204 History of Hingham. 



David Lincoln, Private, Lot Lincoln, Private, 



Thomas Lothrop, " Joseph Loring, " 



John Burr, " Caleb Joy, " 



Uriah Oakes, " Obadiah Beal, " 



Benjamin Garnet, " 



It will be recalled that soon after the termination of the war 

 with Philip, permission was granted to Capt. Joshua Hobart, 

 and others, to form a small troop of horse in Hingham, Wey- 

 mouth, and Hull, and that John Thaxter became its first com- 

 mander. With the foot companies of Hingham and other towns 

 in the vicinity, this troop was attached in 1680 to a new regiment 

 under Major Wm, Stoughton. It would seem that subsequently 

 the troop came to be composed almost entirely of men belonging 

 to Hingham and Braintree, and that was still the fact when. 

 August 12th, 1757, it marched to the relief of the fort, which 

 had already surrendered. By the above roll it will be seen that 

 a majority of its officers were from the former place. Its service 

 ended the 23d of the same month. 



In July, 1757, Pitt, who shortly before had been dismissed from 

 office, became the controlling force in foreign affairs and in the 

 department of war. With him there came a new light to Eng- 

 land and the colonies ; the tide of defeat and disaster was checked, 

 hope was reawakened, and a vigor and wisdom instilled into the 

 conduct of public affairs, which eventually led to the triumph of 

 the British arms and the conquest of Canada. 



Early in June, 1758, Admiral Boscawen and General Amherst, 

 with eighteen frigates and fire-ships, twenty-three ships of the 

 line and a fleet of transports, on board of which were eleven 

 thousand six hundred soldiers, all regulars except five hundred 

 provincial rangers, appeared before Louisbourg. Amherst's briga- 

 diers were Whitmore, Lawrence, and Wolfe. July 27th the fort 

 surrendered after a determined resistance, and over five thousand 

 men became prisoners in the hands of the English. In the siege 

 Jotham Gay, who commanded a company from Hingham shortly 

 after and perhaps at this time also, is said to have participated. 



Among the Massachusetts regiments raised for the prosecution 

 of the war was one commanded by Col. Joseph Williams. It was 

 recruited early in 1758, and contained a company of Hingham 

 men, commanded by Capt. Edward Ward, who had already served 

 at the capture of Louisbourg in 1745. The roll of this com- 

 pany was as follows : — 



Edward Ward, Captain, 

 Isaac Smith, Sergt.. Nath" Bates, Private. 



Lott Lincoln, Corp., Joseph Beal, " 



James Howard, " Mordica Bates, ' ; 



James Lincoln, " Joseph Battles, Jr.. " 



