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VOLUNTEERS FOR RHODE ISLAND IN 1778.
and Enoch Spalding. The regiment was discharged June 3. 1779. having been in the service six months and twenty-five days. The wages of the men were £4 Ios. per month, and they were allowed for travel in going to Rhode Island 3d. per mile, and Sd. per mile on their return home. The town paid the three Hollis men a bounty of £6 each.
Hollis Volunteers to Rhode Island in August, 1778. The brigade of Gen. Whipple was raised in the summer of 1778 to reinforce the Continental army in Rhode Island in a proposed attack upon the British troops then in possession of the island of Rhode Island. In this attack it was expected that a powerful French fleet. then on the coast, under the command of Admiral Count D'Estaing. would co-operate with the army. But the fleet having been dis- abled and dispersed by a violent storm just before the time fixed for the intended attack, the expedition failed.
About the 6th of August of this year, a company of volunteers to aid in this expedition was raised in Hollis. The company, includ- ing its officers, consisted of forty-three men. It was commanded by Capt. Daniel Emerson, and was the ist company of a regiment commanded by Col. Moses Nichols of Amherst. The men were in the service from the 6th to the 28th of August, and were then dis- charged, in consequence of the misfortune to the French fleet. The wages of the private soldiers in this expedition were at the rate of £5 per month, and Sd. per mile for travel, one hundred miles each way, in going and returning. They were also paid by the town £1 3s. each. It is to be inferred also that the men were all mounted and furnished their own horses, as it is shown by the return of Col. Nichols that the company had forty-three horses. for which they were allowed Cio cach. making £430. The roll below presents a list of this company with its officers, all from Hollis.
Daniel Emerson, Capt., Caleb Farley, Lieut., Timothy Blood,
Nathanie! Blood, Jun.,
Jacob Jewett. 3d.,
Daniel Kendrick,
William Brooks, Ensign,
Thomas Carter,
Asa Lawrence.
Daniel Bailey, Sergeant,
Benjamin Colbura.
Daniel Merrill, Jun ..
Josiah Conant,
Reuben Dow.
Samuel Mer:i !!.
Stephen Rannells, .
Josiah Fisk,
Elijah Noyes, Jonathan Parker,
Abel Conant. Corporal,
Jonas Flagg,
Elias Boynton,
Jonathan French,
William W. Pool,
Evan Dow, ..
Stephen Goodhue,
Ephraim Rolfe,
Andrew Bailey, Fifer. PRIVATES. Benjamin Abbot,
David Hale, John Hale, Jen.,
Jacob Spalding. Joseph Wheat,
Noah Hardy,
Jonas Woods,
David Ames, John Atwell, Nathaniel Blood,
Joshua Hobart, Solomon Hobart. John How.
Noah Worcester, Sen.,
Jesse Worcester.
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CONTINENTAL QUOTA FOR 1779. [1779.
It may be seen from the foregoing data, that including the town's quota of thirty Continental soldiers, Hollis in 1778 had seventy-six men in the service. for the whole or a part of that year.
VOTES AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE TOWN MEETINGS IN 1779. Committee of Safety. Annual Town Meeting, March 1. 1779. .. Voted and chose Noah Worcester, Esq., Mr. Oliver Lawrence, Mr. Jacob Jewett. Ensign Stephen Ames and Mr. Edward Taylor, Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Inspection."
Soldiers' Families. .. Voted that the Overseers of the Poor take care of the Continental Soldiers' Families, and have particular regard to the families of those that have died in the army."
Capt. Leonard Whiting's War Rate. .. Mr. Samuel Chamber- lain, one of the constables of Hollis, having informed the town that Capt. Leonard Whiting refused to pay his War Tax. Voted to defend said Chamberlain and that he be indemnified in recovering the same, so far as he has acted according to law."
QUOTA OF CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS.
Special Town Meeting. March 31. 1779. " Chose Noah Wor- cester, Esq .. Capt. Reuben Dow, and Capt. Daniel Emerson, to take the method they shall think best and proper to get our Quota of Continental men."
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Special Town Meeting, July 5. 1779. " Voted that the Com- mittee chosen at the last meeting be joined with the Selectmen, and Militia officers to assist in getting our Continental Men. either by draft or otherwise as they shall think best for the town."
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Special Town Meeting. Fuly 19, 1779. " Voted ist. to raise the men called for to fill up the New Hampshire Battalions, being our proportion of the Continental Army, as a town for one year, and chose Ensign Jeremiah Ames, Dr. Jonathan Fox. and Jacob Jewett, Jun .. a Committee to hire for one year our nine Continen- tal Men."
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". ed. Voted that said Committee be empowered to give the Town's Security to each of said nine men for any sum of money that they'may agree with them for, and the Town to be responsible to said Committee for said Sums, and the Committee's trouble in raising said men, and that the Selectmeu be empowered to assess the Polls and Estates of this town the sum of money that it shall cost to raise said men."
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On the ed of August, about two weeks after this last meeting, this committee made their report in writing to the town showing that they had engaged eight of the nine men wanted, with their name, and the bounties agreed to be paid to each of them for the year's service.
A copy of this report is presented below as follows :
" The Inhabitants of the Town of Holles to Jeremiah Ames, Jonathan Fox and Jacob Jewett. Jun .. a Committee chosen by said Town to agree with and hire nine men to go into the Continental Army for one year for said town. Dr.
". Aug. 2, 1779. To cash and our security given to Eight men as a Bounty from said Torun to go into said service. To Caleb Stiles. Cash. £300 10 Bushels of Rye.
" Caleb Stiles, Jun., $300 to Bushels of Rys.
10 Do. of Ind. Corn. 10 Do. of Ind. Cora.
" Ephraim Pearce. ..
£300 Jo Bushels of Rye. 10 Do. of Ind. Corn.
" Francis G. Powers; £300 10 Bushels of Ryc. 10 Do. of Ind. Corn. 10 Do. of Ind. Corn.
" Jerathmael Bow ers, ..
£300 10 Bushels of Rye.
" Jacob Hobart. .. £ 300 10 Bushels of Rye. " Joseph Stearns, .. 17 Bushels of Rye. 10 Bushels of Rye.
·· Simeon Foster. .. £210
Law ful Morey, £2.15 ;. Sq Bushels of Rye.
10 Do, of Ind. Corn. 20 Do. of Ind. Corn. 10 Do, of Ind. Corn. - yo Bushs. Ind. Corn. JEREMIAH AMES. JONATHAN FOX. JACOB JEWETT, Jun."
" Holles. Jug. 3- 1779."
The " Return" of Col. Nichols for the regiment shows that the sinth man enlisted for the town under this call was Joseph Wheat, but it does not appear what bounty was paid him.
VOLUNTEERS FOR RHODE ISLAND AND PORTSMOUTH.
In the spring or summer of this year a regiment of New Hampshire troops was raised for service in Rhode Island. com- manded by Col. Hercules Mooney, of Lee. In this regiment were six Hollis men, viz .. Daniel Emerson, Jun., who was captain of the 5th company. Dr. Peter Emerson, a brother of Captain Emerson. (the surgeon of the regiment. ) Daniel Bailey, Daniel Kendrick, John Hobart. and Samuel Emerson. another brother of Capt. Emerson. then in his fifteenth year. afterwards a graduate of Harvard college, and an eminent physician. The men were discharged on the first of January. 17So. having been in the service near six months. The wages of the private soldiers were £12 per month. Bounty paid by the town. £9. Allowed fortravel to Providence as. per mile-from Providence, home. 35. per mile.
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The original commission of Capt. Emerson, as a Captain in this regiment, signed by Meshech Weare, President of the New Hampshire Council, has been preserved in the family of a grand- son, and a copy of it is presented below.
The Government and people of the State of New Hampshire to Daniel Emerson, Esq., Greeting,
Seal.
" We reposing especial trust and confidence in your courage and good conduct, do by these Presents constitute and appoint you the said DANIEL EMERSON, Captain of a company in a regiment raised within said State, for the' defence of the State of Rhode Island, of which regiment Hercules Mooney, Esq., is Colonel. You are there- fore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain in leading, ordering and exercising the said company in arms, both inferior officers and soldiers, and to keep them in good order and discipline, and they are hereby required and commanded to obey you as their Captain, and you are yourself to observe and follow such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time receive from the General and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Forces, or any other your superior officers according to Military Rules and Discipline in war in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.
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In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of said State to be hereunto affixed.
Witness, MESHECH WEARE, Esq .. the President of our Council, at Exeter this 30th day of June. A. D., 1779.
M. WEARE.
E. THOMPSON. Secretary.
It also appears from the Revolutionary rolls. preserved in Concord, that in the year 1779, John Goodhue. Joseph Hardy and Silas Hardy, all of Hollis, enlisted in the company of Capt. Hezekiah Lovejoy, to serve for six months in the garrison at Portsmouth.
At a special town meeting Aug. 25th of this year, .. Voted to allow' Dea. Enoch Noyes £21 2s .. and Noah Worcester, Esq .. £46 gs. for services in attending the Convention to agree upon and set- tle a Plan of State Government." also at the same meeting, " chose Col. John Hale to represent this town in the Convention to be held at Concord on the 23d of September next."
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PLAN FOR FIXING PRICES. . 185
This was a general convention of delegates from the State, called together in the vain hope of being able to devise some farther ex- pedients to arrest the rapid depreciation of the paper currency by limiting and regulating the prices of the necessaries of life. The extent at this time of this alarming depreciation may be readily in- ferred by comparing the wages and bounties paid to soldiers at the beginning of the war, with those paid, as may be seen above, in the month of August. 1779. In 1775, the wages paid by the town to the eight months' men who went to Cambridge were £1 ros. per month, or at the rate of £18 per year. In 1776, the men who en- listed for the year were paid in all £24 by the town, or at the rate of £2 per month. In 1779 there were paid by the town to the Hollis soldiers for a years' service, £300 and 10 bushels of rye. and Io bushels of corn.
The Concord convention, as appears, met as proposed. and agreed upon a schedule of prices of certain commodities and ne- cessaries, leaving it for the towns to state and limit the prices of others. The convention having finished its work, a town meeting was called on the following 21st of October to consider the report and proceedings of that body and to determine what further should be done by the town. From the record of this meeting we quote as follows :
PLAN OF FIXING PRICES BY THE CONCORD CONVENTION.
Special Town Meeting, Oct. 21, 1779. .. Voted unanimously our entire approbation of the Proceedings of the Convention held at Concord, in September last Stating Prices, &c." ". Voted to pur- suc the Plan laid down by the Convention for Stating Prices, and to State the Prices for articles for this town, not stated by the Con- vention-to see the Plan carried into effect -- and to correspond with other towns,-and chose Col. John Hale. Capt. Daniel Kendrick, Dea. John Boynton. Capt. Jolin Goss, Ephraim Burge, Ebenezer Runnells. Jacob Jewett. Christopher Farley, Josiah Fisk and Lt. Ebenezer Jewett, said Committee. Adjourned to Nov. 16.
Adjourned Town Meeting. Nov. 16. 1779. " Voted to accept the Report of the Committee."
In the mean time, previous to the 16th of November. the fore- going committee prepared their report and submitted it to the meeting held on that day. The report was then accepted by the town as shown by the record of the meeting as follows:
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DEPRECIATION OF PAPER MONEY.
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Adjourned Town Meeting. Nov. 16, 1779. .. Voted to accept the Report of the Committee appointed on the 21st of October. and that each person in town govern himself accordingly under the penalty. of being treated as an enemy of his Country. and that copies of the same be posted up in the public houses in town attested by the town clerk.
" At this meeting a paper that had been set up at Runnell's (Mills) by order of the town, attested by the town clerk, being brought in and exhibited to the meeting much defaced. upon view of which. the Town voted unanimously their resentment of the inatter, and that the Committee should enquire into the affair and report at the next meeting."
Zachariah Lawrence Fun .. and his offence. It appearing from the report of the committee to the next town meeting. held on the 9th of December. that Zachariah Lawrence. Jun .. was guilty of defac- ing the paper containing the list of prices set up by the town clerk at Runnells, " Voted that the Committee of Safety be empowered to settle the affair with Zachariah Lawrence. Jun., for his offence in defacing a certain paper as they shall think proper, and that if said Lawrence refuses to settle to their satisfaction to pursue him in the law and make report to the town as soon as may be."
SCALE OF DEPRECIATION OF PAPER MONEY.
In the year 1781. the New Hampshire General Court prepared and adopted what was called an ". Authorized Scale of Depreciation of Continental Paper Money," in accordance with which. contracts made at different dates during the war might be equitably settled with silver money. The following table copied from that scale indicates the value of froo in silver as compared with its equiva- lent in Continental paper money in different years as fixed by the General Court.
June, 1777. $100 in silver equal to Eizo Continental paper.
* 1775, $100 ..
.. £425 6. 1779,
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$ 100
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.. ₾5700 .. 0 1;21,
After the last date Continental paper money became worthless.
SMALL POX IN HOLLIS.
It is stated by Rev. Grant Powers. in his Centennial address, delivered in 1830. " That in the year 1779 the small pox broke out
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in the town. supposed to have been communicated by the Enemy of our Country, and two houses were improved as Hospitals. One of these houses was afterwards owned and occupied by Lemuel Wright. and the other by James Rideout. In the last named of these houses there were at one time more than one hundred patients. About one hundred and fifty persons were inoculated, of whom three died. and five others who took the disease from exposure to the infection. also died." 1
It appears from the town records that Col. John Hale was put in charge of these hospitals, with a supervisory committee, consisting of .. Noah Worcester. Stephen Ames, Oliver Lawrence, Capt. Daniel Emerson. Solomon Rogers, Dea. Stephen Jewett and Edward Tavlor, who were to take security of Col. Hale and place him under proper restrictions."
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WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
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CHAPTER XVII.
17SO AND ITSI .- VOTES AND RESOLUTIONS .- HOLLIS CONTINENTAL QUOTA .-- WAGES OF SOLDIERS .- MILITIA FOR WEST POINT ANH NORTHERN FRONTIER .- THEIR WAGES AND BOUNTIES .- TAXES ASSESSED TO PAY THEM .- BEEF FOR THE ARMY IN 1780, 17SI. -- REDUCTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TROOPS .- REDUCTION OF THE HOLLIS QUOTA .-- TWELVE CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS CALLED FOR AND ENGAGED .- THEIR NAMES. --- BEEF FOR THE ARMY IN 17SI AND HOW OBTAINED .- THE TOWN DIVIDED INTO CLASSES. NEW CALL FOR TWELVE SOLDIERS .- RUM FOR THE ARMY .-- REPRESENTATIVE IN ISI.
VOTES AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE TOWN MEETINGS IN 1780.
Annual Town Meeting, March 6, 1780. "Chose Ephraim Burge. Lt. Ebenezer Jewett and Ebenezer Runnells a committee to take care of Soldiers' Families, and voted that the Selectmen and com- missioned officers settle with the Rhode Island men for 1779 and the men who went to Portsmouth last Fall, as to what they shall receive on account of the fall of Money. agreeably to our agree- ment with them, and also voted that Ebenezer Runnells. Noah Worcester and Jacob Jewett be a committee to procure the Grain for the last Continental men and settle with them and that the Select- men assess the amount on the Poils and Estates of the town."
No new Committee of Safety was chosen this year or after 1779.
RECRUITS FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
Special Town Meeting. June 28. 2780. It is shown by the record of a special town meeting held June 28th of this year, that there was then a deficiency of nine men in the Hollis Continental quota. At this meeting the town " voted to hire nine able-bodied men to serve in the Continental Army till the last day of December next. and that Jonathan Fox, Jacob Jewett. Jun .. and Ephraim
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Burge be a committee to hire said men, and to give security in behalf of the Town in any way they think proper." On the 4th of July, within a week after this meeting, this committee made the fol- lowing report of its doings :
" The Inhabitants of the Town of Hollis to Jonathan Fox.
Jacob Jewett. Jun., and Ephraim Burge as a committee chosen by said Town to agree with and hire nine men to go into the Continental Army for six months for said Town. Dr.
To cash and our security given to nine men. Viz.
Fuly 4, 1780. To Jacob Danforth, Cash, £210. 90 Bushels of Rye, & 10 Bushels of Ind Corn.
' Stephen Conroy, £210 &: 90 .:
" Nathaniel Patten, £510 & 79 .. Asa Lovejoy, £210 90 .. and one Blanket. and one Blanket.
" Abe! Lovejoy, £210 1.
" Jesse Worcester. $ 310 : and one Blanket.
" Lemuel Blood, £210 00
and one Pair of Shoes.
" Reuben Blood,
= and one Pair of Shoes.
" Nathaniel Blood. :
$210 90 and one Pair of Shoes.
Lawful Money, £ 2,190 799 Bushels of Rye, 3 Blankets, 3 Pair of Shoes.
N. B. The wages of the nine six months' men belong to the Town."
It appears from the above note that the full amount of the wages of these men was paid in advance by the town, the men being unwilling, probably on account of the state of the currency, to give credit to the State or Congress.
MILITIA TO WEST POINT.
It is shown also by the "Great Return" of the Selectmen of Hollis before often referred to, that Abel Blood, another Hollis sol- dier, enlisted at the same time with these nine, in the Continental army, and was paid the like amount of wages.
MILITIA FOR WEST POINT AND THE NORTHERN FRONTIER.
Early in July of this year a further call was made upon the town for fifteen men for three months to aid in the defence of West Point, and for three others to serve for six months on the northern frontier. On the 3d of July a town meeting was called to act upon this subject, and also to raise money to pay the " nine " men who had enlisted in the Continental army.
Special Town Meeting, July 3d. 1780. Extracts from the Record. "Voted that the Selectmen procure the money for the nine men the committee have engaged the best way they can, and that. Dr. Jonathan Fox. Jacob Jewett. Jun., and Ephraim Burge be a committee to assist in raising the eighteen men now called for."
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MEN FOR WEST POINT.
Within about two weeks after this meeting. this committee made report to the town that they had procured fourteen of the men for three months to go to West Point and two of those to serve on th. northern frontier. The bounties agreed upon for the men to go to West Point were to be paid wholly in either rye or corn, as follows : to one of them thirty-five bushels of rye: to two others, thirty bushels of corn each ; to another, forty-five bushels of corn ; to each of ten others, fifty bushels of corn. These fourteen men were all to retain their government wages. To Simeon Blood and Thoma, Youngman, the two men engaged to serve for six months on the northern frontier, the committee agreed to pay ninety bushels of rye and fero cach in money .- "the government wages of these two to belong to the town." It appears from the "Great Return," that two others, paid the like bounties with the fourteen, were engaged for West Point, making sixteen for that place, and the whole eighteen called for from the town.
NAMES OF THE MEN FOR WEST POINT.
Andrew Bailey,
Jesse Hardy,
Silas Lawrence,
Richard Bailey, Lenmiel Hardy, Nathaniel Leema.,
Josiah Blood, Lieut. Ebenezer Jewett, Daniel Merrill, Jun ..
John Conroy, Jacob Jewett, 3d., Stephen Parker,
Stephen Dow,
Jonas Flagg,
Nicholas Lawrence, Francis Grant Powers.
These sixteen men were enlisted in the company of Capt, William Barron. in a regiment commanded by Col. Nichols. R is shown by the regimental returns now with the army rolls ai Concord. that these men were enlisted July 6. 1780, and were dis- charged on the 22d of the following October, having been in the service three months and sixteen days. The wages paid by the government were £134 per month and 65. per mile for travel. It is stated in the Hollis Centennial address. that Francis Grant Powers, one of these sixteen soldiers, was killed at Crown Point. He was a son of Francis Powers, and a grandson of Capt. Peter Powers, the first settler of Hollis, and was born January 8, 1764.
PAY FOR THE HOLLIS SOLDIERS.
" Special Town Meeting. November 23. 1780. Chose Dr. Jonathan Fox, Jacob Jewett, Jun .. and Mr. Ephraim Burge a committee to settle with the soldiers they have hired and report to the town what sum of money to raise. Adjourned to December 5." Adjourned Special Town MMeeting. December 5. 1750.
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The committee above appointed having reported in respect to the soldiers, "Voted to raise £32,000 to pay the money borrowed for said soldiers, and to procure the grain engaged to the three and six months men, and that Capt. Daniel Emerson, Mr. Ephraim Burge and Lieut. Ebenezer Jewett be a committee to purchase said grain."
BEEF FOR THE ARMY.
The town in August of this year was called upon to furnish 16,000 pounds of beef for the army, and at a town meeting held on the 31st of August the town voted a tax of $25,000 for the purchase of this 16,000 lbs. of beef, being at the rate of SI IIs. 6d., or some- what more than $5 per pound. On the 23d of November, 1780. Col. John Hale was chosen to represent the town in the General Court to be holden at Exeter on the 3d of the following December.
REDUCTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TROOPS IN 17SI ..
By an act of the General Court, passed January 12, 17St. the number of New Hampshire troops for the regular army was reduced to one thousand three hundred and fifty-four, to be organized into two regiments, and to serve for three years or during the war.
The number of men to be furnished for this force by Hollis was reduced from thirty, the old quota, to a new quota of but twenty. At that date, as appears from the army rolls, there were nine Continental soldiers in the army, who had been previously enlisted to serve during the war. The names of these soldiers were
Samuel Boyd, Stephen Richardson, Eli Stiles, Thomas Pratt, Lemuel Rogers, Joseph Wheat, Joel Proctor, David Sanderson. Jabez Youngman.
Boyd, Pratt, Proctor, Richardson, Sanderson and Youngman enlisted in the ist New Hampshire regiment, and were in that regiment December 31, 1782. and afterwards. as supposed, till the regiment was discharged in 1783 .*
The time of the service of a large part of the Hollis quota having expired about this time, a town meeting was summoned on the 19th of February, 17SI, to supply such deficiencies as might exist in the new quota. At this meeting Capt. Daniel Emerson, Dr. Jonathan Fox and Mr. Ephraim Burge were appointed a committee to enquire into the subject, to engage the soldiers wanted, and to make report to the next town meeting. This committee afterwards, at the
" Kidder's History of ist N. H. Regiment, p. 162.
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adjourned annual town meeting held on the 12th of March, made report, that twelve men were then wanted to complete the new quota. Upon this report being made, the town, at that meeting. instructed this committee to engage the men, and to give security in behalf of the town for such wages or bounties as they should agree with them for, and also voted a war tax of £Soo for the war charges of the year, and appointed " Noah Worcester, Esq., Jonathan Taylor and John Atwell, a committee to hire the money till this tax could be collected."
BEEF FOR THE ARMY IN ITSI.
The town also at the same meeting voted a tax of £Soo, " new emission," to purchase the town's quota of beef for this year, and appointed Capt. Daniel Emerson, Ephraim Burge and Jeremiah Ames a committee to procure it. The report of the committee for hiring these twelve men is not found, and is probably lost. But the returns and army rolls at Concord show that they all enlisted for three years, and the returns of the Hollis Selectmen also show that the town paid each of them a bounty of f6o, or $200. As the old Continental paper money had now become worthless these bounties were doubtless paid in specie or its equivalent, amounting in all to £720, or $2,400. Instead of entailing this amount as a debt upon the town to be paid by posterity, as has been too often done in more modern times in like cases, our ancestors at their annual town meeting assessed a war tax of £Soo or $2,666.67. 10 meet it, to be collected and paid the same year. The names of these twelve men were
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