-grandson of EZRA WOOD, of Upton; second major and colonel of the Third Worcester Militia Regiment, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 104).
Great-great-grandson of SYLVANUS MARTIN, of Providence, Rhode Island ; captain of the Nineteenth Regiment of Connecticut Militia, 1777.
Great-great-great-grandson of SAMUEL THUR- BER, of Providence; hospital commissary when Brown University was used by soldiers in 1778. Great - great - great - grandson of WILLIAM BROWNE, of Providence; a colonel during the Revolution.
Great-great-great-grandson of Deacon JOSIAH HUMPHREYS, of Barrington, Rhode Island ; deputy to the Legislature in 1776; a recognized patriot.
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GUILD, HENRY, BOSTON.
Grandson of AARON GUILD, of Dedham (1728- 1818), who marched at the Lexington alarm; later commanded a company in Colonel Nichols's regiment ; was stationed at Hull on coast guard; member of the Committee of Safety, muster-master, and appointed to look after the welfare of soldiers and their families during the war.
HACK, CHRISTOPHER AMORY, TAUNTON.
Grandson of NATHAN HACK, of Taunton (1734- 1809) ; lieutenant in Captain Blake's company ; drafted for service in New York, December, 1776, and was at Ticonderoga ; lieutenant in Captain Blake's company, in Colonel Mitchell's regiment, of the Bristol County Brigade, at the Rhode Island alarm, and was at Tiver- ton, August, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, i., 82, 104).
HAINES, JOHN, WALTHAM.
Grandson of EZEKIEL MOORE, of Canterbury, New Hampshire; private in Captain Sias's company in Piscataqua Harbor, September, 1779, for twenty- seven days; private in Captain Webster's company, Colonel Nichols's militia regiment, which joined the Continental Army at West Point, July, 1780, three months, twenty-one days' service (N. H. Rolls, ii., 697; iii., 148).
HALE, FRANCIS WILLIAM, STOW.
Great-grandson of BAZALEEL HALE, second, of Stow (1759-1851); lieutenant in Capt. Benjamin Munroe's company, of Col. Ebenezer Sprout's regi- ment, in service in Rhode Island in 1778, at North Kingston.
Great-great-grandson of ABRAHAM RANDALL, of Stow (1741-1815) ; served four days as private in Capt. William Whitcomb's company, at the Lexington alarm; lieutenant, December 16, 1776; chairman of
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the selectmen of Stow, and very active in obtaining recruits.
Great-great-grandson of AARON SMITH, of Need- ham (1730-1795); captain of the Needham company in Col. William Heath's regiment of Massachusetts militia, marching to Concord at the Lexington alarm.
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.
HALE, JOSEPH CHRISTMAS, STOW.
Grandson of BAZALEEL HALE, second, of Stow.
Great-grandson of ABRAHAM RANDALL, of Stow.
(v. Francis William Hale.)
HALL, HENRY THROOP, BROOKLINE.
Grandson of AARON HALL, of New Braintree (1751-1835) ; left Harvard College in 1775, joined the army and served six years ; was paymaster's clerk and clerk in the quartermaster's department, exercising a process warrant from General Washington as depart- ment forage-master; was present at Stillwater and Saratoga; in 1781 he sailed on a privateer which was captured, and he with others was put on board a prison ship at St. John, but was soon released by the surrender of Cornwallis.
Great-grandson of JOHN RICHARDSON, of Tem- pleton (1737-1819) ; first lieutenant of Captain Brooks's company, Colonel Dike's regiment, "who engaged to tarry on Dorchester Heights to March 1, 1777" (Rev. Rolls, xviii., 123) ; was at Ticonderoga; representa- tive in 1776, '77, '78.
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