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or place of enlistment of the men composing it being in no case 

 stated ; and the doubt in this instance is of sufficient importance 

 to make it unsafe to credit the town with any of them. It is 

 quite probable, too, that numbers of our citizens served in some 

 of the various armed ships authorized by Congress or the Common- 

 wealth, but of other than those given as upon the " Hazard " and 

 " Protector," if such there were, no satisfactory records are 

 known. Very many, if not most, of the soldiers from Hingham 

 served on several different occasions during the war ; and not a 

 few enlisted or were called out four, live, and six times, while the 

 indisputable evidence furnished by existing rolls proves that 

 several responded to no less than eight calls to duty in garri- 

 son and camp. In a few instances the periods of service were 

 short, being comprehended in a few days, but for the most part 

 they extended over many months, embracing the year consumed 

 in the siege of Boston, the time occupied in the campaigns in 

 Canada, in the northern department against Burgoyne, in the 

 operations near West Point, those around New York, the several 

 Rhode Island expeditions, that to the Penobscot, a part of Wash- 

 ington's first campaign in New Jersey, and the many months, 

 aggregatine: several vears, of garrison dutv at Hull, besides that 

 performed in Hingham itself while the town was a military post. 

 It is impossible to reduce the whole to a standard of number of 

 men serving; for a stated time, but if every different service had 

 been performed by different individuals, the aggregate outside of 

 those in the regular three-years regiments would probably exceed 

 one thousand. 



As observed previously, it seems reasonable to estimate the 

 different individuals as about six hundred in number : indeed, the 

 preserved rolls name some five hundred and seventy. Of these, 

 approximately, the Lincolns furnished forty-eight: the Cushings, 

 thirty-seven ; the Beals, thirty ; the Whitons, including all the 

 variations of spelling the name, thirty ; the Stoddars, Stoddcrs, 

 Stoddards, Stodars, twenty-five; the Hearseys, Harscys, Hcrseys, 

 twenty-four ; the Gardners, twenty-one ; the Hobarts, nineteen ; 

 the Towers, sixteen ; the Lorings, fifteen ; the Batcses, fifteen ; the 

 Burrs, thirteen ; the Spragues, thirteen ; the Wilders, thirteen ; 

 the Dunbars, eleven ; the Leavitts, eleven ; the Lewises, eleven ; 

 the Stowclls, ten ; the Joys, ten ; the Fearings, eight ; the Lanes, 

 eight ; the Thaxtcrs, seven ; the Barneses, seven ; and the Marshes, 

 seven. That is two dozen names of the soldiers from Hingham 

 included four hundred and nine individuals. The Hingham officers 

 of Continental regiments have already been named ; those in other 

 branches of the service, as far as known, were — 



Major-Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (before his Continental commission), 

 Capt. Benjamin Beal, Capt. Peter Gushing, 



" Charles Cushinor, " Pvam Cushiiur, 



" Job Gushing, " Isaiah Gushing, 



