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History of Hingham. 



Job Mansfield, 

 Stephen Whiton, 

 Benj. Barnes, Jr., 

 Luke Orcutt, 



Jacob Whiton, 

 Caleb Leavitt, 

 Enoch Leavitt. 



October 1, 1778, General Lafayette was in Hingham and lodged, 

 with his servant, at the Anchor Tavern, then standing upon the 

 present location of Mr. William 0. Lincoln's house, on South Street, 

 and a favorite resort of the French officers at Nantasket. It was a 

 famous hostelry in its day , and was occupied as a private dwelling by 

 Governor Andrew in the early part of the Civil War. Lafayette 

 was on his way to Hull, where he was going to inspect the fortifi- 

 cations at that place. He was dressed in a blue coat with buff 

 trimmings, the regular uniform of an American officer, and at- 

 tracted much attention. Upon the news of his death many years 

 after, all the bells in town were rung. 



Among other curious documents in the State House are certain 

 inventories showing the amount of clothing received from the 

 several towns for the public service. One, dated Dec. 17th, 1778, 

 shows that Hingham furnished 128 shirts, 69 pairs of shoes, and 

 102 pairs of stockings ; being much more than by any other town 

 in the county with the exception of Boston. 



The great difficulty of ascertaining precisely the date of en- 

 listment of many of those who entered the Continental service 

 lias been intimated. In addition to the names previously given, 

 the following would seem to have entered the army in 1778 : — 



Alexander Atkins, Boston, 



Gershom Bcal, 



Caesar Blake, 



Maxitinde Basasobel, Boston, 



Thomas Burke, 



Caleb Bates (killed), 



Simeon Butler, 



Wm. Booding, 



Ezekiel Bragdon, Braxton, 



Abel Cushing, 



Isaac Crosby, Waltham, 



John Carter, Boston, 



Ronald Cameron, " 



Wm. Clarke, Pownalboro, 



John Clark, 



James Dishet, 



Perez Gardner, 



Isaac Gardner, 



Jesse Humphrey, 



Joseph Hobart, 



Daniel Hearsey, 



Peter Husen, Boston, 



Vose, 



Williams, Greaton, 



Pilsbury, Wigglesworth, 



Light Horse, 

 Langdon, Jackson, 



