318 History of Hingham. 



Robart Willder, Stephen Stodder, 



Isaiah Hearsey, Isaac (?) Whiton, 



Cushing Burr, Elishe Whiton, 



Ruben Hearsey, James Stodder, 



Charls Burr, Cornelus Bates, 



Canterbury Barns, Zebulon Willcutt, 



Daniel Wilder, Jacob Lincorn. 

 Thomas Stodder, 



Captain Baxter was from Braintree, from which town also came 

 a large part of his company. Lieut. Whiton subsequently appears 

 to have become a captain, and is spoken of with distinction in 

 Thacher's " Military Journal." Colonel Mcintosh commanded 

 the regiment. 



The Dorchester Heights works were also garrisoned by a com- 

 pany consisting of thirty -four men, under Capt. Elias Whiton for 

 three months. Captain Whiton. who early in the war had also served 

 as lieutenant in Capt. Pyam Cushing's company when stationed at 

 Dorchester, was taken with the small-] >ox and died in the service, 

 aged thirty-five years. Almost at the same time Captain Whiton's 

 elder brother, Capt. Enoch Whiton, who also had commanded 

 a company in the Revolution died, aged forty-five years. A third 

 brother, Elijah, was a soldier in the same war. They were all 

 residents of South Hingham, near Liberty Plain. The town re- 

 cords show that the thirty-four men were paid out of the town trea- 

 sury ,£402-2 for their services. The company belonged to Colonel 

 Lyman's regiment of Guards ; its roll was - — 



Elias Whiton, Capt. Jon a Hobart, 



Zachariah Whiton, Lieut., Joshua Beals, 



Samuel Hobart, " Will m Hobart, 



John Cushing, Thomas Sprague, 



Thomas King, Samuel Leavitt, 



James Tower, Thomas Joy, 



Joshua Stowel, Abel Whiton, 



David Gardner, Jacob Dunbar, 



Ezekiel Hearsey, Peter Tower, 



John Hearsey, Jonathan Farrow, 



Thomas Chubbuck, Jeremiah Gardner, 



Jonathan Gardner, David Chubbuck, 



Caleb Leavitt, David Loring, 



David Lamman, Laban Tower, 



John Hobart, Seth Wilder, 



Benj n Stowel, Esquir Hook. 

 Nehemiah Hobart, 



After the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777, 

 his army was conducted to Boston, and quartered at Cambridge, 

 where it remained until November, 1779. During the intervening 

 period the duty of furnishing guards devolved largely upon the 

 militia of Massachusetts, and of this, Hingham had a full share. 



