THE MILITIA A. YD THE WAR OF iSii 



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Peter Pratt. 

 Caleb Pratt, 2d. 

 Seth Phinney. 

 Nathan Souther. 

 Zenas Stoddard. 

 Thomas Stoddard. 

 WilHam Stutson. 

 David Stoddard. 

 Lewis Studley. 



Dawes Studley. 

 Luther Stephenson. 

 Nichols Tower. 

 Levi Tower, Jr. 

 Asa C. Tower. 

 Philip Wheelwright. 

 Gershom Wheelwright. 

 Joseph P. Wheelwright. 



David Whitcomb. 

 Thomas Willcutt. 

 Asa Hudson. 

 Zenas Lincoln, Jr. 

 Ezekiel Wallace. 

 Daniel Lothrop. 

 Clitus Vinal. 

 David Nichols. 



From the diary of Thomas Stoddard* we may read the 

 effect of Captain Peter Lothrop's alarm and its sequel. 

 He was working upon a salt-making establishment at 

 Simons farm in Hull, just over the hill from Straits 

 Pond, with the following Cohasset companiojis : Paul 

 Bates, Joseph Lincoln, Francis Lincoln, Levi Oakes, 

 Samuel Hayward, and John Nichols, besides several from 

 Cape Cod. 



His story reads : — 



We all continued peaceably at our work without interruption 

 until the morning of the i6th of June. We had just gone to 

 our work after breakfast, when we heard the alarm bells ring at 

 Cohasset and Hingham. Soon after, saw a person coming full 

 speed on a horse, to us, saying, we must repair immediately, armed 

 and equipped, to the Cohas'set meeting-house to await further 

 orders. The British having landed at Scituate Harbor and burnt 

 the vessels, were only awaiting tide to come into Cohasset for the 

 like purpose. We secured our tools and were off: all but the 

 Cape Cod men ; they refused to go. At noon of that day, we all 



* Thomas Stoddard was born in Cohasset, May 14, 1787. His father, Zenas Stod- 

 dard, was a Revolutionary soldier and later a seafaring man. Thomas began to 

 learn the carpenter's trade at the age of fifteen, but two years later entered on a 

 seafaring life. He was captain of several Cohasset vessels and made many suc- 

 cessful voyages to foreign ports. In 1831 he was appointed to the United States 

 revenue service and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. In this position 

 he made many perilous voyages in winter along the coast of New England, giving 

 relief to disabled vessels. He remained in the revenue service until 1847, and 

 died in Cohasset, on North Main Street, in the house now occupied by Ziba C. 

 Small, March 2§, 1854. 



