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History of Hingham. 



of militia, on duty from May 15 

 Hingham men upon its rolls : — 



Joshua Tower, Lieut., 

 Jonathan Hearsey, Sergt., 

 David Hearsey, Drummer, 

 Jonathan Lewis, Private, 

 David Loring, 

 Thomas Wilder, 

 Peleg Whiton, 

 Daniel Dunbar, 

 Enoch Dunbar, 



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Israel Lincoln, 

 Seth Stoel, 

 David Cain, 

 Melzar Dunbar, 

 Amos Dunbar, 

 Ezekiel Lincoln, 

 Caleb Lcvet, 

 Nathaniel Dates, 



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In the early part of this year there was a company in ser- 

 vice commanded by Captain Pcnniman, of Braintree. The only 

 Hingham name then on the roll appears to have been that of 

 Thcophilus Wilder, who was 1st Lieut. 



There is another roll, however, of a company serving under com- 

 mand of Capt. Thcophilus Wilder, and composed of men from 

 Hingham, Stoughton, and Braintree 

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Thcophilus Wilder, Capt., 

 Elisha Lewis, Sergt., 

 Laban Tower. Corp., 

 Bela Tower, Fifer, 

 Ezekiel dishing, Private, 

 Jona. Gardner, 

 Sanrl Low, 

 David Prouty, 



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Thomas Howard, Private, 



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Thomas Howard, Jr., " 



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Enoch Dunbar, 

 Laban Hunt, 



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Elijah Gardner, 

 Thos. Colbart, 

 Rufus Tower. 



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This company, like Captain Pcnniman's, was undoubtedly in 

 Colonel Dike's militia regiment, and probably was in the service 

 in the early part of 1777. 



Mr. Lincoln states in his history that there were thirty-three 

 men with Capt. Job dishing, in New York, in 1777, but he gives 

 no information as to the time of year or location of their service. 

 It is much to be regretted that the numbers and names of our 

 fellow townsmen who served in the great Northern Campaign of 

 this eventful year, cannot be fully given. We know, however, 

 that when General Lincoln received his wound at Stillwater, on the 

 morning of October 8, he had with him his friends and neighbors 

 who had marched at his call, as they had so many times before, both 

 for his father and himself. It was at the taking of Burgoync, too, 

 that Joshua Ripley, of Colonel Wigglcsworth's regiment, of the 

 Continental Line, and Nchemiah Ripley, of Capt. Thcophilus Wil- 

 der's company, of Col. Gill's regiment, were killed. Capt. Wilder 

 had twenty-eight Hingham men with him at first, and the company 



