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ASA LOVEJOY; Andover. Minute Man. Marched on Lexington and Concord alarm. Died in Bethel, 1835, aged about 85.
ISAAC LOVEJOY; Andover. Served three years. Date of death un- known. Probably buried in Shedd burying ground, in vicinity where he lived.
ENOCH MERRILL; Andover. Capt. Abijah Brown's Company. Colonel Josiah Whitney's Regiment. Born May, 1750, died August 9, 1823. Buried on Merrill Hill.
JOHN NEEDHAM; Tewksbury. "Served nearly four years." Pen- sioned. Died April 24, 1840, aged 81. Buried at Norway Center. Granite monument.
NATHAN NOBLE; Stroudwater and Gray. Captain Nathan Merrill's Co. Penobscot Expedition, 1779. Killed by falling tree, January 13, 1827. Buried on Pike's Hill. Gravestone.
BELA NOYES; Bridgewater. Captain Jacob Allen's Co. Colonel John Bailey's Regiment. At Valley Forge. Pensioned, certificate No. 11466. Died, August 21, 1833. Buried at Norway Center.
JAMES PACKARD; Bridgewater. Pensioned, certificate No. 5615. Died in Norway, February 21, 1849, "aged 89." Buried at Richardson Hollow, Greenwood. Gravestone.
WILLIAM PARSONS; Gloucester. Corporal, Captain Joseph Robie's Co. Moses Little's Regiment. Buried on Pike's Hill. Gravestone. SAMUEL PERKINS; Bridgewater. Served three and one-half years in Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. Lived on east side of the pond south of Anthony Bennett's. Removed to Paris and died there, January 8, 1809. Buried in old Shurtleff burying ground. Un- marked grave.
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ZEBEDEE PERRY; Middleboro. Captain Joseph Parker's Company. Colonel John Cushing's Regiment in Rhode Island expedition, 1776, 59 days. Died about 1815. Buried on Pike's Hill. Grave- stone.
DUDLEY PIKE; Exeter, N. H. Served in the New Hampshire Line. Died July 30, 1838, aged 78. Buried on Pike's Hill. Gravestone. STEPHEN PINGREE; Methuen. Served in Washington's Army. Pen- sioned. Died April 30, 1840, "aged 87." Buried on Merrill Hill. JOSHUA POOL; Bridgewater. Pensioned. Removed to Greenwood and died there, August 23, 1844, "aged 82." SIMEON SANBORN; Standish. Captain Silas Burbank's Company. Colonel Samuel Brewer's Regiment. At Valley Forge. Pen- sioned, certificate No. 9769. Removed to Greenwood. Died in Bethel.
CAPTAIN JONATHAN SAWYER; Falmouth or Gorham. First Lieuten- ant, Captain Wentworth Stuart's Company, 18th Massachusetts, 1776-7. On Captain Stuart's death promoted to Captain. Lived a period on Phillips' Gore (Frost Hill section). Died on visit to Gorham in 1789. Family lot on Otisfield Gore. Perhaps buried there.
LEMUEL SHEDD; Lunenburg. Member of Washington's Body Guard. Carried dispatches to General Gates before battle of Saratoga. Accidentally killed June 23, 1818. Buried in Shedd burying ground. Gravestone.
LIEUTENANT SIMEON SHURTLEFF; Middleboro. Removed to Paris before 1816, and died there. Buried in old Shurtleff burying ground. Unmarked grave.
JOEL STEVENS; Townsend. Served in Colonel Crane's 15th Massachus- etts Regiment. At Valley Forge. Died May 18, 1850, "aged 95." Buried at Norway Center. Gravestone.
SERGEANT JONAS STEVENS; Townsend, Gray. Captain Paul Ellis' Company. Colonel Timothy Bigelow's Regiment. At Valley Forge. Pensioned, certificate No. 5604. Died February 9, 1833, "aged 84." Buried at Norway Center, in unmarked grave.
CORPORAL JOSEPH STEVENS; Townsend, Gray. Captain Moses Mer- rill's Company. Colonel E. Phinney's 31st Massachusetts Regi- ment of Foot, 1775. Died August 14, 1830, "aged 77." Buried at Norway Center.
NATHANIEL STEVENS; Townsend, Gray. Captain Nathan Merrill's Company in Penobscot Expedition, 1779, age 18. Died June 30, 1816. Buried at Norway Center in unmarked grave.
MOSES TWITCHELL; Gray. Captain Samuel Noyes' Company. Colonel Edmund Phinney's 31st Massachusetts Regiment of Foot. Came to Rustfield from Paris in 1790. Sold his farm to Ephraim Briggs and went away-perhaps to Oxford. Date of death and place of burial unknown.
JACOB TUBBS; Pembroke. Colonel Thomas' Regiment of the Massa- chusetts Line. Settled on the Lee's Grant about 1795. Removed late in life to Abbot, Maine, with youngest son, Samuel, and died there.
AMOS UPTON; North Reading. At Bunker Hill. Long service in the war. Pensioned. Died April 3, 1838, "aged 96." Buried in field
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on road to the Chapel. Grave marked by government stone, pro- cured by the author.
DAVID UPTON; North Reading. A relative of Amos. Brother-in-law
of John Henley. Served a period in the Revolutionary War. Came to Norway about 1797-had removed or died before 1816. JOHN UPTON; Reading. Brother of Amos. Served a period in the Revolution. Came to Norway in 1798. Returned to Reading and died there February 28, 1813. Two children born in Norway. NATHANIEL UPTON; North Reading. Served a period in the War of the Revolution. Lived in Norway several years with brother Amos. Returned to Reading, on being made his Uncle Nathan- iel's heir. Died in Stockbridge.
ELIPHALET WATSON; Gorham. Captain Richard Maybury's Company in Siege of Boston, 1775-6. Came to Norway about 1805, and died in family of his son, Daniel, March 14. 1812, "aged 94 years, 8 months." Buried at Norway Center. Grave marked by gov- ernment stone.
ZACHARIAH WESTON; Gorham. Captain Alex. Mclellan's Company. Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's Regiment. Penobscot Expedition of 1779. Settled on Phillips Gore. Died March 19, 1836, aged "83 years, 9 months." Buried on Frost Hill.
EBENEZER WHITMARSH; Bridgewater. Served a period in the Revolu- tionary War. Came to Rustfield about 1792. Lived in southern part of town. Died June 6, 1827, "aged 70," and was buried on Pike's Hill. Gravestone.
PHINEHAS WHITNEY; Harvard. Captain Benjamin Brown's Com- pany. Colonel Micah Jackson's Regiment. At Bunker Hill where he shot a British officer supposed to be Major Pitcairn. At Valley Forge. Pensioned, certificate No. 13335. Buried on Merrill Hill. Grave marked by government stone, procured by the author.
NATHANIEL YOUNG; Gray. Captain Paul Ellis' Company. Colonel Timothy Bigelow's regiment. At Valley Forge. In Penobscot Expedition of 1779. First enlistment from Dedham. Pensioned. Certificate No. 7603. Died in Greenwood, 1838, "aged 78."
JOHN BANCROFT; Lynnfield, Mass. Born April 14, 1740; probably Revolutionary Soldier. Came to Norway about 1800. He died in 1820, and was buried on Merrill Hill.
JOSEPH JORDAN was a private in Captain Thomas Barnes' Company of Colonel Thomas Nixon's Regiment. He may be the Joseph Jordan who came to Norway and settled late in life, near his sons, in the vicinity of Frost Hill.
DAVID WOODMAN; Falmouth. Was one of Sergeant John Bagley's detachment to guard the forts and magazines. The David Wood- man who settled in Norway may have been this soldier. Our settler died here November 6, 1840, aged 93. Buried in Rustfield.
The law of the Revolutionary period required all male persons between the ages of 16 and 45, unless incapacitated, to serve in the militia, and as men were required to fill quotas or calls for troops, where volunteers hadn't been furnished, the number needed was
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selected by lot. It may be fairly presumed that where one was of the right military age, unless disabled by disease, crippled, or otherwise incapacitated, that he served a longer or shorter time during the period of eight years that the war lasted.
Many persons living in Norway are descended from Revolutionary ancestors, who never resided here. For the benefit of such the author has subjoined the following names :
SERGEANT NATHANIEL BENNETT, Sen .; born in Gloucester, Mass., re- moved to New Gloucester. He served as Sergeant in Captain Moses Merrill's Company of Colonel Edmund Phinney's 31st Regiment of Foot in 1775, and marched to Boston. Died in New Gloucester.
EPHRAIM CROCKETT, Sen .; Cape Elizabeth. Born July 12, 1755; mar- ried Rebecca Stanford, born July 20, 1760. He served in Captain Samuel Deering's Company of Colonel Edmund Phinney's 31st Regiment of Foot, in 1775. Removed to Danville, now Auburn, and probably died there.
JONATHAN CUMMINGS; Andover. Born Topsfield, October 14, 1743; married Mary Eastman of Pembroke. She died December 30, 1802. Second, Mary (Lovejoy) Parker. He died in 1805. Widow died April 5, 1826, aged 80. Eleven children by first wife. He was a Revolutionary Soldier, Cummings' Genealogy states. He was the proprietor of the Cummings Purchase. His name appears in the printed volumes of Massachusetts Revolutionary Soldiers, as a Minute Man during Lexington and Concord alarm, April 19, 1775.
LIEUTENANT JOSHUA CROCKETT; Gorham. Born about 1735; married, 1757, Hannah Babb. Served several enlistments. He was En- sign in Captain Samuel Whitmore's Company of Colonel Reuben Fogg's Regiment, 1776. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, May 10, 1776. Was First Lieutenant in Captain Roger Libby's Company in 1779. He died January 6, 1809. His wife had died May 5, 1805.
DAVID DINSMORE; New Gloucester; born about 1752, in Londonderry, New Hampshire; married Sarah Bradbury. Removed to Minot, and died there. Served on the ship Vengeance, in Penobscot Ex- pedition of 1779-two months' service.
JOB HOLMES; Plympton; born,
; married, 1788, Judith Tucker of New Gloucester. Served in the Massachusetts Line on the Continental Establishment; several enlistments.
JOHN MILLETT; with brother, Solomon, from New Gloucester, served in Captain Moses Merrill's Company of Colonel Edmund Phin- ney's 31st Regiment of Foot in 1775, in Siege of Boston. They could not be the John and Solomon Millett who settled in Norway unless the dates of their birth given in Centennial History gen- ealogies are incorrect.
NATHAN MORSE, Sen .; Dedham; born June 28, 1741; married, 1763, Sarah Bacon. He served several enlistments in the Revolution- ary War. In one he was a Sergeant.
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BENJAMIN FLINT, Sen .; Reading. Captain Riley's Company, Colonel Fox's Regiment. Service nine months. He was 21 years old and of light complexion.
NATHAN NOBLE, Sen .; Connecticut; born February 3, 1722. Three times married. Emigrated to Maine,-near Portland. Killed at the Battle of Saratoga, October 17, 1777.
REUBEN PACKARD; Bridgewater; born 1737; married 1759, Anne Per- kins. He, with his two sons, Ichabod, born 1760, and Nehemiah, born 1762, served in the Revolutionary War. They all emigrated to Hebron. Ichabod married about 1785, Rachel Cole. Nehemiah married October, 1785, Betty B. Bray of Minot. Reuben lived awhile in Buckfield. He died, December 6, 1820, "aged 83." Captain Ichabod died April 8, 1814, "aged 54." Both are buried in the cemetery, near Hebron town house. Nehemiah died in Auburn.
JOHN ROWE; Gloucester; born December 16, 1757; married 1791, Mary Gardner. He served in the Massachusetts Line on the Continental Establishment and was pensioned under Act of March 18, 1818, certificate No. 15,755. His wife died in Oxford, August 20, 1832, "aged 74." He died in Paris, at his daughter's, Mary Sturtevant's, June 28, 1845.
All the sons of Eliphalet Watson, except the youngest, Daniel, are said to have served in the Revolutionary War. They were, John, born in 1741; Ebenezer, born in 1748; Colman P., born 1751; Eliphalet Jr., born 1759, and James, born 1761. It is not quite cer- tain, however, about Ebenezer. He came to Norway with his father about 1804, and lived here a number of years. John remained in Gorham and died there; Colman P. and Eliphalet Jr., settled in Waterford.
ELI LONGLEY; Bolton; born 1762; married 1789, Mary Whitcomb, born 1767. Settled in Waterford in 1789, and afterwards owned the place at the Flat which is known as the Dr. Shattuck estab- lishment. He was inn-keeper, merchant and first postmaster there. The date on his sign was 1797. In 1817 he removed to Raymond and died there.
SAMUEL VERRILL, Sen .; Gloucester; born May 14, 1733; married about 1756, Eunice Bray, born 1735. He was a matross or gun- ner's mate in the Artillery, Massachusetts Line. He had red hair and a fiery temper. Died at Minot Center, May 20, 1821, "aged 88." She died July 27, 1797, "aged 62."
SAMUEL VERRILL, JR .; Gloucester; born August 8, 1757; married April 24, 1780, Sarah Prince of New Gloucester, born February 17, 1762. Enlisted five times in the War for American Inde- pendence. Was fifer in same command in which his father served. Was two and one-half years in the service. Was pen- sioned in 1832. Town clerk and treasurer of Minot for 22 years. He died there December 15, 1838, "aged 81 years, 4 months." His widow died December 19, 1854, "aged 92." They had a large family of children. Their daughter Betsey, born February 27, 1791, married James Dinsmore, son of David of the ship Vengeance, before mentioned.
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HENRY RUST; Salem. Proprietor of Rustfield. Captain Abram Dodge's Company in 1775. Also Captain Robert Dodge's Com- pany. Service, two months, eight days.
JOSEPH SHACKLEY; Wells. Captain Ebenezer Smith's Company, 1782. Muster roll for April, 1783. Balance of enlistment, 21 months, 27 days.
DAVID REED; Danvers. Service in 1775, 1777, 1778-9.
JOHN HOLDEN; Norton. Captain Samuel Sprague's Company, Colonel Samuel Gerrish's Regiment.
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CHAPTER XVI.
WAR OF 1812-15.
At the beginning of the second war with Great Britain in 1812, there were two militia companies in Norway. The headquarters of one called the North Company was at Norway Center,-later moved to Fuller's Corner,-and officered as follows: Amos Town, Captain; Ephraim Twombly, Lieutenant, and William Parsons, Jr., Ensign. The headquarters of the other company denominated the South Company, was at the village, and Bailey Bodwell was its Captain, William Twombly, Lieutenant, and Daniel Holt, Ensign. Captain Bodwell received authority in the summer to raise a company from Norway for service in the vicinity of Lake Champlain. The ranks were filled and the officers and men enlisted late in the autumn for one year's service, it is said. The Captain and Lieutenant were taken from the South Company and William Reed was commissioned as Ensign in place of Daniel Holt. Mr. Reed was the Ensign of the first Norway military company but had resigned. He had a store and was the village postmaster at that time. He left his business when he went away, in charge of his clerk, Ichabod Bartlett, a young man of seventeen. The company marched away from Norway for Burlington, Vermont, in the winter following. Jabez Young beat the drum and George W. Cummings played the fife. A large number of the citizens, with relatives and friends of the soldiers, thronged the sidewalks to witness their departure. Asa Dunham, the Revolution- ary soldier, and three of the Norway boys, Jabez Young, Seth Pike and Jacob Tubbs, were destined never to see their homes again. All died from disease contracted in the service. That march through the snows of winter, across New Hampshire and Vermont, was a ter- rible experience and many of the soldiers suffered great hardships and contracted disabilities which were ultimately the cause of their deaths. Joseph Dale, from Norway, was one of those who died soon after coming back home. The Norway company was assigned to the 45th United States Regiment under command of Colonel D. McCobb. It was stationed awhile at Burlington, but on the 7th of September, 1814, was transported across the lake to Plattsburg, New York, where on the 11th of the same month, there was a general engagement with the enemy on both land and water, in which the Norway company appears to have been under fire in the forts but no one of them seems to have received any injury. On the water, in Plattsburg Bay, Com- modore Thomas McDonough won a great victory over the British Commodore Downie, which reflected imperishable renown on the American Navy. Commodore McDonough was one of the naval heroes of the United States. He served under Commodore Edward Preble of Maine in the Expedition of 1803, against the pirates of Tripoli, and was with Captain Stephen Decatur when the Philadelphia was recaptured and burnt in the Bay of Tunis the following year.
Ensign William Reed wrote home to his clerk, Ichabod Bartlett, giving an account of the battle and bombardment of the fort in which the Norway company was stationed. He stated that he had a fair view of the whole action on the lake and that it was awfully sublime.
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He visited the American fleet two days after the great victory and learned from the report of the officers, that the British fleet was "vastly superior to ours in metal as well as men." Superior manage- ment decided the conflict. When the first broadside was fired from the enemy's ships a game cock kept as a mascot on the flagship Sara- toga, it is said flew upon one of the guns and crowed lustily. The sailors cheered-regarding it as an omen of victory. Reed further stated that he stood the action well, but the tremendous singing of the cannon balls, rockets and bombs was anything but pleasant. He had, for a time after the battle, command of the provost guard, which gath- ered in from four to five hundred of the enemy's deserters.
Ensign William Reed's letter is dated September 22, 1814. The battle had taken place eleven days before. These dates show that the Norway men of this company were in service in 1814.
The roster of the company was as follows: Captain, Bailey Bodwell. Lieutenant, William Twombly. Ensign, William Reed. SERGEANTS Thomas George .CORPORALS
Alvan Boyden
John Pike
Count D. G. Bonney
Paul Simpson
Fifer, George W. Cummings. Drummer, Jabez PRIVATES
Lewis Stowell John Valentine Young.
C. Atherton
John Everett
Frye Lovejoy
Moses Royal
Isaac Bennett
Jere Farnum
S. Latham
A. Barnes
Isaac W. Grant
Jacob Lebroke
S. Richardson Jos. Shackley
Jas. Barrows
S. Greenleaf
Sam. D. Morgan
Antepas Smith
Asa Barrows
Charles Hall
Daniel Malloy
E. Sprague
John Bennett Nat. Bodwell
Reuben Hearsey James Hasson Asa Hicks P. Hamlin
Melvin Pool
John Twombly
M. Cummings Ebenezer Cobb Wm. Churchill
Thomas Hill
Benjamin Pratt
John Witt
Joseph Dale
Nat. Jackson
Nathan Pratt Sam. P. Weeks
David Dudley
Silas Jones
James Packard
Asa Dunham
John B. Knight
Seth Pike
Samuel Pike
Jacob Tubbs
William Pike
Nat. Twombly
Dudley Pike John Thurston
Captain Bodwell was not in command of the Norway company in the battle near Plattsburg. He had left and come home before it took place, and in the same month marched a Norway company to Portland on the alarm of British war vessels off the harbor. Cap- tain Amos Town also marched another company from Norway there at the same time. They were gone fourteen days. Captain Bodwell was court-martialed by a State militia tribunal the next year, on Paris Hill and was found guilty of the charges preferred against him-or at least of some of them, and deprived of holding any office in the militia for one year. This ended his military career. There seems to be some mystery surrounding the matter as the story has come down to us. It appears quite clear that it was not a case of desertion, as the military authorities would have taken cognizance
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of it. It appears, too, that Dudley Pike came home in the summer of 1813, and his son John was at home, when Captain Bodwell marched his company to Portland in September, 1814, and went with it as first sergeant. At that very time Ensign Reed was at Platts- burg, and probably the Norway company that marched away in the winter of 1812-13. We find in a letter from Sergeant John Pike to his father in August, 1813, that the Norway company had not at that date, for some reason, been mustered into the service of the United States and that it was his purpose as soon as he could do so to get an honorable discharge and come home. That he did there can be no doubt. Just at what time the Norway company at Plattsburg as an organization did come home, does not appear, but probably all that were there when the great victory took place, were allowed to return to their homes soon after.
A treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, was signed at Ghent, Belgium, in November, 1814, but the news did not reach this country till after General Jackson's great victory at New Orleans, La., January 8, 1815. This battle made him famous and afterwards gave him the presidency. He was the first and most illustrious of the democratic Presidents of the United States.
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CHAPTER XVII.
THE AROOSTOOK WAR.
The "Aroostook War" of 1839 appears at this day as a huge bur- lesque, and in the time of it, the wonder is that it was not treated with the ridicule it deserved, for the idea of Gov. John Fairfield and his counsellors settling by force of arms a boundary difficulty between the United States (though it was over territory claimed by the State of Maine) and Great Britain is so preposterous as to cause derision.
And when it is further considered that militia companies were marched to Augusta through the March snows, the proceedings ap- pear to have been inspired by anything but rational considerations.
The leaders must have realized that the United States Government at Washington would not have permitted Governor Fairfield to em- broil it in a war with Great Britain. Why then was this movement
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taken? Politics was undoubtedly the cause. Governor Fairfield was playing this farce for political prestige for himself and for the pur- pose of strengthening his party. But whatever the purpose, it failed. The next year Maine went "hell bent" for Gov. Edward Kent, and Fairfield was righteously defeated.
To the men drafted from the militia companies, who marched to Augusta in dead of winter and quartered there several weeks, it was anything but a joke.
At this period, in Norway, there were as heretofore two militia companies called the North Company and South Company. The offi- cers of the first were Amos F. Noyes, Captain; Alvah Hobbs, Lieu- tenant; and Washington French, Ensign. The other had for officers, Cephas Sampson, Captain; William Noble, Lieutenant; and Jonathan Whitehouse, Ensign.
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Governor Fairfield called for one company from Norway-the men and non-commissioned officers to be drafted from the two companies. For some reason which does not clearly appear, the commissioned officers of the North Company were selected for the new company re- quired. .
Captain Noyes and his neighbors were gathered one Sunday for religious services at the neighborhood school-house. The house was well filled. The songs of praise had begun within when a trumpet blast from without startled the congregation. All rushed out into the yard. There was an officer of the militia in uniform on horse- back. At the appearance of the people he rose in his stirrups and shouted :
"To arms! To arms! The Bluenoses are coming!"
This officer was Nathan Marble from Paris Hill. Mr. Marble was a fine looking man in uniform and was an excellent rider. He had a splendid voice, and on account of this had been selected as court crier and served with appreciation if not distinction for many terms of the court in that capacity.
The effect of this announcement upon the gathering was indescrib- able. A scene of great confusion followed. Screams and yells of fear rent the air. Some tore their hair in a frenzy of consternation; women fainted.
Settling back into his saddle the officer, holding his reins in his left hand, took with the other a paper from his pocket and began to read. It was an order for the company of Captain Noyes to ap- pear at Paris Hill on a certain day, to stand a draft of men to march to meet the dreaded enemy who were invading the State.
After completing the reading, the officer, giving a parting salute, by the wave of his sword to Captain Noyes, thrust it back into the scabbard, turned and galloped away.
Captain Noyes long afterwards passed through some terrible scenes but it is doubtful whether, for a short time, his nerves were ever more shaken. No further services were held in the little school- house that day. The people went sorrowfully home, their minds oppressed with the weight of impending disaster and peril.
The draft in due time took place, and the company formed under the officers named was marched to Augusta, which was reached on the 6th day of March, after a two days tramp, over roads not the best for that time of year. The route from Norway was over Paris Hill to Buckfield, and thence to North Turner and through Readfield.
Captain Noyes' company never went farther east than Augusta. No "Bluenoses" were encountered. The United States Government took the matter in hand and authorized the raising of 10,000 troops, if they should be required. The Maine militia were not needed and Captain Noyes finally marched his company home, where it was joyfully received.
About all the good that ever came out of this affair to any of the Norway men, was the experience to Captain Noyes of taking care of his soldiers during a campaign, which some years later he turned to good account.
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ROSTER OF THE COMPANY Captain, Amos F. Noyes Lieut., Alvah Hobbs Ensign, W. French Sergeants
Joseph Dearborn Nathaniel Noble
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