The Portland daily press., 1895-03-23

9TH. the matross company ON the Neck and
Cape Elizabeth were ordered to consider
themselves part of Capt. Moore's COM
pany; 7th soldier was sentenced to be
whipped twenty lashes, and the sth, two
were sentenced twenty lashes each fol
stealing fish.
August 9th. Lieut. Deering with the re-
naming of Capt. Bragden's company was
ordered to oparade-the 7th. with their pa cks
and implements, to embark for Thomaston.
The 9Th. two, soldiers were sentencsds to
shovel three hundred shovels full OF earth
in the forenoon, the same in theH eHafternoon,
and Sergt. Bracket WAS ordered to see
to the execution of it. The l1th, the whole
regiment paraded and fred ten rounds sof
sporting cartridges
October 3rd, Lieut.. Mcclellan was ordered
to march to the Kennebec with two SER
geants and eighteen privates with ten DAYS
rations. The 5ih. the news was received of
Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender the
fort at West Point to the British, which
caused great uneasiness for the fear that
other general otscers might be inv olved in
his treason. After the war Arnold lived
several years at st. john n. B., where lie
was generally disliked and distrusted, The
10Th. at 30 lock in the morning an alarm
was sounded and the soldiers marched to
their posts, but were dismissed at daylight
there being no duty for them to perform.
AS there was no necessity for SO many
men on duty here through the winter the
soldiers We're ali discharged December 9th,
excepting thirty men, and Col. Prime re-
turned to his home thu 9th. The next
March he came here on visit to his
friends.
The military operations for the season
hay wing ended, there was nothing for the
people to do but to get through the winter
the best they coule and wait patiently to
see what another. spring would bring forth.
Capt. Joseph Pride was the son of Joseph
Pride who came to Falmouth in the fall of
1928. He was born April IL. 1728 in 175l
married Hannah knight and they had son
Joseph. In 1161 he bought 43 acres Of land,
that was laid out to Joseph Conant in 1884,
of him, near Pride's Bridge in Westbrook,
and in 1862 he bought 43 acres adjoining, OF
James Cox. that was laid out TO his father,
John Cox. in 1884. Capt. nride moved there
and from him Pride's Bridge derives its
name. Before that the bridge was known
as Conant's Bridge, and probably had not
been built but few years. He was in Capt
Isaac llsley's Training company. in 1757,
was captain of militia company during
the war, and with his company came to Fal-
mouth Neck in the alarms sof those days.
His company WAS probably one of the COM
panies that came here in "Thompson's war,
who were contemporary with the minute
men of Lexington and Concord and to
whose memory justice has neveribeen done
by the historians of our town.
1st Lieut.. George Burns was a corporal
in Capt. Joseph Noyes' company in TITS and
lst Lieutenant in Capt. Nath;l behring's
company in III. He died in 1928.
End Lieut.. Joseph Mcclellan was probably
the son of Joseph and the grandson of Price
Nc Lellan. He was captain of company
from November 1st 1880 to May 1st 1881
Muster Roll of Capt. Joseph Pride's Com
pany in!Col. Primes Regiment stationed at
Falmouth from April 25tn to December 9th
1880.
Capt.-Joseph Pride
1st Lieut. George Burns
End Lieut.-Joseph Mcclellan.
seIgt.-Major-E Knight.
End Sergt.-William Moody.
3rdSergf. j osiah Berry.