St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-04-30
VOLUME 3S---NUMBER 1870.

+ on earth. The historian Minot tells us,
( that. i'll l157. une-third of the effective
men of this colony were in the field.
/ III some form or other. In the eNpcdi-
| ti"n Ia the West Indies in l7IO. MaSsil-
chuSettS sent live hundred men. OF
whom only fifty returned alive ; and.
of that tOICc Srut ont. ut least sin were
men of Lexington. OF the four thou
sand and seventy men at LouiSburg.
Massachusetts sent three thousand two
hundred and fifty. The military rec
ordS of your town aIe mostly lost : but
Lexington proves in the service, be-
tween l74s and 1862, Il yearly average
of from twenty to twenty-five men.
Men of Lexington were with the M.sSa-
chusctts troops under Wulf and Howe.
AbrrcIomhic and Amherst. at Quchcc,
Tic"rdrroga, and Crown Point. Mas
Sachus,ttS. in l715. was tull of men
who had been under tiIr. who had held
respectable commands in the field. and
had learned something of strategy aud
nt military engineering. The training
field was as sacred to liberty as the
meeting hou>c and the old mu>ket
hang in the chimney corner aS the old
family hi''I" lay rpon the table
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