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such Grantee, His Heirs and Assigns, to us Our Heirs and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of Any Act or Acts of Parlia- ment that now are or hereafter shall be Enacted.
3dly : That before any division of the Land be made to and among the Grantees a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and Marked out for Town Lotts, One of which shall be Allotted to each Grantee, of the Contents of One Acre.
4thly : Yielding and Paying therefor to us Our Heirs and Successors for the space of Ten Years, to be computed from the date hereof, the Rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only, on the Twenty fifth day of De- cember Annually, if Lawfully demanded the first payment to be made on the Twenty fifth day of December, 1762.
5thly : Every Proprietor, Settler, or Inhabitant, shall Yield and pay unto Our Heirs and Successors, Yearly and Every Year forever from and after the Expiration of Ten Years from the abovesaid Twenty fifth day of December which will be in the Year of our Lord, 1772 One Shilling Proclamation Money, for every hundred Acres he so owns, set- tles, or possesses, and so in proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the Land, which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons above- said their Heirs or Assigns, in Our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.
In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of Our said Prov- ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth Esqr. Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 6th day of October in the Year of Our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven Hun- dred & Sixty One and in the First Year of Our Reign.
B. WENTWORTH.
By His Excellencys Command With advice of Council
THEODORE ATKINSON, Secy :
Province of New Hampshire, Recorded in the Book of Charters Page 221-222 October 6th : 1861 pr Theodore Atkinson, Sec'ry.
A true Copy
pr Benjn : Giles Propritrs Clark.
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PROPRIETARY HISTORY.
THE NAMES OF THE GRANTEES OF NEWPORT.
Nathaniel Fish,
Joseph Woodworth,
William Cone,
Ebenezer Eames,
Joseph Fox,
Joseph Cone, Jr.,
Joseph Eames,
Nath'l Hungerford,
Eliphalet Lester,
Benj. Harris,
Micah Scovel.
Thomas Lester,
George Harris,
Guy Richards,
Nath'l Comstock,
Nicholas Hallom,
Nehemiah Gates, Eliphalet Gustin,
Benj. Gardner,
Theophilus Tapham,
Thomas Cone, 2d,
Isaac Avery,
Ebenezer Cone,
Abraham Ackley,
Jesse Burchard,
Harris Coult,
Peter Bulkley,
John Burchard,
Jeremiah Clement,
Elijah Clark,
Richard Dowser,
Joshua Tsham,
Jonathan Beckwith,
Enoch Bolls, Jr.,
Nath'I Beckwith, Jr.,
Levi Crosby,
Isaac Tracy, Jr.,
Jonathan Harris,
John Olmsted,
Daniel Fuller,
Nath'l Kay,
Benj. Alcot.
Elijah Ackley,
Aaron Cady,
Joseph Newmarch, Esq.,
Nehemiah Andrews,
Matthew Dorr,
Daniel Warner. Esq.,
John Church,
Moses Yeoman,
John Chapman,
Samuel Church,
Thomas Hall,
Lemuel Hungerford.
William Mannering,
Levi Wells.
William Fox,
Joseph Beckwith,
John Nelson,
Noadia Warner,
Moses Yeoman, Jr.,
The Proprietors' Record has a drawn plan of the town agree- able to the royal grant, as given by Isaac Rindge, the surveyor- general of the province. In the south-west portion of the town 200 acres were reserved, to be accounted as two of the within shares for the benefit of Gov. Wentworth. In addition, one share was reserved for the Incorporated Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; one share for a glebe for the Church of England, as by law established ; one share for the first settled minister of the gospel ; and one share for the benefit of a school in said town.
The shares of the proprietors were assigned them by lot. For this purpose, a committee, consisting of Stephen Wilcox, Robert Lane, John Crane, and Isaac Kelsey, were appointed at Killingworth, Dec. 25, 1764, which duty they performed at the house of Mr. John Hastings, Jr., in Charlestown, July 6, 1765.
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THE NAMES OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NEW- PORT, WITH THE NUMBER OF THE LOTT DRAWN TO EACH NAME BY THIE COMMITTEE.
Proprietors. No. Names of the Owners, May 12, 1779 .
Nathaniel Beckwith
I.
Ebenezer Redfield.
Joseph Beckwith
2.
Jonah Kelsey's heirs.
John Nelson. 3. Matthew Cushing.
Nicholas Hallom 4.
Benjamin Trask.
Moses Yeoman, Jr 5. Ebenezer Merrit.
Jonathan Harris. 6. Benj. Giles, Esq.
Enoch Bolles, Jr
7.
. Joseph Clement, in 1782.
Joshua Tsham 8. Robert Lane.
Levi Crosby.
9. . Isaac Kelsey's heirs.
Nathaniel Comstock. IO
.Jeremiah Clement.
Thomas Lester II
Robert Lane.
William Fox. 12.
· Jesse Lane.
John Church
13.
. Jesse Wilcox.
Abraham Ackley 14.
.Samuel Hurd.
Moses Yeoman 15.
Dea. Daniel Buel.
Isaac Avery
16. Col. Aaron Elliot.
Nathaniel Fish
17 Benjamin Bragg.
Jonathan Beckwith
19.
· Jeremiah Clement.
Peter Bulkley .20.
. Col. Aaron Elliot.
Joseph Fox.
.21
.22
Isaac Tracy heirs.
Daniel Warner, Esq.
23.
Ebenezer Redfield.
Joseph Eames. .24
Reuben Hall.
Elijah Ackley. 25.
Nathan Hurd.
William Mannering. .26. Jeremiah Clement.
Nehemiah Gates
27.
Theodore Morgan, Esq.
Guy Richards. 28. .Stephen Perry.
Samuel Church
29 Jeremiah Clement.
Benjamin Alcott.
30 Ezra Kelsey.
John Chapman.
.31
Thomas Bolls.
Joseph Beckwith .32. Aaron Buel.
Elijah Clark .33
Benj. Giles, Esq.
Jesse Woodward. .34.
James Church.
George Harris 35 . Benj. Giles, Esq.
Harris Colt. 36. Stephen Wilcox.
Ebenezer Eames
.37 Israel Bryant.
Aaron Cady
38. Uriah Wilcox.
Micah Scovel.
39 Simeon Bumper.
Eliphalet Lester
18.
Ezekiel Powers.
Roswell Kelsey.
Isaac Tracy, Jr ..
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Proprietors.
No.
Names of the Owners, May 12, 1779.
John Burchard.
.40.
. Constant Stoors.
Lemuel Hungerford.
41
. Daniel Buel.
Thomas Cone, 2d
42. . Samuel Cram.
Benjamin Gardner. 43. . Joshua Lathrop.
John Olmsteed. .44. . Jeremiah Clement.
Joseph Cone, 2d. 45. . John Wendell.
Noadiah Warner. 46. . Joshua Lathrop.
Eliphalet Gustin. 47 . Ezekiel Powers.
Jeremiah Clement. 48. Jeremiah Clement.
Levi Wells.
. Stephen Wilcox.
William Cone
.50.
Robert Lane.
Jesse Burchard.
.51.
Ruth Giles.
Joseph Cone.
.52. Daniel Dudley.
Nehemiah Andrews 53
Ebenezer Cone
.54.
Josiah Dudley.
Thomas Hall.
.55. . Theodore Morgan, Esq.
Incorporated Society .56. . Society lot, 1782.
School lot. -57.
Minister's lot.
The first settled minister 58.
School lot.
Theophilus Tapham 59. Jeremiah Clement.
Benjamin Harris .60 Amos Hall.
Joseph Newmarch, Esq .61. Ezekiel Powers.
Daniel Fuller .62.
.Jared Lane.
Richard Dowser. 63. Phineas Wilcox.
Nathaniel Hungerford. 64. Ezra Parmelee.
Nathaniel Beckwith 65. . Col. Aaron Elliot.
Matthew Dorr .66. . Ephraim Towner.
Church of England. .67 . Church lot.
The same committee that superintended the drawing of lots were also empowered to select a suitable town plot, which was to be divided up, and each proprietor was to receive by lot one or more shares, with convenient highways to all the lots. In April, 1765, twenty-one shares belonging to the original gran- tees, being forfeited, were sold by auction.
On the second Tuesday of March, 1766, Ebenezer Merrit. Dea. Jeremiah Clement, and Stephen Wilcox were chosen a committee to open a cart-road to Newport, and to open a road at the west end of the lots laid out, which extended from the Griffin place northward ; and at the same meeting it was voted that Mr. Morgan sell the boat belonging to the proprietors of Newport, and that Stephen Wilcox should go to Portsmouth
. 49.
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and get the charter extended ; and on the first Tuesday of Octo- ber, the same year, they voted Benjamin Giles, of Groton, one hundred acres of land, provided he build and maintain a grist- mill and saw-mill.
The first meeting of the proprietors in Newport was at the house of Mr. Jesse Wilcox, Oct. 13, 1767-Stephen Wilcox, moderator, Benjamin Giles, clerk. Samuel Hurd, Charles Avery, and Zepheniah Clark were chosen assessors ; and Ben- jamin Giles, Amos Hall, Ebenezer Merrit, Samuel Hurd, and James Church a committee to lay out a second division of land. The first division extended across the meadows from east to west, and contained each fifteen acres. This meeting voted to lay out to each proprietor thirty-five acres, either at the east or west end of the lots already laid out. This meeting adjourned to the " 16th inst., at the House of Zepheniah Clark. Innholder in said Newport." At the adjourned meeting. it was voted that Zepheniah Clark, Ebenezer Merrit, Benjamin Bragg, Samuel Hurd, and Jesse Wilcox, having families now in New- port, have each eighty acres of land ; and, also, that any person who is a proprietor and becomes an inhabitant, with his wife, in said Newport, by the first of July, 1768, shall be entitled to eighty acres ; others, who have been in town to improve the first division, fifty acres.
Feb. 2, 1769, the proprietors having failed to perform the condition in their charter which required them to cultivate five acres of land in five years for every fifty acres, had a further period of four years granted them to fulfil the conditions. At that period, as stated by Gov. Wentworth in his extension of the charter, fifteen families had settled in town.
In 1772, they voted to build a Proprietor's House, which might also be used for church and school purposes. In 1782, Josiah Stevens was voted ninety acres of land, on condition that he cause the plan and survey of the town to be made. It was neatly done on parchment, and is now in the keeping of Amasa Edes, Esq., present clerk.
LIST OF THE PRORIETORS' CLERKS.
Dec. 25, 1764. Isaac Kelsey. 1819. Phineas Chapin.
1767. Benj. Giles. 1826. James Breck.
1788. Jedediah Reynolds. 1841. Amasa Edes.
1790. Jesse Lane.
CHAPTER III.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
T HE immediate cause which first awakened public interest, and led to the survey and settlement of the land along the Connecticut river northward from Charlestown, was the return of Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers from the French War,-in the prosecution of which they had passed through this valley on their way to and from Canada,-all of whom brought home most flattering accounts of the fertility and prom- ise of the country. Soon after, application was made to the proper authorities, and two tiers of towns on each side of the river were surveyed, and a large share of them incorporated, as early as 1761.
The especial attractions of Newport were probably first dis- covered by a young man by the name of Eastman, who came here from Killingworth, Conn., as a hunter and trapper, and who was probably the first white man who entered the town. He was charmed with the beautiful meadows, and still more so with the abundant supply of otter and beaver, which he here found in great abundance. On his return home laden with furs, he gave his friends such a description of the country as induced them to apply for a charter, and finally led to the settlement. Af- ter disposing of his furs, Eastman again sought the new country, but never returned. A skeleton was found on the farm of Reu- ben Haven by the early settlers, which was supposed to be his. As confirming the truth of this tradition, we have the fact that the charter of the town was granted to the inhabitants of Kil lingworth, his native place.
Another Eastman, possibly a brother of the foregoing, who was father of Dea. Benjamin Eastman, one of the early settlers, came here also, trapping for otter and beaver, prior to its set-
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tlement, having probably the additional hope of finding some trace of the lost friend. While visiting his son here in after- life, he was often heard to relate his experiences as a trapper in the wilderness.
During the summer and fall of 1765, six young men came here from Killingworth, Conn., cleared six acres of land each, and, after getting in a crop of rye, returned home and spent the winter. The following year, in June, 1766, these men having an addition of two to their number, making eight in all, five having families, came and made the first permanent settle- ment. No record or tradition is found showing the precise day of their arrival. All accounts agree that they arrived in town Saturday night ; that they were detained by a bad place in the road on Pike hill, where they camped-for the night ; and the following day, after accomplishing the remainder of their jour- ney, they spent in religious worship under the shadow of a pine tree which stood just south of the A. Pease residence.
The following were among the earliest settlers, the first five having families :
Zepheniah Clark, James Church,
William Stanard,
Ebenezer Merrit,
Ezra Parmelee, Jesse Lane,
Benjamin Bragg,
Jesse Kelsey,
Benjamin Giles,
Samuel Hurd, Nathan Hurd,
Charles Avery,
Jesse Wilcox,
Ephraim Towner, Absalom Kelsey,
Amos Hall,
Roswell Hull,
Daniel Dudley.
Being the first on the ground, they had their choice of lands. They selected the meadow lots which had previously been laid out. The site which they selected for a common, and which they anticipated was to be the centre of business for the town, was on the beautiful table-land between the Call hill and the residence of Dea. Joseph Wilcox. Benjamin Bragg settled on the George H. Fairbanks place, Absalom Kelsey on the Reu- ben Ainger farm, Jesse Wilcox on the J. E. Wilcox place, Sam- uel Hurd on the A. Pease farm, Zepheniah Clark on the R. P. Claggett place, Ebenezer Merrit on the William Carr farm, and Ezra Parmelee on the Griffin place.
A few years later another colony came from Massachusetts, principally from Worcester county, and settled in the north-
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western part of this town and the south-western part of Croy- don. Their centre of business, where they had a store, a school- house, a tannery, and mechanics' shops, was on the road be- tween the Maj. Josiah Wakefield place, north of Northville and Croydon line. As these people were nearly all Baptists, this locality was soon known as Baptist hill. The Wakefields, the Havens, the Metcalfs, the Durkees, the Chamberlains, and the Wheelers, of this town, and the Stows, the Jacobses, and others, of Croydon, belonged to this company.
CHAPTER IV.
REVOLUTION.
F ROM the earliest moment in the Revolutionary conflict, the sympathies of all our citizens as one man were enlisted in the cause of their country. Coming from the land of a Sherman and a Hancock, they were fully imbued with a love of liberty and a hatred of oppression, and, above all, they were unable to bear those grievous wrongs which were being heaped upon them by a country from which they had received so little. They comprehended fully the nature of the terrible struggle in which they were about to engage, and in some degree the mag- nitude of the grand issues that hung upon it, and hence were ready at all times to answer with cheerfulness whatever call their country saw fit to make upon their patriotism, whether that demand was for men, or for the means to carry on the struggle.
The first act of the town in relation to the Revolution which we find among the records was the appointment of a Commit- tee of Safety, which was done July 20, and enlarged August 7, 1775, consisting of the following members : Benjamin Giles, Aaron Buel, Jesse Lane, Josiah Stevens, Robert Lane, and Jesse Wilcox.
THE ASSOCIATION TEST.
The Continental Congress sent out the following resolutions :
In Congress, March 16, 1776.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the Several Assemblies, Con- ventions, and Councils or Committees of Safety of the United Colonies immediately to cause all Persons to be disarmed within their Respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated and refuse to associate, to defend by Arms the United Colonies, against the Hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies.
Charles Thompson secy.
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This was submitted to the Committee of Safety for New Hampshire :
Colony of New Hampshire
In Committee of Safety April 12th, 1776. .
In order to carry the Resolve of the Hon'ble Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all Males above Twenty one years of age (Lunatics Idiots & Negroes excepted) to sign to the Dec- laration on this Paper ; and when so done to make Return thereof to- gether with the name or names of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly or Committee of Safety of this Colony.
M. Weare Chairman.
The paper submitted for signature is known as the "Articles of Association."
ARTICLES.
In consequence of the above Resolution of the Hon. Continental Congress, and to show our determination in Joining our American Brethren in defending our Lives Liberties and Properties of the Inhabi- tants of the United Colonies :
We the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage. and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and For- tunes, with Arms, oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United Colonies.
Benjamin Giles Aaron Buel
Ezra Parmelee
Samuel Hurd
Josiah Stevens
Joel Bailey
Jesse Kelsey
Ephraim Towner
Abraham Buell
Benjamin Bragg
Semer Kelsey Jesse Lane
Jesse Wileox Wm Stanard
Daniel Buel
Absalom Kelsey Uriah Wilcox
Josiah Dudley
Joseph Buel Phineas Wilcox
Daniel Dudley
Nathan Hurd
Nathan Woodbury
Jedediah Reynolds, Jr.
Robert Lane
Jedediah Reynolds
Ebenezer Merrit
James Church
Isaac Newton
John Lane
Amos Hall
Jesse Bailey
David Brown
Jeremiah Jenks
Newport June 20th A. D. 1776 The Inhabitants of Newport that is requested have all signed this association.
Josiah Stevens Selectmen Samuel Hurd of
Aaron Buel Newport.
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At a meeting of the inhabitants holden July 24, 1776, Samuel Hurd was chosen Captain, Jeremiah Jenks Lieutenant, and Uriah Wilcox En- sign.
Aug. 16, 1776, the Committee of Safety certify to the follow- ing report :
The number of able bodied effective men in the Township of Newport is Thirty Six the number of muskets fit for service is fourteen, the mus- kets that are not fit, five, which will be made fit forthwith, Seventeen muskets wanted.
The 27th of May, 1777, the town
Voted to raise eighteen pounds lawful money to buy a towns stock of amunition, viz. Forty Pounds Powder, one Hundred Pounds of Lead and ten dozen Flints.
The following is the list of Revolutionary soldiers, so far as obtained :
Thomas Carr,
Solomon Dunham,
Daniel Chapin,
Robert Durkee, Richard Goodwin,
Joel McGregor,
John McGregor, William Haven,
Theopholis Goodwin,
Philip W. Kibby,
Joel Kelsey,
Jesse Kelsey,
John Pike, Samuel Sisco,
Daniel Sterns,
Samuel Thompson, Jonathan Wakefield,
Josiah Wakefield,
Samuel Washburn,
Silas Wakefield,
Robert Woodward,
Amos Hall, Jr.,
Simeon Buel,
Hezekiah Reynolds.
Phineas Chapin, Elias Dudley,
Those who were at the battle of Ticonderoga, and who left town June 29, 1777, were
Matthew Buell, Joseph Buel, Abraham Buel,
Daniel Buel, Nathan Hurd, Stephen Hurd,
Jeremiah Jenks, Absalom Kelsey, Thomas Lane,
Jesse Lane,
Ebenezer Merrit,
Ezra Parmelee.
Josiah Stevens,
Jesse Wilcox,
Joel McGregor was taken a prisoner by the British, and confined for a long time in the old sugar-house in New York, and endured its privations.
June 17, 1777, the officers of the alarm company were Capt.
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WAR OF ISI2-MEXICAN WAR.
Ezra Parmelee, Ist Lieut. Christopher Newton, 2d Lieut. Isaac Newton, and Ensign Joshua Warner.
During the progress of the struggle, the following delegates were chosen to represent the town :
Aug. 10, 1775, Benj. Giles and Samuel Hurd were chosen to the congress at Plainfield.
Aug. 17, 1775, Benj. Giles and Uriah Wilcox, to Walpole.
Benjamin Giles was elected to the following places : Oct. 15, 1775, to the Provincial Congress at Exeter ; Aug. 2, 1776, to Walpole ; June 10, 1778, to Concord, to make arrangements for a permanent government ; Jan. 3, 17So, to Charlestown ; and June 4, 1782, to Concord, to settle permanent plan of gov- ernment.
Nov. 11, 17So, Elias Bascom was chosen a delegate to the convention at Walpole.
SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF ISI2.
The following is an imperfect list of the names of those who served in the War of ISI2 :
Barnabas Brown, Daniel Dudley, Stephen Pike,
William Carr, Jacob Dwinells,
David Reed,
Calvin Call,
Loma McGregor,
Zacheus Shurtliff,
Charles Colby,
Samuel Hoyt,
Nathan Wilmarth,
Robert Durkee, Jared Lane,
Hartford Wilmarth.
Solomon Dunham, Daniel Muzzey,
The Dow and Peck families were also represented by sol- diers.
MEXICAN WAR. So far as we learn, the town furnished no soldiers to the Mexican war.
CHAPTER V.
CIVIL WAR.
TI HE news of the attack on Fort Sumter, on the 11th of April, 1861, awakened the citizens of Newport, as of all parts of the North, to a full sense of the gravity of the occasion, and they shared in the general enthusiasm for the maintenance of the Union. A meeting of the citizens was held on the 22d of April, which was attended by substantially the whole adult population of the town, without distinction of party. This meeting, with entire unanimity, pledged the raising of $1,500 for the fitting out and support of such as might volunteer to fill the quota of the town, in answer to the call of the President, then just issued, for seventy-five thousand men to serve three months. This action was afterwards ratified by a legally called meeting of the town.
The ladies formed themselves into an association for the pur- pose of working for the relief of the soldiers in the field, and through the war rendered efficient services in connection with the soldiers' aid societies of the country.
Ira McL. Barton, Esq., a promising young lawyer of the town, having received authority for the purpose, recruited the first company of volunteers, being three-months men, under the call of the President, of which he was commissioned captain. The company was in readiness at the earliest required moment, and served during its term of enlistment in the First N. H. Regiment, under Col. Mason W. Tappan. At its return the company was tendered an enthusiastic reception by the citizens of the town.
Each year during the war the records are largely occupied with proceedings in aid of the volunteers of the town, and they show appropriations for this purpose amounting, in the whole,
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to $70,491.78. Each quota was promptly filled by volunteers, and no draft was necessary during the war to keep up the re- quired quota of the town.
Whole number enlisted from the town, two hundred and forty. The following is a list of their names, with their officers, regi- ments, companies, and time of service :
Ira McL. Barton, captain Ist Regt., Co. D; captain 5th Regt., Co. E; captain Ist Regt. Heavy Artillery, Co. B; promoted to lieutenant- colonel ; served 4 years, 2 months.
Thomas Sanborn, surgeon 16th Regt. from Nov. 4, 1862, to June 13, IS63.
Dexter G. Reed, second lieutenant Ist Regt., Co. D; second lieu- tenant 5th Regt., Co. E ; promoted to first lieutenant same company ; first lieutenant Ist Regt. Heavy Artillery, Co. B ; promoted to major in same regiment ; 4 years, 2 months.
Edgar E. Adams, first lieutenant 16th Regt., Co. F ; captain Co. B, 75th Regt. U. S. C. Infantry ; promoted to major ; brevetted lieutenant- colonel ; 4 years, 6 months.
Ervin T. Case, first lieutenant 9th Regt., Co. K ; promoted to cap- tain Co. F, same regiment ; 3 years.
John B. Cooper, Ist Regt .. Co. D; captain 9th Regt., Co. K ; 4 years, 2 months.
Charles C. Shattuck, captain Ist Regt. H. A., Co. H ; 9 months.
Benj. R. Allen, sergeant 9th Regt., Co. K; promoted to second lieutenant ; to first lieutenant ; to captain ; 3 years.
J. Woodbury Hastings, 16th Regt., Co. C; captain 75th Regt. U. S. C. Infantry ; 1 year.
Edward Nettleton, first lieutenant Ist Regt., Co. D. ; second lieuten- ant 18th Regt., Co. K ; 4 years, I month.
Truman L. Heath, first lieutenant Ist Regt. Heavy Artillery, Co. H ; 9 months.
Sumner F. Hurd, 5th Regt., Co. E; promoted to second lieutenant same company ; to first lieutenant ; 1 year, 7 months.
Prentice H. Wellcome, second lieutenant Ist Regt. Heavy Artillery, Co. H; 9 months.
Alexander V. Hitchcock, quartermaster.sergeant, 2d Co. Heavy Ar- tillery ; promoted to second lieutenant same company; I year, 1 month.
Jolın A. George, 6tlı Regt., Co. G; promoted to second lieutenant ; 2 years.
Sam Nims, hospital steward, Ist Regt. Heavy Artillery ; 7 months.
Paul S. Adams, hospital steward, 16th Regt. ; 7 months.
Benj. Howe, 5th Regt., Co. E; promoted to second lieutenant ; 2 years, 10 months.
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Jesse T. Cobb, corporal Ist Regt., Co. D ; first sergeant 5th Regt., Co. E; I year, 8 months.
Charles H. Little, sergeant 9th Regt., Co. K; wounded ; 2 years, 5 months.
William Delano, 6th Regt., Co. G. ; re-enlisted ; appointed commis- sary-sergeant ; 3 years, 8 months.
James M. Russell, sergeant Ist Regt., Co. D ; re-enlisted 16th Regt., Co. F ; 2 years, 3 months.
Austin Reed, 6th Regt., Co. D; 3 months ; died.
Thomas A. Gilmore, sergeant 16th Regt., Co. F ; 10 months.
Bela Nettleton, musician, 16th Regt., Co. F ; 10 months.
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