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Thomas Newell, Daniel Dill, 



Jesse Humphrey, Abel Gushing, 



Lot Lincoln, James Hayward, 



Fortune Freeman, James Bates, 



Xath 1 Stoddard, Perez Gardner, 



John Dill, Benj" Ward. 



Perez Gardner was three years in Colonel Vose's regiment, and 

 with him were John Tower, killed at Morrisania on a scout, James 

 Bates, and James Hay ward, both of whom died in the service at 

 West Point, and John Daniels, Abel dishing, and Solomon Lor- 



ing, — the latter not given in the above list, — and Jack , a 



colored man, doubtless Jack Freeman, killed at New York. 



Mr. Lincoln says there were also eleven men in Rhode Island 

 four months under Capt. John Lincoln. 



The only roll discovered, however, gives in Colonel Webb's regi- 

 ment in Rhode Island, Aug. 2, 1781, John Lincoln, captain ; 

 Robert Corthell, sergeant ; Sherebiah Corthell, private, as be- 

 longing to Hingham. The names of the others have not been 

 ascertained. 



It was towards the close of the summer when the American and 

 French armies, after remaining some six weeks near Dobbs' Ferry 

 in New York, crossed the Hudson, and under the general com- 

 mand of General Lincoln commenced the march across the Jer- 

 seys, Maryland, and Virginia, which terminated in the great 

 victory at Yorktown on the 19th of October following. 



The distinguished part performed by General Lincoln in the 

 last great campaign of the Revolution has been already alluded 

 to. The personal history of other Hingham soldiers has, with a 

 few exceptions, been lost or obscured with the passing years. 

 Of this we may be certain, that wherever the commands to which 

 they belonged were, there they were too, serving faithfully to 

 the end. Among those at Yorktown was Daniel Shute, a young 

 surgeon who had graduated at Harvard College in the opening 

 year of the contest, and immediately placed his talents at his 

 country's service. He is said to have commanded a college com- 

 pany during the siege of Boston, and soon after was commissioned 

 a surgeon's mate and attached to the Hospital Department. At 

 Yorktown he was the first surgeon to perform an amputation on 

 a wounded soldier. At the close of the war he was surgeon of 

 the 4th Massachusetts Continental Regiment, commanded by 

 Colonel Shepperd. Dr. Shute resided a short time in Weymouth 

 after the close of his military service, but soon removed to Hing- 

 ham, where he died April 18, 1829. 



Upon the staff of General Lincoln was Major Hodijah Baylies, 

 aide-de-camp, who subsequently married a daughter of the general. 

 He became collector at Dighton, and held other offices. Several 

 of his children were born during his residence in Hingham. 



