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THE
MILITARY HISTORY
OF 2'y u
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PROM ITS SETTLEMENT, IN 1623, TO THE REBELLION, IN 1861 :
COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
STIRRING EVENTS CONNECTED THEREWITH; BIOGRAPH- ICAL NOTICES OF MANY OF THE OFFICERS DISTINGUISHED THEREIN:
IVOTES EXI»I^A.IVj*^TOriY OF THE TEX.T.
BY C. E. POTTER.
CONCORD:
PRINTED BY McFA ELAND & JENKS.
1866.
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MILITARY H. JORY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE j
1623-1861.
MILITLV, MILITLV LAWS, AND MILITARY DEFENSES.
The settlement of Il^ew-Hampshire was commenced, and prosecuted for some years, by private enterprise ; hence its military appointments were limited to the necessities of its colonists, whose main objects were fish, lumber, furs and minerals. However, some military organization was necessary, in case of trouble with the natives, and for proper defense against foreign enemies, and particularly, pirates, who infested the coast. Accordingly, the infant Colony was furnished with arms and ammunition, sufS- cient for the equipment of its etfective men, and for oifen- sive or defensive operations, on a limited scale. The orig- inal settlement was made in the spring of 1623, by Sir •ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, on the Fiscat- ;/-ua river. These gentlemen, on the 10th of August of the year previous, had obtained from "the Council of lymouth," a grant of land, " situated between the rivers :^errimack and Sagadahock, extending back to the great '.kes and river of Canada," under the name of Laconia. Their agents were David Thompson and Edward and Wil- liam Hilton. Thompson set up his fishing stages and flakes at what is now known as Little Harbor, while the Hiltons went eight miles farther up the Piscataqua, and located on what is now known as " Dover Neck." In 1629, Gorges and Mason divided Laconia, the former tak- ug the part east of the Piscataqua, and the latter the part west of that river. These subdivisions were confirmed to them by new grants.
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Another subdivision was made, March 12, 1630, when a grant was made to Edward Hilton and his associates, of a tract embracing Dover Neck, the north part of Newington and Greenland, the whole of Stratham, and a part of Ex- eter up to Squamsauke Falls, " carrying a breadth of three j miles down the Exeter river and the Great Bay to the ; Piscataqua ;" and November 3, 1631, a grant was made to Capt. Mason and his associates at the mouth of the Piscat- aqua, of a tract of land on both sides of that river and the liarbor, " and five miles westward by the sea-coast, and then to cross over toward the other patent, in the hands of Ed- ward Hilton." This patent included part of the present town of Kittery, in Maine, all of Newcastle, Rye and Portsmouth, and the south parts of Newington, Greenland and Stratham. These last grants were known as the "Hil- ton Patent," and "Rendezvous Patent," but more famil- iarly as the Upper and Lower Plantations. Capt. Thom- as Wiggin was the Agent of the Upper Plantation, wliile Capt. Walter Neal was the Agent of the Lower Planta- tion. These agents had charge of both the civil and mil- itary operations of their plantations, and, in 1631, called upon their military forces to settle the rights of soil in a point of land in Newington, extending into the Piscataqua, and claimed by both agents. But luckily their better judgment suggested leaving the matter to their employers, and the point was named Bloody Point, because blood was saved, rather than spilled, on that occasion.
The next year, however, a more serious matter was in hand to excite their military spirit. The famous Dixy Bull, the pirate, in 1632 appeared upon the coast, taking several boats, and rifling the fort at Pemaquid. The Massachusetts Colony sent a bark with twenty men against the pirate, and our infant plantations joined the expedition with four pin- naces and shallops, with forty men, armed, under the com- mand of Capt. Walter Neal. Bull and his associates had gone farther east, and a storm arising, the expedition re- turned to the Piscataqua in a shattered condition.
Meantime the colonists, at their first coming over, had built a fort ou Odiorne's Point, south of Little Harbor, and
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 5
now in the town of Tiye, as a means of defense against the Indians, and had built another on Fort Point, at Great Island, now Newcastle. This was built prior to 1632, as, in that year, Henry Jocelyn and Richard Vines certify the Proprietors in England, that a fortification had been built at Fort Point, and four great guns had been mounted, given the people by a certain merchant of London, for the defense of the river, and that " a draft was sent of the place that they had made choice of, to the said Earl (of Warwick) and company, and the draft did contain all the neck of land in the northeast side of the Great Island that makes the Great Harbor, and they gave it the name of Fort Point, and allotted it so far back into the island, about a bow shot, to a great high rock, whereon was intended, in time, to set the principal fort."
But there was probably no soldier by profession in the plantation, until the latter part of the year 1631. Under date of May, of that year, Thomas Eyre, one of the pat- entees wrote Ambi'ose Gibbins,' their agent, thus: "By the Bark Warwick we send you a factor, to take care of the trade goods; also, a soldier for discovery," &c. This " sol- dier for discovery," kc, was doubtless Darbey Field, an Irishman, who, in company with Capt, Neal and Henry Jocelyn discovered the White Mountains in the following year. He was doubtless sent over, not only for discovery, but to assist in the military operations of the plantations, and in organizing and "training" the volunteer soldiers. After the expedition against Bull and his associates, there seems to have been little occasion for soldiers for several years. In July, 1635, an inventory of the goods and im- plements belonging to the Plantations of Piscataqua and Newichewanock was rendered, from which it appears the warlike implements were then formidable. There were " 3 sackers,* 3 minions,t 2 faulcons,! 2 rabenets,l| 4 mur-
* A cannon carrying a six pound bull.
f A cannon carrying a 3^ pound ball.
J A cannon carrying a 2^ pound ball,
II A small cannon or swivel carrying a -^ pound ball.
6' ADJUTANT-GENERAL S REPORT.
therers,* 2 chambers,! 22 arqiibusses,| 4 muskets, 46 fowling pieces, 67 carbines, 6 p irs of pistols, 61 swords and belts, 15 halberds,!! 31 head-pieces, 82 beaver spears, 50 ilasks, — pairs of bandaleers,^ 13 barrels of powder, — iron bullets, 2 firkins of lead bullets, 2 hogsheads of match, 955 lbs. of small shot, 2 drums, 15 recorders and haut- boys."** These, in addition to the fort at Little Harbor, and the fort w^ith the "great guns," at Fort Point, "of which some were brass," as deposed by George Walton, of Great Island, made quite a formidable armament for de- fensive or offensive operations.
In 1640, upon occasion of a riot at Dover, raised by the partisans of the rival clergymen, Larkham and Knowles, in which resort was had to arms, the former sent to Ports- mouth for assistance. This was promptly furnished, as Mr. Francis Williams, who had been chosen Governor of the Lower Plantation, immediately went up to Dover with a company of militia, and quelled the riot, arresting the leaders and sending them but of the plantation.
In 1641 the plantations upon the Piscataqua passed under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and the following -year the plantation at Exeter " was admitted into the Union." Thus the government of Massacliusctts accom- plished her long cherished design, that of obtaining con- trol of the greater part of the Masonian grants.
From this time until 1679, ISTew-IIampshire was govern- ed generally by the laws of Massachusetts, and in its mil- itarv operations altogether by them. It was while thus governed by Masvsachusetts that some of the most noted Indian depredations w^ere committed on our frontiers.
* A small swivel or wall piece, carrying a ^ pound ball, or less.
■j-jMortars, for throwing bombs.
J A gun that was cocked by a wheel, and carried a ball weighing from 2 to 4 ounces.
11 A military weapon, being a sort of spear attached to a long handle, car- ried formerly by sergeants.
1[ A belt, worn by ancient soldiers over the right shoulder, and suspend- ed under the left arm, to hold a gun or pouch.
**A recorder was a wind instrument, something li Ice a flageolet. A hautboy was somewhat lilie a clarionet, without keys.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 18G1. 7
Massachusetts was too much occupied on her southern frontier to lend much assistance, and, as a result, fear and consternation spread through the Province. Business was suspended almost entirely in the Spring and Summer of 1675, as men were obliged to provide for the safety of themselves and fomilies. The occupants of the smaller houses in the settlements, left them, and fortified with wooden walls and flankarts the large houses, into which they went every night for rest and protection, each one by turn keeping watch from a sentry-box placed upon the roof of the house for that purpose. Notwithstanding these precautions, frequent attacks and massacres took place. Scouts were kept out under brave and experienced men, but the rolls of none of them have been preserved. The names of Waldron, Cotfin, Plaisted and Frost, are identi- fied with these savage attacks.
An afBxir at Cochecho, now Dover, in 1676, in which cer- tain troops of Massachusetts took an active part, led to one of the most noted Indian attacks and massacres in the history of our wars with the aborigines. On the 4th of September, 1676, there was a l^-ge gathering of Indians, some four hundred in number, for trade and pleasure, at Cochecho, under the auspices of Major Waldron, with whom they had made a peace, and who was considered by them as their protector and father. At the same time, there marched into town two companies of troops from Massachusetts, under the command of Capts. Joseph Syll and Wm. Hathorne, under orders to seize all Indians who had been concerned in Philip's War. Some of Philip's warriors had fled eastward, and become incorporated with the tribes upon the Merrimack, Saco and Araeriscoggin. Some of the " strange Indians" were of the gathering at Cochecho. Syll and Hathorne would have fallen upon them at once, but Waldron resorted to stratagem. He proposed a sham-fight, after the manner of the English, in which the Indians should be opposed by the English. The proposal delighted the Indians, and they joined in it read- ily; when, all at once, the Indians found themselves sur- rounded and prisoners. Tradition has it that the Indians
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were furnished with a cannon, and gunners to "load and fire" it, and that the gunners discharged the cannon in range with a line of Indians on one of the drag-ropes, thus killing a large number of theni, by accident, as it was called I
The Penacooks were dismissed, but some three hun- dred of the prisoners were taken to Boston, six or seven hung upon the Common, and the rest sold into slavery ! This outrage caused innocent blood to stain many a hearth stone, while it cost Major Waldron his life in the fatal massacre of Cochecho.
In 1679 New-Hampshire was created by the King in Council, into a separate government, under the jurisdic- tion of a President and Council, and John Cutt, Esq., a citizen of Portsmouth, was appointed President, with six of the most influential citizens of the Province as a Coun- cil, with power to elect three other Councilors. His com- mission was received at Portsmouth, the first of January, 1680, and the President and Councilors were qualified, and entered upon their duties on the 22d of tlie same month. In President Cutt's commission was the following clause as to a Militia : namely, " And for ye better defense and security of all our loving subjects within the said Province of New-Hampshire, and ye bounds and limits aforesaid, our further will and pleasure is, and we do here- by authorize, require and command j-e said President and Council for the time being, in our name and under the seal appointed by us to be used, to give and issue forth commissions from time to time, to such person and per- sons, whom they shall judge shall be best qualified for regulating and discipline of the Militia of our said Prov- ince; and for tlie arraying and mustering the inhabitants thereof, and instructing them how to bear and use their arms ; and that care be taken that such good discipline shall be observed as by ye said Council shall be pre- scribed ; yt, if any invasions shall at any time be made, or other destruction, detriment or annoyance, made or done by Indians, or others upon or unto our good subjects inhabiting within ye said Province of Xew-Hampshire,
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 18G1. 9
We do, bj^ these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, decLare, ordain and grant, that it shall and may be hawfnl to and for our said subjects, so commissioned by our said Council from time to time, and at all times for their spe- cial defense and safety, to encounter, expel, repel and re- sist, by force of arms, and all other fitting means what- ever, all and every such person and persons as shall at any time hereafter attempt or enterprise the destruction, in- vasion, detriment or annoyance of any of our said loviug subjects, or their plantations or estates,"
This was the first order issued to the Province of ISTew- Hampshire as to organizing the militia, and is contained in the only charter ever granted to this Province. A clause was contained in this commission or charter, or- dering the calling of a General Assembly within three months after they had taken the oath of office. This was duly called, and on the 16th of I^Iarch enacted certain laws. The militia was organized, and was made to con- sist of one company of foot in each of the four towns of Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter and Hampton ; one company of artillery at the fort, and one troop of horse. Richard Waldron, of Dover, was appointed to the command of these troops, with the rank of Major.
The military companies in the Province having been organized under the laws of Massachusetts, and the offi- cers of the same having been appointed by that govern- ment, much difiiculty occurred in organizing the militia by the new government. Notwithstanding the King, in his commission to President Cntt, had explicitly said, "We have written to ye Governor and Council of tiie Massa- chusetts Bay, to recall all such commissions as they have granted for exercising any jurisdiction in ye parts afore- said," * * * "and that we have inhibited and restrained them for ye future from exercising any farther authority or jurisdiction over them," there was not wanting men who were unwilling to conform to the new order of things. To meet this cliflicult}^, at a meeting of the Deputy Presi- dent (Richard Waldron) and Council, March 25, 1680, the following order was made : " It is ordered by the Deputy
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President and Council, that if tliere be any troopers* that Lave formed under the command of Capt. John Gerrish, or in that troop of Norfolk's, they shall be at liberty from serving any longer in that service ; provided they list themselves foot soldiers in the towns of their present res- idence ; and all such as are already, or would be troopers in this Province, are now to list themselves under Capt. John Gerrish, being qualified according to law to the fill- ing up said troops to the number of 60, beside ofiieers." And again, the 10th of Jime following, the Deputy Presi- dent and Council passed another order to meet this same difficulty, as follows :
"Ordered by the President and Council, that all the trained soldiers within the bounds of this Province, from sixteen years old and upw'ard, do from time to time obey such orders and commands that shall be given by the of- ficers that are commissioned by this government in the several towns, both respecting arras and ammunition, and kinds of exercise, according to the laws and orders that are and sluiU be made concerning military aftairs, and that those troopers that were formerly listed under the com- mand of Major Pike, and now inhabitants in this town, shall have liberty to list themselves and horses under the command of Capt. John Gerrish, Captain of the troops in New-Hampshire; and such as do not list under his command, are required to attend their duties in the foot companies in the towns where they dwell, upon the same penalty that is provided for neglect in that case,"f
The 8th of April of the following year. President Cutt died, and was succeeded, according to the Charter, by his
■* Troopers were cavalry men. In former times, a company of cavalry was called a troop, and its men were called troopers.
f From these orders, it would appear that Major Pike had command of the troops or cavalry companies before President Cutt was commissioned, and that Capt. John Gerrish had the command of a troop ; also, that un- der the new form of government, Capt. Gerrish had been commissioned to command all the troops or companies of cavalry in the Province. Major Kobert Pike was of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and Capt. John Gerrish was of Dover.
MILITARY IIISTOET — 1G23 TO 1861. 11
Bepntj, Major Wuldron, of Dover. Wm. Vanglian, of Portsmouth, succeeded Waldron as Major, commanding the militia of the Province.
The Council, during this administration, made a report of the condition of the Province to the Lords of Trade in England, from which it would appear that a new fort had been built, and the number of guns at the fort had been increased, during the twentj^ yeava preceding, at the cliarge of the towns of Dover and Portsmouth, and that five guns had been purchased by citizens of Portsmouth, for defense against tlie Indians. The Council say : " There is at Great Island, at the harbor's mouth, a fort, well enough situated, but for the present too weak and insuf- ficient for the defense of the place ; the guns being eleven in number, are small, none exceeding a sacker (six pound- er), nor above twenty-one hundred weight, and the people too poor to make defense, suitable to the occasion that may happen for the fort.
These guns were bought, and the fortification erected, at the proper charge of the towns of Dover and Ports- mouth, at the beginning of the first Dutch war, about the year 1665, in obedience to His Majesty's command, in his letter to the government, under which this Province then was.
There are five guns more lying at the upper part of Portsmouth, purchased by private persons, for their secu- rity and defense against the Indians in the late war with them." In 1682, this Charter was annulled by the ap- pointment of Edward Cranfield, by the King in Council, as Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of New- Hampshire. He was duly commissioned on the 9th of May, and arrived at Portsmouth the 4th of October of the same year. Cranfield was arbitrary, capricious and rapa- cious. During his short administration, the officers of the militia were changed as his interest or prejudice might dictate. Major Vaughan was deposed and imprisoned. Capt. Stileman, who had command of the fort at Great Island, was deposed, and Walter Barefoot was appointed to his place. Robert Mason, the proprietor of tlie Prov-
12 adjutant-general's report.
ince, was appointed captain of "the troop," which com- prised some of the most respectable citizens of the Prov- ince.
At length, Cranfield becoming more arbitrary and op- pressive, attempted to tax the people without their con- sent. The people refused to pay the taxes; the consta- bles attempted to distrain for them, and were resisted, the women, even, heating spits and water, wherewith to resist the levy. The Province was in a turmoil, and the Gov- ernor ordered out the " troop of horse under Mason's command, to assist in suppressing the disorders." Capt. Mason's order is on tile in the Secretary's ofhce. It was as follows : namely,
"You, whose names are under-writ, being listed in the troop under my command, you and each of you are, in Ilis Majesty's name, hereby strictly charged and required to meet me on Friday next, by nine of the clock in the forenoon, at the house of John Sherburne, Sen., at the Plains,* with horse, sword, pistols and shot; and hereof you are not to fail, as you and each of you will answer it at your peril.
Given under my hand the sixth day of January, 1684.
Robert Mason, Capt. To Messrs.
Reuben Hull, Samuel Clark,
Thomas Grafibrt, An to Nutter,
Richard Waldron, Joseph Hall,
Henry Penny, Pheasant Estwick,
John Hunkins, William Cotton. Richard Jose.
IsTot one of the men appeared at the time and place or- dered. The soldiers took sides— fratenuzed with the people.
* The Plains was the noted muster-field of the " 1st Regiment," and is a tract of level land, about a mile south-west of the Kailroad depots in Portsmouth, on the road to Greenland Some of the leading people of Portsmouth resided here and in the immediate neighborhood, such as the Waldrons, the Langdons, and the Sherburnes. The Plains for a long time constituted a Parish, with its church, &c. ; and had its noted tavern, the resort of the pleasure-seekers of the town.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 13
Cranfield was foiled, and in disgust asked leave of absence, ■which being granted, he quietly left the Province, May 16, 1685.
The following year, Joseph Dudley was appointed Pres- ident of New-England. The new form of government went into operation May 25, 1686, It expired December 30 of the same year, Sir Edmund Andros, arriving with a commission, appointed him Captain-General and Gov- ernor-in-Chief of New-England. This commission in- vested in the Governor and Council full powers to make laws, impose taxes and appropriate the money as they should think proper. Andros' administration, arbitrary and oppressive, was of short duration, as the people of Boston, on the 18th of April, 1689, rose in arms, seized the Governor and imprisoned him, and afterward sent him to England as a state prisoner.
Some of the former magistrates in Boston, with Ex-Gov. Bradstreet at their head, assumed the government, taking to themselves the name and style of a " Council of Safety for the People." It is a most curious fact in the history of that revolution, that the people of Massachusetts should imprison Governor Andros for his oppressions, and the very same week should attempt to 'usurp the government of New-Hampshire, as they did, as appears by the follow- ing extract from the records of the doings of this " Coun- cil for the safety of the People."
" April 23, 1689. At the council for the safety of the people, and conservation of the peace, —
Ordered, That Major Richard Waldron be commander- in-chief of the New-Hampshire Pegiraent."
But Major Waldron enjoyed this honor but for a short time, as he met-with a tragical end on the night of the 27th of June following. Among the Indians taken at Co- checho and carried to Boston, in 1676, and sold into slavery, were some of the friends and relatives of the Penacook sachems. The whole tribe was incensed, and only waited for a fitting opportunity to satiate their thirst for revenge. Their plans were matured, and on the night of the 27th of June, 1689, were carried into most signal effect. The in-
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furiated Iiuliaus, under the lead of their most noted war- riors, made a general assault upon the garrison of Coche- cho. Waldron was the special mark for their revenge. Awakened by the noise of the Indians already in his house, he rushed to the door of his apartment, sword in hand, and drove them through two or three doors; b' t, turning to get his other weapons, one of the savages stru k him on the back of his head with his tomahawk, felled i m to the floor, and then the elated Indians drew him into the hall, seated him in an arm chair upon his table, where he was wont to dispense justice, and insultingly asked of him, " Who shall judge Indians now ?" After slashing him with their knives "to cross out their accounts," and cutting off Lis nose and ears and forcing them into his mouth, and as he was falling from his chair from loss of blood, an Indian placed his own sword beneath him upon which he fell and expired !
During the administration of Dudley and Andros, it is not found that any alterations were made in th ) laws af- fecting the militia of this Province.
The people being in an unsettled state, a Convention was held in January, 1G90, which determined to return to their union with Massachusetts. Accordingly, a petition, signed by three hundred and seventj'-two persons, was presented, and the government of Massachusetts readily granted their prayer. Kepresentatives were sent to the General Court of Massachusetts during 1690, and the two years following. By vote of the towns, the military and civil officers, in commission before Cran;^eld's administra- tion, were restored to office, their namep ')resented to the Governor, Council and Deputies, of Mar 'chusetts, and by them approved and confirmed.
The military officers thus appointed, -vlarch, 1600, were as follows : namely,
William Vaughan, of Portsm* uth, Major.
Dover. ,i- Exeter.
John Gerrish, Captain. William Moore, Captain.
John Tuttle, Lieutenant. Samuel Leavitt, Lieutenant. A\^illiam Furber, Ensign. Jonathan Thing, Ensign.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 18G1. 15
Oyster River (Durham). Great Island (Newcastle).
John Woodman, Captain. Nathaniel Fryer, Captain. James Davis, Lieutenant. Thomas Cobbet, Lieutenant. Stephen Jones, Ensign. Shadrach Walton, Ensign.
"i'ortsmouth. Hampton.
Walter I ;3al, Captain. Samuel Sherburne, Captain.
John Pic leering, Lieutenant. Edward Gove, Lieutenant. Tobias Langdon, Ensign. John Moaltou, Ensign.
The "troop," it will be seen, was not authorized. Con- taining only twelve men, five years previous, it probably had become disbanded, and was not thought of sufficient importance to be resuscitated.
March 1, 1692, Samuel Allen, a merchant of London, was appointed Governor of Kew-Hampshire, and John Usher, of Boston, Lieutenant-Governor. Allen did not come over to his government for some six years, and Usher governed in his absence.
Lusher* came to New-Hampshire and published his com- mission August 13, 1692. The same day he ordered that all officers, civil and military, continue in their respective places until others were appointed. September 20, the following appoi-itmeuts were made :
Oyster Eiver. Dover.
John Woodman, Captain. John Tuttle, Captain. James Davis, Lieutenant. Wm. Furber, Lieutenant. Stephen Jones, E.isign. Robert Jones, Ensign.
,-, . Strawberry Bank.
John Pickering, Se ., Captain. Y acant, Lie utenajit. iobias Langdon, Ensign.
* John Usher was a n .. ve of Boston, and by trade, a stationer. He was a man of property, and ' isiiing England, he made the purchase of Maine for the government of \ iss. ?husetts. This foct brought him into notice and having married the Bau-hter of Gov. Allen, he readily obtained the appointment of Lt. Governor.
16 adjutant-general's report.
ISTovember 2, 1605, the following persons were impressed and stationed at Oyster River: namely, Samuel Penhallow, Richard Monson, Sen.,
Samuel Keise, Obadiah Morse,
John Tucker, Jacob Lauess.
Upon an attack by the Indians at Portsmouth, June 26, 1696, the garrisons on the frontiers were reinforced, and six men were impressed, by the Governor's order, and sent to Dover, July 23, to be under the command of Capt. John Tuttle, and posted where he should direct. The men thus impressed were,
Samuel Keise, Samuel Penhallow,
John Knight, Thomas Walcombe,
Wm. Cotton, Richard Jose.
These men were of Newcastle and Strawberry Bank,* as well as those impressed Nov. 2, 1695. Arriving at Do- ver, they were discharged on the 27th of Jnly, the garri- sons " being destitute of all manner of provision for the subsistence of said soldiers, as the law directs in that kind."
Great difficulties arose betwixt Usher and the people. Usher was arl)itrary and self-willed, but still had the good of the Province at heart, as when the Council and Assem- bly pleaded their poverty as an excuse for not raising troops, or money to supply those already raised for the de- fense of the frontier, he would advance from his own purse money to supply their wants, as would appear from the following answer of the Council, in 1695, to their Gover- nor's request for forty men from this Province ;
" Your Honor's (communication), of the 27th of May last being read here, at the Council Board, wherein you intimate to us that the Left. Governor of His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay has given accounts that the avowed enemies to His most christian Majesty, and In- dians might be prevented of supplies which yearly come to them to St. John, &c. ; and that it would be for his
*The name first given to Portsmouth, and which it retained in part, for years, in the following century ; the town being locally called " The Bank."
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Majesty's service and defense of his subjects here, and the safety and quiet of them in these territories, by affording supplies to fit out his Majesty's two frigates for cruising in the Bay of Fundy, and of the difficulty of fitting out said men-of-war with men suitable, so that there is desired for- ty men to be employed in that service from this Province. We offer that we are ready to assist in all things, both by sea and land, to the utmost ability of this his Majesty's Province ; but such has been the great charge and expense of keeping out forty men for the guard of our frontiers, and the security of landmen (not fit for that service), that the Province, in the first place, is not in a capacity for spar- ing landmen ; and as for seamen, the men-of-war have im- pressed so many out of vessels belonging to this Province, that the ships must lie still for want thereof, they having impressed out of our ships, which belong to this place, be- tween twenty and thirty men, which is very considerable, beside those that have been taken out of smaller vessels ; so that at present we are wholly unable of giving ye sup- ply desired.
Understanding by Mr. Elliot and the Treasurer that your Honor has been pleased so to advance as to send twelve barrels of pork for the subsistence of his Majesty's soldiers here in this Province, for which we return your Honor humble thanks ; but it happening at this juncture (that) there is no money in the treasury to reimburse your Honor; and after sundr\^ debates in Council, several of the Board were ready and willing to disburse their equal proportion out of their own purses, to the value of the sum. Some were of the contrary opinion, and would not agree to disburse any thing, so that nothing at present can be farther done."
This reply may have been in part the result of prejudice against the Lieut. Governor; but really effective men were so engaged and so few, that our government had to depend upon Massachusetts for soldiers to guard our people, as will appear by the following order:
" Capt. John Everett : — You are forthwith, with the Mas- sachusetts soldiers under your command, to attend his 2
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Majesty's service, as a guard to the persons employed by John Taylor's agents for the hauling a parcel of masts out of Exeter woods; and when the service is over, with your soldiers to return again to the several posts from whence they are taken.
Dated in Newcastle, this 9th September, 1695. By order of the
President and Council.
During his adminstration, the militia was increased. Major Vaughan was deposed from his office of Major, and Joseph Smith, of Hampton, appointed in his place. Thomas Packer, of Greenland, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Battalion. The people became dissatisfied, and petitioned the King for Usher's removal. The people prevailed, and William Partridge, a merchant of Ports- mouth, was appointed Lieut. Governor. Usher persisted in holding the office, and for some reason Partridge did not become qualified for near two years.
John Hinckes was President of the Council, and he, with the Council seem to have governed the Province. They dismissed Lieut. Colonel Packer and Major Smith from their offices, and appointed Major Vaughan to the command of the militia. President Hinckes and the Coun- cil issued a proclamation, stating the revocation of Usher's commission ; and fearing that Usher might make opposi- tion, as in December, he had called upon the militia of Hampton and Portsmouth to meet him, in order that he might have their assistance in sustaining him, they or- dered Major Vaughan, with as many mounted men as he could obtain, to march to Exeter and Hampton, publish their proclamation, and to seize and secure any persons who were giving any disturbance to the government. Major Vaughan executed his order, but found no one dis- turbing the government, as Usher, finding the militia would not come out to sustain him, had left the Province.
In a letter to the Lords of Trade, complaining of this treatment, Usher says, in reference to this expedition of Major Vaughan's, that " the militia were raised and forty horse sent to seize him."
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But lie neglected to name that he had first ordered out the militia for the purpose of sustaining himself in his ar- bitrary raeasures, and that the militia refused to obey his orders ; as, also, that he attempted to put a political friend in command of Fort William and Mary for a like purpose.
His orders on that occasion were as follows :
Hampton, the lith December, 1697. For Major Joseph Smith :
In obedience to and pursuant of orders from "White Hall, bearing date 27th October, 1697, directed for his Maj- esty's Special Service to the Honorable John Usher, Esquire, His Majesty's Lieut. Governor, and Commander- in-Chief of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, in America, &c.
You are, in His Majesty's name, required to give notice to all captains, militia officers and soldiers, in the town of Hampton, to appear in arms on Monday next, being the 13th instant, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, in order to compliance with said orders, as they and every of them will answer the contrary for the highest contempt.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, the day and year above written. John Usher,
Lieut. Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
To Maj. Joseph Smith.
To Capt. Jacob Green :
Pursuant to the above written Warrant you are, in His Majesty's name, required to give notice to all officers and soldiers under your command, to appear according to the above said warrant, at the meeting house in Hampton, to- morrow, at ten in the morning.
Joseph Smith, Major. Dated December 12, 1697,
province of new-hampshire.
To ye Captain and the rest of the officers of the town
of Portsmouth : Pursuant to a warrant from Lieutenant
Governor John Usher, Esq., to me directed from Hampton,
bearing date ye 11th of this instant December, you are
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hereby reqiiired, in His Majesty's name, to muster ye foot company under your command, that they appear on Tues- day next, being ye 14th instant, completely in arms, accord- ing to law, at ten of ye clock in ye forenoon in order to compliance with such orders as Lieut. Governor John Tsher has received from White Hall, bearing date ye 27th of October last. Hereof fail not at your utmost peril, as you will answer ye contrary.
Given under my hand and seal this 13th of December, 1697. Thomas Packer, Lieut. Colovel.
province of new-hampshire.
Whereas, I was entrusted by John Usher, Esq., Lt. Gov- ernor, and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Province aforesaid, with the command of His Majesty's Fort Wil- liam and Mary, at Newcastle, in the Province above said :
You are hereby ordered to deliver the above said Fort and stores unto Capt. Shadrach Walton, Esq., for which this shall be your order.
Given under ray baud and seal the 13th day of Decem- ber, 1697. , ^""atii. Fryer.
To William Ardel, High Sheriff of the Province.
At the very time these bickerings were rife, amounting almost to civil war, the Indians were committing their bar- barous depredations with impunity. The garrisons were guarded in the frontier towns, but we have but little infor- mation as to the number of soldiers in them, as we have but a single paper as to the men in any one of them, and that as to a garrison at Oyster River, now Durham. Capt. Woodman gives the following certificate as to soldiers in his garrison :
" April the 1st, 1697.— This may inform whom it may concern, that these four men here named, AVilliam Pom- roy, John Ilin, Richard Place and Joshua Brackett, served their Majesty — soldiers in garrison at Oyster River, in the Province of ISTew-Hampshire, in the year 1696 : Richard Pomroy six weeks ; the other two, three, four weeks apiece. They have had former debentures for the same, but lost [them]. John W^oodman, Captain.''
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The Earl of Belloraont was appointed Governor of New- England, August 8, 1697, but he did not publish his com- mission in this Province untilJuly 31, 1699. The Assem- bly was in session, and in his speech the Governor advis- ed the building of a strong fort on Great Island. He staid in his Province but eighteen days. Upon his return to !N"evv-York, he wrote the Assembly that if they would fur- nish the material he would endeavor to prevail upon the King to be at the expense of building the fort. Col. Ro- mer, a Dutch engineer, examined the spot, and produced plans for the proposed fort to the Assembly, with an esti- mate of the expense, ,£6000. This sum astonished the members. They pleaded poverty, and the Governor dying the following year, the plan was abandoned for the time. However, the fort was put in perfect repair, under the di- rection of Col. Romer, during the next few years ; so that, being completed in 1705, a petition was sent home to England for cannon, ammunition and stores, for the same.
It was called " Fort William and Mary." Its armament and stores were as follows at this time, as appears by a re- turn made by Lieut. Theodore Atkinson.*
"Account of Guns and Stores at Her Majesty's Fort William and Mary, at ISTewcastle, 25th July, 1705 : ri4 Demi Cannon, on field carriages,!
r^ 6 Demi Culverin, on do.
Guns, s Q o 1 1 •'
' b oackers, on ship carriages,
[^ 2 Minions, on do.,
18 barrels of Powder,
11 on 1 J- f 810 Demi Cannon, 1120 shot, < oiA -n • n 1
' ( olO Demi Culv.,
* Lieut. Atkinson was the father of Theodore Atkinson, afterward Cap- tain of the Fort, Colonel of the 1st Kegiment, and Secretary and Chief Justice of the Province.
•j- Demi Cannon were of three sizes :
Demi Cannon large, carried a 36 lb. ball. Do. do. ordinary, do. 32 do. Do. do, least, do. 30 do.
So of Culverins, they were of three sizes :
Culverin largest carried a 20 lb. ball. Do. ordinary do. 17 do. Do. least do. 15 do.
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150 lbs. Match,
4 Horse-bides,
2 Lanterns,
2 Bondy Barrels, 20 Rammers, 18 Ladles, 20 Worms, 18 Spongers, 16 Priming-horns, 13 Iron Crows, 85 Handspikes, 25 Crab Handspikes. Taken the day above :
Per Theodore Atkinson, Lieut
The repairs upon the Fort were hastened by the fears of an attack from a French fleet, wliile the Indians, insti- gated by the French, kept the people in continual excite- ment, by their incursions from the North. They were so bold in their attacks that the people of the largest towns feared for their lives, additional garrison houses were built, and in 1703 the people of Portsmouth secured their town from attacks landward, by constructing a picket fence across the neck of the peninsula on which the compact part of the town is built, from the South Mill Pond to Islington Creek. This, with watches along its length by night, ef- fectually secured the inhabitants from the attacks of the foe, who had become so bold as to have entered the town by night, and aftrighted people by looking into tlieir win- dows.*
The settlements were now continually harrassed by at- tacks from the "Indian enemy," and business came to a stand. There were not men enough at home to man the garrisons. In 1706 they made an attack at Oyster river, and killed eight at one house. The garrison was near, but no men in it. There were plucky women in it, however,
* This line of pickets extended from the South Mill Pond, near the Uni- versalist Church, to what is now the North Mill Pond, crossing Congress street near its intersection with Vavighan street, and striking the water of the Creek West of, and near, the Portsmouth and Concord Kailroad Depot.
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and tliej fired the alarm, and then loosening their liair and putting on hats that they might appear like men, they fired so briskly that the enemy thought men were in the garrison, and drew off" in haste, without plundering the house they had attacked. Scouts were kept out continu- ally, and Capt. Hilton marched to Kingston and Ames- bury with sixty-four men, but was obliged to return with- out success, for want of provisions. The roll of this scout has not been preserved. The following year (1707) Capt. Hilton headed an expedition to the eastward, with ninety Massachusetts troops, and surprised a party of eighteen Indians, as they were asleep, killed seventeen of them and took the other prisoner.
In a futile attempt upon Port Royal, two companies from this Province, under Major Waldron and Capt. Ches- le}^ performed the only praiseworthy deed of the expe- dition. As the troops were landing, an ambuscade of Indians annoyed them seriouslj' from sedge on a sea-wall. Major Waldron and Capt. Chesley pushed their companies upon the beach, and after a severe action drove the In- dians from their position, and the troops landed without further trouble.
In September following, the brave Capt. Chesley was killed, with eight others, who, under his direction, were lumbering. In 1708 there was much fear of the French and Indians. A "Troop" scouted from Kingston to Coche- cho; spy-boats were kept out on the sea-shore, fromPiscat- aqua to Winter Harbor ; four hundred men from Massa- chusetts were posted in this Province, and an additional force was stationed at Fort William and Mary, through the Summer. This force was furnished by the towns of Portsmouth and Hampton, as seen by the following list:
A List of Soldiers' Names, and Time they served, at Her Majesty's Fort William and Mary, at Newcastle, in the Province of New-Hami^shire, New-England, 1708.
Portsmouth Men John Foy, from 18th May to the 31st May. Samuel Snell, from 18th May to the Slst May.
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Daniel Condrick, from 18th May to the 31st May. Thomas Berry, fi-om 18th May to the Slst May.
Hampton.
Christopher Pottle, from 18th May to the 1st June. Jona. Philbrook, from 18th May to the 1st June. John French, from 18th May to the 1st June. Chris. Palmer, from 18th May to the Ist June. -^ Anthony Crosby, from 18th May to the 1st June. John Hobbs, from 18th May to the Ist June. John Wedgwood, from 18th May to the Ist June.
Portsmouth.
John Cotton, from 18th June to the 28th June. James Moses, from 18th June to the 28th June. Peter Abbott, from 18th June to the 28th June. John Alexander, from 18th June to the 28th June. Nathaniel Gerrish, from 18th June to the 28th June.
Allen, from 18th June to the 28th June.
Nathaniel Jackson, from 18th June to the 28th June. Eichard Davis, from 18th June to the 28th June. John Hardison, from 28th June to the 7th July. Nicho. Waldron, from 28th June to the 7th July. Eodger Thomas, from 28th June to the 7th July. Samuel Spinney, from 28th June to the 7th July. John Cook, from 28th June to the 7th July. Nathaniel Adams, from 28th June to the 7th July. Jabez Pittman, from 28th June to the 7th July. "Wm. Philbrook, from 30th June to the 14th July. John Johnson, from 30th June to the 14th July. Daniel Condrick, from 30th June to the 14th July. John Eoss, from 30th June to the 14th July.
Hampton.
Wm. Maston, from 1st June to the 15th July. Joseph Brown, from 1st June to the 15th July. Seth Fog-g, from 1st June to the 15th July. Daniel Lamperey, from 1st June to the i5th July. Isaac Green, from 1st June to the 15th July. John Gove, from 1st June to the 15th July. Moses Blake, from 1st June to the 15th July.
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Portsmouth.
Thomas Leatherby, from 7th June to the 17th July.
Lange,from the 7th June to the 17th July.
Sam'l Pittman, from 7th June to the 17th July. Shipen Lunt, from 7th June to the 17th July. Ardran Frye, from 7th June to the 17th July. Moses Paul, from 7th June to the 18th July. Wm. White, from 7th June to the 18th July. Arnold Beck, from 14th June to the 28th July. John Hinkson, from 14th June to the 28th July. John Dockam, from 14th June to the 28th July. Mathew Nelson, from 17th June to the 28th July.
Hampton.
John Green, from 15th June to the 29th July. Ebenezer Gove, from 15th June to the 29th July. Benja. Green, from 15tb June to the 29th July. Sam'l Palmer, from 15th June to the 29th July. Stephen Palmer, from 15th June to the 29th July. Thomas Maston, from 15th June to the 29th July. John Brown, from 15th June to the 29th July.
Portsmouth.
Sam'l Thompson, from 17th June to the 28th July. Sam'l Waterhouse, from 17th June to the 28th July. . Thomas Beck, from 17th June to the 28th July. Clement Hughes, from 17th June to the 28th July. John Bricket, from 17th June to the 28th July. Jona. Whiden, from 17th June to the 28th July. Joseph Miller, from 17th June to the 28th July. Thomas Mathews, from 22d June to the 28th July. John Walker, from 28th June to the 8th July. Abraham Jones, from 28th June to the 8th July. Eichard Davis, from 28th June to the 8th July. Samuel Hill, from 28th June to the 8th July. Edward Toogood, from 28th June to the 8th July. James Hobbs, from 28th June to the 8th July. Eichard Waterhouse, from 28th June to the 8th July. ^
Hampton. Christopher Page, from 29th June to the 13th July. John Sanborn, from 29th June to the 13th July.
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Eicbard Taylor, from 29th June to the 13th July. Timothy Knoles, from 29th June to the 13th July. Wm. Brown, from 29th June to the 13th July. Jacob Brown, 29th June to the 13th July.
Portsmouth.
Robert Goss, from 29th June to the 12th July. Samuel King, from 29th June to the 12th July. Samuel Davis, from 29th June to the 12th July. Thomas Starboard, from 29th Juno to the 12th July. John Preston, from 8th July to the 19th July. Eichard Martin, from Sth July to the 19th July. Philip Pike, from the Sth July to the 19th July. Hugh Candfield, from the Sth July to the 19th July. John Savage, from Sth July to the 19th July. John Bly, from Sth July to the 19th July. John Page, from Sth July to the 19th July.
Hampton.
Jona. Taylor, from 13th July to the 27th July. Zack.- Phillbrook, from 13th July to the 27th July. */ Stephen Palmer, from 13th July to the 27th July. Daniel Lamprey, from 13th July to the 27th July. Caleb Perkins, from 13th July to the 27th July. Israel Blake, from 13th July to the 27th July. Benja. Cram, from 13th July to the 27th SxAj.
Portsmouth.
Christopher Keniston, from 12th July to the 26th July. Samuel Neal, from 12th July to the 26th July. Samuel Haines, from 12th July to the 27th July. John Fox, from 12th July to the 27th July. Capt. Pickering, from 19th July to the 29th July. Capt. Wincall, from 19th July to the 29th July. Capt. Hull, from 19th July to the 29th July. James Gray, from 19th July to the 29th July. Henry Sewai'd, from 19th July to the 29th July. George Pirce, from 19th July to the 29th July. Jer. Miller, from 19th .J*uly to the 29th July.
Hampton.
John Perkins, from 27th July to the 10th August. Abraham Brown, from 27th July to the 10th August.
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Wm. Lunt, from 27th July to the 10th August. John Lunt, from 27th July to the 10th August. Beuja. James, from 27th July to the 10th August. Benja. Hillyard, from 27th July to the 10th August. Timothy Blake, from 27 July to the 10th August.
Portsmouth.
Thomas Kowe, from 2Gth July to the 9th August. Daniel Davis, from 26th July to the 9th August. Thomas Crocker, from 26th July to the 9th August. John Neal, from 2Gth July to the 9th August. John Peverly, from 26th July to the 9th August. John Barnes, from 26th July to the 9th August. Henry Slooper, from 29th July to the 9th August. Capt. Wybird, from 29th July to the 9th August. Charles Brown, from 29th July to the 9th August. Mr. Mead, from 29th July to the 9th August. Mr. Calfe, from the 29th July to the 9th August. Mr. Boothe, from 9th August to the 19th August. Mr. Door, from 9th August to the 19th August. Nath'l Tuckerman, from 9th August to the 19th August. Walter Abbott, from 9th August to the 19th August. Benja. Pudington, from 9th August to the 19th August.
Sam'pton.
David Moulton, from 10th August to the 24th August. Thomas Batchelder, from 10th August to the 24th August, Joseph Palmer, from 10th August to the 24th August. John Garland, from 10th August to the 24th August. Thos. Phillbrook, from 10th August to the 24th August. Sam'l Melcher, from 10th August to the 24th August.
Portsmouth.
Thomas Pickering, from 9th August to the 23d August, Henry Sherburne, from 9th August tO the 2od August. Jude Allen, from 23d August to the 6th September. George Huntress, from 23d August to the 6th September. John Phillbrook, from 23d August to the 6th September. Sam'l Foss, from 23d August to the 6th September. Walter IS eal, from 23d August to the 6th September.
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Hampton.
James Chapman, from 24th August to the 7th September. James Carr, from 24th August to the 7th September. Thomas Haines, from 24th August to the 7th September. Philamon Dalton, from 24th August to the 7th September. Abraham Libb}^, from 24th August to the 7th September. Wm. Norton, from 24th August to the 7th September. ^ Sam'l Tilton, from 24th August to the 7th September. Israel Shepard, from 24th August to the 7th September.
Portsmouth. Nicholas Follot, from 19th August to the oOth August.
Giddings, from 19th August to the 30th August.
John Mead, from 19th August to the 30th August. Jeremiah Libby, from 19th August to the 30th August. Peter Paul, from 19th August to the 80th August. Lazerus Holmes, from 19th August to the 30th August. James Moses, from 19th August to the 30th August. Eowland Thomas, from 30th August to the 10th September. Thomas Greeley, from 30th August to the 10th September. Eichard Toby, from 30th August to the 10th September. Edward Wells, from 30th August to the 10th September. Wm. Cotton, from 30 August to the 10th September. John Shackford, from 30 August to the lOth September, Wm. Fui'bur, from 6 September to the 21st September. Jethro Furbur, from 6th Sept. to the 2l8t September. Sam'l W hidden, from 6th Sept. to the 21st September. James Leach, from 6th September to the 21st September. Joshua Beck, from Oth September to the 2l8t September.
Hampton. Thomas Marston, from 7th Sept. to the 21st September. Isaiah Philbrook, from 7th Sept. to the 21st September. John Garland, from 7th September to the 2l8t September. Abraham Libbj^, from 7th Sept. to the 21st September. Josiah Dow, fi^om 7th September to the 21st September, Jacob Clifford, from 7th September to the 21st September. David Tilton, from 7th September to the 2l8t September. Caleb Swain, from 7th September to the 21st September.
Portsmouth. Alexander Miller, from 10th Sept. to the 20th September. Wm. Lewis, from 10th September to the 20th September.
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Koger Swain, from 10th September to the 20th Sej^tember. Capt. Thomas Phipps, from 10th Sept. to the 20th Sept. John Woodman, from 10th Sept. to the 20th September. George Marshall, from 10th Sept. to the 20th September. Nathaniel Pike, from 20th Sept. to the 30th September. Timothy Davis, from 20th Sept. to the 30th September. James Libby, from 20th Sept. to the 80th September. Thomas Rand, 20th September to the 5th October. Alexander Hodgdon, from 20th Sept. to the 5th October. Joseph Moses, from 20th September to the 5th October.
Hampton. Thomas Levett, from 21st September to the 5th October. Wm. Sanborn, from 21st September to the 5th October. Stephen Sanborn, from 21st Sept. to the 5th October. John Dow, from 21st September to the Gth October.
Portsrnoutli. Wm. Cotton, from 30th September to the 12th October. Sara'l Clark, from 30th September to the 12th October. Nathan Knight, from 30th September to the 12th October. Joseph Berry, from 5th October to the 18th October. Thomas Every, from 5th October to the 18th October.
Hampton. Robert Moulton, from 5th October to the 19th October. John Berry, from 5th October to the 19th October.
Portsmouth. Enoch Barker, from 12th October to the 22d October. Caleb Grafton, from 12th October to the 22d October.
Hampton. Benja. Perkins, from 6th October to the 19th October. Thomas Dow, from 6th October to the 19th October.
Portsmouth. Nath'l Peverly, from 18th October to the 1st November. Stephen Berry, from 18th October to the 1st November.
Hampton. Sam'l Dow, from 19th October to the 1st November. Jer. Marston, from 19th October to the 1st November. John Cram, from 19th October to the 1st November. Edward Williams, from 19th October to the 1st November.
Shadrach Walton, Capt.
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Col. Hilton made a winter march to Pequauquauke*, with a hundred and seventy men, but without success. In 1709, Colonel Hilton and Capt. Davis, of Oyster River, perform- ed their usual tour of scouting, and the Province furnished one hundred men and two transports for the futile expedi- tion against Canada, under Vetch and Nicholson.
The following year the Indians were still hovering upon our frontiers. Scouts were kept out continually, and the garrisons were guarded with extra care ; yet the savages were often successful in their inroads.
Capt. Nicholas Gilman, of Exeter, was upon scout duty occasionally, through the Summer, as by the following rolls :
'• A 3Iustcr-roU of a Compaiu/ in Her Majesty's service under the conmiand of Capt. Nicholas Gilman : namely^
£ s. d. Tliomas Dolloff, from June 2l8t to June 23d, 2 days 0 18
Eicbard York, '< " "
John Dudley, " « "
Eichard Smith, " <' "
Thomas McKeen, " « "
Jonathan Folsom, " " <'
John Lougee, " " "
Dudley Hilton, " « <«
John Barber, '< « "
Jonathan Hilton, " «« "
Kobert Woolford, " " <<
William French, •'' " "
£10 0
June 23, 1710, Capt. Nicholas Gilman w^ent on another scout of two days. His roll was as follows :
£ s. d. Nicholas Gilman, Captain, . . . .018
Jeremiah Gilman, 0 18
David Gilman, 0 18
* Pequauquauke, means the crooked place, from the Indian words, pe- quauquis— {crooked) and auke (a flace). It was applied to the region at and about Fryeburg, Me., from the fact that the Saco river encircled a large part of the rich lands of that town, thus forming a large peninsula and running more than thirty miles in the town.
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Capt. Nicholas Gilman had command of a detachment at Col. Hilton's Garrison at this time. They were the fol- lowing,— as appears b}^ a " 31uster-B.oll of Soldiers at Col. Hilton's Garrison Jahj 3, 1710."
Daniel Eams, 7 days, Jonathan Young, 7 days, Samuel Bean, 7 days, Cornelius Laiy, 7 days, Thomas Lowel, 7 days, Samuel Lovering, 14 days, John Y'^ork, 7 days, . Armstrong Horn, 14 days, Bartholomew Thing, 7 days,
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Thomas Laiy, 14 days, Jeremiah Arringdine, 7 days, . John Miinsey, 10 at Kingston,
£4 12s. 6d.
July 5, 1710, Capt. Gilman started upon another scout for two days, as seen by the following Roll : —
Muster-Boll of a Scout after the enemy hy order of Major
Smith.
Nicholas Gilman, Captain, . Jeremiah Gihnan, .... N"athaniel Ladd, ..... Jeremiah Connor, .... Abraham Folsom, .... Daniel Lary, .....
John Folsom,
James Dudley, ....
John Ladd, ......
Daniel Bean,
James Sinclair, ..... John Bean, ..... John Scribner, ..... John Nash, ..... Samuel Dudley, ..... Carlo Gilman, ..... Daniel Young, . . , , . Daniel Gilman, ....
Philip Dudo, .....
Jonathan Hilton, .... John Perkins, .....
This same year, New-Hampshire furnished one hundred men, under Col. Shadrach Walton, of Newcastle, for the successful expedition against Port Royal.
July 22d of this year, the Indians succeeded in their long cherished plan of cutting off Col. Hilton, wdao had so long been their terror. He was engaged in getting masts, and having some about fourteen miles distant, left from
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the preceding winter, for fear of their destruction by worms, he, with a party, were engaged in peeling them, when they were ambushed by the Indians, who killed Hil- ton and two others at the first fire. Two were taken pris- oners and the others escaped. They could make no resist- ance, as their guns were useless from a storm. A com- pany of one hundred men went in pursuit of the enemy the next day, but found nothing but the mangled bodies of their neighbors. The 16th of August a company con- sisting of ninety-one men, under the command of Capt. John Oilman, went in pursuit of the enemy. This roll was as follows :
"J. Master Boll of the Coinjxavj in under the command of John GUman, ed August 16, 1710, and was in the order of the Honorable John Usher, in and over Her 3Iajesty's Province
John Gilman, Captain, Samuel Marston, Ensign, ISTathaniel Weare, " John Light, Clerk, David Gilman, Serg't, James Leavitt, " Alexander Magoon, Serg't, Benjamin Gale, "
Joseph Tilton, '' .
Ephraim Folsom, Corporal, Samuel Pi^ier, "
Benjamin Rollins, " Israel Smith, "
Ebenezer Webster, Pilot, Joseph Young, "
Benjamin Taylor, Sentinel, Thomas Tony, "
Josiah Hall, "
Thomas Gordincr, " .
Thomas Eobinson, " JS'athaniel Folsom, Jr., " John Jones, "
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Her Majestifs Service Captain, luhich march- service Jive dags. By Esq., Lieut. Governor of New-Hanqjshii'e :"
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Caleb Swain, |
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MILITARY HISTOEY-
James Fuller, Sentinel,
John Wedgwood, " .
John Jennings, "
Thomas Brown, '' .
Joseph Palmer, "
Henry Dow, " .
Isaac Philbrick, "
Henry Dearborn, " .
Samuel Baclielder, "
Zachariah Philbrick, *' .
John Garland, "
William Moulton, " .
Peter Johnson, "
Edward Rand, " .
Jacob Moulton, "
Thomas Haines, " .
Thomas Dearborn, "
Ebenezer Dearborn, " .
William Godfrey, "
Thomas Leavitt, ** .
Joshua Foss, "
Tobias Lear, " .
Samuel Brackett, "
Eichard Goss, *' .
John Sherburne, "
Samuel Wallace, " .
Samuel Berry, "
Francis Eand, " .
'William Seavey, "
James Berry, " .
£25 18 2 John Gilman.
19tb April, 1711. This muster roll is allowed by the
Committee, deducting from each soldier Id. and from the
Captain 5d. and allow but two corporals and two sergeants.
Allowed, X19 175. 2d.
Charles Story, Secretary.
In the Fall of 1710, Col. Walton went eastward, at the head of one hundred and seventy men, from New Hamp-
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shire and Massachusetts. Their success was inconsidera- ble, and we know not how many troops were furnished by this province.
In the Spring of 1711 the Indians commenced their rav- ages early. In June, Col Walton, at the head of two companies, marched to " the Ponds," * where the Indians usually gathered for fishing, but their fishing stations and wigwams were deserted.
About the same tinie (June 8) orders came from Eng- land for the colonies to furnish their quotas of men and provisions for the invasion of Canada, to be ready at the time of the arrival of the fleet from England. It arrived within sixteen days, and although one half of the militia of the Province was in active service, guarding the fron- tiers, yet J^ew-IIampshire had ready for the service one hundred men, two transports, and provisions for the men for one hundred and twenty-six days. The expedition, however, was a failure. In sailing up the St. Lawrence eight transports were wrecked, a thousand lives lost, but only one man from New-England. The fleet put down the river and returned to England, while the Yankees re- turned to their homes. During the Summer of 1712 the Indians continued their depredations, and scouts were con- tinually kept upon the frontiers, but the names of few of the men have transpired. The intrepid Captain Davis was out occasionally during the season, as appears by the following roll : *
A Muster-Roll of those men who ivent on a Scout under the
command of Captain James Davis, from Oyster River, from
May 15th until October Vlth, 1712.
Days.
Benjamin Mathews, ... 10
Moses Davis, . . . .10
Jeremiah Burnham, . . . 10
Jonathan Thompson, . • .10
Jonathan Chesley, ... 10
Robert Burnham, . . . .10
John Chesley, . . . . 10
* These "Ponds" were doubtless the lakes at the heads of the Merri- mack and Salmon Falls rivers.
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James Davis, |
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Sampson Doe, |
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Joseph Dudo, |
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Cornelius Drisco, |
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Benjamin Pinner, |
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Thomas Drew, Jun., |
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William Drew, |
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William Pitman, |
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John Band, |
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Eli Demerett, |
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This was called " Queen Anne's \yar," and ceased when peace was restored betwixt the belligerents in Europe, by the treaty of Utrecht, in 1712. The news of peace was proclaimed in Portsmouth, October 29, 1712. The Indians desired a treaty, and one was formally signed by the chiefs of the belligerent tribes, at Portsmouth, July 11, 1713. After this, the people of the Province had some years of quiet, and seem to have earnestly cultivated the arts of peace. The statutes of the Province were collated and published for the first time, in 1716. Adopting the prin- ciple, that in time of peace a government should prepare for war, a militia law was enacted by the Assembly in 1718, and published the following year. This was the first attempt at any thing like a regular militia law in this State. Heretofore the organization of the militia had been left to the Governor and Council ; or, if any act had
38 adjutant-general's report.
been passed by the Assembly, it had merely been for a temporary purpose. The troops raised during the French and Indian wars had usually been raised by " volunteer- ino-," or by impressment, under the orders of the Gov- ernor and Council.
The law of 1718 provided that all male persons, from sixteen to sixi)/ years of age, except negroes and Indians, should perform military service; thatthe clerk of every troop or company should take a list of all persons living within the precincts of such troop or company, four times a year, and report the same, under penalty, to the commander of such troop or company ; that all persons should attend duty when listed, under penalty; how foot soldiers should be armed; how troopers should be furnished and armed; that there might be two troops, in each regiment; that regimental musters should be but once in three years; that every captain or commander of a troop or company should call out his company four times in each year, and no more, to exercise them in motions, the use of arms, and shooting at m.irks, or other military exercises, and that each person liable, not obeying, should pay a fine of Jive shillings ; that every commissioned officer of any troop or company might punish disorders or conteiiii)ts on train- ing days, or watches, by punishments no greater than " laying neck and heels,'' riding the wooden horse, or ten shillings Jim; that watches might be appointed by commanding officers of regiments or companies, and that those liable to do military duty should perform the watches when duly notified, under penalty ; that certain persons, other than negroes and Indians, should be exempt from trainings and watches ; that the commissioned officers of troops and companies should appoint their sergeants and corporals ; that every commanding officer of a troop or company should order a diligent inquiry into the state of the troop or company, taking an exact list of the soldiers and in- habitants within his precinct, and the defects of arms and of persons; how those unable to purchase arms should be provided with them ; how musical instruments should be provided ; that the chief officers of every regiment and the
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 39
company officers of the same should meet as often, and at such time and place, as the commander of such regiment should order, for conference and military discipline; that towns should provide a stock of powder, hullets and fliuts, and arms for its poor, and renew the same from time to time ; that selectmen of towns should make a rate for paying for ammunition ; that alarms should he given from the castle on Great Island, and other places, and in what manner; that, upon such alarms, relief should be sent; that any person making a false alarm should " be fined to his Majesty twenty jyounds, for the support of government," or sutler six months' imprisonment ; that no officer, mili- tary or civil, should quarter or billet any soldier or seaman on any inhabitant, without his consent, other than licensed taverners, under the penalty of one hundred pounds; fixed certain penalties for disobedience of orders and neglect of the duties a)id provisions of the act; and directed the manner of collecting all fines, and the way in which such fines should be distributed.
The organization of the militia into regiments, battal- ions, companies and troops, as well as defining the limits for the same, was left to the Governor and Council.
In 1719 an additional act was passed, enacting that a warrant, under the hand and seal of the commanding offi- cer of a company, left at a soldier's dwelling place, was a sufficient imjnrss, and any one neglecting such a warrant should pay a fine of four pounds, and for want thereof should be sent to jail till the fine was paid, and all neces- sary costs ; that delinquents in training, doing garrison duty, or in watching and warding, when ordered by the proper officer, should pay a fiue of twent}^ shillings, and charges for every offense, and for want thereof be com- mitted to the jail in Portsmouth until the fine and neces- sary charges were paid ; that no gun should be fired after sunset in time of war, under penalty ; that if any person so offending belonged to any garrison or forces in actual service, he should, at the discretion of the commanding officers of the garrison, troop or company to which he l)e- longed, be punished by " the bUboes, laying neck and
40 adjutant-gexeral's report.
heels, riding the wooden horse, or running the gauntlet ;" that deserters be accounted as felons, and suffer the paine of death, or some other grievous punishment, at the dis- cretion of the court; and that such deserters should be tried by the civil courts or by commissioners specially ap- pointed by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being.
An organization was efieeted under this law, but away from the Piscataqua and its branches, and the sea-coast, the population was so sparse that the law could not be car- ried into effect, and the settlements upon the Merrimack depended for protection i;pon tlieir own voluntary associ- ations, or aid from Massachusetts, rather than from tlie mi-r litia of the Prov^ince. The system of offering bounties for scalps prevailed, and was considered effectual.
In the Winter of 1721 - 22, a party was organized under Col. Thomas Westbrooke, and marched to " Norridge- wog "* to seize Sebastian Ralle, the Jesuit priest, who had built a church at that place, for the purpose of chris- tianizing the Indians. lie was in the interest of the French, and was suspected of instigating the Indians to attack the English settlements. The expedition failed, as Ralle fled to the woods. This attempt upon their spiritual father enraged the Indians, and they commenced the " Fourth Indian War " in the summer of 1722, commonly called "Lovewell's War." They commenced their attacks in Maine, and confined them principally to that part of the country through the Summer and Fall of 1722.
The people of New-Hampshire thus had time to make preparation for the threatened storm. The Governor and Council established the wages of officers and men at the following rates : A captain, seven pounds per month ; a lieutenant, four pounds; a sergeant, fifty-eight shillings; a corporal, forty-five shillings, and a private forty shillings. They enlisted men for two years, and offered a bounty of one hundred pounds for every Indian scalp, except those
*This word is a corruption of the Indian word Nantransouacke, the car- rying 2^lace. It means, literally, fhe place v:here to leave the ivater and take to the land. Narragansett is a corruption of the same word.
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of women and children. This offer of wages did not al- ways secure soldiers to the government, and reliance was placed more upon impressment for short periods, and upon volunteers having in view the liberal bounties oftered for scalps.
The Indians commenced these attacks early in 1723, and Lt. Gov. Wentworth ordered out various scouting parties. The following is the list of one of them that has been preserved :
" A List of the Men's Names thai marched under the command of Captain John Gilman to Wiyinipissiocki/ Pond. Entered the 6fh day of 31ay, 1723 ; ended the 18ih day Inst., being in all thirteen days."
John Gilman, Captain, Ichabod Chesley, Lieutenant, James Nock, Chaplain,
Ch'osby, Doctor,
Jacob Smith, Clerk, Jonathan Chesley, Pilot, William Hill, "
Joseph Beard, Sergeant, Nebemiah Levett, " William Jenkins, " . David Moulton, " Joseph Simons, Corporal, John Wallingford, " John Clark, "
Thomas Haynes, " Oliver Smith, Thomas Lacey, Jeremiah Bean, . Samuel DoUoff, Samuel Doe, Jonathan Kenniston, John Barker, David Quimby, Samuel Bean, Samuel Blake, Jeremiah Gove, .
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Isaac Green, John French, James Robinson, Samuel Vesey, Samuel Keniston, William Rynes, . Ezekiel Leathers, John Young, Samuel Starboai'd, John Eoberts, Moses Kenny, Ezekiel Wentworth, William Ellis, Hugh Conner, Samuel Williams, John Bunker, Andrew Peters, Samuel Eichards, Thomas Rynes, Moses Conner, Morris Fowler, John Blake, Thomas Brown, Samuel Brown, Samuel Page, . Sylvanus Smith, . John Govell, James Witherhill,
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The Indians continued their depredations the following year, and, among many otliers of the Piscataqua valley, killed Elder James Nock, of " Oyster River" (now Dur- ham), who was chaplain of the company of Capt. John Gilman, sent out on a scout the preceding year. Upon these attacks several scouts were sent in pursuit of the enemy. The muster rolls of two of these scouts have been preserved, and are as follows :
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
43
" A Bluster Roll of the Soldiers in the Service of the Province of Ncio-Hampshire, under the command of Capt. Daniel Ladd, in a march after the Enemi/, toward Wannipissocke Pond, May 17, 1724.
Quality.
Daniel Ladd, Captain, Andrew Gilman, Lieutenant, Ezekiel Gilman, Clerk, Daniel Giles, Sergeant, John Moody, Corpox-al, John Huntoon, " Abner Thurston, " Nehemiah Levett, Pilot, John Bean, Sentinel, :
Philip Moody, " . . . John Muget, John Magoon, Jonathan Young, John Folsom, Abraham Folsom, John Quimby, Jonathan Connor, Joseph Leavitt, Samuel Eastman, Joseph Coleman, . Christopher Robinson, James Norris, Samuel Ackers, John Carty, .
Jacob Smith, 1
Ephraim Philbrook, ! Nathaniel Glidden, Patrick Greing,
Days. Whole wages.
6 •6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
12 12
9 9 9 9
d.
6 6 0 0 0 0 6 6 6 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I
£9 U 0
Each two days, with their horses.
Exeter, October 14, 1724. Daniel Ladd made oath to the truth of what is set down in this muster-roll.
Before me, John Gilman,
Justice of the Peace.
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL S REPORT.
Oyster River, November 20, 1724. To tbe Honorable General Assembly of the Province of New Hampshire : Gentlemen: This is to certify your Honors that I com- manded a scout of eight men, at Oyster River, (whose names are under mentioned) from the 8th day of last July
till that month was expired.
Abraham Clark.
John Bunker, . James Davis, John Brown, James Keniston, Clement Drew, William Clay, Nathaniel Denbo, Joseph Perkins, William Rains, Samuel Williams,
Days. 23 23
6 23 10
8 16
2
5
18
134— £11 7s. M. Sworn to per Abraham Clark.
The Indians had been so successful on land that, having taken certain shallops, sloops and schooners on the east- ern coast, deserted by our people, they manned them, and sailed along the coast, destroying much property, killing some, capturing others, and spreading consternation along the coast. To stop these depredations an expedition of shallops was started in Massachusetts. This Province fur- nished the shallop Eliza, and twenty-two men, under the command of Capt. John Salter. Massachusetts furnished two shallops and a small schooner; one shallop, the Sarah, commanded by Capt. Manory ; the other commanded by Capt. Lukeman, and the schooner by Capt. Jackson. They sailed about the 12th of June, 1724, and on the 17th, when at " Montinicus," on the coast of Maine, Capt. Manory informed the others that " his men, by a vote, had declared to go to the westward, and that he would go no farther eastward." They then started homeward, but soon
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 1861. 45
saw a schooner of the enemy under the " Green Island," The enemy made chase, and our fleet made haste to get out of their way. The schooner of the enemy missing stays, she wore and made for the shore. Our people were so panic-struck that they made no attempt to follow and attack, but made the best of their way to the Isles of Shoals, where they arrived the 21st of June, at night, probably much pleased at their escape. The crafts from Massachusetts made for Boston harbor, and the Eliza came into Piscataqua harbor, on the 22d of June. The people were much exasperated at the failure of the expe- dition, and the report of Capt. Salter to the Legislature did not allay the excitement. By these repeated depre- dations the people became aroused, and determined upon the destruction of " I^orridgewog," the supposed " hot bed" of all their troubles. Accordingly, Captains Moul- ton and Ilarman, of York, under instructions from Mas- sachusetts, each at the head of one hundred men, marched for jN'orridgewog, and, in the laconic language of Dr. Bel- knap, " surprised that village ; killed the obnoxious Jesuit, with about eighty; recovered three captives; destroyed Ihe chapel ; brought away the plate and furniture of the altar, and the devotional flag, as trophies of their victory."
This attack upon their village, death of their priest, destruction of the chapel, and desecration of its altar, led the Indians to extend their incursions and commit greater atrocities. In the fall of 1724 Nathan Cross and Thomas Blanchard were taken prisoners by the Indians from that part of Dunstable now Nashua. The day following their capture, Lieut. Ebenezer French, with ten of the principal inhabitants, went in pursuit of the Indians. At the brook near Thornton's Ferry, in Merrimack, the Indians laid in ambush and fired upon the party, killing most of them at the first fire. One only, Josiah Far well, escaped, of the entire party. This massacre produced the greatest excite- ment in the valley of the Merrimack, and some of the bold spirits determined upon chastising the Indians. John Lovewell, Josiah Farwell and Jonathan Robbins, all of Dunstable, and noted hunters and Indian fighters, memo-
46 adjutant-general's report.
rialized the government of Massachusetts, desiring em- plojment against the enemy, and offering that if tney might " be allowed five shillings per day, in ease they kill an enemy Indian and possess their scalp, they will employ themselves in Indian hunting one whole year; and if within that time they do not kill any, they are content to be allowed nothing for their wages, time and trouble."
The Legislature of Massachusetts authorized these men to raise a company, " to range, and to keep out in the woods, in order to destroy their enemy Indians," and voted a bounty of .£100 per scalp. A company of thirty men was soon raised, and the officers were as follows : namely,
John Lovewell, Captain. Josiah Farwell, Lieutenant. Jonathan Robbins, Ensign.
Lovewell marched his company boldly into the wilder- ness, and on the 19th day of December, in the vicinity of Lake Winnipesaukee, killed an Indian and captured a boy that was with him. They returned immediately to Bos- ton upon this small success, received the reward, and the Legislature voted each man a gratuity of two shillings and six pence per day, as an encouragement in so laudable a work ! This success started up the hunters in all the re- gion round about! Capt. Lovewell soon found himself at the head of eighty-seven men, and crossed the Merrimack at Dunstable on the 29th day of January, 1725, on his way to " the Pigwacket country." At the eastward of Lake Winnepesaukee, on the 20th of February, the trail of a party of Indians was discovered, and early in the morning of the following day the Indians were attacked as they were "asleep around a large fire," and the entire party, ten in number, slain. The company proceeded to Boston by the way of Dover, and received their bounty o £1000 from the treasury. These Indians were encamped on the shore of a pond in Wakefield, which has ever since borne the name of Lovewell. This success was hailed with joy throughout the Provinces. Other companies were raised and marched for the Indian country, but had no success. After a few days of rest, the intrepid Love-
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 47
well raised another company of forty-six men, determined to attack " bold Paugus in his den," at Pequauquauke. The officers and men of this renowned company were as follows ; namely,
John Lovewell, Dunstable, Captain. Josiah Farwell, " Lieutenant.
Jonathan Robbins, " Ensign.
Jonathan Frye, Andover, Chaplain. "William Ayer, Haverhill, Doctor. Noah Johnson, Dunstable, Sergeant. :N"athaniel Woods, " "
Benjamin Hassel, " Corporal. Edward Lingfield, Londonderry, " Thomas Richardson, Woburu, " Austen, Abial, Haverhill. Austen, Zebediah, " Ayer, Ebenezer, "
Barron, Elias, Groton. Cummings, Josiah, Dunstable. Cummings, William, " Chamberlain, John, Grotou. Davis, Eleazer, Concord. Farrar, Jacob, "
Farrar, Joseph, "
Farwell, Josiah, Dunstable. Fullam, Jacob, Weston. Gilson, John, Groton. Gilson, Joseph, " Gofie, John, Londonderry. Harwood, John, Dunstable. Halburt, Ebenezer, " Jefts, John, Groton. Johnson, Ichabod, Woburn. Johnson, Josiah, "
Jones, Josiah, Concord. Kies, Solomon, Billerica. Kidder Benjamin, Londonderry. Kittredge, Jonathan, Billerica.
48 adjutant-general's report.
Lakin, Isaac, Groton. Melvin, Daniel, Concord. Melvin, Eleazer, " Richardson, Timotliy, Woburu. Spooney, Edward, Dunstable. Tobey, an Indian. Usher, Robert, Dunstable. Whiting, Samuel, " Whiting, Isaac, Concord. Whiting, Zachariah, " Woods, Daniel, Groton. Woods, Thomas, " Wyman, Seth, Woburn.
The company started on their expedition on the 15th of April, 1725, answering to the 26th of April, new style. When out but a short time, Tobey, the Indian, became lame, and was sent back. At Contoocook (now Boscaw^en), Wm. Cummings became lame from a wound by the enemy some time previous, and was sent home; his kinsman, Josiah Cummings, being sent back to assist him. On the west shore of Lake Ossipee, Benjamin Kidder being sick, they left him in the fort they had built, and with him, to care for and guard the fort, Sergt. Nathaniel Woods, Doctor William Ayer, John GofFe (a brother-in- law to Kidder), John Gilsou, Isaac Whitney, Zachariah Whitney, Zebediah Austin, Edw^ard Spooney, and Eben- ezer Halburt. The company was now reduced to thirty- four men, but these resolutely took to the wilderness in search of the foe. Their names should ever be remember- ed. They were :
Austin, Abial, Farwell, Josiah,
Ayer, Ebenezer, Erye, Jonathan,
Barron, Elias, Fullam, Jacob,
Chamberlain, John, Gilson, Joseph,
Davis, Eleazer, Harwood, John,
Davis, Josiah, . Hassel, Benjamin,
Farrar, Jacob, Jefts, John,
Farrar, Joseph, Johnson, Ichabod,
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 49
Johnson, Josiah, Melvin, Eleazer,
Johnson, Noah, Robbius, Jonathan,
Jones, Josiah, Richardson, Thomas,
Kies, Solomon, Eichardson, Timothy,
Kittredge, Jonathan, Usher, Robert,
Lakin, Isaac, Whiting, Samuel,
Lingfield, Edward, "Woods, Daniel,
Lovewell, John, Woods, Thomas,
Melvin, Daniel, Wjman, Seth.
On Saturda}^ the 8th of May (19th New Style), the company fell into an ambush, on the north shore of a pond in what is now Fryeburg, Me. A severe engagement en- sued, the Indians being in greater numbers, and led by their noted chiefs, Paugus, and Wahowah or Hopehood. Our people lield the field, but they had suffered terribly. Twelve were left upon the battle-field ; tw^elve were se- verely wounded, but able to leave the field; nine only " received no considerable wounds," and one, Benjamin Hassel, escaped to the fort soon after the battle commenc- ed.* The twelve left upon the field of battle were John Lovewell, Jonathan Robbins, John Harwood, Robert Usher, Jacob Fullam, Jacob Farrar, Josiah Davis, Thomas Woods, Daniel Woods, John Jefts, Ichabod Johnson, and Jonathan Kittredge. The twelve wdio were severely wound- ed, but who left the field of battle, were Solomon Kies, Josiah Farwell, Jonathan Frye, Noah Johnson, Timothy Richardson, Josiah Johnson, Samuel Whiting, Elias Bar- ron, John Chamberlain, Isaac Lakin, Eleazer Davis, and Josiah Jones. The nine who " received no considerable wounds," were Seth Wyman, Edward Lingfield, Thomas Richardson, the two Melvins, Ebenezer Ayer, Abial Aus- tin, Joseph Farrar, and Joseph Gilson. These left the field for the fort,' but Lieut. Farwell, Frye the Chaplain,
* Little or no blame is to be attached to Hassel. He was of Dunstable. His grandfather and grandmother, Joseph and Anna Hassel, were killed by the Indians at Dunstable, in 1691. After the first fire he became sep- arated from his companions, saw Capt. Lovewell and others fall, and think- ing tl\ey would all be cut off", he made directly for the fort.
4
50 ~ adjutant-general's report.
and Barron, perished in the wilderness. Upon arriving at the fort the wonnded and exhausted men found it aban- doned,— the report of Hassel having led its inmates to make for the settlements. Sergeant Nathaniel Woods and party, with Hassel, came in to the settlements on the 11th of May. On the 13th, most of the party who left the bat- tle-field together, arrived at Dunstable ; on the 15th, Wyman and three others ; while the other survivors came in as their strength permitted — Davis wandering down to Berwick, and Jones following the river to Saco. Thus, of the thirty-four men who went into battle, but eighteen survived, and of these, most of them were wounded.
Col. Tyng, of Dunstable, by order of Gov. Dummer, of Massachusetts, started with a company of men on the 17th of May, for the scene of the battle, in search of the en- emy, and to find and bury the dead. In the latter he was successful. Lt. Governor Wentworth ordered out Capt. Chesley with a company of men for a like purpose ; but meeting with the trail of a party of Indians larger than their own, they went no farther than the fort at Ossipee lake, whence they returned forthwith to (yochecho (now Dover).
The Indians were supposed to number about eighty, and sutiered more severely than our people, as "it was report- ed believed" that more than half of the party were killed and wounded. Among their killed was their noted sa- chem, Paugus ; and it is believed that Wahowah sutt'ered the same fate, as he w^as never heard from afterward. Sure it is, that this battle broke up the tribe at Pequau- quauke, and its remnants left for Canada.
It was during the scout of this daring " Indian fighter" against the Indians of Pequauquauke, that the first fort was built in the interior of our State, by the English. One of his men, Benjamin Kidder, of Londonderry, falling sick, Lovewell halted and built a stockade fort on the west shore of Ossipee lake, for the accommodation of the sick man, and as a place of retreat in case of disaster, as before related. This same year the " Scotch Irish," from Lon- donderry, had a fort at East Concord, then known as
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 51
*'Penacook," for protection against the Indians, and to hold the Intervals against intruders.*
The following season, a company was sent up from Massachusetts, and took possession of this "Irish fort," drove the "Irish" intruders from these intervals, which were claimed hy that government as part of their territory, and which they had granted to their own people. The same year, the "first settlers of Penacook," from Andover, Ms., and vicinity, moved upon these intervals, and found the *' Irish Fort " ready for occupation and defense. From that day to this, the settlement and village at East Concord has been known as, and called, " The Fort."
Yet, notwithstanding the neglect of the militia, the military spirit was rife in the Province, nursed by this verj'- system of bounties, and there w^as hardly a man in the Province, of forty years of age, but was an excellent shot, and prepa^red for active service, as he had seen more than twenty years of war. Forts, or " garrison houses," had been built by private individuals in all the main settle- ments, provided with "liankarts," and other defenses. These, in time of Indian depredations, were garrisoned oftentimes by soldiers of the Province, but as often by the inhabitants themselves ; each man in the neighborhood taking his turn by day and night, of watching, or doing "guard duty." In 1684, b}^ order of Cranfield, the meet- ing-houses in Portsmouth, Hampton, Exeter and Dover, were fortified and used as garrisons. Some of these " gar- rison houses," built at a later day by private individuals, are still standing, and are still in a state of good preser- vation.f
* These "Scotch Irish" took possession of these intervals as early as 1721, as in March, 1722, Capt. Joseph Frye, with a company of thirty men, from Andover, Ms., found them in possession, and wrote back for in- structions,— whether " to stay, or draw off."
■j- The house occupied by John Woodman, Esq., of Dnrhnm, was a "garrison house;" so was the house owned by Col. George Bowers, of Nashua ; the Abbot house, in Concord, now attached to the house for- merly owned by Dr. Chadbourne, as a barn, at the corner of Main and Montgomery streets ; the house at West Concord, formerly owned by Mr. Levi Hutchins; the Colonel Clough house, in Canterbury, and others,
52 adjutant-general's report.
In 1727, upon the accession of George II, as appears by a list of the civil, ecclesiastical, and military othcers who took the oaths of allegiance, &c., that the officers of the militia of the Province were as follows :
Richard Jenness, Francis Mathes,
Joljn Downing, Nathaniel Fellows,
John Sanborn, John Goffe. Ebenezer Stevens,
There were many others, doubtless, in commission, but they had not taken the necessary oaths, and could not le- gally act under their commissions.
In 1730, the Governor and Council, in their answers to the queries of the Lords of Trade, say:
"12. The militia are about eighteen hundred, consisting of two regiments of foot, with a troop of horse in each.
13. There is one fort, or place of defense, called Fort William and Mary, situated on Great Island, in Newcastle, Avhich commands the entrance of the Fiscataqua River, but is in poor, low circumstances, much out of repair, and greatly wanting of stores of war, there not being one bar- rel of gun-powder at this time in or belonging to that garrison."
Not a very effective defense for the only seaport in the Province ; but for twenty-five years last past, the attention of the people of the Province, as well as that of the Pro- vincial Government, had been engrossed by the Indian wars, and very little attention had been paid to Fort Wil- liam and Mary. The fort was suffered to remain without repairs for some years longer, and the militia of the Prov- ince was neglected ; for in 1739, a petition from Penning Wentworth, and other citizens of Portsmouth, to the King, represented that " their only Fort, at the entrance of the river, was quite useless and ruined," and " their militia neglected and destitute of proper arms." And a gentle- doubtless, of which we have no note. The Cloiigh house at Canterbury, was pulled down lately, and bullets were found " imbedded in the oaken walls, while others were found betwixt the walls and the wainscots.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO. 1861. 53
man from Portsmoutb, then in London, corroborated the statements of the petition, saying, "the Fort was in a most ruinous condition, without powder, and although there were forty good cannon, yet no pains were taken to mount them ; that the militia had no arras, and were not exercised above once in two years, and then only a small part of those who ought to bear arms."
In 1741 the Province of New-Hampshire was separated from Massachusetts, and Benniug "VYentworth, of Ports- mouth, was appointed Governor. Under his administra- tion the Fort was repaired and supplied with stores, and the militia was restored and largely increased in numbers and efficiency. He had been one of the petitioners who had represented to the British Government the Fort in ruins and the militia in an inefficient state, and of course was bound to remedy their defects when he entered upon the administration of the government. Added to this, "war was soon declared betwixt France and England, and attacks of the Indians upon the eastern settlements soon followed.
Early in 1744 the French and Indians opened the war upon the English in Nova-Scotia, and it soon extended to New-England. Scouts were kept out in New-Hampshire, and other preparations for defense were early made. Gov- ernor Wentworth made great exertions for the defense of the frontiers. As early as May 24, of this year, he order- ed Capt. Tibbets out upon a scout, with forty-one men. His roll was as follows ;
54
adjutant-general's report.
Mustcr-Eoll of the Comjpany of Volunteers in His Majesty's service, under the command of Ichahod Tibbets, by Bis Ex- cellency's special order, dated May 24, 1744.
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Station. |
Wages |
Wages Til |
ne of |
|
|
pr Man. |
Received. E |
iitry. |
||
|
Ichabod Tebbets, |
Captain. |
50 |
19 3^ M |
iy 25. |
|
Thomas Leighton, |
Lieutenant. |
35 |
19 1 |
' 25. |
|
Hatevil Leighton, |
Ensign. |
35 |
17 6 |
' 31. |
|
James Guppy, |
Sergeant. |
25 |
14 ^ |
' 25. |
|
John Tebbets, 3d, |
""" |
25 |
14 3^ |
' 28. |
|
Ichabod Hayes, |
Corporal. |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
John Drew, |
" |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Eleazer Young (wounded). |
<( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Benjamin Libby, |
u |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Thomas Ash, |
Sentinel. |
16 |
14 ^ |
' 25. |
|
Benjamin Merrow, |
44 |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
John Perkins, |
" |
16 |
14 U |
' 26. |
|
Samual Tebbets, |
<< |
16 |
14 3| |
' 26. |
|
Samuel Koberts, |
" |
16 |
14 3i |
' 26. |
|
Aaron Roberts, |
<« |
16 |
14 3i |
' 26. |
|
Benjamin Koberts, |
(( |
16 |
14 3| |
' 26. |
|
Solomon Clarke, |
(( |
16 |
14 8| |
' 27. |
|
James Russell, |
(C |
16 |
14 si |
' 27. |
|
Samuel Miller, |
Pilot. |
16 |
14 3| |
' 28. |
|
John Gibson, |
" |
16 |
14 3^ |
' 28. |
|
Samuel Twombly, |
(( |
16 |
14 3* |
' 28. |
|
Joseph Cromwell, |
(( |
16 |
14 3| |
' 29. |
|
Daniel Young, |
t( |
16 |
14 3^ |
' 29. |
|
Stephen Hawkins, |
(( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Benjamin Rarl, |
»' |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Paul Nute, |
(( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Joseph Abbott, |
u |
14 |
12 6 |
« 31. |
|
Ebenezer Cook, |
t( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
John Forrest, |
(( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
John Alley, |
(( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Lemuel Drew, |
" |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Solomon Tebbets, |
<I |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Daniel Goodwin, |
<< |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Samuel Roberts, 3d, |
" |
14 |
12 6 |
' 81. |
|
James Clements, |
<< |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Ichabod Tebbets, Jr., |
" |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Eliphalet Randlo, |
ii |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Abijah Steven, |
li. |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Robert Cole, |
(( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Timothy Roberts, of Rochester, |
»« |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Laturine Ricker, |
(< |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
|
Nathaniel Ricker, |
(( |
14 |
12 6 |
' 31. |
Errors excepted.
£28 16 9i 14 3^
£29 11 1 Ichabod Tebbets.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
55
Meantime the garrisons throughout the Province were guarded with vigilance. Canterbury was an extreme fron- tier town, and the garrison of Capt. Jeremiah Cloiigh, at that pkice, was made a rendezvous for the Provincial troops, and a depot for provisions. A strong guard was usually kept at this place by the government during the Indian wars. Some of the muster-rolls of Capt. Clough have been preserved. We could wish that not only all of his rolls, but those of the other garrisons and scouts of that day, had been preserved. A force of twenty men was stationed at Canterbury, Contoocook, &c., under Capt. Clough, aftefJune, 1744, as appears from the following roll :
A Muster-Roll of twenty men under the command of Capt Jeremiah Clough, at Canterhury, Contoocook, ^c, since the SOth of June last :
Jeremiah Clough, Captain,
Amos Leavett, Serg't,
Ephraim Morrell,
Jacob Stanyan,
John Sanborn,
John Blake,
Rooer Hooper,
Ezekiel True,
Nathaniel Hooper,
Elisha Eaton,
Joseph Norton,
Wade Stickney,
Nathaniel Weare,
John Swaine,
Nathaniel Rowe,
Edmund Brown, Clerk,
James Lowell,
Josiah Sanbgrn,
Edward VViihams, Serg't,
|
Days. |
£ |
s. d. |
|
. . 25 |
11 4 |
|
|
25 |
2 4 |
|
|
. 25 |
2 4 |
|
|
25 |
2 4 |
|
|
. 25 |
2 4 |
|
|
25 |
2 4 |
|
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
. 14 |
0 |
12 6 |
|
357 |
£17 1 10 |
|
|
Deduct |
9 |
|
|
£16 |
12 10 |
|
|
Jeremiah |
Clough |
56 adjutant-general's report.
In House of Represeutatives, Xr 21. 1744. — Jerre Clough made oath that the above men were actually in his service the days above mentioned.
James Jeffry, Clerk Ass.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, March 8, 1745:
Voted, That the within muster-roll of Capt. Jeremiah Clough, amounting to sixteen pounds twelve shillings and ten pence, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, out of the money raised by tax for payment of soldiers, &c.
Henry Sherbuj^ne, Clerk. In Council : Eod'm Die —
Concurred : Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y.
Eod'm Die — Assented to : B. "Wentworth.
Capt. Clough had stationed at his Fort, in September, October, November and December, of the same year, six men, as appears from the following roll :
Tlie Muster-Boll of Capt Jeremiah Clough, in scouting from Canterbury, at the heads of the towns, and keeping the Fort or Garrison for six men, from the 2Qth of September, 1744, to the 18th of December, 1744 ; also, for victualing the same six men the same time, which is three months.
Jeremiah Clough, Capt., at 35.s. per mo., Philip Call, 25s. "
Jeremiah Clough, Capt., at 355. per mo., Philip Call, 25s. "
David Copps, 25s. "
James Gibson, 25s. "
Jonathan Gile, 255. "
Christo,* 25s. "
24 0 0 18 18 0 Jeremiah Clough.
* Christo -was a friendly Indian. He had resided at Amoskeag (now Manchester), but being suspected of joining with his countrymen in the
|
Wages. |
Provisions. |
|||
|
& s. |
el. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
5 5 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
3 15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
5 5 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
3 15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
3 15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
3 15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
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3 15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
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3 15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 57
In the House of Representatives, Dec. 21, 1744, : Jere- miah Clough made oath that the above were in actual ser- vice the days above mentioned, and that he supplied them with provisions the same time.
James Jeffry, Clerk Assem.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, April the 9th, 1745 :
Voted, That the within muster-roll of Capt. Jeremiah
Clough be allowed, and that he be paid out of the money
in the Treasury for that end, twenty-four pounds for wages,
and eighteen pounds eighteen shillings, for victualing six
men three months.
II. Sherburne, Clerk.
In Council, April 9, 1745.
Read and concurred ;
Theodore Atkinson, Secretary. Eod'm Die —
Assented to : B. Wentworth.
battle of Peqnauquauke, certain people from Haverhill and Dunstable came to Amoskeag, and not finding Christo at home, they burned his wigwam. Christo, after this outrage, became a wanderer, occasionally em- ployed by the government, and then again taking part with his country- men. After his discharge from this scout, he was employed for a month by the government, and they paid his board and wages, as appears from the following bill :
The Province of New-Hampshire, to Jeremiah Clough, Dr. — To keeping Christo, by order of the Captain General, thirty days, from the 19th of December to the 19th of January, 1745:
£ s. d.
To Billeting, at 3s. per day, 4 10 0
To his wages, 5 7 0
£9 17 0 Jeremiah Clough. June 20, 1745. " Twentj'-two shillings and six pence for Vitteling of ye Indian named Christo, from ye 19th Dec. to ye 19th Jan'y," were allowed by the Assembly, " and ye said Christo for his wages for sd time twenty-six shillings and nine pence." After this, Christo retired to St. Francis, and took part with the Indians in their depredations at Epsom and Canterburj'. He was alive in 1757, and probably died at St. Francis. His wigwam was upon a small brook upon the east side of the Merrimack just below the Falls of Amoskeag.
58 adjutant-general's report.
Anticipating attacks, the people went to their labors, in field and wood, not only armed, but with guards. Parties, cutting masts and other timber, in the wilderness, were often attacked, and generally went to their work under the protection of a guard furnished by the government. Here is the roll of such a guard or scout :
Muster-Boll of a Scout to guard the mast-men, John Gage, Commander, Jane and July, 1744.
|
Ephraim Tibbetts, |
S( |
irg |
eant, |
Days. 2G |
at 35s. |
s. per month. |
|
|
John Hubbard, John Roberts, |
(( |
26 |
at |
255. |
per month. |
||
|
Eichard Pluraer, |
24 |
(( |
|||||
|
Daniel Plumex', |
26 |
(( |
|||||
|
Joseph Hall, John Mills, |
26 26 |
a |
£8 10s. Id.
Capt. Gage says, that Ephraim Tibbetts was sergeant one half the time, and John Hubbard the other half of the time.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, May ye 1, 1745. Ephraim Tibbetts, Jr., came into the House and made oath that he, with the other persons within named, were the number of days carried off against each man's name, Sab- bath days excepted, by order of Capt. Gage, guarding Hanson and Varney while they were hauling masts.
Henry Sherburne, Clerk.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
House of Representatives, June 25, 1745 :
Voted, That the within muster-roll, sworn toby Ephraim Tibbetts be allowed and paid out of the money in the public treasury, by tax last year, to defray the 'charges of the Government, amounting to eight pounds ten shillings and two pence. D. Peirce, Clerk.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
59
|
Days. |
£ s. d. |
|
|
nmander, |
21 |
14 0 |
|
, , |
. 21 |
0 18 9 |
|
. |
21 |
0 18 9 |
|
, |
. 21 |
0 18 9 |
|
. |
21 |
0 18 9 |
|
. 21 |
0 18 9 |
|
|
21 |
0 18 9 |
|
|
^ , |
. 21 |
0 18 9 |
|
. |
21 |
0 18 9 |
|
, |
. 21 |
0 18 9 |
June 26, 1745. In Council : Read and concurred :
Theod. Atkinson, Sec'y.
June 27, 1745. Assented to : B. Wentworth.
Scouts were kept out through the Winter of 1744 and 1745. Capt. Benjamin Mathes, among others, was sent out on a scout, Jan. 11, 1745. His muster-roll was as fol- lows:
Benjamin Mathes, C Joseph Wormwood, Gershom Mathes, WilHam Emerson, Abraham Mathes, James Thompson, Joseph Coleman, John Laighton, Heuben Heard, Samuel Bickford,
£9 12 9 Laighton, Heard and Bickford coming in the room of Benj. Daniels. Paul Willey and George Legoos, they not being able
to march.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
May ye 5th, 1746. Then the within named Benjamin Mathes personally ap- peared, and upon his solemn oath, declared that the within muster-roll is true.
Coram : Sam'l Smith, Justice of the Peace.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, July 8th, 1746.
Voted : That there be allowed nine pounds twelve shillings and nine pence, in full of this muster-roll, to be paid out of ye money in ye Treasury for ye defense of ye Government.
D. Peirce, Clerk. In Council, July 8th, 1746.
Read and approved : Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y.
In Council, July 10th, 1746.
Consented to : B. Wentworth.
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Capt. Mathes and bis scout were from " Oyster River " (now Durham), and probably were " scouting " up the western branches of the Piscataqua. The same month, Capt. John Chandler went on a scout at Penacook, and Capt. Jeremiah Clough went on a scout at Canterbury, as seen by the following rolls, presented by Col. Rolfe, of Penacook :
Muster-Roil of a scout at Penacook and vicinity, under Capt. John Clough, in the Winter of 1745.
|
Time of |
Time of |
Time of |
Wages. |
|
|
Entering, |
Dismissing. |
Service. |
£ s. d. |
|
|
John Chandler, Captain, |
Jan. 21. |
Mar. 18. |
2 mos. |
3 10 0 |
|
Jeremiah Shattuck, |
<( |
u |
u |
•2 10 0 |
|
Joseph Eastman, |
u |
tl |
li |
2 10 0 |
|
Nathaniel Rix, |
u |
l( |
11 |
2 10 0 |
|
Joseph Ordway, |
<f |
u |
i( |
2 10 0 |
|
Stephen Hoyt, |
n |
u |
u |
2 10 0 |
|
Timothy Clements, . |
il |
(( |
<( |
2 10 0 |
|
Jeremiah Stickney, |
u |
(C |
(( |
2 10 0 |
|
John Webster, |
11 |
Feb. 16. |
26 days. |
1 3 2J |
|
Christo, the Indian, |
u |
Mar. 18. |
2 mos. |
2 10 0 |
|
Jeremiah Stickney, |
Feb. 16. |
a |
30 days. |
1 69^ JG 00 0 |
Bluster-Roll of a scout at Canterbury and vicinity, under Capt. Jeremiah Clough, in the Winter of 1745.
I Time of JEnlisting.
Jeremiah Clough, Captain, Josiah Miles, John Gibson, Philip Call, Thomas Dan forth, Jonathan Guile,
Total,
Jan. 21.
|
Time |
of |
Time of |
|
Dismis |
;ing. |
Service. |
|
Mar. |
18. |
2 mos. |
|
a |
||
|
« |
||
|
li |
||
|
a |
||
|
(I |
For subsisting the soldiers, at 55. 4id. per week.
For 169 lbs. Powder, 32 lbs. Bullets,
Wages. £ s. d.
3 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0
|
£16 |
00 |
0 |
|
£42 |
00 |
0 |
|
33 |
12 |
0 |
|
£75 |
12 |
0 |
|
4 |
00 |
0 |
£79 12 0
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 1861. 61
For allowance for my time, trouble and expense for enlisting said soldiers, and journey to Portsmouth to make up this muster-roll, and having the care of the scout, giving orders, &c., as the Honorable Court thinks fit.
The foregoing is a muster-roll of two scouts of soldiers, employed in His Majesty's service in scouting on the frontier, agreeably to Governor AVentworth's order of the 20th of Dec'r last. Benjamin Kolfe.*
Portsmouth, April the 30, 1745.
In the Fall of 1744, the plan was started by Maj. Wil- liam Vaughau, of Portsmouth, of taking the strong for- tress of Louisburg. Govs. Shirley and Wentworth became deeply interested in the matter, and, during the Winter of 1744-5, the plan of attack and siege was matured, and the expedition set sail early in March for Canseau, the place of rendezvous. Louisburg was the stronghold of the French at the eastward, from whence expeditions by sea and land were fitted out against the British colonies ; and it was determined to take this fortress, and thus deprive the French of the key to her possessions in America. The conception, as before stated, and in a great measure the execution of the plan, is due to Maj. William Vaughan, of Portsmouth. New-Hampshire furnished for the ex- pedition five hundred men, one eighth part of the land force employed upon the occasion. Three hundred and fifty of these men were formed into seven companies, as a regi- ment under the command of Col. Samuel Moore. f The
* Mr. Eolfe was of Penacook (now Concord). He graduated in 1727, at Harvard College ; married Sarah, daughter of Eev. Timothy Walker, and died in 1771. His widow married the afterward celebrated Benjamin Thompson, Count of Kumford.
-}■ Col. Samuel Moore was of Portsmouth. He was a ship master by pro- fession, and distinguished as such. He probably was connected with the Peirce family, which accounts for his appointment (as such appointments then went by family influence), and for his being of the number of the Masonian Proprietors. He was one of the grantees of New-Breton (now Andover). Very little is known of him. If it be correct, as above sug- gested, that he was connected with the Peirco family, he probably mar- ried Mary Peirce, daughter of Joshua Peirce, another " Masonian Pro- prietor."
62 adjutant-general's report.
remainder were attached to a Massachusetts regiment. In addition to these troops, this Province furnished an armed sloop, with thirty men, under the command of Capt. John Fernald. These troops, both land and naval, performed the most signal services. A detachment of the New- Ilampshire troops, under the intrepid Vaughan, gained the first most important success — that of destroying the warehouses of the enemy, containing the naval stores, and taking " the royal battery." They were troops from this Province, which for fourteen nights were engaged in drag- ging the cannon over a deep morass betwixt the landing place and camp ; " a labor beyond the power of oxen," and without which the expedition must have proved a failure, as the ground was under the fire of the enemy's guns, and the cannon could have been moved and placed in position in no other way.
And there were two companies from New-Hampshire, which volunteered and performed the arduous and dan- gerous service of building " a battery on Light House Clifl"," that commanded the important " island battery" of the enemy. And the services of the sloop were equally important, as she captured a French merchant ship from Martinico, retook a transport that had been captured by the French the day previous, covered a detachment that destroyed the French village of St. Peters, and performed the same important and hazardous duty for the two com- panies of New-Hampshire troops, under Capts. Mason and Fernald, which, as before related, erected the battery on Light House Cliff.
Louisburg capitulated on the 17th of June, 1745, and " the Dunkirk of America " passed into the hands of the British Government. This event was hailed with delight throughout the colonies. The Assembly of New-Hamp- shire was in session when Gov. Wentworth received, by express, the news " of the surrender of Louisburg, from Lieut. General Pepperell. They immediately took action upon the subject, thus :
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 1861. 63
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, July 5, 1745.
Whereas, His Excellency, by express, has this morning received advice from Lieut. General Pepperell and Col. Moore, of the surrender of Louisburg to the obedience of His Brittauic Majesty, our most gracious sovereign, &c., which letters have been laid before this House : To show how much the reduction of this place has been at heart, and our joy at the reduction thereof —
Voted, That there be paid, with His Excellency's order, out of the money in the public treasury for the use of the expedition, twenty-five pounds, to make such public en- tertainment in the town of Portsmouth and at His Maj- esty's Fort William and Mary, as he shall think proper on this occasion. D. Peirce, Clerk.
In Council : Eod'm Die —
Read and concurred : Theod'e Atkinson, Sec'y.
July 6, 1745.
Assented to : B. Wentworth.
JVie Roll of the New- Hampshire Regiment was as follows : viz.,
MUSTER-ROLL OF COLONEL MOORE's REGIMENT.
Louisburg, 20th November, 1745. Colonel 31oore's Company.
Samuel Moore, Colonel, John Atkinson,
John Flagg, Lieutenant, Doctor Jos. Peirce,
ISTath'l Rite AYhite, Serg't, Doctor James Wood,
John Blake, Corporal, "Wm. Earl Treadwell,
Abner Sanborn, Adam Black,
James Marston, (sick) John Barker,
Wm. Marston, Wm. Rand,
Jabez Towle, John Wilson,
Wm. Hughes, John Fickett,
David Moulton, John Hodgsdon,
Benj. Dalton, Thomas Haley,
John Perry, (sick) Noah Bradden,
John Dunkin, Wm. Studley, (sick)
Wm. Vittem, Wm. Spriggs,
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adjutant-general's report.
John Flags;, Jun., Richard Hall, Richard Forham, John Turner, John Hall, Israel Hodgsdon, Davis Godding, Jon a. Huntress, Abner Hunt, Samuel Tobey,
Isaac Brown, John Green, John Loggin, Alexander Thompson, George Perkins, Jeremy Lary, David Gordon, Thomas Jones, Joseph Kenniston, Paxham Peirce.
Captain Fellows' Company.
Nath. Fellows, Lieut,, Moses Ware, (sick)
Thomas IS'ewmarsh, Ensign, Isaac Roberts, Ezekiel Pitman, Jr., Ensign, Jona. Dam, Richard Bruster, (sick) Richard Furber,
Richard Fitzgerald, John Cooper, Solomon Read, Edward Sherburne, Thos. Bott, Sergeant, Abraham Elliot, John Stevens, Joseph Downing, Abraham Senter, Thomas Dun, (sick) John Hooper, James Wherrin, John Woodham, Roger McMahone,
Isaac Wherrin, Edward Moore, Sergeant Pitman Coldbath, John Foy,
Captain Light's Company.
John Welch, Richard Knight, Wm. Randall, John Pinkham, Jethro Bickford, Thomas Johnson, Stephen Rawlings, Christopher Huntress, Jothara Horn, Joseph Coldbath, Andrew Morgan, Sam'l Thompson, Archibald Walles, Jonathan Boothby, Thomas Claridge, Samuel Rawlings, Benj. Coldbath.
John Light, Captain, Joshua Winslow, Lieut., Jeremiah Veasey, Ensign,
Joseph Philbrick, Caleb Brown, (sick) Jonas Ward,
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 18G1.
65
Josepli Ackers, (sick) Thomas Laiy, Joseph Atkinson, Moses Flanders, Joseph Judkins, John Edgerly, Clement Moody, James Marsh, Amos Dolloffs, (sick) Jack Covey, Joseph Dudley, Joseph Giles, Moses Ferrin, Samuel Scribner, Samuel Sinkler, Wm. Morey, Thomas Watson, John Severans, Eliphalet Quimby, John Wells, John Brown,
James Gloyd, Ebenezer Sinkler, Abram Stockbridge, James Oilman, David Dolloff, Joseph Folsom, Josiah Sanborn, (sick) Jonas Addison, Robert Gordeu, William Prescott, John Gibson, John Forrest, Nathaniel Lampson, William Fifield, Moses Lougee, Joseph Dudley, Benj. Eobinson, Daniel Kelley, (sick) James Gordon, George Creighton,
Captain Sherburne's Comjxmi/.
Jos. Sherburne, Capt. (sick) Henry Montgomery, Lieut. Eben Wright, Ensign, John Cotton, Sergeant, William Thompson, Sergt. John Boardman, Growth Palmer, Warren Stockbridge, Jonathan Ambrose, Samuel Sims, Valentine Aylmer, Abner Cass, Joseph Young, Daniel Welch, Satchel Ruudlet, 5
liobert Kennedy, Samuel Miller, John MciSTeil, John Adams, John Carter, John McLaughland, James MacLeneehan, James Thompson, Adam Gait, Andrew Logan, James McXeil, Patrick Gait, John Miller, Robert Cunuinsrham.
66
adjutant-general's report.
Captain Prescott's Company. Jonathan Prescott, Captain, Charles Dow,
(Gonehome on furlough.) John Hutchins,
Ezekiel Worthen, Ensign, Daniel Ward,
Simon Moulton, David Page, Benj. Tilton, William Swain, Joseph Prescot, John Chapman, Thomas Lock, Nathan Dow, Daniel Rowe, Ephraim Stevens, Eben Gove, Nathan Powe, John Fellows, William Clifford, James Lovell, Joseph Gove, John Prescot,
Robert Rowe,
Captain Hale's Company.
Samuel Hale, Captain, Richard Kenny,
Benj a. Libbey,
Sam'l Blake, Joseph Weare, (sick) Thomas Moulton, Jona. Choate, (sick) Moses Davis, " Joseph Weed, " John Ealet, Jona. Kimball, Enoch Chase, Thomas Chalis, Paul Pressey, Thos. Gimpson, Joseph George, Caleb Norton, Sam'l Eastman, Robert Sweet, William Davis.
Sam'l Heard, Joseph Giles, Reuben Gray, Jacob Hassam, Daniel Libbey, Richard Harris, Stephen Evans, John Ferre, Nicho. Grace, John Smith, Josiah Clark, Thomas Roberts Nath'l Perkins, Joseph Berry,
David Kincaid, Ichabod Hill, Benj. Stanton, William Kenniston, (sick) Stephen Clark,
John Folsom, William Durgin, James Gorman, Edward Bean, Nath'l Bean, Marston Samborn, Edward Fox, James Critchet, Sam'l Richardson, Benja. Bunker.
MILITARY HISTORY— 1623 TO 18G1.
67
Captain Williams' Company.
|
Edward Williams, Captain, |
James Taylor, |
|||
|
Edmund Brown, Ensign, |
Benja |
,. Shaw, |
||
|
Robert Calfe, Serg't, (sick) |
John |
French, |
||
|
Nath'i Weare, |
David Lowell, |
|||
|
Jona. Bond, |
Eben |
Samborn, |
||
|
Peter Ingalls, |
Timo, |
. Blake, |
||
|
Enoch Rowell, |
Daniel Cram, |
|||
|
Nason Cass, |
John |
El est. |
||
|
John Marston, |
John |
Samborn. |
||
|
Col. Moore's Compaq |
ny, 48 i |
men. |
sick, |
,3 |
|
Capt. Fellows' " |
43 |
it |
(( |
3 |
|
Capt. Light's " |
47 |
a |
a |
5 |
|
Capt. Sherburn's " |
29 |
a |
a |
1 |
|
Capt. Prescott's *' |
40 |
a |
a |
4 |
|
Capt. Hale's " |
32 |
it |
a |
1 |
|
Capt. Williams' " |
18 257 |
a |
a |
1 18 sick |
|
In the Massachusetts pay. |
51 |
men in ye |
||
|
In New-Hampshire pay, |
208 |
Reg't. |
Louisburg, 'Nov. 20, 1745.
Sam'l Moore, Colonel.
Benja. Bunker and George Creighton, who were gone home on furlough, are now returned."*
In addition to the regular officers of this regiment, there were supernumerary officers attached to it, who had no special command, but were a sort of cadets, seeking ad- venture, and ready for any hazardous enterprise. Some of these did duty in the garrison after its surrender, and might have had a command, but if so, their rolls have been lost. If the Commander-in-Chief had any hazardous
*This roll, and one that follows of the officers attached to Col. Moore's regiment, are copied from the originals in the " Pepperell papers," be- longing to the Historical Society of Massachusetts, and well preserved in its library. The writer would here acknowledge his indebtedness to that Society for permission to copy the same, through the polite accommoda- tion of its learned and accomplished President, Hon. Pvobert C. Winthrop.
68 • adjutaxt-gexeral's report.
duty to perform, instead of ordering a detachment for that object, be made known his purpose to his officers, and some one of tliem would vohinteer to perform the service, "start a subscription paper," to be signed by those w^ho would join the proposed expedition, or " beat up for vol- unteers."* In this wise, Captain John Tufton Mason, who had no command in Col. Moore's regiaient, led a volunteer company from the regiment in the hazardous enterprise of erecting a battery on " the Light House Cliff," whilst Captain John Fernald,t wdio commanded the armed sloop, and had no command in the regiment, led the second company. In like manner, also, Lt. Colonel William Vaughan,J of Portsmouth, who held a commis- sion under Massachusetts, but had no command, led the detachment of volunteers from the New-Hampshire troops, w^hich took and held "the Royal Battery," the first daring and successful enterprise of "the siege of Louis- burg." It will readily be seen from the roll " of all the officers in, or attached to, the jSTew-lIampshire regiment," which follows, that those officers " attached to the regi- ment." were much more numerous than those "in the regiment."
* Some of these " subscT-iption papers" are on file among the Pepperell papers in the library of the Historical Society of Massachusetts.
f John Fernald was a descendant of Doctor Eenald Fernald, one of the colonists who settled at Piscataqua, in 1G33, under the patronage of Capt. John Mason.
J William Vaughan, the son of Lieut. Governor George Yaughan, was born in Portsmouth, Sept. 12, 1703, and graduated at Harvard College in 1722. He possessed the persistent determination of his father. He carried on the fisheries on the eastern coast, having a settlement at Damariscotta, a fishing station at Montinicus. The Trench interfered with his business,' and hence his activity in the Louisburg expedition. He conceived the possibility of taking that fortress, broached the subject to Wentworth and Shirley, and by his perseverance got them enlisted in the enterprise. Having his business in Maine, he had a commission from Massachusetts, which owned that Province. Pighting bravely during the siege of Louis- burg, upon its fall he repaired to England to get some recompense for his services, and died in London " about the middle of December, 1746,'' having been nearly a year in that city pressing his claims, but without success.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
69
*' The followinp^ roll contains the names of all the officers in, or attached to, the New-Hampshire regiment:
A List of Officers in the late Regiment of Foot, raised in New- Hampshire, whereof Samuel ]\Ioore, LJsq., ivas Colonel, employed in the redaction of Louisbarg and the Territories thereon depending, to the obedience of the King of Great Britain, with such others as were afterward commissioned, and assisted in garrisoning the same, imtil relieved by His Majesty s British troops, with an Account of their Bank and the Pay received in New-England.
|
OFFICERS' NAMES. |
c 2 i> .§3 2 |
When discharg'd. |
Whole tinip in the Ser- vice. |
o ft So 3 |
P 5 o |
|||
|
1744. 1746. |
mos. ds. |
£ s. |
£ s. |
d. |
||||
|
Samuel Moore, |
Colonel, |
Feb. 12 |
18 3 |
12 |
217 4 |
|||
|
Nathaniel Meserve,* |
2d Col., |
" 13 Nov. |
11 |
9 14 |
10 |
96 16 |
||
|
Ezekicl Gilnian, |
Major, |
a it • a |
" |
9 14 |
8 10 |
82 5 |
4 |
|
|
John Tufton Mason, f |
Captain, |
" " 'July |
31 |
6 4 |
4 10 |
27 |
||
|
William Seaward, |
" |
" " |
Kov. |
10 |
9 18 |
4 10 |
43 7 |
10 |
*^ Col. Nathaniel Meserve was of Portsmouth, and a shipwright by trade. He was successful in his business, and amassed a handsome property. In his capacity as Lieut. Colonel in this expedition, his mechanical skill an- swered a good purpose. He ordered and superintended the construction of drags, or sledges, on which he hauled the cannon and mortars over an otherwise impassable morass, — thus rendering them available against the strong fortress, — without which skill and labor the siege would have been a failure. In 1749 he built the America for the British government, doubtless the first ship of the line built in America. He was Colonel of the New-Hampshire troops engaged in the -expedition against Crown Point, having the command at Fort Edward, which he gallantly de- fended. In 1758 he again was in command of the New-Hampshire Regi- ment, and went with the battalion that was ordered to join the second expedition against Louisburg. He had more than one hundred carpen- ters attached to his command. The small pox broke out among them, and all but sixteen died. Col. Meserve and his eldest son, Lieut. Nathaniel Meserve, Jr., fell victims to this loathsome disease.
f John Tufton Mason was of Portsmouth, and a descendant of Capt. John Mason, the original proprietor of the Province. The Mason title had been sold years previous, but the Massachusetts politicians started up John Tufton as the heir to the Mason lands, on account of some alleged illegal proceedings in passing the title. Capt. Mason sold his title in 1746, to twelve gentlemen of Portsmouth and vicinity, for fifteen hundred pounds currency. These gentlemen were known subsequently as " the Masonian Proprietors,"
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1/ 1. E a; |
1m ft |
a> |
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OFFICKKS' NAMES. |
3 |
c"" ^ "- 01 o |
r- Oi |
S5 ^ O |
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1744. |
1746. |
mo. da |
£ «. |
£ s. d. |
|||
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John Furnel, |
Captain, |
Feb. 13 |
Nov. |
11 |
9 19 |
4 10 |
43 11 |
|
Henry Sherburne, |
" |
1745. |
June |
28 |
4 21 |
4 10 |
21 7 6 |
|
Joseph Sherburne, |
" |
June 6 |
11 |
30 |
12 24 |
4 10 |
02 10 4 |
|
Daniel Ladd, |
" |
Feb. 13 |
Sept. |
4 |
7 7 |
4 10 |
32 12 6 |
|
Samuel Hale, |
>' |
" " |
Oct. |
IG |
8 22 |
4 10 |
33 10 3 |
|
Samuel Hale,* |
Major, |
Oct. 17 |
July |
15 |
9 20 |
8 10 |
82 11 5 |
|
Jacob Tilton, |
Captain, |
Mar. 1 |
Nov. |
11 |
9 20 |
4 10 |
43 14 3 |
|
Edward Williams, |
" |
" 2 |
Feb'y |
IG |
13 5 |
4 10 |
59 6 0 |
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John Wise, |
" |
Apr. 15 |
|||||
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James Whidden, |
" |
Feb. 13 |
Nov. |
10 |
9 18 |
4 10 |
43 7 10 |
|
Thos. W. Waldron, |
" |
" " |
Sept. |
6 |
7 9 |
4 10 |
32 18 6 |
|
Trueworthy Dudley, |
" |
<( 11 |
July |
21 |
6 |
4 10 |
27 |
|
John Hart, |
Lieut., |
>( a |
" |
31 |
6 |
3 |
18 |
|
Samuel Lovet, |
" |
" |
Sept. |
6 |
7 9 |
3 |
22 |
|
Samuel White, |
" |
u w |
Oct. |
9 |
8 14 |
3 |
25 10 |
|
John Flagg, |
« |
" " |
Sept. |
SO |
8 5 |
3 00 |
24 10 Si |
|
John Flagg, |
Captain, |
" " |
27 17 1 |
||||
|
Eliphalet Daniels, |
Lieut., |
" " |
July |
31 |
6 |
3 |
18 |
|
Zechariah Foss, |
'* |
" " |
Nov. |
14 |
9 22 |
||
|
Jere. Wheelwright, |
" |
(( 11 |
Sept, |
22 |
7 25 |
3 |
23 13 6 |
|
James Dudley, |
" |
<4 11 |
Aug. |
7 |
6 7 |
3 |
18 15 |
|
Moses Wingate, |
(' |
" " |
Sept. |
30 |
8 6 |
3 |
24 12 10 |
|
Kichard Maloon, |
" |
" " |
Nov. |
11 |
9 20 |
3 |
29 3 11 |
|
Samuel Robie, |
a |
" " |
Sept. |
30 |
8 6 |
3 |
24 12 10 |
|
Samuel Conner, |
" |
(1 (1 |
July |
31 |
6 |
3 |
18 |
|
Thomas Tufts, |
Ena. 4 A. Q. M. |
<( (1 |
Sept. |
6 |
7 9 |
2 |
14 13 6 |
|
Thomas Newmareh, |
Ensign, |
(( tl |
" |
30 |
8 5 |
2 |
16 17 2 |
|
Thomas Newnuirch, |
Lieut., |
Oct. 5 |
June |
20 |
9 11 |
3 |
28 3 7 |
|
Daniel Wormall, |
Ensign, |
Feb. 13 |
Nov. |
11 |
9 19 |
2 |
19 7 5 |
|
Ezekiel Pitman, |
tl u |
" |
10 |
9 17 |
2 |
19 4 6 |
|
|
Christopher Huntress, |
" |
(( '( |
July |
31 |
6 |
2 |
12 |
|
Edward Brooks, |
n |
" '■ |
" |
" |
6 |
3 |
18 |
|
Thomas Pickerin, |
" |
" »' |
Aug. |
7 |
6 7 |
2 |
12 10 |
|
Joseph Sleeper, |
" |
(( u |
Sept. |
22 |
7 25 |
2 |
15 10 6 |
|
Clement Ham, |
" |
" '• |
" |
30 |
8 6 |
2 |
16 8 7 |
|
Eobert Perkins, |
" |
" " |
July |
31 |
6 1 |
2 10 |
12 1 5 |
|
Edmund Brown, |
" |
" " |
Sept. |
30 |
8 e |
2 |
16 8 7 |
|
Edmund Brown, |
Lieut., |
Oct. 1 |
July |
1 |
9 22 |
36 12 11 |
* Samuel Halo was born in Newbury, Mass., in 1718, and graduated at Harvard College in 1740. He removed to Portsmouth soon after, and be- came a teacher. He engaged in the Louisburg expedition as a Captain in Col Moore's Regiment, and was made Major of the same, Oct. 7, 1745. After his return he became the instructor of the Latin grammar school in Portsmouth, and continued as such for near forty years, distinguished for discipline and aptness as a teacher. For his services he was rewarded by the grant of the town of Weare, which for a long time was known as Halestown. He was Representative and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Rockingham, and died July 7, 1807, in the 89th year of his age.
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MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 18G1.
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OB-FICEKS' NAMES. |
C rt S |
a 0) ^.3 |
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KECRUITS. |
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1744. |
1746. |
mo. |
da. |
£ s. |
£ s. d. |
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George Meserve, |
Captain, |
June 20 |
STov. |
11 |
5 |
4 |
4 10 |
23 3 |
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John Light, |
" |
'* 17 |
June |
20 |
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Jonathan Prescut, |
" |
<< 41 |
April |
12 |
Dec'd. 1 |
48 4 3 |
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John Ladd, |
" |
44 44 |
Nov. |
10 |
5 |
1 |
4 10 |
23 12 6 |
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Daniel jNIcGregor, |
n |
" 20 |
4 10 |
37 18 G |
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Nathaniel Fellows, |
Lieut., |
(1 ( |
Sept. |
30 |
3 |
19 |
2 10 |
9 3 |
|
Nathaniel Fellows, |
Cai)tain, |
Oct. ] |
June |
20 |
9 |
11 |
4 10 |
42 5 4 |
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Joshua Winslow, |
Lieut., |
Sept. 30 |
" |
17 |
9 |
8 |
3 |
27 17 2 |
|
Wm. Earl Treadwell, |
" |
Aug. 9 |
" |
" |
9 |
8 |
3 |
27 17 1 |
|
Ezekiel Worthen, |
Ensign, |
June 17 |
Sept. |
30 |
3 |
22 |
2 |
9 7 2 |
|
Ezekiel Worthen, |
Lieut., |
Oct. 1 |
June |
20 |
9 |
11 |
3 |
28 3 7 |
|
Jeremiah Veasey, |
Ensign, |
June 17 |
Sept. |
30 |
3 |
22 |
2 |
7 11 5 |
|
Jeremiah Veasey, |
Lieut., |
Oct. 1 |
June |
20 |
9 |
11 |
2 17 |
28 3 7 |
|
Benjamin Bunker, |
Ensign, |
Aug. 10 |
26 9 3 |
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John Loggin, |
" |
July 16 |
June |
17 |
9 |
8 |
2 17 |
26 9 3 |
|
Josiah Philbrick, |
" |
Oct. 1 |
" |
20 |
9 |
11 |
2 17 |
26 15 5 |
|
John Flagg, Jr., |
'< |
July 9 |
26 9 4 |
|||||
|
Ezekiel Pitman, Jr., |
" |
June 20 |
June |
20 |
34 2 6 |
|||
|
Joseph Weare, |
" |
Aug. 11 |
June |
20 |
26 15 4 |
|||
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Henry Montgomery, |
" |
June 20 |
Deceased. |
25 7 3 |
||||
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Nath'l Meserve, Jr., |
Lieut., |
Aug. 1 |
Nov. |
11 |
3 |
19 |
3 |
11 10 |
|
Jonathan Folsom, |
" |
June 17 |
Jan'y |
20 |
Dec'd. |
21 17 11 |
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Bradbury Green, |
<' |
44 44 |
Sept. |
3 |
2 |
23 |
8 9 4 |
|
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Moses Sleeper, |
" |
44 44 |
" |
6 |
2 |
26 |
2 It |
7 6 5 |
|
Jacob Morrill, |
Ensign, |
44 44 |
Nov. |
10 |
5 |
17 |
2 |
10 10 |
|
Abraham Trefethen, |
Ca])tain, |
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Jonathan Gilman, |
Lieut., |
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Philip Yetton, |
Ensign, |
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STAFJ" OFPICERS. |
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Samuel Langdon,* |
Chapl'n, |
Mar. 18 |
4 |
15 |
6 |
27 5 |
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Joseph Pierce, Esq.,f |
Ch'f Sur. |
" 16 |
Feb'y |
5 |
11 |
20 |
245 5 1 |
|
|
Nathaniel Sargent, |
Surgeon, |
" 20 |
6 |
10 |
57 2 |
|||
|
James Wood, |
Sur. Mate |
" 18 |
71 8 6 |
|||||
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Alexander Clark, |
Surgeon, |
Oct. 17 |
June |
16 |
5 |
103 17 2 |
* Kev. Dr. Samuel Langdon was born in Boston, in 1722, and graduated at Harvard College in 1740. He went to Portsmouth as teacher of the Grammar school. Governor Wentworth appointed him chaplain of Col. Moore's regiment. Soon after his return from Louisburg he was invited to preach as assistant to Kev. Mr. Felch, at the North Parish of Ports- mouth, and was settled as his successor, in 1747. In 1774 he was elected President of Harvard College ; resigned in 1780, and was settled in the ministry at Hampton-Falls, where he died.
f Dr. Joseph Pierce was a native of Portsmouth. He was a noted phy- sician, and Gov. Wentworth appointed him chief surgeon of the expedi- tion, against the wishes of the Assembly, which had appointed two others as surgeons. Dr. Pierce returned to his practice, when he was seized with the small-pox, and died in January, 1748.
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL S REPORT.
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OFPICEKS' NAMK8. |
1 |
"is |
Whole time in the Ser- vice. |
O lis |
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John Eyre, Edmund Brown, Wm. Earl Trcadwell, Jacob Sheafe,** Solomon Pinkbam, |
Adj't, Comm'y, Armorer, |
1744. Feb. 13 Feb. 13 Oct. 5 Feb. 13 |
1746. Nov. 11 Dec. 2 June 20 July 31 |
mo. da. 9 18 9 7 6 |
£ s. 3 |
£ s. d. 29 1 3i 31 5 1 63 7 6 13 10 0 |
After the fall of Louisburg, and the troops had comfort- able quarters in the garrison, a series of storms commenc- ed, and the troops suffered from sickness. Of 1945 men all told, in the garrison, 706 were returned as sick. The New-Hampshire regiment escaped wonderfully, as seen by the following return :
A Eciimi of the Commission Officers, Non-commission Officers, and Private 3Ien, now in the Garrison, Louisbur/j, Decem- ber 7, 1745 :
In Colonel 3Ioore's {Eegiment). 6 Captains, 6 Drummers,
2 Lieutenants, 180 Privates,
6 Ensigns, 23 sick,
23 Sergeants,
12 Corporals, 258
It is to be regretted that so little care was taken to pre- serve the documents connected with this and other expe- dition, in which the soldiers of this Province took a prom- inent part in its early history. But, considering the un- settled political state of the Province, at first divided into
* Jacob Sheafe was the son of the Hon. Sampson Sheafe, and was born at Newcastle in 1715. He settled in Portsmouth, and became dis- tinguished as a merchant. Gov. Weiitworth appointed him Commissary of the New-Hampshire Eegiment at Louisburg, to succeed Treadwell, who had given general dissatisfaction. He was the father of Hon. James Sheafe, U. S. Senator from this State, Jacob Sheafe, Jr., a distinguished merchant of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Cushing, widow of the late Charles Gushing, Esq., who resides at Little Harbor, with her family, at the ro- mantic seat of the Wentworths, ever ready to show to resjDectable visit- ors the premises so replete with romantic interest.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 18G1. 73
plantations, each under a factor or governor ; then divided into " combinations," nearly forty years governed by Mas- sachusetts; anon separated from that government, and under a President for a year ; then ruled by a Governor sent over by the King ; afterward by a Governor-General ; again under Massachusetts; her records seized and carried into Maine ; those thought to be unfavorable to the "do- ings" and claims of Massachusetts, seized and carried away or burned ; it perhaps is more surprising that the early records of this Province are, so many of them, pre- served, than that many of them are lost. There can be no excuse, however, for downright carelessness and neg- lect. To these must be attributed the loss of many of the papers relating to the expedition of Louisburg. We look in vain among the records for its history ; in consequence, the historian has to grope his way among the labyrinths of collateral writings, to meet, perhaps, with inaccuracies and errors which he is unable to correct.
Thus, Dr. Belknap states that Col. Moore's regiment consisted of eight companies, when the return of his reg- iment, over his own signature, shows but seven companies. Had we all the rolls, we might arrive at the facts. It is probable that Belknap is correct. He doubtless had a muster roll of Col. Moore' regiment that contained, as one of the eight companies, the roll of the officers and men comprising the reenforcement of " 115 men" that were raised in ISTew-Hampshire, and arrived soon after the sur- render of the fortress. Other discrepancies occur.
The commissary of the regiment became unpopular, for certain alleged reasons. In JSTovember, 1745, a complaint was preferred against him to the Assembly of New-Hamp- shire, as follows : namely,
" To (he Honorable General Assembly of His 3IajesU/s Prov- ince of New-Hampshire : the 31emorial of the Subscribers humbly sheweth :
" That we, having had the honor to be commissioned offi- cers in the late expedition against Louisburg, and, through the divine goodness, being returned, we esteem ourselves
74 adjutant-general's report.
bound in conscience, for the sake of our dear fellow-sol- diers who are left behind, to let you know that there was a general cry of injustice and oppression against our Com- missary throughout the regiment, during the greater part of the siege ; and that, beside the great uneasiness oc- casioned by the soldiers being denied their just allowance, the discontent was increased and aggravated by an un- compassionate refusal of necessaries to the sick, such as butter, flour and fresh meat, to make broth of, which we have been informed was generously granted by the Hon- orable Court, and plentifully provided by the Committee of War, while he himself fared sumptuously every day, and for the most part free from toil, and out of the reach of danger.
"As to the particulars of his dreadful management, if the Honorable Court will be pleased to appoint a committee to inquire into them, and fix a time for it, and give public notice thereof, we presume they will soon be encompassed about with a cloud of witnesses, who will fully evince, not only that there was a just ground for the general discon- tent and uneasiness, but that his tender mercies were cru- elty. As many of the soldiers yet remaining at Louis- burg were enlisted into the companies whereof we were officers, we think ourselves more especially obliged, for that reason, to do our utmost for their ease, comfort and relief from oppression.
" We address this to your Honors as patrons of the peo- ple, and guardians of their rights, properties and privi- leges, for your wise consideration, that you may, if yoa think proper, apply to His Excellency to recall him from his command ; and, more especially, that he may be re- moved from his coramissaryship, that the voice of fraud, injustice and oppression may no more be heard in our regiment.
"Be pleased to give us leave further to say, the soldiers who went first to Cape Breton were not only volunteers, but have proved themselves gallant and brave to the last degree ; that they endured hazard and hardships with in- trepidity, when almost naked and quite lousie, without
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 75
flinching from shot or shell, and being upon dnty twenty- four hours at a time (in turns) without one morsel of meat, or one drop of spirits while on duty (and nothing better to drink than ill tasted, purging water) during the greater part of the siege. Once more give us leave to speak, and let us ask whether such men as these men — perhaps as brave as any in the world, who have thus gallantly done, and patiently suffered, and who merit greater reward from their country than their country is able to bestow upon them — whether it is fit that soldiers of such a character, heroes of such virtue, should be commanded by a tyrant, or have the necessaries of life dealt to them by a griping oppressor. God forbid. These suggestions being humbly submitted to your wise consideration, with our prayer for proper relief in behalf of our friends and fellow-soldiers, we shall, as in duty bound, ever pray.
Trueworthy Dudley, Peter Thing,
James Dudley, Benjamin Kiming,
Andrew Downer, Jonathan Folsom,
Daniel Gale, James Whidden."
Now of these men, officers of " our regiment," and com- plaining of "our Commissary," his unjustice and oppres- ion, four alone have their names upon the roll of officers attached to the New-Hampshire regiment. The names of the other four are not to be found.
Such discrepancies lead us much to regret the loss of these and other provincial papers. One would think that the names of officers of the militia, and such expeditions, should be matters of record, but the appointments of offi- cers in the militia, or of the troops raised for the various armies during our existence as a Province, were not mat- ters of record with the proceedings of the Governor and Council, and for the reason that the royal Governors had the appointment of officers as their own prerogative, as an incident in relation to the appointment of the Commis- sary of this very regiment, and the one complained of, will show.
76 adjutant-general's report.
" February 25, 1744. The House appointed George Lib- bey commissary of the regiment about to be raised for the expedition against Louisburg; Doctor Miller and Doc- tor Sargent, surgeons of said regiment, and appointed a committee to provide a suitable surgeon for the same."
March 13, 1745. The House being in session, and ar- ranging the afiairs of the expedition, the Governor sent down a message "to acquaint them that the appointments of all officers are by His Excellency's commission vested in him," but at the same time suggesting that if they should recommend a suitable person for commissary, &c., it would be duly considered. Hence, the Governor alone making the appointments, no record was made of them ; hence these discrepancies and errors, and hence the appoint- ment of William Earl Treadwell instead of George Lib- bey, and hence the above complaint against him for injus- tice and oppression, and his subsequent recall by the Gov- ernor, and the appointment of Jacob Sheafe as his succes- sor.
In April and Maj^, 1745, a scout of seven men served at Canterbury, under command of Capt. Jeremiah Qlough. The roll was as follows :
|
A Muster Boll of Captain Jeremiah Clough, of |
Canterbury. |
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1745. |
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£ |
s. d. |
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Jeremiah Clough, Captain, |
. |
18 9 |
|
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John Morrison, .... |
, |
7 8 |
|
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Edward Aikens, .... |
7 8 |
||
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Thomas Davidson, |
. |
7 8 |
|
|
Samuel Smith, |
. |
7 8 |
|
|
Mansfield McAffee, |
. |
7 8 |
|
|
Daniel Bolton, |
7 8 |
The whole one month and three days each man, £10 4 9 I found them provisions for the month and one day,and the men found themselves pow- der, * 7 14 9
£17 19 6
MILITARY HISTORY — 1G23 TO 18G1. 77
These men were in the service at Canterbury, scouting and keeping the gai-risons, one month, from the 17th of April last, and three days going and coming.
Jeremiah Clough.*
June 15, 1745.
June 19. Sworn to before ye House.
D. Peirce, Clerk House Representatives.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, June 19, 1745 :
Voted, That Capt. Jeremiah Clough be allowed ten pounds four shillings and nine pence, for wages, and seven pounds fourteen shillings and nine pence, for pro- visions for himself and six men one mouth and three days, from ye 17th of April last, to be paid out of ye money in ye public treasury, by ye thirteen thousand act for ye defense of Government, &c.
D. Peirce, Clerk. In Council, June 20, 1745.
Read and concurred :
Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y. EoiVm Die —
Assented to:
B. Wentworth.
July 5, 1745, the Indians commenced their murders at "Westmoreland, then known as " The Great Meadow." Scouts were immediately ordered out by the Governor ; among others was one in the Merrimack valley, under Capt. Peter Pattee, of Londonderry. It was a " troop," or party of cavalry, and was as follows : namely,
* Capt. Jeremiah Clough was a man of substance, residing in Canterbury His garrison was made a depot and rendezvous by the government through the Indian wars. He raised and commanded a company in Col. Poor's regiment, in 1775 ; was subsequently suspected of toryism, as he harbored in his hay-mow and furnished with food. Dr. McCarrigain, his son-in-law, who had escaped from " the Sons of Liberty," at Concord, and lodged in jail at Exeter, from which he was soon released, — and remained as he had been, a steadfast patriot.
78
adjutant-general's report.
A 31nster-Roll of Troopers under command of Peter Pattee.
MEN'S NAMES.
Peter Pattee, Joseph Morrison, Oliver Saunders, James Moore, William Campbell, Samuel Gramy, Robert Gramy, Benjamin Emerson, William Gregg, Jr., Hugh Smiley. William Smiley,
Total sum, Londonderry, Dec. 2, 1745.
Errors excepted :
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Co
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1745. |
Aug. |
Da^s. |
s.d. |
s.d. |
r/. |
s. d. |
|||
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Com'der. |
Ang. 24. |
24® |
328. |
3 5 |
2 3 |
Hi |
59 |
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Sentinel. |
" 24 |
25s. |
3 |
2 8i 2 81 |
"2 3 |
2.1 |
5 1 |
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2 3 |
2i |
6 1 |
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II |
2 8] |
2 3 |
2j 2| 2} |
5 1 |
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2 84 |
2 3 |
5 1 |
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II |
2 Sj |
2 3 |
5 1 |
||||||
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II |
** |
2 Si |
2 3 |
2i 2| |
5 1 |
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(1 |
** |
2 88 |
2 3 |
5 1 |
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i< |
2 8* |
2 3 |
2i |
5 1 |
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11 |
2 8i |
2 2 |
2| |
5 1 |
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" |
2 8i |
2 3 |
5 1 |
£2 17 0 Peter Pattee.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Londonderry, February ye 13, 1745-6. Then the above-named Peter Pattee personally appeared and made oath that he, with the other men whose names are entered in the above muster-roll, were in His Majesty's service the time above mentioned.
Sworn before John McMurphy, Just. Pads.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, Feb'y 19, 1645 :
Voted, That Peter Pattee, and ye ten troopers under his command, be allowed fifty-seven shillings in full for this muster-roll, to be paid our of ye money in ye treasury for ye defense of ye Government, and for the carrying on ye ■war. D- Peirce, Clerk.
Feb'y 20. In Council :
Read and concurred
Eod'm Die —
Assented to :
Theod. Atkinson, Sec'y. B. "Wentworth.
October 10, the Indians made another attack at "West- moreland, and Gov. Wentworth ordered various scouts
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
79
upon the frontiers. One of them, in the valley of the Merrimack, was under the command of the noted Capt. John Goffe.* His roll was thus :
A Muster Moll of thirty-seven Men under the command of Capt. John Goffe in scouting the Woods by order : the time of their several entries and discharges as in the columns :
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Men's Names. |
Entry |
Wages per nio. |
Disch'd. |
Days in service. |
Whole wages. |
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£ s |
£ s. d. |
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|
Capt. John GofFe, |
Dec. |
23. |
2 10 |
Apr. |
7. |
106 |
9 9 7 |
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Sergt. Nath'l Smith, |
24. |
1 12 |
6. |
104 |
5 18 11 |
||
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Corp'l Wm. Walker, |
24. |
1 5 |
7. |
105 |
4 13 3 |
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Serg't Samuel Brown, |
26. |
1 12 |
Feb. |
9. |
45 |
2 11 6 |
|
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Sent. Kobert Reed, |
Jan. |
1. |
1 5 |
Apr. |
7. |
97 |
4 6 8 |
|
John Webster, |
1. |
1 6 |
5. |
95 |
4 4 10 |
||
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Joseph Eastman, |
1. |
1 5 |
5. |
95 |
4 4 10 |
||
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Sam'l Bradley, |
11. |
1 6 |
5. |
85 |
3 15 10 |
||
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Eben'r Eastman, f |
1. |
1 5 |
5. |
95 |
4 4 10 |
||
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Thomas Morrel, |
5. |
1 5 |
5. |
91 |
4 1 2 |
||
|
Jeremiah Dresser, |
1. |
1 5 |
5. |
95 |
4 4 10 |
||
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Zacheriah Cutting, |
Dec. |
28. |
1 5 |
7. |
101 |
4 10 2 |
|
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John McLaughlin, |
Jan. |
1- |
1 5 |
7. |
97 |
4 6 8 |
*Capt. John GotTe was at this time a resident of Bedford. He was the son of John Goffe, Esq., of Londonderry, and was born in Boston in 1701. He came to Londonderry with his father, who was a grantee of Londonderry. He was with Lovewell in his expedition to Pequauquauke in 1725. In 1734 he moved to " Cohos Brook," where he cleared up a farm and built a mill. In 1738 he moved to Bedford, but removed from there in 1748, to his farm in Derryfield, upon the death of his father, in that year, who had carried on his farm at "Cohos Brook." Capt. Goffe was a man of energj' and enterprise. He was Major of the N. H. Eegi- mentinthe Crown Point expedition, of 1756; Lt. Col. in those of 1757, 1758 and 1759, and Colonel of that of 1760. Subsequently he was Colo- nel of the 9th N. H. Militia for many years, and Judge of Probate for Hillsborough County from 1771 to 1776. He died in Derryfield, Oct. 20, 1788, aged 87.
f Ebenezer Eastman was the son of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, the first settler of Penacook, now Concord. Joseph Eastman, whose name is upon the same roll, was his second son, and the Captain of the fifth company in Col. Blanchard's regiment in the Crown Point expedition of 1755. Joseph Eastman, Jr., of this same roll, was a nephew, probably, of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. He was a brave soldier of Rogers' Rangers, and one of four who carried dispatches, in 1760, from Gen. Amherst, at Crown Point, through the wilderness, a distance of some five hundred miles, to Gen. Murray, at Quebec. They were all residents of that part of Concord now known as "East Concord."
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL S REPORT.
|
Men's Names. |
Entry. |
Wages per month. |
Discharged. |
Days in service. |
Whole wages. |
|
|
David Gamble, |
2. |
1 5 |
7. |
96 |
4 5 10 |
|
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Joseph Simons, |
8. |
|||||
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James Gibson, |
13, |
1 5 |
5. |
83 |
3 14 1 |
|
|
John Woods, |
5. |
1 5 |
7. |
93 |
4 5 1 |
|
|
Wm. Reed, |
Dec. 28. |
1 5 |
Mar. |
4. |
67 |
2 19 10 |
|
Paris Richardson, |
Jan. 1. |
1 5 |
4. |
63 |
2 16 4 |
|
|
Thomas JIcKillicut, |
Dec. 26. |
1 5 |
Jan. |
9. |
14 |
12 6 |
|
Sers^'t John Gofle, Jr.,* |
Feb. 10. |
1 12 |
Apr. |
7. |
57 |
3 5 1| |
|
Eze'kiel AValker, |
Dec. 26. |
1 5 |
Jan. |
9. |
14 |
12 6 |
|
Henry White, |
Jan. 1. |
1 5 |
18. |
13 |
11 7 |
|
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Benjamin Fitield, |
Feb. 10. |
1 5 |
Apr. |
5. |
55 |
2 9 1 |
|
Jesse Flanders, |
Mar. 3. |
1 5 |
5. |
34 |
1 10 4 |
|
|
Sampson Kidder, |
Feb. 26. |
1 5 |
7. |
41 |
1 10 7 |
|
|
Stephen Hoyt, |
28. |
1 5 |
5. |
37 |
1 13 0 |
|
|
Jacob Hoyt, |
28. |
1 5 |
5. |
37 |
1 13 0 |
|
|
Moses Merrill, |
28. |
1 5 |
5. |
37 |
1 13 0 |
|
|
John Flanders, Jr., |
Mar. 4. |
1 5 |
5. |
33 |
1 9 0 |
|
|
Mathew Stanley, |
Feb. 28. |
1 5 |
5. |
37 |
1 13 0 |
|
|
Wm. Coarser, |
Mar. 4. |
1 5 |
5. |
33 |
1 9 5J |
|
|
John Shepherd, |
4. |
1 5 |
5. |
33 |
19 6^ |
|
|
Judah Trumhull, |
Jan. 1. |
1 5 |
Feb. |
9. |
40 |
1 15 8^ |
|
Joseph Eastman, Jr. |
Mar. 4. |
1 5 |
Apr. |
5. |
33 |
1 9 bh |
|
Josiah Miles, |
4. |
1 5 |
5. |
33 |
1 9 bl |
|
|
Archibald Moore, |
4. |
1 6 |
5. |
33 |
1 9 5^ |
£106 13s. 2^d.
Provisions for 2227 days of said men, at M., (exclusive of Simons,) 83 10 3
For snow shoes, moccasins per month, each man, 9 18 9
£200 2s. 2d.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, May 21, 1746 :
Voted, That the above sum of two hundred pounds two shillings two pence, be allowed and ])aid out of the money in the Treasury for the defense of the Government.
D. Peirce, Capt.
In Council, Eod'm Die —
Read and concurred :
Theodore Atkinson, Sec.
Eodem Die —
Assented to:
B. "Wentworth.
* A son of Capt. John Goffe. He resided in Bedford, and was known as " Major John."
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
81
A sraall force was maintained at the garrison at Canter- bury, through the Winter of 1745 and 1746, as seen by the following roll :
A 31astcr-Roll of the men in Garrison at Canterbury^ under the command of Jeremiah Clough, from the 2M of No- vember^ 1745, to the 16th of Ajml, 1746.
|
MEN'S NAJIES, |
Time ot Entry. |
Time in Serv. at 32s. mo. |
Whole Wages. |
rrovis'n. |
Ammu nition. |
|
Jeremiah Clough, Commander, Francis Ayres, John Johnson, Morris Kevis,* Henry Erwin, |
Nov. 23, |
nio. da. 5 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 |
£ s.d. 8 4 6 6 8 7 6 8 7 6 8 7 6 8 7 |
£ s. d. 5 8 0 5 8 0 5 8 0 5 8 0 5 8 0 |
£ s. d. 0 7 8 0 7 U 0 7 8| 0 7 8^ 0 7 U |
"W^a<^es, Prc'visicm,
£33 18 10 27 0 0
Ammunition, 1 18 6J
Total,
£62 17 Ah
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSIIIRE.
In the House of Representatives, May 8, 1746.
Voted, That there shall be allowed to Capt. Jeremiah Clough, and ye four men within mentioned, sixty-two pounds seventeen shillings and four pence half penny, in full of this muster-roll, to be paid out of ye money in ye public treasury for ye defense of ye Government.
J). Peirce, Clerk. In Council : Eod'm Die^
Head and concurred :
Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y- Eod'm Die —
Assented to : B. Wentworth.
In anticipation of early raids from the Indians, the gar- rison at Canterbury was strengthened, as the following roll shows :
* Probably Cavis.
6
82
adjutant-general's report.
A Bluster-Boll of men under command of CapL Jeremiah Clovgh, at Canterbury.
ME«'S NAMES.
Jeremiah Clough,
Morris Kevis,
Henry Irwin,
Robert Thurstin,
William I'reson,
James Scales, Esq.,*
John Johnson,
Samuel French,
Ezekiel Clough,
Henry Elkins,
Kathaniel Ladd,
Stephen Call, enlisted when Johnson was dis- charged.
Capt. Seiit'l
April 16
May 10 13
14 ■ 14 ' 17
' I'i • 21 ' 21
July 3
June 3 July 3
June 3
mos. (Is.
1 28
2 23 2 23 1 27 1 24 1 23
0 20
1 20 1 20 1 16 1 16
1 3
L«s
a >.
o a
'S. '-
s.d.£s.d.£s.d. £ s. d.
7 30 2 85 8 25 8 2
4 80 2 8'2 19 38 3 7
4 8'.0 3 8.2 19 3'8 8 7
19 0!0 3 02 1 35 3 3
16 o!o 2 10,1 19 04 17 10
15 00 2 91 19 34 15 11
1 00 1 11 15 O'l 17 1
11 00 2 71 16 04 9 7
11002 71 16 04 9 7
7202 41 13 03 0 6
7 20 2 41 13 0,4 2 6
30 1 3 3,0 1 71 3 32 0 1
£56 19 8 Jeremiah Clough.
Sworn to before the House.
PROVINCE OF NEAV-HAMPSHIRE.
Ill the House of Representatives, Dec'r 4, 1746. '
Voted, That this muster-roll, amounting to fifty-six
pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence, be allowed and
paid out of ye money in ye treasury for defense of ye
Government.
D. Peirce, Clerk.
In Council : Eod'm Die —
Read and concurred :
Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y-
December 10, 1746.
Assented to : B. Wentworth.
After the happy result of the expedition against Louis- burg, one for the conquest of Canada was set on foot, and a regiment of eight hundred men was raised in New- Hampshire, and placed under the command of Col. Theo- dore Atkinson, of Portsmouth. The regiment was ready to march by the first of July, 1746, but was delayed, and upon the news of the approach of a powerful French
* James Scales, Esq., was a minister, and afterward was settled at Hop- kinton.
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861. 83
army and fleet to the eastern coast, the regiment found ample employment at home. They were stationed at Newcastle, and employed in repairing the fortifications. A new battery of sixteen guns, of thirty-two and twenty- four pounds shot, was added to Fort William and Mar}^, at the entrance of Piscataqua harbor, and another, of nine . thirty-two pounders, was placed at the point of Little Har- bor. In October, news came of the entire failure of the French expedition, and the colonists were greatlj- reliev- ed, but still thought it advisable to keep the troops in the field. Col. Atkinson's regiment was ordered to Lake Winnipesaukee, to guard the frontiers from attacks of the French and Indians. There they built a fort, in which they passed the winter of 1746-7, and tarried till October of the latter year, when the regiment was disbanded. This was the first fort built in the interior, under orders from the Government of New-Hampshire. It was built on the north side of what is called "Little Bay," near what is known as "Union Bridge," in the town of Sanbornton. It has been called Fort Atkinson. Forts and garrison houses existed in various parts of the Province, but the}'- had been built mainly at private expense. Two rather formidable forts existed at this time on the Connecticut river; one at "Number four," now Charlestown, and another was " Fort Bummer," in what was afterward and is now known as Hinsdale ; but these forts were built and maintained by Massachusetts.
The fall of Louisburg exasperated the French in Can- ada, and their Indian allies made no less frequent attacks on our frontier settlements. In fact, the year 1746 is noted for the attacks of the Indians in the Province of New- Hampshire. The people were kept in a continual state of alarm, not only from fear of the Indians, but of a French invasion. Indians were continually prowling through the valleys of the Piscataqua, Merrimack and Connecticut rivers. The garrisons were all guarded at the public ex- pense, throughout the Province ; the government kept out scouting parties continually ; a regiment of eight hun- dred men was stationed at Newcastle ; yet, in spite of all
84
adjutant-general's report.
this precaution, the Indians were successful in many of their attacks. They had become so bold and frequent in their attacks, that in the Spring of 1746, the government was obliged to send extra men to guard the garrisons while the people did "their planting, &c./' as appears from the following list :
A List of men under the command of Joseph Cass, to (fuard the Garrison at Canterbury, about their planting, ^c.
|
Time of eulistmeist. |
When dis- charged. |
Days in serv'e |
What p^-r mo. |
Whole wages. |
Billeting. |
Am'H |
||
|
a. |
£ |
s. d. |
£ $.d. |
s.d. |
||||
|
Joseph Cass, Ser^'t, |
April 21. |
May 19. |
28 |
32 |
1 |
12 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
Noah Hobbs, Sent'l, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
|
John Dalton, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
|
James Philbrook, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
|
David Welch, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 110 |
1 6 |
||
|
Obacliah Clough, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
16 |
|
|
David Bean, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
|
Jeremiah Sanborn, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
|
David Tilton, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
1 1 0 |
1 6 |
|
|
Henry Elkins, |
21. |
19. |
28 |
25 |
5 0 |
110 |
1 6 |
Total sum, A true muster-roll, as made up by me.
12 17 0 10 10 0 15 0
£24 2 0
EBEN'E STEVENS.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of liepresentatives, July 2, 1746.
Voted,, That twenty-four pounds two shillings, in full of this Roll, be paid out of the money in the treasury for de- fense of the Government.
D. Peirce, Clerk.
In Council, July 3, 1746.
Read and concurred :
Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y. Eod'm Die—
Assented to :
' B. Wentworth.
On the 22d of April a party was sent into the woods at Rochester, in pursuit of the enemy, under Sergeant John Thompson. The roll was thus ;
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 18G1.
85
April the 22, 1776. John Thompson's Muster-RoU, scouting in the woods at Rochester^ ^c, by His Excellency's order. Dismissed the 20th May.
|
Months. |
s. |
£ s. d |
||
|
John Thompson, |
Serg't, |
1 at 85 |
1 15 0 |
|
|
Christopher Nobl |
e, Sentinel, |
1 |
25 |
15 0 |
|
Joshua Gilman, |
ii |
i'. |
15 0 |
|
|
Jacob Buswell, |
a |
i( |
1 5 0 |
|
|
Robert Hayes, |
ii |
ii |
15 0 |
|
|
Paniel Delin, |
(( |
u |
1 5 0 |
|
|
Lonuiel Perkins, |
it |
18 daya |
} |
0 16 1 |
|
Benja. Yarney, |
a |
1 mo. |
15 0 |
|
|
Benja. Robertson |
} |
(I |
15 0 |
|
|
Richard Clark, |
a |
(( |
15 0 |
|
|
Zebulon Marsh, |
a |
(I |
£ |
15 0 |
|
13 16 1 |
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, May 24, 1716.
Voted, That there be allowed thirteen pounds sixteen shillings and one penny, in full of the above muster-roll, to be paid out of the money in the treasury for the defense of the Government.
On the 27th of April, an attack was made at Ilopkin- ton, by the Indians, and eight persons taken captive. Capt. John Goffe was ordered to pursue the enem}', and in six days he was at Penacook (now Concord), with a company of fifty men in pursuit of them. While at Pen- acook, news came in of an attack upon Contoocook (now Boscawen). Capt. GofFe immediately went in pursuit of the enemy, but without success. This scout ended about the 20th of May. Only a few of the men composing it are known, as the roll is lost, and those only, from the fact that Capt. Goffe piersuaded them to reenlist for another scout of ten days. The men thus persuaded to reenlist were as follows:
86
ADJUTANT-GENERAL S REPORT.
Muster-Boll of men continued in the service after the last Mus- ter-Roll tvas made up, under command of Capt. John Gojfe.
MEN'S NAMES.
John Goffe, Kath'l Smith, Wm. Walker, Philip Kimball, James Stickney, Stephen Flood, Jona. Stevens, Josiah Heath, Solm'n Goodwin, Herbort Morrison, James Vants, Wm. Mackeen, Wm. MacAdams Joseph Simons,
Qual.
Time entry.
Capt. Lieut.
Serg't. Corp.
Sent'l.
May 2] 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21
Dis- charge
June 1 May 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 27 27 27 27 June 17
No. ds.
Am't perm,
56«.
37
37
33
33
Wages.
7 10 6
Pro-
vis'ns.
9 0 7 6 7 6
7 6
7 6
7 6
7 6
7 6 6 5 3 6 5 3 6 5 3 615 3 Oi7 4 0
Total am't due.
1 13 2 14 0 6i 1 0 6i
17 2J 19 2^
18 9J 18 9^ 18 9J 18 9^ 13 1^ 13 1| 13 l| 13 li
17 10 0
Sworn before Col. Oilman.
Zach'r Eastman, Caleb Dalton,*
SOs. 1 12 2! 306'. 1 12 2|
£3^ 17 8
* These men were posted in August last, by order of the Governor, at Blaisdell's garri- son, for thirty days.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Ill the House of Representatives, Dec. 16, 1746.
Voted, That there be allowed thirty-two pounds seven- teen shillings and eight pence, in full of this muster-roll, to be paid out of the money in the treasury for the de- fense of the Government.
D. Peirce, Capt.
In Council : Eod'm Die —
Read and concurred :
Theodore Atkinson, Sec'y.
In Council, Dec. 10, 1746.
Consented to: B. Wentworth.
The}^ were not successful in finding the enemy.
Meantime, May 16, Capt. Samuel Barr, of Londonderry, with a scout of nineteen men, had gone in pursuit of the enemy. His roll was as follows :
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
87
A Muster-Boll of men emjjloyed in Bis Majesty's service, scout- ing in the icood, by order of the Governor.
|
Time |
Dis- charge |
Time |
Amount |
Whole |
||||
|
MEN'S NAMES. |
of |
in |
per |
Billeting |
Am'n |
sum |
||
|
enlistm't. |
service |
month. |
due. |
|||||
|
May. |
May. |
clays. |
£ s. d. |
Wages. |
||||
|
Sam'l Barr, Capt. , |
16 |
3U |
10 |
2 15 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 lU 10 |
|
Thos. Gregg, Serg't, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 l" 0 |
|
John Wallace, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
1) 10 '.) |
|
Jas. McGregor, Clerk,* |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
John McDutfee, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
James Adams, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
William Robertson, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
James Paul, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
Adam Dickey, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
David Thompson, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
George Clark, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
Sam'l Center, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
William Smith, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
Edward Aiken, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
John Aiken, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
James Duncan, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
Sam'l Bell, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
|
John Aderson, |
15 |
30 |
10 |
1 10 0 |
0 7 |
6 |
6 |
0 10 9 |
7 li 6 9 6 10 13 4 Wages, 10 13 4
Amunition, 9 6
Provision, 7 2 6
Total, £18 5 4
Enlisted the men the 16th of May, began our march 20th of May, and
discharged them the thirtieth of said month. ^
Sam'l Barr, Capt.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Londonderry, July the 7, '1746. Then the above named Capt. Sara 'I Barr personally ap- pearing, made oath to the truth of the above muster-roll, by him signed, according to His Excellency's order to said
Capt.
Sworn before Robert Boyes, Justice Peace.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, July 8, 1746.
Voted, That there be allowed eighteen pounds five shil- lings and four pence, in full of their muster-roll, to be paid out of the money in the treasury for defense of the Gov- ernment. D. Peirce, Clerk.
* James McGregor, son of Piev. James McGregor, the first minister of Londonderry.
88
ADJUTANT-GENERAL S REPORT.
In Council, July 9, 1746.
Read and concurred : Theodore Atkinson, Secy.
Eod'm Die —
Assented to: B. "Wentworth.
This scout was out ten days, but did not succeed in find- ing the enemy.
About the first of June, Capt. Jeremiah Clough, of Can- terbury, marched at the bead of a scout " on the borders of Winnepesaukee Lake." The Roll of the scout was as follows :
A Muster-Hott of nineteen men, under command of CajH. Jeremiah Clough^ in the Province service, in scouting on the borders of Winipisohee Pond, Pimcgiwaset River, ^c.
|
men's names. |
Entry. |
Day of disch'ge. |
Whole time of service. |
Wages per monih. |
Whole wages. |
1 |
|
|
iveeks |
days. |
£ s. d. |
^ |
||||
|
Jeremiah Clough, Capt. |
May 29, |
June 29. |
4 |
4 |
2 15 0 |
2 15 0 |
eS |
|
Henrv Beck, Serg't, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 17 0 |
2 2 4 |
Pi |
|
Daniel Clark, Serg't, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3J |
^3 |
|
John Parsley, Sent. |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 Sl |
"S |
|
Joshua Hill, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 S| |
<2t |
|
Ei chard Corlis, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3| |
gc2 |
|
Thomas Kowe, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3| |
1^ |
|
James Neal, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3i |
•Pj |
|
Wm. Beck, |
• 29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3| |
|
|
Joseph Joy, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3| |
o<o |
|
Ephraim Berry, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3| |
"^S |
|
Thomas Briar, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3i |
£h. |
|
Joseph Rowe, 31oses Eawlins, |
29. 29. |
29. 29. |
4 4 |
4 4 |
1 10 0 1 10 0 |
1 14 ^. 1 14 3| |
S8 |
|
Elias Philbrook, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3| |
at |
|
Sam'l Pain, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 U |
i^ |
|
Prancis Follet, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3^ |
o |
|
Henry Walloon, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 2.1 |
3 |
|
Sam'l Monson, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 3.1 |
*i |
|
George Nelson, |
29. |
29. |
4 |
4 |
1 10 0 |
1 14 34 |
|
|
£35 14 7 |
|||||||
|
July 1, 1746: Sworn I |
)efore th |
3 House. |
|||||
|
Allowed Ca |
:)t. Clou!. |
Ch for 28 |
days' |
provision, 110 |
|||
|
" for |
30 lbs. 1 |
aread, at |
&d, |
£ |
7 6 |
_ |
|
|
37 3s. Irt |
province of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, July 8, 1746.
Voted, That there be allowed thirty-seven pounds three shillings and one penny, in full of the within muster-roll,
MILITARY HISTORY — 1623 TO 1861.
89
to be paid out of the money in the treasury for the de-
fense of the Government.
In Council, July 9, 1746. Read and concurred ; Eod'm Die —
Assented to ;
D. Peirce, Clerk.
Theodore ATKiNSoisr, Sec'y. B. Wentworth.
The 3d of June, a party of fourteen men, with horses, started from Portsmouth, with provisions for " thirty men a month, under command of Serg't Beck, of Portsmouth," then at Canterbury and vicinity. Serg't Beck's men were with Capt. Clough. The roll of these men under Ser- geant Rawlings, was as follows :
A 31uster-Roll of men and horses imj)ressed and sent to Can- terbury, under the command of Serg't Joseph Rawlings, to carry provisions for thirty men a month, under command of Serg' i Beck, of Portsmouth ; set out June 3, 1746 : fo^ind themselves provisions and expenses.
|
men's names. |
o |
1 ■a o 3 |
is |
'^1 |
< |
||
|
Serg't Joseph llawlings, |
0 4 6 |
0 11 3 |
0 3 9 |
0 2 3 |
0 2 |
||
|
Josiah Sanborn, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Benja. Smith, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Joseph Leavett, |
8 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Josiah Rawlings, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Josiah Folsom, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Sam'l Norris, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 8 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Jona. Robinson, |
. 3 |
3 2 |
0 0 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
"Wadleigh Cram, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Joshua Folsom, |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
|
|
Samuel Hall, |
3 |
3 2 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
||
|
Daniel Grant, |
3 |
3 2 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
||
|
Jeremiah Bean, |
3 |
3 2 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
||
|
Thomas Kimball, |
3 |
3 2 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
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Josiah Robinson, |
1 |
3 |
3 2 |
11 3 |
3 9 |
2 3 |
2 |
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Horses belonging to men that did |
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not go. |
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John Leavitt, |
3 |
11 3 |
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Capt. James Leavitt, |
3 |
11 3 |
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Stephen Lyford, |
3 |
11 3 |
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Wm. Lam son, |
3 |
11 3 |
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Nath. Libby, |
3 |
11 3 |
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Benjamin Folsom, |
3 |
11 3 |
2848892 16 31 13 9 £15 97 Wages, £284;