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Two-thirds or more of the 26th company of this force volun- teered from Hollis. Of this company Noah Worcester was Cap- tain, and Robert Seaver, 2d Lieutenant. both of Hollis, and Oba- diah Parker of Mason, Ist Lieutenant.
No roll of this company containing the names of all the men in it is known now to exist. But there are now among the Hollis Revolutionary papers two documents presenting the names of most of the Hollis men who were in the service in the several years of the war, with the amount of the wages and bounties paid to each of
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them by the town. One of these documents entitled the " Great Return " was made out by the selectmen of the town about eight years after the war was ended, in obedience to a resolution of th New Hampshire General Court. The other was prepared by Capt. John Goss, who was chosen by the town in the year 1777, as a member of a committee appointed for that purpose, and who was Captain of the Hollis company at the battle of Bennington. These documents together contain the names of forty-four Hollis soldiers. The name of the ind Lieutenant, Robert Seaver, is not found on either of them, though he was one of the company that marched from lollis to Lexington and Cambridge on the igth of April, and also his name at the time and for many years after was on the Hollis tax lists as a resident tax payer.
It appears from the " Great Return " that thirty-seven men of this company were paid by the town £3 each, and two others £2, 55 cach. The names of five others of the company, with the wages supposed to have been paid them, are found in the " Return" of Capt. Goss, but not in the other document. The names of these soldiers, forty-five in all, are here presented :
Noah Worcester, Capt. Stephen Farley. Ephraim Lund,
Robert Seaver, 2d Lieut. .
Isaac French,
Elijah Noyes,
Samuel Ambrost.
Ebenezer Gilson,
Daniel Patch.
Nehemiah Hardy, Nathan Phelps,
Daniel Bailey,
Jonathan Hobart,
Solomon Pierce.
Joshua Blanchard.
joshua Hobart,
Wm. W. Pool,
Daniel Blood, Parmeter Iloney,
John Rend.
Joel Boynton, Joseph How,
Jonathan Russ,
Eliphalet Brown,
Ebenezer Jaquith, William Shattuck,
James Colburi., Thomas Jaquith, Zachariah Shattuck,
Robert Colbuna. Jacob Jewett, Jun.,
Jacob Taylor,
Josiah Conant, Stephen Jewett,
Jonathan Taylor,
John Conroy. Oliver Lawrence,
William Tenney,
Benjamin Farley. Asa Lovejoy,
Nathaniel Wheat,
Joseph Farley, Jonathan Lovejoy,
James Wheeler.
NUMBER OF HOLLIS SOLDIERS THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR.
Minute men who went to Cambridge in April, 92
Eight months' men : In Capt. Dow's Company, 59: Capt. Moor's, 4 ; Spalding's, S : Towns. 9; in all, So
In Capt. Worcester's Company, 45
Making in all. 217
The names of 61 of the 92 minute men who went to Cambridge in April will be found in the foregoing lists of men enlisted for eight months.'or in that of the Hollis men in Capt. Worcester's
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company. Deducting the 61 from 217, there will remain a total of 156 different names of Hollis soldiers who were in the military ser- vice of the country during a part of the first year of the war, a number very nearly equal to one in eight of the whole population.
It is shown by the " Great Return " made by the selectmen above referred to, that the town paid in the year 1775, for the wages or bounties for these sofliers, the following sums ;
To the eight months' men at £12. per man, (£1 105. s. d. per month). $792. 00. 00. To the men in Capt. Worcester's company, 115. 10. 00. For the 92 Minute men to Cambridge in April. 93. 07. 07.
Making an aggegate of £1000. 17. 07.
WAGES OF SOLDIERS IN 1775.
In the common histories of the war of the Revolution, but very little information is to be gleaned in regard to the wages paid to the brave men by whose valor and privations our national independence was won. Several of the original Hollis documents, still existing. throw much light upon this subject in respect to the pay of the soldiers who went from the town in 1775. and in the other years of the war. The pay roll of the first company of ninety-two minute men has already been adverted to, showing the daily wages paid to both the officers and privates of that company. It appears from a pay roll of the company of Capt. Dow. made in August, 1775. after the men had been at Cambridge near four months, that the monthly wages of the private soldiers were £2, or $6.67. or about 24 cents a day, reckoning twenty-eight days to the month. In addition to these wages the men were credited with id. a mile for travel. The wages of the drummer, fifer and corporals appear to have been £2. 55. per month-those of the Sergeants £2, ros., the Second Lieut .. £3, the First Lieut .: £4, and of the Captain. 56, or about $20.00 per month.
THE MILITARY COAT VOTED AS A BOUNTY TO EIGHT MONTHS MEN.
From the following copy of an original certificate and receipt now in the office of the Secretary of State, at Boston, it is shown that the soldiers in Capt. Dow's company received a military coat. voted by the Massachusetts Congress in the spring of 1775. as a bounty to men enlisted for eight months.
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" CAMBRIDGE, NOV. 20. 1775 .. To the Honorable Committee of Supplies :
"This may certify that we who have hereunto subscribed our names do declare that we being under officers and soldiers enlisted under Captain Reuben Dow of Holles, in Col. William Prescott's regiment, have received cach of us a coat according to a vote of the late Congress held at Watertown, and provided by the com. mittee of supplies. we say received of Lieutenant John Coss of said company."
The above certificate was signed by forty-seven members of the company, being all the non-commissioned officers and privates, except the nine of them who had been previously killed or died of sickness. There was endorsed upon this certificate the receipt of Lieut. Goss, as follows :
"Rec'd of the committee on cloathing forty-seven costs for the within mentioned soldiers as per Receipt on back, of this date. " Nov. 20, 1775" "JOHN Goss, Lieut."
It also appears from the three following certificates and vouchers to be found in the same depository at Boston, that the heirs or widows of the nine deceased men received pay for these military bounty coats.
Ist Voucher. " To the Honorable the Committee of Supplies of Massachusetts Bay. Be pleased to pay or deliver to Capt. Reuben Dow the money due to the following men for their military coats, viz., Sergt. Nathan Blood, Thomas Wheat. Isaac Hobart, Jacob Boynton. Phineas Nevins, James Fisk and Caleb Eastman, in Capt. Reuben Dow's company, in Col. William Prescott's Eregiment, deceased. and this shall be your Receipt for the same. per us"
" WILLIAM NEVINS JOHN BOYNTON AMOS EASTMAN SHUBAEL HOBAKT
ENOCH NOTES ABIGAN, WHEAT her SARAH X FISK."
William Nevins, John Boynton, Amos Eastman and Shubael Hobart were respectively the fathers of Phineas Nevins. Jacob Boynton, Caleb Eastman and Isaac Hobart ; Abigail Wheat and Sarah Fisk, the widows of Thomas Wheat and James Fisk. and Enoch Noyes was the father-in-law of Sergt. Nathan Blood.
2d Voucher. " We hereby certify that the widow Experience Shattuck is the proper person to receive the clothing belonging to
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Jeremiah Shattuck who belonged to Capt. Reuben Dow's Company in Col. Win. Prescott's regiment and is dead.
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JACOB JEWETT, OLIVER LAWRENCE, " Holles, ye 16th of March, 1776.
"To the Honorable Commitee of Supplies of Massachusetts Bay. Gentlemen, Be pleased to pay to Capt. Reuben Dow, the money due to Jeremiah Shattuck, deceased, who belonged to Capt. Reuben Dow's Company in Col. Win. Prescott's regiment, and this order shall be your discharge for the same, per me.
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3d Voucher. "We hereby certify that Capt. Reuben Dow is the only proper person to receive the clothing that is due to Peter Poor, a transient person who enlisted in his Company, and last re- sided in this Town and went away in debt. Said Poor was killed in Bunker Hill fight.
" NOAH WORCESTER, OLIVER LAWRENCE, STEPHEN AMES, JACOB JEWETT, DANIEL KENDRICK.
Selectmen of Holles." " Holles, Feb. 10, 1776.
STORY OF A HOLLIS WOMAN .- CAPTURE AND SURRENDER OF A HOLLIS TORY.
Among the citizens of Hollis in 1775. were four known as tories, whose sympathies were strongly with the royal government. These four were Benjamin Whiting, the first sheriff of Hillsborough county ; his brother, Capt. Leonard Whiting; and Samuel and Thomas Cumings, two of the sons of Samuel Cumings, Sen., the. first town-clerk of Hollis. We copy the following notices of the two Whitings from Sabine's " Loyalists of the American Revolu- tion," Vol. 2. p. 422.
" Whiting, Benjamin, Sheriff of Hillsborough County, N. Il. He was proscribed and banished and his property confiscated."
" Whiting, Leonard, of Hollis, N. H. A noted Tory. In 1775, Whiting was the bearer of despatches from Canada to the British in Boston, and was arrested in Groton, Mass., under the following circumstances. After the departure of Col. Prescott's Regiment of 'Minute Men,' Mrs. David Wright, of Pepperell, Mrs. Job Shattuck, (11)
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of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's bridge, over the Nashua river, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent husbands' apparel, and armed with muskets, pitchforks, and such other weapons as they could find, and having elected Mrs. Wright their commander, resolutely determined that no foe to freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge. Rumors were then rife that the Regulars were approaching, and frightful stories of slaughter flew rapidly from place to place and from house to house. Soon there appeared Mr. Leonard Whiting (the subject of this notice), on horseback, supposed to be treasona- bly engaged in carrying intelligence to the enemy. Whiting, by direction of Mrs. Wright in her assumed character of Sergeant of the Bridge Guard, was seized, taken from his horse, searched, and detained a prisoner. Despatches were found in his boots, which were sent to the Committee of Safety, and Whiting himself was committed to the custody of the Committee of Observation of Groton."
The maiden name of Mrs. David Wright was Prudence Cum- ings, a sister of Samuel and Thomas Cumings, two of the Hollis tories before mentioned. and also of Benjamin Cumings, a younger brother, who was in the company of Capt. Dow at Bunker Hill, and was afterwards a soldier in the Continental army. It appears from the Hollis Records of Births and Marriages, that Prudence Cumings was born at the parish of West Dunstable, now Hollis, Nov. 26, 1740, and that she was married to David Wright, of Pep- perell, Dec. 28, 1761.
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1776 .- HOLLIS SOLDIERS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR .- THE HOLLIS LOYALISTS OR TORIES.
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.
At the annual March election of 1776 "Capt, Reuben Dow, Capt. Noah Worcester, Ensign Stephen Ames, Capt. Daniel Kon- drick, Jacob Jewett, Oliver Lawrence, and Samuel Chamberlain." were chosen a Committee of Safety ; Noah Worcester, Stephen Ames, Daniel Kendrick, Jacob Jewett, and Oliver Lawrence, Select- men ; and on the 26th of November, at a special election, Stephen Ames was chosen Representative to the General Court for one year.
HOLLIS SOLDIERS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR.
In the year 1776 the seat of the war was removed from the vicin- ity of Boston to Canada, and the States of New York and New Jersey. But a few of the company or regimental rolls of the troops furnished from New Hampshire the second year of the war are now known to exist, or if in existence, some of the most interesting and important of them, supposed to be in the office of the Secretary of State at Washington, under the inhospitable rules of that office, are not accessible to the historical enquirer. I have examined the very few of them at Concord, but in these researches I have been obliged to rely mainly upon the town records and documents for the names, numbers, time of service and wages of the Hollis sol- diers for this year.
It appears from these documents that four Hollis soldiers, viz .. David Ames, Minot Farmer, David Patch and Eli Stiles, enlisted in the detachment of troops, under Gen. Arnold, who with so much privation and suffering, made their way, in the depth of winter, through the forests of Maine in 1775-6, by the way of Ken- nebec river, to Canada and Quebec. Minot Farmer, who had been
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a Sergeant in Capt. Dow's company at Bunker Hill, was taken prisoner at the assault on Quebec. and died in captivity in the month of May of this year.
In 1776, and afterwards till near the end of the war. New Hamp- shire furnished three regiments or battalions of regular troops, known as the ist, 2d and 3d New Hampshire Continental regi- ments, commanded severally by Colonels Cilley, Hale and Scam- mel. Dr. John Hale and his son-in-law, Dr. Jonathan Pool, both of Hollis, were respectively Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon of the Ist New Hampshire regiment, from 1776 to 1780. Dr. Hale had previously been Colonel of the New Hampshire regiment of militia, to which Hollis was attached, which office he resigned in the month of June of the former year.
The private soldiers in these Continental. regiments were at first enlisted for a single year. Besides the Surgeon and Assistant Sur- geon for the ist regiment, Hollis furnished for those regiments twenty-one men, a part of whom are said to have enlisted in the sixth company of the Ist regiment, commanded by Capt. John House of Hanover, and a part in the first company of the 3d regi- ment under Capt. Isaac Frye of Wilton. Of this last company Samuel Lecman, Jun., of Hollis, was Ensign. The history and doings of these gallant regiments are too well known to require or permit special comment here. They were in the hard-fought bat- tles of this year near New York city, and their bravery and good conduct were conspicuous in the victories won at Trenton and Princeton in New Jersey. The wages of the men paid by the town were £24 for the year, or £2 each per month. Their names were Elias Boynton, Thomas Hardy, Ezra Proctor,
Abel Brown, Israel Kinney, John Read,
Ab : Conant, Sam'l Leeman, Jun .. Stephen Richardson,
Benjamin Cummings,
William Nevins, Ephraim Rolfe,
Stephen Conroy, Jonathan Parker, Ephraim Smith,
Jacob Danforth,
Thomas Pratt, Jacob Taylor.
William Elliot, Ezekiel Proctor.
Thomas Youngman.
William Nevins is said to have been taken captive near New York city, and to have died while a prisoner, probably in a British prison ship. Ezra Proctor, as shown by the Hollis records, was drowned at New York on the 15th of May of this year.
HOLLIS MEN IN COL. WINGATE'S REGIMENT.
About the middle of July of this year a regiment of New Hamp- shire Volunteers was enlisted to re-enforce the army then in Can- ada and placed under the command of Col. Joshua Wingate of
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Dover. In the third company of this regiment, of which Daniel Emerson, Jun., of Hollis was Captain, were twenty-five Hollis sol- diers, supposed to have been in service about six months.
The wages paid them by the town were £12 each. In conse- quence of the retreat of the Continental troops from Canada, this regiment went no farther north than Ticonderoga. The names of these men were,
David Ames, Samuel Hill,
Solomon Pierce,
John Ball, John How,
Joseph Stearns,
Daniel Blood, Jun.,
Oliver Lawrence, Jun.,
Isaac Stevens, Jun.,
Josiah Blood, Elijah Noyes, Ebenezer Townsend,
Daniel Emerson, Jun., Capt.
Enoch Noyes, Jun., Jesse Worcester,
Thomas Emerson,
Thomas Patch, Lemuel Wright,
Ralph Emerson,
Nathaniel Patten,
John Young man,
, Benjamin Farley, Jun., Josiah Fisk,
Samuel Phelps,
Nicholas Youngman.
It appears from an inventory of the equipments and clothing of Josiah Blood, one of these soldiers, now among the lollis Docu- ments, dated at Mt. Independence, September 16, 1776, that he died in the army about that time.
MEN IN COL. LONG'S REGIMENT.
Early in August of this year, a small regiment of seven companies was organized by order of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety, afterwards commanded by Col. Pierce Long, and stationed at Newcastle, near Portsmouth. About the last of November. 1776, this regiment was ordered to the State of New York for the defence of Ticonderoga. In the third company of this regiment. of which Timothy Clements, of Hopkinton, was Captain, were twelve Hollis soldiers, supposed to have served about a year, and were paid by the town fie each, and whose names were
Ebenezer Ball, D.vid French,
Isaac Shattuck,
Larnard Camnings, Richard Hopkins.
Enoch Spaulding,
Caleb Partey, Abner Keyes,
Thomas Wheat,
Christopher Farley. Stephen Powers, 5
Samuel Worcester.
Isaac Shattuck, one of these soldiers, a son of Zachariah Shattuck. and a young, unmarried man, died in this service.
MEN IN COL. BALDWIN'S REGIMENT.
In the month of September, of this year. a regiment of New Hampshire troops was raised, commanded by Col. Nahum Baldwin, of Amherst, to reinforce the Continental army, then at White Plains, near New York city. In the second company of this ·
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regiment of which William Reed was Captain, were twenty-one Hollis soldiers, who, with one exception, were paid by the town $5 7s. each, and supposed to have been in the service about three months. It is shown by a roll of this company, now at Concord, that the men on enlisting were paid a bounty of £6 each, and allowed a penny a mile for travel, and the same in lieu of a baggage wagon. The names of these men were
Danicl Bailey, Jun.,
Stephen Dow,
Asa Lovejoy,
Daniel Blood,
Isaac French,
Ephraim Pierce,
Timothy Blood,
Stephen Goodhue, John Platts,
Benjanun Boynton,
Noah Jewett,
Benjamin Sanderson,
Joel Boynton,
Stephen Jewett, Jun.,
Joshua Smith,
Edward Carter,
Thomas Kemp,
William Tenncy,
Nathan Colburn,
Jonas Lesley,
Ebenezer Wheeler.
MEN IN COL. GILMAN'S REGIMENT.
In the month of December of this year, another New Hampshire regiment was enlisted to reinforce the army in New York, com- manded by Col. David Gilman. In the second company of this reg- iment, of which William Walker, of Dunstable, (now Nashua) was Captain, there were thirteen Hollis soldiers, as appears by the rolls at Concord and Hollis documents, eight of whom were paid by the town £4 each, and are supposed to have been in the service for two months. The names of these men are presented in the following list :
Samuel Chamberlain, Jonathan Hobart,
David Sanderson,
William Cumings, Samuel Johnson,
William Shattuck,
Amos Eastman, Randall McDaniels,
Benjamin Wright,
Ebenezer Farley,
James Rolfe,
Jesse Wyman.
john Hale, Jun.,
It is shown by the company roll at Concord, that the men were allowed £3, cach, being advanced pay for one month and f2 28. cach for. " billeting" or expenses to New York.
It is also shown by the " Great Return" above referred to made by the selectmen, that in 1776 four Hollis soldiers served in the garrison at Portsmouth, for about three months, (as is supposed). they having been paid by the town £4 ics. each. The names of these men were John Atwell, Andrew Bailey, Phineas Hardy, and Phineas Hardy, Jun.
OTHER HOLLIS SOLDIERS IN 1776 IN CAPT. GOSS'S "RETURN."
In addition to the soldiers for 1776, whose names appear in the foregoing lists, I find in the " Return" made by Captain Goss, the
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names of twenty-five others who in his "Return" are credited with wages varying from £2 to £12, cach, for services, as would appear in another expedition to Ticonderoga under Capt. Emerson. The names of these men, with the amount credited to each of them, appear in the list below.
Nathaniel Ball, £6. Thomas J.quith, £2 .
Daniel Mooar, £3.
Elnathan Blood,
3. Nathaniel Jewett, 6. John Phelps, 12.
William Brown,
4. Jacob Jewett,
6. Richard Pierce, 6.
Ephraim Burge,
4. James Jewett,
4. William Pool, 4.
Deacon Goodhue,
4. Stephen Jewett,
4. Edward Taylor, 3.
John Goodhuc, 4. Edward Johnson,
12. Solomon Wheat,
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Lemuel Hardy, 6. Danicl Lovejoy,
3. Ensign Willoughby, 6.
John Hobart, 3. Daniel Merrill,
4. Nehemiah Woods, 4.
Ebenezer Jaquith, 2.
From the foregoing lists it appears that 125 Hollis men were in the army the whole or a part of the year 1776, a number nearly equal to one in ten of the whole population. The amount paid by the town in 1776, as wagesand bounties, according to the Great Return, was £1018, 78.
THE HOLLIS TORIES OR LOYALISTS.
As has been, in another connection, already stated, there were in Hollis, at the commencement of the war, four of its citizens, viz., Benjamin and Leonard Whiting, and Samuel and Thomas Cumings, who were understood by their fellow townsmen to be loyalists or tories and opposed to the independence of the colonies. To these four should probably be added Richard Cutts Shannon, a lawyer from Portsmouth who had settled in Hollis just before the Revolution.
About the first of March, 1776, or it may be somewhat earlier, the four men first named were summoned for trial, upon a charge of the character referred to, before the Committees of Safety of the towns of Hollis, Dunstable, Merrimack and Litchfield. Upon the petition of the accused, shortly after the first of March, the case was trans- ferred for hearing to the New Hampshire General Court then sitting at Exeter. Capt. Reuben Dow, of Hollis, as chairman of the Committees of Safety, appeared before the General Court and filed his complaint in their behalf with the evidence charging all the accused as "persons suspected of being inimical to the Rights and Liberties of the United Colonies." The accused appeared at the trial by their counsel and made their defence, and at the final hear- ing on the 20th of June, following, it was decided that the testimony was not sufficient to sustain the complaint and all of them were
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discharged." But events very soon proved that the suspicions anc charges of the Committees of Safety were well grounded.
In the same month of June, as shown by the court records, Thomas Cumings was indicted before the Superior Court, and gave bail for his appearance to the following September term of the Court to answer to the charge. In the meanwhile he left his family, the town and country, failed to appear, forfeited his bond and never returned. Some months later, Samuel Cumings and Benjamin Whiting left the town and State, both leaving their families, and remained " absentees," and all the three died in exile. The names of all of them, with those of seventy-three other New Hampshire tories, were embraced in the " Act of Banishment," passed by the New Hampshire General Court, in November, 1778 -- the estates of Samuel Cumings and Benjamin Whiting were confiscated, all of them forbidden to return under the penalty of transportation, and in case of a second return, they were to suffer death. It is to be inferred that Thomas Cumings and Whiting both died within a very few years after leaving the country, Grace Whiting, the deserted wife of Sheriff Whiting, (as appears from the Hollis records) having been married to Burpee Ames, of Hollis, May 23, 1782, and upon her decease, which occurred shortly after this mar- riage, Mr. Ames married for his second wife, Hannah Cumings, the deserted wife of Thomas Cumings.
Capt. Leonard Whiting did not leave the country, but continued to reside in Hollis for many years after the war. But for a large portion of the years 1777 and 1778 he was imprisoned in the jail at Amherst, with several other accused persons, all under the charge of being "inimical to the Rights and. Liberties of the United Colonies."¡ It appears also that Richard Cutts Shannon, the Hollis lawyer, at the time, for a part of the year 1777 was imprisoned in the jail at Amherst, with Whiting and others under the like charge .; Yet it seems that the offence of Mr. Shannon, whatever it may have been, was afterwards so far forgotten or forgiven by the people of Hollis, that in the year 1782 he was chosen Representative of the. town to the General Court.
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1777 .-- WAR OF THE REVOLUTION CONTINUED .- COMMITTEE OF SAFETY FOR 1777 .-- HOLLIS SOLDIERS THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR .- PATRIOTIC AGREEMENT OF FORTY-EIGHT HOLLIS MINUTE MEN .- THE TICONDEROGA ALARM .- COMPANY TO BENNINGTON .- DEPRECIATION OF CONTINENTAL PAPER MONEY.
HOLLIS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 1777.
From the Town Records. An. T. M. March 3, 1777 .- "Voted and chose for a Committee of Safety, this year, Capt. Noah Worcester, Ensign Stephen Ames, Capt. Daniel Kendrick, Oliver Lawrence and Jacob Jewett, and also voted that we will stand by the Committee of Safety and defend them and do all we can to assist them in the cause of liberty. Chose Capt. Daniel Emerson Powder keeper, and Capt. Reuben Dow, Capt. John Goss, Capt. Daniel Emerson, Capt. William Read and Dea. John Boynton a committee to make ont a list of the men who have been in the army, in defence of American liberty, and set a valuation on their services."
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