The Portland daily press., 1896-02-22
CAPT. ABRAHAM 1YLER's COMPANY.
They Reinforced Washington's Army in
177S.

Capt. TYler's company was one of those
militia companies authorized by the Mas
sachusetts General Court April 20, 177S,
to reinforce the army for few months.
They were assigned to Col. Thomas
Poor's regiment of Massachusetts, Militia,
and were marched to the North River In
New York. They probably reached there
about the time that the battle of Mon
mouth as fought, Juno %, 1878. The
army had been at Valley Forge all win
ter, and only left there the last of May.
After the battle the army crossed the
Hudson river and encamped at White
Plains.
Col. Thomas Poor was Major in Col.
Josenh Rrye's Essex County, Mass,
Regt., from May 20 to Dec. 1875. This
regiment was In the battle of Bunker
Hill and lost Is killed and 81 wounded.
The town of Fryeburg was named for
Joseph Frye. Col. Poor was lieutenant
colonel of the 9th Continental Regt.,
from Jan. to Dec. 81, 1776, which was
coAsmnded by Col. John Stark.
Col Thomas Poor and Col. Enooh
Poor are likely to be oonfounded. Enooh
Poor was born in Andover, Mass, in
1T36, removed to Exeter, N. H., and was
colonel of the 8th Continental Regt., in
17T6.
Capt Tyler's company was raised at
Scarborough and from the neighboring
towns. Their march to the army at
North River, must have occupied at least
eighteen days, and their service was I'm
til February, 1879, period of about nine
months.
Capt. Abraham Tyler was the son of
James Tyler of Arundel, and was the
last ferryman at Blue Point. He married
Aug. IL, i743, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown of
Biddeford. Capt. Tyler served in the
militia and marched his company from
Scarborough in the Lexington Alarm.
He entered the service April "a, 1775, as
Captain in Col. Edmund Phinney's 31st
Regt., of Foot, and served until Dec. 81,
then joined Col. Phinney's 18th CONT
mental Regt., serving through the siege
of Boston, and the Ticonderoga campaign
of the fall Of l776, and May IS. 177s, he
became captain In Col. Thomas Poor's
Militia Rsgt, at North River, N. Y.
and served until Feb. II, 1779.
There was another Abraham Tyler,
from Scaa borough soldier in the Revo-
ution, and may have been son of the
captain. He enlisted for three years,
March 2. 1881, in Capt. William Mills
Co., in Lieut.. Col. John Brooks 7th
Regt., and Feb 20. 1884, he was de-
scribed As twenty years old, 8 feet 81 in
ohes in height. dark complexion and dark
hair. He probably married Jan. 49,
17SS, Mary Cumstock
First Lieut.. Hart Williams belonged in
Gorham, and married Martha Phinney
in 1850. She was a daughter of Capt.
John Phinney and sister to Col. Ed
mund Phinney of Gorham. He marched
his militia company in the Lexington
Alarm, and took part at Falmouth in
the Thompson war; in May, IT'S.
Capt. Williams entered the service April
"a, 1775, in Col. P5inney's 81st Regt., of
Foot, serving until Dec. 81, then Joined
Col. Phinney's 18th Continental ,Regt..
in 1776, and was at the siege of Boston
and at Fort Ticonderoga in the fall of
1875 He entered Capt. Tyler's Co., May
10. 17Te. and served to Feb. II, 1879, was
prominent citizen of Gorham, and died
in 1897.
Second Lleut. James Lord belonged in
Scarborough, and married Dec. IL, 1865,
Abigail Foster. He enlisted in this com
pany May Is, and was discharged Oct.
80, 1878.
"A Pay Roll of Capt. Abraham Tyler's
Company in the Regiment Commanded
by Col. Thomas Poor, Massachusetts
Militia, in the service Of the United
States Of America at the North River in
New York. A Cording to the Resolve
OF the General Court April the goth,
I77S''
Engaged Discharged
A hraFsam Tyler