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James Gould, removed to Limerick. Jonathan Thompson, committed suicide since 1800.
George Walker, died soon after the close of the war. Joseph Whitten, died in Lyman, 1797.
Shadrach Avery, dead.
William Cleaves, removed eastward after the war.
a Thomas Boston, entered the service from Wells.
a Shibbuel Boston, service uncertain where.
James Cleaves, in Col. Frost's regiment in 1776, at North- river, N. Y.
Josiah Huff, dead. a Benjamin Thompson.
Israel Burbank, removed to Brownfield.
John Rhoads, dead. Benj. Rhoads, lost in privateer out of Portsmouth, about 1782. Nicholas Downing, died about 1800.
Dudley Stone, died in 1827.
Jeremiah Lord, son of Capt. Tobias,-died about the close of the war.
James Deshon, died in service at Lake Champlain, 1776. Daniel Walker, died April, 1819.
Stephen Dorman, settled in the eastern part of the state. Stephen Drown, entered the service from Wells : died in 1835. Harrison Downing, dead.
Bartholomew Lassel, died in Biddeford.
Israel Dorman, died in 1836.
Charles Huff, died at sea about 1800.
Amos Hutchins, died in service at Lake Champlain, 1776.
Jonathan Smith, removed to Ohio-dead.
Nathaniel Wakefield, died in 1836.
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PRIVATES.
Benj. Littlefield, stationed at Portland 1775, died in 1835.
Charles White, settled in Parsonsfield.
John Deshon, dead.
Stephen Fairfield.
Samuel Whitten, jun. removed to the eastward.
Ephraim Dorman, died in service.
John Wildes, died in the army.
*Abner Dassence, not known since the war.
*Joseph Denew, died in service.
*Caleb Lassel, settled in Waterborough.
*Joseph Lewis, died in service.
*Wilburn Chatman, dead.
*David Clark, not known.
John Jeffrey, died in Halifax.
Levi Hutchins, jun. settled in Alfred, and died there.
Enoch Hutchins, died in the army.
George Emmons, do. Pierce Murphy, jun. settled in Lyman, and died there. a Abraham Rideout, removed from Brunswick to Arundel, after the war.
a John Millet, came from Gloucester, Ms. after the war. Dominicus Davis, died in the army.
*Thomas Dorman, so found on rolls-correctness doubted ..
Abraham Currier, came to Arundel from Wells about 1817.
a John Bragdon, came to Arundel from York about 1810.
Roger Hammond, came to Arundel from Rochester, Ms .- died 1834.
John Sutton, removed to the eastward.
a James Fisher, entered service in N. Carolina-settled here- since the war.
Benjamin Stone, died in 1826.
Moses Rhoades, settled in Waterborough.
Nehemiah Stone, died soon after 1800.
a Jonathan Stone.
Jacob Burnham, died March, 1828, aged 81.
Daniel White, father of Rufus-dead.
Israel Whitten, dead.
Joseph Hutchins, removed to the interior.
Jacob Wildes, jun. son of Jacob,-died at Salem, 1785. Andrew Sherburne, naval service, removed to Olio-dead ..
The annexed copies of drafts, found among other old docu- ments of the times, taken in connection with the preceding list, will throw additional light upon the subject. They do not appear to be official, but are believed to be substantially correct as far as they go. Many of these names were in oth- er services and will be found in the preceding list ; and it is probable that a portion of these might have procured substi-
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tutes, or been excused from the service for which the draft was made.
" John Springer,
James Cleaves,
Israel Burbank,
Peter Deshon,
Stephen Fletcher,
Lemuel Walker,
Daniel Huff,
Benjamin Greene,
Thomas Perkins,
William Smith, jun.
Samuel Wildes,
Charles Smith,
Eben. Huff,
Jolın Jeffries,
Gideon Merrill,
Levi Hutchins,
John Murphy,
Thomas Perkins, jun.
James Huff,
Dea. John Hovey,
Miles Rhoads,
Daniel Smith,
Israel Stone."
This list is marked on the margin,
" Drafted October 1776."
It is known that Daniel Huff and James Cleaves, whose names are in the above list, were drafted into the company commanded by Capt. James Perkins, for three months, in the regiment commanded by Col. John Frost, which marched from Maine, December, 1776, to Pitts Kills in the state of New York. It is probable that the others were drafted for the same service, and in the same company. The officers of this regiment were, Col. Frost, of Kittery ; Edward Grow, of York, was Lieut. Colonel ; Joseph Prime, of Berwick, Major ; Andrew P. Furnald, of Kittery, Adjutant ; John Grant, late of Kennebunk, then of Berwick, Quarter Master ; Daniel Sew- all, of Kennebunk, then of York, Quarter Master Sergeant.
Thomas Perkins, Esq. Benjamin Littlefield, paid fine, Bartholomew Lassel, paid fine, James Gould,
" Drafted, October 7, 1777. Joseph Smith, Eliakim Bickford, Samuel Whitten, Israel Whitten,
Josiah Hutchins,
Benjamin Seavy, William Gutridge,
Elijah Littlefield, Israel Huff,
Sargent Paul March,
Stephen Seavy,
Israel Burnham,
Joseph Emery, William Grant,
Charles Huff, jun.
Wheelwright Stevens."
This list is marked at the bottom,
" Drafted, October 1777."
William Grant was in Capt. Joshua Nason's company, Col. Joseph Storer's regiment, at the taking of General Bur- goyne's army in October, 1777 .- It is probable that all of this list were drafted for the same service, and were in Capt. Na- son's company.
" The men drafted for Cambridge, March 10th, 1778. John Emmons, Daniel Goodwin,
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Elijah Littlefield,
Daniel Smith,
John Walker, jun."
Joseph Gould, Joseph Fletcher, not go.
" May 12th, 1778 .- The men hired for the continental service, for nine months, by the first company - Andrew Stone, £70, Joseph Clough, £70,
Noah Clough, 70, Benjamin Jeffery had 30 pounds."
Marked on the side margin
" To go to Fish kills."
" May 12, 1778 .- The men drafted for eight months, to go to the Pecks kill, by ye first company.
Benj. Seavy, Nicholas Weeks, John Emmons, jun. Joshua Murphey."
" July 1, 1778 .- The men drafted for Providence, intitled to 14 pounds bounty.
Thomas Demcey, Robert Towne,
Charles Smith, Lemuel Walker."
" July 4, 1778 .- The men drafted for Cambridge. John Huff, Benjamin Burbank, jr."
" The above men procured by the first company in Arun -. WM. SMITH, Lieut."
del. (Signed,)
" Bartholomew Lassel, James Gould,
Thomas Perkins, Esq. John Perkins, jun.
Josiah Hutchins."
" The above men detached, paid a fine of fifteen pounds,. agreeably to the resolve Aug. 15, 1777."
Joseph Perkins, Nehemiah Stone, John Jeffreys, jun.
Mark Barter,
Robert Stone, Samuel Robinson,
Samuel Huff, Daniel Smith,
Robert Towne, Joseph Fletcher,
Capt. Jacob Wildes.
This list marked on the margin,
" Drafted agreeably to a resolve of Court of June 10th, 1778. Paid 10 pounds fine." " John Fletcher, Thomas Perkins,
Joseph Washburn,
Gideon Merrill.
These paid 20 pounds fine."
" August 10, 1779 .- John Emmons paid a fine of thirty pounds."
" Drafted agreeably to a late resolve of the General Court,. March 15th, 1780.
Charles Smith, gave a note, forty-five pounds ;. Benjamin Seavey, promises to pay his fine ;.. John Rhoads, at Falmouth ;
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Paul Whitten, held as a soldier ;
Daniel Dishon, paid his fine, sixty pounds, 60 0 0
Ebenezer Emmons, held as a soldier ;
*Joshua Murphey, paid his fine, thirty pounds, 30 0 0.
Joseph Avril, paid a fine of sixty pounds, 60 0 0
James Lewis, paid a fine of sixty pounds, 60 0 0
£210 0 0
Paid of the fines to Lieut.
Amos Towne, Adam McCulloch, Stephen Fairfield,
£36 0 0
760
102 0 0
145 6 0
64 4 0
The following sketches of the services of some of the revo- lutionary officers and soldiers from Arundel, selected promiscu- ously, may not be uninteresting to the reader, and is evidence of the variety of duties which the spirit of the age and times required.
Captain TOBIAS LORD commanded a company stationed at Falmouth [now Portland] in 1776 ; he had five sons in the ar- my at different periods of the war. One of them was wounded and died at Quebec.
Capt. JESSE DORMAN commanded' a company in Col. Scamman's regiment at Cambridge 1776. He was not with- out perils in war or in peace. In 1793 a violent tornado un- roofed his house, and he with his bed and bedding were blown several rods from it. Three of his sons were in the army. He was a Lieut. in the old French war, and wounded in the battle of Lake George 1758.
Capt. JOSHUA NASON Was at the capture of Burgoyne's ar- my. He commanded a company in Col. Storer's regiment at White Plains and Saratoga. Three of his sons were in the same service ;- one of them a commissioned officer.
Capt JAMES PERKINS commanded a company in the regi- ment commanded by Col. JOHN FROST, on the North river, in 1776-7.
*Joshua Murphey appears to have been excused from paying more than thirty pounds fine in consequence of the following recom- mendation :-
" To Capt. William Smith. Sir-We give it as our opinion, that Mr. Joshua Murphy ought to be cleared from the draft to go, to Falmouth, for thirty pounds.
(Signed,) TOBIAS LORD, ASA BURBANK, Selectmen.
JONA. STONE,.
Arundel, June the 25, 1780."
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Capt. DANIEL MERRILL Was in Col. Scamman's regiment, at Cambridge in 1775,-in Col. Finney's regiment in 1776; and commanded a company in Col. Brewer's regiment in 1777-8-9. He was in the retreat from Ticonderoga, and it is said owes the preservation of his life to the intrepidity of T. L. Bickford-a sergeant in his company ; was in the battle of Hubbardstown, and the capture of General Burgoyne's ar- my, in 1777 ; and in service to the close of the war.
DAVID DURRELL Was a sergeant in Capt. Noah M. Little- field's company, raised for defence of the seaboard in 1775 ; was at Portland under Capt. Tobias Lord in 1776; and at Saratoga, in the state of New York, under Capt. Joshua Na- son, in 1777.
EDWARD NASON Was in Col. Scamman's regiment at Cam- bridge in 1775 ; in Capt. Goodrich's company in Arnold's expedition, by way of Kennebec river to Quebec, in 1775-6 ; and in Col. Baldwin's regiment, at the taking of Burgoyne, in 1777.
ROBERT HANSCOM entered the service in 1781 ; served in Capt. Fox and Capt. Prichards's company, in Col. Mellen's reg- iment. His services were principally in the state of New York ;- discharged at West Point in 1783.
NATHAN THOMPSON Was in Capt. Hooper's company, rais- ed for the defence of the seaboard in 1775 ;- at Portland in the company commanded by Capt. Tobias Lord in 1776; and in the company commanded by Capt. Daniel Clark, sta- tioned at the same place, under General Wordsworth in 1780.
WILLIAM GRANT Was a substitute for Robert Cleaves, in Capt. Smith's company, Col. Francis's regiment .- He bought a gun of John Cleaves, son of Robert, to carry with him. In 1779 he was in Capt. Joshua Nason's company, at the cap- ture of Gen. Burgoyne's army.
WILLIAM GOODRICH is believed to have been in several services in the course of the war. The following is the only authentic account of any of them. " To Benjamin Downing, Treasurer. Sir-please to pay Capt. Jacob Wildes five hun- dred and ten pounds, it being for a cow he delivered the six months soldiers, also thirty pounds he paid William Good- rich towards his bounty for six months services in the army, and the same shall be allowed you out of the town's money. (Signed,) TOBIAS LORD, JONATH. STONE, Selectmen.
ASA BURBANK, THOMAS PERKINS, Arundel, Dec. 13, 1780."
ABEL MERRILL was in Capt. Jesse Dorman's company in Col. Scamman's regiment at Cambridge, 1775. In 1776 un-
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der the command of Capt. Eliphalet Daniels, at Portsmouth, N. H. In 1777 in Col. Storer's regiment at Stillwater and Saratoga.
BENJAMIN WILDES was in the company commanded by Capt. Daniel Clark, in Col. Prime's regiment, stationed at Portland in 1780.
ROBERT TOWNE,-son of Lieut. Amos, -- at sixteen years of age, in 1778, paid a fine of ten pounds to be excused from a draft to go to Providence-and immediately after was drafted, and joined Capt. Nathaniel Cousens's company, in the Penob- scot expedition. Ile is said to have been in other service be- fore the close of the war.
SIMEON HUTCHINS Was a soldier in Capt. Hitchcock's com- pany, Col. Brewer's regiment, in the first three years' service, and in other services during the revolutionary war.
BENJAMIN THOMPSON, jul 1775, a soldier in Capt. Salter's company at Portsmouth, N. H. In 1776, in Capt. Tobias Lord's company at Portland ; in the company commanded by Capt. James Perkins, of Col. Frost's regiment, at West Point ; and in 1777, in Capt. Joshua Nason's company at Sar- atoga.
JONATHAN STONE was in Capt. Richard Rogers's company at Cambridge, in the regiment commanded by Col. Gerrish, in 1778, and in Capt. Nathaniel Cousens's company in the Penobscot expedition the same year.
DANIEL HUFF, in Capt. Noah M. Littlefield's company, rais- ed for defence of the seaboard in 1775 ; and in Capt. James Perkins's company on the North river, 1776.
JOHN BURBANK was in the company of Capt. N. M. Lit- tlefield, before named, in 1775 ; a sergeant in Capt. Eliphalet Daniels's company, stationed at Portsmouth, N. H. in 1776 ; entered on board the privateer Dalton, and was carried pris- oner to England in 1777 ; enlisted in 1779 as master-at-arms on board the Bonne Homme Richard, and was in the battle with the Serapis and Countess of Scarborough, in September of that year, under John Paul Jones. He was censured by Jones for letting loose the prisoners, although the ship was known to be sinking.
JAMES THOMPSON, a soldier in Capt. Daniel Merrill's com- pany, Col. Patterson's brigade, in the state of New York, in 1777 and 1778 ; and in Capt. Luke Hitchcock's company, of Col. Brewer's regiment, in 1779. He was present at the sur- render of Burgoyne's army, and was discharged at Fish Kill, on the North river, in 1780.
EPHRAIM WILDES Was stationed at Portland, under Capt. Tobias Lord, in 1776-and was a sergeant in Col. Frost's regiment, on the North river, in 1777.
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NATHANIEL WAKEFIELD Was a soldier in Capt. Josiah Da- vis's company, Col. Prime's regiment, stationed at Portland in 1780.
JOHN DESHON .- The principal intelligence of his services is derived from the following :- " To Mr. Benjamin Down- ing, Treasurer. Sir-please to pay Thomas Perkins, jun. five hundred and ten pounds, it being for a cow delivered John Deshon, for six months' services in the continental army, last campaign, and the same shall be allowed you out of the town's money.
(Signed,) TOBIAS LORD, ASA BURBANK, Selectmen.
ASA DURRELL,
March 7, 1781."
ISRAEL DORMAN was in Col. Francis's regiment in 1776, and attached to Col. Putnam's and Col. Nicholson's regi- ments in 1778.
JACOB MERRILL was in Capt. Eldridge's company at Dor- chester in 1776 ; soon after in Capt. Daniels's company, under Col. Long, at Portsmouth, N. H. ; in Capt. Holbrook's compa- ny at Danbury, Conn. in 1777, and in Col. Brewer's regiment, 1778.
LEMUEL MILLER Was a sergeant and clerk of Capt. Dorman's company at Cambridge, in 1775. He was in service during most of the war ; a lieutenant under Col. Brewer's 12th Mass. regiment.
THOMAS L. BICKFORD was a sergeant in Capt. Daniel Mer- rill's company in 1776. He was wounded at Hubbardstown, where Col. Francis fell, in the retreat from Ticonderoga. He was in the first three years' service, and subsequently killed in attempting to board and quell an insurrection of British prisoners, on board one of the guard ships in Boston. He was a young man of much promise, tall and elegant in his person, and on more than one occasion distinguished for his bravery.
JOSHUA NASON, jun. was in Capt. Luke Hitchcock's com- pany, in the three years service, and a commissioned officer at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne's army at Saratoga.
GEORGE WALKER was probably in the company command- ed by Capt. Daniel Clark, under Col. Prime, in 1780. Some intelligence of him is derived from the following order, ad- dressed to the Treasurer :- " Sir : please to pay George Walker forty eight pounds twelve shillings, out of the town's money, in full, for eight months' services at Falmouth.
(Signed,) JONATH. STONE,
TOBIAS LORD, Selectmen.
THOMAS PERKINS,
Arundel, April 10, 1780."
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NATHANIEL DAVIS was a soldier in the old French war ; a sergeant in Col. Scamman's regiment at Cambridge, in 1775 ; was at the battle of Bunker Hill ; in Col. Brewer's regiment, at White Plains and Saratoga, in 1777 ; and was in service at the close of the war.
NOAH CLUFF was in the old French war ;- is said to have been in the battle of Bunker hill ; he was in the expedition under Arnold up the Kennebec in 1775-6 ; was wounded in the attack on Quebec under Montgomery, and made prison- er ; was in other services after his exchange, and had a pen- sion granted him at the close of the war, as an invalid.
JACOB WILDES, jun. was in the company commanded by Capt. Silas Wildes, in Col. Finney's regiment, at Lake Cham- plain, in 1776. Sick, and accustomed to a sea-faring life, he soon became tired of the camp, and Noah Clough, now re- covered of his wound, was procured to take his place. Wildes subsequently became master of the privateer Grey- hound, fitted out of Salem, and sailed from Cape Porpoise harbor, April, 1781. SAMUEL WILDES, jun. was one of the crew. She made a number of prizes, some of which were re- taken. One brig, a prize to the Greyhound, arrived in Salem, which divided sixty three pounds sterling, prize money, to each share. The captain had seven shares, or about 1958 dollars. The Greyhound was captured and carried into Hali- fax, and the crew exchanged and sent to Boston. Another privateer of the same name was fitted out, of which Capt. Wildes was master. He made other prizes ;- was lost at sea about 1785. Samuel Wildes, jun. removed to Ken- nebec.
NATHANIEL DAVIS, jun. was in service during most of the war. He is believed to have been with his father at the battle of Bunker hill ;- was in the three years' service, in Col. Brewer's regiment, in 1778, and in other services. In the war with England, in 1812, he was a soldier in Col. Lane's regiment, and died at Plattsburg in the state of New York.
ENOCH CLOUGH, it is believed, was in Col. Scamman's reg- iment at Cambridge in the early part of the war, if not in the expedition to Quebec, under Arnold. His name is subse- quently found on the rolls of Capt. Hitchcock's company in the first three years' service, in the regiment commanded by Col. Brewer, on North river, at White Plains and Saratoga. Clough was hired for this service by a class of the town, and received nine cows extra pay. Capt. Tobias Lord, grand- father of Nathaniel and Tobias, jun. late of Arundel, paid one cow as his part. These cows were let to the individuals who paid them, to be doubled in four years ;- so that in one year after the expiration of his services, Clough received eighteen cows. He died immediately after the war.
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ANDREW SHERBURNE was in the Naval service, on board the U. S. ship-of-war Ranger, Capt. Stimpson, in 1779 and '80. In 1781 he was taken in one of the recaptured prizes of the privateer Greyhound, and sent to Mill prison in England. He entered the service from New Hampshire ; settled in Ar- undel after 1800, and subsequently removed to Ohio.
TOBIAS LORD, son of Capt. Tobias, resided at Moulton's Mills, and was drafted from Sanford. He was a Lieutenant in Capt. James Littlefield's company, of Col. Storer's regi- ment, at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne's army at Saratoga in 1777. He died at Kennebunk in 1808.
JAMES BURNHAM Was drafted as Lieutenant in a company commanded, as is believed, by Capt. Hans Patten, and sta- tioned below Providence, R. I. in 1778, under the command of General Sullivan. He was in this service a few months only, but was afterwards a captain of militia, and killed in an attack on an English brig of war, in Cape Porpoise harbor, Aug. 8, 1782. Samuel Wildes was severely wounded at the same time.
AMOS TOWNE was in the service in 1775 ; probably in the corps raised by the government of Massachusetts for the de- fence of the seaboard, or in Col. Scamman's regiment at Cambridge. In February, 1776, before Lord Howe left Bos- ton, he was a Lieutenant in Capt. John Elden's company at Dorchester heights, and the same year an officer in Capt. Samuel Leighton's company, in the regiment commanded by Col. Francis. Gen. Clement Storer, late of Portsmouth, N. H. was a corporal in this company. In 1780 Lieut. Towne was in the regiment commanded by Col. Prime, stationed at Fal- mouth, now Portland. His father, Amos Towne, was in the old French war, in the expedition under Sir William Pepper- ell in 1746.
ABRAHAM RIDEOUT was four years and three months in the continental army. He enlisted from Brunswick and joined Capt. Daniel Merrill's company, in Col. Brewer's regiment, at White Plains, in the state of New York. He served a por- tion of the time in Capt. Bullock's company, under General Greene, and was discharged at West Point in 1782.
JOHN MILLET was a during-war's man. He entered the service at Cape Ann ; was in Col. Cilley's regiment of the New Hampshire line, in the division under Gen. Arnold, at the battle of Stillwater, and capture of General Burgoyne's army in 1777. He joined General Washington's army at Valley Forge ; was sick and left the army, about the time of the battle of Monmouth,-was not present at that engage- ment. He was afterwards taken in one of the recaptured priz- es of the privateer Hibernia and sent prisoner to Halifax, where he remained until nearly the close of the war.
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Sketches of the services of others might be given, but the preceding list, imperfect and deficient as it is known to be, is sufficient to show the intense interest manifested by all classes of the people of Arundel to throw off the government of the mother country, and establish the independence of our own.
List of Seamen and Soldiers known to have been in the service of the United States, in the war with Great Britain of 1812, called the war of Impressments.
In the Navy-Stephen Seavy, Israel Huff, George Wilson, John March. These men were attached to the U. S. ship Ad- ams, under the command of Capt. Morris, at the time of the destruction of that ship at Hampden, on the Penobscot river, when the British took possession in September, 1814. Wil- liam Avery and John Rhoades were also in the Navy. Many others were in the privateer service, and suffered as prisoners at Halifax and in England. Seavy died in 1836.
SOLOMON Corr was a midshipman in the U. S. Navy, on the Lakes, in the course of the war, and before the close of it commanded the privateer Mars, out of Portsmouth, N. H. and was lost.
HENRY FLANDERS was a scaman on board the U. S. sloop- of-war Wasp, and lost with that ship before the conclusion of the treaty of peace.
In the Army-
Jonathan Freeman.
George Goodwin.
Nathaniel Davis, jr. died in the army at Plattsburg.
Jesse L. Smith, Col. of militia since the war.
Joseph H. Osgood, came to Kennebunk after the war.
Their services were on the Canadian frontiers-mostly about Lake Champlain.
Major SIMON NOWELL commanded a detachment of mili- tia, detailed from the first brigade of the first division, and stationed at Fort McLary, near the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. towards the close of the war.
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