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Cohasset, lieutenant-colonel ; Isaiah Cushing of , major ; 



Samuel Ward of Hingham, second major ; and the members and 

 officers of the Hingham companies were : 2d, Benjamin Laphain, 

 Capt., Herman Lincoln, 1st Lieut., Joseph Beal, 2d Lieut. ; 

 3d, Jabez Wilder, Capt,,Zach. Whiting, 1st Lieut., Robt. Gardner, 

 Jr., 2d Lieut. ; Oth, Peter Gushing, Capt., Thos. Burr, 1st Lieut., 

 Thos. Fearing, 2d Lieut. 



The following served seven months in Gazee's Rhode Island 

 company of artillery ; the year is not certainly known, but it is 

 probable that at least a portion of this time was included in the 

 \ ear 1779 : Enoch Dunbar, Amos Dunbar, Daniel Dunbar, Melzar 

 Dunbar, Luther Gardner, and Peleg Whiton. 



In 1780 the Committee of. Correspondence, Inspection, and 

 Safety consisted of Israel Beal, Capt. Charles Cushing, Ebenezer 

 Cushing, Joshua Leavitt, and Isaac Wilder, Jr. 



In July of this year General Heath asked for reinforcements 

 for his araiy in Rhode Island, an attack on Newport being threat- 

 ened by Sir Henry Clinton. Under this call Capt. Theophilus 

 Wilder marched with his company, belonging to Ebenezer Thayer's 

 regiment, and served three months. The roll of Hingham men 

 is given below : — 



Theophilus Wilder, Capt., Jerem h Gardner, 



Thomas Venson, Lieut., Perez Gardner, 



Walter Hatch, 2d Lieut,, Elisha Whitten, 



Peter Wilder, Scrgt.-Major, Con r Barns, 



Elijah Lewis, Sergt., Isra Whitten, 



Isaiah Hearsey, " Amos Dunbar, 



Uriah Beals, ' " Sher Corthwell, 



Ezra Gardner, Corp., Abel Cushing, 



Israel Stowell, " Cushen Burr, 



Peter Hearsey, Drum, John Cushing, 



Bcla Tower, Fife, Mola h Tower, 



Jacob Canterbury, Laban Cushing, 



Be Cushing, Jerem 1 ' Hersey, 



Eliph. Ripley, Ezekel Harsey, 



Stephen Stowell, Israel Hearsey, 



John Hearsey, John Dill, 



Zedeok Harsey, Nathaniel Dill, 



Dan 1 Harsey, Joseph Jones, 



Jon Gardner, Caleb Cushen. 

 Stephen Gardner, 



The urgent need of soldiers frequently induced the States to 

 authorize enlistments for short terms, much against the judgment 

 of Washington, and greatly to the injury of the service and the 

 country. The town of Hingham supplied few men by authority of 

 these acts, and, as already stated, under a nine months call, in one 



