History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 27

Author: Hazlett, Charles A
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 1390

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In 1728 the following votes were passed by the town concerning the building of a church, etc. :

"Voted, That there shall be a meeting house built according to these

MONUMENT SQUARE, NEWFIELDS, N. H.

TOWN HALL, 1798

PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1898 WINDHAM, N. H.

UNION CHURCH, TOWN HALL AND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, KENSINGTON, N. H.

MAIN STREET, SALEM CENTER, N. II.

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Dimensions : Imprs, fifty foot in length, and thirty-five foot wide & twenty foot post, and finish it completely, both inside & outside, to ye turning of ye key, and set upon ye place appointed and before voted.

"Voted, That a Committee be chosen to agree wth ye Carpenter or Car- penters to build a Meeting house according to ye Dimensions before men- tioned, and that Dr. Edmond Toppin, & Saml Ingalls & Nathaniel Heally, be ye Committee to agree wth ye Carpenters in ye behalf of ye proprs of Chester.

"Voted, That there shall be Raised forty shillings in Money on Every full proprs share in Chester to be paid unto ye town treasurer (Jacob Sar- gent is chosen), at ye next proprs meeting towards ye building of a meet- ing house in Chester to be drawn out by the Committee as there shall be Occasion; viz., Dr. Edmond Toppin and Samll Ingalls & Nathaniel Haley, a Committee.

"Voted, That there shall be Raised twenty Shillings in money on Every full proprs lott in Chester for ye paying the town Debts, to be paid unto ye Constable for ye town's use at ye next proprs Meeting in Chester."

The Congregational Church .- The meeting which called Rev. Ebenezer Flagg, the first pastor of this church, was held June 23, 1736. He accepted the call, and remained pastor until 1793. His successors in the pastoral office have been as follows: Rev. Mr. Bradstreet, Leonard, Jewett, Joel R. Arnold, Jonathan Clement, L. Armsby, H. O. Howland, J. L. Tomlinson, and Rev. Charles Tenney.

Mr. Tenney's pastorate closed in October, 1888. His successor is Rev. J. G. Robertson who was installed July 30, 1889, having graduated from Williams College in 1886 and Yale Divinity School in 1889. On July 1, 1914, he will complete his 25th year of service.

The Baptist Church .- Although there were individuals who were Bap- tists in Chester, and might have been occasional preaching, there was no organized church until 1819, when a church was organized by the Rev. Wil- liam Taylor, of Concord, consisting of sixteen members, of whom Capt. Pearson Richardson, Walter Morse, Jacob Green, and Timothy Smith, of Sandown, were prominent. Col. Stephen Clay and Josiah Chase united after- wards, and were active members. Walter Morse and Josiah Chase were the deacons. They worshiped in Captain Richardson's hall until 1823, when a meeting-house was built on the west side of the Haverhill road.

They had for preachers, besides Mr. Taylor, Rev. Josiah Davis, of Methuen, and the Rev. Duncan Dunbar, a Scotchman, afterwards of New York City. Gibbon Williams was installed; George Kallock and John Upton were ordained pastors. A difficulty arose about a preacher, a part of the society believing him to be corrupt and a part adhering to him, which for a time disorganized the church and society, and they had no preaching, and their early records were lost and the meeting-house went to decay.

At a meeting of the Portsmouth Association, held at Newton, 1845, a committee, consisting of Brethren Ayres, of Dover; Gilbert, of Northwood; Wheeler, of Plaistow ; and Swain, of Brentwood, were appointed to visit the church in Chester and attempt to settle their difficulties. The committee met the church January 13, 1846, and recommended to disband the existing church

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and organize a new one, which was accordingly done, and a church of fifteen members was formed and William Bell chosen deacon and clerk. The old church was sold and a new building was erected near the town-house and dedicated August 29, 1861.

Among the ministers who have officiated for this church are mentioned the names of H. W. Day, Andrew Mitchel, Horace Eaton, Joshua Clement, J. W. Merrill, and Daniel Gage. The present pastor is Rev. Thomas J. Cate.

The Methodist Episcopal Church .- There was a church organized in 1851 by Rev. Elisha Adams, the presiding elder for Dover District, and Rev. James M. Young, a member of the New Hampshire Conference, supplying. The same summer a church edifice was erected near the south line of No. 36, 2d P., 2d D., on the road from Chester to Candia. It was built under the direction of Joseph Smith, Amos Southwick, Samuel M. Edwards, John Maynard, Isaac L. Seavey, and Simon Haselton, and dedicated in October. It cost about one thousand dollars.

The following are the names of the preachers who have administered to the church and society: James M. Young, Charles U. Dunning, George M. Hamlin, Jesse Brown, Henry Nutter, C. Henry Newell, Edwin S. Chase, Charles W. Harkins, Joseph T. Hand, John Keogan, True Whittier, Ezekiel Stickney, Abraham Folsom, Silas Higgin, James Stedman, James G. Price, Josiah Higgin, William H. Stewart and Edward May. Rev. J. W. Presby has been assigned for 1914 for Chester and Auburn.

Chester was incorporated May 8, 1722, under the name of Chester, and included within its bounds, in addition to its present territory, the present towns of Candia, Raymond, Auburn, and portions of Derry and Hooksett.

Town Officers chosen at the first meeting under the charter of the Town of Chester, held the 28th day of March, 1723 :

Thomas Phipps, Esq., moderator ; Clement Hughes, clerk; Samuel Ingalls, Clement Hughes, Caleb Tole, selectmen; Zaccheus Clifford, constable; Capt. Thomas Phipps, Maj. John Gilman, Col. Peter Wiar, or any two of them be a committee to receive and allow the accounts; Benjamin Smith, Clement Messarvy, Samuel Ingalls, surveyors of highways.

At Exeter, March 31, 1726 .- Clement Hughes, moderator; Clement Hughes, clerk; John Sanborn, Clement Hughes, Robert Smith, selectmen ; James Whiting, constable; Samuel Ingalls, Thomas Smith, James Whiting, lot-layers: Samuel Ingalls, surveyor of highways.

1727 .- This and all future meetings were held at Chester.

MILITARY HISTORY

"The first military law passed in New Hampshire was in 1718. All the means of knowing about the military organization in Chester is the titles prefixed to the names of the inhabitants. The first found on our records was in 1731. Samuel Ingalls has the title of captain, Ebenezer Dearborn of lieu- tenant, and Jacob Sargent of ensign, which is probably nearly as early as there was any military organization. Thomas Smith is lieutenant in 1732; John Talford is captain, and Thomas Wells lieutenant in 1744; Abel Morse is captain in 1746, and Thomas Wells in 1748; Thomas Craige is lieutenant,

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James Varnum is ensign, and Robert Calfe sergeant in 1749; Enoch Colby is also ensign, and Eben Dearborn, Jr., sergeant, in 1749; Silvanus Smith, lieutenant in 1752, Samuel Robie in 1753, and Benaiah Colby in 1756, and Jonathan Blunt captain the same year. John Lane was appointed cornet of the Ninth Troop of the First Regiment of cavalry, commanded by Col. John Downing, September 17, 1754, by Benning Wentworth; John Tolford is major, and Andrew Jack lieutenant in 1757; James Shirley is captain, and James Quentan ensign in 1759. Henry Hall is ensign in 1761, Samuel Robie captain in 1764, Robert Wilson lieutenant in 1765, Captain Underhill, Lieut. Joseph Basford and Ensign Joseph True in 1765; Oliver Morse and Henry Moore lieutenants, and Samuel Hazelton cornet in 1766; Richard Emery major in 1769; Andrew Jack captain in 1770; Joseph True captain, Lieutenant Witherspoon in 1775; Major French (Jabez), 1774; Hugh Shirley, 1775; David Witherspoon captain, and James Dunlap lieutenant in 1766. Stephen Dearborn had a commission of captain under the king, May 3, 1767, and under Congress, September 5, 1775; major, March 25, 1785; lieu- tenant-colonel, April 5, 1793; resigned September 18, 1800.

"A militia law was passed September 19, 1776, enrolling .in train-bands all able-bodied men from sixteen to fifty years of age; exempting nearly all officers, ministers, Quakers, negroes, Indians, and mulattoes; each company to be mustered eight times a year.

"Then there was to be an 'alarm list,' composed of all male persons from sixteen to sixty-five years of age not included in the train-band, with some exceptions, if of sufficient ability, to be inspected twice a year. The captains of the 'alarm list' by custom had a brevet title of colonel. There was to be a military watch kept by those belonging to the train-band and alarm list, under the direction of the commissioned officers of the town.

"In looking over the rolls of the men in the French and Indian wars from 1745 to 1760, in the 'Adjutant-General's Report' (vol. ii.), 1866, I find the following Chester names, although it is not certain that they were all Chester men, and some Chester men may have been overlooked :

"In the winter of 1745-46, Capt. John Goffe had a company of thirty- seven men scouting the woods on snow-shoes, of which Samuel Brown was a sergeant ; under Jeremiah Clough, Henry Irvine; under Andrew Todd scouting at Canterbury, 1746, Archibald Miller, Adam Wilson, William McMaster, John Grimes, and James Wilson. Adam Wilson and Archibald Miller afterwards lived in Chester, but probably went from Londonderry.

"Capt. Daniel Ladd's company, at Canterbury, 1746: Enoch Rowel, Zebedee Berry, Paul Healey, Samuel Moore, and John Nutt ; William Presson and Henry Ervine, July to December, 1746; Samuel Moore again in 1747. Daniel Foster (lived near Martin's Ferry) was in Eastman's company. Under Moses Foster at Suncock, John Moore, John Carr. John Webster was lieutenant in John Goffe's scouting party in 1748; he might have been Colonel Webster, of Chester. He was afterwards captain, and raised a scout of twenty men, and none of them Chester men; it is probable that he was not the man. In what way these men were raised, whether by voluntary enlist- ment or impressment, or both, I do not know.

"It has been seen that in 1747 the town voted to petition the governor

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and council 'to stop, and save any more men being sent out of the town into the service, and to have a suitable number of men kept in the service in our own town.' In 1748 there were petitions sent from different parts of the town to the captains, and by John Tolford and Thomas Wells to the governor and council for men ; but probably Chester never had any direct aid.

"In the expedition against the French forts, Du Quesne, Niagara, and Crown Point, in the winter of 1755, New Hampshire furnished a regiment of 600 men, under Col. Joseph Blanchard, in which the following Chester names appear : Joseph Morril, Daniel Martin, Caleb Dalton, Robert Gordon, John Shackford, Nathan Morse, Samuel Towle, Samuel Emerson (son of Samuel Emerson, Esq., died at Albany, November 17, 1755), Robert Ken- nedy, John Rowe, John Craig, Samuel Dudley, James Eaton, John Hall, clerk (might have been the first town clerk of Derryfield), Ithiel Gordon, James Fulerton, Samuel Dalton, Reuben Towl, Curtis Bean, John Dalton, Jonas Clay, William Aiken, Robert Witherspoon, William Wilson, Daniel Wilson, James Aiken, John Gage, Nathaniel Etherage.

"For the expedition against Crown Point in 1756, New Hampshire raised a regiment of 700 men, under the command of Col. Nathaniel Meserve, of Portsmouth, in the roll of which the following Chester names appear : Jesse McFarland, William McMaster, John Nutt, Robert Gordon, Francis Towle, Joseph Dudley, John McClellan, Benj. Fuller, William Baker, Gideon Rowel, Benj. Bachelder, James Shirley.

"In 1757 New Hampshire furnished a regiment of 500 men for the Crown Point expedition. Chester names: Robert Kennedy, Hugh Quinton, John Carr, Samuel Towle (sergeant), Paul Healey (corporal), Benjamin Bach- elder, Edmund Elliott, Ebenezer Eaton, Samuel Hazelton, Amos Merril, Jonathan Towle, Stephen Dearborn.

"The Sixth Company was commanded by Richard Emery. Richard Emery, of Chester, married Mary Blunt, 1765, and is styled major in Chester records in 1767. The Kennedys might have been Goffstown men, and the Chester Daltons did not spell their names Daulton.

"In August, 1757, a reinforcement was sent to Charleston No. 4, which served until November. Timothy Foss, David Webster, David Hill, Samuel Dalton, Isaiah Rowe, Benj. Fuller and Samuel Brown are Chester names. "There was a company sent in 1757 to garrison Fort William and Henry. Chester names : Benjamin Libley, Stephen Marden and Nathaniel Rand.

"In 1758 another regiment was sent to Crown Point, in which Samuel Towle is second lieutenant, and several Chester names before mentioned, and James Clay, Benj. Currier, Nath'l Wood, Hugh Quinton, Thomas Wason, John Mills, Joseph Linn, Matthew Templeton, Hugh Shirley, Robert McKin- ley, Oliver Morse, second lieutenant of the Eighth Company, Joshua Pres- cott, Ezekiel Morse and John Quimby.

"In 1760 a regiment was raised to invade Canada. John Goffee was colonel, and Richard Emory, probably of Chester, major. Hugh Quinton, David Weatherspoon, James Graham, Archibald McDuffee, Robert Mckinley, James Quinton, Hugh Shirley, Robert Wasson, James Weatherspoon, Samuel Haseltine, David Webster, Jacob Basford (died), Ebenezer Basford, Jonas Clay, David Craige, Jonathan Emerson (son of Samuel Emerson, Esq., died

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at Crown Point, November 7, 1760), John Gage, Samuel Ingalls, John Karr, John Seavey, Titus Wells, Jacob Griffin, Stephen Webster, John Mills, Jacob Quimby, Nathaniel Maxfield, and Nathaniel Rand were from Chester. "Besides the foregoing found on the rolls, it is said that Matthew, son of Samuel Gault, was an officer, and died at Cape Breton, 1759. His will was proved August, 1759. William Otterson, the grandfather of the Hook- sett Ottersons, is said to have been in the army and drowned in crossing Lake Champlain in 1760. It has also been said that Abraham Morse was in the French war, and that Elijah Pillsbury was before Quebec when Wolfe was killed. He probably enlisted at Newbury. Wells Chase went from New- bury a campaign under Governor Shirley to Norridgewock in 1754, and was in the battle of Ticonderoga in 1758. Archibald McDuffee was in the French war. The king issued a proclamation, dated February 19, 1754, offering certain bounties in land to such officers and soldiers as should enter his service against the French; and another proclamation, dated October 7, 1763, ordering the land for the New England States to be laid off in the State of Virginia, about one hundred miles above the mouth of the Ohio River. In 1816, James Miltimore, of Windham, came along and procured powers of attorney from the Chester soldiers, among whom were Wells Chase, Robert Mckinley, Matthew Templeton, and Archibald McDuffee, empowering him to recover and sell the lands, and gave bonds back to pay them one-half of all that he should receive. I think nothing further was heard about it.

"The news of the battle of Lexington spread with amazing rapidity. Nathaniel Emerson received the news at midnight at Candia, and aroused the people, and drummer David Hill beat up for recruits, and Moses Dustin is said to have been the first to fall in, and he served through the war. They soon raised a squad, which soon started for the scene of the war. Probably more than half the able-bodied men started, with such arms as they had and with such conveyance as was at hand, and went to Cambridge, the head- quarters of the army. A portion of the men enlisted, and the rest returned home. So far as the action of the Town of Chester is concerned, by votes in town-meeting, it has been given in the history of those years. The army rolls, and other papers relating to the war, are contained in eleven large volumes in the adjutant-general's office. The matter is very voluminous and difficult to arrange, and I know of no better way than to give the rolls containing Chester men, always including Candia and Raymond, designating the respective towns, Chester A, Candia B, and Raymond C, so far as prac- ticable. I will also supply any seeming deficiencies by documents or tradi- tion."-Chase.

"According to the report of the adjutant-general, 1866, vol. ii., New Hampshire had three regiments in 1775, the first commanded by John Stark. the second by Enoch Poor, the third by James Reid. Stark's and Reid's were stationed at Medford, and were at Bunker Hill; and Colonel Poor re- mained on duty at home. The Tenth Company of the Third Regiment was commanded by Hezekiah Hutchins, and Amos Emerson, of Chester, was lieu- tenant; and the names of David Currier, Josiah Morse, Peter Severance, Thomas Wilson, and Samuel Moore appear on the roll. Capt. David Shaw says that William Gross, his mother's half-brother, was in the Bunker Hill

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battle, under Emerson. There were two other men known to be in the battle whose names I have not found,-Caleb Hall, who went down at the time of Lexington battle and enlisted, and Dea. John Hills, of Candia, who, while lying behind the rail fence stuffed with hay, had a ball strike his foot, which he picked up, and not fitting his gun, he brought it home. There is a letter from Parker Morse to Deacon Hills extant, directed to him as belonging to Hutchins' company at Mystic. Some of the men who went down at that time and stayed might have enlisted in Massachusetts regiments before the New Hampshire ones were organized.

"Chester-Hezekiah Hutchins' Company .- Simon Merril, A; William Shannon; Joseph Smith, A; Saml. Brown, A; James Gross, A; Peter Sever- ance, A; Saml. Morse; Reuben Sanborn, A; Josiah Morse, Jr., A; Joseph Spillad, A; David Currier, A; Thomas Wilson, B; John Lane, Jr., A; John Tucker, C; John Lane, 3d, C; Simon Norton, A; James Randal, C; William Randal, C.

"Those from Chester are marked A, Candia B, and Raymond C, and the uncertain are left unmarked.

"In the selectmen's accounts for the year 1776 there are the following items charged :

"Paid Joseph Linn, Hugh Cromby, Andrew Aiken, John Vance, Alex- ander Wetherspoon, Timothy Lunt, Jeams Craft their wages for service done at Medford.

"Paid Joseph Louge, Samuel Webster, and Benj. Long for service done at Medford.

"In 1775 there is a charge for pork sent to Cambridge, £6 7s. 5d.

"Paid to Maj. Jabez French money that we hired to support the dele- gates that went to Philadelphia, £9 8s. 6d.

"There are also charges for blankets, and for numbering the people.

"Philip Tilton, captain, Jacob Webster, lieutenant, both of Raymond, and John Tilton, second lieutenant, of Sandown, were the officers of the Third Company, Second Regiment, June 12, 1775, and Caleb Richardson's name is on the roll.

"There is a pay-roll of Capt. Nathan Brown's company, David Gilman's regiment, April 10, 1776, in which are Chester names: Nathaniel Blasdel, James McFarland, John Shannon, John Lane, Reuben Hall, Zachariah Butter- field, Jacob Lane, William Shannon, Theophilus Lovereign, of Raymond, Hugh Crombie, James Aiken.

"July, 1776. A roll of Capt. Joseph Dearborn's company, No. 6. in Colonel Wyman's regiment, in the Continental service against Canada, as mustered and paid by John Dudley, Esq., muster-master and paymaster of said company :

"Joseph Dearborn, captain, A; David Wetherspoon, lieutenant, A; Mat- thias Haines, private, C; William Leatch, A; Samuel Webster, A; Jeremiah Richardson, A; Jeremiah Towle, A: Thomas Wells, A; Samuel Dinsmore, A, died; Anthony Towle, A; Gideon Currier, A; John Knowles, A; Richard Payne ; Joseph Knowles, Jr., A: Josiah Wells, A; John Roberts, C; Thomas Wason, B; John Wason; Nathan Lane, C, died September 26; Israel Griffin ; Benjamin Cass, B; John Prescott : Moses Hills, A; Peter Moores, B; Joshua

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Moores, B; Enoch Colby, B; Jacob Clifford, B; Obadiah Hall, A; Benjamin Hall, A or B; James Aiken, A; James Bell; Joseph Linn, A; Hugh McDuffee, A; Moses McFarland, A; John McClellan, A; David Taylor; Joseph Hills, Jr., A; Ezekiel Morse, C; John Batchelder ; John Leavitt, C; Ezekiel Knowles, B; James Wilson, A; James McFarland, A; John Vance, A; Ebenezer Collins ; Asa Dearborn, A.

"Each private received ten pounds, four shillings, and nine pence; sum total, six hundred and twenty pounds, nineteen shillings, and three pence. Extra .wages : paid four sergeants, viz., William Leatch, Enoch Rowel, B, Caleb Morril, and Moses Sanborn, A, eight shillings; four corporals, viz., Anthony Towle, A, Benaiah Colby, A, Ezekiel Knowles, B, and Asa Heath, at four shillings each; David Hill, B, drummer, four shillings.

"Muster and pay-rool of men in Capt. Samuel McConnel's company, Col. David Gilman's regiment, raised out of the regiment commanded by Col. John Webster to reinforce the Continental army at New York, and mustered and paid by Col. John Webster, December, 1776:

"Ezekiel Worthen, lieutenant, A; Ichabod Robie, sergeant, B: John Clark, corporal, B; Timothy Jewel, private; Abraham Brown; Josiah Forsaith. A; Paul Eaton, B; Amos Knowles, B; John Clay, B; David Underhill, A; Isaac Blasdel, A; Nathaniel Blasdel, A; Eliphalet Gordon, C; Peter Sever- ance, A; Daniel Moody, C; Dearborn Heath, A.

"Muster and pay-roll of men raised in Colonel Thornton's and Colonel . Webster's regiment, to serve in Captain Runnels' company, Col. Thomas Tasker's regiment, September 26, 1776. This company was raised from the Londonderry and Chester regiments. Men from Londonderry marked L, as far as known :

"Daniel Runnels, captain, L; Samuel Haselton, lieutenant, A; Samuel Buswell, ensign, B; Ichabod Robie, B; James Sharley, A; Jeremiah Conner, A: Caleb Smith, C; Gilman Dudley, C; John Berry, A; Jonathan Dearborn, A; Nicholas Gilman, C; Derbon Heth, A; William Anderson, B; Moses Turner, B; William Wilson, B; William Moore, A; Samuel Pierce, A ; Joseph Presby, A; William Wilson, A; Simon Towle, A; Jonathan Underhill, A; Jacob Hills, A; Henry Campbell, L; James Mooreland, L; John Morrison, L; John Cochran, L; Thomas Wilson, L; George Orr, L; Joseph Caldwell, L; David Morrison, B; John Ferguson, L; William Moore, A; John Clifford. C; John Sargent, C; Peter Haselton, A ; Alexander ; Shirley, A; Daniel Whitcher. C; Thomas Archibald, L; Thomas Wallace, L; James Cambel, L; Samuel Hart ; Benjamin Haseltine, A; John Colby, C: James Richardson; Robert Wason, B: Bracket Towle, A; John Shirley, A; David Mills, A; Samuel Morse, L: James Hazard, A; Samuel Dunlap; Josiah Dearborn, A; Samuel Thompson, L; Pierce Gage, L; Richard Hall; Zibah Kimball, L; John Wil- liams, L: John McGown, L; John Tarbox, L; James Sprague, L; Abiel Cross, L; Arthur Darrah, L: Peter Robinson; Samuel Spear ; Robert Morrisson, L; John Hughes, L; William Eayers, L; Jonathan Holmes, L; John Stuart, I .: James Ferguson, L; Joseph Hobbs, L; Andrew Robertson, L; John Turner; Humphrey Holt, L; Nathan Plummer, L; Samuel Tasker, L; Robert Wilson, B: Robert Boid, L; Mathew Dickey, L; Elijah Town, L; Stephen Donald, L .-- September 26, 1776, by John Webster.

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"Chester and Londonderry probably belonged to one regiment up to I775.

In Raymond records, June 15, 1775,

"Voted, To impower John Dudley, Esq., with some other persons, to nominate suitable persons for field officers for the regiment that did belong to Colonel Thornton's regiment.

"Voted, unanimously, That they are willing that the said regiment should be divided into two regiments.

"Pay-roll of Capt. Stephen Dearborn's company, Thomas Stickney's regi- ment, in General Stark's brigade, which company marched from Chester, in the state of New Hampshire, and joined the Northern Continental army, 1777, from July 19th to September 18th :

"Stephen Dearborn, captain, A; Ezekiel Lane, lieutenant, C, killed; John Lane, Jr., 2d lieutenant, A, advanced to Ist lieutenant, August 16; Robert Wilson, ensign, A, advanced to 2d lieutenant, August 16; Andrew Aiken, sergeant, A, advanced to ensign August 16; Nathaniel Maxfield, B; Ichabod Robie, B; Ebenezer Dearborn, A; David Currier, A; Joseph Brown, A; Josiah Gordon, A; Sherburne Dearborn, A; Robert Dinsmore, A; Joseph Cass, ser- geant, B; Bracket Towie, sergeant, A; Thomas Dearborn, sergeant, B; John Underhill, sergeant, A; advanced to sergeant August 16; Benjamin Fellows, corporal; Levi Swain, corporal, C; David Underhill, corporal, A; Robert Rowe, private, A; advanced to corporal August 16; Israel Clifford, private, B; Nathaniel Griffin, A; Joseph Peavey; John Gammet, B; Daniel Allen, A; John Blake; Moses Leavit, C; Moses Webster, Jr., A; Josiah Hall, A; David Perkins; Benjamin Smith, B; Enoch Osgood, C; Samuel Robie, A; Simon Towie, A; Anthony Clifford, B; John Patten, A; James McFarland, A; James Presby, A; Joseph White, A; Stephen Fogg, C; Jacob Chase, A; Samuel Hills, A; William Towle; Jacob Elliot, A; James Richardson, A; David Patten, A; Moses Webster, A; Benjamin Haseltine, A; Isaac Blasdel, A; Sinkler Fox; William Pattredge Fox; Jonathan Bachelor; Daniel Todd, C; Amos Kimball, A; Joseph Rollins; Samuel Fogg, C; Samuel Moore, B; Samuel Dearborn, B; Amos Knowles, B; James Libbey, B; Benjamin Eaton, B; Benjamin Wodley, B; Philip Morse, C; Robert Wilson, Jr .; Oliver Smith, B; Elisha Thomas; Enoch Colby, B; John Bagley, B; John Clay, B; Moses Emerson, B; Benjamin Fuller, A; John Knowles, A; William Brown, A; Wilkes West, A; Thomas Wilson, B; Benjamin Packard; John Moore, B, died August 21; John Elliott, drummer, A; David Hall, A.

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History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 27

Author: Hazlett, Charles A Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Hazlett, Charles A
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 1390