300 History of Hingham. 



" A Pay Roll of Cap* Joseph Trufant's Company Raised for the 

 Defense of ye Sea Coast within State of ye Massachusetts from the 

 first of December down too the first of January, 1777," contains 

 the following names of Hingham men : — 



Thos Bicknell, Sergt., 

 Thos Gill, Private, 

 Sam 1 Lazell. 



In still another company we find Hingham men serving in the 

 year 1776 ; Capt. Abisha Brown, of Concord, commanded a com- 

 pany in Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment, which served at Hull ; 

 and from a roll of the men in camp there in November we get the 

 following names : — 



Nehemiah Sprague, Japeth Hobart, 



Samuel Lazell, Jacob Whiton, 



Thomas Wilder, James Bates. 



September 12, a resolve passed the General Court which pro- 

 vided for reinforcing the army at New York, by sending a part of 

 the militia; and on the 14th the House of Representatives by a 

 resolve concurred in by the Council on the 16th, chose General 

 Lincoln to command the men raised for the purpose. 



The town had already sent Lieut. John Burr with fifteen men to 

 Ticonderoga, where they joined a company commanded by Cap- 

 tain Endicott, and now more were to be raised under the resolve 

 of the legislature. During the month, September, Capt. Peter 

 Cashing obtained twenty-three, who were sent to New York, and 

 in December Capt. Job dishing marched for the same state 

 with thirty-seven men credited to Hingham. It has not been 

 possible to obtain the names of all of the above, but the roll of 

 Capt. Job Cushing's company, augmented to over fifty, is here 

 given. Considerable information about its service is obtainable 

 from a diary kept by Thomas Burr, a lieutenant in the company, 

 who had already served not only in the army of the Revolution, 

 but still earlier in the last French war, in which he had also kept 

 a journal, and recorded many incidents of the service of a Hing- 

 ham company. The roll, which included some Cohasset names, 

 was : — 



Job Cushing, Capt., 

 Tho 9 Burr, " 1 Lieut., 

 Joseph Beal, 2 " 

 Isaac Sprague, Sergt., Nathan Gilbert, Corp., 



Jabes Wilder, " Zadock Hersey, Drum., 



Thomas Marsh, " Levi Teakes, Fifer, 



Jerom Lincoln, " Jairus Beal, Private, 



Caleb Pratt, Corp., Gershom Beal, " 



Caleb Joy, " James Bates, ". 



David Beal, " Lazarus A. Beal, " 



