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The anticipated conflict with New Hampshire made the Vermont Assembly hesitate. They granted the request, but at the next session in October, though their representatives were admit- ted to seats, they nevertheless left these towns practically " out in the cold," by refusing them a County organization. On this, the members from these towns withdrew and called a convention which met at Cornish, Dec. 9, 1778. This convention determined to make proposals to New Hampshire, whereby the towns east of the Green Mountains should join that State. At its next session, in February, 1779, the Vermont Assembly dissolved all connection with towns east of the river. But this failed to settle matters, as New Hampshire was now in hopes to extend her territory farther west. The inhabitants in the southeast part of Vermont held a convention in October, 1780, in which it was proposed "to unite in one political body all the inhabitants from Mason's grant, on the east side of the Connecticut River, to the heights of land on the west side." This State was to be called New Connecticut. In the following November, a convention of towns in Cheshire County was held at Walpole, and appointed a committee to confer with others and " consider what is proper to be done." This committee consisted of Dr. William Page and Col. Samuel Hunt of Charlestown, Capt. Lemuel Holmes of Surry, Daniel Jones, Esq., of Hinsdale, and Col. Benjamin Bellows of Walpolc. They recommended that a convention should be held at Charlestown the next January. Forty-three towns were represented in the Charlestown convention. They appointed a committec to confer with the Vermont Assembly in reference to terms of union, and adjourned to meet at Cornish, in February, when the Assembly would be in session at Windsor, Vt., only a few miles away. The Assembly accepted this proposition, on condition that two-thirds of the towns interested, on both sides of the river, should approve of it, and adjourned till April. They found on assembling that the necessary number of towns had given a favorable vote, and the union was therefore consum- mated. Representatives from thirty-five towns on the east side of the river took their seats as members. The towns south of the north line of Claremont and east of the river were organized into Washington County. After meeting at Bennington the following June, the Vermont
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Legislature assembled Oct. 11, 1781, at Charlestown. The Lieutenant Governor and one of the councilors were chosen from the east side of the river. Vermont had thus taken actual possession of nearly a third part of New Hampshire, and it was evidently impossible that such a state of affairs should long continue without some violent contention. Two Chesterfield men having been arrested and lodged in Charlestown jail by a Vermont sheriff, the New Hampshire Assembly authorized Col. Hale, the sheriff of Cheshire County, to release them, by force if necessary. Not succeeding in the attempt, he was himself arrested by the Vermont sheriff and committed to the same jail. In retaliation, Dr. William Page of Charlestown, who had accepted the office of sheriff under Vermont authority, was arrested by order of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and confined in Exeter jail. The danger of actual civil war between the two States was imminent. Vermont was making military preparations, and in January, 1782, New Hampshire ordered a thousand men to be raised and sent into Cheshire County to support the civil officers. But, largely through the influence of Gen. Washington and the inducements offered by Congress, Vermont was led to a wiser policy, and on the twenty-third of February, 1782, the Legislature at Bennington, Vt., passed resolutions dissolving their union with the towns east of the Connecticut, and accepting their present state lines. This ended the conflict, the disaffected towns returning quietly to their former state allegiance. For this con- cession, Vermont expected to be received into the Union at once, but was much disappointed by being kept out for nine years, during which period she was named, by the humorists of that day, " The Future State."
The loss of our records leaves us to other sources for the action of Gilsum in these troubles. It has already been seen that Surry was represented in the Walpole convention by Capt. Holmes. It seems probable that Gilsum sent a delegate to the Charlestown convention, but there are no records to determine the fact. Gilsum voted to join Vermont, and was represented in the Assembly at Windsor, and at Charlestown, by Ebenezer Dewey. Surry was represented by Woolston Brockway.
Surry records show, that, during the period of union, town meetings were called in the name of the State of Vermont and County of Washington, and there can be no doubt the same was done in Gilsum.
NOTE. - Those wishing to know more of this controversy are referred to Bouton's Provincial and State Papers, Vol. IX., in the town clerk's office, and Saunderson's History of Charlestown. From these sources the preceding account has mostly been taken.
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CHAPTER VII.
GILSUM IN THE REVOLUTION.
" What heroes from the woodland sprung, When, through the fresh awakened land, The thrilling cry of Freedom rung, And to the work of warfare strung The yeoman's iron hand !
" As if the very earth again Grew quick with God's creating breath, And from the sods of grove and glen, Rose ranks of lion-hearted men To battle to the death."
THE attempt to construct a satisfactory history of Gilsum during the " times that tried men's souls" in the period of the Revolution, is much like " making bricks without straw." The early records of the town were in unbound manuscript. The marriages, births, and deaths were copied into the first and second bound volumes. The remaining records were subsequently lost, probably through some carelessness in the transfer from one town clerk to another. Conse- quently the votes of the town during the stormy period prior to 1789 are entirely missing. The only item in our town books, which seems to indicate that there was any Revolutionary war, is the following among the deaths : " Ido 4th Son of Elizabeth Church Diparted this life Sept. 19- 1777 Kild in Battle." The records of almost any other twenty-five years could have been better spared. We know that the fathers of the town were thoroughly imbued with the spirit of liberty, and devoted their lives and their property to the sacred cause, with untiring zeal and self-denying heroism.
As already seen, that bloody conflict known as the " French and Indian War," occurred before the settlement of Gilsum. In it, however, were engaged some of those who afterwards settled in Gilsum, as, for instance, Solomon Mack and John Bingham, [Biog.] and doubtless many others. A curious letter relating to those times was written in 1813 by Abner Sanger, then residing in Gilsum. (Appendix B.)
The names and record of those who served in the Revolutionary army have been obtained from state documents. These, and a few family traditions of uncertain value, are the only sources from which this chapter has been compiled.
Aug. 25, 1775, the Provincial Congress "recommended to the Select Men of the several Towns, to take an exact Number of the Inhabitants of their respective Districts, including every soul in the Same," also to "return the Number of the Fire Arms in their respective Districts fit for use, and the Number wanting to compleet one for every person capable of usuing theni, adding there to the Quantity of Powder in each place; and where there is a Public Stock to return a separate Account thereof, & that the whole be returned to the Committee of Safety for this Colony."
In compliance with this recommendation, we find the following return from Gilsum : -
Males under 16 years of age . 45
Males from 16 years of age to 50, not in the army . 32
All males above 50 years of age 10
Persons gone in the army
7
All Females
84
Negroes and slaves for life
0
The Number of Guns
178
15
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GILSUM IN THE REVOLUTION.
Destitute of Powder & town Stock - in Persuance to the above direction we have taken an exact accompt of the number of Soles and guns in the town of Gilsum. Gilsum October 30 ye 1775
Test 1137057
SAMI CHURCH
Selectmen
STEPHEN GRISWOLD of said
PELETIAH PEASE Gilsum.
On enrollment list of March, 1777, Gilsum reports thirty-nine men from sixteen to fifty years old.
The Continental Congress having "recommended to the several . Committees of Safety of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all Persons to be disarmed, within their Respective Colonies, who are notoriously dis- affected to the cause of AMERICA, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to defend by ARMS, the United Colonies, against the Hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies," the Committee of Safety for New Hamp- shire, uuder date of Ap. 12, 1776, sent to the selectmen of every town a request "to desire all Males above Twenty- one years of age (Lunaticks, Idiots, and Negroes excepted) to sign to the DECLARATION on this paper; and when so done, to make return thereof, together with the Name or Names of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the GENERAL ASSEMBLY or Committee of Safety of this Colony.
The declaration or pledge was as follows:
. WE, THE SUBSCRIBERS, DO HEREBY SOLEMNLY ENGAGE AND PROMISE, THAT WE WILL, TO THE UTMOST OF OUR POWER, AT THE RISQUE OF OUR LIVES AND FORTUNES, WITH ARMS, OPPOSE THE HOSTILE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH FLEETS AND ARMIES AGAINST THE UNITED AMERICAN COLONIES.
Gilsum and Surry both have the honor of being in the list of towns who had no Tories to report, every man signing the above pledge. The signers in Gilsum were the following : -
Ebenezer Dewey
Stephen Griswold
Elisha Mack
Jonathan Bliss Jr
Justus Hurd
James Rowe
Obadiah Smith
Ebenezer Bill
Pelatiah Pease
Elisha Pendell
John Boynton
Joel Kilbourn
Ebenezer Dewey Jr
Jonathan Adams
John Boynton, Jr.
Obadiah Willcox Jr
Gershom Crocker
Ichabod Youngs
John Dimick, Jr
Elezer Willcox
Josiah Kilburn
Henry White
John Dimeck
John Chapman
Ebenezer Kilburn
Shubael Hurd
Levi Bliss
Timothy Dimock
Tho. Morse
Stephen Bond
Jonathan Bliss
John Row
Josiah Kilburn, Jr
Joseph Youngs
Abner Bliss
John Row, Jr.
Ebenezer Church
David Bill
David Bliss
Obadiah Willcox
John Marks
Stephen Bond, Jr.
This may Certify that the Names Annexed to this paper are all the inhabitants of the town of Gilsum that come within the Limits of this Request. Test EBENR DEWEY, JR. ¿ Selectmen of PELATIAH PEASE Gilsum
Prior to the Revolution, the militia of this part of the State, from Massachusetts line as far north as Claremont and including Newport, were in one regiment commanded by Col. Josiah Willard of Winchester. When the war came on, he was found on the Tory side, and in August, 1775, this regiment was divided into two. Gilsum was assigned to the first, and the command given to Samuel Ashley, Esq., of Winchester. Capt. Joseph Hammond of Swanzey was appointed Lieutenant Colonel, and Isaac Butterfield of Westmoreland, and Timothy Ellis of Keene, Majors. As afterwards appears, this was known as the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment. A regiment raised in July, 1776, for the defense of Portsmouth, was under command of Col. Isaac Wyman of Keene. The fifth company of this regiment had for its officers, Samuel Wetherbee of Charlestown, Captain ; Ebenezer Kilburn, first Lieutenant ; and Davis Howlet of Keene, second Lieutenant. In June, 1777, Cols. Bellows and Ashley were both summoned with their regiments to re-inforce the Continental army at Ticonderoga.
The following is the roll of Col. Ashley's seventh company, which was composed almost entirely of men from Gilsum and Surry : ---
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Elisha Mack, Captain.
Jonathan Smith.
Ichabod Smith.
Theody [Theodore] Preston,
Joshua Fuller.
Thomas Dart, 3d.
Justus Hurd.
Abner Skinner, 2d Lientenant.
Justus Dart.
Moses Hale.
Ebenezer Dewey.
Timothy Dinoek, Ensign.
Thomas Dart.
Charles Rice.
John Marks.
Moses Field.
Thomas Dart, Jr.
Peter Beebe.
Abner Bliss.
Joel Kilburn.
Samuel Fuller.
Peter Howard [Hayward].
Josiah * Dart. Jesse Dart.
Sylvanus Howard [Hayward] Elisha Pendall.
Abel Allen.
Daniel Wright.
Jonathan Smith, Jr.
Stephen Bond. Levi Bliss.
Obadiah Wilcox. Ebenezer Bill.
They marehed for the relief of Ticonderoga in the latter part of June, 1777, "to Black River, when they were ordered home, and arrived there July 3. On the next day they were ordered again for Ticonderoga, and went as far as Col. Mead's, at Otter Creek, when the army was met retreating, and they turned and arrived home July 10." Probably most of these men did not re-enlist, and these few days of marching was all the service they saw.
In another regiment, under Col. Moses Nichols of Amherst, the ninth company was about half from Gilsum and Surry, and the rest probably from Keene and Westmoreland. The roll is as follows : -
Elisha Mack, Captain.
Nathan Howard, Corporal. Job Gleason.
Jonathan Smith.
Josiah Richardson, Lieut. John Rowe, Drummer. Benjamin Gutridge.
Jonathan Wheeler.
Moses Fields, 2d Lieutenant. John Boyington, Fifer.
Samuel Hall.
Daniel Willson.
Samuel Fuller, Sergeant. Nicholas Bragg. John Royce.
Ebenezer Cook, Serg't Major. Ebenezer Bragg.
Ezra Metcalf.
David Willson.
Aden Holbrook, Sergeant. Peter Beebe.
Amos Puffer.
Zadock Wheeler.
Tilly How, Sergeant.
David Bond.
Gideon Packard.
Robert Worsley, Corporal.
Cephas Clark.
Timothy Rhodes.
David Harris, discharged Aug. 19. Michael Metcalf,
Asa Wilcox, Corporal.
Joshua Durant.
John Reding.
Joshua Fuller, killed Aug. 16.
Jehial Holdridge, Corporal. Matthew Dolf.
James Sawyer.
William Wood,
This company marehed from New Hampshire July 22, 1777, joined the Continental army at . Saratoga, and was in the battle of Bennington, where three of their number were killed. They were discharged about Sept. 22, and were paid for two months and two days' service. Capt. Maek was paid for " a journey from Gilsum to Exeter to make return of the Roll, 9 days at 8 /-£3-12-0."
The following accounts from the state records show the bounties paid by the town : -
Accounts for Town Bounties, Gilsum.
April, t Lexington alarm and Roll in 1775,
£7-1-4
1777 May Continentals, 5 men
121 - -
July Starks Brigade 8 men
32- -
1778 April 1 Continentals, 2 men paid in rye June Thomas Morse, Col. Peabodys Regt, R. I.
7-
1779 July Continentals 2 men Mooneys Regt, R. I. pd in rye, Jesse Smith
60-
7- -
1780 July New levies 2 men Nichols Regiment 4 men (west Point)
32
24- -
Alarm at Haverhill, Coos pr roll at the time Royalstown was burnt 24-3-5
£354-4-9
* Possibly a mistake for Joshua.
f Samuel White.
# Samuel Crane and Joseph French.
Ebenezer Kilburn, Lieutenant.
Jehabod Young, Sergeant. Samuel Smith, Sergeant. Delavarne [Delavan ] Delelance, Serg. Obadiah Crane, Corporal. Joseph Whitney, Corporal. Obadiah Smith, Corporal. Henry White, Corporal. John Boynton, Fifer. Thomas Smith.
Benjamin Carpenter.
Benjamin Carpenter, Jr.
Nathan Howard [Hayward].Joseph Ellis. William Barnes [Barron]. John Rading [Redding].
Benjamin Ellis. John Roe.
Asa Wilcox.
Shubal Hurd, Sergeant.
Samuel McCurdy.
Thomas Morse.
Jehiel JJoldridge.
Jonathan Carpenter.
Jonathan Dwinel.
40- -
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Gilsum account for bounties paid.
1777 Zadoc Hurd, bounty for 8 mos
£8-11-2
1779 Samuel White, bounty for 1 year
21-11-6
Frederick Tubbs, bounty for 1 year
21-11-6
£51-14-2
Account of bounties and supplies paid by the several Towns to soldiers in the years 1777 -'78 & '79 which was deducted from the soldiers' depreciation * Jany 1786
GILSUM.
Iddo Church Thomas Church David Adams
£10-2-4 22-8-6 22-8-6
£54-19-4
There are also papers sworn to by Capt. John Griggs, Elisha Pendell, and Ebenezer Church, selectmen of Gilsum for the year 1779, certifying that they had paid a bounty of £60 cach to Frederick " Tubs " and Samuel White, for one year's enlistment in the Continental army, and also that they had paid Jesse Smith, enlisted in Col. Mooncy's regiment for the defense of Rhode Island, bounty £30; travel to Providence, £12.
The following men are credited to Gilsum in the state archives : -
DAVID ABRAHAM Was in Samuel Wetherbee's company, Wyman's regiment, enlisted from Gilsum July 12, 1776, and is on Wyman's roll at Mount Independence, Nov. 5, 1776, paid £9- 19-7. He was in Stark's regiment in 1778, and in Cilley's in 1781, but in both cases credited to Alstead. Nothing further is known of this man. He was probably a substitute.
DAVID ADAMS was mustered at Cambridge, May 26, 1775, in Capt. Watson's company, and was doubtless in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was in Capt. Samuel Wetherbee's company, Col. Isaac Wyman's regiment, enlisted July 2, 1776, sent to join the Northern army, and is on a pay-roll of Wyman's regiment dated "Mount Inde- pendence Nov. 5, 1776," as "mustered August 20, 1776, and paid an advance for bounty and wages £9- 18, and for twenty-six miles' travel, £0-2-2." He was in Capt. Josiah Brown's company, Col. Enoch Hale's regiment, which marched to Ticonderoga May 6, 1777, in service forty-nine days, paid wages, travel, etc., £7- 16 -8. He is on roll of men who were engaged under Capt. William Scott (Peterborough) and mustered by Abial Abbott, Dec. 17, 1777, for three years, and served in the First New Hampshire Regiment, under command of Joseph Cilley, was discharged Dec. 31, 1780, was corporal in first company Cilley's regiment in 1780, and was sergeant in same company as it was re-organized Jan. 1, 1781. Was in the army June 26, 1782, and probably served through 1783. He was allowed $167.50 for " Depreciation money " 1777, 1778, and 1779. He was reported absent from Camp Valley Forge Jan. 10, 1778. Cause - sick - age 18. [That is, at enlistment.] He is described as five feet and seven inches in stature, light " complection," dark hair, and light eyes.
PETER BEEBE was in Capt. Jason Wait's company, Col. Bedel's regiment, mustered February, 1776, by John Bellows, Esq. ; was with Capt. Mack at Saratoga, enlisted July 22, discharged Sept. 22, 1777; was in Capt. John Gregg's [Griggs] company, Scammel's regiment, mustered and paid by Thomas Sparhawk April 10, 1778; gives his age as 18 years. He re-enlisted Dec. 8, 1779, for the war, and was paid a bounty of £90 by Col. Nichols ; was in the eighth company of Scammel's regiment, Capt. Wm. Ellis of Keene, and is reported as "Deserted May 20, 1780." If he did desert, he returned, as he is on roll of the First New Hampshire Regiment as it was re-organized in 1781.
this is to certifie that this town Ingaged Peter Beebe to serve In the Continental army In ye year 1778, During the present war Great Britton, and Now return sd Beebe as our man to make up the Quoto of this towns proportion of men
by us THOMAS DARTE
Select JUSTUS HURD
JONATHAN ADAMS $ men "
Nothing further is known of this man. Was probably never a resident of Gilsum. May possibly have been a son or brother of Noah Beebe. (Chapter 30.)
DAVID BILL was in Capt. John Houghton's company, Col. Baldwin's regiment, mustered and paid by Lieut. Col. Jos. Hammond, Sept. 22, 1776, - for New York, wages, bounty, travel, £7-18-4. He was in Davis Howlet's company, Ashley's regiment, marched from Keene May, 1777, to re-inforce the Continental army at Ticonderoga ; engaged May 7, discharged June 23, in service one month, seventeen days, paid total £7-18-4.
STEPHEN BOND was in Capt. Wetherbee's company, Wyman's regiment, enlisted July 12, 1776, mustered Aug. 2, and paid bounty, advance wages, and travel, twenty-five miles, £10-0-1, and was in the same at Mount
* This refers to some allowance made by the State, above the nominal wages, on account of the depreciation of paper money.
" Gilsum ye Sept ye 13, 1782.
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Independence Nov. 5, 1776. Is on Capt. Mack's roll on march to Black River June, 1777, and on roll of Davis llowlet's company, which marched from Keene May, 1777; engaged May 7, discharged June 17, in service one month eleven days, paid £7 - 1 -4. He was in Capt. Nehemiah Houghton's company, Nichols's regiment, at West Point, as engaged July 13, and discharged Oct. 21, 1780.
IDDo CHURen was first Sergeant in Capt. Ellis's company, the eighth of Scammel's regiment, enlisted in the Continental service for "three years or the war," Jan. 1, 1777; was killed in battle Sept. 19, 1777, at Saratoga; received a bounty of £20; depreciation money, $34.47.
THOMAS CHURCH, (brother to the preceding,) was in Capt. Scott's company, Cilley's regiment, mustered by Abial Abbott Dec. 17, 1777; paid bounty, £20. He died June 21, 1778, probably on account of army service.
JOSIAN COMSTOCK was in Capt. William Ellis's company, in Scaminel's regiment, enlisted Ap. 27, 1777, for three years, and died Jan. 8, 1779. Hle was from that part of Gilsum which is now Sullivan. Tradition says he was hired as a substitute by JJohn Mark, and was killed in his first battle.
SAMUEL CRANE was one of the "new levies" which "joined the New Hampshire line," was mustered in camp by Major William Scott, JJune 29, 1780, discharged Dec. 6, 1780. Nothing further is known of him. Probably a substitute.
JOSEPH FRENCH was the other one of the two " new levies " furnished from Gilsum, mustered and discharged same dates as Crane. He was second Lieutenant in Capt. James Ford's company, Nichols's regiment, Stark's brigade, at Bennington and Stillwater; joined July 20, 1777, discharged Sept. 19, 1777. And also in Samnel Dearborn's company, Peabody's regiment, at Rhode Island, engaged Feb. 18, 1778, discharged Jan. 7, 1779. Probably a substitute.
ISAAC GRISWOLD was in Wetherbee's company, Wyman's regiment, Northern army, enlisted July 6, 1777, mustered Aug. 2, paid advance wages, bounty, and twenty-nine miles' travel, £10-0-5; was in Davis Howlet's company, Ticonderoga, enlisted June 29, discharged July 3, 1777, and in Wyman's regiment as Sergeant at Mount Independence Nov. 5, 1776. He probably lived in that part of Gilsum which is now Sullivan, afterwards removed to Keene, and was prominent in the Vermont troubles, being deputy sheriff under Vermont authority.
BROOKS HUDSON, Drummer, on pay-roll of Capt. Nehemiah Houghton's company, Nichols's regiment, at West Point; engaged July 13, discharged Oct. 21, 1780.
ZADOC HURD was in the eighth company, Scammel's regiment, enlisted May 1, 1777, discharged Jan. 10, 1778, in service eight months and ten days ; was in Capt. John Gregg's company, Scammel's regiment, mustered by Thomas Sparhawk May 26, 1778, age 16. He was paid £12 in 1782 for " Taking up and securing a deserter." The family tradition says that he was wounded, and received an invalid's pension.
EBENEZER KILBURN was Lieutenant in Mack's company June, 1777. Do. on roll of Capt. Samuel Weth- erbee's company, sent to join the Continental army, mustered Aug. 20, 1776, paid £10-16-0. His name is on the staff roll of Col. Ashley's regiment, entered June 29, 1777, as "volunteer."
CAPT. ELISHA MACK was in Capt. Wetherbee's company, Wyman's regiment, as private, enlisted July 2, 1776, and was at Mount Independence Nov. 5, same year; was Lieutenant in Davis Howlet's company, Ticon- deroga, engaged May 7, discharged June 17, 1777 ; was Captain of a company raised in Ashley's regiment June, 1777, to re-inforce the Continental army at Ticonderoga (see roll); and in command of a company in Col. Moses Nichols's regiment, Stark's brigade, at Saratoga, joined July 22, discharged Sept. 3, 1777. He was the hero of the Keene raid. (Chapter 28.)
THOMAS MORSE was with Capt. Mack on his march June, 1777; is on pay-roll of Capt. Daniel Reynolds's company, Peabody's regiment, at Rhode Island, as engaged June 15, 1778, discharged Jan. 6, 1779; was mustered at Winchester June 22, 1778, by Samuel Ashley. He lived in what is now Sullivan.
JESSE SMITH was in Capt. Brockway's company, which marched on the 6th and 13th days of July, 1777, for Ticonderoga, and on roll of Capt. Stephen Parker's company, Nichols's regiment, which joined the Continental army under Gates at Stillwater July 19, 1777, discharged Sept. 1777, and on roll of Capt. William Cary's company, Col. Benjamin Bellows's regiment, at Saratoga, as entered Sept. 21, and discharged Oct. 29, 1777. He was in Pea- body's regiment at Rhode Island as engaged June 10, 1778, and discharged Jan. 5, 1779; was Corporal in Capt. Ephraim Stone's company, Col. Hercules Mooney's regiment, at Rhode Island, engaged July 13, 1779, and discharged Jan. 16, 1780 ; was Corporal in Capt. Benjamin Spaulding's company, Nichols's regiment, at West Point, engaged July 15, 1780, discharged Oct. 21, 1780. The name of Jesse Smith appears on a petition from inhabitants of Connecticut in 1763, for a grant of land at "Little Cowas." Nothing is known of him.
ANANIAS TUBBS was in Davis Howlet's company, sent to Ticonderoga June, 1777, and on pay-roll of Capt. Samuel Wright's company, Nichols's regiment, which joined the Continental army at Bennington and Stillwater July 23, 1777. He enlisted as from Swanzey, and gave his age as 45 years. At the battle of Bennington he was wounded in the hip, but was still "fit for garrison duty." A committee on pensions, etc., appointed by the New Hampshire Assembly, reported " Ananias Tubbs Nov. 13 1777 for expences in getting wounds cured at battle of Bennington £46-16." He was also put on the pension list, "pay 9/ per month " from Aug. 31, 1777.
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