Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

2S2 SPRINGFIELD, 1636-1886.
To Arriel Collins for io Cartouch Boxes, 1- 1-6
To Tho' Bates for a Gunn & Bayonett, 2-10-0
To Luke Bliss for a Gunn & Bayonett, 2- 8-0
To Widow Silence Bliss for a Gunn, 2- 5-0
To Capt" Tho. Stebbins for the use of a Gunn, 6-0
To Tim° Bliss for a Large Home spun Blankett, 15-0
To John Burt for a Blankett, 9-0
To Oliver Burt for a Gunn D'^ Silvanus Hale, 2- 0-0
To John Warner Jun. for Excers'ing as a minute man, 9-2
To Seth Storer Coburn for a horse to assist the minute men when thej'
marched from this Town to Head quarters near Boston in April
1775, 12-0
To George Colton Jun. for a Blankett & knappsech Del"! Benoni Bar-
rister, 13-6
Drums for the companies, 8- 0-0
Springfield mimite-men marched under Maj. Andrew Colton. The
following company, which left Springfield April 20, 1775, was in ser-
vice as a distinct company but one week and three days :
Gideon Burt, 1st Lieut., Walter Pynchon, 2d Lieut., Aaron Steel, ser-
geant, William White, sergeant, Ambrose Collins, corporal, Luther Hitchcock,
corporal, William Colton, 3d, fifer, David Justus Chapin, fifer, Lewis Chapin,
Drummer, Jeduthan Sanderson, " centinel," Israel Chapin, Samuel Gridley,
Alexander Bliss, Aaron Parsons, Jr., Aaron Ferry, Gad Horton, Samuel Bliss,
James Nash, Abel Hancock, Geo. Wright, Jr., Matthew Lancton, Peter Colton,
Jno. Stedman, Abner Russell, Asahel Cooley, Jno. Warner, Jr., Justin Smith,
Samuel Edson, Patrick Nugent, Benjamin Parsons, Jonathan IngersoU, Calvin
Bliss, Henry Stiles, Luther Colton, Abner Cooley, Lemuel Parsons, Noah Bliss,
Joseph King, Caleb Cooley, Zadock Bliss, Ebenezer Romerill, James Taylor,
Spencer Merrick, Sylvanus Hale, Moses Bliss, and Joseph Parsons.
Here is the muster-roll of the minute-men under Lieut. Uavid Burt,
of Lougmeadow, and Lieut. Jonathan Hale, who "marched in order
to assist our Brethren at Lexinoton " —
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