284 History of Hingham. 



Charles Cushing, Capt., 



Benjamin Beal, Lieut., 



John Lincoln, Ensign, 



■ Moses Sprague, Thomas Marsh, 



Abijah Whiton, Joseph Sprague, 



Christopher Kilby, Israel Stowell, 



Jonathan Hearsey, Luke Hunt, 



Jacob Gardner, Daniel Sprague, 



Hosea Stodder, Joseph Whiton, 



Joshua Ripley, Abel Whiton, 



Luther Gardner, Thomas Bangs, 



Elijah Gardner, Thomas Chubbuck, Jr., 



Noah Hobart, Othnicl Stodder, 



Jesse Dunbar, Joshua Stowell, 



Lot Marsh, Peter Whiton, 



Joshua Dunbar, Joseph Lincoln, 



Reuben Stodder, Jr., Nathaniel Stodder, 



David Hersey, Joseph Hill, 



Israel Whiton, James Hayward, Jr., 



William Spooner, Daniel Cain, 



Levi Gardner, Seth Stowell, 



Obadiah Stowell, Issachar Stowell, 



and five others who received a bounty from the town, but whose 

 names have not been ascertained. Mr. George Lincoln says that 

 Samuel Whiten was in the Canada expedition in Capt. Charles 

 Cushing's company, and it is probable that his is one of the 

 missing names. Another may have been Hosea Whiton, who is 

 known to have died in the attempt on Canada. After the re- 

 treat of the army from Canada, Captain Cushing's company was 

 probably stationed for a time at Ticonderoga, and here on the 1st 

 of August Joseph Whiton, one of his privates, died. 



Capt. Charles Cushing was a descendant of one of the first 

 settlers of Hingham. Besides efficient military service in the 

 Revolution, he held many civil offices, and represented the town 

 in both the House and the Senate. He was known later in life 

 as Colonel Cushing. His home was at Hingham Centre. 



Capt. Job Cushing was a distant connection of Captain Charles, 

 and commanded a company largely recruited in the second pre- 

 cinct, now Cohasset, where he resided. 



Mr. George Lincoln is authority for the statement that Perez 

 Gardner was with Arnold in the march through the forests of 

 Maine in 1775, which had its termination in the disastrous 

 r^tack and defeat of the American forces at Quebec on the 31st of 

 December. 



During the siege of Boston both Hingham and Hull were gar- 

 risoned posts of the American army. The troops at the former 

 place during at least a portion of the time, consisted of Capt. 



