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Tucker
Col. Vose
Jeffrey Hazzard *
Nov. 4, 1779
D. W.
66
Howard
" Bailey
Joshua Chappel*
July,
1779
D. W.
Ebenezer Hutchinson *
Feb. 19, 1779
D. W.
" Bailey
Daniel Beckwith
April 9, 1777
3 years
Miller
66 Vose
Isaac Reed
April 4, 1777
3 years
Stoddard
Vose
Nathan Dart*
.April 4, 1777
3 years
Miller
Vose
Josiah Jacobs
April 4, 1777
3 years
66 Miller
66 Vose
Solomon Lothrop
April 4, 1777
3 years
"
Stoddard
Vose
Hugh Mitchell
April 4, 1777
3 years
Miller
66
Vose
Samuel Goodree
April 9, 1777
3 years
Ashley
Vose
Jonathan Wright
April 11, 1777
3 years
Stoddard
" Vose
David Goff (Luff)
April 4, 1777
3 years
Miller
Vose
John North
April 11, 1777
D. W.
Ashley
Vose
John Dennis
April 10,1777
3 years
66 Burr
Vose
Daniel Rust *
April 4, 1777
D. W.
Miller
Vose
Lemnel Rowley
April 5, 1777
3 years
66
Ashley
Vose
Charles Stuart
April 7,1777
3 years
66
Warren
Weston
Reuben Milbourn
April 9, 1777
D. W.
Ashley
Vose
Benjamin Dimock
May 15, 1777
3 years
Miller
Vose
Jonathan Briton
Jan. 10, 1778
D. W.
Miller
Vose
Moses Stiles
D. W.
MeKain
" Van Schaack
William Collins
3 years
Stoddard
Vose
Samuel Prindle *
3 years
Stoddard
66 Vose
Simeon Tupper*
April 4, 1777
D. W.
Burr
" Bailey
Attest :
WM. WILLIAMS,
ELI ROOT,
ELI ROOT,
Selectmen.
STEPHEN CROFOOT,
Committee .
STEPHEN CROFOOT, )
WM. FRANCIS,
JOHN STRONG, Capt. STEPHEN CROFOOT, Lieut. WM. FORD, Capt. WM. FRANCIS, Capt.
66
Vose
Ichabod Hiscock
May 5, 1777
3 years
¥ Ashley
Vose
Thomas Jenks
April 7, 1777
3 years
Miller
Vose
John Cady
April 9, 1777
D. W.
Burr
66 Vose
James Spear *
April 9, 1777
3 years
Miller
Vose
Joseph Handy
April 11, 1777
3 years
Ashley
496
HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
N. B. - Nathan Dart was a Haneock man, enlisted for Pittsfield, and so certified. Jeffrey Hazzard, "mulatto fellow," enlisted out of Col. Chapin's regiment of levies ; but he had fought in the Pittsfield company at Benning- ton.
Lemuel Halleck, chairman of the committee at Boston, certified to tlie enlistment of all the above list, except those whose names are starred, and to the following names not in the Selectmen's list : John Wood, Josialı Reed, Peter Dago, Aaron Hiscocks, George Atkins, Robert Milbourn.
The following additional names appear in the Continental rolls, in the State Archives, 1779 : Isaac Moss (Morse ?), John Wright, Jonathan Morey, Anthony Oliver, Thomas Tupper.
CLASSES AND BOUNTIES.
PITTSFIELD, April 20, 1781.
WE, the subscribers, selectmen of the town of Pittsfield, do hereby certify and inform all persons whom it may concern, That, in pursuance of a resolve of the General Court of the 2d of December last, the town of Pitts- field, by their committees appointed for that purpose, divided the ratable polls and estate of said town into as many classes as there were men re- quired to be procured by said town; to wit, sixteen. And that fifteen of said classes did hire and procure the several men hereinafter named, and gave to them, as a bounty, the several sums annexed to their names, as appears by the receipts herewith transmitted : -
John White,
£50
Simeon Tupper, jun., £60
Joseph Sharp,
50
Henry Smith,
55
Edward Davis,
50
Eliphalet Cobb, 60
Anoblos Moore,
50
Simeon Tupper, 60
Ambrose Booth,
50
David Taylor,
55
William Cady,
55
Allen Davis,
50
Jabez Albro,
50
Jehiel Stearns,
55
Nathan French,
55 7
Amounting, in the whole, to the sum of £830. 7s.
And the said selectmen do further inform, that, although a number of re- ceipts bear a later date, yet, to the best of their belief, the several persons above named (except one) were procured and mustered before the 20th day of January last, as will appear by the certificate of the muster-master ; but some of the classes did not complete the payment and obtain receipts until afterwards.
And, as to one class in town, the subscribers would further inform, that the several members or individuals of said class did pay to the head of the class, to his full satisfaction, their respective sums and proportions sutlicient to procure a man ; and that, in consideration thereof, he did undertake to hire
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a man, and indemnify said class, but by some means hath neglected and failed to do so.
LEBBEUS BACKUS,
JOSHUA ROBBINS,
WM. BARBER,
JOHN STRONG,
Selectmen.
OLIVER ROOT,
RUFUS ALLEN,
WOODBRIDGE LITTLE,
Sworn to before Jonathan Lee, Town Clerk.
E.
CENSUS OF PITTSFIELD IN 1772.
[Number of families and persons in Pittsfield, Nov. 1, 1772.]
James Easton,
15
Ezra Keiler,
3
Thomas Allen,
8
Seth Keiler,
3
John Strong,
7
Benj. Keiler,
6
Stephen Crowfoot,
9
Phineas Belding,
9
Simeon Crowfoot,
8
Dan Cadwell,
9
Jacob Ensign,
8
Stephen Phelps,
2
Aaron Miller,
Goodrich,
4
Joseph Fairfield,
Jedidialı Goodrich,
2
Woodbridge Little,
4
David Bagg,
8
Israel Dickinson,
8
Thomas Morgan,
4
Israel Stoddard,
8
Timothy Cadwell,
7
Moses Graves,
Martin Bagg,
3
- Birehard,
King Strong,
4
Chamberlin,
Aaron Noble,
5
Charles Goodrich,
---- Marvin,
4
William Williams,
12
Joseph Clark,
3
Wm. Brattle,
9
Aaron Baker,
15
Gideon Gunn,
7
Valentine Rathbun,
8
Solomon Crosby,
9
- Branch,
9
Solomon Deming,
5
Branch,
5
Josiah Moseley
3
Branch,
6
Erastus Sackett,
8
Oliver Burt,
7
William Barber,
3
Morey,
7
Matthew Barber,
7
Thomas North,
7
- Keiler,
Zebediah Stiles,
11
32
498
HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
Caleb Goodrich,
9
James Colt,
Ephraim Stiles,
5
Jonathan Kingsley, 5
Charles Miller,
9
Joshua Narramore, 6
Stephen Fowler,
3
John Narramore,
John Corban,
5
Elnathan Phelps,
7
Wmn. Ford,
6
Wm. Phelps,
- Gleason,
10
Lemuel Phelps,
Amos Root,
8
- Hopkins,
11
Josiah Wright,
1
- Hollister,
Joshua Robbins,
10
Jos. More,
Daniel Hubbard, jun.,
8
Jacob Ellithorp,
5
Ebenezer Hutchinson,
3
Oswald Williams,
Daniel Hubbard,
3
James Noble,
James Hubbard,
6
Gideon Goodrich,
David Noble,
20
John Remington,
2
- Johnson,
9
- Hopkins,
8
Ebenezer White,
6
Capt. North,
2
Hezekiah Jones,
3
- Loomis,
6
Hezekiah Jones, jun., Larribee,
00 8
Turner,
7
Benjamin Kilbourn, - Hobby,
7
Amos Delano,
3
Lebbeus Backus,
6
WVm. Wright; 7
Nathaniel Fairfield,
10
Ebenezer Wright,
2
Eli Root,
7
Solomon Lathrop,
3
Nathanael Phelps,
6
David Ashley,
David Bush,
S
John Clark,
Ezekiel Root,
11
- Grant, 4
Daniel Weller,
9
- Davis, 6
Uriah Judd,
Zadock Hubbard, 7
2
Elisha Jones,
John Demming,
- Ilale,
- Cogswell,
Aaron Stiles,
Jonathan Blaxley,
- IHopkins,
- Plummer,
2
Daniel Alexander,
- Squire,
2
Joseph Chamberlain,
- Talcut,
- Doane, 2
- Talcut,
Uriah Judd,
2
Joseph Wright,
Widow Wright,
474778 4 3
Janes.
Paul Guilford, 7
Ilicok,
Joseph Allen,
-
- - Austin, 3
Number of families, 138
Jolın Baker,
Widow Noble,
John Remington, jun.,
William Francis, Parker,
2
Ezra Strong,
6
4
Oliver Root,
·
499
APPENDIX.
N. B. - The census here given is a transcript from the records of the First Church. In some cases, blanks were left in the original, and in others the record is obliterated.
F. ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
BY THE REV. THOMAS ALLEN.
[Mr. Allen, writing on the day of the battle, in the following account, gives the story of the Bennington fight according to his own observation, and the information which could be hastily collected at the time.]
From the Connecticut Courant, Aug. 25, 1777.
[The following particulars of the action between the militia, &c., and a part of the British army, on the 16th inst., near Bennington, have been transmitted to us by a letter of the 16th from the Rev. Mr. Allen of Pitts- field, who was present at the action.] - ED.
Saturday, Aug. 16, was a memorable day on account of a signal victory which the militia, under the command of Gen. Stark, obtained over a body of the king's troops commanded by Gov. Skeene, some account of which is here given by one who was himself in the action. It seems that Gen. Bur- goyne had detached this corps, consisting of about fifteen hundred men, chiefly Waldeckers and Brunswickers, intermixed with some British troops and Tories, - a medly compound, -to penetrate as far as Bennington, and farther if it should be found practicable, with a view to increase the number of his friends, to disperse his " protections" in the country, to procure for his army provisions, and to wreak his wrath and vengeance on those who had disregarded his calls of mercy, and slighted with indignity his prof- fered protection. Gov. Skeene had advantageously posted this corps within about five miles of Bennington Meeting-house, where, in different places, they made breastworks for their own security. This digression was of such ill tendency, and savored so much of presumption, that Gen. Stark, who was at that time providentially at Bennington, with his brigade of militia from New- Hampshire State, determined to give him battle. Col. Simonds's regiment of militia in Berkshire County was invited to his assistance; and a part of Col. Brown's arrived seasonably to attend on the action ; and some volun- teers from different towns ; and Col. Warner, with a part of his own regi- ment, joined him the same day. The general, it seems, wisely laid his plan
500
HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
of operation ; and, Divine Providence blessing us with good weather, be- tween three and four o'clock, P.M., ho attacked them in front and flank, in three or four different places at the same instant, with irresistible impetu- osity.
The action was extremely hot for between one and two hours. The flanking divisions had carried their points with great success, when the front , pressed on to their breastworks with an ardor and patience beyond expecta- tion. The blaze of the guns of the contending parties reached each other. The fire was so extremely hot, - and our men easily surmounting their breastworks, amid peals of thunder and flashes of lightning from their guns, without regarding the roar of their field-pieces, - that the enemy at onee deserted their cover, and ran; and in about five minutes their whole camp was in the utmost confusion and disorder. All their battalions were broken in pieces, and fled most precipitately ; at which instant our whole army pressed after with redoubled ardor, pursued them for a mile, made considerable slaughter among them, and made many prisoners. One field-piece had already fallen into our hands. At this point, our men stopped the pursuit to gain breath, when the enemy, being re-enforced, our front fell back a few rods for convenience of ground, and being directed and collected by Col. Rossiter, and re-enforced by Major Stratton, renewed the fight with re- doubled ardor, and fell in upon them with great impetuosity, put them to confusion and flight, and pursued them about a mile, making many prison- ers. Two or three more brass field-pieces fell into our hands, and are supposed to be the whole of what they brought with them. At this time, dark- ness came upon us, and prevented our swallowing up the whole of this body. The enemy fled precipitately the succeeding night towards the North River ; and, unless they should be met with by a party of our army, may have reached there without further molestation. Gov. Skeene, in surprise and consternation, took horse and fled. This action, which redounds so much to the glory of the great Lord of the heavens and God of armies, affords the Americans a lasting monument of the divine power and goodness, and a most powerful argument of love to and trust in God.
Our loss is about forty or fifty killed, and more wounded. Their baggage fell into our hands. The number of prisoners taken is said to be about six hundred. Two of their colonels were among the prisoners, and mortally wounded. A number of their inferior officers have also fallen into our hands, and in particular the general's aide-de-camp. A good number deserted, and joined us. This victory is thought by some to equal any that has happened during the present controversy, and, as long as prudence, moderation, so- briety, and valor are of any estimation among these United States, will not fail to endear Gen. Stark to them. It is the opinion of some, that, if a large body of militia was now called to act in conjunction with our northern army, the enemy might be entirely overthrown. May all be concerned to give God the glory, whilst we commend the good conduct of the officers and sol-
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diers in general on so important an occasion ! The best account of thic number of prisoners taken in the above action is as follows : -
2 Colonels, 1 Major,
1 Lieutenant-colonel,
5 Captains,
12 Lieutenants,
1 Judge advocate,
1 Baron,
4 Ensigns,
2 Canadian officers,
3 Surgeons,
37 British
2 Brass 4-pounders,
2 3-pounders,
1 Medicine wagon, and a quantity of baggage.
From Mr. Allen's Pocket Diary.
[The allusions to the Battle of Bennington in Rev. Mr. Allen's diary are brief, but suggestive, and read as follows] : -
" Aug. 16. - A memorable battle fought by the militia near Bennington. One thousand of the cnemy killed, wounded, and taken prisoners.
" Expended on my tour to Bennington, seven shillings and sixpence.
" Expended for ammunition, nine shillings and sixpence.
" Aug. 21. - Received for horse-keeping and victualling [probably of soldiers and prisoners], two pounds, seventeen shillings, and sixpence.
" Received for use of my cart, and damage by prisoners, one pound, one shilling.
" Aug. 29. - Received for victuals for seventeen men, thirteen shillings and sixpence."
Rev. Dr. Field relates the following anecdote of Mr. Allen : -
" Once, when asked whether he actually killed any man at Bennington, he replied that he did not know ; but that, observing a flash often repeated from a certain bush, and that it was generally followed by the fall of one of Stark's men, he fired that way, and put the flash out."
G. PLAN OF PITTSFIELD IN 1794.
TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE MASS. STATE ARCHIVES.
A Plan of the Town of Pittsfield, in the County of Berkshire, taken in Obedience to a Resolve of the General Court, passed June 26, A.D. 1794.
The south line of this town is 2,111 rods in length ; the east line is 1,897 rods long; the north line in the whole is 2,048 rods ; and the whole of the west line 1,892 rods in length. This town was intended to be, and perhaps
398 German · privates,
175 Tories,
680 besides, wounded,
502
HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
is, in a square form. The very steep mountain [Honwee], near the north- west corner, may make a difference in measuring the lines. The original plans of the town, one of which we had, taken thirty-four years ago, set forth the town as square, and the points from the south-west corner, as running cast 19 degrees south ; but in running the same line at this period, and setting the compass so as to strike the north-west corner of the town of Lenox, which is in the south-west line of Pittsfield, and 684 rods from our south-
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west corner, the line was found to run east sixteen degrees and fifteen min- utes south. The lines at each corner are at right angles, and the ancient boundaries and marked trees are yet remaining.
Pittsfield by estimation, on the route through Northampton, is 140 miles from Boston. Its meeting-house is six miles and a half from Lenox Court House. The Ousatonac River, at its entrance on the east side of said town, is six rods wide ; and on the south side of the town, where it crosses the line, it is ciglit rods wide.
There are five ponds which lie wholly in Pittsfield, and two others, part of one of which is in Lanesborough, and the other in Richmond, which we estimate as follows, to wit : -
Goodrich Pond, 50 acres ; Ensign's Pond, 40 acres; Van Schaack's Pond, 40 acres ; Rathbun's Pond, 45 acres ; West Pond, 520 acres; North Pond, 300 acres ; South Pond, 80 acres.
We know of no mines, or minerals, in this town. The ore used here is brought from Richmond, &c. This survey was taken in the months of No-
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vember and December, A.D. 1794. The dotted lines represent the county roads ; the green lines, the streams and rivers, over which are bridges, where roads eross them. The bridges over the Ousatonae River are five in num- ber. Dalton, S. W. corner. Washington, N. W. corner.
JOHN C. WILLIAMS,
OLIVER ROOT,
SIMON LARNED, Committee.
NATHANIEL ROBBINS, ELI ROOT,
DEC. 8, 1794.
N. B. - The committee do not seem to have been aware of the sixty-eight rods allowed in addition to the original town boundaries.
H.
WHILE this work has been passing through the press, a few facts have come to our knowledge, which are worthy of record.
Dr. Charles S. Goodrich of New York furnishes us with the following traditions regarding his grandfather, Capt. Charles Goodrich.
East Street was opened under his direction ; and four or five fine elm-trees were left standing where Park Square now is, among them The Great Elm. Dr. Goodrich often heard his grandfather say that one of his axe-men struck two blows into the tree, with the intention of felling it; but Capt. Goodrich, admiring its beauty, - it was then tall, straight, and limbless, to the height of some fifty feet,- ordered his axe-men to " spare that tree," which they did, with three or four others near it. The Elm was then about a foot in diameter.
Dr. Goodrich states that his grandfather owned six thousand acres of land in Pittsfield and the neighboring towns; among which was the farm upon which the popular mineral springs of New Lebanon, N.Y., were afterwards found.
Once, when eighty years old, Capt. Goodrich rode a Narragansett pony from Pittsfield, Vermont - which was named by him, and where his son lived,- to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a distance of a hundred and four miles ; starting after sunrise, and sleeping at home the same night.
Capt. Goodrich died at the age of ninety-six, leaving two sons, - Rev. Charles Goodrich, who is now living, at the age of ninety ; and James G., who is now eighty-nine years old, - and one daughter, Mrs. Luey G. Pratt, who died three years since, at the age of ninety.
504
HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
The last deer known in Pittsfield were slaughtered in the winter of 1780, when the snow was so deep that it was possible for the hunters to kill them, without the possibility of their escape, in the yards which they had beaten out for themselves among the snow-drifts. The demand for buckskins for the manufacture of breeches for the military was then urgent, and the hun- ters were diligent to supply it.
The initials I. M. W., on the Plan of Pittsfield in 1759, refer to John Mico Wendell, son of Col. Jacob, who married Catherine Brattle, a descendant of Thomas Brattle, the founder of the Brattle family of Massachusetts, a branch of which was thus introduced into Pittsfield, where some of its members still reside. John Mico Wendell and his wife were both descendants of Governors Bradstreet and Dudley.
Of Col. Israel Williams's nine children, four settled in Pittsfield and vi- cinity : Deacon William Williams, who was one of the first trustees of Williams College, and who should be distinguished from Col. William Williams of Pittsfield ; Sarah, who married Dr. Marsh of Dalton; Eunice, who married Major Israel Stoddard of Pittsfield; and Lucretia, who married John Chandler Williams. Of Dr. Marsh's daughters, Sarah married Israel Peck ; Martha married Thomas Gold; Eunice, Darius Larned ; Lucretia, William Millen ; Elizabeth, Jonathan Allen ; and Sophia,. Fordyce Merrick, -- all of Pittsfield.
INDEX.
A.
Allen, Rev. Thomas, foretells the manufac- turing prosperity of Pittsfield, 33; gift of, to schools, 136; 138, 139, 158, 160, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 177, 183, 190, 198, 209, 215, 222, 252, 279, 280, 281; speech at Ticon- deroga, 284; service at Bennington, 297, 324; views of the Massachusetts Charters, 330 ; political opinions of, 336, 341, 364, 365, 367, 369, 399, 409, 418, 453; diary of, 470; loans to the Continent, 471.
Association, Continental, resolutions of, adopted by Pittsfield, 202.
Allen, Rev. William, D.D., 19, 160.
Allen, Joseph, 258, 295, 299.
Allen, Ethan, 213, 226, 227, 232, 233. - See John Brown. Allen, Thomas, 90, 427.
Allen, John, 504.
Allen, Samuel A., 31.
Allen, Solomon, 403.
Allen, Phinehas, 403.
Allen, William C., 124.
Allen, Rufus, 214, 279, 295, 315, 317, 319, 497. Adams, John, 173; vividly describes the con- dition of the army at Crown Point in 1776, 261; on affairs at Ticonderoga in 1777, 280; 327,332, 369.
Aristocracy, Provincial, 333; its greediness for office, 333, 334.
Administration, civil and judicial, of the State excluded from Berkshire in 1775, 338.
Adams, Samuel, 211, 215, 216.
Adams, Charles Francis, 356.
Army, Continental, recruits for, 279, 315; bounties for, 316; elaborate plan to obtain, 317. Aitken's " American Register," 468.
Arnold, Benedict, 214; infamous conduct of, in the Ticonderoga affair in 1775, 218 et seq. and 223; letter of, 219; embezzles pay of Pittsfield soldiers, 225; account of, sent to Gen. Washington, 225. - See John Brown.
Arnold, Oliver, 181.
André, Major, 320.
Agriculture of Berkshire, 15.
Aboriginal names, capricious spelling of, 16.
Agricultural Park, 35.
Antankamet, 63.
Albany, 63, 64; patriotic spirit at, 209.
Attleborough, 874.
Andrew, Gov. John A., 8.
Ausotunnoog, 17.
Aborigines of Berkshire, 43.
Aupanmut Hendrick, 49, 52.
Aix-la-Chapelle, peace of, 84, 85, 86, 102.
Anson, Fort, 107, 108, 111, 113, 114.
Arbutus Hill and Ope, 30.
Ashley Lake and Brook, 31.
Ashley Lake, fountain of the Pittsfield Water Works, 36.
Ashlar Factory, 34.
Agricultural Bank, 38.
Albany, distance of, from Pittsfield, 38.
Ashley, David, 86, 441, 459, 460.
Ashley, Capt., 102, 103.
Alexander, Moses, 110.
Ashley, John, 120, 124, 139, 190, 311, 346, 348, 405. Ammunition, 183.
Animals, wild, of Berkshire, 75.
B.
Berkshire, county of, remarkable for its in- dividuality of character, 3; its boundaries, 4; a conspicuous feature in New-England
505
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geography, 4; valley described, 5; view of, from l'ittsfield, 6; scenery of, 7; physical structure of, epitomized, 9; unity and di- vision of, 9; population of, 11; external communication with, 11, 12; rise of val- ley, 13; a lake county, 14; unity of its geography, 15; interior geography of, 13; boundary disputes between New York and Massachusetts, 21; territory of, as first seen by the English, 43; paucity of abo- riginal population accounted for, 46; sum- mit of valley, 13; population of, in 1754, 97; county organization established, 130, 132, 133, 134.
Berlin Mountain, height of, 8.
Beaver Dam, 25.
Berry Pond, 29; path to, 30.
Barton Brook, 28.
Brattle Brook, 28.
Buel, James, 31.
Bass, black, placed in Pittsfield lakes, 32. Barker Brothers' factories, 34.
Barkersville, 34.
Boston, distance from Pittsfield, 38.
Brooks, Taconic, 28, 30.
Burial-ground, 159.
Baker, John, 459.
Bradford, Gov. William, 168.
Baker, Aaron, 163, 209, 244.
Belding, Phinehas, 163.
Bates, Daniel, 316.
Bill of Rights, 368.
Boston Revolutionary committees, 189.
Boston Port-Bill sufferers, contributions for their relief, 192; proposal to move seat of government from, 414; tea-party, 184.
Birch, Joshua, 459.
Burrage, Deborah, 394. Bacon, John, 348, 409, 432.
Batty, John, 281.
Backus, Lebbeus, 244, 315, 319, 367, 497.
Brewer, Daniel, 250.
Bell, Gen., in American army at White Plains, 253.
Brewster, Dr. Oliver, 311. Brewster, Dr. Oliver E., 311. Barber, William, 244, 252, 317, 319, 382, 497. Barnes, Asa, 428. Branch, John, 457, 459.
Baker, John, 457, 459.
Branch, Asa, 457, 459.
Brown, John, 181, 186, 189, 190, 201, 203, 204, 209, 211, 212, 216, 221, 222; adventurous expeditions of, 212 and 229; hastens Schny- ler's advance on Canada, 231; further ad- ventures in Canada, 232: leads the advance into Canada, 233; unsuccessful attempt on Montreal, 234; capture of Chamblee, 236;
results of, 238; at the capture of Montreal, 239; at the siege of Quebec, 256; Arnold's hatred of, 257, 259; malicious charges of Arnold against, 266; futile attempts to ob- tain a court-martial, 266; appeals to Con- gress, 270; charges Arnold with treason and other crimes, 271; impeachment trans- mitted to Congress, 272; obtains no redress, and appeals to the country, 272; remarka- ble interview with Arnold, 273; Gross in- justice of Congress, 274; spirited remon- strance against, 275; brilliant exploit at Lake George, 304; 310, 348, 357.
Baptists, 434, 451, 456, 459. - See Dissenters and Church.
Barber, Matthew, 209.
Brown. Capt. Jacob, 258.
Bill, Jonathan, 255.
Barnard, Lemuel, 191.
Bunker Hill, Battle of, sound of the can- nonading heard in Berkshire, 211.
Bennington, British expedition against, 290; battle of, 294; alarm attending, 291; char- acter and effect of, 302.
Burgoyne's army march through Pittsfield, 306.
Burgoyne's overthrow, quaint verses con- cerning, 307.
Bounties of Revolutionary soldiers, 316, 319.
Bounty jumpers in the Revolution, 317.
Backus, William G., 45.
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