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Enoch Fuller, Revolutionary soldier, died in Winslow, January 29, 1842, aged eighty-seven, and was buried in the "Old Fort" Cemetery.
Seth Getchell: Grandfather of Miss Julia Stackpole, enlisted from Berwick, Maine, where he was born in 1753. He married
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Sarah Grant by whom he had nine children, all of whom are dead.
He came here soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, owned a small farm about two and a half miles west of Water- ville village, and worked in a grist mill, which might have been near the dam of the Union Gas & Electric Co., on the Messalon- skee or farther up that stream at the Rice bridge. In 1840 he lived with Susan Stackpole.
He died in Pittsfield, Maine, in July 1845, aged ninety-one years, eight months. His wife survived him, but died in Febru- ary of the following year, and the remains of both were brought here and buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Nathaniel Gilman: Has record of service but no way to identify him positively, as there are many of the same name. He lived here and died here before 1840, as his widow, Sarah Gilman, was a pensioner here at that date. The date of his birth, death or place of enlistment are in doubt, but he was buried in the family vault in the old cemetery and when it was made into a park (Monument) the vault was demolished and all the bodies removed to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Elisha Hallet: Private, Capt. Elisha Nye's company. Enlisted February 14, 1776: service to November 21, 1776, nine months, six days. Company stationed at Elizabeth Islands for defense of sea coast, also, Capt. Elisha Hedge's company, Col. Freeman's regiment. Enlisted September 3, 1779. Discharged September 18, 1779; service five days. Company detached for military service at Falmouth on an alarm. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Revolution, Vol. VII, p. 122.
Received a pension ; lived in Waterville, in 1840, at the age of eighty-two years, with Jonathan Hallet. Date of death unknown ; buried in old cemetery in Oakland.
Solomon Hallett: Private, Capt. Joshua Gray's company .* Enlisted November 1, 1775, discharged December 31, 1775, ser- vice two months, five days in defense of sea coast. Roll dated Barnstable.
*Capt. Joshua Gray of Yarmouth ; captain of a company of minute-men, engaged July 1, 1775, discharged December 31, 1775.
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Private, Capt. Ebenezer Baker's company, Col. Freeman's regiment. Marched, October 4, 1777, service eighteen days. Company marched to Tiverton, R. I., on a secret expedition.
Private, Capt. Micah Hamlen's company, Col. Jonathan Reed's (Ist) regiment of Guards. Marched, April 2, 1778. Service to July 6, 1778, three months, four days, at Cambridge, including four days (eighty miles) travel home. Enlistment three months from April 2, 1778.
Private, Capt. Elisha Hedge's company,* Col. Freeman's regi- ment. Marched September 3, 1779. Discharged September 18, 1779. Service fifteen days. Company detached from militia for service at Falmouth on an alarm.
*Capt. Elisha Hedge, Yarmouth, Capt. 2nd ( Ist Yarmouth) company, Ist Barnstable County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia.
Solomon Hallett was living in Waterville (now Oakland) in 1840, at the age of eighty-six, and was a pensioner. He died soon after this date and was buried in the old cemetery at West Waterville (now Oakland).
Timothy Littlefield: Enlisted from Wells, Maine, September 4, 1775 in Capt. Noah Moulton Littlefield's company, and served three months and fifteen days at Wells and Arundell, guarding sea coast.
Also: In Capt. James Littlefield's company, Col. Stover's regiment from August 14, 1777 to November 14, 1777, four months and three days, including 300 miles travel home from Coeman's (Queman's( ?) ) Heights with Northern Army.
Also: Served to reinforce the Continental Army from August 2, 1780 to December 26, 1780, five months and nine days including fifteen days' travel home.
Descriptive list, 6' I" high, light complexion, age twenty-one years.
Was a pensioner and lived here in 1840. Date of death and place of interment unknown.
Salathiel Penny: Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Capt. Samuel Sayer's company, Col. James Scammon's regi- ment, dated August 1, 1775. Time of service three months, four days. Enlisted May 3, 1775. Residence, Wells, eight months' service. Vol. 16, p. 27.
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Appears with rank of private on company return of Capt. Samuel Sayer's company, Col. James Scammon's regiment, October, 1775. Enlisted May 3, 1775. Residence, Wells, Me. Coat Rolls, eight months' service. Vol. 56, p. 205.
Appears among signatures to an order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money due for the eight months' service in 1775, in Capt. Samuel Sayer's company, Col. James Scammon's (30th) regiment, dated Cambridge, October, 27, 1775. Coat Rolls, Vol. 57, File 21.
Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Capt. Silas Wild's company, Col. Edmund Phinney's regiment, dated in Gar- rison at Fort George, December, 1776. Enlisted January 10, 1776. Time of service, ten months, four days. Reported sick in bar- racks. Re-engaged, November 14, 1776, under Col. Brewer. Vol. 46, p. 6.
Salathiel Penny: Appears with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Capt. Daniel Merrill's company, Col. Samuel Brewer's regiment. Marched to Bennington. Enlisted January I, 1777. Was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. Dis- charged March 17, 1777. Residence, Wells. Vol. 21, p. 100.
Was born in Wells, Maine, in 1756. First wife unknown; second wife was M: garet C. Grant of Berwick.
Mr. Penney settled upon and cleared the farm where he lived and died, and which is now owned by Mrs. Moses Penney.
By his first wife he had two daughters and one son. Peletiah, father of William G. Penney, father of our "Penney Boys," Ira, Peletiah, Charles, William and Fred and one daughter, Harriet, who married Nelson McCrillis.
Salathiel Penney died September 22, 1847, aged ninety-one years, and was buried in Monument Park. About 1875 his remains were removed to Pine Grove Cemetery.
John Pullen was born at Attleboro, Mass., May 7, 1763. He was the youngest of the nine children of James Pullen and Lydia Woodcock, his wife, who had been married at Attleboro, Febru- ary 26, 1742. Lydia Woodcock was the daughter of Jonathan Woodcock, who is said to have been a very brave man and of much influence in the colony at that time.
John's grandfather and the father of James was Nicholas Pul- len. He is the earliest ancestor that the family have thus far
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been able to find, and nothing is known of him except the fact of his marriage at Rehoboth, Mass., on January 19, 1709 to Mary Tucker.
John Pullen was a Revolutionary soldier, his name appearing in a descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental army for the term of six months agreeably to a resolve of June 5, 1780. He is there described as seventeen years of age, five feet, four inches in height and of dark complexion. His resi- dence is given as Attleboro. He arrived at Springfield, July 9, 1780, and with the 11th Division, to which this re-enforcement was assigned, marched to camp, July II, 1780, under command of Ensign Barrows. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls. Vol. 35, page 192.)
The name of John Pullen of Attleboro also appears in a return dated Camp Totoway, October 25, 1780, containing a list of men raised for six months' service and returned by Brig .- Gen. Patterson as having passed muster. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, Vol. 25. page 241.)
He was in the Continental army from July 6, 1780 to January 8, 1781, having seen six months' and two days' service.
John Pullen was married at Winthrop, Me., June 23, 1785, to Amy Bishop, daughter and youngest ch''d of Squire Bishop and Patience Titus. Eight children were born of this union, one of whom, Sarah Boardman, married John Caffrey, who was the grandfather of Mrs. L. D. Carver of Augusta.
John Pullen died March 29, 1810, at the age of forty-seven, at Waterville, Me., and was buried in the old cemetery on Elm street, now Monument Park.
His widow, Amy Bishop Pullen, resided for a number of years in Waterville with her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Boardman Caffrey, and was living as late as the year 1836, when she made applica- tion for State bounty, as appears by the records in the land office of Maine.
Asa Redington: Was born in the town of Boxford, Essex Co., Mass, December 22, 1761. Son of Abraham and Sarah (Kimball) Redington. In June 1778 he enlisted in Wilton, N. H., in Col. Peabody's regiment, and joined the forces of Gen. Sullivan at Providence, R. I., where the troops were quartered in Brown College.
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In December he was discharged and returned to Wilton, N. H. In June, 1779 re-enlisted in the "Continental Establishment" for one year, joined the army at Fishkill on the Hudson and spent the following winter at Danbury, Ct.
In spring of 1780 joined the regiment of Col. Miller and spent the balance of his term of enlistment scouting as far north as West Point and was discharged at expiration of term of service. In March, 1781, he again enlisted and joined the army near West Point in Col. Alex Scammel's regiment, which dropped down the Hudson to Kingsbridge, thence to New Jersey, Philadelphia and Annapolis and finally reached Yorktown in time to partici- pate in the seige and surrender. Thence he followed the for- tunes of the army in its long march to Saratoga, thence to Princeton, New Jersey and West Point where he was discharged December 23, 1783 without pay and left to travel 300 miles to his home, carrying the musket he had borne through his long service. 'The old musket was treasured many years in his family and finally presented to the State of Maine by his oldest son, Judge Redington ..
Mr. Redington came to Vassalboro in 1784, married Mary, daughter of Nehemiah Getchell, September 2, 1787. Came to Waterville (then Winslow) in 1792 where he died, March 31, 1845. He was buried in Monument Park, where his remains still lie.
Asa Redington was grandfather of Mrs. Appleton A. Plaisted of Waterville.
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Simeon Simpson: Simeon Simpson enlisted in Winslow in July, 1782 for three years, in Capt. King's company, Lieut .- Col. Brooks' regiment (the 7th Mass. Line) ; transferred to the 4th Massachusetts Line and was discharged in the State of New York, December 31, 1783. Mr. Simpson was pensioned in 1818.
In a paper dated October 11, 1836, he alleged that he was seventy years old. This would make his birth in 1766, and his age ninety-four at his death, September 24, 1860, though he claimed to be ninety-six.
He was buried in Winslow on the home farm, now owned by the Lockwood Company. Before this article goes to press, his remains will have been removed, with those of his family, to Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Jonathan Soule: Appears with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Captain Calvin Partridge's company, Colonel John Cushing's regiment, for service at Rhode Island. Enlisted, September 23, 1776. Time of service, one month, twenty-eight days. Vol. 3, p. 62.
Jonathan Soule: Appears with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Captain James Harlow's company, Col. Ezra Wood's regiment, raised for eight months to guard the passage of North river. Enlisted, June 5, 1778. Time of service, eight months, four days. Vol. 20, p. 8.
He died January 6, 1832, aged eighty-four, and was buried in the old Elm street cemetery, and in 1875 removed to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Lot Sturtevant: Was born in Wareham, Mass., July 25, 1759. He was the second son of Joseph and Mary (Gibbs) Sturte- vant. Joseph was the son of Moses, son of Samuel, son of Samuel, who was at Plymouth, Mass., as early as May 1642. His affidavit, on file in the land office at the State House, Augusta, gives the following :
"Lot Sturtevant of Waterville, June 15, 1835, seventy-five years old and upwards, enlisted at Wareham, Mass., 1777, for three years in Capt. Josh Eddy's company, Gen. Bradford's regi- ment, Massachusetts Line. Served his full time and was honor- ably discharged at West Point in 1780. United States pensioner. Land certificate granted April 19, 1835."
It cannot be ascertained when he came to Waterville, but it must have been before 1790, for his eldest son, Zenas, was born here in November, 1790, and the succeeding children, seven in all, were born here prior to 1806. He married Elizabeth Bessie, who was born October 3, 1764 or 5, and died January 13, 1833, aged sixty-eight. Lot Sturtevant died at Waterville, June 4, 1848, aged eighty-eight, at the home of Reward Sturte- vant.
His farm was one of the "Ten Lots" of which he was the original settler and proprietor. Here he lived, reared his family, and was buried in the cemetery one mile north of Fairfield Center on the Pishons Ferry road.
Richard Sweetzer: Of North Yarmouth is credited with ser- vice as a private in Capt. Noyes' company, Col. Phinney's regi- 14
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ment of eight months' men with the army at the siege of Boston in 1775.
Mr. Sweetzer lived here in 1840 with David Parker; was a pensioner and ninety years of age. When he came here, when he died and where he was buried are unknown.
Philip Thayer: Supposed to have been born near Attleboro, Mass. and enlisted from there. Came to Berwick after the war and finally drifted "down east" to Waterville (now Oakland) died and was buried in the old cemetery there. No other record.
Obadiah Williams: Was a surgeon in Gen. Starks' regiment at Bunker Hill, and served during the entire Revolutionary War. He came from Epping, N. H. to Waterville (then Winslow) in 1792, and built the first frame house in Waterville, the small one-story house still standing opposite the electric light station at the end of the bridge. The view from this little home of his down the bay and the broad Kennebec must have been very delightful, (since obstructed by the old Dalton house and the factories). Dr. Williams died in 1799, aged forty-nine. He was buried in the old cemetery, now Monument Park, which was then only an open field without fences, and was deeded to the town of Winslow for a burying ground, with certain reservations. When the lines were run to define the boundary on the south side, it was found that Dr. Williams and his wife had been buried outside the cemetery. Their remains were taken up and removed sc as to come within the bounds, and when the change was effected, making a public park of the old cemetery, their remains were again moved to Pine Grove cemetery. -
George Young: Was a Revolutionary soldier who came to Waterville (now Oakland) to live, died and was buried there in the old cemetery. Birthplace, date of birth, military record, age and date of death unknown.
Reference is had in Massachusetts military service record to his being commissioned captain of the 5th company, Col. Wheaton's (4th Lincoln county) regiment of Massachusetts militia, in July, 1776, but no service is found credited to him as such.
Note. The writer would acknowledge his indebtedness to C. J. House, Esq., of the Industrial Bureau, Augusta, Me., and E. L. Getchell, Esq., of Harvard Univer- sity for valuable research and results in Revolutionary records.
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THE WAR OF 1812.
The War of 1812, as is well known grew out of the claim of Great Britain to the right of search of our merchant vessels, and the impressment of American seamen under various pretexts, which culminated in a "State of War," as declared by our National Congress, June 18, 1812, and proclaimed by President Madison, the following day.
The following are the Rosters of the several companies of militia enlisted from Waterville and vicinity for the war, with their service as noted. The residence of the company officers is given while that of the men is not and the records at Augusta and Washington do not give them, but as the Waterville com- panies were recruited here, the means of transportation at that time primitive and limited, the inference is that they were prob- ably residents of Waterville.
Service from the 14th to 25th September, 1814.
Roll of the Field and Staff of Lieut .- Col. Elnathan Sherwin's Regiment of Militia, being the Ist Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 8th Division, in service at Augusta from the 14th to the 25th of Sep- tember, 1814. This regiment started for the seaboard but was ordered into camp at Augusta to await orders. On the 24th day of September there was a draft from the regiment to fill up the regiment of Lieut .- Col. Ellis Sweet in service at Bath. Those of the regiment not drafted were discharged on the 25th day of September, 1814.
Elnathan Sherwin, lieut .- col., Waterville; John Cleaveland, major, Fairfield; Richard M. Dorr, major; Ephraim Getchell, adjutant ; Joseph H. Hallett, or .- mast., Waterville; Ambrose Howard, or .- mast .- sgt .; Moses Appleton, surgeon, Winslow ; David Wheeler, paymaster, Waterville; Zedekiah Belknap, chap- lain, Waterville; Moses Healey, drum-major ; Benjamin Foster, fife-major ; Thomas Leeman, fife-major.
Field and Staff Roll of Lieut .- Col. Elnathan Sherwin's drafted regiment of militia in service at Wiscasset and Edgecomb from the 24th of September to the 10th of November, 1814.
Elnathan Sherwin, lieut .- col., Waterville; Richard M. Dorr, major; Nathan Stanley, major, China; Moses Appleton, sur- geon, Winslow; Joseph Bachellor, surgeon's mate; Ephraim
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Getchell, adjutant; David Wheeler, paymaster, Waterville; Joseph H. Hallett, or. master; Charles Haydon, Jr., sergt .- major; Benjamin Foster, or .- mast .- sgt .; David Low, drum- major ; Thomas Leeman, fife-major.
Roll of Captain Dean Bangs' Company of Artillery in Major Joseph Chandler's Battalion raised in Waterville and Vassalboro and in service at Augusta waiting orders, from the 12th to the 24th of September, 1814.
Commissioned officers : Dean Bangs, capt., Waterville ; Lemuel Pullen, lieut., Waterville; Abraham Smith, lieut., Waterville.
Sergeants: Jabez Dow, Artemus Smith, Levi Moore, Jr., William McFarland.
Corporals: William Marston, Alexander McKechnie, Abiel Moore, James Bragg.
Musicians : Henry Richardson, Reward Sturtevant.
Privates : William Bates, Dennis Blackwell, Ellis Blackwell, William Blish, Andrew Bradford, Martin Bradford, Charles Freeman, Joseph Gulliver, Samuel Hastings, Godfrey Jackson, Joseph Marston, Josiah Merrill, Newall Page, Benjamin Rives, James Shorey, Jeremiah Smith, Joseph Smiley, Jeremiah Tozier, 3, Alvin Trask, Jonathan C. Tozier.
Capt. Dean Bangs was a privateer and a soldier of the Ameri- can Revolution.
Roll of Captain William Pullen's company of militia in Lieut .- Col. Elnathan Sherwin's regiment, raised in Waterville and in service at Augusta from the 14th to the 25th of September, 1814.
William Pullen, capt., Waterville; Joseph Warren, lieut., Waterville; Leonard Cornforth, ensign, Waterville.
Sergeants: Ichabod Smith, Reuben Ricker, Isaiah Hallett, John Hallett.
Corporals : Samuel Merry, James Gilbert, Wiman Shorey, Thomas Stevens.
Musicians : Dexter Pullen, Isaac Gage, Asa Bates.
Privates : Philip Badger, James Burgess, Thomas Bessey, Seth Crowell, Isaiah Crowell, David Coombs, Miller Crowell, John Cobb, Hiram Crowell, Seward Corson, Daniel Duren, Pliny Farrington, Seth Gage, Bryant Gleason, Reuben Gage, Jr.,
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Dennis Gibbs, Timothy B. Hayward, Elijah Hayden, Elisha Hal- lett, Jr., Josiah M. Hallett, Ebenezer Hussey, John Hussey, Job Harlow, Asa Lewis, Moody Lander, Ivory Low, Abraham Lander, Jr., William Lewis, Jr., William Merryfield, Samuel Merryfield, George Ricker, George Ricker, 2d or Jr., James Rice, Benjamin Stevens, Philander Soule, Isaac Terrill, Leonard Tup- per, James White, Cyrus Wheeler, Lorin Wade.
Roll of Captain Joseph Hitchings' company of militia in Lieut .- Col. Elnathan Sherwin's regiment raised in Waterville and in service at Augusta from the 14th to the 25th of Septem- ber, 1814.
Joseph Hitchings, capt., Waterville; Samuel Webb, lieut., Waterville; Thomas McFarland, ensign, Waterville.
Sergeants : Josiah Jacob, Jr., Abraham Morrill, Solomon Berry, Calvin L. Getchell.
Corporals : Abraham Butts, Pelatiah Soule, Simeon Tozer, 2, William Watson.
Musicians : David Low, Lewis Tozier.
Privates : John Bennet, Jonas Blanchard, Columbus Bacon, John Clifford, Richard Clifford, Jacob Cool, Zacheus Foster, Abel Getchell, Joseph Hogden, William Hume, Thomas Parker, Jr., David Parker, William Phillips, David Priest, Arby Penney, Moses Ricker, William Redington, Samuel Redington, Silas Redington, John Stackpole, Benjamin Smith, William Smith, George Soule. Daniel Soule, Sullivan Soule, Richard Sweetzer, William Sweetzer, William Tozer, Stephen Tozer.
Roll of Capt. Child's company from Winslow.
James L. Child, capt .; Washington Heald, lieut.,; Wm. Getchell, ensign.
Sergeants : Wm. Harvey, James Heald, Joel Crosby, Abra- ham Bean.
Corporais : Alvin Blackwell, Richard V. Hayden, Simeon Heald, Elisha Ellis.
Privates : Charles Hayden, Jr., Hernend C. Barton, Samuel Bates, Clark Drummond, James Fife, Wm. Fletcher, Asa Getchell, Zipheroe Howard, Joseph Heald, Daniel Libby, Wm. Pollard, Geo. Pillsbury, Thos. J. Pressey, Daniel Richards, Rufus Rhodes, Ebenezer Richardson, Sam'l Richardson, Adna Reynolds, Wm. Spring, Joseph Swift, Phinehas Small, Jeremiah
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B. Thompson, Butler Wood, Ephriam Wilson, Jr., Samuel Wil- son, Luke Wilson, Wm. Wyman, Benj. Windship, Geo. Abbot, Wentworth Ross, Stephen Getchell, Levi Pollard, Wm. Ham, Frederic R. Paine, John Gould, Nathaniel Dingley, Stephen Abbot.
Amos P. Southard was born and enlisted in Litchfield or Edge- comb. Soon after the war he moved to Winslow, where he lived nearly fifty years, and died in 1870.
An act "Declaring war between Great Britain and her depend- encies, and the United States and their Territories" was passed by Congress and signed by the President, June 18, 1812. Treaty of peace was concluded. December 24, 1814, ratification exchanged, February 17, 1815, and proclaimed, February 18, 1815.
From reports of the third auditor of the Treasury Department dated December 12, 1836, (published in Ex. Doc. No. 20, House of Representatives, 24th Congress, 2nd Session.,) and February 22, 1858, (published in Ex. Doc. No. 72, House of Representa- tives, 35th Congress, Ist Session), it appears that the total num- ber of regulars, militia, volunteers and rangers who served the United States at any time during the war of 1812 was 528,274. It is evident that this number represents only the number of enlistments and not the actual number of individuals in service. It is known that many of the men who served during the War of 1812 rendered more than one term, or "tour," of service. But the number of men who served more than one term cannot be ascertained, and it is impossible, therefore, to determine the actual number of individuals in service during that war.
Waterville's most eminent soldier in the War of 1812 was Gen. Eleazer Wheelock Ripley.
Born in Hanover, N. H., April 15, 1782, he was a nephew of President John Wheelock and son of Prof. Sylvanus Ripley, D. D., of Dartmouth, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1800. He studied law in the office of Hon. Timothy Boutelle, and of his tax assessed in 1809, $2 was tax on his income as a lawyer. He was town agent in 1809 and 1810, was one of the first board of fire wardens elected in 1809, was chosen by the town as one of the petitioners to the general court to annex Waterville to Somerset county.
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May 7, 1810, he was elected by the town its representative to the general court of Massachusetts and was re-elected, May 13, 18II. He was Speaker of the House and was elected Senator in 1812. He became lieutenant-colonel of the 21st Regiment Massa- chusetts Infantry, March 12, 1812, and just one year later, colonel. He was made brigadier-general, April 15, 1814, and major-general, July 25, 1814. He was wounded in the attack on Toronto but soon after commanded the 2nd Brigade under Gen. Brown on the Niagara frontier. At the battle of Lunday's Lane, after the wounding of Gen. Brown, the command of the army devolved on Gen. Ripley. He was severely wounded in the battle of Niagara but was conspicuous for gallantry in defense of Fort Erie, August 15, 1814. November 3, 1814, by resolution of Congress, he was presented with a gold medal inscribed with the names, "Niagara, Chippewa, Erie." He remained in the U. S. Army until 1820, stationed in Louisiana. He then resigned, practiced law in Louisiana, served in the State Senate, and was a member of Congress from 1835 to 1839. He died in Louisiana, March 2, 1839.
THE AROOSTOOK WAR.
From the close of the War of 1812, the Northwestern bound- ary of Maine was in dispute till 1839, when the Legislature (of Maine) in private session took measures to drive trespassers from their camps in the valley of the Aroostook river.
The first detachment in charge of a sheriff was captured and taken to jail at Fredericton, N. B., whereupon the Governor of New Brunswick sent word to Governor Fairfield that he had orders to hold the disputed territory by military force and demanded the recall of all militia from the Aroostook.
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