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Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Early Muster Rolls - Holden, Mass. (new file)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:00:06 EDT

Subject: Rev. War Muster Roll - Capt. John Biglo Co. of Holdin, Mass.
Source: The History of Holden, Mass., 1684-1894
by David Foster Estes & Samuel Chebery Damon

p.162
MILITARY AFFAIRS.
1758.

"A muster Roll of a Detachment of men from Captain John Biglo Company of
Holden, of Colonel
John Chandler, Jr. Regiment that marched on the late alarm for the relief of
Fort William
Henry under the command of John Biglo as their Captain who marched from
Holden to Sheffield,
being 113 miles out."

All served 17 days closing August 19, 1758.

John Bigelow, Captain
Samuel Hubbard, Ensign
John Child, Sergeant
Joseph Greenwood, Sergeant
Isaac Smith, Sergeant
Simon Davis, Sergeant
William Flagg, Corporal
Andrew Smith, Corporal
Paul Raymond, Corporal
Moses Wheeler, Corporal.
Ebenezer Fletcher
Gideon Fisher
Samuel Thompson
Thomas Greenwood
Samuel Boyd
Elisha Mirick
Thomas Dryden
William Barber
Benjamin Allen
Job Harris
Ebenezer Goodnow
Jedidiah Estabrook
Isaac Thompson.

In 1759 the following served nearly nine months each:

1st Lieut. Ebenezer Fletcher
Sgt. Samuel Bigelow
Samuel Estabrook
Jedediah Estabrook
Job Harris
Samuel Hubbard
John Murphy
Henry Rice
Samuel Thompson.

John Woodward and Ebenezer Goodnow also served the same year.

1760.
In 1760, "Richard Miles, born in Ireland, 36 yrs" enlisted for the reduction
of Canada.
In 1761, there served in "Thomas Cowdine's Company" until December 2nd:
.Noah Cotton enlisted June 20th
.Thomas Cotton, June 30th
.Thomas Crage, June 18th
.James Crage, June 18th
.William McMaster, June 18th
.Robert Trane, June 30th.

Isaac Whitney served from June 29th to November 17th.

In the same company the next year - 1762

Sgt. Job Harris was mustered March 17th.
Nathan Bigelow was mustered March 22nd.
James Cutler was mustered March 24th
Isaiah Sprout was mustered March 22nd.

p.163 MILITARY AFFAIRS.

The service of all ending November 10th, 1762. In 1766, Ithamar Goodenough
served in Captain Fay's Company.

When "the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the
world,"
its echoes roused two companies from Holden, both of which marched April 19,
1775.

"Roll of Major Paul Raymond's Company of Militia who marched from Holden in
the County
of Worcester to Cambridge on the 19th of April AD 1775. Said Company belongs
to the
first Regiment in said County."

Paul Raymond, Major.
Nat. Harrington, Lieutenant.
John Child, Jr., 2d Lieutenant.
Ebenezer Estabrook, Sargeant.
Elisha Mirick, Sergeant.
Samuel Chaffin, Sergeant.

Jonathan Rice.
Moses Wheeler
Jason Gleason
Jesse Allen
Joseph Fletcher
Thomas Kimball
Aaron Broad
Amasa Holt
Asa Lovell
Amos Lovell
William Raymond
Amos Raymond
Timothy Morse
David Winch
John Potter
David Potter
John Symond
David Smith
Amos Hubbard
William Flagg
Zillai Stickney
Valentine Harris
John Mack
John Willington
Israel Davis, Jr.
Daniel Black
Samuel Estabrook, Jr.
David Perry
Josiah Stratton
Amos Heywood
Charles Heywood
David Fisk.

"Roll of the minute company in Holden, Capt. James Davis, in Colonel
Doolittle's
Regiment. Marched April 19th, 1775."

James Davis, Capt.
Samuel Thompson, 1st Lieut.
Samuel Hubbard, 2d Lieut.
Francis Willson, Sgt.
Daniel Grout, Corp.
Henry Taft, Corp.
Noah Haven, Corp.
Seth Snow, Corp.
Artemas Dryden, Fifer.
Thomas Davis.
Ephraim Smith.
Samuel Row.
Jacob Black.

p.164 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Nathaniel Sheppard.
Simon Stickney.
Joshua Gale.
Thomas Hurd.
John Oben.
Thomas Dryden.
John Winch.
Aaron Wheeler.
Isaiah Brown.
Edmund Hall.
Jesse Partridge.
Paul Goodale.
Peter Hubbard.
James Cheney.
Bartholomew Stearns.
Jonathan Howe.
John McMullen.
Jonathan Fisk.
Isaiah Cheney, Jr.
John Dodd.
Jabez Metcalf.
Jonathan Wheeler.
Elijah Rice, Jr.
Judah Wright.

Holden soldiers served constantly and everywhere during the whole
Revolutionary war.
The number serving in the Continental Army was sixty-five and ninety-seven
others
served for a larger or shorter time as militia.

The list of soldiers in the Continental army, from Holden, was as follows:

Abbott, John.
Allard, Andrew.
Bailey, John.
Bartlett, Jonathan.
Blake, Jeremiah.
Boston, Philip.
Bougle, Thomas.
Brown, David.
Cheney, Ebenezer.
Davis, Levi.
Davis, Samuel.
Davis, Solomon.
Davis, Thomas, Corporal.
Drury, William.
Dryden, Artemas, Fifer.
Eaton, Samuel.
Ebet, William.
Fisk, David.
Flagg, Jonathan.
Flagg, William.
Foster, Elisha.
Fuller, Jeremiah.
Gay, Amasa.
Grant, Samuel.
Greenwood, Asa.
Griffin, John.
Harrington, Nathan, 1st Lt.
Harrington, Thomas.
Heard, Thomas.
Heywood, David.
Heywood, Lemuel, Captain.
Heywood, Levi.
Holt, Ephraim, Jr.
Homes, William Thomas.

p.165 MILITARY AFFAIRS.

Howe, Abraham.
Hubbard, Abel, Corp.
Hubbard, Samuel, 2d Lieut.
Jolls, Thomas.
Jones, Abel.
Keyes, Ezra.
Kimball, Thomas.
Lovell, Nathan.
Mahana, John.
Nichols, David.
Partridge, Peter.
Perry, Daniel.
Perry, John.
Peter, Simon.
Potter, David.
Potter, James.
Raymond, William.
Rice, Samuel.
Smith, Asa.
Stearns, Increase.
Stearns, Increase, Jr.
Stevens, Thomas.
Stickney, Barzillai.
Webb, George, Captain.
Wheeler, Moses.
Wheeler, Nathan
Wheeler, Thomas
Williams, John.

The List of Militia men called into active service during the War of the
Revolution is as follows:

Allen, Jesse.
Black, Daniel.
Black, Jacob, Corp.
Black, John, Corp.
Broad, Aaron.
Brown, Isaiah, 1st Lieut.
Chaffin, Samuel, Sgt.
Chaffin, Tilla.
Chenery, Isaac.
Cheney, Isaiah, Jr.
Cheney, James.
Cheney, Solomon C.
Child, John, Jr., 2nd Lieut.
Clemens, Jonathan.
Crosby, Sparrow.
Davis, Edmund.
Davis, Israel, Jr.
Davis, James, Jr.
Davis, Jonathan.
Dodd, John.
Dryden, Thomas.
Estabrook, Ebenezer, Sgt.
Estabrook, Samuel, Jr.
Fisk, Jonathan, Sgt.
Fletcher, James.
Gale, Joshua.
Gleason, Jason.
Goodale, Paul.
Grout, Daniel, Sgt.
Hall, Edmund.
Harris, Valentine.
Haven, Noah, Sgt.
Heard, William, Fifer.
Heywood, Amos.
Heywood, Charles.
Heywood, Samuel.
Hinds, Daniel.
Hinds, Nimrod.

p.166 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.

Holbrook, David.
Holt, Amasa.
Howe, Jonathan.
Howe, Joseph.
Howe, Jotham.
Hubbard, Amos.
Hubbard, Attai.
Hubbard, Elisha, Sgt.
Hubbard, Levi.
Hubbard, Peter.
Keyes, Isaac.
Keyes, Israel.
Lovell,2 Asa. - 2. also written Lowell.
Lovell, Amos.
Mack, John.
McMullen, John.
Marshall, Timothy.
Mead, Benjamin, Jr.
Metcalf, Jabez.
Mirick, Elisha, Sgt.
Moore, Jonathan.
Morse, Timothy.
Nichols, Jonathan.
Obens, John, Sgt.
Parmenter, Solomon.
Partridge, Jesse, Corp.
Perry, David.
Potter, John.
Raymond, Amos.
Raymond, Paul, Major.
Rice, Elijah, Jr.
Rice, Jonathan.
Robinson, Jeremiah.
Sargent, Daniel.
Shepherd, Nathaniel, Corp.
Smith, David.
Smith, Ephraim.
Smith, Joab.
Snow, Aventon.
Snow, Seth, Corp.
Stearns, Bartholomew.
Stickney, Simeon.
Symonds, John.
Taft, Henry, Corp.
Thompson, Phineas.
Thompson, Samuel, Corp.
Turner, Bezaleel.
Walker, Hezekiah.
Webb, Constant.
Wheeler, Aaron.
Wheeler, Jonathan.
Willington, John.
Willson, Francis, Ensign.
Winch, David.

The records show that the Revolution brought heavy financial burdens. Amid
the
difficulties always incident to a new settlement, the distresses and
anxieties
inseparable from war, and the constant loss arising from a depreciating curr-
ency, the little town, not forty years old and as yet numbering scarce seven
hundred inhabitants, found it no easy matter to do what must be done in the
way of furnishing and supporting troops.

End - Holden Revolutionary War Rosters.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth


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