History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

Tlie following named individuals contributed the
sums annexed to hire men to serve in the army
William Brown, AVilliam Wellington, Eleazer
Bradshaw, Jonas Child, Isaac Peirce, Silas Stearns,
Isaac Stearns, Jr., Joshua Stearns, Samuel Fisk,
and Abner Sanderson, £10 each; William Fisk,
Isaac Child, Jr., and William Coolidge, Jr., £8
each; Joseph Wellington, £7; Cornet Nathaniel
Bridge, Samuel Peirce, Jonas Dix, Esq., Jonas
Smith, Moses Mead, Jonas Viles, Captain Wil-
liam Coohdge, Uriah Cutting, David Townsend,
John Durant, Peter Ball, Benjamin Green, and
Elijah Lawrence, £6 each; George Lawrence,
Samuel Dix, Joel Dix, Josiah Hastings, Josiah
Whitney, Abraham Bemis, Tiiomas Fisk, Jonathan
Dix, Ephraim Peirce, Jonathan Sanderson, ."Jd, and
Thomas Livermore, £5 each; Captahi John Clark,
Jonathan Fisk, Josiah Sanderson, Abijah Liver-
more, Peter Warren, and Elisha Cutler, £ 4 each
Abraham Bemis, Jr., Deacon Jonathan Sanderson,
and Daniel Child, £3 each; Jonas Brown, Amos
Brown, William Bridge, Jonas Dix, Jr., and Daniel
Taylor, £:J each; and Phineas Lawrence, £1.
Lieutenant Isaac Bemis, Jonas Lawrence, and
Jacob Mead went to Ehode Island ; they should
have £6 each. Daniel Stearns, Abraham Bemis,
Jr., Ephraim Peirce, Jr., Thaddeus Bemis, and
Thaddeus Goodwin were drafted to go to Benning-
ton, and either went or sent some one ; for tiieir
service they should have £30 Is. l\d. each, ex-
clusive of what they received. The sums ainiexed
to the following names were paid " at that time to
Encourage those that turned out and went ": Deacon
Elijah Livermore, Leonard Wilhams, Samuel
Gale, and Isaac Parkhurst, £30 each; Ensign
Josiah Bemis, £10 ;
Mead, £ 6 ;
Phineas Lawrence and Joshua
Jonas Dix, Esq., Jonas Dix., Jr., Joel
Dix, Jonathan Stearns, Cornet Nathaniel Bridge,
William Bridge, Abraham Bemis, Jacob Bemis,
Captain John Clark, Silas Stearns, Daniel Stearns,
Jonathan Sanderson, 3d., Josiah Hastings, Abijah
Livermore, Thomas Livermore, John Lawrence,
Moses Mead, and Joshua Stearns, £5 each; Jacob
Bigelow, Samuel Peirce, John Sanderson, Peter
Edes, Jonathan Fisk, Amos Peirce, Jonas Smith,
and Josiah Sanderson, £4 each; David Smith,
Nathan Viles, William Fisk, Zachariah Smith, Jonas
Viles, and Isaac Peirce, £3 each; and Peter War-
ren, Lieutenant Daniel Child, Elisha Livermore, Jr.,
and Nathan Sanderson, ££ eacli ; which should
be allowed. William Peirce aiul Moses Lawrence^
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should have £ 10 each. Lieutenant Samuel Stearns,
Samuel Stearns, Jr., Abijah Bigelow, Amos Harrington,
Abijah Fisk, Reuben Bemis, George Law-
rence, and Elisha Stearns went in November, 1777,
" to guard the troops of Convention," serving until
April, 1778 ; they should receive £30 each. Cap-
tain Abraham Peirce, William Coolidge, Jr., Ben-
jamin Harrington, Jr., John Bright, Amos Fisk,
]\Ioses Warren, John Perry, Thomas Hoppens, and
Bezaleel Flagg,who went in January last to perform
the same duty, should be allowed £16 each; and
Jonas Child, Zachariah Smith, Nathan Sanderson,
Elisha Livermore, Jr., Joshua Stearns, Daniel
Warren, John Lawrence, Isaac Child, Jr., Isaac
Peirce, Joseph Brown, and Josiah Hastings, Jr.,
for similar service should receive £ 12 6«., exclusive
of what they have had and are to receive. Lieu-
tenant Isaac Hagar, John Gleason, Samuel Bigelow,
Eliphalet Warren, Alpheus Gale, Jonathan Hagar,
Eli Jones, Moses Mead, Jr., Josiah Leavitt, Jona-
than Sanderson, 3d, Amos Peirce, Jedediah White,
Charles Cutter, and Jacob Bemis went to the Bos-
ton and Eoxbury lines last spring, for which they
are entitled to £6 each. The following named
persons paid the sums annexed to their names last
spring " to fill the Continental Battalions and to
secure the passes of the North River," namely ; Cap-
lain William Coolidge, John Dix, Jacob Bigelow,
Ensign Samuel Harrington, Benjamin Harrington,
Cornet Nathaniel Bridge, Eleazer Bradshaw, Jonas
Dix, Esq., Elisha Livermore, Jonas Smith, and
David Smith, £ 20 each ; William Hagar, Josiah
Mixer, Matthias Collins, Mr. Peirpont, and Deacon
Elijah Livermore, £15 each; Captain Isaac Glea-
son, £12 5*.; Elisha Cutler and Abner Sanderson,
£ 1 1 each ; Daniel Taylor, Samuel Dix, Nathaniel
Livermore, Uriah Cutting, David Townsend, John
Durant, Peter Ball, Ca])tain Abraham Peirce, John
Gleason, Bezaleel Flagg, Daniel Cutting, Ephraim
HanuBond, Benjamin Stratton, Benjamin Green,
Elijah Lawrence, Hy. Kimball, Zachariah Weston,
Ebenezer Brown, Jonas Brown, Abraham Bemis,
Captain John Clark, Lieutenant Daniel Child, Isaac
Child, Jonas Dix, Jr., William Wellington, Jona-
than Dix, Thomas Fisk, Jonathan Fisk, William
Fisk, Samuel Fisk, Oliver Haggett, Josiah Hastings,
Thomas Hammond, Abijah Livermore, Phineas
Lawrence, Joshua Mead, Moses Mead, Jonathan
Sanderson, Jr., John Sanderson, Josiah Sandei-son,
and Nathan Viles, £ 10 each ; Benjamin Peirce, £9
and Peter Warren £6; and these sums should be
served at Dorchester Hills three months; they allowed them. William Adams, William Bridge,
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