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this or similar service, we find Hingham men serving as 

 follows : — 



Under Capt. Samuel Bent, from June to December, 1761 : — 



Ralph Hassell, John Neal, 



Elijah Lewis, David Stoddard. 



Levi Lewis, 

 Under Capt. Ephraim Holmes, March to November, 1762 : — 



Jeremiah Chubbuck. 

 Under Capt. William Barrows, November, 1762, to July, 1763 : — 



Nathan Lewis, Arthur Cain. 



Under Capt. Johnson Moulton, 1762 and 1763 : — 



Jeremiah Chubbuck, Lieut., Levi Lewis, 



Elijah Lewis, Sergt., John Neal. 



Impossible as it is to give an absolutely correct list of our 

 townsmen who " went out against the French " during these long 

 years of warfare, there are nevertheless preserved and here placed 

 on the rolls of the brave, the names of some two hundred and 

 twenty-four different individuals who fought under the king's 

 colors and shared in the glory of the final triumph. 



Moreover, at least fifty of these re-enlisted, fifteen served three 

 times, four four times, and one man seems to have been a recruit 

 on live different occasions, so that there must be credited as serv- 

 ing in Hingham's quota, during some part of the period, about 

 three hundred and twenty soldiers. Among these were more than 

 a dozen officers, of whom the most celebrated was Major Thaxter. 



In glancing at these old' company rolls we notice the frequent 

 recurrence of certain family names having a large representa- 

 tion among the present inhabitants, while others, then borne by a 

 considerable number of persons, have entirely disappeared from the 

 town. Of the former, the Lincolns, with seventeen names on the 

 lists, easily lead, while the Cushings and Dunbars each furnish 

 nine, the Burrs six, the Beals the same number, the Stoddards 

 five, and the Towers four. On the other hand the Garnets, of 

 whom five enlisted, have ceased to exist by that name, although 

 under the not very different form of Gardner, there are still rep- 

 resentatives here, while the Gays, Joys, Gilberts, Gills, and others, 

 including the once numerous Stephensons, have few or none to 

 preserve their names and families. 



From the close of the French wars to the opening of the Revo- 

 lution, we know little about the local military. Colonel Lincoln 

 continued to command the reaiment down to about the close of 

 the war, but under date of January 21, 1762, a list of the com- 

 missioned officers names Josiah Quincy as colonel, John Thaxter 

 of Hingham as lieut. -colonel and captain of the first Hingham 

 company, and Theophilus dishing, also of this town, as major and 

 captain of the second Hingham company. The other officers be- 

 longing here were Joseph Thaxter, — afterwards captain, — and 

 Caleb Bates, lieutenants, in Lieut.-Coloncl Thaxter's company, and 



