History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

418 HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUXTY.
ing of the Inhabitants thereof, to be called for that
purpose ; in order to its being bv each Town and
Plantation duly considered." Jonas Dix, Jr., and
William Fisk taught school during the year.
On the 9th of February, 1778, a meeting was
held, at which " the Articles of Confederation and
perpetual Union between the United States of
America was read to tiie Town and maturely con-
sidered by them, the Town unanimously agreed
that the said plan of Confederacy is well adapted
for the securing the Freedom, Sovereignty, and
Independence of the United States of America,"
and the representative was instructed to vote that
the state delegates be authorized to ratify that instrument
in Congress. At the March meeting Mat-
thias Collins, Lieutenant Isaac Hagar, and Peter
Ball were chosen committee of correspondence, in-
spection, and safety. In May Abner Sanderson
was chosen representative. On the vote to ratify
the state constitution the town stood six in favor,
twenty-two opposed. On the :J8th of September
a committee was chosen " to Estimate what each
one had done in the war by Bearing Arms Person-
ally or their paying money to Encourage others to
do the same & proportioning the same by a Tax
upon the Polls and Estates of the Town," etc. This
committee reported on the 19th of October. In
their report they give the following names of the
thirty men which Waltham sent for the eight
months' campaign : Colonel Jonathan Brewer, Col-
onel Abijah Brown, Captain Abijah Child, Captain
Abram Child, Lieutenant Oliver Hagar, Captain
Jedediah Thayer, Josiah Convers, Elisha Wel-
lington, Lieutenant Isaac Beniis, David Smith,
George Wellington, Reuben Bemis, .losiah Bemi.';,
Jr., Amos Fisk, Abijah Fisk, Timothy Flagg,
Jonas Lawrence, AVilliani Lock, Josiah Leaverett,
Edmund Lock, Elisha Stearns, Daniel Warren,
Tliadilens Wellington, Zachariah Weston, Eliphalet
Warren, Amos Harrington, Moses Warren, Charles
Warren, Moses Mead, Jr., and Francis Brewer.
These the committee judged should have .£;3 12«.
(acli._ The town sent nine two-months men to the I
Camljridge lines, namely : Lieutenant Isaac Bemis, I
Josiah Wier, Samuel (iale, Jr., Samuel (ioodin,
Phineas Warren, Jr., Joim Kidder, Joel Har-
rington, Tliaddrus (HHulin, and Lbenezer I'hillips ;
tli.'V ^1 Id rr.Tiv,. jS.v. cMrh. Ciplan: Al.ijnh
{lnl.l,.l,,.iahC,Miv,rs, J,,si;di Hemis, Jr., Caplain
Jcdediah Tliayer, Jonas Lawrence, Thaddeus Wel-
lington, and Kdmniid Lock went into Canada ; lliev
should be allowed £15 each. Colonel Jonathan
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Brewer, Captain Abraham Child, William Lock,
and Jonas Lock were in the service in the Jerseys
in 1776, losing baggage, etc.; they should be al-
lowed £4 each. Captain Isaac Gleason, Lieuten-
ant John Clark, Jonas Dix, Jr., Josiah Sanderson,
Nathan Sanderson, William Bridge, Elisha Liver-
more, Jr., Joseph Hagar, Jr., William Hagar, Jona-
than Stearns, Ephraim Hammond, John Lawrence,
Samuel Gale, John Gleason, Samuel Bigelow, and
Abijah Livermore, choosing to hire rather than give
personal service, paid £6 each above the regular
bounty; Captain Gleason and Ephraim Hammond
refused the town's bounty, and paid £12 &s. Sd.
each. Colonel Abijah Brown, Jonathan Hagar, Jo-
siah Wier, Stephen Wellman, Ezra Peirce, David
Stearns, Edward Brown, and John Coolidge, re-
ceiving only the state and town bounty, should be
allowed £6 each to put them on the same terms
as the others. Deacon Elijah Livermore, Amos
Brown, and Jonathan Fisk each paid £6 to pro-
cure men to go to the "lines at Boston." Leon-
ard Williams, Esq., Captain Isaac Gleason, Bezaleel
Flagg, Matthias Collins, Lieutenant Samuel
Stearns, Daniel Cutting, Deacon John Sanderson,
Ephraim Peirce, Phineas Lawrence, Nathan Viles,
and Zachariah Smith procured men to go to White
Plains, and Lieutenant Isaac Hagar and Isaac
Parkhurst go in person; each should be allowed
£10. Ensign Samuel Harrington, Jacob Bigelow,
Samuel Gale, Josiah Mixer, Captain Abraham
Peirce, Peter Ball, Jolni Durant, David Townsend,
Captain William Coolidge, Benjamin Stratton,
Benjamin Green, and Elijah Livermore each paid
£6 ; Jonas Dix, Esq., Deacon Jonathan Sanderson,
Cornet Nathaniel Bridge, Lieutenant Daniel (liiiil,
Jonas Smith, John Dix, Jonas Brown, Jn^iah Whit-
ney, Abraham Bemis, Thomas Fisk, Jonathan San-
derson, Jr., and Moses Mead, £5 each; Elisha
Livermore, £ lU ; Elisha Cutler, £ 14 ; and Joseph
Wellington, £3, to procure Waltham's ([uota
towards reinforcing the army, and should be allowed
these respective sums. Lieutenant Isaac Bemis,
Joseph Brown, Elisha Stearns, Ezra Peirce, David
Stearns, George Stearns, Thaddeus Bemis, Jonathan
Smith, Elijah Smith, Timothy Flagg, Charles
Cutter, Josiah Hastings, Flagg, Jonathan
Sanderson, -'id, and Samuel Green \\e\\\ to the Dor-
rhisirr llill> and Boston lines ; that service being
ea>\, the i
uiinnitlce think )H)s. each should be al-
lowed. \\ arhain Cnshing, James Priest, and Ben-
jamin Hagar each hired a man to serve for three
vears or the war; each should be allowed £30.