Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary war, 1629 to 1725, Part 24

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Gen1 Hazen

[A letter of the same date and import was written to General. Gates. - ED.]

[Bayley to Bedcl. Bedel Papers, p. 81.]

Sir - I think (Since Capt Thorrid has threatened the Destruction. of this Magazion and nowe is the time that he may make a Tryal), that two Small Partys be sent on the Discovery, one to Onion River the other toward where M' Metcalf lived at Messesque - I wish you. to send them from your Regiment as soon as Possible -

To Colo Timº Bedle

I am yours Jacob Bayley

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P. S. I shall be glad that all the Mooss skins you have might be sent to the water Pits for graining

Nov1 8th 1778 -

[Instructions to Colonel Bedel. Bedel Papers, p. 85.]

Agreeable to orders and Instructions from His Excellency General Washington, and from M' Commissary Flint - I Do now Direct that the Issuing Commissary store all the Beef killed and to be killed in this Department in Newbury where he shall be shown by me except what Colo Bedel has agreed to store in Haverhill which was three Hundred Barills - that all Hides are reserved for which I shall Receipt for the use of the Continental Army - that the Commissary of Purchases Immediately furnish the Magazene with one thousand barrils of Flower and every other article in his Department at the Store in Haverhill except what is for Present use in Newbury for guards and scouts which is to be stored at Thos Johnsons - that Colo Bedle is desired to furnish Bakers immediately from his Regt who are immediately to be set to work -- the Purchasing Commissary fur- nish Casks to repack all the beef in the store at Haverhill in order to make room for the Flower -

Colo Bedle to furnish such guards as the Issuing Commissary Require - that the acting Quarter Master General furnish the Com- missary of Issues with every help in his Power Relative to Storage &c - I desire the advise of Colo Bedle and officers and the Commis- sary Present -

Jacob Bayley 1

by Direction from His Excellency

Newbury 30th Nov 1778 General Washington To Colo Bedle & the Commissary of Purchases and Issues -

P. S. I should be glad Colº Bedle would act as Qr Master General at Present if he does not I shall take it on my self -

[R. 5-169] [Sundry Officers concerning Losses at Ticonderoga.]

State of New ) To the Honble The Council and house of Represent- Hampshire atives in General Assembly Convened Nov1 12th 1778.

The Petition of the Subscribers Officers in Colo Peirse Long's Regiment in the year 1777.

Humbly Sheweth - That on the retreat of the Army upon the Evacuation of Ticonderoga in July 1777, your Petitioners together

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with many of the other officers and Soldiers of said Regiment Sus- tained Great Losses in Cloathing & other things for which they have received no allowance or compensation - Wherefore we Pray your honours in behalf of our Selves & others to make some order that whenever Well attested accounts of such Losses shall be Properly Laid before your honors they may be allowed & paid without Delay or that such method may be Proceeded upon Concerning the Premises as your honors in your Wisdom Shall Judge Best - and your Peti- tioners as in Duty bound will ever Pray &c -

Hercules Mooney Caleb Hodgdon Nathan Brown

Moses Barnard Matthew Bryant Timothy Tilton

Ebenezer Dearing for himself & Lt Thomas Bowler

John Calfe in behalf of his men he not suffering any loss

[R. 5-170] [Commissary Leigh to Board of War.]

Hartford Nov 17 1778

Sir - I wrote you from this place of the 25th ulto. pr Post. Since which I have to acknowledge the Boards esteemed favour of 22 ulto. Recd pr Dudley Nichols. It pains me when I observe to the Board that after trying every Possable method within my knowledge it did not lay in my power to procure any article for the Ret'g Waggons unless I would give 30 Dollers # b1 for flower ; this enormous price I could not think of giving as I would wish to hope it could be pro- cured with you at least as cheap - and therefore it would answer no valuable purpose to weary the Publick horses when I could not think any profit would arise on the occasion -had I have bin furnished with a price Curr could then have bin a Better Judge - Youl find Inclosed M' Nichols Rect for Cash supplyed him for Expences and likewise the Bearer M. Emerson Esq. for Cash which he will Deliver you - youl give me leave to observe am Collecting as fast as Possable the outstanding Debts and if in Case a safe Conveyance offers during the Course of the next week you may then expect a Further Remit- tance - I Particularly observe what the Board says with Respect to the late Resolution of Congress touching the article of Cloaths and agreeable to order have tendered the boards Compliments to the Commanding Officers of Regiments and on this occasion youl give me leave to observe that it appears to me the Officers in General are Per- fectly satisfied with the good Intentions of Government & Likewise the Strenuous efforts of the Hon1 Board to carry it fully into Execu- tion but at the same time I cannot but think it would at least give

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them satisfaction that every thing might come through a Regular Channell agreeable to the Articles of Confederation -

In Conformity to what I wrote you in my last have laid before the Respective Regiments the supplys as delivered during the Course of the last Spring have likewise made Repeated application to the Com- manding Officers of Regiments for a Role of Deficiencys there is many Difficultys arrises which will Consequently Protract its being given in soon however in order to obviate this Difficulty after a Previous Consultation with General Poor on the occasion I made a Regimental Division of what Cloathing suitable for the Season Re- main'g on hand and served it out to an officer appointed for that Purpose - which is to be accounted for as Continental Cloathing - the N. Hampshire troops has obtained orders to receive from the Continental Store as & underneath : there is not the least doubt in my mind for two Stores to serve out on the Same Principle will have a Tendency to make Confusion in the Publick accts - I have Repeat- edly advised with Gen1 Poor and it seems to be his oppinion that a supply of large Shoes Stockings & Shirts will be absolutely necessary to be procured for the troops as it does not appear that the Conti- nental Stores will be able to Furnish a Sufficient quantity and sup- posing the troops should take Winter quarters from home no doubt Tea Coffee & some Rum would be necessary to send-and I am Requested by some of the Officers to Request their Cloth which they sent for Regimentals might be sent forward - youl likewise find Inclosed the Late Lieut David Gilmans acct he is Dismissed the Service Multe'd in his wages & has absconded am sorry to trouble the Board with accts which according to Rule ought to have bin settled hear but as it is youl be pleased to take such measures asTwill secure the Publicks Property - I am Sir

Your most obedt Servt Joseph Leigh

Each Man Received I Coat I Jackett I pr Breeches I pr Stockings I Shirt -- I Blanket to 6 -

I pr Shoes

I Hatt to 4 )

None in Store

[R. 5-17]]

[Captain Salter to Speaker of House of Representatives.]

Portsmouth Novr 18th 1778

Sir - Doubtless you have heard there is a small vessell that the People of this Town have stopt here for having Corn on Board -

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More they say than should be allow'd to be Carried out of Place - I have to acquaint you that I have said vessell under Care, and would advise you that the Captain has Imposed upon M' Russell By forging his Name from Roads to Vinsent, as you may see by his Papers, therefore in Duty to my Contry would give you account of it, and think it is full time those People ware Detected in Carying of the Necessitys of Life, to we have the greatest Reason to Believe our Cruel Enimies - you will hear more peticulars of the afare by the Barrer of this, so hope you will be Directed to Do Justice to a Purged Man, as also to have permission to inspect those vessells for the fu- ture as I am informed by Mr Russell and other Gent" that there is Sundry vessells up our River Loading with Provisions which they be- lieve is bound to the Enimy - you know according to law that the vessell and Cargo is forfeited - Sir you in Course will give me Di- rections Concerning said vessell - I am with great Esteem Sir

your Most hum1 Sert

To Colº Langdon, Exeter Titus Salter

[R. 5-172]

[ The Anonymous Letter referred to on page 807, Vol. VIII., which the Editor of that Volume was unable to find.]

This may Certify to all persons whom it may Concern, the way and manner by which Samuel Tarbell got out of Concord [Mass.] goal after Six months close Imprisonment a man by the name of Doct Silas Hedges told me the authority would let me out of prison if i would Comply with there terms. the terms was these for me to inform what I knew with regard to Counterfeit money and tory plans, after thinking of the matter some little time, i told him I would ; and Parted at that time ; About three weaks after, the sd Hedges Came To see me again, he then told me he had orders from the authority in this state, and the authority of New Hampshire to Examine Me con- cerning the affair. He first Declared to me that there should be no advantage taken of me. I then informed him what i knew Concerning the affair and that was but little, but i soon found there was some- thing else he was aiming at, he saith to me you dont say half so much as i Expected you would, But however i will help you out ; If you will do as you may, well says I Doct how is that, why says he I cant tell you, but i will show you, he takes a pen and writes you must De- ' liver me 2000 Dollars to Devide among the authority and i can get you out. I told him i thought his terms was very hard, well says he, if

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you will Not do it, you shall ly in Jail. Finily I promised him the money. I then got some more Liberty ; the matter was to be settled att Cambridge Court and was as i thought. I signed a bond of two thousand pounds to the states for my appearance att Court, and was to be Clear, but the authority told me, I must go back to Jones's and stay awhile, for the people will be mad Att us for letting you out, without a trial, you may live att Capt Jones's Just as you please under the pretence of a prisoner. About a fortnight after Doct Prescott came there and gave me the bond back, which i had signed, and told me I must remain a prisoner still ; well then i Could Not understand what it ment, But soon after the sd Hedges comes again. He then writes thus, you must let me have more money, for they say that you are richer than they are: now I told him I thought the matter was settled No it is not, says he, you must let me have three hundred pounds more in Paper money and thirty hard Dollars, and resign them Pistols, and you shall Be clear. I was very loth to do that, but finily Complied with it, Rather than to lay in Jail ; all this money Hedges has had of me, Except one Hundred Dollars that i Delivered to Col. James Prescott att Cambridge. He afterwards came to Capt Jones's and gave the money back to me again and i Delivered it to hedges to give to the sd Col. Prescott; the pistols went to Col. Pea- body of New Hampshire by the hand of Hedges, and the money Divided amongst the whole -

The Case is bearly this, they have reduced me to such a Degree that i cannot live, and now Drive upon me to take men up, that ant in my power to do, and say that the people are uneasy, and if i dont do something, they will deliver me up to the people, and that i should be very willing for, but it ant in my power to prove all this, some part I can prove, Capt Jones knows something how i have been treated, this much i have to say when the head is sick the heart is faint, and your head is sick, and nigh unto Death, this i know for Certain and a great Deal more ; one thing more I will Just mention to you, that is Doct Silas Hedges has been to the British troops twice and Returned here again and it can be proved, but he has proved unfaithful to them, and that is all that keeps him here; he is now exchanging his paper money for hard in order to send to get a pardon, and then Determines to push, it is Provible that many people will say that this is not worth notice, but be that as it will ; It is the truth - This is from one who has been greatly Injured

[In the House of Representatives, November 23, 1778, a committee was appointed to consider the foregoing, who reported as follows. - ED.]

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State of New Hampr In the House of Representatives Nov 24th 1778.

The Committee on an Anonymous Letter brought into this House by Mr Ames having considered the same, conversed with Col. Peabody, examined Doctor Hedges on oath, agree to report that they think said paper to be a scandalous infamous performance of some invet- erate enemy or enemies of the United States framed for the purpose of bringing into disgrace persons employed to bring them to Justice, & to set the good people of these States at variance with each other - Sign'd Nichs Gilman for the committee - which report being read and considered - Voted, That the same be received and accepted - Sent up for Concurrence - John Dudley Speaker pro tem -

In Council same day read and concurred E. Thompson Sec'y

[R. 5-173] [James Harvey's Petition.]

State of New ? To the Honble Council & House of Representatives

Hampshire ( for the State aforesaid Conveaned at Exeter this 18th Day of November 1778 - the Petition of James Harvey a Soldier in Capt Parsonses Company & Colº Nichols Regmt of Vollintears to the State of Rhoad Island, Humbly Sheweth that your Petitioner was taken with the Desentary and Feavour on His Return Home that He lay very sick for sumtime at Woburn in the State of the Massachu- setts at which place I was at great expence for Necessarys Doctering & Nursing and Like-Wise for a Man & Hors for to Fetch Him Home & Expence on the Road Home all which charge your Peti- tioner is unable to Bear wherefore He Humbly Prays your Honours to Take His Case into your wise Consideration and grant Him such Releaf as you shall think fit and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound shall ever Pray his

James X Harvey mark

[He was allowed £20. 5. 8. - ED.]

[R. 5-174] [Concerning William Gale, Soldier.]

Portsmo. Decr 15th 1778-

This may Certifie all Persons whom it may Concerne that William Gale a Matross in a Company of artilley Raised in sd Portsmouth

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Commanded by Ebenezer Dearing that he the said Gale Belong'd to said Comp'y untill the 5 Feb'y 1777 and was not made up in any Pay Role with sd Comp'y after ye 7th Jan'y 1777 -

Samuel Hutchings Capt Lt

I have examined the Rolls and find Thirty seven Shillings & four pence due to the above named William Gale - J. Gilman

[A warrant was granted for £1. 17. 4 and paid to George Gains per order of said Gale. - ED.]

[R. 5-175] [Doctor Robert Taggart Recommended.]

This may certify that the bearer Doct. Robert Taggart has faith fully and honestly done and performed the office and business of a Surgeons mate in the Newhampshire State Regiment lately com- manded by Colo. Stephen Peabody in the Campaign and expedition against Rhodeisland which campaign commenced the first day of January A. D. 1778 and expires the first day of January A. D. 1779 and likewise the aforesaid Doct' Taggart has faithfully with care and skill done the duty of a Surgeons mate in the Hospital of said Regi- ment all said service he the aforesaid Robert hath done and per- formed to the acceptation of said Regiment as to any thing or matter known to me and for all those services above mentioned and his assistance and kind offices I return him my unfeigned thanks and best wishes for his future prosperity - Given . under my hand at Southkingston in State of Rhodeisland December ye 17th A. D. 1778 -

John Young, Surgeon to aforesaid 'Regiment

To Doct' Robert Taggart Surgeons mate in said Regiment

[Bedel Papers, p. 86. This document is the resignation of Jona- than Child as quartermaster-general, and the appointment of Tim- othy Bedel to the position. Dated December 1, 1778. - ED.]

[R. 5-176]

[Luther Lincoln's Enlistment.]

Redding in Connecticut Decem' 19th 1778

I do hereby Certify that the bearer hereof Luther Lincoln a Matross in my Company Inlisted at Peeks Kill in January 1777

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and has not Received any Bounty other than the Continental Bounty of Twenty Dollars wich he Received at the time of his Inlistment - Certified by Henry Burbeck Captn In Col Crane Regt Artillery To whom it may Concern

[Said Lincoln was of Hanover, and enlisted in above named ser- vice from Capt. John House's Company, Chase's Regiment. - ED.]

[Gencral Gates to Colonel Bedel. Bedel Papers, p. 87.]

Boston 22nd December 1778.

Dear Colonel - The faithful Traversie will deliver you this Letter, whom, with the chief of the St Francis Indians, I desire you will dispatch immediately into Canada, where they are to deliver the Letters that go by Captain Traversie, and Circulate Compte D'Staings Declarations : - This being wisely effected, they will pro- cure all the intelligence possible of the Enemy's situation, numbers, & future Designs : and then return to Co'os, from whence you will directly send Captain Traversie, with the intelligence obtained - I have paid Traversie the full of the within amount, and advanced him - dollars in Silver, to pay his and the Indian Chief's Expences in Canada. - I desire you will present my respectful Compliments to General Bailey, and acquaint Him, that the intelligence from Co'os, has been regularly transmitted to Congress, and General Washington

I am, Sir, your most obedient Hum1 Servt Colº Timothy Bedel Horatio Gates

[R. 5-177] [Petition of Downing Colbath, Sick Soldier.]

State of New Hampshire- To the Honbl the Council & Assembly of sd State- Humbly Sheweth Downing Colbath a soldier in the Continental service that he by reason of a fever which bro't him very low was unfit for duty & had a furlow to come home - was sick on the road & his friends were at a considerable expence to con- vey him to Durham from whence he enlisted - that his disorder settled in his leg which has quite disabled him from returning to the army or doing any work to subsist himself by - That he hath re- ceived no Cloathing or wages for a year past, and hath no friend to

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help him, his father having died in the public service, & his mother hath since broke up house keeping being unable to subsist herself in a family way - Wherefore he prays your Honours to take his distressed case into consideration and do something to relieve him from distress, and he as in duty bound will ever pray -

Downing Colbath

[The committee on sick and wounded soldiers recommended that said Colbath be furnished with necessary clothing, and sent under the care of some proper person to a continental hospital at the expense of the State : and it was so voted December 25, 1778. - ED.]

[R. 5-178]

Cash paid by Wm Weeks Paymaster to 3ª N. H. Battallion.

Capt Wm Weeks pd Into the Treasury £8. o. - for Cloathing Delivered to Dan1 Morse 38/ - Josiah George 68/ - & Josiah Moul- ton 2. 14. - which he stopt out of their wages -

Capt Weeks pd also £103. 2. for Cloathing deld by Jedediah Jewet vizt 5 Shirts @ 18/- 12 pr. breeches @ 30/- 58 pr. hose @ 7/- 134 pr. Shoes @ 9/ -to Capt Isaac Frye -

Capt Weeks pd Gen1 Poor Decemb' 21 1778 £78. 12. being for 131 pr. Shoes deld the 3ª N. H. B. in Feb 17 1778 deld to the 3ª Batallion pr. rect

Capt Weeks pd Gen1 Poor Decemb' 21 1778 £202. 10. being for 59 pr. breeches 20 pr Shoes 6 pr hose 18 pr overalls 8 linen shirts 16 woolen do. 2 tow shirts which the 3d Batallion recd at Valey Forge March 3, 1778 - by Nichols

Capt Weeks pd Gen1 Poor for 136 pr. Shoes @ 10/- 10 pr. Leather breeches @ 30/-7 pr. hose @ 9/-amount £86. 3 0 Deld Octo 22 1777 at Albany

[R. 5-178] [Men Engaged during the War.]

James Moor William Scott hired & Enlisted Duering the war by [Peterborough] Slip & Amos Spaffard by Peterborough Andw Law by Temple Wm Kenan by Jaffrey

Test James McNee Jnº Taggart

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[COLONEL MOSES HAZEN'S REGIMENT, 1778.

This regiment cannot properly be claimed as a New Hampshire regiment. It was composed of men from this State, the New Hamp- shire Grants, Canadians, and Indians ; but as it is impossible at this time to correctly designate which are the names of the New Hamp- shire men, it has been deemed best to print the rolls entire, as they are found in a volume of New Hampshire manuscript documents, in the Department of State, Washington, D. C.

Colonel Hazen was born in 1733, probably in Haverhill, Mass. He served as an officer in the expedition against Crown Point in 1756, and in the Canada expedition 1759-60, and, subsequent to the close of the French war, settled in the vicinity of St. John's, where he accumu- lated considerable property. In 1775 he furnished supplies to Gen- eral Montgomery's army on its invasion of Canada, and his property was destroyed by the British army in consequence. He then offered his services to Congress, and was appointed in January, 1776, colonel of a regiment called " Congress's own regiment." In June, 1781, he was appointed brigadier-general and remained in the army until the close of the war. He died at Troy, N. Y., in 1802, or 1803. - Docu- mentary History of New York ; American Archives ; History of Ha- verhill, Mass. - ED.]

A Roll of Capt. Richard Lloyds Company Colº Moses Hasens Regiment, Sept 8, 1778. - Engaged during War.

NAMES & RANK

Remarks.

NAMES & RANK

Remarks.

Richard Lloyd

Capt. Ensign

Henry Foxlesory

Andrew Lee

Prisoner of War Aug. 22, 1777

Joseph Hanagin

Phillip Prosser

Serjeant

James Hale

Abram Lutberry

John Linnin James O'Hara

On command with Gen1 St Clair

Thomas Donaldson Corp1

Tobias Powder

John Parkis

John Pinson

William Morgan

Prisoner of War Sept. 11, 1777

James Ryan

John Kinelty

Drum"

Thomas Scott

Patrick Kinelty

Fifer

Isaiah Thomson

Edward Boyles

Private

Robert Wilson Isaac Chase

Sick Camp

Robert Barry

Francis Miller

William Curtis

Sick Camp -

William Welch John Boone

Stephen Collins

James Collins

Prisoner of War Aug. 22, 1777 do do do With the Provost Martial

Andrew Doaney

Sick Camp

James McMullin

John Rhoads

Prisoner of War Sept. 11, 1777 do do

Joseph Banks Richard Freeland

Anth'y Warjwhott

Richard Lloyd Captain -

[Endorsed] Roll of Capt. Lloyd's Company - Colº Hazens Regiment - agreeable to Gen1 Orders of September 8th 1778.

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John Boardman

James Blake

John Chambers

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A Roll of Capt. Matthew McConnell, Coll Hazens Regt agreeable to Gen1 orders, Sept 8th 1778 -

NAMES & RANK

For what Term

Remarks

Matthew McConnell Ct John Hughes Ist Lieut

On Parole On five days furlough

Edmund Berry Serjt

Richard Edmundson do

3 years

Wm Easton

3 years

Joseph Furguson Corpl ditto

durs War 3 years

John Walder

(Privates)

Cornelius Boauloy

3 years

Alexander White

D - War

Tho® Walsh

ditto

William Sullivan

ditto

Cornelius Woods

ditto

John Crayton

ditto

David Ewings

ditto

James Hadon

ditto

Owing McGlosphin

ditto

James Gilbus

ditto

Patrick McGraw

ditto

Timothy Kelley

ditto

James Mayo Gooyo

3 years

Hospital New haven Hospital White Plains

Jo Count Lewis Lt

[Endorsed] A Roll of Capt. Matthew McConnells Company Colo Moses Hazens Regt Sept 8th - 78

Roll of Capt James Duncans Compy in Colo Moses Hazen's Regt Camp Sept 13, 1778

NAMES & RANK

Remarks

NAMES & RANK

Remarks

James Duncan

Capt

Sick near White plains

Do William Gladin Private Benjn Haindman

William Torrey

Ensn

Charles Heaton

Sam1 Torrey Serjt

Willm Leacy

William Calder D°

On Command Fishkills

Ezra Munson

On Furlough

Barth Williams

Corp1 Do

John Crapp

Daniel Webster

Drum

Charles Galloway Peter Lines

Hospital Yorktown do

Isaac Allen

Private

On command with Capt.

1 5

16 Christian Swartzhousen

Do Yorktown

Jonathan Allen Do

[Duncan

Michael Cortling

Prisoner War Sept 11, 1777 Do Do Do

Nathan Burr Do

Tall Dick

John Combner

Abraham Shelley

Ephraim Eaton

On Command

Willm Torrey Ens

[Endorsed] A Roll of Capt James Duncan's Comy Colo Moses Hazens Reg 1778

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Sick at White plains On Command Gen1 Scott

Sam' Johnston

James McCoy

On Command Gen1 Scott

Seth Smith

I HH NM tino I 2 3 4

Morristown

Nathan Boughton Do

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A Roll of Capt Thos Pry's Company of Light Infantry, In Colo Moses Hazen's Reg' Agreeable to General Order Sept 13th 1778 - Engaged during the War-

Remarks.

I 2

Capt Thos Pry Lieut Montgomery

On Command ditto

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Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary war, 1629 to 1725, Part 24

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