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29. FRANCIS MASON, according to the Revolutionary Rolls, was returned as in the company of Capt. Samuel Blodgett, in the regiment of Col. Nathan Hale, and credited to Jaffrey. This was in 1777. He is then said to be 34 years of age. Near the beginning of 1778, he is credited to Dublin, in the returns. He is reported as absent, having deserted his regiment at Clevericke (probably Claverack was the place). He is de- scribed as 35 years of age, five feet six inches in height, of light complexion and light hair and light eyes. In another paper, he is mentioned, in 1777, as being in the 7th company of the 2d (Col. Geo. Reid's) regiment. He is not discovered to have any near relationship with any of the Masons who have re- sided in Dublin, among whom no deserter would be likely ever to have been found. He was probably a rover, who enlisted for one town or another, wherever he might chance to be work- ing, or stopping, for the time. He was born in 1742 or 1743, but we know not where, or what became of him.
30. JOSEPH MASON was a brother of Benjamin Mason, Jr., the second preceding soldier. He was in the company of Capt. Salmon Stone, in the regiment of Col. Moses Nichols, which went to Bennington and Stillwater, in 1777. He lived on the twentieth lot of the tenth range, where several generations of his descendants lived, on the place more recently owned by Doctors Bell and Dillingham, near the north line of the origi- nal Dublin, now in Harrisville. He was killed by the falling of a tree, March 11, 1806, and his body was buried in the ceme- tery in the north-east part of Marlborough.
31. MOSES MASON, Jr., was in Capt. Joseph Parker's com- pany, in the regiment of Col. Nathan Hale, in 1776, and marched to Ticonderoga. In the following year, he was in the company of Capt. John Mellen, which also went to the relief
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of Ticonderoga. In 1777, in Capt. Salmon Stone's company, he was in the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. He also marched to West Point, in 1781, under Col. Daniel Reynolds. According to the Rolls, on May 5, 1786, he gave a receipt for rations and travel money to Springfield. He was the son of Moses and Lydia (Knapp) Mason, and was born, April 26, 1757, soon before, or soon after, his father moved from Newton to Sherborn, Mass., which was in 1757. In 1767, the family moved to Dublin, and settled on the tenth lot of the first range, in the north part of the lot, where no house now stands. Moses Mason, Jr., lived on the same farm, and nine of his eleven chil- dren were born there. He moved to Bethel, Me., where he died, Oct. 31, 1837, 80 years of age.
32. JAMES MILLS was in the company of Capt. Wm. Still- son, in Col. Isaac Wyman's regiment, from July to December, 1776. The Revolutionary Rolls do not give his residence as Dublin, but the editor of the former History of Dublin includes him in the list of Dublin Revolutionary soldiers, and the "tra- dition of the elders," some of whom were living in his time, was doubtless reliable. He lived a short time on the seventh lot of the fourth range, on the site occupied later by Asa Fisk and Asa H. Fisk. In 1782, he married Hannah, daughter of Moses Mason, Sr., and a sister of Moses Mason, Jr., the soldier noticed in the preceding paragraph. In 1785, he moved to Bethel, Me., where he was killed by the fall of a tree, in 1790.
33. DANIEL MORSE is a name that occurs many times in the Revolutionary Rolls, but one or two references point unmis- takably to Daniel Morse, Sr., of Dublin. He is returned as being in the company of Capt. Josiah Brown, in the regiment of Col. Enoch Hale, which marched to the relief of Ticonderoga, in May, 1777. In August, 1778, he was in the company of Capt. Samuel Twitchell of Dublin, in the Rhode Island cam- paign, with so many Dublin boys as to leave no chance to doubt that he was the Daniel Morse of that town. We find other Daniel Morses in Exeter and Newton. He removed to Underhill or Queensbury, Vt., about 1800. We do not know the place and the date of his death. He was a son of Dea. Daniel Morse of Newton and Sturbridge, Mass., and not a brother of Micah, 1st, as stated in the former History of Dublin. For his residence in Dublin, see No. 38.
34. EZRA MORSE was in Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's regi- ment, in the company of Capt. Jeremiah Stiles of Keene, Oct. 16, 1775, and is supposed to have been at Bunker Hill. He
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is found to have enlisted, July 14, 1775. He was also in Capt. Samuel Twitchell's company, in the Rhode Island campaign, in August, 1778. He was the third son and ninth child of Capt. Thomas Morse, and was a native of Sherborn, Mass. He lived at the east end of Pottersville, on the hill, on the north side of the road, in a house, not now standing, just west of the junction of the present road to Harrisville with the old (dis- continued) road. A pottery was the only building that stood between the site of Mr. Morse's house and this junction. Mr. Morse died in that house, June 3, 1830, in his 78th year.
35. JOHN MORSE was the next younger brother of Ezra Morse, noticed in the preceding paragraph. He was a corporal in the company of Capt. Joseph Parker, which was sent to Ticonderoga in 1776. He went there again, in 1777, in the com- pany of Capt. John Mellen. He was also at West Point, in 1780, in the company of Capt. Henry Dearborn. John Morse and Jonathan Morse (who is noticed in the next paragraph) were the sons of Capt. Thomas Morse. In the "Memorial of the Morses," we find the following account of them: "Major John Morse served two campaigns in the war of the Revolution without compensation, and contributed to hire three other soldiers; and, after the war, settled with his father on the farm. At the age of twenty-three, he was chosen to represent Dublin and Marlborough in the legislature of New Hampshire, but declined. Subsequently, and at sundry times, he accepted the office from the citizens of Dublin, the duties of which he dis- charged with honor to himself and his constituents; and he has left a reputation for sound sense, cool deliberation, strict in- tegrity, and promptitude in fulfilling his engagements. .. Jonathan Morse inherited the mirthful and combative pro- pensities characteristic of at least six generations of Joseph Morse's descendants. At the age of nineteen, with attainments equivalent to a modern backwoods education, he entered the army, and bravely fought in the battles of Bunker Hill, Ben- nington, Ticonderoga, and Monmouth. At Bennington, he captured three Hessians, and took their arms. At Ticonderoga, he took aim, and brought down a British officer, and, on ap- proaching the expiring man, who was begging for drink, he ad- ministered to him from his own canteen." John Morse settled upon the homestead of his father, who was the first English settler of Dublin. The house was a large two-story mansion of the prevailing pattern, which stood on the site of the present club house, where the Troy road connects with the Stone Pond
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road to Marlborough. He had the title of "Major" in the militia. He died in Dublin, Feb. 19, 1813, in his 59th year.
36. JONATHAN MORSE, another of the sons of Capt. Thomas Morse, was in Col. Ephraim Doolittle's regiment at Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775, and was most likely in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was also with his brother John in Capt. Joseph Par- ker's company at Ticonderoga, in 1776, and, according to the Revolutionary Rolls, he was a corporal in the company of Capt. Josiah Brown, May 6, 1777, and served six months in 1780, in the company of Capt. Henry Dearborn. In 1777, he was at Bennington and Stillwater, in the company of Capt. Salmon Stone, in the regiment of Col. Moses Nichols. In 1781 he was in the 1st N. H. Continental regiment (Col. Joseph Cil- ley's). He was born in Sherborn, Mass., May 23, 1756, and was 24 in 1780. For a notice of him taken from the Memorial of the Morses, see the preceding paragraph. He lived a few years in Dublin (now Harrisville), on the tenth lot of the ninth range, where the McKims live in 1916. Not far from 1790, he moved to Leicester, Vt., where he died, December 1812.
37. MICAH MORSE, 1st, was in the company of Capt. Salmon Stone, in 1777, and was at Bennington and Stillwater, and died in the service. According to the former History of Dublin, he came to this town about 1768, and settled on the sixth lot of the fifth range, probably on or near the site of the house where Horatio Greenwood lived. The tradition that he died in the service, which was accepted by the editor of the former his- tory, was probably correct. He was twice married. Three children by the former wife were born before he came to Dublin. One died in infancy, the other two survived him. A daughter by the second wife married Benjamin Marshall of Dublin. Ac- cording to the registry of deeds, he came to Monadnock No. 3, earlier than stated in the former History of Dublin. As early as Sept. 13, 1766, he sold land to Bartholomew Goyer in the eighth lot of the first range, which was later the Derby farm. His residence was then given as Monadnock No. 3 (Dublin). After living a few years on the sixth lot of the fifth range, he sold it, in 1769, to Caleb Hill of Sherborn, Mass., and then lived two or three years in Conway, Mass., where the daughter of his second wife was born. We do not know whether he re- turned to Dublin. According to the Memorial of the Morses, he was born in 1729, and perished in the war of the Revolution.
38. MICAHI MORSE, 2d, was a son of Daniel Morse (No. 33), and not a near relative of Micah Morse, 1st, as was stated in
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the former History of Dublin. He was at West Point, in 1780, in Capt. Henry Dearborn's company. His residence was given as Dublin, and his age as 20, in the returns, which make it certain that he was Micah, the son of Daniel, Morse. Nov. 22, 1779, according to a recorded deed, he and his father purchased a part of the ninth lot of the tenth range (now in Harrisville). Twelve years later, Dec. 3, 1791, they sold it, "with the build- ings thereon," to Alexander Eames. They lived near the out- let brook of the North Pond, but there is now no vestige of their house left. Micah operated a tannery, which was situ- ated in the village, nearly opposite the present residence of Dr. Childs, and almost on the site of the house of Fremont E. Mason. He moved to Dansville, N. Y. We have found no record of his death. Daniel Morse lived at first on lot eleven, range eight, on the site of the so-called Milliken place.
39. REUBEN MORSE was the eldest son and third child of Capt. Thomas Morse. He was a private in the company of Capt. Salmon Stone, in the regiment of Col. Moses Nichols, in 1780, and was in the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. He lived on the twelfth lot of the eighth range, very near the pres- ent summer residence of Mrs. Edward C. Jones. He died there, August 27, 1810, ae. 68 years. He was a native of Sherborn, Mass.
40. THOMAS MORSE, Jr., was the second son and seventh child of Capt. Thomas Morse, the first English settler of Dub- lin, of whose six sons the eldest five were soldiers in the war of the Revolution, the youngest being but fourteen years of age when the war began. Thomas Morse, Jr., was enrolled in the Keene "Foot Company," August 7, 1773. The same year, he was married to Martha Rowe of Sullivan (then Gilsum), by whom he had four children who are known to us. He enlisted, May 15, 1775, in time to join the company of Jeremiah Stiles of Keene, in the regiment of which Isaac Wyman of Keene was Lieut. Col., and John Stark of Derryfield (now Manchester) was Colonel. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He went from Keene, in 1776, in the company of Capt. Abijah Smith, to New York, for a brief service. In the same year, he also served from Keene, at Ticonderoga, in the company of Capt. Isaac Davis, in the regiment of Col. Samuel Ashley. In 1777, he went from Gilsum, in the company of Capt. Elisha Mack, to the aid of Ticonderoga. On reaching Otter Creek, in Ver- mont, they met the army in retreat and learned that Ticon- deroga had been abandoned, and they returned home. In 1778-9,
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he served, from Keene, in the company of Capt. Daniel Rey- nolds, in the Rhode Island campaign. Thomas Morse, at this time, was a young-married man, with no fixed place of abode. He worked for others, and his family was in Dublin a part of the time, also in Keene a portion of the time. Although he gave the credit of his enlistments to Keene or Gilsum, because he was employed in those places, his legal residence was as much in Dublin as anywhere. In 1777, however, he purchased a farm, then in Gilsum, which is near the centre of the present town of Sullivan. He remained in Sullivan until 1789, when he moved to Canada, and we have not learned when or where he died. He owned no property in Dublin, and, when his family were living there, they lived in the family of his father, Capt. Thomas Morse, according to the writer's ancestress, who was his niece.
41. ROBERT MUZZEY, according to the former History of Dublin, at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, sold his farm, and returned to Holliston, Mass., where he obtained a lieutenant's commission, and with Captain enlisted a company and joined the army. The stories which he told, in after years, of his adventures were not always credited by those who heard them; but the following, though wanting confirma- tion, is given as related by Jonas Wight, who, no doubt, heard the substance of it from the lips of Mr. Muzzey. "He was in several battles," he said, "in one of which his captain was killed, and the command of the company devolved on him. While under the command of General Wayne, he went with a detachment of volunteers to reduce Stony Point Fort. The design was to approach the fort under cover of the night, take it by surprise, and carry it at the point of the bayonet. Orders, therefore, were given that no man should charge his musket. While on the march, one of his company stepped from the ranks, and commenced loading his gun. Muzzey went to him, and commanded him to desist, but, the man still persisting in disobeying the order, he killed him on the spot, by running him through with his sword. On arriving at the fort, he was the first man that entered it. He was confronted by a British officer, whom he ordered to surrender; but the officer, instead of complying, presented a pistol, and attempted to discharge it at Muzzey's head; but it only flashed in the pan, upon which Muzzey ran him through the body, and he fell dead at his feet. The fort was taken and destroyed." On leaving the army, near the close of the war, Muzzey returned to Dublin, and set-
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tled on lot 16, range 7, where Thomas Fisk lived before he built the new house which is now upon the farm known as Monadnock No. 3. Muzzey brought with him the uniform of the officer whom, as he said, he had slain in the fort. In the coat was the rent which he made when he killed the owner, and upon it still remained stains of blood. Mr. Muzzey is represented as having been eccentric in conduct, and distinguished for his high spirit and rashness. Before he went into the army, Robert Muzzey had lived on or very near the site of the summer resi- dence of George B. Leighton. He finally left Dublin, and went to Sandy Creek, N. Y., where he died, Sept. 9, 1831, ae. 93. He had a son, Robert Muzzey, Jr., who continued to live on lot 16, range 7, for many years. In their signatures, we find that members of this family sometimes wrote Muzzy, at other times Muzzey.
42. THOMAS MUZZEY, who enlisted, May 5, 1775, was in the company of Capt. Jacob Miller, in the regiment of Col. Eph- raim Doolittle, at Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775. He was probably in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was a brother of Robert Muz- zey (No. 41) and of John Muzzey, who also lived in Dublin. They had a maiden sister, Miss Abigail Muzzey, who was prob- ably the housekeeper of Thomas Muzzey, who was the first settler of the Thomas Fisk farm on lot 16, range 7. Thomas, Robert, and Abigail Muzzey came to Dublin about 1770, bring- ing their widowed mother, Mrs. Abigail Muzzey, with them. Thomas Muzzey purchased this place of Matthew Thornton shortly after. His brother John Muzzey, settled upon the lot north of this, which was, later, the Yardley place. Thomas Muzzey appears to have been unmarried. His will mentions the two brothers named and the sister Abigail, but makes no mention of wife or child. It was formerly supposed that he left Dublin. This is found not to be so. His will was made in Dublin, Jan. 24, 1781. He was said to be "very sick." He died a few days later, and his will was probated, Feb. 20, 1781. He gave half of his estate to Miss Abigail, the other half to the two brothers.
43. LEVI PARTRIDGE was in the company of Capt. John Mellen, which went to Ticonderoga in the summer of 1776, and was gone about two months. He and Lydia, his wife, came to Dublin, from Sherborn, Mass., as early as 1762, and lived on lot 16, range 4, a few rods east of the house where the Frosts lived. The house disappeared many years ago. Here six chil- dren were born to them. They moved to Keene between 1778
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and 1780, where four more children were born to them. The body of Mrs. Partridge is buried in the old cemetery in Keene on the Hurricane Road. She died in 1798. We have not found the place and date of Mr. Partridge's death. He is described in a deed as a "Little wheel Rite."
44. ASA PRATT probably came to Dublin about 1777. His name first appears upon the tax-list in 1778. He was in the company of Capt. Salmon Stone, in the summer of 1777, and was in the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. He was twice married in Dublin and the births of three children are recorded in that town. His death is not recorded. He was taxed in Dublin as late as 1793.
45. JABEZ PUFFER was reckoned as one of the Revolutionary soldiers of Dublin. His name is not discovered in the Revo- lutionary Rolls. This may be due to a loss of some of the old records, or to a defect in the index. The indexes to the Rolls are far from complete. Jabez Puffer came to Dublin from Fram- ingham, Mass., and married a daughter of Capt. Thomas Morse. He had a large family of children, several of whom were feeble-minded and eventually supported by the town. We have found no record of his death. He lived at first on the tenth lot of the eighth range, and later on the eleventh lot of that range, on the Milliken place.
46. JAMES ROLLINS, Jr., came to Dublin with his father, from Amherst, N. H., in 1775. He was married, four years later, and settled, at first, on the fourth lot of the first range, where Orison H. Moore lives. In the summer of 1777, he was in the company of Capt. John Mellen, which went to the relief of Ticonderoga. He also enlisted for a year in 1779, and re- ceived £60 for a bounty and £6 billeting money to Springfield, Mass. He moved early to Parkerstown, Vt. We do not know the date of his death.
47. JOSEPH ROLLINS was a brother of James Rollins, Jr., No. 46. He was in the service at West Point, Sept. 18 to Oct. 29, 1781, in the company of Capt. Othniel Thomas, in the regi- ment of Col. Daniel Reynolds. He lived on the sixth lot of the fifth range, on the site of the Horatio Greenwood place, also on the fourth lot of the fourth range, on or near the site of the Clukay place. He died in Dublin, Dec. 20, 1836, at the age of 73.
48. JOHN STONE was one of the Dublin boys who were in Capt. Samuel Twitchell's company, in the Rhode Island cam- paign, in 1778. In 1780, he went to West Point in Captain
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Benjamin Spaulding's company. In 1781, he enlisted for the war. The Revolutionary Rolls record the fact that he received thirteen shillings and four pence travelling money from Jaffrey to Cambridge. This John Stone is not the one who came from Jaffrey to Dublin, in 1792, and settled upon the place known later as the Darracott place, and now the summer residence of Miss A. M. Houghton. That John Stone died in Dublin, De- cember 6, 1814, according to his gravestone, which corrects the date of his death given in the former History of Dublin. This soldier is the one mentioned by Mr. Mason in the Centennial Address on page 22 of the former history. Mr. Mason spoke of three soldiers hired by the town and adds: "One was John Stone. The terms on which the latter was hired appear, in part, from a receipt given by him to the committee. It is dated, March 19, 1781, and sets forth that whereas he had received from the committee three notes (the amount of them is not stated), for which he was to serve three years in the Continental Army, unless sooner discharged, he promises that, if he does not serve above six months, he will have the contents of but one note; if not above eighteen months, the contents of but two notes; and, if he is gone two years, he will have but two notes. Mr. Stone probably died in the war, or soon after its close, as, in December, 1788, the town passed a vote, 'that the selectmen make such consideration to the widow Stone as they may think reasonable, on account of the advantage the town had of the depreciation of her late husband's wages' - a very proper and honorable vote certainly." Mr. Derby thinks, however, that the "widow Stone" to whom Mr. Mason alludes, in the latter part of the remarks quoted, was not the widow of John Stone, but the widow of the latter's father, Silas Stone, Sr., who was also in the war. John died in the army later than 1781. Mr. Derby finds that he was a son of Silas Stone, Sr., which con- firms the suspicions of the editor of the former history of the town; and, also, that he was born in Natick, Mass., June 30, 1761. This family lived near the present house of Fred. C. Gowing, on or near the site of the house occupied in 1916 by the Prestons.
49. SILAS STONE, Sr., was the father of the soldier mentioned in the preceding paragraph, where his residence, while he lived in Dublin, is indicated. He was named in the Dublin return for 1777, at which time, he was 48 years of age. He was in the company of Capt. Samuel Blodgett, in the regiment of Col. Nathan Hale, formerly the regiment of Col. Enoch Poor. At
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an earlier date, Oct. 6, 1775, he was in the company of Capt. Benjamin Bullard, in the regiment of Col. John Brewer at Prospect Hill. Mr. Derby finds that he died in the service at Lansingburg, N. Y., later than Oct. 17, 1777. His widow was the "widow Stone" mentioned by Mr. Mason in the Cen- tennial Address, to which we alluded in the preceding para- graph. According to Mr. Derby, she died at an advanced age, in Orwell, Vt., about 1820.
50. SILAS STONE, Jr., was also in the service. We are in- debted to Mr. Derby's notes, for the following notice: "As soon as the news of the battle of Lexington was received at Dublin, he went to his former home in Massachusetts, and enlisted for eight months in the company of Capt. Benjamin Bullard of Sherborn, Col. Jonathan Brewer's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill, where the regiment suffered severely. In 1776, he served in Col. Brook's regiment, and was badly wounded at White Plains. He did further service in 1779 and 1780. Jan. 9, 1790, he married Jennette Twitchell, and settled on the 'Dea. Twitchell' homestead in Sherborn, where he died, July 12, 1820." Mr. Derby adds that he enlisted, April 29, 1775, and was at Prospect Hill, Oct. 6, 1775.
51. HENRY STRONGMAN was born about the year 1716, and is said to have come to this country from Dublin, Ireland, about the year 1736. His family is said to have been the fifth in Dublin, and the first to make a permanent residence. He lived on lot 5, range 6, where Dr. Wood lived. He is mentioned in the former History of Dublin as being one of the Revolutionary soldiers from that town. Although he would be sixty years of age at the outbreak of that war, it is probable that the tradi- tion is correct. Men even older than he was are known to have enlisted in their country's service at that period. He died in Dublin, according to his gravestone, March 17, 1786, ae. 69 years and six months.
52. RICHARD STRONGMAN, a son of the above-named Henry Strongman, lived upon the homestead in Dublin, afterwards the Augustine Wood place. In the summer of 1777, he was a pri- vate in the company of Capt. John Mellen. He died upon the homestead, August 12, 1791, in his thirty-ninth year.
53. WILLIAM STRONGMAN was a brother of Richard Strong- man mentioned in the preceding paragraph. In 1776, he went in the company of Capt. Joseph Parker to reinforce the north- ern army at Ticonderoga. In Dublin, he settled on the sixth lot of the sixth range, on the site of the Wyman house.
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He removed to North Hero, Vt., where he died, March 30, 1836.
54. JOHN STROUD, in 1775, was in Col. James Reed's regi- ment, in the company of Capt. Benjamin Mann. In the sum- mer of 1777, he was in the Burgoyne campaign, and enlisted for Peterborough in 1781. His Dublin home was on the north part of the eighth lot of the first range. The Derby homestead was on the south end of this lot. Mr. Stroud moved to Bran- don, Vt.
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