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

284 SPRINGFIELD, 1636-1886.
In June, 1775, Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr., of Boston, and Moses
Gill, of Princeton, met Washington and Lee in this town, at the old
tavern on Elm street, in their progress to Boston, where the father of
his country was to take command. A company of horse accompanied
the party to Brookfield, wliere local soldiery did escort duty to
AVorcester.
Later in the year 1775 many enlistments of Springfield men are
recorded. The}^ scattered about in various regiments. In October
Capt. Isaac Colton was encamped at Roxbury (Col. David Brewer's
regiment) with the following : Lieut. Nathaniel Alexander, Corporal
David Mxirphey, Corporal Mose Wait, Drummer Benjamin Colton,
Ely Barrister, Stephen Hunt, James Ives, William Hancock, Abel
Hancock, Thomas Ferre, Elijah Hancock, Joseph Parsons, James
Parker, Ebenezer Edd}^, and Moses Wait. David Lancton had be-
come a drummer in the 8th Massachusetts, and with Captain Longley
(Colonel Whitcomb) were David Powei'S, Solon Stephens, Asahel
Stebbins, and Samuel Remington.
In Capt. Gideon Burt's company (Col. Timothy Danielson's regi-
ment) were the following Springfield men, who enlisted April "24,
1775, for three and a half months —
:
Gideon Burt, captain; Walter Pynchon, first lieutenant ; Aaron Steel, second
lieutenant ; William White, Samuel Gridley, Ambros Collins, and Aaron Parsons,
sergeants; Luther Hitchcock, corporal; Simon Moore, Samuel Bliss, Samuel
Edson, Luis Chapin, William Colton, Spencer Mirick, Nathan Bliss, Caleb
Cooler, Lemuel Parsons, Justin Smith, Aaron Ferry, Beriah Jennings, Benjamhi
Parsons, Jeduthan Sanderson, Matthias Lankton, Noah Bliss, Able Hancock,
James Taylor, Jabez Cooley, Stephen Russell, Theodore Smith, Frederick Col-
ton, Ebenezer Eumrill, Abner Cooley, Justis Moore, Abner Russell, Benjamin
Howard, Elihu Colton, Jacob Ward, Henry Stiles, Silvanus Hale, Moses Bedeu-
nah, Luther Colton, Joseph King, Calvin Bliss, Benoni Banister, Joseph Chapin,
John Hendrick, Robert Stephens. David Chapin, Zadoch Bliss, Patrick Nugent,
George Wright, James Nash, Arthur Hitchcock, Jonas Christian, Luther Colton,
Moses Bliss, Jonathan IngersoU. John Stedman, Peter Coutson, and Ebenezer
Martin.