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HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



Isaiah Litchfield. 

 Gershom Pratt. 

 Timothy Burbank. 

 Levit Burbank. 

 John Burbank, Jr. 

 Galen James, Jr. 

 Asa C. Tower. 

 David Cushnig. 

 Thomas White. 

 Elisha Lincoln. 

 Job Souther. 

 Clitus Vinal. 

 Collins Stephenson. 

 Joseph Lincoln. 

 George Lincoln. 

 John Willcutt, Jr. 

 Joseph Joy. 



Caleb Joy. 

 John Nichols, Jr. 

 Asa Joy. 

 Aaron Nichols. 

 Levi Nichols. 

 Nathaniel Nichols, Jr. 

 Seth Beal. 

 Christopher Beal. 

 Caleb Beal. 

 David Stoddard. 

 Jonathan Humphry. 

 George Hall. 

 Obediah Nichols. 

 Huton Stockbridge. 

 Nichols Tower. 

 Elisha Doane, Jr. 



Each of these men was furnished w^ith musket, bayo- 

 net, iron rod, scabbard and belt, cartridge box, wire and 

 brush, two flints, knapsack, and twenty-four cartridges. 

 These arms and ammunition were issued to the soldiers 

 for the use of drill in times of peace, but the day was not 

 far distant when a serious need of the militia was to be 

 felt. The War of 1812 was declared in the month of 

 June, and then began the long series of naval contests 

 when our coast towns felt the imminent peril of an un- 

 protected seaboard. There was coming in that war the 

 most serious danger that ever threatened the town. 



The captain of the militia company in 18 12 was the 

 energetic John Pratt, but he was promoted to major the 

 month before the war began. In his place Peter Lothrop, 

 son of Col. Thomas Lothrop, was appointed captain. 



In order to understand a little more clearly the situa- 

 tion at the outbreak of our second war with Great Britain, 

 it will be necessary to refer to several events which inter- 

 ested our town. 



