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With regard to the rights of unincorporated societies, the inter- est was confined to the Shakers, whom the legislature have to this day steadily refused to incorporate, holding it inconsistent with sound policy to countenance a body hostile to the institution of mar- riage. All the other religious bodies in Pittsfield were specially in- corporated, except the town (now the first Congregational) parish. With regard to this, a proposition was made, after the decision of the Van Schaack case in 1793, " to procure an act to incorporate the inhabitants of this town into a parish by the name of the Con- gregational Society in the Town of Pittsfield." Woodbridge Little, Timothy Childs, Simon Larned, Daniel Hubbard, and John Chan- dler Williams 1 were appointed to report upon the measure, and ac- tually drafted a bill. The matter, however, was suffered to drop ; and the First Congregational Parish of Pittsfield is such only by virtue of the general provisions in the old statutes, and in the con- stitutional amendment of 1834.2
The controversy in regard to the rights of dissenters, although sometimes giving occasion for unpleasant incidents, was, upon the whole, carried on with much less acrimony than usually attended the internal discords of the town. Public improvements were in the mean time made harmoniously; and Mr. Van Schaack was assigned prominent places upon the various committees, side by side with his leading opponents.
These who, upon principle, refused to pay their assessments for building the new meeting-house, were fain to confess the benefits which it conferred upon the whole town, and could not but show a local pride in its fame.
1 Mr. Williams, who was so prominent in these affairs as a Congregationalist, became afterwards one of the most zealous Episcopalians.
2 The First Congregational was a territorial parish, circumscribed by the town- boundaries. Those which were formed without regard to such limits, of such members as the corporation saw fit to admit, were known as poll-parishes, and often extended into several towns ; as the Methodist Society of Pittsfield, Hancock, Dalton, and Washington, and the Episcopal parish before mentioned.
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HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
In the erection of the fine schoolhouse connected with the town- hall, and in the establishment of the excellent grammar-school which almost immediately ensued, the amount of money taken from the school-fund was more than restored; and, from 1793 to 1834, the different religious sects of Pittsfield lived together in as great har- mony as the irritations which the law's interference with their mu- tual relations would admit.
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APPENDIX.
A.
DEPRECIATION OF PROVINCIAL CURRENCY.
It would be impossible to obtain a correct idea of the prices paid in the purchase of lands, or in other pecuniary transactions mentioned in our story, previous to the year 1752, without taking into consideration the depreciation of the currency of the Province during that period.
When lawful money is specified in the account, silver is to be understood ; gold not having been made a legal tender until 1761, when a law to that effect was obtained after a long and bitter struggle.
In 1690, in an emergency of the war then raging, the Province began the issue of treasury notes of the value of from five shillings to five pounds each ; £40,000 in amount being emitted. Before the end of 1692, these bills de- preciated at least one-third ; but the General Court then made them a legal tender, and further enacted, that, in all publie payments, they should be received at an advance of five per cent. By these means, the bills were restored to an equality with specie, and kept at par about twenty years.
But, in 1703, the government, yielding to a popular elamor for an expan- sion of the eurreney, began a financial system upon that principle. The effects of this inflation upon the paper eurreney were, however, not very ap- parent until about 1712, when the government, being compelled to extend the period for the redemption of its notes, the public confidence in them was sha- ken, and they began steadily to depreciate, and continued to do so year by year. Previous to 1712, the bills passed at the value of eight shillings for an ounce of silver. The depreciation from that time is represented in the following table :-
1710 ) 1711
.. 8s.
1712 1713 S .8s. 6d.
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HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
1714 )
.9s.
1715 S
1716
10s.
1717
S
1718 11s.
1719
12s.
1720 S
1721.
13s.
1722.
.14s.
1723
15s.
1724
1725
17s.
1726
1727 ]
1728
.16s. 6d. - 17s .- 18s.
1729
.19s. - 19s. 6d. - 20s. - 21s. - 22s.
1730
.21s .- 20s. - 19s.
1731
.18s. 6d .- 19s.
1732.
19s. 6d .- 20s .- 20s. 6d.
1733
21s .- 21s. 6d .- 22s .- 22s. 6d .- 23s.
1734.
.24s .- 25s .- 26s .- 26s. 6d. - 27s.
1735.
.27s. 6d.
1736.
27s .- 26s. 6d.
1737.
26s. 6d. - 27s.
1738
1739
28s. - 29s.
1740
1741
1742
28s.
1743
1744
1745
.35s .- 36s .- 37s.
1746
1747
.37s .- 38s .- 40s.
1748
1749
1750
.. 60s.
1751
1752
In 1737, the General Court, perceiving the impossibility of restoring cred- it to the swollen mass of its notes, resolved to issue others of a new form, or tenor, although not discontinuing the use of the old; and thus came into use the terms old and new tenor in speaking of the bills of the Province. The different forms of the two bills are given below :-
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OLD TENOR.
NO .-
20S.
This Indented Bill of Twenty Shillings due from the Prov- ince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England to the Possessor thereof shall be in value equal to Money, and shall be accord- ingly accepted by the Treasurer and Receivers subordinate to him in all publick payments and for any Stock at any time in the Treasury Boston November the Twenty-first Anno 1702 By Order of the Great and General Court or Assembly
Contee
T . MON.DROL
NEW TENOR,
TWENTY SHILLINGS
TWENTY SHILLINGS
This bill of Twenty Shillings due from the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, to the possessor there- of, shall be in value equal to three ounces of coined silver, Troy weight, of sterling alloy, or gold coin at the rate of four pounds eighteen shillings per ounce ; and shall be accordingly accept- ed by the Treasurer and receivers subordinate to him in all payments ( the duties of Import and Tunnage of Shipping and incomes of the Light House only excepted,) and for any Stock at any time in the Treasury.
Boston,
By order of the Great and General Court or Assembly.
TWENTY SHILLINGS
TWENTY SHILLINGS
Committee
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The law made one bill of the new tenor equal to three of the same denom- ination of the old ; but the public passed them at the rate of one for four, and they depreciated together in that proportion. The old tenor continued the standard of value in ordinary usage.
The ruinous financial policy of the Provinee was not begun or continued without strenuous opposition at home and still stronger in England; and when, in 1748, the mother country agreed to pay an idemnity of £183,000 towards the expenses incurred by New England in the capture of Louisburg, nearly the whole of it coming to Massachusetts, it was resolved to appropriate her proportion to the redemption of the paper money of the Province, at depre- ciated rates. This now amounted to £2,200,000; but had depreciated, says Hildreth, since the issue, full one-half, the whole depreciation being at the rate of seven or eight for one.
In 1751, the specie for the Louisburg idemnity arrived, and the currency began to be redeemed at a rate about one-fifth less than its current value. It was enacted that future debts should be paid in silver, at the rate of 68. 8d. the ounce. And treasury notes were not again issued by Massachusetts un- til the Revolution ; although certificates of indebtedness were given by the treasury, and passed current, with more or less depreciation, among the people.
But, though the Province paper in 1752 ceased to be a legal tender, an account by an officer of the treasury, in 1753, showed that £131,996, equal in value to £17,599 lawful money, were still in the hands of the people.
The committee of the legislature had burnt bills, at the town-house in Boston, representing the amount of £1,792,236.
On the 29th of January, 1754, Harrison Gray, the Provincial Treasurer, issued a notice that all bills still out must be brought to him for exchange by the first day of the next June, or be forfeited ; and that any person subse- quently passing them would be subject to a fine of £10 for each offence. This appears to have effectually disposed of both the old and new tenor.
N. B. - For the facts above given, we are indebted generally to the " His- torieal Account of Massachusetts Currency," by Joseph B. Felt, published in 1839, - a valuable book, now out of print.
B.
REV. THOMAS ALLEN'S DIARY.
DURING some of the most interesting years of the Revolution, Rev. Mr. Allen kept a pocket diary; in which from time to time oeeur minutes and memoranda, sometimes of eurious and often of instruetive interest. Of the information contained in many of these, we have made use in the text of this volume : others find more appropriate places in the Appendix. The book in which the diary is kept is itself of interest ; being " Aitken's General Ameri- can Register, and the Gentleman's and Tradesman's Complete Annual Ac-
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count Book, and Calendar, For the Pocket or Desk; For the Year of our Lord 1773. Published at Philadelphia; by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken, Bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front Street." The Preface states that this was the first book ever published in America.
REVOLUTIONARY MARKET-PRICES.
January, 1779.
Wheat, twelve dollars per bushel.
Indian Corn, five dollars per bushel.
Tea (Bohea), sixteen dollars per pound.
Sugar (Maple), nine shillings per pound.
Sugar (Loaf), two shillings per pound.
Rum, twenty dollars per gallon.
Molasses, twenty dollars per gallon.
July, 1779.
New-England Rum, thirty dollars per gallon.
Bohea Tea, ten dollars per pound.
Brown Sugar, three dollars per pound.
Wheat, forty dollars per bushel.
Corn (Indian), twenty dollars per bushel.
1780.
Wheat, one hundred and ten dollars per bushel, or 9s. silver. Bohea Tea, 12s. silver; 140 dollars Continental currency.
PRICES OF SOME OF THE ARTICLES AND NECESSARIES OF LIFE.
July, 1778.
Labor, four dollars per day.
Times as much as formerly . 8
Women's shoes, five dollars per pair.
66
66
5
Ploughing, eight dollars per day.
66
. .
. .
8
Rum, 17s. per quart.
66
. .. .
11
Tea, twelve dollars per pound.
66
. . . .
14
Clothing in general.
66
66
.. . .
7
Salt.
66
. .. . 30
MR. ALLEN'S LOANS TO THE CONTINENT.
Value of my Continental certificates as stated by Loan Office treasurer : - 11th June, 1777, of three hundred dollars, is. 300
19th Jan., 1778, of two hundred dollars. 200
17th March, 1778, of two hundred dollars, is. 106.36.0
Connecticut.
606.36
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2d June, 1778. 1504.5
90
46th May, 1779.
0455.2
Ditto 0455.2 90
240
606
846
Interest of the end of 1785.
277
$1123
[Value of my Continental certificates : -
11th June, 1777, of 300 dollars, is. 300
19th January, 1778, of 200 dollars, is 130
17th March, 1778, of 200 dollars, is. 106
2d June, 1778, 400 dollars, is. 150
26th May, 1779, 1200 dollars, is. .
89
5th October, 1779, 200 dollars, is.
9
May, 1785, interest supposed to be 260 dollars 260
$1044]
The statement enclosed in brackets is crossed in the original by erasure lines.
Dec, 31. 1787. - What the Continent owes me at this time, reckoning interest from 1782, Dee. 31, to the above date :-
Connecticut certificates as on the opposite page, total. 606 dol.
Massachusetts' total 150
90 .
846 dol
Interest, five years
253
Dec. 31, 1787, this is.
1099
I have by me a certificate for 30 dol.
1129 dol.
RECEIPT TO MAKE INK.
Take of the bark of soft maple, of witch hazel, and alder, an equal quan- tity of the first with the two last, and boil them well in water, and add a small quantity of gum-arabic, and your ink will be good. Put some of the aforesaid gum into the ink when it is made of ink-powder.
. . .
784
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DEPRECIATION OF CONTINENTAL CURRENCY.
In another memorandum book of Mr. Allen's, the following tables are found :---
State Scale, - 100 Silver. 1777.
January 105
February
107
March
109
April
102
May
115
June
120
July .
125
August
150
September
175
October
275
November.
300
December.
310
1778.
January
325
February
350
March
.375
April.
400
May
400
June
400
July
425
August. 450
September. 475
October
500
November
545
December
634
1779.
January 742
February 868
March
1000
April
1104
May
.1250
June.
1342
July. .1477
August. 1630
September 1800
November.
.2300
December
.2593
1780.
January 2934
February . . 3322
March
3736
April ..
4000
March 1, 1778, D(ollar) Silver == 13
Sept. 1,
1778, 1
=
4
March 1,
1779, 1
= 10
Sept. 1,
1779, 1
=
18
Mar. 18, 1779, 1 =
40
Continental Scale. 1777.
September 1000
October
.911
November
828
December
754
1778.
January
.685
February
623
March
.571
April
497
May
434
June
.378
July.
330
August
287
September 250
October
215
November
183
December
157
1779.
January
134
February . 115
March
100
April .90
May 82
June. 74 ·
July
.67
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Angust. .61
1780.
September .55
January
.34
October
49
February .
30
November
.43
March .26
December
38
March .25
1777.
February. - Died at Peekskill, Col. Seth Pomeroy; a good friend to his country. Pleurisy.
March 16. - Engaged in the Continental service.
March 20. - Was inoculated for the small-pox at Sheffield.
May 3. - Had twenty-seven old sheep, seventeen of which were ewes, and fourteen lambs ; which is forty-one.
May 5. -- Sowed flaxseed, and planted June potatoes.
May 29. - Finished planting.
May .- Tommy fell into a deep place in the river, and providentially escaped drowning by having timely assistance near. The Lord's name be praised !
May 28. - Brought a salmon from Northampton behind me without harm to it, though it was warm weather.
11th day of June. - Set out from home to join the army at Ticonderoga ; returned home July 13.
18th July. - Green peas plenty, and, soon after, stringed beans.
1778.
March. - An uncommon season for a great depth of snow ; drifts being over the fences in many places. It wasted fast March 12, 13, 14, 15.
March 23. - Began to make sugar, being too early.
May 16. - Load of shad from Kinderhook, or rather from Schodack. July 9. - The first mess of green peas.
July 12. - Ended reading " The Family Expositor " for the first time in my family, and began to read it through again, July 19.
Oct. 30. - Finished getting in my sauce.
Aug. 2. - Lord's Day ; eneumbers for the first time.
1779.
Little or no snow in February, and the most open winter I ever knew.
My sheep did not eat two hundred pounds of hay this winter, till March came in.
March 22, Monday. - Brunswicker came to live with me.
Sheared sheep April 30 ; too early.
Ang. 21. - This day received the melancholy tidings of brother Moses Allen's death, who was drowned in making his escape from a prison-ship near Savannah, beginning of January, 1779.
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In September. - Sowed my wheat, being one week too late.
October, made a journey to Albany with my son. Returning, his horse fell and rolled quite over him, and yet he was preserved unhurt in any great degree, to my astonishment. How wonderful is the preservation of man ! The Lord's name be praised !
1780.
As long and severe a winter as almost was ever known. Snow very much drifted and very deep.
Aug. 14. - Mowed my meadow, and finished mowing Tuesday, and got it all home Friday night. It is best to mow it all down the first day, if possible.
August 31. - Sowed my wheat, and finished dragging it the third day after.
Next year I am to sow some flax, peas, barley, and oats.
C. NAMES OF EARLY SETTLERS.
Rev. Dr. Field, who made inquiries, when sources of information were more abundant than they now are, into the early settlement of the town, pub- lished the result in 1844. He appears to have relied chiefly upon traditions, and to have been entirely unacquainted with the measures for settlement be- fore 1752, so that some errors naturally appear in his statement. We, how- ever, here reproduce the essential portions, which may be compared with the text of the present work.
In 1752-3, Solomon Deming moved his family into the east part of the town. .... This year Charles Goodrich drove the first team and cart into the town, cutting his way for a number of miles through the woods. Nathaniel Fairfield also this year settled on the road running east from the house of the late Deacon Daniel Crofoot and Zebediah Stiles, on a rise of ground west of the dwelling of the late Dr. Childs.
It is understood that Abner and Isaac Dewey, Jacob Ensign, Hezekiah Jones, Samuel Taylor, Elias Willard, and Dea. Josiah Wright became set- tlers this year, and that Simeon and Stephen Crofoot, David Bush, and Col. William Williams became settlers the year following. . .
In 1754, Eli Root, Esq., Ephraim Stiles, William Wright, and perhaps others, became inhabitants. . .
On the road running west from the centre were Zebediah and Ephraim Stiles, Ezra Strong, Charles Miller, David Roberts, David Ashley, Amos and Oliver Root, and others by the name of Wright, Robbins, Belden, Hubbard, Francis and Wadhams; east were Rev. Mr. Allen, John Strong, Dr. Col- ton, the Crofoots. and Jacob Ensign ; and further on to the north-east Josiah
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HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
and Charles Goodrich, Israel Stoddard, Israel Dickinson, and Col. Wm. Wil- liams ; south were Col. Easton, Sylvanus Piercey, Ezekiel Root, Daniel Mil- ler, James Lord, and Elisha Jones. Rufus Allen kept a public house on the corner now occupied by William B. Cooley [in 1868, by the Berkshire Life Insurance Company ], and farther north, towards Lanesboro', were Joseph Al- len, and the families by the name of Baker and Keeler. On the road east- ward of Daniel Weller's, or near it, were the Fairfields, David Bush, Eli Root, Esq., Hezekiah Jones, Wm. Brattle, and Solomon Deming. Col. Wil- liams early moved on to this road from the spot where Levi Goodrich now lives, and where Lient. Graves settled after him. Charles Goodrich, Esq., left the farm on which he first lived, and settled near him.
A large portion of the early settlers were from Westfield, - all by the name of Ashley, Bagg, Bush, Cadwell, Dewey, Francis, Hubbard, Noble, Piercey, Sackett, Stiles, Taylor, and Weller. Hezekiah Jones was also from this town. Those of the name of Brattle, Deming, Goodrich, Gunn, Lord, Robbins, and Willard were from Wethersfield, Ct. The Allens, Bakers, Fairfields, Phelpses, Stoddards, Strongs, and Wrights were from Northampton; and the Crofoots from Belchertown.
1759. The following persons are understood from circumstances to have moved into the town this year ; viz., Samuel Birchard, Daniel Hubbard, Daniel and Jesse Sackett, and Jonathan Taylor. I say are understood from circumstances to have moved in this year ; for there is no inconsiderable dif- ficulty in finding exactly, at this time, at what period the early settlers plant- ed themselves here. . . . In 1760, David and Oliver Ashley, William Fran- cis, and Gideon Gunn are understood to have become settlers. Joshua Rob- bins and Ezekiel Root became inhabitants before the incorporation of the town. ... In 1761, Gideon Goodrich, James Lord, Charles Miller, Thomas Morgan, Daniel and David Noble, Wm. Phelps, and John Remington are understood to have become inhabitants.
In 1762-3-4, the following persons are understood to have settled here ; namely, Phinehas Belden, Solomon Crosby, Israel Dickinson, Elisha Jones, John Morse, David Roberts, Aaron Stiles, Israel Stoddard, John and Caleb Wadhams, Aaron and Phinchas Baker, Wm. Brattle, Col. James Easton, Benjamin and Josiah Goodrich, Moses Miller, Joseph Phelps, Amos Root, John Williams, Rev. Thomas Allen, Jas. D. Colt, Ezra and King Strong, Dr. - Colton, Rufus Allen, John Strong ; and a number of others probably be- came inhabitants during these years. Not long after, Joseph Allen, David Bagg, Lient. Moses Graves, Woodbridge Little, Esq., Col. Oliver Root, Eben- ezer White, and many others, settled in town.
Most of the inhabitants who have been mentioned settled on the house- lots ; some, on the squares.
Col. Williams and Elisha Jones were from Weston; Lieut. Graves and Israel Dickinson were from Hatfield ; Thomas Morgan was from Springfield, and John Remington from West Springfield. Ebenezer White was from Hadley. David Roberts was from Hartford, and Jacob Ensign from West
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Hartford, Ct. Col. Easton was immediately from Litchfield, previously from Hartford. Joseph Keeler was from Ridgefield, and Woodbridge Little, Esq., from Lebanon, and James D. Colt from Lyme, in the same State.
Valentine Rathbun, from Stonington, Ct., settled in this town about 1770; Dr. Timothy Childs, from Deerfield, in 1771 ; and Stephen Fowler and Josiah Moseley, from Westfield, about 1772. Col. John Brown, from Sandisfield, settled here in 1773. In 1775, Gad Merrill, from Hebron, Ct., settled to the north of the east branch of the Housatonic, near Dalton line; and, in the spring of 1780, William and John Partridge settled a little west of him.
D.
RECORDS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE OF PITTS- FIELD.
From the Military Rolls of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In some cases, the companies whose rolls are here given were made up by levies from two or more towns ; and, as it is impossible always to distin- guish to which the soldiers should be credited, this list is printed without at- tempting to discriminate.
CAPT. NOBLE'S MINUTE MEN.
List of Capt. Noble's minute-men who marched to Cambridge on the Lexington alarm : -
Term of service, nine days; entered service April 22, 1775.
Captain, David Noble of Pittsfield. First Lieut., Joseph Welch of Rich- mond. Second Lieut., Josiah Wright of Pittsfield. Sergeants, Jeremiah Miller, Richmond; Joseph More, Pittsfield; Ambrose Hall, Richmond ; Nathaniel Porter, Pittsfield. Corporals, Ebenezer Williams, Richmond ; Solo- mon Martin, Pittsfield ; Thomas Scott, Richmond ; Jonathan Stoddard, Pitts- field. Fifer, George Leonard, Lenox. Drummer, Joshua Done, of Pittsfield.
Privates from Richmond.
- - Hill.
Joel Osborne.
Benjamin Pynchon.
Jose Hubbard.
Rufus Parmele.
Paul Tupping [Tupper ?] Dan Tubs. Amaziah Chapin. A. Parmele.
William Lang.
Fred. Hill. Wm. Raymont. Reuben Coggwell.
Jonathan Hewley. Isaiah
David Gaston.
B. Currier.
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HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
Privates from Pittsfield.
Phinehas Gilbert.
Thomas Miller.
Hugh Mitchell.
John King.
Benjamin Deming. Timothy Stearns.
Jerry Butler. Caleb Goodrich.
Hugh Berry. Wm. Cady.
Timothy Miller.
Jonathan Blakesley. Abraham Frost.
Joseph Elton. Joseph Cotton.
John Corbin.
Richard Rossiter.
Warham Strong.
Charles Belding.
Zebediah Stiles.
John Gardner.
Joel Osborn.
Jabez Chalmers.
Wm. Seott.
Jonathan Bill.
Joel Dickinson.
Benjamin Austin.
Nathaniel Dickinson.
David Beekwith.
Azariah Egleston.
Walter Welch.
Moses Goodrich.
James Elton.
Samuel Cross.
Aaron Stiles.
Aaron Miller.
Thomas Taylor.
Moses Noble.
Timothy Childs.
Jabez Chalmers, John Gardner, Jonathan Bill, volunteered in Arnold's expedition against Canada via the Kennebec.
Benjamin Austin and David Beekwith enlisted in " the train " early in July.
ROLL of Capt. David Noble's company of eight months' men in Col. Patter- son's regiment at Cambridge, 1775 :-
Officers.
Captain, David Noble, Pittsfield. First Lieut., Joseph Welch, Richmond. Second Lieut., Josiah Wright, Pittsfield. Surgeon [to the regiment], Timothy Childs, Pittsfield. Surgeon's Mate, Jonathan Lee, Pittsfield. Sergeants, Jere- miah Miller, Richmond; Joseph More, Pittsfield ; Ambrose Hull [or Hall], Richmond; Nathaniel Porter, Pittsfield. Corporals, Ebenezer Williams, Richmond ; Solomon Martin, Pittsfield; Thomas Scott, Richmond ; Jonathan Stoddard, Pittsfield.
Benjamin Austin. George Butler. Hugh Berry. Jonathan Blakesley. Jonathan Bill. David Beckwith. Samuel Cross.
Privates.
John Cady.
Jabez Chalmers. William Cady.
Benjamin Deming.
Azariah Eggleston. Abraham Frost. John Gardner.
Ebenezer Wright.
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Moses Goodrich. Phinehas Gilbert. John King. Joshua Done (Doane), drummer. Moses Noble.
Timothy Stearns. Aaron Miller. Thomas Miller. Seth Macomber.
OTHER PITTSFIELD SOLDIERS in the eight months' service : - Prince Hall, in Col. Wm. Prescott's regiment.
Thomas Parks, in Wm. Goodrich's company, Patterson's regiment.
Joseph Colson, drummer in Col. Jonathan Brewer's regiment.
Eleazer Keiler, sergeant in Capt. Asa Bower's company, Woodbridge's regiment.
John Lewis, surgeon's mate Eben Brewer's regiment.
PITTSFIELD MEN in Capt. Aaron Rowley's company, Col. Symond's regi- ment, called out by Gen. Gates, for Saratoga, from April 26 to May 19, 1777 :-
Lieutenant, Wm. Ford. Sergeant, Joel Stevens. Corporal, Amos Delano, Samuel Coggswell, Isaac Coggswell, Ebenezer Phelps, Timothy Cadwell. Jehiel Wright, Jason Warren, Samuel Willard, Linus Parker [then of Lenox], Ozias Wright.
Gideon Gunn and Amos Root served in the same regiment.
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