The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-12

wrote In his journal, the day OF the mas
sacre, (Nov. IL a short account of IT.
He SAID:
'This morning about ten O'Clock. the
enemy surrounded the FORT their num
bers we cannot tell. We think there
wero between seven and eight hundred
of them, Indians and Tories. In the first
place they killed Col. Alden and took
the lieutenant colonel prisoner. They
also took Lieut.. Holden, Ensign Garrett
and the surgeons Mate, and with them
Samuel Proctor, Samuel Woodson.
Charles Hudman and Joseph Smith. that
went SCOUTING the day before. They took
many others and killed several that be-
longed to Alden's regiment; besides there
are number missing. They treated
the soldiers, men, women and children
in the most barbarous IN amer"
This shows the captured scouting party
were Of Capt. Lanes company, and from
this locality. 1t would be interesting to
know If they ever returned home or were
murdered with the rest.
John Dain had served in Capt. Win
throp Baston's company in February and
March. 1776, at the siege of Boston, and
Capt. Abner Lowell's Matros company
here in Falmouth Neck, before he joined
Col. Alden's 7th Mass. Regt..
probably In Jan. I777. for three years SER
vice. He must have lived to have been
quite an old man. and is probably re-
membered at Lisbon.
Col Iohabod Alden was the son of
Capt. samuel and Sarah (Sprague)
Alden of Duxbury, Mass, and was born,
Aug. II, 1889. He was great grand.
son of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins
the Pilgrima Col. Alden married Mary
Wakefield, and they had son, John,
and daughter. His widow married
Col Calvin Partridge.
Col. Alden had had no military expert
enos before the. war except in the militia
He was q captain of the minutemen
at Duxbury in 177a, was appointed lieu
tenant colonel Of Col Theophilus Cotton IS
Regiment in l775, and 25th Continental
Regiment in 1776, and was at Dorchester
Heights at the siege Of Boston. Gsn.
Peleg Wadsworth, afterwards Of Port
land, was captain under him, and
they came from the same town. Col
Alden was appointed colonel OF the 9TH
Mass. Regiments In Jan. l777, served
through the Saratoga campaign and was
killed Nov. II, ITS.
Col. John Brooks succeeded Col AL
den in the command of the regiment.
He was captain at Lexington In 1775.
and served until June 1885, He after
wards was governor of Massachusetts.
The Major Of the regiment was Samuel
Darby Of York, Me- He served as cap
tain in Col. James 6cammon's Both Reg
ment of Foot in l775, IN Col. VIM. Pres
colts 7th Continental Regiment in 1776.
in Col. John Bailey's End Mass Regi-
ment in l777, and was commissioned
Major of Col. Alden's 7th Mass, Regi-
ment, Nov. /, 177S, hut 1t ia doubtful
about his being at Cherry Valley then.
He afterwards served In Col Mitchell
Jaokson's 9Th Mass Regiment. His
wtfe's name was Mary, and he died In
1907.
The following muster roll Of Capt.
Daniel Lanes company was for Decen-
Der 177s the next month after the Cherry
Valley massacre, and gives the records Of
the four scouts capture as given by
Sergt Dain in his account. Capt. Lane
belonged In Buxton and we cannot say
that he was in command at the time OF
the attack. although . roll for October,
the month before. was certified to by
him. He vas captured near Fort Ann,
July 81, 1777, during the retreat from
Fort Yiconderoga, when they stripped
him Of most Of his clothing and took
everything he had. He was paroled by
Gen. BuEgoyne. Sept. l6, 1777, and after
that he had severe sickness which last
ed several months. but he had recovered
enough to have Joined his company be-
fore the tfmo Of the massacre probably
he died suddenly in 1871 aged II years.
Isaao Lane, the iifor, was his son and he
became colonel in the war OF 1919.
"A Muster Roll Of Capt Daniel Lanes
Company In Battalion Of the Mass.
Bay Forces In the service of the United
States, lately commanded by Col Ioha-
bod Alden, for tho month of December,
177s."
Daniel Lane. Capt. huston. Enlisted
$780,. -.