History of the town of Smithfield [R.I.] from its organization, in 1730-1, to its division, in 1871, Part 16

Author: Steere, Thomas
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Providence, R.I., E.L. Freeman & co., printers
Number of Pages: 264


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John F. Steere,


Alonzo L. Jenckes,


Henry W. Beebe,


Benjamin W. Keech,


John Brennan,


Adams Murray,


Charles F. Slocum,


Albert M. Smith,


Samuel Curtis,


George Buxton,


George Fisher,


Joseph Battie,


John Burke,


Michael Rice,


Francis W. Gardiner,


Nelson Niles,


Edward A. Radikin,


James S. Slater,


Cyril P. Thornton,


John A. Austin,


John Simpson, Hasson O. Whiting,


Joseph J. D. Grayton,


Horatio Steere,


Albert G. Durfee,


William H. Smith,


Dexter L. Brownell, 2d Lieut.,


Decatur M. Boyden,


Albert M. Smith,


Samuel Curtis,


George Buxton, Joseph Battie,


John Burke, Francis W. Gardiner,


Michael Rice,


Nelson Niles,


Edward A. Radikin,


James S. Slater,


Cyril P. Thornton,


John Sullivan,


John Sullivan, 2d Lieut.,


Mathew S. Belcher,


John A. Austin,


John Simpson,


James J. Taylor,


NINTH REGIMENT R. I. VOLUNTEERS.


John McKinley, Captain, Nathan Benton, 2d Lieut., Horatio Giles, Andrew Crumley,


Isaac Place, Captain, Israel Arnold, Jr., William Cory,


James H. Jolly,


Walter S. Sutcliff, Fenner Colwell,


Thomas Crumley, James O'Brien, Richard J. Whittle,


Trowbridge Smith,


Joseph Smith, Jr., William T. Brooks,


George W. Haradon, George H. Johnson, Byron S. Thompson, David Dines,


George Fisher,


James J. Taylor,


215


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD.


James Jacques, Henry E. Baker,


Martin G. Cushman,


Samuel Preston,


Gilbert A. Thompson, Cyrus Bennett,


Moses A. Aldrich, Henry Bennett,


Jacob Butterfield, Willard D. Colwell,


George B. Evans,


William F. Fuller,


Frederick C. Gove,


John Gallagher,


Thomas Hughes,


Alexander Henderson,


Martin G. Lyons,


Walter Matthew,


William F. Miller,


Thomas Pryor,


John Regan, Robert Sanford,


James Sullivan,


John Sullivan,


Thomas B. Spooner,


Enoch Spencer,


Winfield S. Thompson,


Alexander Tongue,


Joseph Wilmarth,


George Wilson,


Edward F. Steere,


Moses Brown,


Stephen P. Steere,


Thomas Britton,


Charles Bowers,


Sylvanus Holbrook, Jr.,


Thomas L. Hopkins,


Arnold Jennerson,


Jesse D. Keach,


George Smith,


Thomas Smith,


William T. Smith,


John Westgate,


James A. Sweet,


A. Sayles Clark,


Charles W. Bradford,


Asa Bennett, Foster W. Clark,


Caleb H. Freeman,


George J. Hendrick,


Charles A. Pierce,


Thomas Riley,


Marcus L. Sweet,


Isaac S. Tanner, Edmund Crocker, Alanson P. Wood,


Robert E. Curran,


Warren F. Cook,


Byron E. Daggett,


John H. Durgin, Albert Hudson,


Thomas Lewis, George S. Potter,


Henry C. Sayles, John Swindler, Joseph Wheelock,


George P. Grant, William C. Benedict,


David E. Cash, Henry Crocker,


Charles F. Taft, Thomas D. Wilson,


John E. Whipple,


Daniel W. Brayton,


George Britton, John Burns,


John Niles, Otis W. Smith, Jarvis Smith,


Jenckes Bartlett,


Edwin Carter,


Justin Stevens,


Joseph Sedgwick,


George W. Buxton,


216


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD.


Bemjamin A. Dennis,


James H. Fairbanks,


Edward A. Patt,


Stephen A. Peck,


Anthony G. Wood,


Charles D. Wood.


David L. Fales, Joseph B. Gooding, William G. Thurber,


John E. Whiting,


Henry H. Welden,


TENTH REGIMENT R. I. VOLUNTEERS.


Samuel H. Hopkins,


Arnold J. Paine,


Albert W. Sprague,


Stephen Phetteplace, George H. Tyler.


ELEVENTH REGIMENT R. I. VOLUNTEERS.


Thomas Moies, 1st Lieut.,


Edmund F. Crocker,


George Cushman,


David L. Fales,


George W. Gooding,


Orman L. Patt,


Nathan L. Baggs,


George G. Bennett,


Ansel Baxter,


Daniel Bryce, Edward A. Browne,


Henry T. Braman,


Jasper Caler,


James D. Carpenter,


Patrick Cavanaugh,


Michael Cassiday,


Nicholas P. Clark,


Warren F. Cook,


James Coyle, Thomas Dolan,


James Curran, Andrew J. Dexter,


William F. Elsbree,


J. Henry Fales,


Henry A. Follett,


William B. Follett,


Theodore C. Fuller,


Charles C. Holland,


Charles E. Griffin, Joseph E. Hood, Michael Killeran,


William Horton, Peter Knoth,


Thomas S. Lindsay,


Barney Mahan,


Nathan P. Maker,


Gilbert Mann,


Barney McNally,


Charles P. Moies,


Edward McCormick,


John McCormick,


James Mulhaven, John J. Niell,


John McCreighton,


Ansel D. Nickerson, Levi C. Phillips,


David N. Rogers,


Michael Trainor,


Daniel E. Verry,


William O'Donnell,


Thomas Rice,


Philip Vickerey,


Joseph W. Grosvenor, Ass't Surg, James N. Woodward,


Alden Paine,


217


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD.


Thomas S. White,


Charles H. Wilmarth,


Joseph W. Guild, John A. Rupert, Joseph S. Bunker,


Elisha Place, Adin Patt,


Andrew Campbell,


Henry S. Sharpe, George Lovely,


John S. Graham,


David S. Linch,


William C. White,


Daniel R. Ballou,


TWELFTH REGIMENT R. I. VOLUNTEERS.


Richard A. Briggs, 1st Lieut.,


William Ackinson,


William A. Andrews,


James Ackinson,


George E. Brown,


Joseph W. Preston,


Otis P. Cleveland,


William Reddy,


William H. Greene,


Joseph Wilmarth,


James L. Burlingame, John E. Thornton,


George E. Macomber,


Charles J. Sweet,


Edwin P. Williams,


Lewis G. Arnold, Jr.,


Benajah S. Allen,


Amasa Phetteplace, Horace W. Cook,


Mowry C. Colwell,


Thomas M. Green,


Collins V. Keith,


William H. Latham,


Shadrack O. Mowry,


Daniel Pelky,


John H. White,


George A. Britton.


FOURTEENTH REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY.


George A. Pearce, 1st Lieut., Daniel Carver.


FIRST REGIMENT R. I. LIGHT ARTILLERY.


William H. Walcott,


William Arnold,


Henry F. Clark,


Patrick Larkin,


Edward Morrisey,


Joseph S. Nichols,


Thomas P. Steere,


John Appleby Thornton,


Joseph A. Cole,


John Eatock,


Albert E. Hendrick,


John B. Mowry,


George W. Nichols,


Charles O. Dyer,


Charles W. Hudson,


Charles E. Mathewson,


George A. Perry,


James Quigley,


Patrick Sullivan,


Benjamin Snell,


Elisha D. Thayer,


Lewis L. Sayles, 28


Henry Britton,


Oren Mowry,


James Phetteplace,


218


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD.


Olney Arnold, Daniel W. Elliott,


William H. Cartwright,


William H. Steere,


Esek S. Owen,


Michael Barry,


Benjamin Carter,


Thomas J. Loftus,


Michael Murray,


Otis P. Snell,


William H. Stone, Aaron Schanck,


Barney Cassidy,


Wm. H. C. Smith,


Wm. H. Phinney,


Philip, A. Dexter,


Henry J. White,


Charles W. Warren,


Jacob Waldberger,


Robert Sheridan,


John Gray,


Patrick Cornell,


Daniel Cæsar,


Thomas Donnelly.


TENTH R. I. LIGHT BATTERY.


William Landigan,


John Stewart,


Joseph Mcclellan, Patrick Gleason.


FIRST REGIMENT R. I. CAVALRY.


John Winsor,


Daniel A. Smith,


Jesse W. Angell,


William H. Latham,


Ethan S. Brown,


Allen T. Brown,


William B. Ford,


John H. Steerc,


James Winterbottom,


George W. Harris,


Marcus W. Sweet,


William A. Tucker,


Thomas Pinkerton.


SECOND REGIMENT R. I. CAVALRY.


Henry J. Whittaker, 1st Lieut. Horace D. Allen,


Martin C. Cushman,


Alexander Brenno,


Frederick Campbell, Thomas Prior,


Alexander Campbell,


William J. Perry,


Francis Reynolds, Aris Bourgen,


Roswell Saltonstall, Thomas Crumley,


Royal W. Ceaser, Jesse D. Keach, Thomas Phinney, Albert V. Walker, Joy G. Bellows, Gilbert Carman,


George Crumley.


219


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD.


THIRD REGIMENT R. I. CAVALRY.


Lyman L. Swan, Asst. Surg.,


John B. Batcheller,


Nathan L. Boggs,


Nicholas B. Gardner,


Peter Gilroy,


Augustus Binford,


Robert M. Pollard,


Amos Perry,


Wilson D. Mundy,


Anslemn Sansany,


Alexander Simpson,


Jonathan M. Boss,


George H. Howard,


Thomas R. Hawkins,


Henry Mowry,


James McCabe,


Thomas Smith,


George Spaulding,


William Rankin,


Edward S. Tyler.


SEVENTH SQUADRON R. I. CAVALRY.


Christopher Vaughan, Captain,


John Angell, 1st Lieut.


George A. Smith,


Thomas Dwyer,


Daniel H. Goff,


Jeremiah Amidon,


Antoine Allen,


James Crofter,


Timothy Collins,


Alexander Henderson,


John Higgins,


Thomas Harper,


James Mc Williams,


James Ryder.


James Sullivan,


Ralph Street,


John Taylor,


James P. White,


Caleb Watson,


Wilson S. Mowry,


Henry B. Jennison,


Martin Winsor,


John McGovern,


Benjamin T. Reynolds,


Daniel Pierce,


Edward Morrisey.


FIFTEENTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS.


James Shay, Martin Winsor.


UNITED STATES CHASSEURS.


George Harris,


Olney Clark.


FOURTEENTH REGIMENT U. S. INFANTRY.


George Watson.


TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS. John Payson, George W. Wallace.


220


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD.


IN OTHER MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTS.


Lully B. Mowry,


Elisha Steere.


POPULATION OF SMITHFIELD.


1731


450


1755


1,921


1774


2,888


1776.


2,781


1782.


2,217


1790.


3,171


1800


3,120


1810


3,828


1820


4,678


1830


6,857


1840


9,534


1850


11,500


1860


13,283


1865


12,315


INDEX.


Note


PAGE.


iii


Public Resolution passed by Congress


V


President's Proclamation vii


Joint Resolution on the celebration of the Centennial, passed by General Assembly. ix


Governor's Proclamation


xi


Action of Lincoln. xiii


Woonsocket. xiv


66 Smithfield XV


66 North Smithfield. xvi


CHAPTER I.


Smithfield originally .


Roger Williams, Sketch of the life of.


66


Flight of. 3


at Seekonk 3


66 Settlement of Providence by 3-4-5


First written compact. 5


Earliest conveyance of land, Copy of. 6


Town Meetings, and rules of same.


First departure from a pure democracy


7-8-9


Incorporation of Providence Plantations by Parliament


9


Power conferred by Charter. 9


Arrival of Charter in Boston 10


10


General Assembly apointed


10


Officers to be chosen. 11


Representatives' Court, who to consist of


12


were empowered 12


Charter granted to Town of Providence 12


1


1-2


Reception of Roger Williams at Providence


222


INDEX.


PAGE.


Council of State


12


William Coddington appointed Governor


12


John Clarke and Roger Williams sent to England .


13


Repeal of Coddington's Commission


13


Meeting of Freemen at Portsmouth


13


General Assembly, Special Session of 1660


14


John Clark confirmed as Agent of Colony


14


Legal process to be issued in the name of the King, Charles II. Meeting of General Assembly to receive Royal Charter of Charles II .


15


Charter of Charles II, Freedom under


16


Oldest Constitutional Charter


17


Seal adopted .


17


General Assembly, Judicial powers exercised by


17


Claims of Connecticut and Plymouth to the jurisdiction of portions of Rhode Island . 18


Appointment of Commission to examine into the claims and titles of the Narragansett Country 18


Quo warranto issued . 18-19


19


Appointment of Council 19


19


House of deputies constituted a distinct body 20


First Committee of the Whole 20


Census, 1780 20


Death of Roger Williams 20


CHAPTER II.


Incorporation of Smithfield 22


Territory set off . 22-23


First town meeting, record of list of officers chosen. 24-26


Deputies to General Assembly chosen.


26


Bounty voted for killing wild cats and wolves 26


Pair of stocks and whipping post built 26


Passage of highway act 26


Population in 1748. 26


Town divided into highway districts


26


Highway Surveyors, Who were to be


26


Boundaries of districts . 27-30


Citizens living in districts 27-30


14


Sir Edmund Andros appointed Governor


Return to town government system


INDEX.


223


PAGE.


First town council, Business of


Special town meeting, 1774 ...


31 31


Committee appointed to visit Boston and inspect the circum- stances of the poor of that place 31


Report of committee on poor 32


Subscription papers to be drawn, for gaining support for the poor of Boston. 32


Acknowledgment of supplies sent 33


Town meeting, Record of, 1775


33


Special town meeting


34


Committee to collect arms chosen. 33-34


Committee of inspection chosen


34


Nineteen new firearms ordered to be bought


35


Bounty offered recruits . 35


Vote passed relating to slaves


35


Powder and lead apportioned


35


Census ordered .


35


Salt ordered to be divided .


35


Hospital for inoculation for small pox


35


Repeal of act of allegiance


35


Preamble, preceding repeal.


35-36


Delegates appointed to Continental Congress instructions of . 36-37


36


Iron or shod shovels and spades ordered to be procured 37


Choice of Lieut-Colonel, 2d Regiment Militia. 37


Officers of the three Smithfield Militia Companies . 37


Smithfield and Cumberland Rangers


38


Declaration or test


38


Regiment ordered raised 38


Counterfeiting of the bills of credit


38


Permission given to move two barrels of rum


39


Valuation of Smithfield, 1777


39


Tender consciences, Committee appointed to alter an act for the relief of


39


Money ordered to supply soldiers' families with necessaries . New Council of War


40


Loans to the Continental Service.


41


Officers of the three militia companies


41


Lottery authorized to repair bridge over Pawtucket river. 41


40


Money borrowed to pay bounties . 41


Resolution passed at special town meeting, April, 1779 42


224


INDEX.


Tax levied.


PAGE. 43


Illicit commerce with Block Island, Committee to investigate. 43


Attempt to restore the Continental currency


Stipulation of prices


Quota of Smithfield to supply food to the army


Ratable polls, 1780


Officers of Cumberland and Smithfield Rangers


Requisition for blankets, &c


Delegate to Congress chosen


47 47


1781. Twelve hundred men ordered into service one month. . Corn for army .


47


1782. Ratable value of Smithfield .


Vote passed at town meeting against buying and selling slaves 47-48


Instructions to delegate to General Assembly 48-50


Non-approval of paper money . 51


Circumstances of the poor enquired into 51


Deputies instructed to procure more equal represen- tation in the General Assembly. 51


Keeping of poor, let out to lowest bidder 51


Free schools, Committee appointed to examine act re- lating to. 51


Favorable report of committee


52


Committee of ways and means chosen 52


Number of schools agreed upon


52


Price of day's work raised.


52


Calling of special town meetings, notices where to be posted. . 52


Poor children ordered to be bound out


52


Paper currency, Troubles arising from


53


The State insulted 54-55


Trouble between town and country, regarding the cele- bration of the 4th of July, in honor of the adoption of the Constitution by some of the States 55-57


1790. Deficiency in the payment of tax, laid before General Assembly . 57


Convention of delegates at South Kingstown, to decide on the adoption of the new Constitution and its do- ings. 57-58


Providence society for promoting the abolition of slavery incorporated 58


44 44 45 45


46 46 46


Estimated acreage of town


47


225


INDEX.


1791.


Smithfield Grenadiers, chartered, and officers and mem- bers . 58


1792. Federal Protectors, incorporated as an independent company . 59


Federal officers and members. 59-60


Commissioner on boundary line between this State and Massachusetts appointed 60


1797. Smithfield Third Library Company incorporated 60-61


61


Smithfield 66 61


61


temporary directors of. 61


61-62


1807. Bridges voted to be rebuilt Lottery authorized to build meeting house 62


1808. Smithfield School Society and incorporators 62


Lottery authorized for the benefit of Academic Society 62


Smithfield Academic Society incorporated 62


1810. Smithfield Academy incorporated 62 officers of. 62


lottery authorized to build. 62-63


1812.


Greene Academy incorporated. Trustees appointed and lottery authorized. 63


Drafted men allowed additional compensation 63


1814. Independent Smithfield Rifle Company incorporated and list of officers. 63


Smithfield Light Infantry Company incorporated and list of officers . 64


1818. New England Pacific Bank incorporated, with names of directors


64


1820. First Cadet Company in Sixth Regiment incorporated and list of officers


64


1821. Town house voted to be built. 64


1822. Committee to repair bridge


64


Baptist Society incorporated


65


Smithfield Exchange Bank incorporated ..


65


1823. Trouble with bridges-cotton factory taxed


65


1824. Town voted in favor of constitution


65


1826. Mineral Spring turnpike designated 65


1827. Instructions to representatives. 65


1828. Smithfield Lime Rock Bank incorporated 66


1832. St. James Church, Woonsocket Falls, incorporated ... 66


29


PAGE.


Union Bank incorporated


1805. Douglass turnpike, Incorporators of


226


INDEX.


PAGE.


1834. Providence County Bank incorporated 66


Location and name changed 66


1835. Seth Mowry farm purchased by the town 66


Christ Church, Lonsdale, incorporated 67


Emanuel Church, Manville, incorporated. 67


1836. Lime Rock Baptist Society incorporated. 67


1837. Instructions to and petition sent to the General Assem- bly . . 67-68


1838. Lime Rock Library incorporated . 68


Division of town agitated


68


1839. Instructions to town council


68-69 69


1841.


Congregational Society of Woonsocket village incorpo- rated. 70


Delegates chosen to attend constitutional convention ..


70


1842. Town meeting for the ratification of the constitution .. Vote for constitution .


70


70


Delegates chosen to attend another constitutional con- vention.


70


Town meeting and vote for constitution


71


Revival of Wionkheig Library ..


71 1


1843. Division of town again brought up. Lonsdale Baptist Church incorporated


71


1845. No license


72 72


Central Falls Congregational Society incorporated. . . Smithfield divided into voting districts, with bounda- ries of each. 73


1846. Smithfield Union Institute incorporated. 73-74


1850.


Doings of June town meeting. 74


1851. School appropriation. 74


Vote relating to road or bridge building 74


Safes for town records to be purchased . 74


St. Thomas Church, Greenville, incorporated. 75


1852. Appropriations for schools and highways 75


Highway law ordered printed 75


1853. Town treasurer not particular enough School appropriation. 75 75


Delegates chosen to another constitutional convention. 75


Valley Falls Company incorporated . 75


Stillwater Reservoir Company incorporated 76


1854. Dexter Lime Rock Company incorporated 76


1840. School committee chosen .


INDEX.


227


PAGE.


1854. School and highway appropriations 76


Town Treasurer still careless. 76


Building ordered for insane poor 76


1855. Moriah Library Association incorporated


76


Report of June town meeting . . 76-77


1856. Georgiaville Evangelical Society incorporated. 77


1858. Report of June town meeting . 77-78


1859. Hamlet Manufacturing Company incorporated 78


1861. Annual town meeting, doings of, regarding soldiers' families . 78


Committee appointed to distribute money appropriated for soldiers' families 79


1862. Record of annual and special town meetings. 79-81 Disbursements on account of soldiers' families for the year. . 81


Smithfield United Society incorporated 28


1863. Manville Co. incorporated 82


Valuation of Smithfield


82


1864. Freewill Baptist Church of Smithfield incorporated ... War expenses of the town.


82


Soldiers' families, Further relief of


82


1866-7. School appropriations


82


1868. Bridge


82


1869. Various appropriations made


82-83


1870. June town meeting, division of town again agitated ... 83


Committee appointed to confer with Woonsocket Com- mittee. 83-84


Vote taken upon division 84


Committee appointed to investigate the mismanage- ment of the poor 84


1871. Division again 85


Vote taken 85


Sketch of the various attempts at division 85-86


CHAPTER III.


Israel Wilkinson, Sketch of 87


Oziel Wilkinson, 87


David Wilkinson,


66


88


Samuel Slater, 66 88-93


Slatersville, 66 94


82


228


INDEX.


PAGE.


Forestdale, Sketch of 94-95


Branch Village,


66


95-96


Waterford, 66 66


96


F. M. Ballou, Sketch of


96


C. B. Aldrich, 66


96


Woonsocket Gas Co., Sketch of .


96


Enterprise Co., Woonsocket, Sketch of


96-97


Globe Mills,


66


97


Woonsocket Co.,


97-98


Hamlet,


98-99


Manville,


66


99-106


Albion,


66


106-9


Lonsdale,


109-10


Valley Falls,


110-12


Central Falls,


112-18


T. D. Rice & Co.,


66


119-20


Fales & Jenks,


66


120


Weatherhead, Thompson & Co., Sketch of.


121


M. B. Arnold & Co.,


121


Pawtucket Hair Cloth Co.,


121-4


Central Falls Woolen Mill,


66


66


125-7


C. C. Holland, 66


60


127


Thurber, Horton & Wood, 66


66


127


Cushmam & Fuller,


127


E. L. Freeman's Printing House,


66


127-9


Greenville,


66


129-30


Spragueville,


66


66


130


Stillwater,


66


130-1


Georgiaville,


60


131


Georgiaville & Bernon Manufactory, 66


66


132-8


Union Village,


66


138


Valley of the Moshassuck


141-4


Division of the town


144


Act dividing the town .


144-55


Act in addition to and in amendment to act dividing the town Sketch of Smithfield .


155


66 " Slater and boundaries ... .


155


156


" new Smithfield and boundaries 157-8


" Lincoln and boundaries 158-9


129


Allenville,


66


124-5


Stafford M'f'g Co.,


66


INDEX. 229


APPENDIX A.


PAGE.


List of citizens who have held the offices of Members of Con- tinental Congress . 161


Speakers of House of Representatives, R. I 161


Presidential Electors . 161


Chief Justice of Supreme Court 161


Assistant Justices 161


Justices Court of Common Pleas 162


APPENDIX B.


Assistants and Senators in the General Assembly, from the town of Smithfield, from 1731 to 1798:


Assistants


163


Senators


163-4


APPENDIX C.


Deputies and Representatives in the General Assembly:


Deputies from 1731 to 1826 inclusive .. 165-78


Representatives from 1824 to 1870 inclusive 178-82


APPENDIX D.


Members of Town Council from 1731 to 1871, inclusive 183-98


Town Treasurers, 1731 to 1870


199


Town Clerks, 1731 to 1870 199


Moderators, 1731 to 1870


200-2


Town divided into school districts 202


School Committees, 1828 to 1870 202-6


Examination of teachers provided for 207


Examining Committees, 1840 to 1845 inclusive 207


APPENDIX E.


List of officers of the militia belonging to Smithfield, from 1775 to 1789 inclusive 207-9


230


INDEX.


List of officers and men who enlisted in the service of the United · States from Smithfield during the war of the rebellion:


PAGE.


First Regiment Detached Militia.


209


Second R. I. Volunteers .210-11


Third


Heavy Artillery 211-12


Fourth


Volunteers


212-13


Fifth


66


Heavy Artillery


213


Seventh Volunteers


214


Ninth 66 66


214-16


Tenth


66


216


Eleventh "


66


216-17


Twelfth


217


Fourteenth Regiment R. I. Heavy Artillery


217


First 217-18


Tenth R. I. Light Battery 218


First Regiment R. I. Cavalry ..


218


Second 66 219


219


Seventh Squadron R. I. Cavalry


219


Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 219


United States Chasseurs 219


Fourteenth Regiment U. S. Infantry 219


Twenty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers 219


In other Massachusetts Regiments. 220


Population of Smithfield. 220


Light


Third 66





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