10. HISTORY OF EARLY SETTLERS. 
MILITIA ROLL CALL FOR 1812, BY R. LOVEKIN. 
Ebenezer Hartwell, Daniel Lightheart, Norris Carr, Augustus 
Barber, Waterman A. Spencer, James Burke, Nathan Pratt, Sam- 
uel Burk, Enoch Davis, John Trull, John Dingman, William 
Pickle, Matthew Borland, John Wilson, Eliphalet Conat, Richard 
Martain, Michael Coffun, David Burk, Jeremiah Conat, Thomas 
Powers, James Flannigan, David Seron, William Preston, Tim- 
othy Johnson, Dyer Moore, James Grant, Reuben Grant, Jr., 
James Hawkins, Jr.. Thomas Hartwell, John Paine, Lanson So- 
per, Caleb, Raymond, Joel Byrns, Jr., William Bebee, Nehemiah 
Vail, Aaron Hills, John Brown, Nathan Haskell, Joel Byrns, Sr., 
Jonathan Bedford, Jr., John Odell, Nathan Watson, Alexander 
W. Ross, Luther McNall, Gershom Orvis, Jered Kimball, Jona- 
than Rodgers, John Potter, Abraham Bowen, Stadman Bebee, 
Daniel Wright, Israel Bowen, Daniel Crippin, Dorous Crippin, 
Luke Smades, Joshua Smades, John Walker, Joseph Barden, Ple- 
tiah Soper, James Merrill, John Perry, Adna Bates, Francis Light- 
foot, Samuel Marvin, William Carr, William Borland, Jr., Roger 
B. Wolcott, John Spencer, John Hartwell, Myndert Hanis, Senr., 
John Burn, Alexander Fletcher, Robert Clark, John D. Smith, 
Leonard Soper, John Haskill, Samuel W. Marsh, Thomas Gaige, 
Jeremiah Brittain, Daniel Porter, James Hawkins, Sr., Gardner 
Gifford, Elias Smith, Jr., Roger Bates, James Stephens, Samuel 
Gifford, Ezra Gifford, Peter Bice, Christopher Merkley, Josiah 
Caswell, David Gage, Joel Smades, George Potter, David Bed- 
ford, Samuel Willet, David Crippin, Benjamin Preston, Reuben 
Grant, Sr., Abell Allen, Isaac Hagerman, Justin Johnson, Jere- 
miah Hays, Hiram Bedford, Joseph Caldwell, Stephen Morse, 
Benjamin Root, Benjamin Preston, Warren Munson, Edward Mc- 
Reloy, Myndert Harris, Jr., Asa Callendar, Joseph Haskell, James 
Lee, Zephaniah Sexton, Cornelius Daly, Jonathan Sexton, Zacha- 
riah Odell, William Munson, Timothy Haskell, Ephraim Gifford, 
John Voree, Josiah Wilson, ‘Stephen Bedford. 
This oath was administered in pursuance with an Act of Legis- 
lature, passed in Lower Canada, empowering the Governor Gen- 
eral to embody the whole militia force of the country; also en- 
dorsing his army bills to the extent of $1,000,000, and providing 
for $60,000 per annum, for five years, to maintain the defences of 
the country. 
Just before, and immediately after, the declaration of the war 
of 1812, by the American Congress, was a period of great peril 
to the Canadian people, “and required, not only all the skill, 
bravery, and tactics, of both the civil and military leaders, but al- 
