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The four substitutes credited on the town's quota were Joseph F. Hartling, Joseph R. McDonough, Robert Watson and James Libby. They went into the U. S. Navy. We do not know what became of them.
A large number of men were obtained outside the town as recruits to fill Buckfield's quota on different calls after 1862. We have, after much effort, procured nearly a correct list.
Robert H. Doughty and Samuel Thorne of Woodstock and Orville A. Sessions of Milton Plantation served in .Co. A1, 30th Me. Regt. All died in the service. In the same regiment were Ichabod Goodrich, John Maloney, Arza B. Webber, Levi H. Webber, all of Lewiston. Gosselyn MeGloire, probably an assumed name, Baptiste Marcho, Edward Veland from the same city were in the 6th Me. Regiment. McGloire was killed in battle. John H. Quimby, Philo Winslow, Benj. F. Peterson, John J. Bragdon, Eli Clark, Thomas Chick, David Jones and A. J. Lufkin
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from the same place or vicinity, served in different organizations. Bragdon died in the service. Clark was wounded in battle and discharged before term of service expired.
Of the last quota of 13 in 1865, nine went into the Maine Coast Guards, two were assigned to the 14th Me. Regt., and one to the 27th unassigned company. The other volunteer, we have been unable to trace.
The following are the names of those drafted in July, 1863, as they were given in the local papers of the time. Those un- marked were exempted for various reasons :
David Record
Eleazer Snell, Jr.± Wm. W. Abbott
John B. Record
Stephen O. Irish
Rufus W. Hines
Wm. Wallace Atwoodt
Ozias DeCoster, Jr.#
Hiram H. Gammon
Jonathan M. Shedd
Edward G. Cole
James M. Chesley*
Richard S. Dormant
Samuel F. Irish Edwin DeCoster
John Cressey, Jr.
Josiah Churchill
Albion A. Maxim
Eben I. Russell
James F. Packard
Joshua C. Heald
Nehemiah E. Marston
Levi Monk
Jotham W. Shaw
James H. Hodgdon
Geo. B. Record
Edmund DeCoster
Lewis. M. Chase
Laurin A. Bumpus
Samuel B. Irish
Ephraim R. Bisbee;
Philo Record
¡Paid $300 for exemption.
Josiah H. Keen
#Not accounted for.
Horatio G. Davie
*Entered the service.
Edwin Russell
Edmund F. Bradbury
"Held to service. Obtained discharge.
Buckfield had 193 credits at the adjutant general's office at Augusta for men it furnished during the war. How these were made tip may be summarized thus :
Total enlistments, 139
Re-enlistments, 23
Recruits from other towns or places. 19
Substitutes, 4
Drafted (served, paid, discharged or min-
accounted for), 8
193
Of the enlisted men seven were killed or mortally wounded in battle and eleven died from disease. Of the recruits from other towns one was killed in battle and four died from disease.
Marquis D. L. Foster
Albert Mason Calvin Snell} Jason Gammon
Chas. H. Young
Orrington R. Daviel Total 43
John A. Shaw
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CHAPTER XXIX.
ANNALS CONTINUED.
1851.
At the annual town meeting, Frederick Foster, S. C. Andrews and H. H. Hutchinson, Jr., were chosen superintending school committee. The first was elected to serve one year, Andrews for two years and Hutchin- son for three years .- A resolution passed to oppose the location of a new county road from Buckfield to South Paris as petitioned for by Amos Winslow and others .- The building of a school house in the village dis- trict (No. 4) was commenced this year. The sum of $300 was loaned by Nathan Morrill, $100 by Daniel Hutchinson, $100 by Capt. Josiah Parris, $500 by Amory H. Allen. $151.20 by Charles Daggett, $550 by Zadoc Long and $226.80 by Lydia E. Willis, for which the school agents for 1851-'52 gave notes .- The town house was moved on to land of William Allen's, "he agreeing that it may remain on his land free of expense as long as it is occupied as a town house or any other purpose by the town."-No elections this year for governor, senators and representatives occurred. By a change in the constitution, they held over to 1853 .-- John Loring, Esq., died April Ist, aged 80 years, 9 months and 14 days .- A correspond- ent of the Oxford Democrat from Buckfield in July stated that there were living then in town 77 persons who were seventy years of age and upwards. Their names and ages, the last three being Revolutionary soldiers, were given as follows: Hannah Tucker, 70; William Bridgham, 70; John De- Coster, 70; Andrew Cushman. 71 : Louisa Holmes, 71 ; Caleb Cushman, 72; Barzilla Latham, 73; Sally Morton, 74; Mary Reed, 75; Polly Cox, 75; Margaret Spaulding, 77; James Lewis, 77; Jenette Loring, 77; Mary Elwell, 77; Joseph Hammond, 79; Lewis Moody, 80; Sarah Shaw, 81 ; Susan Hall, 81; Nancy Gilbert, 81; James Morrill, 82; Polly Lathani, 70; Nathaniel Harlow, 70; Arza Fobes, 70; Nancy Chaffin, 71; Ranah Foster, 71; Silvena Fobes, 72; Lydia Hammond, 73; Dorcas Bailey, 74; John Chaffin, 75; Shuah Bicknell, 76; Ann Tucker, 77; Anna Irish, 77; Han- nah Dammon, 77; Mary Rice, 78; Betsy Lewis, 80; Leonard Spaulding, 81 ; John Darling, 81; Betsey Whiting, 81; Saralı Brock, 81; Thankful Jenkins, 82; Sylvanus Irish, 70; Joanna Chase, 70; Noah Hali, 71; Han- nah Bridgham, 71; Mary Faunce, 72; Mary Dammon, 73; Anna Morrill, 73; Sarah Philbrick, 70; Bathsheba Long, 75; Sally Bonney, 76; Ansel Bisbee, 77; Dorcas Taylor, 77; Rebecca Faunce, 77; Isaac Tucker, 78; Thomas Long, 80; Keziah Waterman, 81; Elizabeth Irish, 81; Thomas Faunce, 81 ; Benjamin Spaulding, 82; Mehitable Austin, 83; Sarah Ches- ley, 84; Jonathan Dammon, 84; Phebe Foster, 84; Bethiali T. Perry, 84; Daniel Faunce, 85; Jabez Taylor, 85; Abigail Record, 85; Mariah Churchill, 85; James Waterman, 86; Josiah Keen, 86; Dolly Drake, 80; Ebenezer Irish, 88; Judith Parsons, 89; Polly Webb, 92: Capt. Josiah Parris, 91; Rev. Nathaniel Chase, 90; Jonathan Record, 101.
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Seeing this list Miss Columbia Gardner, then a resident of New Or- leans, La., composed the following poem :
Survivors of another age!
Bright beacons on life's rug- ged strand.
Your barque has crossed the billowy sea;
Unharmed by wreck or storm ye stand,
One foot upon the precipice That shuts the unknown from the known- Ye calmly wait the hastening hour
That bids you cross the fatal bourne.
We gaze upon you and we think Of all that ye have thought and felt;
And trace with ye again those scenes,
Where memory's hopes have fondly dwelt. We see the wilderness again Supplant our smiling village homes,
And hear the red man's savage whoop,
As thru the forest glades he roams.
We know whose stout right arm it was
That swept those forest wilds away-
That taught the desert waste to smile,
And turned the darkest night to day-
There's many a name upon this list
That we will ever cherish dear
And teach our children's chil- dren still
To bless the daring pioneer.
We've seen the flower of youth cut down.
The proud, the beautiful, the strong.
Your own companions pass away, Ye to another time belong. We see ye not at feast and hall, We hear no more your coun- sel sage- The loud young century forgets The lessons it might learn from age.
The ardent fire of youth is gone And gone is life's meridian heat-
The laggard puise now slowly
counts
Its ebbing throb-its meas- ured beat.
The morning star of early life, That led ye forth with prom- ise, on,
Has told its long and brilliant course,
And sunk in evening's deep- 'ning storm.
And ye - ye too - ye veteran ones,
Your lengthened course 18
nearly run,
And ye shall sink as calmly too, As sinks the glorious evening sun, And brighter far ye shall arise, AA happier journey to pursue, And in an endless paradise The broken ties of earth re- new.
1852.
Rev. George Thomes was elected town clerk .- This year the super- intending school committee at the annual election made a report to the town, which report was accepted .- A convention of delegates from the classed towns of Buckfield, Sumner and Woodstock met at Jackson vil- lage June 26, to arrange the matter of sending representatives to the leg- islature for the decade. Col. James Bonney was chosen chairman, Reuben Chandler and Alden Chase, secretaries. The following were the Buck-
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field members : James Bonney, Geo. Thomes, Daniel Chase, James Hussey, Thomas Bridgham and Joseph Turner. The following was agreed to : Buckfield was to send representatives in 1853-'56-'59 and '62; Sumner, in 1854-'57-'60; Woodstock, in 1855-'58 and '61 .- Ximenes Philbrick, Buckfield, Nathaniel O. Ryerson, Sumner, and Sidney Perliam, Woodstock, were elected as a committee to call meetings .- It was "voted that town committee of the town which sends the Representatives notify the town committees of the other two towns who the nominee is."-The democratic congressional convention to nominate a candidate for Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Charles Andrews was held at Buckfield. William K. Kimball was nominated over Lyman Rawson. Hon. Virgil D. Parris was chosen delegate to the national dem. convention. At the election in June, Kimball had 203 votes, Isaac Reed, Whig, had 100. Reed had about 200 more in the whole district and was elected. A large minority of the democratic party of the state was dissatisfied with Gov- ernor Hubbard on account of his signing of the "Maine Liquor Law," as it was called. They bolted and put up another candidate for governor, who polled over 20,000 votes in the state. This threw the election into the leg- islature, and Crosby, the whig candidate, was elected. The vote in Buck- field was as follows: John Hubbard, Reg. Dem., 156; Anson G. Chand- ler, Bolt. Dem., 192; William G. Crosby, Whig, 31; Ezekiel Holmes, Free Soil, 10. Rep. to legislature, H. H. Hutchinson, Jr., 204; Ephraim At- wood, 178; scattering, 2. Sumner vote, Hutchinson, 124; Atwood, 120. Woodstock vote, Hutchinson, 67; Atwood, 121; scattering, 5. Atwood was elected .- The result of the election in Buckfield for President. as recorded by the town clerk, was: "Pierce Ticket," 206; "Scott Ticket," 40; "Hale Ticket," 60 .- Daniel Hutchinson died April 27th of this year in the 6Ist year of his age.
1853
The vote for governor this year was as follows: Albert Pillsbury, Dem., 216; Anson P. Morrill, Maine Law Dem., 89; Ezekiel Holmes, Free Soil, 62; William G. Crosby, Whig, 22; representative, F. O. J. Smith, 221, Capt. Lewis Bisbee, 154. The latter had more votes in the district and was elected .- The town authorized a deed to be given Moses Packard of land "the town bought of the Dea. Job Packard estate."-In July of this year, Capt. Noah Prince bought out the Oxford Democrat. It was run, until the republican party was formed, as the organ of the "Morrill Dem- ocrats," in the county. Mr. Prince severed his connection with the paper in the early part of 1855 .- The Buckfield brass band, one evening the last of June, gave a musical entertainment and serenade to the citizens of Paris Hill. Among the selections given was "The Virgil D. Parris Quickstep." The account in the local paper says that there was one re- markable musician in the band. "The evening was clear and calm and the beautiful tones fell sweetly upon the ear. We learned afterward that Mr. McDonald was the author. Both the McDonalds, one of which was the leader, are admirable musicians." (James R. McDonald was the leader.) The band was served with refreshments at the house of Hon. V. D. Par-
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ris and at the Union House, kept by Horace Cummings .- The America Farrar hotel was advertised with John Taylor as landlord. Mr. Farrar himself advertised as proprietor the next year. It is claimed that he was the first "drover" in this part of the state who dealt directly with the farmers and paid them cash for their stock .- The delegates to the "Mor- rill" democratic county convention, held this year at South Paris, were Nathan O. Storer, Noah Prince, America Farrar, R. B. Waite, Amory H. Allen and James Bicknell .- The Belfast Journal in July, had the fol- lowing "squib :" "Admittance to Noah Prince's new party, $1.50."-In the issue of the Oxford Democrat of October 21st, an item stated that the headquarters of the artillery company was to be changed from Buckfield to Paris Hill .- Mr. Daniel Bailey, formerly of Buckfield, died Aug. 2Ist, in New Orleans of yellow fever, aged 37 years .- Col. Albert D. White was appointed sheriff of the county by Governor William G. Crosby. He appointed J. W. Whitten as one of his deputies .- John D. Long entered Harvard College this year at the age of 14 .- Rev. Nathaniel Chase, a Revolutionary soldier and patriot and one of the pioneer settlers, passed to the higher life, April 20, 1853, aged 91.
1854.
James Murdock was elected town clerk; R. B. Jennings, town agent ; A. K. P. Small and Thomas Chase, supt. school committee; Aratus Farrar, collector of taxes .- School districts No. 2, 4, 6, 7 and 9 were al- lowed to elect their own agents .- The town voted to open the new county road from Buckfield to South Paris .- The "Buckfield House," kept by Mr. George Battles, was destroyed by fire Sunday, May 14th. Besides the hotel with two stables connected therewith, nearly all the fur- niture and a horse and carriage were burned. Loss $3,000, insured for $2,400. Several other buildings were on fire while the hotel and stable were burning, but by the exertion of the citizens, they were saved .- The vote in Buckfield for governor this year was as follows: Albion K. Parris, Dem., 194; Anson P. Morrill, Maine Law, 179; Isaac Reed, Whig, II ; Shep. Cary, Old Line Dem., 7.
1855.
Carlton Gardner was first chosen one of the selectmen this year. It was the beginning of a long town service creditable to himself and profit- able to Buckfield .- The selectmen were instructed to open the Winslow road and the sum of $500 was appropriated for the purpose. The sum of $1,000 was raised for schools .- The vote for governor this year was as follows: Samuel Wells, Dem., 232; Anson P. Morrill, Rep., 170; Isaac Reed, Whig, 5; for representative to the legislature, Washington Heald, Dem., had 233; Thomas Chase, Rep., 170. Woodstock voted by a large majority for Chase and he was elected .- Daniel Chase died July 8th, 1855, aged 70 years and 9 months. His wife, Abigail, had died March 30th, 1844, aged 61 years and 9 months. This year Johnathan Record passed away in the 105th year of his age, on the 17th of January.
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Jonathan Record at 100
1856.
T. J. Bridgham, Esq., was elected supt. school committee .-- Nathaniel G. Bumpus, Erastus K. Cummings and Joseph Turner were set off from school district No. 12 to No. 14. Also, Solomon Doble from No. 8 to No. 14 .- Voted that the town treasurer "call up the collectors for the years 1851-'52-'53 and and '54, and have an immediate settlement."-The sum of $1000 was raised for schools .- Carlton Gardner served as deputy sheriff and jailor this year and Naplitali Mason, as a deputy sheriff .- The follow-
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ing is the jury list as revised this year: Jesse Turner, William Ham- mond, Arad Jordan, Jeremiah P. Packard, Oscar F. Gardner, Elijah Tur- ner, Joseph H. Hall, Russell Pratt, Lucius Young, James Hussey, Philip Mason, Richard Fobes, Leander Hodgdon, Artemas F. Cole, Edward H. Shaw, Benj. Jenkins, Benj. Jordan, Jr., Alexander Cushman, Geo. W. Battles, Daniel Mason, Orville Bridgham, Sydenham Bridgham, Henry P. Cox, Freeman Hollis. Leonard Russell, Daniel Fletcher, Winchester Spaulding, Erastus K. Cummings, Daniel Chase, Washington Heald, Icabod Allen, H. H. Hutchinson, Jr., and Levi Turner .- These names in- dicate that political feeling entered into the revision. Never before had this been the case. It shows the intense political feeling which existed at that period .- The vote for governor this year was: Hannibal Hamlin, Rep., 221 ; Samuel Wells, Dem., 206; Geo. F. Patten, Whig, 2 .- Sumner sent the representative this year .- At the presidential election, the Fre- mont electors had 221 and the Buchanan electors, 174 votes .- An act was passed by the legislature to set off from Hartford and annex to Buck- field the following persons and their estates: Herman Wood, Addison G. Wood, Chandler DeCoster, Chandler DeCoster, Jr., David Kneeland, Eleazer Chase, Elbridge Irish and Charles B. Irish. Their farms were situated in the southeast part of the town in what was called the "Gore." $4,000 was deducted from Hartford's valuation and that amount was added to Buckfield's .- A notable dealth this year was that of Miss Colum- bia Gardner, on the 16th of June, at Mt. Vernon, Ala., from pulmonary consumption, where she had gone from lier home in New Orleans, La., then at the head of the Young Ladies' Seminary in that city, to visit a lady friend. She was one of the most talented young ladies in the country and was fast attaining fame as a writer. She was buried where she died. The following is taken from a poem written by her mother on the event :
"Upon her lone and distant grave, Oft the stranger's eye will rest; While Alabama's oaken leaves Fall lightly o'er her breast. She sleeps-the daughter of the North, Far from her childhood's sphere ; Peace to the people of the South, Who kindly laid her here."
Miss Gardner, while a resident of the South, had written the follow- ing lines :
"Thou art my home, New England ! No other boon I'll crave, Save that thy gentlest breezes May whisper o'er my grave. O, lay me where the Pilgrim Has laid him down to rest ; And let the soil he hallowed Be heaped upon my breast."
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1857.
Dastine Spaulding was elected town clerk and C. D. Bradbury, supt. school committeee .- Albion P. Bonney was elected one of the selectmen. It was the beginning of a long and useful public service .- This year the vote for governor was: Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 212; Manasseh H. Smith, Dem., 197. For register of deeds: Alden Chase, 212; Stephen D. Hutch- inson, 197 .- Alden Chase was elected. Mr. Hutchinson went into trade on Paris Hill, where he had resided since his first election as register of deeds. He never lost his interest in politics, however, nor ever tired of hear- ing them discussed around his store.
1858.
Thomas J. Bridgham was elected supervisior of schools .- Ximenes Philbrick was elected to take charge of the town poor farm .- School dis- trict No. II was allowed to choose its own agent .- The town voted in May on the new liquor law passed by the legislature, for prohibition, 134; for license, o .- Vote for governor, Lot M. Morrill, 203; Manasseh H. Smith, 201. Representative to the legislature, Leonard P. Smith, Rep., 183; Ximenes Philbrick, Dem., 208. Smith had a majority in the district and was elected.
1859.
Varanes DeCoster was selected to take charge of the poor farm. Noah Prince was chosen agent to defend the suit of Capt. Joseph Turner against the town .- It was voted to set off all the territory formerly be- longing to the town of Hartford, together with its inhabitants, for the purpose of forming a school district with a section of Hartford .- The town lines were perambulated this year .- Mrs. Maria Churchill, widow of Jabez Churchill, a Revolutionary soldier, died Oct. 24, aged 94 years. She was born in Wareham, Mass., Aug. 10, 1765, and was the daughter of Elnathan and Sarah Benson.
1860.
The report of the supt. school committee was published this year and 500 copies were authorized for circulation .- Geo. W. Battles was ap- pointed census enumerator this year for Buckfield and Hebron .- The selectmen were instructed to make a financial statement of the town's affairs and have it printed .- Noah Prince was authorized to take charge of the poor farm .- S. C. Andrews, Ephraim Atwood. and Hiram Hines were chosen a committee to petition the legislature to pass an act for the town to loan its credit to the amount of $15,000 in aid of the construction of the Portland & Oxford Central Railroad .- Voted at a special meeting to instruct the town agent to have the suit of the town against James Murdock, late town liquor agent, and his bondsmen entered "Neither Party."-The "Lincoln Ticket" at the Presidential election had 215 votes; "Douglass Ticket," 141; "Breckenridge Ticket," 16.
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1861.
The Civil War having begun with the bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Confederates, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the Rebellion. Buckfield was not behind her sister towns in sending men to the front. The names of the men who went to the war are given elsewhere .- At the September election, the vote for governor was as fol- lows: Israel Washburn, Jr., Rep., 202; John W. Dana, Peace Dem., 126; Charles D. Jameson, War Dem., 102 .- Mrs. Jennette, widow of John Lor- ing, Esq., died Dec. 25, aged 87 years and 6 months .- Varanes DeCoster was chosen chairman of the overseers of the poor, and instructed to take charge of the town farm.
1862.
John D. Long was elected supt. school committee and Carlton Gardner, collector of taxes .- At the adjourned annual meeting, John D. Long was chosen moderator .- It was also voted not to release A. G. Cole as bonds- man for William Sawyer as collector of taxes for the year 1859, and to release all persons who will take their oath that they have paid their taxes in William Sawyer's bills for 1859 .- Noah Prince was instructed to take charge of the town farm .- The selectmen defined the limits of the two enrolled militia companies. The dividing line between the east and west companies was the county road from Sumner by Albion P. Bonney's to the village, and the highway from the village bridge to Hebron through the Foster and Lothrop neighborhoods .- First company : James H. Ke- you, Capt. ; John D. Long, Ist Lient. ; Andrew J. Hall, 2d Lieut. ; David L. Farrar, 3d Lieut .; Moses Merrill, 4th Lieut. ; Josiah Hutchinson, Ord. Sergt .; Ist enrollment, 92; 2d enrollment, 128; entered the service, 55. Second company : Nahum Moore, Capt .; Wm. F. Robinson, Ist Lieut .; Clinton Ripley, 2d Lieut .; Silas Mitchell, 3d Lieut .; N. T. Shaw, 4th Lieut. ; F. H. Thompson, Ord. Sergt .; Ist enrollment, 106; 2d enrollment, 128; entered the service, 49 .- It was voted to raise $175 to aid destitute soldiers' families in accordance with state law, passed March 18th, 1862 .- Jesse Turner was appointed to sell liquors for medicinal, mechanical and manufacturing purposes. Noah Prince and Merritt Farrar were his bondsmen .- At a special meeting, held in July, $1900 were raised as a town bounty for 19 volunteers who were required to fill Buckfield's quota. -At another meeting, in August, it was voted to pay $20 to each volun- teer on being mustered into the service, and $9 a month for every month he served until discharged. In case the soldier was disabled from per- forming further service, or was killed, he and his family were to be paid for whole nine months. Capt. Charles H. Prince and others were form- ing, at that time, a company to serve nine months in Col. William Wirt Virgin's 23d Regt. of Inf'y .- The vote for governor this year stood thus : Abner Coburn, Rep., 183; Bion Bradbury, Dem., 155; Chas. D. Jameson, 6 .- John D. Long removed this year to Boston, Mass.
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Phebe Buck Foster at 95
1863.
Transactions at annual town meeting: Ozias Whitman and S. C. An- drews were chosen supt. school committee .- Dastine Spaulding was au- thorized to take charge of the town farm. Wm. H. Atwood, A. H. Allen and A. D. White, the committee appointed to investigate the liquor agency, reported that $581.68 was due the town. It was voted to accept the re- port .- Voted $450 in aid of soldiers' families .- The governor vote this year was as follows: Samuel Coney, Rep., 209; Bion Bradbury, Dem., 168. -At a meeting in November, it was voted to pay each volunteer $300 to fill the quota of the town. The selectmen were chosen to take measures to fill the town's quota and $2000 were raised and put into their hands for the purpose .- Cn the 12th day of November of this year, Phebe Fos- ter, widow of Joel Foster, senior, and a daughter of Abijah Buck, for whom the town was named, passed to the other world at the ripe old age of 97. She was about II years old when her father with his family moved into their forest home on the banks of the beautiful Nezinscot, April Ist, 1777. She had lived to see what no one else had, the first set- tlement, the beginning of the village and their growth to the time of their greatest prosperity, and to know that the town, in which so many of the Revolutionary Patriots had made their home, sustained to its fullest extent the Government in its efforts to preserve the Union.
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1864.
At the annual town meeting Thomas Chase and Albion P. Bonney were chosen supt. school committee for three years and C. H. Carlton, for two years .- Voted to pay $300 to each drafted man "who is mustered into the U. S. Service."-Voted that the assessors, when taking the valua- tion, be instructed to put every man under oath .- Voted to raise $1,000 in aid of the soldiers' families .-- Voted that the selectmen furnish assistance to those families where State aid is insufficient to make them comforta- ble .- A citizens' meeting was held and a committee chosen to go to Lew- iston and Augusta for the purpose of obtaining recruits to fill the quota of the town .- Voted to pay $400 to each volunteer to fill the quota and $25 for each man on recruiting service .- At a town meeting in October, it was voted to raise $1400 to reimburse the men who subscribed to raise that amount to procure the last seven men needed to fill "the last call of the President for 500,000 men."-Voted not to raise $600 to pay R. S. Dorman and William W. Atwood for money paid out by them "to clear them from the draft of July, 1863."-At a town meeting in December, John E. Bryant was selected to consult with the Governor and Assistant Provost Marshal in relation to the last call of President Lincoln for vol- unteers .- $5,000 was raised to be placed in the hands of a "competent com- mittee to procure volunteers to fill the quota of the town under the last call. Thomas Chase, A. D. White and Merritt Farrar were selected. $500 was to be paid each volunteer .- The town passed resolutions against the discontinuance of the running of trains on the Buckfield railroad .- The vote for governor at the September election was as follows: Samuel Coney, Rep., 190; Joseph Howard, Dem., 169 .- For Representative to Con- gress, Sidney Perham, Rep., 185; S. C. Andrews, Dem., 171; Samuel Thomes. Dem., I .- For representative to the legislature. Thomas W. Bow- man, Rep., 190; H. H. Hutchinson, Jr., Dem., 165; scattering, 3 .- The town clerk has recorded the vote at the presidential election thus: "Rep. Ticket, 192; Dem. Ticket, 171."-William Bridgham, M.D., died this year at the age of 83 .- Col. James Bonney died Feb. 18th, aged 60 .- America Farrar died Dec. 23d .- The quota of the town in March of this year un- der the last call of President Lincoln for volunteers to put down the Re- bellion was 22. Under the call in May, the quota was 41. The town had four to its credit .- Buckfield had credit at the Adjutant General's office, Augusta, with furnishing 193 men during the war. This included men serving in other than Maine organizations, and those drafted, furnishing substitutes, or paying commutation. The town paid $32,435-45 in bounties.
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