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THE AMEBIC AN NATUBALIST [Vol. LI 



ute men" in 1775, probably fought at Bunker Hill, was at 

 Harlem Heights, stormed Stony Point, helped capture 

 Saratoga, and was at Trenton. He had married, 1777, 

 and, after the war, 1781, came to the frontier settlement 

 of Buckfield, Maine, which had been settled some four 

 years before. Fellow townsmen, by the name of Eecord, 



[ previously settled there and had told Jacob Whitman 

 about the town and their tales of conditions at Buckfield 

 evidently appealed to him, and induced him to migrate 



nd wai 



when aroused and positi\ 



irly built ] 



strious citizen and paid strict i 

 taring a family and attaining t 

 for road surveyor, school agent, and 

 was always kept in the jury 1 

 service. He was a man of fierce sp* 

 > opinions and fond of argument. 



