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At a meeting held in the township, September 8, 1736, it was voted to make a division of twenty acres of the undivided lands to each owner of a house lot, and appointed Nathaniel Hammond, Nathaniel Mattooon, James Heaton, Benjamin Haywood and Peter Evans a committee to make said division. This, called the third division of the intervale land, included most of the remaining land of that character. The lots laid on the South Branch above where the town-house bridge now is, were called the South Branch meadows, those on Pond Brook, the Pond Brook meadows, those on the Ashuelot, above West Swanzey, the Mill meadows, and those between West Swanzey and Westport, the Hyponeco meadows. The lots of the third divi- sion were drawn October 27, 1736.
At a meeting held at Concord, March 16, 1737, it was voted to make a fourth division of the undivided lands. These lots were laid out on the upland, about two-thirds of them being between the road which runs through the cen- ter of the town and the road which runs from West Swanzey to Westport on the east side of the river. The remaining third were laid on the road which now runs from the town-house bridge to Keene, and upon the hill east of the range that lay on the road. Nathaniel Hammond, Benjamin Read, Samuel Cham- berlain, Ephraim Jones and Nathaniel Mattoon, constituted the committee for making the division.
At a meeting held in the township, at the house of Capt. Nathaniel Ham- mond, September 7, 1837, it was voted to draw lots for the fourth division shares, and that he who should draw No. 1, should make his " pitch " on the morning of the 19th. He who should draw No. 2, should make his pitch on the afternoon of the same day, and that this should be continued, making two pitches per day, until the division should be completed. In this division the lots each contained about sixty-five acres.
At a meeting held at the same place, October 26, 1737, it was voted to make a fifth division, each lot to contain one hundred acres. This "pitch " was made in the following manner: The proprietor who drew the right to make the first pitch, made his selection in any part of the undivided land he chose, and had his land laid out in form to please himself. Number two had the same privilege, and so on in numerical order. This resulted in farms being surveyed into all conceivable shapes. By this time more than one-half
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the land in the township was divided. Nash meadow lots must have been the sixth division. The seventh division, of fifty acres each, was made Feb- ruary 6, 1760; the eighth division, fifty acres each, April 18, 1774; ninth division, ten acres each, November 11, 1803 ; the tenth division, nine acres each, was made June 7, 1809; and the last division, of three acres each,- May 7, 1833. This completes the division of the land of Lower Ashuelot township, the last division being made when the town had been known by its new name for a period of eighty years, and had a population of over 1,800. souls.
It was a great disappointment to the settlers in Lower Ashuelot to find, in 1740, that the township was not within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts .. On the third of October, of that year, a meeting of the inhabitants was called to consider what measures could be devised to relieve them from their em- barrassed condition. The following extract from the records of that meeting discloses this general feeling of disappointment :-
"The proprietors being informed that, by ye Determination of his Majesty in Council Respecting ye Controverted bounds between ye province of ye Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, they are Excluded from this. province of ye Massachusetts Bay to ye which they always supposed them- selves to belong, therefore, they unanimously voted that a petition be pre- sented to ye king's Most Excellent Majesty, setting forth our Distressed. Estate, and praying we may be annexed to ye said Massachusetts province,. also, unanimously voted that Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., be impowered to present ye said petition to his Majesty, and to appear and fully to act for and in ye behalf of this town, respecting the subject matter of said petition, ac- cording to his best discretion."
By this establishment of the boundary line, the inhabitants of the town not only lost the protection they had a right to claim from Massachusetts,{but they also lost all legal claim to their lands vested in any act of that province,. which was indeed a severe blow. Left to fight their own battles against the merciless savage, in the face of these discouragements, it is little wonder that they eventually left their possessions and fled to their former homes in Mass- achusetts, for with the spring of 1747, the last of the settlers joined the. hegira, and left to the Indians complete possession of the territory.
The following list gives, as far as has been ascertained, the names of the inhabitants previous to the abandonment of the township, with the year in. which their names first appeared upon the records, and, as far as we are able the place from which each came :-
Nathaniel Hammond, Littleton, Mass., 1737 ; Charles Tummis, Bolton, Mass., 1737 ; John Evans, Bolton, Mass., 1737 ; Samuel Farnsworth, 1737 ;. Thomas Cresson, Sunderland, Mass., 1737 ; William Carr, Deerfield, Mass., 1737 ; Samuel Hills, Sunderland, Mass., 1737 ; Benjamin Brown, Concord, Mass., 1738 ; Jethro Evans, 1738; Abraham Graves, Hatfield, Mass., 1738; Samuel Mitchel, 1738 ; David Belding, 1738 ; William Grimes, Lancaster, Mass., 1738 ; Samuel Gunn, Sunderland, Mass., 1738; Nathaniel Gunn, Sunderland, Mass., 1738; Ephraim Jones, Concord, Mass., 1739 ; William
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Scott, 1739 ; Andrew Gardner, 1739 ; Charles Armes, 1740 ; Timothy Brown, Brookfield, Mass., 1740; Thomas Hammond, Littleton, Mass., 1740; Rev. Timothy Harrington, 1741 ; Jonathan Hammond, Littleton, Mass., 1741 ; Nathaniel Hammond, Littleton, Mass., 1741; Eliakim King, 1743 ; James Heaton, 1743 ; Seth Heaton, Wrenthan, Mass., 1744; Joseph Hammond, Littleton, Mass., 1744; Samuel Belding, 1745 ; Charles Eams, 1746 ; Samuel Chamberlain, 1746 ; Samuel Hulls, Jr., Sunderland, Mass., 1746 ; Timothy Hammond, Littleton, Mass., 1746.
Very soon after the settlement was commenced, grave apprehensions of the settlers' safety from Indian attacks were entertained, forebodings that were soon revealed into fact. As early as 1738 the building of a fort was com- menced, re-building and stockading Captain Nathaniel Hammond's dwelling for this purpose. And on November 6th, of this year, the proprietors voted that eighteen pounds of powder and thirty-six pounds of lead be purchased for a reserve stock. Subsequently it was voted to finish this fort, and to build two more. These were built, one about the house of John Evans, and the other upon Meeting-house hill. The wisdom of these precautions was soon made manifest, for Indian depredations became frequent and deadly. Dur- ing the period from 1741 to 1747, several of the inhabitants lost their lives, and a number were made prisoners. In the spring of the latter date, it was decided by those who remained in the territory, to brave these dangers no longer. Accordingly, they collected together their household effects, and all such valuables as would not admit of easy transportation, buried them in the ground, concealing all traces under leaves, trees, etc., and fled to Massachu- setts. The savages visited the town soon after, and destroyed everything they could find, leaving but a single house standing.
With the close of the Cape Breton, or first French and Indian war, how- ever, these dangers ceased, and a few of the settlers returned to the scene of their pioneer labors. The exact time that the first of them returned is not known. It has generally been roughly stated as "three years after" the gen- eral flight. This would bring it to the spring of 1750, but it was probably not until 1751, or possibly as late as 1752. On July 2d, of the following year, 1753, the township was re-granted to the following persons, under the name it now bears :-
Nathaniel Hammond, Abraham Graves, William Grimes, Benjamin Grout, Thomas Cresson, Thomas Cresson, Jr., William Hill, William Cresson, Wil- liam Carr, Elijah Graves, Samuel Hills, Nathaniel Hills, Jonathan Woodcock, Jr., Jonathan Hammond, Thomas Nutter, Ebenezer Hills, John Pratt, Tim- othy Pratt, Samuel Pratt. Joseph Hammond, Thomas Hammond, Seth Gay McGrout, Daniel Armes, Ebenezer Armes, Nathaniel Gunn, Wyat Gunn, Corniel Gunn, Ebenezer Sprague, Ebenezer Sprague, Jr., Joseph Merchant, Noah Rodman, Samuel Belding, Eliakim King, Jonathan Woodcock, Joshua Graves, Abner Graves, David Belding, Timothy Brown, James Heaton, James Heaton, Jr., William Heaton, Benjamin Shelding, Mark Terry,
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TOWN OF SWANZEY.
Jonathan Tracy, John Tracy, Phinehas Tracy, Jonathan Armes, Jonathan Bardwell, Oliver Witt, Oliver Hammond, Joshua Prime, Joseph Write, Benjamin Brown, Simon Davis, Samuel McClenen, Zebulon Balord, Stephen Nutter, Cæsar Freeman, Samuel Gaylon, James Blood, Jr., Christopher Grout, Hon. Benning Wentworth.
The grantees under the Massachusetts charter, who had forfeited the terms of their grant, were connrmed in their rights, and no outsiders gained any possessions under the new charter, except by coming into possession of the right of some of the old grantees.
Previous to 1762, Richmond's territory extended on the east of Swanzey to the Keene line, but during that year this portion became a part of Swanzey. This tract was called Richmond gore. It extended about thirty rods on the Keene line, was three miles in width from east to west, and seven in length from north to south. When Troy was incorporated, in 1815, the part of Swanzey taken towards making up its territory was formerly a part of this gore. At the time it was annexed to the town it was entirely unsettled.
MILITARY.
Between the time of the re-charter and the period of the Revolution, many valuable acquisitions to the population of the town were made, and the whole of Swanzey's people gave an enthusiastic support to the Revolutionary cause. It is believed that none who were able to render support, either by military service or financially, failed to do so. In 1777 a committee of safety was chosen, consisting of Samuel Page, Dea. Calvin Frink. Capt. Jonathan Whit- comb, Lieut. Elisha Whitcomb, and Lieut. Elijah Belding. The same year the town voted a bounty of £26 for volunteers. During the war, also, the town voted the following sums for military service, the entire list of which we print, both for its value as military history and information respecting the names of the inhabitants at that time :-
NAME.
AMT.
NAME.
Амт.
£. s. d.
₺. |s. | d.
John Applin.
4 II
I
Enoch Cummings
19
5|10
David Belding, Jr.
17
6
Nehemiah Cummings.
19
5|IO
Samuel Belding, Jr ...
15
Nathaniel Dickinson ..
10 16
8
Lieut. Moses Belding.
28
3
4
Joseph Dickinson
II
5 10
Ensign Timothy Bishop
IO
4
2
Benjamin Day
Daniel Bishop
9
2
6
Joseph Day
II
14
2
Elijah Belding
6
13
4
Amos Day
21
I3
4
Eleazer Brown.
4 I5
4 Joshua Durrant
26
...
Wright Brown.
5
8
4 Levi Durrant.
18
5
2
Thomas Cresson, Jr.
15
12
6
John Follett, Jr
3
I8
4
Nathan Cresson
10
16
Calvin Frink
IO
16
8
Joseph Cummings
II 18
9
Joshua Graves
13
7
4
Thaddeus Cummings
5
8
4 Elijah Graves.
26
II
Ephraim Cummings ..
2 I9
6 Daniel Gunn.
26
...
Caleb Cook ..
8
I3
4 Wyat Gunn
7
3
4
Greenwood Carpenter
5
4
Thomas Greene
13
6
5
William Carpenter
8 Joseph Greene.
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61 8
:
16
...
8
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NAME.
Амт.
NAME.
AMT.
₺. s. d.
L. s. d.
Abraham Griffith
7. 6 8
Roger Thompson
7II 8
Abner Graves.
2' 3
4
Samuel Thompson.
2 I3
6
Charles Grimes.
22
3
I
Ebenezer Thompson.
15|17
6
Joseph Hammond.
I3
5
Annanias Tubs.
II 7
2
Thomas Hammond
9 15
...
Philemon Whitcomb.
I3
4
Isaac Hammond
6 19
2
Lieut. Daniel Warner
Edward Hazen
6 I9
2 Capt. Joseph Whitcomb
4
6
8
Samuel Hills.
12
2
Capt. Jonathan Whitcomb.
IS
8
4
Ebenezer Hills.
2I 13
4
Major Elisha Whitcomb
26
9
2
Nathaniel Hills.
2I
I3
4
Abijah Whitcomb
IS
8
4
Joseph Holmes
4
6
S
William Wright ..
518
8
Dennis Hafferon
21 13
4 Lient. Samuel Wright
12 II
8
Michael Hafferon
21 13
4
Cornelius Roberts.
26 17
6
Benjamin Hewes
I3
Jonathan Woodcock, Jr
2
3
4
Benjamin Hewes, Jr.
I3 ...
...
John Whitcomb
19:19
Joseph Hammond, Jr.
2I
I
8
James Wheelock.
21|13
4
Charles Howe
8 13
4
Moses B. Williams.
5
4
2
Winters Hills.
II 18 4
Ensign Jonas Heaton.
22 10 10
Uriah IIowe
IO
2
4
Jethro Kimball
12 II
8
John Plene.
5
4 ...
Eli Kimball.
27 18
.
Elkanah Lane, Jr.
IO 16
8
Samuel Hills, Jr
21 13
4
Justice Lawrence
5
IS
..
Elkanah Lane
I ...
3
Lieut. Henry Morse.
I2
4
I
Samuel Lane
IO 16 8
Jonathan Nichols
6 IO
..
Jonathan Day. 1 15
...
Elijah Osgood.
15 17
6
Nathaniel Potter SIO ..
Benjamin Olcott.
4 14
...
William Grimes
30
6
8
Aaron Parsons.
7
3
4
William Grimes, Jr. 24 5 IO
2 12 6
Josiah Prime
13
Andrew Nichols 21 13
4
Amasa Parker
26
Jonathan Hammond. 78
..
Simeon Puffer
12 II
Timothy Brown
4
8
Amos Puffer.
22 IO IO
Nathaniel Heaton.
IO IO II
Josiah Read
4
6
8
Ezekiel White
8 13
Levi Rugg
12 II
8
David White.
5
4
John Rugg
23 8
4
Kember Harvey
3 I5
2
Pentacost Stanley.
7
3
4
Willard Hunt.
17
6
S
Nathan Scott.
2
3 IO
Peltia Frazey.
2 18
2
Elisha Scott.
8 13
4
Thomas Applin.
6 15
John Starkey.
5
4
Benjamin Freeman.
8 13
4
Benjamin Starkey
26
John Frazey.
11 15
2
Enoch Starkey.
7 IO ...
Ephraim Harvey. 4 6
8
Joseph Starkey.
20 5
8
Timothy Harvey
21 13
4
John Thompson
4 6 8
Benjamin Follett
6
IO
...
Samuel Heaton
5
8
4
Benjamin Hazen
6
5
IO
Stoddard Frazz
10 16 8
Samuel Page
I
6
3
James Grimes
4
6
8
Benjamin Hammond
5
S
2
4
Nathan Woodcock
.. .
The most conspicuous services were performed by Cols. Joseph Hammond, Jonathan Whitcomb and Elisha Whitcomb. Col. Hammond, on learning of the battle of Lexington, organized a company and immediately departed with it to Cambridge. They returned after an absence of twelve days. He after- wards held the rank of lieutenant-colonel in Col. Ashley's regiment, and was appointed to important trusts during the war. Col. Jonathan Whitcomb was captain in one of the New Hampshire companies at the battle of Bunker Hill. Col. Elisha Whitcomb held a commission in the army which went to Canada in 1776.
Of Swanzey's soldiers in the war of 1812, William C. Belding was killed at Chippewa Plains, July 5, 1814; Rufus Graves was killed at Bridgewater,
4
8
8
...
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TOWN OF SWANZEY.
Canada, July 25, 1814; a son of John Guild was killed in Upper Canada ; Joshua Prime, a lieutenant of marines, died at Sackett's Harbor, March 1, 1813; Gaines Cresson died at Burlington, Vt .; and Benedict Arnold died at Portsmouth.
Many of the town's soldiers in the late civil war were killed in battle, many were mortally wounded, and many more died of disease contracted while in the service. The town gave liberal bounties to encourage enlistment, and promptly filled its full quota of men and means. The war debt at the close of the struggle amounted to about $56,000.00, which has been liquidated.
EARLY MILLS.
The following extract from a proprietors' meeting of March 16, 1737, testi- fies that the subject of building necessary mills was early entertained :-
" Voted, That two hundred acres of land adjoining the Upper Great Falls in the Great River, to lay as conveniently as may be to said falls, be laid out to Ephraim Jones, his heirs and assigns, at his or their cost, upon condition that he, the said Ephraim Jones, his heirs and assigns, shall build a good saw- mill at said falls, on or before the 15th day of August next, and maintain it ten years at least, and to saw for and sell boards to the proprietors at the same price they generally do at other places ; said land to be laid out by the committee and surveyor which shall be chosen to lay out the next divi- sion of land; to include said fall, reserving free liberty for the setting up of a grist-mill at said place when the proprietors shall think it necessary. If the said Ephriam Jones, his heirs or assigns (who are to have the liberty before any other) shall decline it, and if at the end of said ten years or any time forward, the said Jones, his heirs or assigns, shall neglect or refuse to keep up and maintain a saw-mill at said place, then the privilege and conveniency for a saw-mill at said place to revert to the proprietors."
The saw-mill was built by Jones, and there can be little doubt but that he subsequently built a grist-mill at the same place. These mills stood a few rods below the site of the present mills at West Swanzey. They shared the fate of the other buildings of the township at the hands of the Indians.
Capt. Joseph Whitcomb came to Swanzey with his five sons about 1790, and located in the western part of the town. They soon after erected mills at West Swanzey.
On June 1, 1759, the proprietors voted to give David Belding, Joshua Graves, Elisha Scott and Abner Graves fifty acres of land at what is now Factory village, in consideration of their building a grist and saw-mill at that place within two years, and keep the mills in good repair for a period of ten years. They were also to do work at "customary prices." The cotton factory, from which the village took its name, was built about 1810.
John Whitcomb and his sons built a saw and grist-mill at East Swanzey about 1780. Benjamin Page began the manufacture of pails by machinery at the same place about 1830.
SCHOOLS.
Schools early received the attention of the proprietors, and a school-house was built in the township as early as 1742. The first building of which there
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is any mention made after the return of the settlers is the school-house, where the members of the churches of Keene and Swanzey met in 1753, to form a union for the support of gospel ordinances. This may have been the school- house that was built in 1742, as it has always been said that one building was left standing by the Indians, and this may have been the one. As the popu- lation increased, school-houses multiplied so that at one time there were thirteen in the town. There are now only eleven, as mentioned on a previous page, most of which are structures which do the town credit. The Mount Cæsar academy was built in 1843, and for a number of years was a flourishing institution.
Nathaniel Hammond, from Watertown, Mass., came to this town some- where about 1740. He was one of the first settlers, built the first house in town, and was one of the first petitioners for the grant of the township. He was a prominent man and died in 1756. His son Joseph was born here, held some of the important offices, and was well known. He was actively engaged in the Revolutionary war, with others of the Hammond family. He died about 1804. His son Benjamin, was also born here, married Sarah Fisk, and settled upon the farm now owned by D. B. C. Hill. He reared a family of seven children, only one of whom is living, Azub , widow of Clark Albee, who lives in Highgate, Vt. He died in 1813. His son Joseph was born January 31, 1782, married Mary, daughter of Erie Richardson, of Keene. He lived on the homestead most of his life, was a deacon of the church for many years, and reared a family of nine children, four sons and five daugh- ters. Three of these, Joseph, Jr., Joel, and Lizzie H., (widow of John Han- cock, of Hinsdale,) are living, and reside in town. He died April 24, 1861. Joseph, son of Joseph, was born in town, April 5, 1809, married, for his first wife, Luthera S. Rogers, who bore him two children, Sophina J., and Maria E. The former married Martin Mason, and resides in town. Maria E. mar- ried Eugene Keyes and lives in Keene. Mrs. Hammond died April 24, 1860, and Joseph married for his second wife, Ardelia C. Randall, who died February 11, 1884. Mr. Hammond has held nearly all the town offices, being town representative in 1850-'51, selectman for several years, superin- tendent of school committee, postmaster, justice of the peace since 1843, and has been supervisor for forty-one years.
Joseph Hammond and his two brothers came to Boston from England about 1730. Joseph finally settled in Swanzey, where he remained until his death. His sons, Joseph and Benjamin, twins, were born here, and the former always resided here. Benjamin was taken to Lunenburg after the death of his mother, which occurred soon after his birth, but returned to Swanzey when twenty-one years of age. He settled on the farm now owned by D. B. C. · Hill, and lived there till his death, in 1813. His son Joseph was born in 1782, on the farm where he always lived. He was a deacon of the Baptist church many years, and died April 24, 1861.
Thomas Cross came to Swanzey from Bradford, Mass., some time previous to the Revolution. He cleared a farm in the west part of the town, and
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reared a large family of children. His son Peter was born in town, where he lived all his life, and had several children, though only one of them, George, is now living.
Elkanah Lane and his son Samuel, who was a soldier in the Revolution, came to Swanzey from Connecticut about 1770, and settled on the farm now owned by Mrs. Luther S. Lane. Elkanah died December 6, 1811, aged ninety-three years. Ezekiel, son of Samuel who died in 1844, was born here and reared a family of ten children, only eight of whom are now living. His death occurred about 1852. His son, G. F., resides here, and two sons, F. F. and E. F., now reside in Keene.
Captain Joseph Whitcomb, grandson of John Whitcomb, who settled in Dorchester, Mass., as early as 1623, from Dorchester, England, was born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1700, and moved to West Swanzey, N. H., from Lan- caster, in 1760, with his five sons. It may have been earlier, but the church records show that Joseph and Elizabeth Whitcomb joined the church by let- ter from the First church in Lancaster, July 27, 1760.
Captain Joseph built a saw-mill and grist-mill at West Swanzey, making the privilege on which the Stratton mills and box and bucket shops now stands. He must have owned quite a tract of land. At the time the family arrived in Swanzey he was sixty years of age and a man of experience and respectability. His sons were at the time of their coming to Swanzey from eight to twenty-five years of age. The names of the sons and the titles by which they were afterwards known, were Lieutenant Joseph, Colonel Jona- than, Colonel Elisha, General Philemon, and Abijah. The sons settled in Swanzey where they brought up large families. Lieutenant Joseph was the only one of the sons to move away. He went to Grafton, Vt., taking his family with him. The father, Captain Joseph, died November, 1792, at the age of ninety-two years.
It is said that Colonel Jonathan kept the first store and tavern in the town. He and his wife used to make journeys to Boston on horseback to buy goods, loading each horse with as much as could be carried in saddle-bags. Their place was where Mrs. Phineas Stone now lives, but none of the old buildings are now standing. Colonel Elisha bought three hundred acres of land and a mill at Westmoreland, September 16, 1771, from Benjamin Whitcomb, of Westmoreland, for two hundred and forty pounds. He sold them October 15, 1773 to Josiah Richardson, of Keene, trader. All of the five sons were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, Colonel Jonathan, Colonel Elisha and Abijah were at the battle of Bunker Hill, and Joseph was at Ticonderoga as will be seen by the following copy of the old pay-rolls in Swanzey records : "Joseph Whitcomb one month at Ticonderoga, 1776, and one month in the army[at Westward, 1777, four pounds, six shillings and eight pence. Cap- tain Jonathan Whitcomb eight and one-half months at Cambridge, 1775, eighteen pounds, eight shillings and four pence. Major Elisha Whitcomb eleven months, eight days in army at Canada, 1776, and twelve days at Otter Creek, 1777, twenty-six pounds, nine shillings and two-pence. Abijah Whit-
Mellin K. Holbrook
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comb eight and one-half months in army at Cambridge, 1775, eighteen pounds, eight shillings and four pence. Philemon Whitcomb four months in 1777, by Benjamin Parker eight pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence." Colonel Jonathan was the most famous soldier. He was captain of the largest com- pany in Colonel James Reed's regiment at Lexington, April 19, 1775, and at Bunker Hill, June 17. His company numbered, June 21st, fifty-nine nien, nine in command. He was stationed between Colonel Reed's barracks and the ferry, a most important position. His company encamped on Winter Hill, numbering about seventy men from Keene and Swanzey ; his first lieutenant was Elijah Clayes, of Fitzwilliam. October 13, 1775, he receipts for four dollars for each man for coats promised by the colony of New Hampshire. November 16, receipts for shoes for men.
"The Court of Enquiry to examine into the controversy between Capt. Mar- cey and Capt. Whitcombe Respecting the said Marcye's accusing said Whit- combe of cowardice, having found that Capt. Whitcombe discovered no cow- ardice, but on the contrary manifested a spirit of Interpidity and Resolution. The General approves of the Result of the Court of Enquiry and Sincerely hopes that Slander and Detraction will ever be Discountenanced and Dis- couraged in the army."
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