The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

cans had abandoned Fort Tioonderoga and
retreated to Skeensboronah and Hubbard
ton without any resistance. Parson Smith
records this aay-tthe whole country into
wonder and distress. Lord help u.s." and
later in the month, "Provisions awful
scarce and dear" I'VE live from hand to
mouth A little later news came of the
battle of Hubbardton. and how our gallant
boys in Col. Francis 18th Mass. Regt. had
fought so fiercely to check Burgoyne's
army, and how they had saved our army
from being routed also the death OF "the
brave Col. Francis" Cumberland County
boys had shown their mettle. August lSth
came the news of Stark's victory at Ben
nington and the people were rejoiced at
this decisive battle.
1t was during this summer that the Let
ter of Maraue Fox was built here. Her trial
TIP was August 14th. and she sailed on
a cruise November l.
| About the first of October the Retrieve
was captured by the ''Tyrants Frigate Glas-
gow," and all hands were kept before the
| mast. The Glasgow had taken prominent
| part in the battle of Bunker Hill.
| October Is. the privateer Cumberland
sailed into the harbor and saluted the forts
| with thirteen guns. She was finally cap
tured in May HTS. by the British frigate
! Pomona and carried into Barbados. Four
| teen men from Cape Eliza beth were lost in
| her.
| October a6th, the news was received OF
| the surrender of Gen. 8urgoyne to Gen.
Gates at Saratoga the 18th, and Parson
Smith says the people were s'mad in their
rejoicing" The men and boys were firing
small arms all the morning, and about 2
O'Clock the soldiers of this company hauled
a field piece up in front of Alice Greele's
tavern corner of Hampshire and Congress
Sts.) and had fred once and in firing the
second time BENJAMIN Turkey, of this COM
pany, had his arms blown off, from which he
died on the 3Oth. Other members of tine
company were injured. This did not stop
the rejoicing. and in Portland in the
| Past" it says-"There was a general illu-
| mination of what few houses Mowat's
bombs had spared. A party was sent
round with strings of candles and when
| they found home without extra lights,
pane of glass was broken and string of
| andes thrown in with orders to light
up - s'Those who wore red coats and
cooked hats were inside in the midst OF
joliity: buckets of punch and bottles of
wine were Irooly pds5oO Jul VI 1Ao "AhNo"
| to the noisy crowd"
| After the victory atSaratoga and the treaty
of alliance was on the carpet, til Amer
loan heavens were brilliantly lighted with
the northern lights, so much so, that it was
said that they had never been so brilliant
before. and it was considered good omen
| by the people.
| The next winter passed with no unusual
occurrences, and during March soldiers
were enlisted for Washington's army.
| April IS. 1918. the French frigate, La
Sensible arrived in the harbor bringing the
| joyful news that France had formally ac-
| knowledged American Independence. The
| forts saluted the frigate and she saluted
| them, with three other armed vessels that
were here at the time.
| This all happened just before this COM
pany enlisted for eight months mora, and
| of course the men were in high spirits as
the prospect was good for speedy close of
the war, but it lasted five years longer.
During this summer. probably this COM
pany raised the first American flag on Fall
mouth Neck. The stars and stripes had
been. in a crude manner unfurled at Fort
Stanwix and at the battle of Brardywine
the fall before, having been adopted by
Congress. June 14th 1.77. In the early part
of July 1878 the soldiers made and raised
flag pole ''at the battery" and the 18th
they raised their flag and ''struck it at sun
set and fired II FOUNDER" In north
east rain storm, August 18th, the flag pole
was blown down but was raised again and
the flag waved over Old Falmouth ever
afterwards. A soldier wrote in January
l7.9 that he was fixing the flag" flag
may have been raised before this here, but
we have no evid ence of it, and no doubt
this was "OId Glory Probably the sol
diers were eager to have flag that lepre-
sented the cause they were serving for
and it was an important event in their
vice.
The inhabitants of Falmouth received in
ITS the special concentrations of the Gem
eral Court for their devotion in a resolu-
tion, which says of their conduct. ''as high
ly commemorative, manly and patriotic in
their glorious exertions to raise volunteers
tC reinforce the Continental army"
The people of Old Falmouth during those
eight long years, drank of the very dregs
of war, they suffered from fire. the sword
and famine and after making their stand in
l775. their stout hearts never wavered no
matter what their distress. until peace was
declared in 1888, when their joy must have
been unbounded.
Capt. Abner Lowell was the son of Abner
Lowell. carpenter, who was born at New
bury, Massachusetts,, in I'LL, came to Fal-
mouth, from Amesbury, Mass. and settled
at Clark's Point, about where the gas
house now it. His father married in 1887
Lydia Pnrriugton. and he and boy. were
the only ones who escaped from Pemaquid
Fort in 1.47, he severly wounded.
Capt. Ahner Lowell. was also a carpenter,
and was born December 28th, l740, married
in 1855 Mercy, daughter of Jonathan Paine
and she died in 1907. He died in 1929. He
was the second lieutenant Of Capt. Joseph
Noyes' company at Falmouth in ITS. He
had nine children, as follows:- Enoch
married Mary Huston. Mary married Amos
Green, William married Elizabeth Noyes,
Sally married Moses Hanson. Daniel mar
ried Mary Rogers and Celia Thompson,
Eliza beth married DR.. Timothy Little,
Euniee died a seventeen, Ann married Har-
rison Brazier. and John married Sally
Adams and Sally shaw. Enoch served in
his fathers company.
"a Pay Roll of the officers and mel of