The Portland daily press., 1895-06-01

axes We're all ordered to be brought to
the country house, and the 18th, the regi-
ment was ordered to attend public wor-
ship.
May 18th Sunday the order was-'The
whole regiment to parade at the meeting
house list Parish church) Monday, half
after three O'Clock for review. John
Hanks a soldier to have his trial on Mon
day at 10 O'Clock at Mr.. Greenwood's, for
misdemeanors as may appear at the
trial. !" The whole regiment was then
| ordered to parade for worship. John
| Hanks belonged to Capt. Hooper's COM
pany.
| June %, 1776, John Castle, a soldier,
was court-martialed for being asleep en-
sentry, but he asked the regiments par
don and was forgiven
| Sept 18th, a court martial was ordered,
to try Joseph Switcher for neglect of duty
at Mrs. Greele's tavern which was on the
east corner of Congress and Hampshire
| streets.
+. Sept % a weekly return was made of
| the four companies on the Neck as fol-
lows:
1st Co-Capt. BENZ. Hooper, "a men
on fatigue.
2nd Co. Capt. Tobias Lord, 26 men on
fatigue
3rd Co-Capt. Benz. Crocker, 50 men
on fatigue
4th Co.-Capt. VIM. Lithgow, Jr., "a,
men on fatigue.
| This must have been a return of men
for some special service, as it probably was
| not one-half of the number of soldiers in
those companies.
Sept gath those not supplied with am
munition were ordered to apply to Wheel
er Riggs at the magazine, at ten O'Clock,
to be supplied. The magazine was in the
| jail building, near where the soldiers
monument now stands, Wheeler Riggs
who had charge of the magazine, was a
conspicuous:patriot of Falmouth Neck, and
a soldier in Capt. Hoopers company. He
served in the company Of Capt. Peter
Warren in the Bagaduce Expedition, and
was killed, while STOPPING over fixing a
gun carriage, by a cannon ball which
had struck something and glanced, strik-
| ing him on the back of his neck. Near the
magazine, in what n is now Monument
| Square, was a battery of five guns in
charge of an officer and ten men, The
battery was supplied with six rounds of
ammunition and the guns were Ecker
cised' every day.
| The "upper battery was on Free street,
where the Anderson house now stands
the breastworks extending on to the next
| lot, and this was in charge of Mr. Miller
and eighteen men.
| Col. Mitchell's Regiment served until
| Nov %, 1776, when they were discharged
| from the service, Capt Hooper's dis
charge was dated Nov 24th, 1776.
JAN 8, 1776 Congress voted "That no
postage be paid for letters to or from pri-
| vate soldiers while engaged in actual SER
| vice in defence of the United Colonies,
and that such letters be franked by some
person authorized for that purpose by the
Commanding Officer of the Dept" This
was probably the beginning of the frank
| ing privilege by our government.
Oct. 18th, 1776. the government ordered
| that the Commissary at Falmouth be fur
nished fifty barrels of flour.
| During the service of this Regiment here
at Falmouth, Capt. Richard Mayberry S
Cumberland County company was serv-
| ing in Col. Francis's Regiment at Cam
bridge, and Sept 18th, 1776, he petitioned
to the General Court for seven guns for
the use of the men in his company, and
the men to have one dollar deducted from
their wages for use of same This il
Illustrates the value placed on gun by
our forefathers
The following pay roll is for but three
months of the service of the company,
June, July and August but probably
contains most of the names of the men
who served in the company. Many of the
company rolls have been destroyed by neg
lect to preserve them, and it never can be
known what all the mems names were
who were the soldiers of the Revolution
Massachusetts,, proud of her history, is
doing good work for the descendants of
the men who helped make that States S
| glorious record, by printing her archives
SO that they are accessible to any citizen
of the country, no matter in what State
his residence may be.
ga Pay Roll of Capt. Benja Hooper S
Company Stationed at Falmouth in the
County of Cumberland in the service of
the State of the Massachusetts, Bay on the
Establishment for the year 1776, from the
Last day of May to the Last Day of Au-
gust 1776:''
Capt t-Benja Hooper, Biddeford.
! 1st Lieut.. james Foss
| 2d Lieut. -Robt. Eedgcomb Mason. Rid.
deford.
| 1st Sergt. Samuel Goold, Scarboro
| I'd Sergt.-Josiah Davis, Biddeford.
Sd Sergt -Zachariah Newell, Falmouth
| 1st Corp.-Simeon Tibbets. Died i'm the
army.
| I'd Corp.-John Hooper, Saco
| 3D. Corp.-Enoch Knight, Falmouth
| Drummer-Joshua Wescott, Cape Eliza.
beth.
Fifer-Joseph Knights, Falmouth
| RANK AND FILE
Haven Tarbox.
James Saunders.
James Foss, Jr.
| Daniel Ridlon.
Lemuel Smith.
| TriStrarr, Hoopar