Military History. 



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Capt. Thomas Hearsey, 

 Benjamin Lapham, 

 James Lincoln, 

 John Lincoln, 

 Seth Stowers, 

 Job Tower, 

 Theopliilus Wilder, 

 Elias Whiton, 

 Stephen Whiton, 

 Enoch Whiton, 

 Levi Bates, 

 Elijah Beal, 

 Joseph Beal, 

 Thomas Burr, 

 Isaac dishing, 

 David dishing, 

 Peter Dunbar, 



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 Lieut. 

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2d Lieut. Thomas Fearing, 



" Walter Hatch, 

 2d Josiah Lane, 



Jacob Leavitt, 

 Heman Lincoln, 

 Levi Lincoln, 

 Isaac Lincoln, 

 2d " Nathan Lincoln, 

 " Peter Nichols, 

 " Jerom Stephenson, 

 " Knight Sprague, 

 " Joshua Tower, 

 " Thomas Vinson, 

 Jabez Wilder, 

 2d " Zach Whiting, prob- 

 ably subsequently a 

 captain. 



From official records still existing and other reliable sources of 

 information, it may be safely stated that the town of Hingham 

 contributed to the military service of the Revolution, including 

 those in the Continental regiments and on armed vessels, nearly 

 seven hundred and fifty men, of whom over fifty were commis- 

 sioned officers. The number probably was really largely in excess 

 of that here stated. 



It cannot but be regretted that these records of the old town's 

 part in the Revolutionary contest are so largely composed of mere 

 lists of names, and that there is so little of incident to brighten 

 the too statistical narrative. In this connection, however, one 

 little event may not be without interest. It will perhaps be 

 recalled that during the last war between France and the Colonies, 

 one of the chaplains was Rev. John Brown of Hingham. The 

 years which had rolled by since 1759 had doubtless incapacitated 

 the minister for further service in the field, but under the mac:- 

 nificent elm standing opposite to the old Cashing house at Rocky 

 Nook, he preached to a company of our townsmen on their march 

 to the post of danger, and sent them on the way with the blessings 

 and approval of the Church ringing in their ears, and, let us trust, 

 consoling their hearts. 



Almost from the surrender of Yorktown the armies of the new 

 republic had been melting away, and when, on the 3d of Sep- 

 tember, 1783, the treaty was signed at Paris which acknowledged 

 the independence of the United States, there remained with 

 Washington at Newburg scarcely more than a skeleton of the vic- 

 torious force which had taken a part in the grand drama enacted 

 on Virginia's soil nearly two years before. November 25th the 

 commander-in-chief entered New York with General Knox and 

 the officers of the army eight abreast, and, at Fraunce's tavern on 



