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Joseph Carrell, Private, 



Primus Cobb, negro, 



Robert Dunbar, 



Seth Dunbar, 



Solomon Dunbar, Jr 



Jonathan Farrow, 



Ezra French, 



Nath u Garnet, Jr., 



Xorman Garnett, 



Isaac Gross, 



Ezra Garnett, 



Noah Humphrey, 



Japhet Hobbart 



Peter Jacob, Jr., 



Nath 1 Joy, 



Elisha Keen, 



Elijah Lewis, " 



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 David Bate, 

 Abner Bate, 

 Beza Cushing, 



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 John Neal, " 



Flanders, negro, 

 Micah Nichols, 

 Joshua Remington, 

 Obadiah Stowell, 

 Nath 1 Stoddard, 

 Oliver Southward, 

 Jerome Stevenson, 

 Solon Stevenson, 

 Daniel Tower, Jr., 

 Joseph Tower, Jr., 

 Shad rich Tower, 

 David Waterman, 

 Solomon Whiton, 

 Jonathan Whiton, 

 Jonathan Ward, " 



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Calvin Cushing, 

 Thomas Culson, 

 James Lincoln. 





Thomas Burr also served in this regiment, but in Captain 

 Parker's company, — probably with other Hingham men whose 

 names are not preserved. A journal kept by him gives some par- 

 ticulars of the experience of the command ; and from this and a 

 return of Colonel Lincoln, in 1759, showing former service of cer- 

 tain enlisted men from his regiment, we learn something of the 

 part which Hingham had in the conquest of Canada. 



The fifth of July, 1758, Abercromby, with over six thousand 

 regulars and nine thousand provincials, left his camp on the scene 

 of Dieskau's defeat and Montcalm's victory, and embarked upon 

 Lake George. The army was in nine hundred bateaux, a hun- 

 dred and thirty-five whaleboats, and a number of flatboats carry- 

 ing the artillery. The day was bright, and amid the romantic 

 scenerv the line, six miles in length, with gorgeous uniforms and 

 waving banners, presented a superb spectacle. The life of the 

 army, and its real commander, was Lord Howe, a brother of the 

 brave o-encral who led the Ens-lish at Bunker Hill. In the even- 

 ins;, lvino; bv the side of John Stark, then an officer of Rogers' 

 rangers, he inquired about the situation and best manner of at- 

 tacking Ticonderoga ; and the next day while at the head of the 

 column with Major Israel Putnam and two hundred rangers, he 

 fell dead under the (ire of a small body of French commanded by 

 Langy. The loss of Howe was the ruin of the army, and Aber- 

 cromby preserved neither order nor discipline ; indeed, he was upon 



