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Great-nephew of NATHAN HALE, "the patriot spy."
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HALL, IRVING G., SOMERVILLE.
Great-grandson of STEPHEN HALL, of Rayn- ham ; private in Captain Batchelor's company, Colonel Holman's regiment; in Captain Shaw's company, Colonel Williams's regiment; and in Captain Fisk's company, in the Rhode Island alarms, from 1776 to 1778 (Rev. Rolls, i., 39, 140; iii., 129, 138; xxxv., 380).
HALL, JOHN HENRY, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Great-grandson of AMOS RANSOM, of Colchester, Connecticut (1760- ); private in Lieutenant Worthington's company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's regiment, June, 1776, and was stationed at Fort Trum- bull, New London, and guarded the shores against the landing of foraging parties from the enemy's vessels ; private under Captain Harris, Colonel Dyer Throop's regiment, June, 1777, for three months, and was stationed at Fort Trumbull; served as musician for three months from August, 1777, and as substi- tute for his father, under Captain Collins, at Fort Trumbull, and at various shorter times, on alarms on the coast, aggregating two months.
HALL, SAMUEL, BROOKLINE.
Grandson of SAMUEL HALL, of Newton (1755- 1828); private in Capt. Jeremiah Wiswall's com- pany, of Newton, which, at the request of General Washington, marched to take possession of Dorches- ter Heights, March 4, 1776; also in Captain Fuller's company, that marched to Cambridge, September 2, 1778, to guard Burgoyne's captured troops.
Grandson of JOHN KING, of Newton; private in Captain Fuller's company, which marched to Roxbury, March 19, 1775, and served to April 15; marched to Cambridge, at the Lexington alarm, and served during the siege of Boston, and on various calls from 1776 to the end of the war; private in Captain Fuller's com-
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pany, September 2, 1778, and in Captain Watkins's company, from October to December of that year, at Dorchester Heights ; private in Captain Pope's com- pany, which reënforced the Continental Army six months in 1780.
Great-grandson of Doctor JOHN KING ; a pri- vate in Captain Wiswall's company, of East Newton ; marched to Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; was in a New- ton company, and later guarded Burgoyne's captured soldiers in 1778; member of the Committee of Cor- respondence, and on various committees during the war; delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1779; loaned the town £24 to pay the soldiers.
Great-grandson of JOSIAH HALL, who loaned £24 to the town of Newton to pay the revolutionary soldiers.
Great-great-grandson of NOAH WISWALL, of Newton (1699- ); was at Lexington in the com- pany of his son Jeremiah, with three other sons, and some of his sons-in-law. After the company had marched, he, at the age of seventy-six, followed them on foot and alone " to see what the boys are doing." Standing with some Americans not far from the field, the British soldiers came in sight. He immediately pointed them out to his companions, saying, "If you aim at the middle one, you will hit one of the three." They did so, and were successful; but as he held out his hand a musket-ball passed through it. He coolly bound up his hand with his handkerchief, picked up the gun of the fallen regular, and carried it home as a trophy.
HALL, SANFORD JACKSON, SPRINGFIELD.
Grandson of SAMUEL HALL, of Newton. Great-grandson of JOSIAH HALL, of Newton. (v. Samuel Hall.)
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HAMLIN, CYRUS, LEXINGTON.
Great-grandson of FRANCIS FAULKNER, of Acton ; second major and colonel of the Third Middle- sex Militia Regiment from 1776 to 1780 (Rev. Rolls, xxvii., 217 ; xxviii., 44, 102).
HARRINGTON, NATHAN DUDLEY, SOMERVILLE.
Grandson of NATHAN DUDLEY, of Sudbury (1755-1835); a minute-man who was present on his twentieth birthday at Bunker Hill; afterwards a lieu- tenant in the Lexington artillery, to which town he had removed.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN HARRINGTON, of Lexington ; private in Captain Parker's company of minute-men, April 19, 1775; one of the Commit- tee of Correspondence; his son, Jonathan, sixteen years old, was fifer of Captain Parker's company, and the last survivor of the battle, dying at the age of ninety-five years, eight months (v. Hudson's “ History of Lexington ").
HARRIS, ALPHONSO SCOTT, CHELSEA.
Great-grandson of DANIEL HARRIS, of Fitch- burg.
(v. Edwin Brown.)
Great-grandson of JOSHUA TOWNE, of Tops- field (1756-1842); private in Captain Baker's com- pany, of Colonel Little's regiment, at Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston ; private in Captain Dodge's com- pany, of Colonel Titcomb's regiment, April 25, 1777, and served two months in Rhode Island; private in Captain Adams's company, Colonel Johnson's regi- ment, August 27, 1777, and served three months in the Northern Army at Ticonderoga (v. Town and Church Records of Topsfield).
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HASKINS, LEANDER MILLER, BOSTON.
Grandson of BENNETT HASKINS, of Rockport ; private in Captain Rowe's company, Colonel Bridge's regiment, at Bunker Hill (v. " History of Rockport," p. 90).
HATHAWAY, GUILFORD H., FREETOWN.
Grandson of PHILIP HATHAWAY, Jr .; lieuten- ant of Captain Read's fourth company, Second Regi- ment of the Bristol County Brigade, in the expeditions to Rhode Island in 1776 and 1780.
HAYWARD, JONATHAN PARKER, BRAINTREE.
Great-grandson of DANIEL HAYWARD, of Brain- tree; private in Captain Wild's company, Colonel Lincoln's regiment, at the Lexington alarm; private in Captain Vinton's company, Colonel Lincoln's regiment, April 29, 1775, and served three days ; private in Cap- tain Vinton's independent company in 1775, and served eight months; private in Captain Turner's independ- ent company from January to May 22, 1776; private in Captain Turner's company, Colonel Marshall's regi- ment, from May 22 to November 1, 1776; private in Captain Baxter's company, of General Lovell's brigade, on the Rhode Island expedition, from August I to September 14, 1779 (v. "History of Braintree," pp. 405-420; Rev. Rolls, xiii., 152, 145 ; xxiii., 150; xvii., 193).
HAYWARD, SILVANUS, SOUTHBRIDGE.
Grandson of SILVANUS HAYWARD, of Surrey, New Hampshire; private in Captain Mack's company, Colonel Ashley's Sixth New Hampshire Regiment ; marched for the relief of Ticonderoga, June, 1777, as far as Black River, where they were ordered home ; the next day ordered again to Ticonderoga, but met the retreating army at Otter Creek, and returned home July 10 (New Hampshire State Archives).
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HEATH, AUGUSTUS HENRY, MELROSE.
Grandson of EBENEZER SMITH, of Boston ( -1798) ; private at the siege of Boston ; lieuten- ant of the letter-of-marque ship " Speedwell," twelve guns ; wounded in an action with a twenty-gun British ship ; captured and imprisoned at Jamaica, from which he escaped ; later commander in the merchant marine, and killed by the French at Gaudaloupe.
Grandson of NATHANIEL HEATH, of Boston (1732-1812); major of guards doing duty at Bos- ton, January, 1779 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 59).
HEATH, ELROY NAHUM, WAKEFIELD.
Great-grandson of ENOCH HEATH, of Plaistow, New Hampshire (1756- ) ; private in Captain Gil- man's company, Colonel Poor's regiment, May 28, 1775, two months, nine days' service, including Bunker Hill; private in Captain Quimby's company, Colonel Wingate's regiment, July, 1776; private in Captain Stone's company, Seventh Regiment, Continental forces, May, 1777 ; private in Captain Stone's company, Colo- nel Scammel's regiment, in the same year ; sergeant in Captain Giles's company, Colonel Peabody's regiment, in the Rhode Island expedition ; discharged December 30, 1778, ten months, twenty-four days' service; cor- poral in Captain Eastman's company, Colonel Bartlett's regiment of militia, at West Point, July, 1780, three months, seventeen days' service (New Hampshire Rolls, i., 135, 192, 339, 341, 585, 656 ; ii., 485, 499, 500).
HEWES, HENRY MARTYN, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of GEORGE ROBERT TWELVES HEWES, of Boston (1742-1840) ; received in his arms Caldwell, one of the victims of the " Boston Massacre ;" member of the " Boston Tea Party; " shipped on the privateer under Captain Stacy, of Providence, for
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seven weeks, remained out three, taking several prizes ; embarked at New London, Connecticut, under Captain Smedley, and took several prizes ; returned to Boston, served with the militia from time to time until the close of the war, guarding the Atlantic coast, and as far up the Hudson river as West Point; in Rhode Island under Captain Thomas George; had an engagement with the British at Cobble Hill (v. " Tea Leaves of 1773;" "A Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party "). An oil portrait of Hewes, painted when he was eighty- eight years old, is in the possession of the Bostonian Society, Boston.
HILL, FREDERICK STANHOPE, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH BLAKE; captain- lieutenant in Crane's artillery, twenty-one months, twenty-one days from 1777 (Cont. Army Book, pp. 6, 39).
HILL, JOSEPH, HYDE PARK.
Son of JONATHAN HILL, of Exeter, New Hamp- shire ; private in the Fourth New Hampshire Regiment ; enlisted in 1777 for three years or the war, and was at Bennington ; private in Colonel Hale's second regi- ment " in the Jerseys " in 1778, aged seventeen years (v. " History of Exeter," pp. 249, 252, 254).
HITCHINGS, EDWARD, SAUGUS.
Son of THOMAS HITCHINGS, of Lynn; private in Capt. Thomas Pritchard's company, the fourteenth division of the Continental Army, from June to De- cember, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, iv., 131 ; xxxv., 195).
HITCHINGS, SIMEON ISAAC, LYNN.
Grandson of THOMAS HITCHINGS, of Lynn. (v. Edward Hitchings.)
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HOBART, ALBERT, ROCKLAND.
Son of ELIJAH HOBART, who served in the de- fence of Boston harbor in 1779 (Rev. Rolls, xxv., 116).
HOLLANDER, LOUIS PRESTON, SOMERVILLE.
Great-great-grandson of SAMUEL DODGE, of Marbletown, New York; sergeant of the Fourth New York Grenadier Regiment, 1777 ; ensign, January, 1779 ; transferred to the second regiment, January, 1781, and served until June 3, 1783 (v. “ Heitman's Register of the Continental Army").
HOMANS, JOHN, 2D, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JOHN HOMANS, of Boston ; surgeon of Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent's regiment, January 1, 1776; surgeon of the Second (Sheldon's) Regiment of Light Dragoons from December 18, 1776, to August 4, 1781.
HOOD, WILLIAM ORVIN, DANVERS.
Grandson of JOHN HOOD, of Ipswich, private in Captain Cummings's company, Colonel Gerrish's Essex County regiment, October, 1779 (Rev. Rolls, xviii., 43).
HOOPER, ARTHUR, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of EPHRAIM SPRAGUE, of Bridgewater ; private in Captain Packard's company, Colonel Jacobs's regiment ; served in the Rhode Island expedition from September to December, 1779.
Great - grandson of EPHRAIM TILSON, of Halifax; private in Captain Turner's company, Colonel Cushing's regiment, two months in 1776; in the same company in Colonel Cotton's regiment, in the Rhode Island expedition, September, 1777; in the Continental Army from July to December, 1780.
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Great-great-grandson of WILLIAM HOOPER, of Bridgewater (1763- ); private in Captain Wash- burn's company, Major Eliphalet Cary's regiment; a private in the Rhode Island expedition in 1780.
Great-grandson of CALVIN WASHBURN, of Bridgewater (1745- ); private in Captain Ham- mond's company, Lieutenant-Colonel White's Fourth Plymouth Regiment.
Great-great-grandson of BENJAMIN SPRAGUE, of Bridgewater (1736- ); private in Captain Allen's company, Colonel Cary's regiment, at Bristol, Rhode Island, April 19, 1777.
HOOPER, GEORGE MITCHELL, BRIDGEWATER.
Great-grandson of HEZEKIAH HOOPER, of Bridgewater (1732-1813); second lieutenant in Capt. Elisha Mitchell's company, of Col. Francis Cary's regiment.
Great-grandson of THOMAS MITCHELL, of Bridgewater ( -1776); commissioned May 19, 1775, first major in Colonel Thomas's regiment; was taken sick after a few months' service, and died of consumption in less than a year thereafter (v. " Epi- taphs of Old Bridgewater," p. 84.)
HOOPER, THOMAS, BRIDGEWATER.
Son of WILLIAM HOOPER, of Bridgewater.
Grandson of EPHRAIM TILSON, of Halifax. (v. Arthur Hooper.)
HOOPER, THOMAS, JR., BOSTON.
Grandson of WILLIAM HOOPER, of Bridge- water.
Great-grandson of EPHRAIM SPRAGUE, of Bridgewater.
Great-grandson of CALVIN WASHBURN, of Bridgewater.
Great-grandson of EPHRAIM TILSON, of Halifax.
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Great-great-grandson of BENJAMIN SPRAGUE, of Bridgewater.
(v. Arthur Hooper.)
HORTON, EVERETT SOUTHWORTH, ATTLEBORO'.
Great-grandson of GAMES HORTON, of Attle- boro'; first lieutenant in the First Bristol Regiment, Colonel Carpenter, from 1776 to 1780 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 27 ; ii., 72).
*HOSMER, ABNER, LAWRENCE.
Son of SAMUEL HOSMER, of Acton ; enlisted in 1777, at the age of sixteen ; was present at Burgoyne's surrender, and came to Boston with the prisoners; wounded at the battle of Rhode Island.
*HOSMER, AUGUSTINE, ACTON.
Great-grandson of JONATHAN HOSMER, of Acton (1734-1822) ; private in Captain Minot's com- pany, Colonel Bullard's regiment, August 14, 1777, and served one month and sixteen days (Rev. Rolls, xxi., 79).
HOSMER, GEORGE HERBERT, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH HOSMER, of Con- cord (1736-1821); acting captain of a company of minute-men, and detailed by Col. James Barrett, April 19, 1775, in forming the line at Concord fight; followed in the pursuit of the British to Cambridge, his wife, Lucy Barnes, remaining at home, where medical stores were concealed. The house was un- successfully searched by the British. "Where is your husband, good woman?" said the officer in command. " In the village fighting the enemies of his country," was the reply.
* Deceased.
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HOSMER, HENRY JOSEPH, CONCORD.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH HOSMER, of Con- cord.
(v. George Herbert Hosmer.)
HOVEY, JOHN COOK, CAMBRIDGE.
Grandson of THOMAS HOVEY, who enlisted in the Continental Army ; was adjutant in 1775, and captain in 1779; major of the Thirteenth Regiment.
HOWE, ARCHIBALD MURRAY, CAMBRIDGE.
Great-grandson of Dr. ESTES HOWE, of Belcher- town (1747-1826); a veteran of the French-Indian war; surgeon of Colonel Ewer's Ninth Continental Regiment, joining the second day after the Lexington alarm, and did eight months' service; surgeon from January 1, 1777, to May 1, 1779, in Colonel Putnam's regiment ; credited on pay-rolls with thirty-six months' service.
Great-great-grandson of SAMUEL HOWE, of Belchertown (1717-1784); member of the Provincial Congress; lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Porter's regi- ment, April 19, 1775, as by certificate of Colonel Por- ter at the State House, January 22, 1776.
Great-great-grandson of JOHN BROWN, of Pitts- field.
(v. William Butler Clarke.)
HUBBELL, ANDREW LYMAN, GREAT BARRINGTON.
Grandson of SILLIMAN HUBBELL, of New- town, Connecticut (1764-1847) ; drafted, March, 1781, for three months' service, into the company of Captain Summers, Colonel Mead's regiment, and in October, 1780, for three months' service in Captain Wildman's company, of Colonel McClennan's regiment, the ser- vice in both cases being at Horse Neck (Greenwich), Connecticut; served three months in 1781 as a sub- stitute for Nathan Hubbell, in Captain Comstock's
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company, and was stationed at Reading, Connecticut ; a pensioner.
HULL, JAMES WELLS, PITTSFIELD.
Great-grandson of Deacon JESSE CHURCH- ILL, of Hubbardton, Vermont (1726- ); mem- ber of the general convention of Vermont, at Windsor, June 4, 1777 (v. " Records of the Council of Safety, Montpelier," 1873, and of the Vermont Historical Society ).
HUNT, NATHANIEL FRANCIS, BRAINTREE.
Great-grandson of DANIEL HAYWARD, of Braintree.
(v. Jonathan Parker Hayward.)
JACKSON, SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of THOMAS JACKSON, of Plym- outh; member of the Committee of Correspondence and Safety, 1772.
JEWETT, FREDERICK JESSE, MARLBOROUGH.
Great-grandson of JOSIAH CUTTING, of Shrews- bury.
(v. George A. Cotting.)
JOHNSON, GEORGE SIDNEY, WATERTOWN.
Grandson of ELIPHAZ THAYER, of Braintree (1762-1848); private in Capt. Stephen Penniman's Braintree company, in Colonel Francis's regiment, 1776; later in Captain Newcomb's company, of Colonel Thayer's regiment, and was at West Point at the time of Arnold's treason.
JONES, PETER CUSHMAN, HONOLULU.
Great-grandson of ISAAC BALDWIN, of Hills- borough, New Hampshire (1736-1775); captain of the company from that town which marched to Med-
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ford at the Lexington alarm, and was in Colonel Stark's regiment at Bunker Hill, where he was killed (" History of Hillsborough County," 398).
JOSLIN, JAMES THOMAS, HUDSON.
Great-grandson of JOHN JOSLIN, of Leominster; captain of a company raised in that town in 1777 to reënforce the army against Burgoyne; engaged at Bennington (v. " History of Leominster," pp. 42, 43).
*JOY, CHARLES HENRY, GROTON.
Great-grandson of ELISHA STORY, M.D., of Marblehead, later of Boston (1743-1805); member of the "Boston Tea Party," and of the "Sons of Liberty; " studied medicine with Joseph Warren ; served three days with Captain Cogswell's company, of Ipswich, which marched at the Lexington alarm, and was at Concord and Lexington (v. Mass. Muster Rolls, xi., 250) ; enlisted and appointed surgeon by the Continental Congress ; surgeon of Col. Moses Little's regiment, and served at Bunker Hill, and with Wash- ington in the Jerseys, until he resigned in 1777, being dissatisfied with the management of the medical de- partment.
KEITH, MOSES ADAMS, GRAFTON.
Great-grandson of SIMEON KEITH, of North- bridge (1742-1776) ; private in Captain Wood's company, which marched to Roxbury at the Lexington alarm; died there of exposure during the siege of Boston, January 3, 1776 (Alarm Rolls, xiii., 163).
KEITH, SOLOMON LORIN, BRIDGEWATER.
Great-grandson of SOLOMON KEITH, of Bridge- water (1749-1823); private in Captain Keith's com- pany, Colonel Mitchell's regiment, on the march to Bristol, Rhode Island, December, 1776; private in
* Deceased.
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Captain Dunbar's company, Colonel Cary's regiment, on the Rhode Island expedition, July, 1780 (Rev. Rolls, i., 26, 180) ; a manufacturer of cannon balls at Titicut, which were conveyed to Boston and used in the siege, 1775-6.
KEITH, SUMNER, BRIDGEWATER.
Great-grandson of HEZEKIAH HOOPER, of Bridgewater. (v. George Mitchell Hooper.)
KENDALL, NATHANIEL LAMSON, BOYLSTON.
Great-grandson of CALEB KENDALL, of Shrews- bury; private in Captain Beaman's company in 1777; private in Captain Maynard's company, Colonel Cush- ing's regiment, that marched to Hadley at the Ben- nington alarm, August 21, 1777 (Rev. Rolls, xxi., 88).
KEYES, GEORGE STUART, QUINCY.
Great-grandson of JOHN BROOKS, M.D., of Med- ford (1752-1820); captain of the Reading minute- men at Lexington, and major-general in the Continental Army ; governor of Massachusetts, 1816-1823 ; second president of the Society of the Cincinnati.
KIMBALL, DANIEL AMES, STOCKBRIDGE.
Great-great-grandson of PETER COBURN, of Dracut; captain of the Dracut company, in Colonel Bridge's regiment, at Bunker Hill, "where his clothes were riddled with balls" (Frothingham's " Siege of Boston," p. 177) ; his son Peter was a member of his company, member of the Provincial Congress, and one of the Dracut Committee of Safety (v. Drake's " Mid- dlesex County," i., 413, 414; Lewis & Co.'s Do., ii., 301-2).
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KIMBALL, HENRY COLMAN, STOUGHTON.
Grandson of DANIEL KIMBALL, of Stoughton ; first lieutenant of Captain Foster's company, of Colonel Wales's regiment.
Great-grandson of BENJAMIN GAGE; major of Colonel Gerrish's regiment.
KIMBALL, HERBERT WARD, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of AARON KIMBALL, of Grafton ; captain of the 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, of North- bridge.
(v. Moses Adams Keith.)
KING, FRANCIS DANE, BRIDGEWATER.
Great-grandson of JOHN KING; captain of the Seventh Company of Colonel Woodbridge's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill (v. Frothingham's "Siege of Boston," p. 404).
Great-grandson of EBENEZER DEAN, of Wren- tham; lieutenant of Captain Boyd's company at the Lexington alarm, and at the siege of Boston; cap- tain of a company in Colonel Williams's Third Bristol Militia Regiment, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xi., 215; lvi., xxviii., 109).
KING, HENRY AUGUSTUS, MILTON.
Grandson of LEMUEL KING, of Dorchester; private in Captain Wheeler's company, Colonel Robin- son's regiment, at the Lexington alarm, twelve days' service (Alarm Rolls, xiii., 200) ; six months' service in 1780 (Rev. Rolls, iv., 12); private in Captain Penniman's company, Colonel Francis's regiment, Nov. 1776 (Do., p. 29); enlisted for coast defence, and
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served at Moon Island, June, 1780, in Captain Sumner's company, Colonel Gill's regiment.
KING, MELVILLE AUGUSTUS, MILTON.
Great-grandson of LEMUEL KING, of Dor- chester.
(v. Henry Augustus King.)
KIRKHAM, ALBERT HARLEIGH, SPRINGFIELD.
Grandson of JOHN KIRKHAM, of Newington, Connecticut (1760-1815); fifer in Captain Walker's company, Colonel Webb's regiment, July, 1778; fife- major, November, 1781 ; was at Valley Forge, and was wounded in New Jersey (v. " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution," pp. 245-7, 331, 539).
LAMB, AMASA AUGUSTUS, STOUGHTON.
Great-grandson of JOSEPH MORSE, who marched from Stoughton on the alarm of April 19, 1775; served one year in the Provincial Army, and three years in the Continental Army, in Captain Frothing- ham's company, of Colonel Crane's regiment; was at the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, and German- town, receiving a bounty from Holliston.
Great-grandson of NAHUM LAMB, and great- great-grandson of SAMUEL LAMB; minute-men from Charlton to Roxbury at the alarm of April 19, 1775.
LAMSON, DANIEL SANDERSON, WESTON.
Grandson of SAMUEL LAMSON ; captain of the Weston company at Concord, April 19, 1775, and at Dorchester Heights; later, second and first major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the Third Middlesex Regiment, Col. John Brooks; was at Ticonderoga and Crown Point; mustered out of service at Newburgh, N.Y., at the furlough of the Continental Army, 1783.
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LAMSON, JOSEPH FENWICK, WESTON. Great-grandson of SAMUEL LAMSON, of Weston. (v. Daniel Sanderson Lamson.)
LARRABEE, JOHN, MELROSE.
Great-great-grandson of JOHN VINTON, of Braintree ; captain of the Braintree company, Colonel Lincoln's regiment, April, 1775; captain of a com- pany in Colonel Gardner's regiment at the siege of Boston; then marched to New York; lieutenant in the Second Regiment, 1777 (Rolls, xiii., 145; lvi., 20; " History of Braintree," 405 ; " Vinton Memorial," 74, 116).
LAW, ASA, MEDFORD.
Grandson of REUBEN LAW, of Acton; a minute- man at Concord fight, who stood next to Captain Davis when the latter was killed (Lexington Alarm Rolls, xii., 116).
Grandson of SAMUEL BARTLETT, of Acton (1762-1847) ; a boy of thirteen employed at Bunker Hill in teaming before the battle, and at work all night assisting the soldiers to throw up fortifications.
*LEACH, GEORGE CARROLL, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of EZEKIEL LEACH (1755- 1821); was at Princeton and other engagements ; impaired health led him to enter the navy, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant.
LEECH, WILLIAM HARVELL, MARLBOROUGH.
Grandson of JOHN LEECH, of Bridgewater ; private in Captain Wood's company, Colonel Sproat's regiment, April, 1778 (Rev. Rolls, xxiv., 57) ; private in Captain Washburn's company, Colonel Cotton's regiment, August, 1780, and March, 1781 (Do., 249, 257).
* Deceased.
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LEONARD, FREDERICK M., WINTHROP.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL LEONARD, of Bridgewater (1753-1840); a drummer in Captain Mitchell's company at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xii., 191); private in Captain Collins's company, Colonel Thomas's regiment, at the siege of Boston (Coat Rolls, lvi.).
LEONARD, SPENCER, BRIDGEWATER.
Grandson of SAMUEL LEONARD, of Bridge- water.
(v. Frederick M. Leonard.)
LEWIS, ARCHELAUS, NORTH FALMOUTH, MAINE.
Son of ARCHELAUS LEWIS, of Falmouth, Maine (1753-1834); sergeant of a company raised at Falmouth, at the Lexington alarm, in Colonel Phinney's regiment, which marched to Cambridge, and joined the army a few days after Bunker Hill ; marched into Boston on the evacuation ; marched to New York, being a part of the northern army; a lieutenant and adjutant of the regiment at Saratoga; promoted to major, and took part in the battle of Monmouth ; had relations with Lafayette, and was recognized by him in 1825 ; served five years.
LINCOLN, FREDERIC WILLIAM, 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).
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