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names of those who served in the army are printed in italics :
Darius Abbott, Ephraim Abbott, Ebenezer Averil, John Averil, Thomas Averil, Jr., Nahum Baldwin, Ephraim Barker, Nathaniel Barrett, Moses Burron, Samuel Blasdell, Jacab Blodgett, Joseph Boutell, Joseph Boutell (2d), Kendall Boutell, Reuben Bontell, Andrew Bradford, Enos Bradford, John Bradford, William Brad- ford, George Burns, John Burns, John Burns, Jr., John Burns (3d), Thomas Burns, Stephen Burnam, Oliver Carleton, Thomas Carrell, Thomas Clark, Nathan Cleaves, John Cochran, Joseph Coggin, Heury Codman, William Codman, John Cole, Nuthan Cole, Josiah Crosby, Sam- son Crosby, Silas Cummings, Jacob Curtice, Jacob Curtice, Jr., Benjamin Day, John Damon, Bartholomew Dodge, Benjamin Dodge, Josiah Dodge, David Duncklee, John Duncklee, Joseph Duncklee, Francis Elliott, Joseph Farnum, Stephen Faruum, Elisha Felton, William Fisk, William Fisk, Jr., Amos Flint, Amos Flint, Jr., Nathan Flint, Ephraim French, Nathan Fuller, James Gage, James Gilmore, Allen Goodridge, Amos Green, David Green, John Grimes, Jonathan Grimes, Joseph Gould, Richard Gould, Samuel Hall, Samuel Harris, Benjamin Harts- horn, James Hartshorn, John Hurtshorn, John Harwood, Nathaniel Haseltine, Samuel Henry, Timothy Ilill, Ephraim Hildreth, David Hil- dreth, Jacob Hildreth, William. Hogg, Eben Holt, Jr., Isaac Holt, Reuben Holt, Isaac How, Joel Howe, Benjamin Hopkins, Benjamin Hopkins, Jr., Ebenezer llopkins, Richard Hughes, Abner Hutchinson, Eben Hutchin- son, Elisha Hutchinson, Nathan Hutchinson, Nathan Hutchinson (2d), Nathan Jones, Nathan Jones, Jr., Michael Kieff, John Kendall, Jr., Nathan Kendall, Benjamin Kenriek, Josiah Kidder. Heury Kimball, Moses Kimball, Solomon Kittredge, Jonathan Lampson, William Lampson, Joseph Langdell, Francis Lovejoy, Hezekiah Lovejoy, Jacob Lovejoy, John Lovejoy, William Low, Jonathan Lund, Jonathan Lyon, Thomas McAl- lister, James McKean, Robert Means, William Melendy, Jr., Benjamin Merrill, John Mitchell, Dimond Muzzy, Moses Nichols, Timothy Nichols, William Odell, William Odell, Jr., Robert Parker, Adam Patterson, John Patterson, Stephen Peabody, William Peabody, William Peabody, Jr., William Peacock, Joseph Pierce, Joseph Prince, [Joseph Prince, Jr., Ebenezer Rea, Robert Read, William Read, Peter Robertson, Jolin Roby, Joseph Rollings, Jonathan Sawyer, Josiah Sawyer, Josiah Sawyer, Jr., John Secombe, James Seeton, John Seeton, John Shepard, Jr., Joseph Small, William Small, William Small, Jr., Daniel Smith, Isaac Smith, Jacob Smith, Jonathan Smith, Timothy Smith, Jacob Standley, Samuel Stanley, Joseph Steel, Joseph Steel, Jr., Daniel Stephens, Samuel Sternes, Simpson Stewart, Amos Stickney, Samuel Stratton, Jonathan Taylor, Samuel Taylor, William Taylor, Benjamin Temple, Ebenezer Temple, Archelaus Towne, Israel Towne, Israel Towne, Jr., Thomas Towne, Thomas Towne (20), David Truel, John Tuck, John Twiss, Jonathan Twiss, Phinehas Upham, Ezekiel Upton, Thomas Wakefield, Jr., Joseph Wallace, William Wallace, Richard Ward, John Washer, Stephen Washer, Ebenezer Weston, Isaac Weston, Thomas Weston, Abijah Wilkins, John Wilkins, Jonathan Wilkins, Jr., Joshua Wilkins, William Wilkins, Lemuel Winchester, James Woodbury, Peter Woodbury, Isaac Wright, Joshua Wright.
" To the Hon'ble, The Committee of Safety for the State of New Hampshire. or the General .Issembly thereof :
"Pursuant to the Request on this paper from the Committee of Safety to us directed, we have invited those Persons therein named to sign the Declaration on this paper, and all that have seen it have signed it except Joshua Atherton, Esq., Mr. Daniel Campbell, Mr. Samnel Dodge and Col. John Shepard.
" THOMAS WAKEFIELD, REUBEN MUSSEY, SAMUEL WILKINS,
-Selectmen."
A regiment was raised in July, 1776, to reinforce the army in Canada. It was commanded by Colonel Isaac Wyman, was mustered in July 16, 1776, and served about three and a half months.
In a company in this regiment, commanded by Captain William Barron, of Merrimack, we find the following soldiers from Amherst :
James Gilmore, ensign : Nathaniel Hazeltine, Ephraim French, ser- geants; Aaron Boutell, Benjamin Clark, Jonathan Lamson, Ebenezer Rea, William Small, Jr., William Stewart and George Wilson, privates.
In Captain William Harper's company were Silas
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Cooledge, Zephaniah Kittredge, Robert Parker and Joseph Perkins, privates.
In Captain Samuel Wetherbee's company were John Averill and Timothy Nichols, Jr., privates.
Stephen Peabody, of Amherst, was major of the regiment.
Colonel Baldwin's Regiment .- This regiment was raised in September, 1776, and marched to assist the army in New York. It was in the battle at White Plains, October 28, 1776, and was dismissed at North Castle, N. Y., about the 1st of December of that year. Amherst was represented in this regiment by Colonel Nahum Baldwin, and the following men who served in the company commanded by Captain Philip Putman, of Wilton :
William Low, ensign ; Elijah Averill, Reuben Boutell, Ebenezer Carlton, John Cochran, Jonathan Cochran, Stephen Farnum, John Grimes, John Hartshorn, Joel Howe, Francis Lovejoy, Isaac Peabody, Abel Prince, James Rea, Benjamin Smith, Daniel Smith, Benjamin Tay- lor, Richard Towne, Thomas Towne, Aaron Upton, Joseph Wallace and Jonathan Wilkins, privates.
In Captain Read's company were William Read, captain, and Andrew Elliot, private.
Another regiment was raised in December, 1776, to reinforce the army in Northern New York. This was placed under the command of Colonel David Gilman. In this regiment the following Amherst men served in the company commanded by Captain William Walker, of Dunstable : Jonathan Cochran, Isaac P. Curtice, Jacob Curtice, Roger Dutton, Stephen Gould, Abiel Holt, Ebenezer Odell, John Taylor, Robert B. Wilkins.
A special town-meeting, held May 22, 1775, was the last one called in " His Majesty's " name in Amherst. The constables were simply directed by the selectmen to warn the inhabitants of the town of Amherst to the next meeting, held August 14, 1775. A meeting, held October 24, 1775, was called in the name of the " Province" of New Hampshire. After this, until the Declaration of Independence, the town-meetings were called in the name of the " Colony of New Hampshire." Since September 11, 1776; the meetings of the town have been called in the name of the " State of New Hampshire."
Parties of Loyalists, or Tories, were sent by the authorities of the State of New York to be confined in the jails in New Hampshire. Of these, the follow- ing were ordered to be sent to Amherst jail, Novem- ber 22, 1776 :
Alexander Andrews, Peter Brown (to be kept in irons), Thomas Bullis, William Burns, Nathaniel Douglas, Jonathan Farmachiff, John Feathı- ers, John Hitchcock, Laughlin McGaffin, Isaac Man, Abraham Nath (to be in irons), Thomas Pearson, Johannes Vanzelin and James Waddie.
Not liking their accommodations, the prisoners soon broke jail and escaped.
Other parties of New York Loyalists were sent to Amherst jail. They were supplied with such clothing as they stood in need of at the expense of the State. The expenses of their confinement were afterward re- paid by the State of New York.
The following action in regard to the estate of Zaccheus Cutler, Esq., was taken by the town at a meeting, held April 30, 1776:
" Whereas, Zaccheus Cutler, formerly of Amherst, in the County of Hillsborough and Colony of New llampshire, has in a very daring man- ner proved himself inimical to his country, and absconded from Amherst aforesaid, and joined our unnatural onemies at Boston, at the same time leaving behind him lands, buildings, &c., to a considerable value. And for prevention of his estate coming to strip and waste, we, the inhabitants of Amherst, pass the following votes, viz. :
" Voted to improve the estate of Zaccheus Cutler, Esq.
" Voted their Committee of Safety be a committee to improve said esfate.
" l'oted the manner of improving said estate be left discretionary with said committee.
" Voted said Committee pay the profits arising on said improvement to him or them whose right it may be to make a demand therefor."
Against this action of the town Colonel John Shepard, Captain Israel Towne, Ensign William Peabody and Mr. Thomas Towne entered their pro- test, for reasons "that would be given at a proper time, if called for."
July 18, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was received and proclaimed by Moses Kelley, Esq., sheriff of the county, with beat of drum from the horse-block, which then stood on the common in front of the meeting-house.
March 31, 1777. The town voted to remit the poll- tax of those persons who served as soldiers in the Continental army the whole of last year.
June 10, 1777. Voted, in case there should be an immediate call for men to serve in the Continental army, to allow those who are disposed to enlist the same encouragement they have lieretofore paid, and to assess the amount necessary for this purpose upon the polls and estates of the inhabitants of the town.
Captain Stephen Peabody, Captain Hezekiah Love- joy and Mr. Solomon Kittredge were appointed a com- mittee to procure soldiers on the terms mentioned above.
Colonel Nahum Baldwin, Mr. Stephen Burnam, Mr. William Wallace, Mr. Andrew Bradford and Mr. Timothy Smith were chosen a committee to affix and settle prices upon sundry articles.
In a return, made by Colonel Moses Nichols, March 19, 1779, we have the names of the men employed by the town to fill its quota in the Continental army in the years 1777, 1778 and 1779, the period of their enlist- ment, and the regiments and companies in which they served, as follows :
Stephen Abbott, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Elijalı Averill, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Joshua Blodgett, ('illey's regiment, Richards' company, for three years ; Peter Brewer, Cilley's regiment, Morrill's company, for the war ; William Brown, ('illey's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; James Cochran, ('illey's regiment, Scott's company, for three years ; Jonathan Cochran, Cilley's regiment, Scott's company, for three years ; Robert Cochran, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for the war ; Silas Cooledge, Villey's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Robert Cunningham, Jr., Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Robert Cunningham, ('illey's regiment, Richards' company, for three years ; Ezekiel Davis, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Joseph Davis, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Benjamin Dike, Villey's regiment, Wait's company, for three years; John Dow, Cilley's regi-
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ment, Richards' company, for three years ; John Dutton, Cilley's regi- ment, Wait's company, for three years ; Richard Goodman, Scammel's regiment, Frye's company, for three years; Jude Hall, Cilley's regi- ment, Richards' company, for three years ; Henry Harris, Cilley's regi- ment, Wait's company, for three years ; Richard Hughes, Scammel's regiment, Frye's company, for three years ; Daniel Kidder, Cilley's regi- ment, Morrill's company, for three years ; Robert Parker, Cilley's regi- ment Wait's company, for three years; Thomas Powell, Scammer's regiment, Frye's company, for three years ; William Shaddock, Cilley's regiment, Morrill's company, for three years; Isaac Smith, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Isaac Stearns, Cilley's regi- ment, Wait's company, for three years ; John Taggart, filley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years; Nathan Tuttle, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years ; Renben Wheeler, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years; Asa Wilkins, Scammel's regiment, Frye's company, for three years; Robert B. Wilkins, Scammel's regi- ment, Frye's company, for three years ; Sylvester Wilkins, Cilley's regi- ment, Wait's company, for three years ; George Wilson, Cilley's regiment, Wait's company, for three years.
John Rano was hired by Amherst, but afterward decided to belong to Andover.
Peter Brewer was a colored man, from New Boston.
Jude Hall, another colored man, was from Ken- sington.
Joshua Blodgett was from Litchfield.
Silas Cooledge and John Taggart, from Hills- borough.
The Cunninghams, from Derryfiekl.
William Shaddock, from Boscawen.
On the advance of General Burgoyne's army toward Ticonderoga, in the summer of 1777, thousands of volunteers marched from various places in New England to assist in the defense of that stronghold-
Two companies, under the command of Major Abial Abbot, of Wilton, marched, June 30, 1777, for the threatened fortress. On reaching Charlestown (No. 4), they were ordered home, but when they had reached Dublin, on their return, they received orders " to march with all speed to Ticonderoga." When they reached Otter Creek they heard of its evacuation.
AMHERST MEN IN THESE COMPANIES.
In Captain Prabody's Company.
Captain Stephen Peabody, Lieutenant John Bradford, Ensign John Patterson, Corporal Amos Elliot, Nathan Cole, Josiah Crosby, Stephen Crosby, William Crosby, Isaac P. Curtice, Jacob Curtice, Roger Dutton, Ebenezer Hutchinson, Jonathan Lamson, John Lovejoy, William Low, Jonathan Lyon, Benjamin Merrill, Timothy Nichols, Jr., Adam Patter- son, Thomas Peabody, Abel Prince, Josiah Sawyer, John Stewart, Simp- son Stewart, Benjamin Taylor, John Wallace, Stephen Washer Jonathan Williams.
In Captain Nathan Ballard's Company.
First Lieutenant Joseph Farmum, Second Lieutenant Eli Wilkins, Sergeant Nathan Hutchinson, Moses Averill, Saminel Curtice, Allen Goodridge, Na Lewis, Aaron Nichols, Ebenezer Odell, Moses Peabody, Benjamin Sawyer, Daniel Smith, Samuel Stewart, William Stewart, William Talbert, Heury Trivett, Thomas Underwood, Solomon Washer.
In the battle of Bennington the regiment com- manded by Colonel Nichols, of Amherst, commenced the attack, and Captain John Bradford, of the Amherst company, is said to have been the second man who mounted the Hessian breast-work.
The Amherst men engaged in the battle were :
Colonel Moses Nichols, commanding a regiment ; Colonel Stephen Pea- Ionly, aid to General Stark ; John Bradford, captain ; John Mills, first lieutenant ; Joseph Farnum, second lieutenant : John Patterson. ensign ; Joel Howe, Nathaniel Hazeltine, Jonathan Wilkins, James Gilmore,
sergeants ; Nathan Cole, Jacob Curtice, Amos Elliott, corporals ; Ren- ben Boutell, David Burnam, Israel Burnam, Jonathan Burnam, Stephen Crosby, William Crosby, Isaac Curtis, Samuel Curtis, Stephen Curtis, Roger Dutton, Jedidiah Ellinwood, John Everdon, Laraford Gilbert, Allen Goodridge, Daniel Green, Samuel Harris, William Hogg, Obadiah Holt, Joseph Jewett, Caleb Jones, Eli Kimball, Solomon Kittredge, Jon- athan Lamson, Asa Lewis, Benjamin Merrill, Ebenezer Odell, Joshua l'ettingilt, James Ray, Benjamin Sawyer, Andrew Shannon, Benjamin Stearns, Sanmel Stewart, Simpson Stewart, Benjamin Taylor, llenry Trivett, John Wallace, Eli Wilkins, George Wilson, privates.
In Captain Ford's company, Nichols' regiment, were Silas Gould, Solomon Hutchinson, Robert Parker and Eleazer Usher.
Colonel Nichols was employed seventy-two days in this campaign; Captain Bradford and company seventy-one days. They received £243 as bounty and advance wages at the time of their enlistment, and £461 78. 9d. as a balance, due for their services, October 18, 1777.
Archelaus Towne, Archelaus Towne, Jr., Francis Grimes and William Ilogg marched and joined the army under General Gates, at Saratoga, in September, 1777.
Among the old papers in the office of the Secretary of State is the following order for payment of supplies furnished for the Bennington expedition :
"STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, April 2, 1779.
" To Nicholas Gilman, Esq., R. G. :
"Pursuant to a vote of Council and Assembly, pay Josiah Crosby and Ilezekialı Lovejoy twenty-five pounds, twelve shillings, for camp uten- sils for Gen. Stark's brigade.
" £25 128.
"M. WEARE, Presid't."
A brigade of the New Hampshire militia, under the command of General William Whipple, was sent to Rhode Island in the summer of 1778, to assist in an attack upon the British forces stationed there.
Colonel Moses Nichols commanded one of the reg- iments, Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Peabody one of the battalions. Captain John Bradford was adjutant in Colonel Nichols' regiment, and Colonel Daniel Warner quartermaster.
The following Amherst men served in Colonel Nichols' regiment, in the company commanded by Captain Josiah Crosby :
Josiah Crosby, captain ; Hezekiah Lovejoy, lieutenant ; John Mills, Josiah Crosby, Jr., Allen Goodridge, sergeants; John Cole, Jonathan Wilkins, corporals ; John Boutell, Enos Bradford, John Carlton, Daniel Chandler, Stephen Crosby, Silas Cummings, James Ellinwood, John Ev- erden, Stephen Farnum, Benjamin Lewis, Reuben D. Mussey, Timothy Nichols, Jr., Ebenezer Odell, John Odell, Peter Robinson, Joseph Rol- lins, Jacob Stanley, Samuel Stanley, Jotham Stearns, Thomas Stevens, William Stewart, Benjamin Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, William Talbert, Bartholomew Towne, Solomon Washer, privates.
In Captain Reynolds' company were Roger Dut- ton, Ebenezer Odell, Joshua Pettingill, James Ray, John Stevens and John Wallace, privates.
In Captain Dearborn's company were William Hastings, Andrew Burnam, John Ellsworth.
March 8, 1779. Benjamin Hopkins, Jr., William Odell and James Woodbury were chosen a committee to provide for the families of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers belonging to this town in the army.
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June 7, 1779. The town voted " that they will take a method to raise the soldiers called for to serve in the Continental army."
June 29, 1779. Voted to add fifty bushels of Indian corn, or its equivalent in currency, to the State and Continental bounties offered each soldier who shall enlist during the war, and the raising of the soldiers on the above encouragement was referred to the com- missioned officers (of the militia).
August 5, 1779. Mr. Timothy Smith, Colonel Stephen Peabody and Captain John Bradford were appointed a committee to procure the quotas of men which should hereafter be required of the town during the war.
September 15, 1779. Voted to raise twenty thou- sand dollars for hiring their quotas of men for carry- ing on the war in the future, and the selectmen were directed to assess the above sum in the common way of assessing, and pay it into the town treasury as it is collected.
At a meeting, held November 2, 1779, the town voted to allow credit to those persons who had done more than their proportion in carrying on the present war.
Nine men were furnished for the Continental army in 1779, to serve one year, as follows :
Samuel Clark, enlisted July 14, 1779 ; discharged August 20, 1780. Charles Davenport, enlisted July 14, 1779 ; discharged August 20, 1780. Calvin Honey, enlisted August 7, 1779 ; discharged Angust 7, 1780. Abraham Littlehale, enlisted July 24, 1779 ; discharged July 24, 1780. John McKean, enlisted July 20, 1779 ; discharged June 20, 1780. Joseph Perkins, enlisted July 13, 1779; discharged June 20, 1780. Joseph Rawlins, enlisted August 14, 1779 ; discharged August 20, 1780. Archelaus Towne, enlisted July 21, 1779 ; died December 1, 1779. Joseph Wilson, enlisted July 27, 1779; discharged June 20, 1780.
Soldiers at Rhode Island, 1779 .- Colonel Her- cules Mooney commanded a regiment sent to Rhode Island from this State in the spring of 1779, to assist the army stationed there. The following Amherst men served in this regiment, in the company com- manded by Captain Daniel Emerson, of Hollis:
Moses Barron, ensign ; Moses Averill, drummer ; John Carlton, Al- pheus Crosby, John Odell and Levi Woodbury
In September of this year Captain Hezekiah Love- joy and Joseph Nichols enlisted for six months in the garrison at Portsmouth.
Eleven men were furnished for the Continental army in 1780,-
Peter Abbot, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 6, 1780. Robert Campbell, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 21, 1780. Alpheus Crosby, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 6, 1780. Stephen Crosby, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 4, 1780. Isaac Curtice, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 4, 1780. Jacob Doyen, enlisted June 29 ; discharged December 31, 1780. Obadiah Holt, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 18, 1780. Jacob Stanley, enlisted July 8; discharged December 18, 1780. Jotham Stearns, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 6, 1780. Bimsley Stevens, enlisted June 29 ; discharged December 21, 1780. Jesse Woodbury, enlisted July 8 ; discharged December 6, 1780.
A regiment under the command of Colonel Moses Nichols served three months at West Point in the autumn of 1780. Dr. Henry Codman was surgeon.
In the company commanded by Captain William Barron, of Merrimack, we find the following Am- herst men:
Daniel Averill, Nahum Baldwin, Jr., Andrew Bradford, Daniel Ken- ny, Henry Kimball, David Melvin, Joseph Nichols, Benjamin Stearns, William Tolbert, William Wallace (fifer), Daniel Weston. William Brown served in another company.
Seventy-four men, including those then in the field, being called for to serve three years, or during the war, the town, at a meeting held February 8, 1781, appointed Captain Nathan Hutchinson, Captain Israel Towne and Amos Flint a committee to raise the men required.
Captain Hezekiahı Lovejoy, Thomas Wakefield, Daniel Campbell, Benjamin Davis, Eli Wilkins and Lieutenant Ebenezer Weston were subsequently added to the committee, who were authorized to hire money to procure the men needed.
The families of William Brown, James Cochran, Richard Hughes, Farrar Miller, Nathan Tuttle and Joseph Wilson, soldiers in the Continental army, were assisted by the town this year, 1781.
John Abbot Goss, Francis Lovejoy, Joseph Love- joy, Joseph Pedrick and Daniel Wilkins (3d) were mustered in March 5, 1781, to fill the quota of three years' men required of the town at that time.
In July, 1781, nine men were required to serve six months and the requisition was filled by Nahum Baldwin, Jr., Ebenzer Curtice, David Hildreth, Caleb Hunt, Henry Hunt, Michael Kieff, Joseph Nichols, Allen Stewart and William Cowen (but there is no record that he joined the army until December following, when he enlisted for three years).
Late in the summer of 1781 eleven men were called for to serve three months. They marched September 23d of that year. In the selectmen's account they are mentioned as "11 soldiers at Charles- town, 1781," and were probably raised in apprehen- sion of trouble on the western and northern frontiers of the State. Their names were Peter Abbot, Daniel Averill, Elijah Averill, George Christopher, Paul Crosby, John Fields, Edward Hartshorn, Joshua Heywood, Samuel Phelps, Peter Wakefield and Dan- iel Weston, and they served in a company com- manded by Captain John Mills.
Among the papers in the adjutant-general's office, in Concord, is the following account of beef and fat cattle collected for the army in the town of Am- herst by Francis Blood, in the year 1781 :
" July 23, 2 cattle weighing 1250 lbs.
Ang. 7, 6 =
3140 4
Aug. 22, 1
2775
Oct. 9, 7 . . 4355
Nov. 19, 9
4185 66
Beef furnished by Nichols 8560 66
Total . 24,565 lbs.
" Being the amount the town was required to furnish."
In 1782 fourteen three years' men were required
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to fill the town's quota in the Continental army, and the following men were furnished .
James Anld, Andrew Bradford, Enoch Carlton, Ephraim Goss, Peter Goss, Henry Handley, William Haywood, Adam Patterson, John Pea- body, Thomas Peabody, Alexander Runnels, Benjamin Tuck, Daniel Weston and John Grout.
Peter Abbott, fifer, Moses Pettengill and James MeKean, privates, enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Webster, which was raised for the protection of the northern frontiers of the State in 1782.
Stephen Dike, of Amherst, served six months for New Boston, in 1781.
David Truel, Jr., served six months for Merrimack, in 1781; and William Henry Wilkins, son of the minister, enlisted to serve three years for Candia, in June, 1777, but died at Yellow Springs, Pa., June 22, 1778.
Luther Dana served in the navy a short time, near the close of the war.
Captain Joseph Perkins served on board a privateer vessel, which was taken by the British, and he was carried a prisoner of war to England, where he was confined for some time.
Levi Woodbury served on the privateer " Essex," which was taken, and he was carried to England, a prisoner of war, where he died.
Jonathan Wilkins served on the ship "Hague," and was wounded in an action with a British vessel.
April 11, 1782. More soldiers having been called for to fill the town's quota, the town voted to add Lieutenant Darius Abbot, Robert Means, William Lampson, Samuel Dodge, Captain William Dana and Captain Ephraim Hildreth to the committee to hire soldiers.
October 29, 1782. The sum of thirty pounds was granted for the support of the families of Joseph Lovejoy and Daniel Wilkins, Jr., the same to be in- dorsed on the securities given them by the town's committee for hiring soldiers.
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