The Portland daily press., 1895-02-06
Training Company of Falmouth 1856.

Under the earlier New England laws. the
men of each town able to bear arms. and
not specially exempted, were required to
| meet at stated times as a military company
| for exercise and instruction. Rank in the
militia was more highly esteemed than that
| of civil Office, and military officers were ac-
| customed to appear on all public occasions
| in the uniform of their rank. We have
| been permitted TO opy the roll of the Fal-
mouth company for the year 1855. which was
| at that time under command of Samuel
| Cobb The names of the Lieutenan and
| ENSIGN are not given, but in the list OF non
| commissioned officers and privates are
found names conspicuous i'll the history
of the town. Captain Samuel Cobb was son
of Samuel and Abigail Cobb, was born in
| Middle Dor ough, Massachusett is, March 10.
| l71S II led hrst Thankful Bangs and
sec ond Sarah Bangs, of Harwich. He was
a great sbipbuilder on Falmouth Neck
| (Portland) and at New Casco. in Falmouth.
| His dwelling house and ship yard on the
| Neck were located on the southerly side of
| Fore street. and east of India street below
| James Gooding's. on land he bought of
James Gooding April 20. 1852. This he sold
| to jeremiah Pote in ITO together with his
dwelling house and barn and ~ acre of
| flats, lying before said land. He bought
| Of said Pote on same day lot of land al
| New Casco containing 10 or IL acres with
buildings thereon; also pew in the New
Casco meeting house. He removed to New
Casco. July 20. 1T68, having purchased of
John Wiswell August IA. 1865 a lot of land
near squis terag ussett Greek. containing 20
1-2 acres with house. barn and fences. He
built ships here launching them into the
creek and towing through the Presumpscot
into the bay The house in which he lived
at New Casco was probably built by Rev.
John Wiswall and was standing i'll 1877.
owned then by Mrs. Amos E. Howell. Of
Portland. He was deacon of First Church
Falmouth with james Milk until his re-
moval to New Caseo.
ROLL OF COMPANY.
Sergeants-John Kinney. Thomas: :Moseley.
Samuel Cate. Wheeler Riggs.
Corporals-EbeneZer Cobb, Benjamin Lunt.
John Motley. Joseph Quimby.
Drummers-Joel knight, James Milk.
| Privates-Jo,n Anderson, Joshua Ayers.
Joshua Babb. John Baker, Edward Bangs,
Joseph Barbour. Moses Blanchard, Anthony
Rrachett, Joshua Bracket, Joshua Brack-
EFT, Jr., Thomas Brackett, Jabez Bradbury,
Samuel Bradbury, Thomas Bradbury. Cor
nelius Bramhall, James Brewer. Harrison
Brazier, James bryant. Henry Carver, sam
uel Clark Moses Clough, Smith Cobb, Samu-
al Cole William Cotton, Jr.. Eliphalet Cox,
Caleb Cromwell James Curtis. Richard Day.
John Dolley, Samuel Dolley. Daniel Dow.
| JabeZ Dow Sa Duel Dunn. Jonathan Eiwell.
James Finney, William Fitzgerald, Jane.
Flaherty, James Flood. Francis ford.
Thomas Foss, John Fox, John Fur bush,
James Gooding, Jr., Joseph Gooding. Sam
uel Gookin, Thomas Greeley, Samuel Green
William Green. Eheneze- dustin. Nathaniel
Harding, William Harper, John HAYDEN.
Ebenezer Hilton. David Hoyt, Enoch llsley.
Isaac Elsley. George Ingersol, John lngersol,
.Jabez L. Jones, jeremiah Jordan, Hugh
King. Anthony knight. Henry knight. Isaac
knight, william knight, Jonathan Lam
bert, Benjamin Larrabees Jr., Joshua
Lawrence, Peter Libby, stephen Longtel-
low, Bazer Loring. Abner Lowell, stephen
Lowell, Ichabod Lunt. Joseph Melcher.
James Nc Lellan, Joseph Mcclellan. Robert
Mcclellan, William Mcclellan, Enoch Moody.
Howhin Moody. John Moore. Eliphalet
Morse, Jonathan Morse, Jr, Joseph Morse.
| william Moseley. Edmund Mountfort,
Samuel Mount fort. Benjamin Mussey,
| Michael Newman. Jonathan Oliver, John
| owen, Thomas Owen, John Paterson, BenJa-
min Pettengill, Daniel Pettengill, Samuel
Pickering. Moses Poland, Arthur Porringer.
| william Pride, Benjamin Proctor, solomon
Reed, Gershom Rogers, Alexander Ross, Jr,
James Ross John Ross. Edward Sawyer,
Ebenezer Snow, Gilbert Scott. Isaac Spar
row. Jacob stickney, Edmund StinsOn,
lanes Sutherland, John Swan. Wiggles-
worth Sweetsir. John SWEET, Joseph lib
belts, Thomas Thomes, Benjamin Trott.
John T1ott, Thomas Trott, Josiah Tucker.
John Turkey. stephen Waite, William
Weeks. James Wildrege, John Webb, NAL
colin Windwiok, neltiah Winter, John Wis.,
we'll. William Wiswell, Daniel Wood, William
Wood, David Woodman, stephen Woodman,
| Moses Young.