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Wherof your petitioners humbly pray your honors to take the premises into your wise and merciful consideration, and order that the Collector of Brunswick for the year 1776 be directed not to demand of any of the Inhabitants of said Royalsbourg the poll tax laid on them by said Brunswick that year, But that the same be remitted them and that the same Brunswick should not assess them for the year 1777 or in case they have done it or may do it before your honors pass upon this Petition that such assessment may be vacated & the sums assessed remitted to them -or that your honors would otherwise relieve your Petitioners
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in such a way & manner as your Honors shall seem meet & your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.
Charles Gerrish
Jona Armstrong
Charles Hill
hue Gatchell
Judah Chandler
John Gatchell
Ebenezer Robards
Robert Gatchell
William Gerrish
John blethen
Israel Bagley
John Cushing
David dyer
Samuel Smith
Charles Gerrish
Robinson Crockett
Nathl Garislı
Ezekiel Jones
Micah dyer
Vinsen Robats
John Parker
Benja Sawyer
Benjamin Vining
Moses Mariner
Elias davis
Josiah Day
Samuel Ray
Stephen Wesson
Samuel York
Joshua Strout
The above petition was read in the House 2 Feb. 1778, and referred to a Committee. The House, 12 Feb. 1778, resolved to abate the above taxes of Royalsborough, which was consented to by the Council.
The greater part of the signers of the above petition were old men. Two at least had been in the army, and several others had sons there.
The Committees of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety were, in 1778, O. Israel Bagley, Charles Hill and William Gerrish ; in 1779, O. Israel Bagley, Jonathan Armstrong and Joshua Strout : in 1780, Joshua Strout, Nathaniel Gerrish and John Getchell; in 1781, O. Israel Bagley, Ebenezer Newell and John Getchell ; in 1782, O. Israel Bagley, Josiah Day and Lieut. Newell.
July 29, 1778, Voted " that this town shall pay those men that provide clothing for the soldiers who are gon in Continental army what Cost they are to if the Court will not pay for them." An entry in Bagley's account book seems to have a connection with this. He says in Feb. 1779. "Received of John Lues, Esq, 212 Dolars for the Clothen sent the soldars."
Nov. 8, 1779 the town voted to "pay eich Solger that went to Pernopscot1 Seventy five pounds."
Nov. 30, 1780, Voted to " provide the Beef the Cort have sent for."
1This refers to the Bagaduce expedition to the Penobscot.
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Jan. 16, 1781. Voted to " give the two men that Shall goe in the Continental army 20 dollars bounty and 10 dollars wages a month."
March 20, 1780. Voted "not to get the Beef the State sent for."
Sept. 12, 1781. Voted "not to Rase the too men the Cort have sent for," and "not to get the Beef the Cort have sent for." This action was caused by the feeling that they had raised all the men and money they could, but nevertheless they supplied the men and money, as a later petition shows. The war cost Royalsborough in taxes ten thousand nine hundred and ninety- six pounds, eleven shillings and seven pence.
Jan. 29, 1782. Voted to pay Nathan Lewis bounty and that "he return himself to the Superintendent at Boston upon the risk of the town." Voted to "return Samuel Wage for this town Provided they Don't get Nother man." Voted that "O. Israel Bagley Shall goe to Amesbury to Stand trial with them for Samuel Wage " (Wagg).
The petition for incorporation, given in the preceding chapter, shows plainly the privations and burdens endured during the time of the Revolutionary War. Clothing was scanty and food was coarse and insufficient. It is an oft repeated tradition, that when any one was fortunate enough to shoot a deer or any wild game, a horn was blown to call the neighbors to share it.
Who were the men of Royalsborough that bore arms in the war for Independence? The following list, probably incomplete, has been drawn from the Mass. archives, pension rolls, and publications of Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
CHARLES GERRISH, who had been Captain of Militia from before 1758,1 appears as Ist Major of the 2d Mass. Regt. Cumb. Co., 7 Feb. 1776, Col Jonathan Mitchell commanding. Before that date the Town Records call him Captain ; afterward, always Major.
NATHANIEL GERRISH was private in Capt. John Worthley's Co., Col. Edmund Phinney's 31st Regt. of Foot. He enlisted 8 May 1775 and served eight months near Boston.
120 Oct. 1789 Lt John Stackpole of Biddeford, aged 81, deposed that in 1758 he "went a soldiering up Saco River with Capt. Charles Gerrish." -Records in the Registry of Deeds at Alfred, Me.
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GEORGE GERRISH served three years in Capt. Blaisdell's Co. Col. Wigglesworth's Regt.
JAMES GERRISH enlisted for three years in the same Co. as his brother George and died in the service.
EBENEZER NEWELL was first Lieut. in Capi. Samuel Dunn's Co. Col. Phinney's Regt. in 1775.
INCREASE BLETHEN was in Capt. Stephen Hart's Co. Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regt. He enlisted at Boston for town of Royalsborough 6 Dec. 1777, for three years. Was promoted Corporal in Capt. Smart's Co., Col. Calvin Smith's Regt. Was at Valley Forge 5 Feb. 1778. He had previously enlisted 29 Aug. 1776. He died in Phillips, Me.
JOHN CHANDLER enlisted 8 June 1777 for three years. Was in Capt. Hill's Co. Gen. Peterson's Regt. He also appears in Capt. John Read's Co. Col. Ichabod Allen's Regt. Reported as having died in May, 1778. He was son of Judah Chandler.
NATHAN LEWIS is repeatedly mentioned on the Town Records as a soldier from Royalsborough. He is last named in 1787. His widow Sarah was supported by the town for some years and died in 1801. Her daughter Sarah was also cared for by the town. The latter died in 1806 and the town voted to give her small property to her sisters. Barnabas Strout was allowed $1 for digging her grave.
JOHN DAIN (spelled also Dane and Dean) was private in Capt. James Patch's Co. which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Ipswich to Mystic. Length of service 4 days. He also appears as private in Capt. James Mallor's Co., Lieut. Col. Putnam's Regt. enlisting 18 Aug. 1781 and discharged 4 Dec. 1781. Time of service 3 mos. 28 days.
JOSHUA JONES enlisted in 1778 for three years in Capt. Hill's Co. Col. Vose's Regt.
JOHN VINING marched to Roxbury from Weymouth April 19, 1775. He is said to have served throughout the war.
PELATIAH WARREN was private in Capt. John Lane's Co. Enlisted from No. Yarmouth 29 July 1775; discharged I Nov. 1775. In list of pensioners he is accredited to Royals- borough, which implies a subsequent re-enlistment.
BARTHOLOMEW REED of " Royalstown " was in Capt.
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Richard Mayberry's Co., Col. Francis' Regt. in 1775. Served at Dorchester. He was in Capt. Nathan Watkins' Co .; Col. Phinney's 18th Regt. from Dec. 1, 1775 to Sept. 20, 1776.
EBENEZER DEAN of Royalsborough, 6 Dec. 1777, joined Capt. Lane's Co., Col Alden's Regt. for three years. Reported deceased.
CARL McMANNERS enlisted from Royalsborough May 14, 1775 in Capt. John Worthley's Co., Col. Phinney's 3Ist Regt.
LEMUEL WELSH enlisted I Dec. 1775 in Capt. Nathan Watkins' Co., Col. Phinney's 18th Continental Regt. Re- enlisted 20 Nov. 1776. Was at Ticonderoga.
GEORGE GOODWIN was a Revolutionary pensioner accredited to Royalsborough. "The last two years of the war he was waiter to some General." The Mass. Archives mention a George Goodwin who enlisted for three years for town of Brad- ford. He was in the 6th Regt. from I Jan. 1778 to 31 Dec. 1782. His receipt for bounty was dated 14 June 1782. He rec'd clothing 3 Feb. 1784.
JOSHUA STROUT enlisted 9 July 1776 in Samuel Knight's Co. of Falmouth and was stationed on the sea-coast for defense of that town.
Other soldiers accredited to Royalsborough in list of pensioners are DANIEL GREEN, afterwards of Readfield, and JOSHUA DUNN, afterwards of Phillips.
A goodly number of Revolutionary soldiers from other towns settled in Royalsborough soon after the war. Among them were.
JACOB SAWYER, enlisted from Cape Elizabeth and served six months in Capt. Daniel Strout's Co. in 1775 and nine months in Capt. William Crockett's Co. in 1776, and again in Capt. Joshua Jordan's Co. Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regt. in the Penobscot Expedition from July 7, to Sept. 25, 1779.
ISAAC TURNER enlisted for three years from No. Yarmouth in Capt. Hill's Co .; Col. Vose's Regt. Was a pensioner.
CHRISTOPHER TRACY was private in Capt. Henry Dyer's Co. Col. Foster's Regt. Served at Machias from Aug. to Oct. 1777. Also private in Capt. Reuben Dyer's Co. on Expedition against St. John from Oct. to Dec. 1777.
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DANIEL HARMON was corporal in Capt. Samuel Whitte- more's Co., Col. Reuben Fogg's Regt. of Mass. Bay Militia and served at Peekskill, N. Y.
EBENEZER WOODBURY was in Capt. Richard Davis' Co., Col. Joshua Wingate's Regt. stationed at Piscataqua Harbor four months in 1775. Again he was in Capt. Jesse Page's Co., Col. Drake's Regt., enlisting 9 Sept. 1777, discharged 15 Dec. 1777. Took part in battle of Saratoga. The American forces were drawn up in parallel lines facing inward, and Gens. Gates and Burgoyne passed between arm in arm. It took over two hours for the captured army to pass through, during which time Woodbury gave his gun to a comrade and lay down and slept. He was also private in Capt. Jacob Webster's Co. mustered at Portsmouth, N. H., 23 Nov. 1775, a company of minute men who served twenty-three days.
JOHN DOW enlisted from Gilmanton, N. H., at the age of sixteen in Capt. Worthern's Co., Col. Mooney's Regt. Served 5 mos. 27 days in R. I.
ISAAC DAVIS appears in a descriptive list of the men enlisted from Cumberland Co. for the term of nine months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill. Age 20 yrs, stature 5 ft. 10 in. Complexion light. Residence, Scarborough. Belonging to Capt. Larrabee's Co. Col. Fogg's Regt. Arrived at Fishkill June 17, 1778. Mustered May 26 1778, of Gen. Thompson's Brigade. Discharged March 17, 1779.
JAMES WAGG of Danville is given because the ancestor of many who lived in Durham. He enlisted I Jan. 1776 in Capt. Hart Williams' Co. Edmund Phinney's Regt. from Falmouth. He served over four years in several re-enlistments. Was at Valley Forge in 1778. During that year was in Capt. Sewall's Co. Col. Sprout's Regt.
MARTIN ROURK was in a Picket Guard as early as May 23, 1775, having enlisted April 27, 1775. His first term of service was 3 mos. 12 dys. Residence, Sudbury. He re-enlisted several times, serving throughout the war. Was at Ticonderoga in
1776. Was Sergeant after 1777. Stature 5 ft. 4 in. Complexion light. Eyes, gray. Is said to have acted as clerk.
JOEL RICHARDSON, born in Townsend, Mass. 22 Jan. 1758; enlisted from Topsham. Married 9 Dec. 1786 Lydia Babb.
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Lived in Litchfield, and Durham, on lot 92, where he died and was buried 20 Feb. 1827. Also his son Joel, b. 13 Aug. 1787, died here in March 1838. He had seven other children. (See Hist. of Litchfield.) Widow afterward lived in Guilford.
ELISHA STETSON was at Point Shirley, 13 June 1776, as private in Capt. Nathaniel Winslow's Co., Col. Whitney's Regt. Enlisted I May 1776. Service 7 mos. Again in Capt. Hayward Pierce's Co., Col. Jeremiah Hall's Regt. Enlisted 2 Jan. 1777. Service 2 mos. 10 days. Again in Capt. Pierce's Co., Col. Theophilus Cotton's Regt. Enlisted 25 Sept. 1777. Service 10 mos. 6 days. Again, Corporal in Capt. Wm. Barker's Co., Col. Cotton's Regt. Enlisted 6 Mch. 1781. Service 28 days. Served principally in Rhode Island.
JOHN SCOTT was private in Capt. David Bradish's Co., Col. Phinney's Regt., enlisting 23 May 1775. Was also matross in Capt. Abramı Lowell's Co. at Falmouth Sept. I to Dec. 31, 1776.
ROBERT PLUMMER appears on a certificate dated 9 Oct. 1778 as mustered into Lt. Ethan Moore's Co. for three years. He was matross in Capt. Joseph Mclellan's Co. Service from Nov. 1, 1780 to May 1, 1781, in the Artillery Corps at Falmouth.
WILLIAM TRUE was first Sergeant of Capt. Morrill's Co. Col. Caleb Cushing's Regt. of Mass. Militia in 1775, and Lieut. in Capt. Benj. Evans' Co. in 1776.
ROGER MERRILL was private in Capt. John Pearson's Co., Lt. Col. Putnam's Regt. from Sept. 2 to Dec. 8, 1781.
JOHN STACKPOLE enlisted 23 Sept. 1779 in Capt. George Rogers' Co., Col. Nathaniel Jordan's Regt. Discharged 23 Oct. 1779. Service at Falmouth.
JOHN LINCOLN was private, from Scituate, Mass., in Capt. Nathaniel Winslow's Co., Col. John Thomas' Regt. Enlisted May 3, 1775. Served 3 mos. 6 days.
ABRAHAM JORDAN of Cape Elizabeth was in Capt. Joseph Mclellan's Co. Artillery Corps, at Falmouth, Nov. II, 1780 to May 1, 1781. He died in Durham 18 April, 1835.
JOHN LINCOLN was private, from Scituate, Mass. in Capt. Ebenezer Cook's Co. Enlisted May 3, 1775. Service 3 mos. 6 days. Re-enlisted several times for short terms of service.
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·
JOSEPH WEEMAN enlisted from Cape Elizabeth in 1776.
VINCENT FICKETT was in Col. Phinney's 18th Regt. Dec. 12, 1775-Nov. 8, 1776.
JOHN SKINNER was in Capt. Samuel Dunn's Co., Col. Phinney's 3Ist Regt., enlisting 24 April 1775.
SAMUEL PROCTOR enlisted from Falmouth. The Pension Rolls say he died at Durham 12 March (29 Nov.) 1795. His widow, Joanna, married Mr. Thompson of Wayne.
JOHN McINTOSH appears in Capt. David Bradish's Co., Col. Phinney's 3Ist Regt., enlisting May 12, 1775 from Falmouth.
ELIJAH LITTLEFIELD was, in 1780, in Gen. Peleg Wadsworth's command, as a deposition shows.
JOHN CUSHING. See Biog. Sketch.
REV. JACOB HERRICK. See Biog. Sketch.
Other Revolutionary soldiers who settled in Durham were Joshua Snow, Matthew Duran, Jonathan Larrabee, Jonathan Currier, Robert Getchell, Nathaniel Osgood, and Amos Knight.
ANCIENT MILITIA.
There was a Training Band in Royalsborough as early as 1778. Who the officers were can not be told. From the roster in the Adjt .- General's Office in Boston it is learned that July 1, 1781, O. Israel Bagley was commissioned Captain, Ebenezer Newell Ist Lieut., and Nathaniel Gerrish 2d Lieut. These held office till 1797. In his Account Book already mentioned Bagley gives the names of the men who formed his military company, specifying who had a musket, bayonet, etc. They were evidently very poorly equipped. The date of Bagley's Muster Roll is March 23, 1787. The following are the names enrolled. "The soldiers under command of Capt. Bagley " were voted $10 per month if called into service, Aug. 28, 1794.
In 1826 William Newell Jr., organized a company of light infantry called the Cumberland Guards, whose uniform was a red coat and white pants. This organization continued about a dozen years under several Captains. About the same time Durham had a company of Cavalry commanded first by Paul Douglass and later by Abel Tracy.
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MILITIA OF ROYALSBOROUGH.
Captain, O. Israel Bagley. Ist Lieut., Ebenezer Newell. 2nd Lieut., Nathaniel Gerrislı. Sergeant, George Gerrislı.
Sergeant, John Randall. Sergeant, Joshua Snow.
Sergeant, John Vining.
Corporal, Isaac Davis.
Corporal, Jacob Sawyer.
Corporal, Joseph York.
Corporal, Benjamin Vining.
PRIVATES.
Enoch Bagley
George Goodwin,
William Blake,
Sam'l Goodwin, Jr.
Jonathan Currier,
James Hibbard,
John Cushing,
William Hoyt,
John Cushing, 3d,
Elijah Jones,
Josiah Day,
Joshua Jones,
Joseph Davis,
Nathan Lewis,
Joseph Dean
Lemuel McGray,
Matthew Duran,
John McIntosh,
David Dyer,
Roger Merrill
Micah Dyer
Jeremiah Mitchell
Henry Farr, Jr.
John Mitchell.
John Farrar,
John Monroe,
Hugh Getchell
Aaron Osgood
Joseph Getchell
Nathan [iel] Osgood.
Nathaniel Getchell
James Parker
Robert Getchell,
John Parker
Robert Plummer
Joseph Parker,
Stephen Randall
Pelatiah Warren
Benjamin Roberts Vincent Roberts
John Wagg, Nathaniel Ware
Willianı Roberts
Joseph Weeman
Samuel Tracy,
Samuel Wells,
Christopher Tracy,
Edward Welsh,
Solomon Tracy, G
Edmund Weston,
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Abel True,
Jonathan True, Bela Vining, Samuel York.
Stephen Weston, John Winslow, Ebenezer Woodbury,
ALARM LIST.
John Cushing, Esq.,
William McGray,
Henry Farr,
John Parker,
Charles Gerrish, Esq.,
Samuel Ray,
William Gerrish,
Ebenezer Roberts,
Samuel Goodwin,
Charles Stetson,
John Hoyt,
Joshua Strout,
Ezekiel Jones,
William True,
James Mars,
Benjamin Vining.
OFFICERS OF MILITIA WITH DATES OF COMMISSION.
CAPTAINS.
Nearly all of these served as Ensigns and Lieutenants before being promoted to the captaincy, and so their names are not repeated in the lists to follow.
1781. O. Israel Bagley, 1829. Jacob Strout,
1797. Nathaniel Gerrish, 1830. John D. Spaulding,
1701. Abel Stoddard, 1834. Joseph Warren,
1806. Joshua Snow, 1835. Paul Douglass,
1809-15. William Webster, 1836. John Plummer,
1810-15. Ebenezer Warren, 1836. Sam'l Newell,
1815-20. William Newell,
1837. Benj. P. Roberts,
1815-IS. Luther Plummer, 1839.
Abel Tracy,
1818. Nathaniel Bragdon, 1839. Merrill W. Strout,
1820. Joseph H. Hoyt, 1839. David B. Strout,
IS23. William Roak, 1840. David R. Bowie,
1824. Jonathan C. Merrill, 1840. James M. Brickett,
1825. Jolın Nason,
1841. Benj. G. Hoyt,
1827. William Miller, 1842. Wm. H. Parker,
1828. '38, and '56. Wm. 1842. Washington Parker,
Newell, Jr.,
Gardner Larrabee.
1828. Job P. Sylvester.
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LIEUTENANTS.
. 1781 Ebenezer Newell, 1838 Sidney Skelton,
1806-12 Abel True,
1839 Moses Atkinson,
1806 Elijah Macomber, 1839 David Johnson,
1809-19 Elias Staten,
1839 Chas. S. Parker, cornet,
1815 John Gerrish,
1841 Secomb Jordan,
1812-15 Francis Harmon, 1842 Alexander Bowie,
1819 Apollos Jordan, 1856 Israel T. Warren,
1828 Joseph Davis, 1856 2nd. Lt. James Strout Jr.
1829 Hanson Wilbur,
1856 3d. Lt. Emery S. Warren
1837 Horace Wright,
1856 4th. Lt. Newell Strout,
The following are called Lieutenant in Town Records, though the dates of their commission have not been found: William Gerrish, 1789, and Jolin Hoyt, 1789.
ENSIGNS.
1797. Isaac Gerrish,
1830. John Cushing, Jr.,
1809. Samuel Roberts,
1841. Benj. F. Nason,
1812. Ebenezer Newell, 1842. Sewall Pollister,
1815. Joshua Gerrish,
I842. Cyrus Owen,
1808. Jacob Herrick, Chaplain.
1808.
John Converse, Surgeon's Mate.
1816. John Ricker, Surgeon's Mate.
1835. Joseph Merrill, Surgeon.
1837. Sam'l Newell, Lt. Col.
1843.
Emery S. Warren, Quarter Master.
1842. Wm. Newell, Lt. Col.
1843. Wm. Newell, Col.
1844. Wm. Newell, Brig .- Gen.
DURHAM MILITIA IN THE WAR OF 1812.
There seems to have been no use other than ornamental for the Durham militia until 1814, when there was an alarm at Bath to the effect that the British were to land an expedition there. Durham sent two companies to the rescue. They gathered at the North Meeting House Sunday morning, where Rev. Jacob Herrick, chaplain of the Regt., offered a fervent prayer before their departure. The pay roll of one company is in the posses- sion of E. H. Gerrish of Lewiston. It is of great interest as
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bearing the autograph signatures of the members of the company. This pay-roll shows that the Lieut. was paid $30 per month ; the Ensign $20; Sergeants $11 ; Corporals $10; fifer and drummer $9; and privates $8. The total cost of this company for a campaign of twenty days was $478.50. Even miniature warfare is an expensive business. No enemy appeared, though niany of the militiamen were frightened by false alarms. The following names appear on the "Muster-Roll of Capt. Ebenezer Warren's Company of Infantry of the 2nd. Regt. Ist. Brigade, 1Ith Division in the service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, under command of Lt .- Col. Charles Thomas, from the 10th of Sept. to the 29th of Sept. 1814,-called into actual service under Regt.'s orders of Sept. 10th, 1814, and stationed and discharged at Bath."
Ebenezer Warren, Capt. (Lame at home)
Joshua Gerrish, Corp. John Fifield, Corp.
Francis Harmon, Lieut.
Lemuel Nichols, Corp.
William Newell, Ensign,
Ivory Warren, Corp.
Zebulon York, Sergt.
Israel Newell, Fifer,
Ebenezer Roberts, Sergt. Henry Warren, Sergt.
James Woodbury, Drum.
William Gerrish, Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Andrew Adams, Jr.,
Reuben Higgins,
James Booker,
John Hoyt, Jr., Certificate,
John Blethen,
Joseph Hoyt,
Joseph Beal,
Timothy M. Hibbard,
Francis Bennet,
William Harrington,
Andrew Blethen,
William Johnson, Certificate,
James Cushing,
Francis Knight,
William Davis,
George Littlefield,
Nathaniel Duran,
Joseph Malcom,
James Dyer,
James Maxwell,
Richard Dyer, (Sick on furlough, Sept. 22.) John Farr,
appear, Sept. IO.)
O. Israel Fifield,
furlough, Sept. 22.)
Samuel Goodwin,
Charles Gerrish,
Jabez Merrill. (Notified to
Peter Mitchell. (Absent 011
Benjamin M. Moses, John Newell. (Servant to
Benjamin Gerrish, Certificate, Ensign Newell.)
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John Gerrish, James Gerrish, Certificate,
Moses Gerrish, Daniel Harmon,
James Nichols, Clement Orr, Aaron Osgood, Jr. Discharged Sept. 16. David Osgood, Jr.,
O. Israel Harmon,
(Servant to Lieut. Harmon) Moses Osgood,
Robert Harmon, at Portland Jacob Herrick, Jr. (Notified to
Nathaniel Osgood, Jr.,
Samuel G. Osgood,
Seth Pierce,
Benjamin Vining,
William Vining,
John Rourk,
William Roak,
Thomas Runnels,
Andrew Scott,
Samuel Wagg,
(Notified to appear Sept. Io.)
Henry Wormell,
Isaac Stetson,
Simeon Snow,
Charles Stetson,
Moses Snow,
Ebenezer Strout,
Job Sylvester, 3rd.,
(Notified to appear, Sept. 10.) Joseph Sylvester,
Theophilus Thomas, Total, 82.
Samuel Tracy, Certificate,
The following Roll was prepared by Z. K. Harmon and placed in the Adjutant General's Office at Augusta.
Roll of Capt. William Webster's Co. of Militia in Lieut .- Col. Charles Thomas' Regt., raised in Durham and in service at Bath 13th to 27th Sept. 1814.
William Webster, Capt. Elias Staten, Lieut.
John Stackpole, Jr., Sergt. Nathaniel Bragdon, Corp.
Edmond Dow, Corp.
Samuel Roberts, Ensign, Jeremiah Dingley, Sergt. John Mitchell, Corp.
Thomas Waterhouse, Sergt. Joshua Robinson, Fifer. Luther Plummer, Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Thomas Austin, David Bowie, George Bowie, Simeon Blethen,
Andrew Hunnewell, Benjamin Hunnewell, John Hunnewell, Moses Hunnewell,
Stephen Wesson, Rufus Warren, (On furlough Sept. 22.)
(Substitute Rowland Hill.) Ebenezer Snow,
appear Sept. IO.) Benjamin True,
Wm. Porterfield,
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John Bragdon, Jr.,
Robert Hunnewell,
Ephraim Bragdon,
Joshua Jones, Jr.,
John Dingley,
Isaac Lambert,
John Ellis,
John Larrabee,
Thomas Fabyan,
Jonathan Larrabee,
Joshua Fickett,
Joseph Larrabee,
Rishworth Fickett,
Nathaniel Larrabee,
Reuben Gross,
William Larrabee,
Andrew Harriden,
William Larrabee, Jr.,
Dennis Libby,
Reuben Roberts,
Moses Libby,
Samuel Roberts, Jr.,
William Libby, Jr.,
Samuel Sawyer,
Orlando Merrill,
Samuel Skinner,
Isaac Martin,
Samuel Stackpole,
Charles McKenny,
Jeremiah Stoddard,
Jedidiah McKenny,
James Strout,
William McKenny,
Jonathan Strout,
David Miller, Jr.,
Ammi Vining,
Samuel Nichols, Jr.,
Samuel Ward,
Amos Parker,
William Webster, Jr.,
Nathaniel Parker,
Nathaniel Wilbur,
Elijah Proctor,
Thomas Roberts, 3rd.,
George Proctor,
Samuel Turner,
Samuel Putney,
Daniel Rice,
George Rice,
Total, 68.
Durham is said to have furnished the following volunteers in the War of 1812. I am unable to give authority for the state- ment.
Nathaniel Bragdon,
Ezekiel McIntosh,
Jarvis Beal,
John Nason,
Theophilus Knight,
William Roak,
Asa Lambert,
William Weeks,
Simeon Sanborn,
Samuel Goodwin,
Barstow Newell.
SOLDIERS IN THE REBELLION.
The Rebellion had some sympathizers in Durham, but they were few and are now well forgotten. The town was for the Union and for the abolition of slavery. The first adherents of the Republican party had been reproached for voting a "nigger
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ticket," but when the strife of arms came all except an inglorious few wanted freedom for all. The town voted bounties for volun- teers and also for the drafted, ranging from $100 to $300. The total amount paid in bounties was $27,673. Durham is accredited with one hundred and sixty-one soldiers. Some of these were men obtained to fill the quota, and as substitutes, from other towns. The following ninety-nine names, gathered from the Adjutant General's Reports, are the men of Durham who served in the Rebellion, though other natives of the town enlisted from and were accredited to other places. Twenty-one of these sacrificed their lives for their country, of whom eight fell in battle. None was worthier than Samuel Newell who after having served in the militia in all offices up to Lieut .- Col., after having resigned the last office in order to enlist as a private, in 1839, in the threatened Madawaska campaign, dyed his hair and at the age of fifty-six passed for forty-five, enlisting as a private musician. He died in the Marine Hospital at New Orleans.
NAME.
AGE.
RANK.
COMP'Y.
REGT.
MUSTERED IN.
MUSTERED OUT.
REMARKS.
Blaney C. Allen. John R. Anderson.
19 18 25 26 38 IS
Privt.
K K
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1st Me. 25th Me. 66
Nov. 16, '61 Nov. 16, '61 May 3, '61 Sept. 29,'62 Sept. 29,'62 Aug. 14,'62 May 3, '61 Oct. 4, '61 Sept. 29,'62 June 24,'61 Apr. 14, '65 Sept. 29,'62 Sept. 29,'62
Ang. 5, '61 July 10, '63 July 10, '63
Promoted Sergeant.
Henry Beal.
James P. Beal. Thomas R. Beals. 66
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