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Major-Gen. Benjamin Lincoln. 



Col. Nathan Rice, aide-de-camp to General Lincoln. 



Lieut-Col. Jotham Loring, 3d Mass., Colonel Grcaton ; dismissed. 



Major Hodijah Baylies, aide-de-camp to General Lincoln. 



Daniel Shute, surgeon 4th Mass., Colonel Shepperd. 



Capt. -Lieut. Nath'l Coit Allen, paymaster 10th Mass., Colonel 

 Tapper. 



Lieut. Hezekiah Ripley, Jr., 2d Mass., Colonel Bailey; Brigade 

 Qr. in 1783. 



Lieut. Joseph Andrews, Crane's artillery ; mortally wounded at 

 Brandy wine. 



Lieut. John Lincoln, 2d Mass., Colonel Bailey. 



To these should perhaps be added — 



Capt. Amos Lincoln, formerly of Hingham ; moved to Weymouth. 



Dr. Gridley Thaxter who is stated to have been a surgeon in 

 the army, but in what branch of the service is unknown. 



Dr. Peter Hobart, also a surgeon, the particular record of whose 

 service is lost. 



John Woodman, a private in the 7th Mass., Colonel Brooks, and 

 marked " promoted." 



Possibly, also, Chaplain Joseph Thaxter, formerly of Colonel 

 Prescott's militia regiment, should have his name placed upon the 

 Continental rolls ; he certainly was in the army later, but the 

 command is not stated. 



Another brilliant officer, who was a citizen of Hingham pre- 

 ceding the division, but who by that event became an inhabitant 

 of the new town of Cohassct, was Capt. James Hall. 



It is possible to make an approximation only to the number of 

 men who served their country from Hingham in other than the 

 regular Continental regiments during the war of the Revolution. 

 Many of the rolls are entirely lost, others are incomplete, and 

 some are partially worn and illegible ; the selectmen's records 

 furnish valuable but very meagre information, while from private 

 sources almost nothing has been obtained. From available in- 

 formation, — mainly the rolls heretofore given, and which are 

 literal copies of originals in the State House, — it would appear 

 to be certain that some six hundred different individuals per- 

 formed military duty in the several branches of the service. 

 There were doubtless many more whose names were recorded 

 upon the lost rolls, or whose identity cannot be determined, owing 

 to the fact that oftentimes lists still exist which are nearly value- 

 less from a failure to make any mention of the town to which 

 the soldier belonged. There is reason to think that a number of 

 men doing garrison duty at the Castle, — now Fort Indepen- 

 dence, — in Capt. the Hon. Thomas Cushing's company, were 

 from Hingham ; but there is an uncertainty arising from the home 



