2 8o HISTORY OF CO H ASSET. 



The next year, 1758, a more serious enlistment was 

 made for the prosecution of the war that resulted in the 

 capture of all Canada, and the final termination of French 

 control in the colonies. The Cohasset men who enlisted 

 in this year were, with their ages : — 



Shadrach Tower • • • 37 Micah Nichols . 



Calvin Cushing . . . . 27 Thomas Lothrop 



Oliver Southward . . (?)34 Mordica Bates . 



Solon Stephenson ... 24 David Bates , . 



Nathaniel Bates .... 24 Jerome Stephenson 



Abner Bates 23 Joseph Battles, Jr. 



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These were all privates under Captain Edward Ward, of 

 Hingham, and their fellow soldiers were thirty-seven more 

 townsmen from the two other precincts. 



These, and probably others in other companies, lists of 

 which are imperfect or wholly lost, maneuvered in New 

 York State and on the border of Canada during that sum- 

 mer of 1758, when Bradstreet captured Fort Frontenac 

 on Lake Ontario with his army of provincials. 



One of our men, of whose presence under Bradstreet 

 in that campaign we are certain, was Thomas Lothrop, a 

 private then, but in later years in the Revolutionary War 

 a colonel. Again we claim in this part of Parkman's thrill- 

 ing history of "Montcalm and Wolfe" a fair degree of 

 ownership. 



Following that campaign in the West was another under- 

 taken in the region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 

 in the year 1759. During all that summer Captain Jotham 

 Gay's company of Hingham men was stationed at the garri- 

 son in Halifax. The pastor of the Cohasset church. Rev. 

 John Brown, was stationed at Halifax as chaplain in the 

 army, and the following fragment of a letter to him from 

 Rev. Ebenezer Gay, the Hingham pastor and the father of 

 Captain Jotham Gay, is full of living interest. The date is 

 June 25, 1759 : " I wish you may visit Jotham and minister 



