History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 31

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1520

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" Voted, That the Committee be directed to instruct Col. Gordon Hutchins to apply to the Courts of Judicature of this State to dismiss Peter Green, Esq., from all Business henceforth and forever.

" Voted, That if any Persons have any Dealings with Peter Green, Esq., Mr. John Stevens, Mr. Nathaniel Green and Dr. Philip Caragain, before they give satisfaction to the Public, that they be looked upon as Enemies to their Country hy this Parich.

" Voted, That the Committee of Safety be directed to instruct Cul Gordon Hutchins to apply to Capt. Parker, the Sheriff for the County of Rockingham, to dismiss Mr. Jacob Greeu from the office of Deputy Sheriff.

" A true copy - " Examined by TIMOTHY WALKER, Jr., Clerk "

In accordance with the spirit of the above votes, some of the zealous liberty-men of the west part of the town meditated something a little more personal. About nine o'clock one morning Colonel Timothy Walker had just mounted his horse to ride away on business, when he observed a considerable number of West Parish men walking with quick steps by the meeting- house, towards Main Street; and behind them, at some distance, John Bradley, Esq., with a more deliberate step, and apparently in deep thought. Meeting at the corner, by Mr. Hanniford's house, Colonel Walker said, "Good morning, Esq. Bradley ; what's going on ?" "I thought I would walk down and see," said Mr. Bradley. They followed on, and found the West Parish men at " Mother Osgood's " taveru, in high excitement, threatening to go at once and pull down Esq. Peter Green's house. On the arrival of Colonel Walker and Mr. Bradley, they entered into a discussion with the West Parish men on the merits of the case, and detained thiem from executing their purpose till near sun-down. Then, inviting them all into " Mother Osgood's " tavern, they called for bowls of punch, and treated the com- pany liberally. All being by this time in a better mood, Colonel Walker made a brief speech, which he

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closed by saying, "Every man to his tent, O Israel !" and they quietly dispersed without tearing down Esq. Green's house !

However, soon after this, Peter Green, Esq., John Stevens and others were arrested, carried to Exeter and confined in jail. Liberty was granted them to take the oath of allegiance, as a condition of release, which all did except John Stevens. He swore he was as good a friend to his country as any who had caused his arrest, and he never would take the oath required. He was finally discharged from jail, by special order of the Legislature, in 1778. The town also voted, March 4, 1783, to "consider the vote formerly passed to break off all dealings with Mr. John Stevens, and that said vote be made null and void."

May 22d a committee was chosen to carry into exe- cution an "act for regulating prices of sundry articles."

July 5th, Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrish, of Boscawen, raised a company in Concord and adjacent towns for the relief of the garrison at Ticonderoga. News of the evacuation of the fort soon arrived, and the com- pany was disbanded.

The year 1777 is memorable on account of the battle of Bennington, in which General John Stark, with his New Hampshire volunteers, defeated Colonel Baum, and thus ultimately led to the defeat and cap- ture of General Burgoyne.

Belonging to Stark's brigade, at Bennington, were twenty-eight men from Concord. They did not, how- ever, all arrive in season for the fight, which issued in so glorious a victory. Colonel Thomas Stickney, Lieutenant Richard Herbert, Jesse Abbot, John Abbot, Elias Abbot, Abner Flanders, Samuel Kink- son, John Peters and Timothy Johnson were in the bat- tle. Col. Stickney particularly distinguished himself.

Colonel Gordon Hutchins, who raised a volunteer company of about thirty men in Concord, hastened as fast as possible towards Bennington, but did not arrive in time to share in the battle. The names of the volunteers in his company cannot be definitely as- certained.

Captain Joshua Abbot had command of a company in Colonel Gerrish's regiment, "which company marched from Concord and towns adjacent to rein- force the Northern Continental army at Saratoga, September, 1777."

On the 8th of September, this year, the selectmen, together with Lieutenant Joseph Hall, Timothy Walker, Jr., and Ezekiel Dimond, were appointed a committee " to settle with all persons who have done service in the army." It was voted, "that the ex- pense of the Continental soldiers raised by the Parish of Concord shall be paid by the Parish," and that " the sum of four hundred and sixty pounds, lawful money, be raised upon the ratable polls and estate " of the inhabitants for that purpose.

The following is a list of Revolutionary soldiers from this town :

In Captain Joshua Abbot's company at Bunker Hill, 1775,-

Joshna Abbot, captain ; Abiel Chandler, second lieutenant ; Jeremialı Abbot, Samnel Davis, sergeants; Nathaniel C. Abbot, Stephen Abhot, Reuben Abbot, Amos Abhot, Jonathan Bradley, Ephraim Colby, Ezekiel Dimond, Moses Hall, Stephen Hall, William Mitchell, Richard Flood, William Straw, Peter Chandler.

In Captain Gordon Hutchins' company at Bunker Hill,-

Gordon Hntchine, captain ; Daniel Livermore, ensign ; Benjamin Abbot, sergeant ; Simeon Danforth, William Walker, corporale; Robert Livingston, Isaac Johnson, Abraham Kimball, Thomas Chandler, Joseph Grace, Peter Johnston, Samnel Straw, Levi Hutchins, fifer; Michael Flanders, drummer ; Ezra Badger.

In Captain Aaron Kinsman's company at Bunker Hill,-

Aaron Kinsman, captain ; Ebenezer Eastman, lientenant ; Samnel Thompson, corporal. NOTE .- Most of Captain Kinsman's company were from other towns.

Concord, February 26, 1776,-

" A return of those men who were in the Continental army last year, and have engaged to tarry the present year," etc. Signed by Timotby Walker, Jr., and Benjamin Emery, selectmen, viz, : Jeremiah Abbot, Nathaniel C. Abbot, John Kinkson, William Straw, Andrew Stone, William Walker, Nathaniel Eastman, Jr., Moses Hall.

In Captain Benjamin Sias' company (of Loudon), 1776, of Colonel David Gilman's regiment, des- tined for New York, and mustered by Colonel Thomas Stickney, muster-master and paymaster of said company, were,-

Philbrick Bradley, Peter Blanchard, Amos Abbot, Jr., Daniel Carter, Richard Flood and Stephen Sutton. The latter perhaps of Canterbury.

In the Continental service, under Captain Joshua Abbott, 1776,-

Abiel Chaodler, lientenant ; Ephraim Colby, ensign ; Timothy Hall, Jonathan Haseltine, Philip Page, Amos Barnee, Florence McColley, Beriah Abbot, Stephen Hall, Peter Chandler, John Merrill, Seth Spring, John Blanchard, Benjamin Powell, Hezekiah Colhy, William Walker, Phineas Stevens, Jonathan Johnson, Samuel Worthen, Moses Abbot, Moses Hall, Peter Carey, Jonathan Bradley, Ephraim Fisk.

In Captain Benjamin Emery's company (Colonel Nahum Baldwin's regiment, of which Gordon Hut- chins was lieutenant-colonel), to reinforce the Con- tinental army in New York, 1776,-

Benjamin Emery, captain ; Aaron Kinsman, ensign ; Israel Glines, Ezra Badger, John Carter, Jonathan Cnrrier, Simeon Colby, Ephraim Kinsman, William Stickney, Ezekiel Stickney, Jacob Carter, Solomon Gage, Benjamin Elliot, Brnce Walker.

The following men served in Colonel Timothy Bedel's regiment and Captain James Osgood's com- pany, and were at Fort Cedars, Canada East, May 19, 1776, some of whom were taken prisoners, stripped of most of their clothing and all their equipments and utensils for the camp or field :

John Webster, lientenant ; Richard H. Osgood, Hubbard Carter, sergeauta ; Joshua Danforth, corporal ; Nathaniel C. Abbot, Nathaniel Walker, Jeseph Lnnd, Joseph Giles, Ezra Abbot, Elias Abbot, Philip Abbot, Benjamin Fifield, Ezekiel Eastman, Nathan Kinsman, Benjamin Kenniston, Daniel Chandler, Samuel Danford, William Simonds.

In Captain Ebenezer Green's company,-

Israel Glines, Ebenezer Hall, Joseph Chandler.

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Among those who were taken prisoners at Fort Cedars were Elias Abbot, Ezra Abbot, Philip Abbot and Benjamin Fifield.

In Captain Daniel Livermore's company, 1777, Third New Hampshire Regiment, who enlisted for three years, or during the war,-

Robert Livingston, sergeant ; Amos Flood, corporal; Abner Hogg, Phineas Stevens, Daniel Chandler, Philip Rowell, Samuel Worthen, Abiel Stevens, Soloman Fisk, Obadiah Kimball, Abner Farnum, Berish Abbot, William Eastman, Jacob Eastman, John Straw, Ebenezer Far- unmi, Samuel Colby, who enlisted for one year.

In Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrish's regiment, raised in the town of Concord, and towns adjacent, which " marched July 5, 1777, for the relief of the garrison at Ticonderoga, on the alarm, and marched seventy miles when the news of the evacuation of the fort " arrived, were from Concord,-

Richard Herbert, lientenant ; William Simonds, Timothy Bradley, Joho Chase, Richard Eastman, Simeon Danforth, Isaac Abbot, Joseph Eastman, Daniel Farnum, Elias Abbot, John Peters, Nathaniel Eastman, Ebenezer Farnum, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., Abiel Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, John Eastman, Phineas Stevens, Stilson Eastman, Ezekiel Di- mond, Benjamin Rolfe, Jacob Heath (?), Stephen Haines (?), John Cross (?) Peter Blanchard (?).

This company marched July 5th ; were discharged the 12th.

In General Stark's brigade, at Bennington, Colonel Thomas Stickney, 1777,-

Richard Herbert, lieutenant ; Jesse Abbut, John Abbot, Timothy Johnson, Ephraim Abbot, Ezra Abbot, Stephen Abbot, Benjamin Am- brose, Philbrick Bradley (was wounded), Simeon Danforth, Reuben Dimond, Benjamin Elliot, Theodore Farnum, Richard Flood, Elias Abbot, Abner Flanders, Samuel Kinsman, John Peters, Ephraim Fisk, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., David George, Solomon Gage, Israel Glines, Abial Hall, Anthony Potter, Phineas Stevens, William Symonds, Simon Trum- bull, Gilman West.

" A return of the man's Names belonging to my Company, in Coll. Stickney's Regiment, wich have Euliested as Soders to sarve three mounth, agreable to a Late Act of the General Corte :

"Elias Abbot, Gilman Wast, Edward Wast, Ruben Blanchard, Eph- eram Fisk, John Dow, Joseph Blanchard, Keyes Bradley, Josier Flanders, Ebenezer Gray, Benjamin Bradley, Elisha Virgin, William Eastman.

" AARON KINSMAN, Capt.

Concord, July, 11, 1780." [Copied from the original.]

"CONCORD, July 17, 1781.

" We, the subscribers, do voluntarily Inlist ourselves as Soldiers in the service of New Hampshire for the Parish of Concord, for the term of three months after our arrival at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged ; and we promise obedience to our officers, and to be subjects to the Rules of the Army during said term. As Witness, our hand,-

"JEREMIAH VIRGIN.

"JEREMIAH CHANDLER.

" MOBES READ.

" PHINEAS AYER.

" JOSEPH BLANCHARD.

" DAVID EASTMAN.

" MILLEN KIMBALL."

At Ticonderoga, 1777, Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment, Captain Ebenezer Webster's company [Captain Webster was the father of Daniel Webster]:

Richard Herbert, lieutenant; William Symonds, Timothy Bradley, Simeon Danforth, Isaac Abbott, Elias Abbott, Johu Abbott, Ezra Abbott, Phineas Stevens, Ezekiel Dimond, John Peters, Nathaniel Eastman, Ebenezer Farnum, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., Abial Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, John Eastman, Stilson Eastman, Benjamin Rolfe.

In Captain Joshua Abbott's company of volunteers

that marched to reinforce the northern army in Sep- tember, 1777, were, --

Renben Kimball, lientenant ; James Mitchell, Moses Abbot, sergeants ; Amos Abbott, corporal ; Jacob Carter, drummer ; Joho Farnum, Moses Eastman, Stilson Eastman, Jonathan Eastman, Ezekiel Dimond, Phineas Virgin, Joseph Eastman, Daniel Farnum, Chandler Lovejoy, Enoch Coffin, James Johnson, Reuben Abbot, Ezekiel Stickney, Philip Ahbot, Timothy Hall, John Peters, Michael Flanders, Isaac Dimond, John Sill- away, Benjamin Rolfe.

In Colonel Stickney's regiment, raised for the de- fense of Rhode Island, 1779,-

Peaslee Eastman, Jacob Flanders, Josiah Flanders, Josiah Chandler.

New levies raised in 1780, and in service abont six months,-

Joshua Graham, age seventeen ; Thomas Carr, age twenty-three; Dan- iel Stickney, age eighteen ; Aaron Eastman, age twenty ; John Peters, age twenty-two ; Jonas Wyman, age twenty ; Benjamin Thompson, age eighteen ; Jonathan Moulton, age -; Peaslee Eastman, age -.

In Captain Webster's company of Rangers, for the defense of the frontiers, 1782,-

Abner Flanders, sergeant, engaged July 9th, dismissed November 11th; Henry Eastman, private, engaged July 9th, dismissed November 8th.

The following persons were also in the service :

David Davis, fifer ; Moses Chase, Ebenezer Foss, Samnel Walker, Thomas or Benja. Powell, Salem Colby (negro), Eliphalet Caswell, Nathan Shead, Thomas Pitts, Jos. Hale, Ephraim Hoyt, Nathan Stevens, Timo- thy Abbot, David Blanchard, Jonathan Chase, Peter Manual, Joshua Abbot (of Hooksett), Benjamin Chase, Eaoch Badger, Moses Reed.1

BOUNTIES PAID TO SOLDIERS FROM CONCORD.

Men. Amount.

Lexington, Capt. Abiel Chandler'e con-

pany, 1775 .

£32

3 6

Wingate and Wyman'a regiments, in 1776, 18

108

0 0

Continental, 1777 .

442

14 6

Stark's brigade, 1777

252 14 6

Rangers, Coos, 1782

14 6

Saratoga, 1777 .

243

14 6

New levies, 1780

159

Nichols' regiment, 1780

264

Frontiers, Coos, 1780 . .

12 0

Reynold'e regiment, 1781

73 10 0

New levies, 1781

10 0

Continental, 1781

191

18 0

Continental, 1782

296

£2244

1 9

Deduct for depreciation :

Florence McCanley, paid Jan. 6, 1778,

4 17 6

John Merrill, paid Dec. 7, 1778 . . .

4 0

- -

Both engaged in 1776.

£19

1 G

£2225

0 3

The following are the names of soldiers from Con- cord who lost their lives:

William Mitchell, killed st Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.

Lientenant Abiel Chandler, died of small-pox at Crown Point, July 12, 1776.

Peter Chandler, died June 25, 1776.

Abiel Stevens, died of wounds, October 20, 1777.

Phineas Stevens, died April 21, 1778.

Obadiah Kimball, killed in battle, October 7, 1777.

Solomon Fisk, died of yellow fever at Horseneck, August 10, 1778.

Samnel Worthen, died November 10, 1778.

Timothy Hall, died of fever and dysentery.

1A part only of the above were citizens. Others were "hired " fur Concord.

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Jeremiah Abbot was in the battle of Bunker Hill, a sergeant in the company of his brother Joshua, and lieutenant in the service at Ticonderoga and in the expedition against Canada. After the close of the war he married Elizabeth Stickney. She died Sep- tember 10, 1836, aged eighty-four years. He moved to Conway, N. H., about 1787, and there endured many hardships and privations by frost and flood. He kept a house of entertainment, where the few travel- ers who visited that part of the country found a home. They were industrious and energetic, beloved and respected by all who knew them and kind and hos- pitable to all who had claims on their benevolence. They were early supporters of religious worship and order.

John, horn June 23, 1756, died August 31, 1779. John Abbot was six feet seven inches without shoes, and said to be the stoutest young man ever raised in Concord, though not quite so tall as Samuel Baker, uncle of the Governor, Nathaniel Baker. He received a ball at the battle of Bennington, on his breast-hone, which fell harmless at his feet. He died aged twenty- two, weighing two hundred and thirty pounds.

War of 1812 .- In 1812 Concord was designated as a military rendezvous, and the number of soldiers here in 1812 and 1813 was about five hundred. At the town-meeting in 1813 a number of soldiers attempted to vote, contrary to the decision of Colonel William A. Kent, who was moderator. This proce- dure created some excitement at the time, and is thus referred to in the records:

"Voted, That the conduct of one McCoy, a volunteer in the service of the United States, and not belonging to this town, in attempting, yeater- day, in defiance of the moderator of the meeting, to vote for State and County officers, deserves severe censure ; but his act of collaring the moderator while in the exercise of his official duty we consider an uut- rage of the most destructive character.

"Voted, That the thanks of this meeting be given to William A. Kent, Esq., the moderator, for his temperate, resolute and judicious conduct upon that occasion."

The names of the soldiers who died of scarlet fever in this town in 1813, as recorded by the late John Farmer, Esq., were, --

March 6th, Joahna Belkoap ; March 16th, Kendrick Houghton ; March 17th, John C. Boyd ; April 4th, John Taggart, of Hillsborough ; April 7th, Samuel Davis, Chester, Bradbury M. Carr, Chester ; April 9th, Na- than Stearos, Goffstown ; April 13th, John Abbott, Warner, Elias Davis, Bow ; April 14th, ooe Jones; April 15th, Alexander Witherspoon, Bridgewater ; April 16th, Isaac Smith, Goshen ; April 17th, William Gage, Wendell ; April 18th, Ebenezer Woodbury, Dunbarton, Robert Crawford, Bridgewater, --; April 19th, - Whitney, Henniker. David Patch, New Boston, David Hart, Goffstown.

Of soldiers belonging to Concord who marched to the northern frontiers, the following were in Captain Flanders' company, Forty-fifth Regiment, of which Marshall Baker, of Concord, was first lieutenant : Ebenezer Frye, James Emerson, John Uran, Daniel Arlin, Jonathan Uran, Jonathan B. Worth, Na- thaniel Parker, James Elliot, Samuel Emerson.

In the Fourth Regiment were John Elliot, Jonathan Uran, John Dunlap, John Virgin and James Danlap who died.

James Elliot re-enlisted in the Fourth Regiment Asa Hardy served in both the Forty-fifth and Fourth Jonathan Elliot was on the peace establishment, and died at Rock Island, in the Mississippi River, Illi- nois. Timothy Abbot, of Andover, was a Concord recruit.

In 1814, August 29th, the selectmen were author- ized " to hire all soldiers which may be called for in lieu of drafting." In March, 1815, they were di- rected to pay four dollars per month to each soldier detached for the defense of Portsmouth in the service of the United States. As Portsmouth, the only sea- port in New Hampshire, was in peculiar danger from armed vessels of the enemy, public attention was particularly directed to that quarter.

Captain Peter Robertson's volunteer company of artillery, that was in service twenty days, from Sep- tember 10th to 29th, marched from Concord on the Sabbath, passing the old North Church, over Fed- eral bridge, thence on the turnpike to Portsmouth. .

But the spirit of patriotism was not confined to the men who actually marched to the field of danger. Venerable, aged men, some of whom had served in the War of the Revolution who were exempted from active service, offered themselves for the defense of their country.

Some time in September, 1814, at the instance of John T. Gilman, the then Governor of New Hamp- shire, a public call was made for volunteers of that class of citizens who were by law exempt from mili- tary duty, in the ranks of the militia, to form them- selves into companies for the purpose of home defense, in case of necessity from invasion. Some of the most respectable citizens of Concord immediately responded to the call, held a public meeting, and organized a company for that purpose, numbered the Sixth Company of volunteers. The officers chosen by the company were Stephen Ambrose, Esq., captain; Samuel Sparhawk, Esq., first lieutenant, then Secretary of State; Nathan Ballard, Esq., second lieutenant; Ezra Hutchins, ensign; Moses Long, first sergeant, orderly and clerk; G. W. Rogers, ex-captain, second sergeant; William Davis, West Parish, ex-captain, third sergeant; Samuel Runnels, fourth sergeant. Corporals not recollected. There were some over an hundred privates enrolled in the company, many of whom had held offices, both civil and military, as the secretary of the State and treas- urer, seven justices of the peace, one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one major and nineteen captains. Quite a majority of the company were made up of some of the most respectable citizens and yeomanry of the town, among whom were the elder Esquire Bradley, Esquire Charles Walker, William Stickney, inn-keeper, Captain Richard Ayer, Major Timothy Chandler, Captain Edmund Leavitt, Captain Charles Eastman, Captain Jacob Eastman, Jeremiah Pecker, Millen Kimball, Asa Kimball and Asa Graham.

The meeting preliminary to formning the above

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company was held September 10th, at Stickney's Hall -Colonel William A. Kent, chairman ; Seth Tucker, clerk. A committee, consisting of Colonel William A. Kent, Stephen Ambrose, Jonathan Eastman, Isaac Dow and John George, reported the following pre- amble and resolution, which were adopted :

"Whereas, In defense of our altars and fire-sides, onr property and our country, Americans can bave but one opinion,-

"Resolved, That it is expedient to form a military association in the town of Concord, of such parsons as are not enrolled in the militia, to be in readiness, at a moment's warning, to act under the diraction of the Commander-in-Chief, for the defense of the State."

Captain Richard Ayer, Captain John Eastman, Hon. William A. Kent, Mr. Isaac Dow, Mr. Phil- brick Bradley, Mr. Daniel Clark, Ballard Hazeltine, Esq., Mr. John Garvin, Captain Samuel Runnels, Nathan Ballard, Jr., Timothy Carter, Esq., and Cap- tain Pearl Kimball were appointed a committee to give information and form a plan, etc., for the asso- ciation, which was duly organized.

This company of venerable men, fully armed and equipped, paraded in town October Ist, and marched through Main Street. "Their appearance was ac- companied with the proud conviction that this nation can never be conquered when such defenders shoulder the musket."

A squad, or small company, of volunteers was also formed in East Concord, in consequence of a rumor that the British intended to destroy the United States seventy-four gun ship " Washington," then on the stocks at Kittery, Me. This company was also under drill by Dr. Moses Long, and consisted of about twenty men, of whom General Isaac Eastman, Gen- eral Simeon Stevens and Colonel Robert Ambrose are recollected.

NAMES OF SOLDIERS,-In Captain Leonard's com- pany of artillery, 1812, who served from August 17th to November 30th, were,-

Keyes B. Powell, sergeant ; Samnel Powell, corporal; Solomon Mann, Ebenezer Flanders, musicians ; Jonathan Stevens, corporal ; James Fos- ter, Abiel Bradley, Jonathan E. Elliott, Jonatban Elliott, Jr., Benjamin C. Waldron, Ebenezer Frye, Francis R. Powell.

In Captain William Marshall's company, 1814, who were stationed at Portsmouth, and served from August 6th to November IIth,-

Nathan Carter, Frederick Elliott, Ebenezer Flanders (sergeant), Jede- diah Frye, Samnel Kimball, Josiah Robertson, Thomas B. Sargent, John Stevens, Benjamin C. Waldron, John Whitney, William Shute (lienten- ant from July 30th to November 10th).

In Captain Nathaniel G. Bradley's company, 1814, who served from September 15th to November 12th,-

Nathaniel G. Bradley, captain ; Amoe Abbot, Benjamin Bradley, Euoch E. Bradley, Hazen B. Elliott, Robert lluynes, Joseph Hutchinson, Elijah Munsey, Keyes B. Powell (sergeant), Loammi Reed, Willey Tasker.

In Captain Edward Fuller's company, 1814, who served from September 29th to November 18th,-

Ephraim Abbot, John Blanchard, Joseph F. Dow, Barnard C. Elliotl, Joseph Glines, William Iloit, Jr., Jeremiah N. Howe, David Knowles,

Ilazen Kimball, Reuben Osgood (corporal), Ephraim Pettingill, Petor Powell, leaac Runnels, Joseph Tasker, Jerry Abbot, John Farnham.

In Captain Peter Robertson's company, artillery, volunteers, 1814, from September 10th to September 29th, or twenty days. This company marched from Concord on the Sabbath,-

Peter Robertson, captain; Samuel Herbert, first lientenant ; Chandler Eastman, second lieutenant ; Walter R. Hill, Jacob llosman, John Rob- ertson, William Bell, sergeants ; Jeremiah Birch, Nathaniol Parker, Jeremiah C. Elliot, William Moody, corporala ; Jeremiah Glines, Sau- uel Hosmer, Harmon Eastman, musicians ; Moses Bumford, Mosce East- man, Jonathan Elliot, Jusiab Fernald, Cooper Frost, Thomas Greenleaf Samuel Blanchard, Jacob Carter, Moses Dickerman, John Gould, Josiah Knowlea, Robert Rogers, John Stanyan, John Wheeler, Charles Wait, Charles Whipple, Charlee Herbert, privates.

War of the Rebellion .- Immediately upon Presi- dent Lincoln's first call for troops, Moses Humphrey, at that time mayor of the city, after consultation with a number of citizens, suggested to Captain E. E. Stur- devant, a prominent police officer of the city, that he recernit a company for the service. His response was, "I am ready," and immediately commenced recruit- ing a company which was soon filled, and became Company A. of the First Regiment of three months' men. The second company was recruited by Captain Leonard Drown, of Fisherville, which was attached to the Second Regiment of three years' men.

During the war Coucord was not only the head- quarters of the volunteers from this State, but was also the general recruiting station. Here were en- camped on the fair-grounds the First, Third, Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments, besides cavalry and sharp-shooters.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 31

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1520

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1520