268 History of Hingham. 



Zacheus Barber, John Garnet, 



William Lincoln, Stephen Frances, 



Richard Stodard, Seth Dunbar. 

 Benj n Stowel, 



Of the particular service of these men there appears to be no 

 record. The following from the papers belonging to the Com- 

 monwealth indicates, however, that a number of them were with 

 the army in New York : — 



" Money owed John Faye, for money paid by him to invalids 

 returning from Albany, <fcc, <tc, 1760 : 



Benj. Stowell, Hingham, in Col. Thomas' regt., Capt. Bradford ; 



Richard Stoddard, " " " " « " " " 



There is a curious and interesting record in Vol. 98, page 361, 

 of the rolls at the State House in connection with the invalids at 

 Albany, which seems to have escaped notice elsewhere. It is an 

 account of a payment " to Col. Ranslow for his Battalion of 

 Negroes to carry Small Pox people to Albany." 



Wolfe had climbed the Heights of Abraham, gained the crown 

 of unperishing fame, and laid down his life in the moment of 

 victory, while Montcalm, his dying thoughts for Canada, slept the 

 soldier's last sleep in the Convent of the Ursulines. September 

 the 18th Quebec surrendered. The following spring Levis made 

 a bold attempt to recapture it, but abandoned the attempt upon 

 the arrival of an English Meet. On the fifteenth of July, 1760, 

 Murray, with twenty-four hundred and fifty men, left Quebec and 

 marched toward Montreal ; he was subsequently reinforced by 

 seventeen hundred more under Lord Rollo. 



In the mean time General Haviland left Crown Point with an 

 army of thirty-four hundred regulars, provincials, and Indians, 

 while Amherst with ten thousand men embarked from Oswego on 

 the tenth of August, followed by seven hundred Indians under Sir 

 William Johnson. On the sixth of September the three armies 

 encamped before Montreal. With Amherst and Haviland doubt- 

 less would have been found Hingham's recruits enlisted " for the 

 total reduction of Canada." September the eighth the remnants 

 of the French army, consisting of about twenty-four hundred men, 

 surrendered to General Amherst, who was about to open fire upon 

 Montreal, besieged as it was by his force of seventeen thousand. 



If with the death of Montcalm and the surrender of Quebec, 

 France in the New World died, so at Montreal was buried all hope 

 of her resurrection, unless, indeed, through the medium of diplo- 

 macy when peace should at last be declared. Even that hope was 

 destined never to be realized, for with the signing of the articles 

 at Paris in 1763 French dominion in North America became only 

 a matter of history. However, during the many months and 

 even years that intervened, the sea coasts had to be guarded, 

 and the various military posts garrisoned. Probably engaged in 



