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Japheth Hobart, Sergeant, 

 Abner Bates, Corporal, 

 Jeremiah Hearsey, 

 Thomas Marsh, Private, 

 Joshua Beal, " 



Ezekiel Lincoln, 

 Samuel Lazel, 

 Isaiah Lincoln, 

 Samuel Todd, 

 James Beal, 

 John Stodder, 

 Benjamin Barns, 

 Daniel Barker, 

 Stephen Mansfield, 

 Samuel Leavitt, 

 Moses Whiting:, 

 Elijah Whiting, 

 Jacob Whiting, 

 Jonathan Thaxter, 

 John Marsh, Jun., 

 Thomas Gill, 

 Frederick Lincoln, 

 Athanasius Lewis, 

 Elisha Bates, 

 Peter Wilder, 

 Joshua Gardner, 

 Elijah Stowers, 



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Isaac Gross, 

 John Hearsey, Jr., 

 Nehemiah Sprague, 

 Elisha Lane, 

 Jeremiah Hearsey, 

 Rufus Tower, 

 Welcome Lincoln, 

 John Hunt, 

 John Barnes, 

 Samuel Low, 

 Joseph Hobart, 

 Samuel Loring, 

 Caleb Leavitt, Jr., 

 Edmund Hobart, 

 Benjamin Stowel, Jr 

 David Loring, 

 David Gardner, 

 James Haward, 

 Ezra Gardner, 

 Jonathan Froraks, 

 James Chubbuck, 

 Laban Tower, 

 James Bates, 

 Timothy Shave, 

 Peter Hobart, 

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also Elijah Levit and Jesse Humphrey " fifteen days after going 

 to Roxbury," where they probably served in some other command. 



Capt. James Lincoln, it may be remembered, was not only a 

 soldier in the last war with France, but was one of the captains 

 who marched at the first call to arms at the Lexington alarm. 

 He resided on South Street. Lieut. Seth Stowers, who succeeded 

 to the charge of this company and commanded the post at Hing- 

 ham for a while, was also a veteran, and narrowly escaped the 

 massacre at Fort William Henry. Later in the Revolution Cap- 

 tain Stowers was stationed with his company for many months at 

 Hull, and also commanded it in one of the Rhode Island expe- 

 ditions. Lieut. Knight Sprague was likewise one of the Fort 

 William Henry soldiers. 



Among the few royalists or tories living in Hingham at the 

 opening of the Revolution, were Capt. Joshua Barker, then an 

 elderly and respected citizen who had held a commission in the 

 king's army, and served many years in the wars of his sovereign, 

 and who could hardly have been expected to abandon the colors 

 to which the allegiance of the best part of his life had been de- 

 voted, and Elisha Leavitt who occupied the stately old-fashioned 

 mansion which, one of the then attractions of the town, with its 



