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the older of the two; though at the time An- thony was fifty years of age, he was not too old for active duty in those days, while Joshua was available when the alarm was given of an expected attack by Indians. Anthony died September 10, 1784, aged seventy-seven, and was buried on his farm in what later became Summer street. His remains were later re- moved to the Brackett cemetery on Peak's Island.
Anthony Brackett married (first) in the First Congregational Church of Scarborough, Maine, by Rev. William Sergeant, Sarah Knight, February 14, 1734. Six children were born of this union. He married ( sec- ond) Kerenhappuck Hicks, whose maiden name was Proctor, daughter of Samuel and Sarah ( Brackett) Proctor. Their intentions of marriage were published November 5, 1756. After the death of her husband, rooms in the mansion house were set apart for her use which she occupied for a few years, and then went to reside in Gorham, where she died at the home of a son of her daughter, Meribah. in 1822. The children of Anthony Brackett were: John, Sarah, Thomas, James, Eliza- beth, Anthony, Meribah, Joshua, Keziah, Sam- uel and Nathaniel.
(V) Thomas (2). second son of Anthony (2) and-Sarah (Knight) Brackett, was born in Falmouth in May, 1744, died December 13, 1815. He was the owner of a large estate, a farmer and also engaged in other pursuits. His father deeded him nearly all the estate which he had on the Neck and also the greater portion of Peak's Island. He resided on the island from an early date, and probably dwelt there during the revolutionary war. At that time there were only three dwellings on the island. When Captain Henry Mowatt with a British fleet on October 16, 1775, arrived at Portland harbor, he anchored near Peak's Island, in Hog roads, between Hog and House islands and in sight of Thomas Brackett's house. Thomas Brackett married, December 9, 1762, Jane Hall, born in 1740, died May 10, 1810, daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth (White) Hall, of Cherryfield. Children : John, Elizabeth, Sally, Patience, and Mary, next mentioned.
(VI) Mary, youngest child of Thomas and Jane (Hall) Brackett, was baptized June 9, 1776, and died November 13, 1860. Her father sold her two acres of land in front of the present Mineral Spring House, Peak's Island. This house, which may have been built by her father, was her residence. She married, November 10, 1796, Joseph Reed,
who died April 1, 1852. They were the grand- parents of the famous statesman Thomas Brackett Reed. (See Reed.)
BURRAGE In the registries of the coun- ties of Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk, England, the name of Burrage occurs so frequently in the six- teenth century as to indicate that the family was a numerous one among the landholders of the middle or yeoman class. The name is spelled Burgh, Burough, Borough, Borage, Bearadge, Burrish, Beridge, Burrage, etc.
(I) The line of the New England family of this name is easily traced back to Robert Burrage (Burrishe), of Seething, a small par- ish near Norton Subcourse, and nine miles south of Norwich. In 1901 it had a population of two hundred and eighty-four. Robert Bur- rage married Rose -, by whom he had two sons, Robert (married Amy Cooke, died December 3, 1598), and Richard, and one daughter Margery.
(II) Richard, youngest son of Robert and Rose Burrage, took up his residence in Nor- ton Subcourse, a widely scattered village ten or twelve miles southeast of Norwich, with a population at the present time of a little more than three hundred. The village church was erected in 1387. Richard Burrage married, but the name of his wife is not known. Nine children were born to them, seven sons and two daughters: Henry, Richard, Thomas, Anne, Elizabeth, John, John, Owen, Anthony.
(III) Thomas, the third son of Richard Burrage, was born at Norton Subcourse, Feb- ruary 28, 1581. August 19, 1606, he was married to Frances Dey, by whom he had seven children, two sons and five daughters: Mary, Margaret, Grace, Letitia, John, Her. and Anna. Thomas Burrage died March 2, 1632, leaving all his property to his wife while she lived, with a provision that in case of her death the estate should go to his oldest son John, after paying certain legacies to his brother Henry and his sisters "Marie," "Mar- garet" and "Anne."
(IV) John, oldest son of Thomas and Frances (Dey) Burrage, was sixteen years old when his father died. It is thought that he remained at home until he attained his ma- jority in the spring of 1637. All England at that time was bordering on revolution, and many, even more in preceding years, were seeking homes in the new world. One occa- sion for the unrest at this time was the ship- money tax demanded by the government from the inland as well as the maritime counties,
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and which John Hampden, in the interests of the people, brought before the judges of the exchequer chamber toward the close of 1636. Their decision greatly exasperated the people, and added to the general unrest. Bromfield, in his "History of Norfolk County," says : "At this time (1634) John Burridge, Gent. of Norwich, for refusing to pay five pounds assessed upon him towards the ship, was com- mitted to prison, but on payment was dis- charged. The ship-money was the beginning of trouble." It was evidently because of this unrest that John Burrage decided to leave Norton Subcourse, and make for himself a home in the new England across the sea. What share of his father's estate he brought with him, or in what vessel he sailed, is not known. The first new-world record concern- ing him is found in the town records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, under date of 1637, as follows: "John Burrage, hath liberty to take John Charles' house lott by goodman Blotts. Good Thos Line had yielded him the house lott before good Charles in case Elias Maverick did refuse it or leave it." In the following year, in a record of the possessions of the inhabitants of Charlestown, occurs a record concerning the possessions of John Bur- rage, showing that he had not only a house and garden lot in Charlestown, but several parcels of land outside of that place. In Charlestown, or vicinity, he found his wife, Mary - -, probably about 1639. May 18, 1642, he took the freeman's oath, having quali- fied for this by uniting with the First Church in Charlestown, May 10, 1642. With this church his wife united a year before. There is no record of her death, but it was subse- quent to 1646 and prior to 1654. In the year 1654, or early in 1655, he married Joanna Stowers, daughter of Nicholas and Amy Stow- ers, who were of the thirty-five persons dis- missed from the church in Boston in 1632, forming the First Church in Charlestown. Nicholas Stowers died May 17, 1646, and his wife Amy died in 1667-68. John Burrage died October 19, 1685, leaving an estate valued at £246 8s. 3d. above indebtedness. His widow Joanna died. December 25, 1689. He had three children, as follows: By Mary, his first wife: Mary, born March' 8, 1640, married John Marshall, of Billerica; died November 30, 1680. Hannah, born November 14, 1643, married John French, of Billerica; died July 17, 1667. Elizabeth, married (first) Thomas Doane; (second) John Poor, both of Charles- town. John, born 1646, married, June 15, 1675, Susannah Cutler ; died June, 1677. By
his second wife Joanna: Nathaniel, born De- cember, 1655, died December 21, 1656. Will- iam, born June 10, 1657, married Sarah -; died 1720. Sarah, born November 24,
1658, married William Johnson. Bethiah, born May 23, 1661. Thomas, born May 26, 1663. Ruth, born February 28, 1664, mar- ried Ignatius White. Joanna, died June 16, 1668. Of John Burrage's two surviving sons, William for a while followed the seas, but in 1714 he was described as "William Burridge, of Newton, Husbandman." He died in 1720. His children were: Elizabeth, born June 10, 1691 (in Boston), married, October 22, 1717, John Cheney. John, born February II, 1693 (in Boston), married (first) October 9, 1718, Lydia Ward; (second) January 17, 1725, Sarah Smith; died January 24, 1765. Sarah, born September 21, 1695 (in Boston), mar- ried Benjamin Adams, of Newton. Lydia, married, April 24, 1729, John Cheney. Abi- gail, married, June 2, 1729, Edward Prentice. Ruth, married, October, 1731, Ebenezer Se- gur.
(V) Thomas (2), second surviving son of John and Joanna (Stowers) Burrage, born May 26, 1663, administered his father's es- tate. He learned the carpenter's trade at Lynn, and there also he married, November 20, 1687, Elizabeth Breed, by whom he had two sons and five daughters, namely : Joanna, born August 20, 1688, married Daniel Mans- field ; died June 8, 1733. Elizabeth, born No- vember 20, 1691. John, born January 26, 1694, married, January 1, 1718, Mehitable Largin; died May 15, 1761. Thomas, born September 19, 1697. Mary, born March 3, 1699. Bethiah, born May 12, 1704. Ruth, born February 1, 1707. Thomas Burrage's first wife died June 16, 1709, and in 1710 or IZII he married Elizabeth Davis, widow of Robert Davis. In 1712 he was made a deacon of the church in Lynn and later a selectman. To the latter office he was re-elected several times. In other important positions he served the town. He died March II, 1717. The in- ventory of his estate amounted to £552 14S. His sons, John and Thomas, were the execu- tors of his will. John became a deacon of the church in Lynn. He married, January 1, 1718, Mehitable Largin, by whom he had children as follows: Elizabeth, born October 30, 1721, died September 7, 1793. Lydia, born Novem- ber 25, 1723, married (first) April 19, 1750, Zaccheus Norwood; (second) May 20, 1763, Josiah Martin. Mehitable, born March 12. 1725, died October 12, 1759. Bethiah, born 1728, died May 14, 1728. John, born May
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23, 1730, did not marry; died January 20, 1780. Mary, born 1733, died September 22, 1751. Joanna, born 1735, died December 16, 1751. Abigail, born 1737, died October 17, 1740.
(VI) Thomas (3), the younger son of Deacon Thomas (2) and Elizabeth ( Breed) Burrage, born in Lynn, September 19, 1697; married, January 30, 1722, Sarah Newhall, of Lynn. Their children were as follows : Desiah, born January 18, 1723, married, May 14, 1743, Edmund Whittimore. Thomas, born January 1, 1725, died March 8, 1751. Abijah, born October 27, 1729, died in infancy. Will- iam, born December 9, 1731, married, May 20, 1760, Phebe Barrett, of Malden; died September 23, 1820. Sarah, born December 8, 1733, died September 16, 1752. Josiah, born April 30, 1736, married Susannah Rams- dell; died 1776. Susannah, born August 20, 1740, married, February, 1775, Stephen Wait, of Malden. Ruth, born May 13, 1744, died September 4, 1745. Abijah, born July 8, 1745, died 1780. Ruth, born October 16, 1746, died January 9, 1748. Another child, born January 7, 1748, died January 9, 1748. Sarah (New- hall) Burrage died May 14, 1749, and Novem- ber 15, 1750, Thomas Burrage married Anne Wayte, of Malden. A carpenter by trade, he lived a useful, industrious life, and at his death in 1759 he left an estate amounting to £724 3s. Iod.
(VII) William, the oldest of the surviving sons of Thomas (3) and Sarah (Newhall) Burrage, born in Lynn, December 9, 1731, married Phebe Barrett, of Malden, May 20, 1760. In 1767 he took up his residence in Leominster, where in the easterly part of the town he purchased a farm of about sixty acres overlooking the valley of the Nashua river. His children were: Sarah, born December 31, 1760, died December 3, 1776. Thomas, born December 4, 1763, married, August 21, 1791, Abigail Fairbanks, of Templeton; died Octo- ber 10, 1828. Phebe, born February 1, 1766, died June 17, 1809. William, born September 2, 1768, married (first) February 2, 1792, Mary Joslin, of Leominster ; ( second ) June 21, 1821, Roxanna Sanderson, of Lancaster. Jo- siah, born August 16, 1770, married, March 7, 1800, Ruth Kilburn, of Lunenburg; died November 5, 1856. Abijah, born April 24, 1773, died September 10, 1787. John, born March 10, 1775, died August 15, 1779. Anna, born February 4, 1778, married, May 5, 1810, Benjamin Carter, of Leominster; no children ; died March 12, 1851. Of these eight children only four survived their father, viz .: Thom-
as, William, Josiah and Anna. A good father and neighbor and a respected citizen, he lived to the ripe old age of eighty-nine years, dying September 23, 1820. His wife died May 22, 1822, aged eighty-two years. Although forty- four years of age at the time of the Lexington alarm, at the outbreak of the revolution, he served as a private in Captain Nathaniel Car- ter's company, Colonel Abijah Stearn's regi- ment, and later, in August, 1777, he marched with his company from Leominster at the Ben- nington alarm.
(VIII) Thomas (4), eldest son of William (I) and Phebe ( Barrett) Burrage, was born in Lynn, December 4, 1763. With the settlement of the country farther inland, he bought a tract of wild land in Templeton, Massachu- setts. He married, August 21, 1791, Abigail Fairbanks, daughter of Joseph and Asenath (Osgood) Fairbanks, of Templeton, formerly of Harvard. Abigail Fairbanks was born Oc- tober 28, 1772, and through her father and mother was related to the Prescotts, Hough- tons, Wilders and other prominent Lancaster families. Her father was one of the minute- men who answered the Lexington alarm in 1775, and the Bennington alarm in 1777. Her grandfather, Captain Joseph Fairbanks, of Harvard, commanded the company from that town at the time of the Lexington alarm. He was a member of the committee of correspond- ence and safety, and also served as town treasurer and selectman. He married Mary Willard, a descendant of Major Simon Wil- lard, the founder of Concord, and for many years the chief military officer of the colony. Thomas and Abigail ( Fairbanks) Burrage had twelve children, all born in Templeton, as follows : Sena, born May 19, 1792, married John Burrage; died March II, 1824. John, born March 15, 1794, died September 25, 1800. Abigail, born March 12, 1796, married, October 1, 1818, Horace Newton, of Temple- ton ; died September 28, 1850. Harriet, born March 12, 1798, married, November 26, 1829, Leonard Battis; died March 5, 1884. Thom- as, born June 6, 1800, died July 29, 1826. Mary, born February 14, 1802 ; married, May 26, 1825, Emory Burrage; died March 26, 1883. Sarah, born March 26, 1804, died Au- gust 26, 1804. Jonathan, born March 18, 1805, married (first) June 19, 1826, Sarah Downe, of Fitchburg ; ( second) April 30, 1833, Mary T. Upton, of Fitchburg; (third) De- cember 14, 1841, Sarah T. Farnum; died July 5, 1854. Adeline, born June 10, 1808, mar- ried, December 30, 1830, David Child, of Tem- pleton ; died December 2, 1841. Joan, born
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January 14, 1810, married, June 29, 1842, David Child; died July 15, 1843. Sophronia, born April 20, 1815, married, November 2, 1835, James Cutter ; died March 7, 1841. An infant son, born October 19, 1817, died Octo- ber 19, 1817. In 1820 Thomas Burrage re- moved from Templeton to Leominster, and on his father's farm took upon himself the care of his father and mother. There he resided until his death, October 10, 1828. Only one of his sons, Jonathan, survived him. His widow died February 19, 1862, in the Leo- minster Burrage homestead, having spent the years of her widowhood with her daughter Mary and son-in-law Emory Burrage.
(VIII) William (2), second son of William (I) and Phebe (Barrett) Burrage, born in Leominster, September 2, 1768, engaged in the tanning and currying business in Leominster, and by industry, energy and frugality pros- pered in his business enterprises. In 1814 he was made a deacon in the First Congregational Church in Leominster, and filled other posi- tions of responsibility and trust in the com- munity. There were six children by his first wife and eight by his second wife, viz. : By his first wife: Mary William, born November 30, 1792, died February 27, 1795. Polly, born December 29, 1794, died December 10, 1817. Leonard, born March 14, 1797, married, April 15, 1819, Mira Allen of Leominster. Thirsa, born June 16, 1799, married, June 12, 1817, Thomas Stearns; died May 24, 1819. Will- iam, born May 4, 1802, married, June 1, 1824, Mary Ann Richardson, of Leominster; died January 19, 1825. Caroline, born September 10, 1805, died October 22, 1826. The chil- dren by his second wife, Roxanna, were: George Sanderson, born May 15, 1823, mar- ried (first ) April 2, 1844, Martha C. Phelps ; (second) January 1, 1851, Aurelia Chamber- lin ; died May 16, 1876. William F., born April 5, 1826, married, July 25, 1849, Eve- line Lawrence; died November II, 1873. Mary Jane, born January 12, 1829, died Au- gust 22, 1851. Charles W., born August 25, 1830, married, November 30, 1854, Sarah J. Hills, of Leominster. Henry Augustus, born March 29, 1833, died April 10, 1838. Martha Ann, born March 17, 1835, married, February 16, 1859, Porter M. Kimball; died Novem- ber 4, 1863. Henry Waldo, born March 31, 1840, died March 19, 1841. Dana Barrett, born September 16, 1842, died April 28, 1843. William Burrage died in 1844.
(VIII) Josiah, the third son of William (I) and Phebe (Barrett) Burrage, was born in Leominster, August 16, 1770. Married,
March 7, 1800, Ruth Kilburn, daughter of William Kilburn, of Lunenburg, and in the year following his marriage purchased a farm in Leominster adjoining the farm of his father. Other acres from time to time were added to the original purchase. Here they lived for forty-five years, and here their thirteen chil- dren were born and reared, viz .: John, born October 30, 1800, married (first) 1820, Sena Burrage; (second) September 17, 1835, Mary Watson; died August 26, 1843. Emory, born September 18, 1802, married, May 26, 1825, Mary Burrage; died September 3, 1878. Jo- siah, born July 24, 1804, married, May 15, 1833, Abigail Studley, of Leicester ; died July 28, 1880. George Sumner, born August 10, 1806, married (first) May 15, 1831, Cather- ine R. Smith, of Dover; (second) September 15, 1840, Martha Ann Minot, of Westminster ; died February 25, 1877. William, born May 14, 1808, married ( first) May 14, 1835, Mary Ann Jackson, of Roxbury; (second) March 31, 1841, Mary G. French, of Boston; died November 30, 1859. Almira, born February 16, 1810, married, November 25, 1847, James H. Marshall, of Leominster; died November 10, 1872. Sarah Ann, born November 9, 18II, married, May 15, 1834, David McClure, of Cambridgeport; died December 14, 1850. Joseph, born November 16, 1813, married (first) January 20, 1841, Frances S. Perrin, of Montpelier, Vermont; (second) June 6. 1861, Mary E. Closson, of Thetford, Ver- mont ; died August 30, 1873, Johnson Carter, born January 20, 1816, married, November 29, 1838, Emeline Brigham, of Croton. Mar- tha, born February 4, 1818, married, Decem- ber 6, 1836, John Dallinger Jr., of Cambridge- port; died May 5, 1845. Elizabeth Smith, born May 2, 1820, married, November 26, 1830, Peter Farwell, of Fitchburg. Alvah Au- gusta, born May 30, 1823, married, May 17, 1849, Elizabeth Amelia Smith, of Groton ; died November 6, 1893. Charles Henry, born June 22, 1825, married (first) October 11, 1853, Mary Greene Hunt, of Boston; (second) Oc- tober 5, 1864, Lydia Love, of Philadelphia. Josiah Burrage spent the closing years of his long and useful life at North Leominster, where he erected a house near that of his son George, and where he died, honored by all his fellow townsmen, November 5, 1856.
(IX) Jonathan, only surviving son Thomas (4) and Abigail (Fairbanks) Bur- rage, was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, March 18. 1805. He learned the trade of a house painter in early life; later, in Fitch- burg, he directed his attention to the painting
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and decoration of bellows; and later still he became a manufacturer of varnish. As his business increased he removed to Cambridge- port, where he manufactured varnish for wholesale dealers in Boston. After a few years of business success, he purchased in Leominster the homestead of his uncle, Will- iam Burrage, and removed his family there, while continuing his business as a manufac- turer of varnish in Brighton. His business in- terests compelled him at length to give up the homestead property, and he made his residence in Roxbury thenceforward, continuing the manufacture of varnish there until his death, July 5, 1854, at the age of forty-nine years. Industrious, energetic, kindhearted, he pos- sessed the genial, sanguine temperament of his father; and though diligent in business he took an active interest in the religious and po- litical movements of the day. In the list of members of the Fitchburg Philosophical So- ciety in 1830, his name is found among the names of the prominent men in the town at that time. His children were as follows: By his first wife, Sarah (Downe) Burrage : Leonard Downe, born June 26, 1832. By his second wife, Mary Thurston (Upton) Bur- rage, daughter of Joseph Upton, of Fitch- burg, the children were: Thomas Fairbanks, born July 4, 1834. Henry Sweetser, born January 7, 1837. William Upton, born De- cember 22, 1838, died August 12, 1839. Ed- win Augustus, born November 21, 1840, died September 15, 1841. By his third wife, Sarah T. (Farnum) Burrage, the children were : Mary Abigail, born November 10, 1842. Sarah Elizabeth Tilton, born November 2, 1844. Martha Sophronia, born December 22, 1846. Harriet Adeline, born March 2, 1851.
(X) Leonard Downe, only son of Jonathan and Sarah (Downe) Burrage, born in Fitch- burg, June 26, 1832, attended the schools in Fitchburg and Cambridge, and then engaged in business, being associated with his father in the manufacture and sale of varnish. When about twenty-one years of age, while on' a business trip to New York, he stopped in Springfield, Massachusetts, made sales, and was not again heard from. No further trace of him could be found, though diligent search was made. He was a young man of the most exemplary habits, of great promise, and noth- ing in connection with his mysterious disap- pearance has ever been revealed.
(X) Thomas Fairbanks, oldest son of Jona- than and Mary T. (Upton) Burrage, born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, July 4, 1834, suc- ceeded in 1854 to his father's business as a
manufacturer of varnish, and was happily set- tled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, when the civil war opened. His family and business re- lations alone restrained him from entering the military service at the beginning of the con- flict. But as the call for more men became urgent, he at, length found himself unable to turn a deaf ear to what he believed to be the call of duty, and July 29, 1862, he wrote : "The time has come when I can no longer en- joy the peace and comfort of my pleasant home without a sense of shame and dishonor. My country calls for my aid and I cannot with- hold it." He accordingly enlisted as a private in Company C, Forty-first Massachusetts Vol- unteer Infantry, and soon was appointed ser- geant. The regiment when organized and equipped was ordered to the Department of the Gulf, and landed at Baton Rouge, Louisi- ana, December 17, 1862. While in camp there he was taken ill and removed to the hospital. Not long after a forward movement was thought to be impending, and without having fully recovered he returned to his regiment. Again he was ordered to the hospital, and again impatient to be with the regiment, he asked the privilege of returning. This was unwisely granted. The disease had fastened itself so strongly upon him that further medi- cal aid was unavailing, and he died in the hos- pital at Baton Rouge, April 29, 1863. The officers of his regiment bore beautiful testi- mony to his worth as a man and a soldier, as also did his fellow citizens at home. In the following winter the remains were brought to Roxbury, and after fitting funeral services, were laid to rest in Forest Hills cemetery. His children were as follows: Henry Thompson, born October 27, 1857. William Edwin, born July 15, 1859. Charles Albert, born Septem- ber 20, 1860, died September 25, 1860. Henry Thompson Burrage is an engineer connected with the office of the city engineer of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. William Edwin Bur- rage is secretary and treasurer of the Cam- bridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts.
(X) Henry Sweetser, second son of Jona- than and Mary T. (Upton) Burrage, born in Fitchburg, January 7, 1837, after his father's removal to Roxbury attended the Chauncey Hall School in Boston. Later he fitted for college at Pierce Academy at Middleboro, Massachusetts, and entered Brown University in the autumn of 1857. He was graduated in 1861 with Phi Beta Kappa rank, and was the first of his class. In the fall of 1861 he en- tered Newton Theological Institution at New-
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ton Center, Massachusetts, with the Christian ministry in view; but he had completed only one year of his course when the urgent call of President Lincoln for more men, which had stirred so deeply the heart of his brother Thomas, stirred his heart, and he asked and obtained from the Theological Institution a leave of absence in order to enter the military service. August 1, 1862, while visiting rela- tives in Fitchburg, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Vol- unteer Infantry. In a few days he was made a sergeant, and before the regiment left the state he received an appointment as sergeant- major. The regiment left for the seat of war September 2, and on its arrival in Washing- ton was assigned to the Ninth Corps, then with the Army of the Potomac. After service in that army the corps was transferred to the west and was with Grant at Vicksburg, after- ward with Sherman in the Jackson campaign, later in East Tennessee and at the siege of Knoxville. Returning with the corps again to Virginia in the spring of 1864, Sergeant- Major Burrage, who meanwhile had been commissioned second lieutenant and first lieu- tenant, was wounded in the right shoulder at Cold Harbor, June 3, and while he was at home on account of his wound he was com- missioned captain. Returning to his regiment in September, he was captured at Petersburg, November I, and was a prisoner at Richmond and Danville until February 22, 1865. His last service was as acting adjutant general on the staff of General John I. Curtin, command- ing the First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps. After the great review in Wash- ington, he returned to Massachusetts with his regiment, and was mustered out of the service June 8, 1865. March 13, 1865, he was brevetted major of the United States Volun- teers "for gallant and meritorious services in . the campaign from the Rapidan to the James." In the autumn of 1865 he resumed his studies at Newton, and was graduated with the class of 1867. While at Newton he prepared and published "Brown University in the Civil War." He then went to Germany for the pur- pose of continuing his theological studies at the University at Halle. Returning to this country in 1869, he accepted a call to the pas- torate of the Baptist church in Waterville, Maine, where he remained until October, 1873, when he returned to Portland, and became editor and proprietor of Zion's Advocate. While engaged in editorial work, he pub- lished in 1879 "The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church,“ in 1882, "A
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