History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Part 55

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1168

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"This humbly showeth that we, the subscribers, Inhabitants of a New Plantation or Township called Soughegan West, or Narraganset, No. 3, being Invironed with many irremidible difficulties under our present sit- uation, as the Barer will inform, earnestly pray that his Excellency with your IIon'rs would Incorporate us, that we might enjoy the valuable Liberties and priviledges of a Town, and would Beg that the Charter of the Town may Bound us Westerly on the Township called Salem Canada, Northerly on New Boston, so called, Easterly on Bedford and part of Merrimac, Southerly on Soughegan River, so called. All which is humbly submitted to your Excellencies and Honours' wise Council, as we in Duty Bound shall ever pray.

" Dated at Soughegan West, January ye 26th, 1753.

" Signed by

"Ephraim Abbot. Benjamin Lovejoy.

Joshua Abbot. Ebenezer Lyon.

Josiah Abbot. Hugh Ross.

Andrew Bixbe.

Josiah Sawyer.

Joseph Boutell.

Andrew Seetown.

William Bradford.

John Smith.

Benjamin Cheever.

Joseph Steel.

Joseph Clark. Samuel Stewart.

Ebenezer Ellinwood.

William Stewart.

Ebenezer Ellinwood, Jr.

Caleb Stiles.

Joseph Ellinwoodl.

Robert Stuart.

John Everdon. Benjamin Taylor.

Solomon Hutchinson. Israel Towne.

Samuel Lamson. Benjamin Wilkins.

Samuel Lamson, Jr.

Daniel Wilkins.

Robert Read.

Daniel Wilkins, Jr."

No action seems to have been taken upon this peti-

tion.

Prices of sundries in 1759, from an old bill found among the papers left by Rev. Mr. Wilkins.

" 17 Feb., 14 1b. tea 16s.

6 Sept., 1 1b. chocolate 4 s.

22 Nov., 1/2 1b. tea 30g.

25 Dec., 1 Gallon rum . 34s."

Incorporation of the Town of Amherst .- In answer to a petition of the inhabitants of Souhegan West, the town was incorporated January 18, 1760.

A meeting for the organization of the town, under the charter, was held at the meeting-house, February 20, 1760, at which Colonel John Goffe, who was ap- pointed to call the meeting, read the charter.

Solomon Hutchinson was chosen town clerk, and was immediately sworn to the faithful execution of the duties of the office.

Colonel John Goffe was chosen moderator, and the town voted to accept the charter.

Solomon Hutchinson, William Bradford, Reuben Mussey, Reuben Gould and Thomas Clark were chosen selectmen, David Hartshorn and Nathan Kendall tithingmen, and the other usual town offi- cers were elected.

RESIDENT TAX-PAYERS IN AMHERST, SEPTEMBER, 1760.

Ephraim Abbot, Joshua Abbot, Josiah Abbot, Ebenezer Averill, Thomas Averill, Andrew Bixby, Joseph Boutele, Kendal Boutele. An- drew Bradford, Samuel Bradford, William Bradford, David Burns, John Burns, Joseph Butterfield, Oliver Carlton, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Clark, Jr., Thomas Clark, James Cochran, Jolin Cole, Jacob Curtice, Benja- min Davis, John Davis, Benjamin Dresser, Ebenezer Ellinwood, Ebene- zer Ellinwood, Jr., Jedediah Ellinwood, Joseph Ellinwood, Francis Elliott, Elisha Felton, Simeon Fletcher, Nathan Fuller, Richard Gould, Samuel Gray, David Ilartshorn, John Harwood, Ephraim Hildreth, Amey Hobbs, William Hogg, Ebenezer Holt, Ebenezer Holt, Jr., J. Ilolt, Isaac Ilow, Solomon Hutchinson, William Jones, Nathan Kendall, Jona- than Lamson, Samuel Lamson, Samuel Lamson, Jr., William Lancy, Abi-

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jah Lovejoy, Benjamin Lovejoy, llezekiah Lovejoy, Joseph Lovejoy, Eph- raim Lund, Ebenezer Lyon, Jonathan Lyon, John MeClernand, Timo- thy McIntire, William Melendy, Reuben Mussey, William Odall, John Patterson, William Peabody, John Pettengill, Joseph Prince, Robert Read, Alexander Robinson, Samuel Robinson, Hannah Rollins, James Rollins, Ilugh Ross, Andrew Seaton, John Seaton, Samuel Seaton, Jolin Shepard. John Shepard, Jr., Joseph Small, John Smith, Timothy Smith, Joseph Steel, Caleb Stiles, John Stuart, Robert Stuart, Sam- nel Stuart, Benjamin Taylor, Israel Towne, Israel Towne, Jr., Moses Towne, Thomas Towne, David Truel, Moses Truel, Caleb Upton, Thomas Wakefield, William Wallace, Davis Walton, Reuben Walton, John Washer, Stephen Washer, John Wasson, Daniel Weston, Ebenezer Wes- ton, Ebenezer Weston, Jr., George Wiley, Amos Wilkins, Benjamin Wil- kins, Daniel Wilkins, Lucy Wilkins, William Wilkins, Mary Wilkins.

One hundred and ten in all.

Among the heaviest tax-payers were William Pea- body, whose tax was £46 188. 3d .; Nathan Kendall, £39 11s. 6d .; Israel Towne, £34 1s. 9d .; Joseph Prince, £31 7s. 9d. ; and Joseph Steele, £30 14s. 3d. A poll-tax was £3 78. 6d.

The charter of the town expiring by limitation on the 1st day of January, 1762, a petition for its renewal was granted January 7th, same year.

The first dismemberment of Souhegan West took place June 1, 1750, when, by the amended charter of Merrimack, a strip of land and water, some thirteen hundred and eighty rods in length, and averaging about one hundred and twenty-five rods in width, was taken from Souhegan West, and annexed to that town.

This change seems to have been overlooked by Gov- ernor Wentworth at the time the charter of Amherst was granted, its boundaries, as therein described, being the same as those given in the original survey in 1728.

This boundary was the source of some contention between the towns, and remained unsettled until the autumn of 1832, when it was settled by a committee consisting of Benjamin M. Farley, of Hollis; Jesse Bowers, of Dunstable; and John Wallace, of Milford.

The town of Monson received a charter from Gov- ernor Wentworth, April 1, 1746. It was formerly a part of the town of Dunstable, as chartered by the General Court of Massachusetts, October 16, 1673, and came under the jurisdiction of New Hampshire on the establishment of the boundary line between the provinces, in 1741.

The town of Hollis formed its southern boundary and the Souhegan River its northern boundary.

In 1754 a petition was presented to the Governor and Council by the selectmen and other inhabitants of the town of Monson, asking that a portion of Souhegan West, adjoining that town, and embracing about one-third of the area of the township, might be annexed to Monson. A petition from persons inhabiting the territory asked for, asking to be an- nexed to Monson, was presented at the same time ; but the request was not granted.

The town of Hollis, at a meeting held March 2, 1761, voted to petition the town of Monson for a strip of land, one and a half miles in width or thereabout, from the south side of that town, which the town of

Monson voted to grant them, at a meeting held March 23, 1761.

On October 18, 1762, Daniel Bayley, Robert Colburn, William Colburn, William Colburn, Jr., Samuel Hay- den, Daniel Kendrick, Abraham Leman, Onesiphorous Marsh, Thomas Nevens, William Nevens, Zaccheus Shattuck, Joseph Stearns, Samuel Stearns, Jr., Daniel Wheeler and James Wheeler, inhabitants of Monson, petitioned the Governor and Council to be annexed to Hollis. A hearing on their petition was ordered in April following, but was postponed to the next June, in order to give the petitioners time to make further arrangements with the towns of Amherst and Hollis. After hearing the parties concerned, the petition was dismissed June 3, 1763.

This movement for the dismemberment of Monson found but little favor in Amherst at first, as it was proposed that the remainder of the town should be annexed to Amherst.

Minister Wilkins presented a memorial against the change to the Provincial Authorities, in which he stated the ill effects it would have upon the town and upon himself personally, and at about the same time another memorial was presented to the General Court, from inhabitants of Amherst, protesting against the annexation of a part of Monson to Hollis, in which many of the arguments were used against the meas- ure that Mr. Wilkins advanced in his remonstrance. This memorial was signed by

Joshua Abbot, Josiah Abbot, John Averill, Thomas Averill, Moses Barron, Jr., Andrew Bixbee, Joseph Boutell, Kendal Bontell, Samuel Bradford, William Bradford, David Burns, John Burns, Oliver Carlton, Benjamin Clark, Thomas Clark, James Cochran, John Cole, Jacob Cur- tice, Benjamin Davis, John Davis, Jacob Dresser, Francis Elliott, Eben- ezer Ellinwood, Ebenezer Ellinwood, Jr., Jedediah Ellinwood, Joseph Ellinwood, Rollandson Ellinwood, Elisha Felton, William Felton, Sim- eon Fletcher, Nathan Fuller, John Ilarwood, David Heartshorn, Jacob Hildreth, William Hogg, Ebenezer Holt, Ezekiel Holt, Abner Hutchin- son, Solomon Hutchinson, Jonathan Lampson, Abijah Lovejoy, Benja- min Lovejoy, Benjamin Lovejoy, Jr., Hezekiah Lovejoy, Joseph Lovejoy, Ephraim Lund, Jonathan Lyon, Timothy McIntire, William Melendy, William Melendy, Jr., John Mitchel, Reuben Mussey, William Odell, Joshua Pettengill, John Patterson, Nathan Phelps, Joseph Prince, Hugh Ross, Oliver Sanders, John Seccombe, Andrew Seetown, Samuel Seetown, Andrew Shannon, Timothy Smith, John Stuart, Caleb Stiles, Benjamin Taylor, Thomas Towne, Amos Truel, David Truel, Moses Truel, Thomas Wakfield, Daniel Weston, Ebenezer Weston, Ebenezer Whittemore.

Proposals for a division of the town of Monson be- tween the towns of Amherst and Hollis were laid before the voters of Amherst at a meeting held February 21, 1763, but no action was taken upon them.

On the 4th day of July, 1770, a charter dividing the town of Monson between the towns of Amherst and Hollis received the sanction of Governor John Went- worth, and thus Monson died from among the towns of New Hampshire, after an existence of about twenty-four years.

It died, seized and possessed of a pound, said to have been the only public building ever erected within its borders.

In March, 1779, a petition was presented to the

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Legislature by sundry inhabitants of Amherst, Lynde- borough and the Mile Slip, asking to be incorporated into a town.

Efforts for a division of the town into parishes were made as early as 1778. In the autumn of that year several persons residing in the vicinity of Shepard's mills petitioned to be set off' as a parish by them- selves; but the town refused to grant their request.

In the spring of 1779 the town chose a committee " to treat with sundry persons belonging to the north- westerly part of the town, who had petitioned to be set off as a parish." The committee was also authorized to treat with a number of inhabitants of the town, re- siding in the westerly part of the same, who desired to be set off to Duxbury school farm and the MIile Slip.

The second or northwest parish was organized June 30, 1781, and December 15, 1803, incorporated as the town of Mount Vernon.

The third or southwest parish was set off No- vember 23, 1782, and incorporated January 11, 1794, as the town of Milford.

March 14, 1768, the town

"l'oted to allow those persons in town that exerted themselves last fall, in order to have Amherst made a shire town, four pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, lawful money."

CHAPTER II. AMHERST-( Continued).

MILITARY HISTORY.

French and Indian Wars-Names of Soldiers-War of the Revolution- First Recorded Action of the Town-Amherst at Bunker Hill-Cap- tain Crosby's Company-Captain Towne's Company-Captain Levi Spaulding's Company-The Association Test-Names of Signers-Col- onel Baldwin's Regiment-Votes of the Town-Bounties-List of Ilevolutionary Soldiers-War of 1812-War of the Rebellion-The First War Meeting-The Home Guard-List of Soldiers-Soldiers' Monument.

AT a meeting held in the meeting-house, January 30, 1744-45, the proprietors

" l'oled, that they will allow the Inhabitants a stock of Ammunition to defend themselves in case there should be occasion."

This vote is the only one recorded which tells us of any action taken by the proprietors for the defense of the settlers against the attacks of the savages.

Tradition tells us that about this time seven gar- rison-houses were erected in different parts of the town, to which the inhabitants resorted in times of danger. Beside these, a block-house, or fort, is said to have been built for the protection of the settlers.

The House, May 15, 1747,

" Toted, that im answer to the two annexed Petitions, namely, that of Souhegan West and that of Monson, His Excellency be desired to give or lers for enlisting or impressing fifteen good, effective men to scout and guard, under proper officers, said Souhegan West and Monson, till the twentieth of October next, if need be, and that said men be shifted once a month."

Which was assented to by the Governor and Coun- cil.

Among the scouts employed by the province in 1748 we find the names of Daniel Wilkins and Win- col Wright, of Souhegan West, who were members of the company employed to guard Souhegan, Stark's and Monson garrisons that season.

The war came to a close in 1749, but was renewed in 1752, and continued until the cession of Canada to the English, in 1763.

Fortunately, no attack was made upon the settlers at Souhegan West by the enemy, and no account has reached us that any serious damage was done by them within its borders. A family tradition has reached us that a party of settlers, under the lead of Deacon Hobbs, had a smart fight with the Indians one Sun- day morning, in which the deacon handled his men so skillfully that no one of them was injured, while they were sure that some of the savages were killed. The Indians are reported to have said afterward, " Souhegan deacon no very good. He fight Sabba- day." On another occasion, while Lieutenant Joseph Prince was going, one evening, from his clearing to the garrison-house, which stood near where Mr. B. B. Whiting's house now stands, he heard an arrow whiz past his head. On his return, the following morning, he found it sticking in a tree near by the path he had followed.

Near the close of this war several of the inhab- itants served in the expeditions sent against the common enemy. Sergeant Ebenezer Lyon, John Everdeen, David Hartshorn, Jr., Samuel Lamson, Joseph Small and Thomas Williams served in Col- onel Blanchard's regiment at Crown Point, in 1755.

Humphrey Hobbs was a captain in the ranger service in 1755.

Lieutenant Ebenezer Lyon, Daniel Wilkins, Sam- uel Bradford, Israel Towne, Joseph Lovejoy, John Burns, Jonathan Lamson, Nathaniel Haseltine, Dan- iel Weston, Stephen Peabody and John Mills served in Colonel John Hart's regiment, at Crown Point, in 1758.

Benjamin Davis, John Mills, John Stewart and Robert Stewart were privates in Colonel John Goffe's regiment, at Crown Point, in 1760.

The first reference on the old town records in rela- tion to the Revolution is under date of December 27, 1774. when the town voted " to approve of the results of the Grand Congress, and strictly adhere to them," and chose a committee, consisting of Colonel John Shepard, Lieutenant Benjamin Kendrick, Nahum Baldwin, John Shepard, Jr., Esqr., Dr. Moses Nieh- olls, Daniel Campbell, Esq., Josiah Sawyer, Joseph Gould, Paul Dudley Sargent, Thomas Burns and Samuel Wilkins, to carry into effect the association agreement in this town. If any break over said agree- ment, the committee [are] ordered to publish the same in the newspapers.

The town was represented by one of its citizens in

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the "tea-party," in December, 1773, and in the Con- cord " fight," in 1775.

March 13, 1775, voted three pounds nineteen shil- lings to Mr. Sargent for his time and expenses at Exeter.

April 19, 1775. The attack upon the Lexington mili- tia by the British troops aroused the country. In many of the towns in Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire companies of Minute-Men had been formed and drilled in anticipation of the coming conflict. The company in Amherst repaired at once to Cambridge.

The following will give us some idea of the enthu- siasm of the people after receiving the news of the fight at Lexington and Concord. It is also an honor- able tribute to Colonel John Shepard, one of the prominent citizens of the town :

"This certifies that Esq. Shepard in April, 1775, went with a Detach- ment of the Melitia, of about one hundred men, from Amherst to Cam- bridge, aided, assisted, and comforted them, and at Cambridge left with them two Spanish milled dollars.

" JOSIAH CROSBY."

Nor was this all Colonel Shepard left with the "melitia." On the back of the certificate is a list of other articles left, as follows : Pork, fifty-seven and a half pounds, one-half bushel beans, one and a half bushels to Sargent, some bread and one and a half bushels meal.

By the census taken that year, Amherst had three hundred and twenty-eight men above sixteen years of age, fifty-three of whom were over fifty years old. Of these, Captain Crosby says "about one hundred," or over thirty per cent., went to Cambridge. The cen- sus returns report " eighty-one men in the army."

AMIIERST MEN IN THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.

Stephen Peabody, adjutant of Colonel Reed's regiment.

Amherst soldiers in Cuptain Crosby's company.

Josiah Crosby, captain ; Daniel Wilkins, Jr., first lieutenent ; Thomp- son Maxwell, second lieutenant ; John Mills, William Bradford, David Ramsay, Josiah Sawyer, sergeants; Lemuel Winchester, Eleazer W. Kingsbury, Peter Goss, Eli Wilkins, corporals ; Thomas Powell, drum- mer ; Jabez Holt, fifer ; Joshua Abbott, Nathaniel Barret, Joseph Bow- tal, Alexander Brown, Jonathan Burnam, Joshua Burnam, Thomas Clark, Robert Cochran, John Cole, Stephen Crosby, Nathaniel Crosby, Jacob Curtice, Benjamin Davis, Thaddeus Fitch, Amos Flint, Thomas Giles, James Gilmore, Stephen Hill, Joel Howe, Archelans Kenney, Solomon Kittredge, Jeremiah Lamson, Andrew Leavitt, Joseph Leavitt, Joslina Pettingill, Nourse Sawyer, James Simpson, Jonathan Small, Samuel Sternes, Jonathan Taylor, Rufus Trask, Eben Wakefield, Joseph Wakefield, Joseph Wallace, Sutherick Weston, Jonathan Wilkins, Sam- uel Williams, Isaac Wright.

In Captain _trchelaus Torne's company, then in Stark's Regiment.

Archelaus Towne, captain ; William Read, corporal ; Nathan Kendall, Jr., fifer ; Benjamin Merrill, Moses Barron, Jacob Blodgett, Stephen Gould, Samuel Lamson, Adam Patterson, Peter Robertson, Bartholomew Towne, Archelaus Towne, Jr., Reuben Wheeler.

In Captain Levi Spaulding's company, Reed's regiment.

Joseph Bradford, first lieutenant ; Benjamin Dike, corporal ; William Brown, Richard Goodman, William Tuck, Richard IInghes, Robert B. Wilkins.

Captain Towne's company was at first a part of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment, under the command of Colonel Bridge. At the time of the battle of Bunker Hill it was one of the thirteen com-

panies in the First New llampshire, or Stark's regiment.

Peter Robertson, a private in this company, was wounded while crossing " the neck" on his way to Bunker Hill by a cannon-ball, which carried away his right hand. He received a pension of twenty shillings per month from the State, commencing January 1, 1776.

John Cole, a private in Captain Crosby's company, was killed in the battle, and Robert B. Wilkins, of Captain Spaulding's company, was wounded in the right elbow by a musket-ball.

After the battle Captain Crosby made a return of the losses sustained by the members of his company, as follows :

" An account of things that was lost at the Battle of Bunker's hill, on the 17th of June, 1775, belonging to Capt. ('rosby's company : viz., Capt. Crosby's things are I pistol & 1 pair of worsted stockings; Lieut. Daniel Wilkins, 1 cotton shirt ; Ens'n Thompson Maxwell, I fine shirt & I powder-horn ; Adj't Stephen Peabody, 1 blanket & 1 shirt ; Quarter- Master Frye, 1 coat & 1 hat ; Serg't William Bradford, I shirt ; Serg'L Lemuel Winchester, 1 pair of shoes ; Eli Wilkins, 1 blanket & 1 bullet mold ; Alexander Brown, I cotton shirt, 1 pair of stockings, & 1 gnap- sack ; Thaddeus Fitch, I shirt, I pair calfskin pumps, 1 pair trowzers, & gnapsack ; Samuel Stearnes, 1 pair of shoes; Stephen Crosby, I great coat & 1 shirt ; Jona. Wilkins, 1 shirt ; Thomas Giles, I gun, 1 cartooch box, and 1 jacket ; Thomas Perry, I woolen shirt, I powder-horn, & L gnapsack ; Joseph Boutel, I pair of stockings, I pair of Leather Breeches ; Nathaniel Barret, 1 gnapsack, 1 pair of shoes and buckles, & I handker- chief ; Sam'l Williams, I shirt, & I handkerchief, & 1 gun ; James Gil- more, 1 blanket, 1 handkerchief ; Joseph Wakefield, 1 p'r deerskin breeches, 1 cartooch box ; Eben'r Wakefield, 1 sett of shoemaker's tools, 1 shirt, 2 p'rs stockings, & I p'r shoes ; Daniel Kenney, 1 great coat & 1 gun ; Joseph Wallis, I pair shoes ; Andrew Leavitt, I coverlid, 1 p'r stockings, I gnapsack, & handkerchief ; Josiah Sawyer, 1 gun, 1 coat, I powder-horn, & 1 Bible ; Joshua Abbot, 1 gnapsack & p'r stockings ; Joshua Abbot, 1 gnapsack & p'r of stockings.

" JOSIAH CROSBY, ('apt."

Andrew Leavitt, Samuel Robertson, William Wakefield and Eben Wincol Wright enlisted into the company June 19, 1775. Of these, Leavitt seems to have been in the battle two days before.

Captain Crosby's company was present when Wash- ington took command of the army, July 2, 1775.

From a return made of Captain Crosby's company, June 21, 1775, we learn that on that day there were present and fit for duty one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, three sergeants, four corporals, one drum- mer and thirty privates, -total, forty-one.

Two privates were sick, one was wounded, one at- tended the wounded, three were absent on furlough, two had deserted, one was on command, three were in the train, four were absent without leave and one was missing,-total, eighteen.

This was styled the Ninth Company. The privates were paid forty shillings per month for their services, and the term of their enlistment was eight months; many, however, continued in the army until the Brit- ish evacuated Boston, in March, 1776; some even longer.

Quartermaster Isaac Frye, of Wilton, reported the rations dealt out to them for several days as follows : "1775, July 3 to 8 ; 50 men present who received 51 loaves bread ; 65 lbs. pork ; 126 lbs, beef ; 176 gills rice ; 44 gallons beer.

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"July 14 to 18; 54 men present received 54 loaves bread ; 54 lbs. pork ; 155 lbs. beer; 189 gills rice.

" July 28 to August 1 ; 54 men present received 54 loaves bread ; 671/2 lbs. pork ; 6736 lbs. beef; 180 gills rice ; 6712 lbs. codfish, and 20 lbs. butter."

It appears from official documents that the State furnished five hundred and fifty-four gallons of New England rum and seventeen hundred and fifty-nine and a half gallons of West India rum for the use of its soldiers while engaged around Boston in 1775.

In compliance with the earnest entreaties of General Sullivan, thirty-one companies, numbering sixty-one men each, were sent from New Hampshire to Winter Hill, near Boston, in December, 1775, to take the place of the Connecticut troops stationed there, who insisted on returning home, as the term of their enlist- ment had expired. The names of the commissioned officers of these companies alone have been pre- served. Benjamin Taylor, of Amherst, was captain ; Nathan Ballard, of Wilton, first lieutenant; and John Bradford, of Amherst, ensign of the company raised in Amherst and Wilton.

Captain Taylor died at Medford in February, 1776, before the expiration of the time for which he en- listed.

Jonathan Burnham was paid £12 4s. 10d., for mus- tering in the thirty-one companies of New Hamp- shire militia that served on Winter Hill in the winter of 1775-76.

A regiment was raised in December, 1775, and placed under the command of Colonel Timothy Bedel, which was ordered to join the northern army in New York, with which it was to march to reinforce the army in Canada. In one of the companies in this regiment we find the following Amherst men :

Daniel Wilkins, Jr., captain ; John Mills, second lieutenant ; Wil- liam Bradford, ensign ; Benjamin Dike, sergeant; Sutherick Weston, Joslma Abbott, Samuel Sternes, corporals; Thomas Powell, drummer; Jabez Holt, fifer ; William Brown, Amos Boutwell, Pimus Chandler (colored), James Clark, James Cochran, Robert Cochran, Isaac Palmer Curtice, Stephen Curtice, Roger Dutton, John Farnham, Laraford Gil- bort, Obadiah Holt, Solomon Kittredge, Jeremiah Lamson, Joseph Love- joy, Hugh Mckean, Thomas Melendy, Aaron Nichols, Isaac Stearns, Daniel Wilkins, (3d), Sylvester Wilkins, Andrew Wilkins, John Wiley.

The following Amherst men, mustered by Colonel Nahum Baldwin, April 15, 1776, were a part of a company commanded by Captain Timothy Clement, which was sent to Portsmouth to assist in guarding the sea-coast and the forts in the harbor :

William Stewart, onsign ; Nathan Abbot, Silas Cooledge, Jonathan Dutton, David Fisk, Richard Goodman, Joshua Kendall, Zephaniah Kit- tredge, MAmund Lyon, Jonathan Lyon, Ebenezer Odall, Robert Parker, Samuel Shepard, John Stearns, Asa Swinnerton, Archelaus Towne, Jr., Il-ury Trivel.

This company, with others, was organized into a regiment, September 25, 1776, which was placed un - der the command of Colonel Pierce Long. On the 23d November following, it was ordered to Ticonderoga, to which place it marched in February, 1777.

The following citizens of Amherst signed the " As- sociation Test." For convenience of reference the names are placed in alphabetical order, and the

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History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Part 55

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis Number of Pages: 1168

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1168