The Portland daily press., 1898-01-25

u6l anu D6UOIdh tAfAuatOAy
cock, and was born Dec. q, l744, proba-
bly, in New Milford, Conn. He was q
tailor and lived in New Marleboro, Mass.
He married May s, 1771, Sarah Cornish,
of Snndisiield, Mass, and had two chill.
dren, Cornish and Sarah. He WAS Killed
in a duel with Lieut.. Stone at West
Point, N. Y, Feb. 81, 1889.
Me Oct. "A, 1859. He was mason here
at Falmouth Neck when he enlisted May
12, 1775, in Col. Phinney' s Regiment, and
in September was made an ensign, with
which rank he entered Phinney's 18th
Continental Regiment, Jan. /, 1776. Nov.
6 he was promoted to second lieutenant.
and to first lieutenant Nov. 13. He was
commissioned in Brewers 18th Mass.
Regiment, Jan. l, 1777, made muster
master of De Kalbe's' Division Feb. 9,
TITS, Captain April /, l779, and was
transferred to the I'd Mass. Regiment
May 3, 1882. He served AS aid de camp 10
Gen. Heath from Feb. 5, 1881, until
June, 1888. -
Capt. Sewall settled in Hallowell, Me. >.
and lived later at Augusta. He served as
town clerk, clerk of courts, register OF
deeds, and brigadier and major genera
in the Militia. He died at Augusta Sept;
4, 1e45, at the age OF so, an honored ana
respected citizen.
Paymaster Joseph Tucker married
Mary Stone of York. Me-, she daughtsr
of Capt. John Stone. They had o .Wo
Judge William Pitt Preble, of Portland
and Mary Ann, married Louis A. de
| Creney. Tucker was relative OF Com
modore Samuel Tucker, and d1ed ABOUT
1872 He was appointed lieutenant In
Capt. Francis Shaw's company organ
| ized for the defense of the eastern Maine
coast. April 10, 1875; was an ensign in
nIxe, in 177T and q
| lieutenant, 1850 to 1888. He was a
member of the Society of the Cincinnati,
was the collector of York 1793-1S04,
town treasurer, and was an influential
citizen in the towns affairs.
|, Adiutant William White was probably
the one who was the adjutant of the 7th
Mass.k Regiment, Jan. l. 1777, lieutenant
was killed in October, 1881.
Surgeon Ezekiel Brown, of Concord,
Mass, was IN the Militia in March, 1776,
and was appointed the surgeon of the 7th
Mass. Regiment Jan. /, 1777, and retired
Jan. /, 1881.
At Valley Forge in ITS, John Wingate
was surgeon, Joseph Gardner surgeon g
Bateman, who served from Jan. ], 1777,
until April 1879. The quartermaster
was John Whiting of Lancaster, Mass.
and the captains were James Donnell, OF
York Daniel Merrill of Arundel Nathan
Watkins of Hopkinton, Mass, and Josiah
Jenkins of Gorham, in addition to those
already named. The additional lieuten-
Austin Alden of Gorham, Ebenezsr
Storer of Wells, afterward of Portland.
David Watts of Gorham, Benjamin
Thompson of Brunswick, William Frost
of Berwick, Andrew English, Joseph
Foote, Adriel Warren, Asa Bullard OF
Sherburue, Mass. Lemuel Miller and
John Hubbell. The ensigns were Joshua
Asa Pixley, John Buck, of Richmond,
Mass, and John Lefavor.
| @. M. John Whiting was born in Ian
| caster, Mass, Feb. "a, 1760, married in
1884 Orpah Danforth, of Connecticut, and
had eight children. He was minuteman
at Concord, April 19, 1775, and served by
the side of his father and brother limo
thy, who became captain. He was with
| Arnold on Lake Champlain in 1776, and
served through the Saratoga campaign.
He was made quartermaster Aug. 10,
l777, lieutenant July 5, ITO, and adju-
| tant in $780, was transferred to the IND
Mass. Regiment Jan. l., 1881, and served
until Nov. 1888. He was at Yorktown
July s, 1908, he was lieutenant colonel
a colonel Dec. 81, 1909. He died at Wash
ingtop, D. c., Sept. 8, 1910, aged so years.
| Surgeon John Wlngate was appointed
| the surgeon of the Col. Wigglesworth s
18th Mass. Regiment Jan. l, 1777, and
was transferred to the 18th Mass. Regi.
ment May l, ITS. He resigned Oct. 1,
| $780, and died July 25, 1919.
| Surgeons IS Mate Joseph Gardner retired
| from the service Jan. !, 1881.
Capt. James Donnell belonged in York.
He was first lieutenant in Col. James
Scammon's Regiment In 1775, and Jan.
| l, 1776, entered Col. Phinney's 18th Con-
| tinental Regiment, being promoted to
captain Nov. 13, 1776. He was captain In
the 18th Mass. Regiment Jan l, 1777,
and resigned July s, 1779.
Capt Daniel Merrill was from Arun-
del, served in Col. Scamman's Reg
iment in 1775. and Col Phinney's Regi-
ment in 1776. He was commissioned cap.
tain in the 18th Mass Regiment. Jan. 1,
| TIT, and retired from the service April l,
1779 His wife's name was Sarah, and
he diedsat Kennebunkport, Sept. 6, 1908.
| Capt. Nathan Watkins was the son of
Daniel and Thankful Watkins of Hop
kinton, Mass, and his wife's name was
Sarah He was born in 1887, and died in
1874 He removed to Partridgeville,
Berkshire and Naples, N. Y.
Capt. Watkins served in the Same rank
in the 18th Continental Regiment in
l776, and was commissioned Jan. ], 1777,
i In Une lSbA Dudss. h6RlIlcHu AO WOE
taken prisoner July z, 1777, and dis
char ged Sept. s, ITS.
Capt. Josiah Jenkins belonged in Cor,
ham. He married Prudence, Davis Jan.
20, 1777, and mad Sarah, Eleanor, Mary,
who died young, Mary Chapman, An
relia, Nancy, Josiah and Catherine He
died Oct. 90. 1881, aged 81 years.
Capt. Jenkins was a sergeant al Capt.
Wentworth Stuarts Company, in Col.
Edmund Phinney's Regiment. and
served at Cambridge until Dec. 81, 1775
He was ensign and second and first lieu.
ftenant in Capt. Jonathan Sawyer's Com
pany in Col Phinney's 18th Continen,
1 tal Regiment in 1776, at the siege of Bos
ton. and marched to reinforce the North
ern army at Fort Ticonderoga. He be-
came captain in Col. Samuel Brewer
18th Mass. Regiment, served in the Sara
| toga campaign and at the surrender OF
Burgoyne, probably spent part of the win.
ter at Valley Forge, and resigned from
| the service June &c. 1779.
Lieut.. Austin Alden of Gorham, was
horn in Mansfield, Mass. March 25, 172s
and ma rried, in 17h6, Salome Lombard
a daughter of Rev. Solomon Lombard.
He went to Gorham in 1855, and served
| in the French and Indian war. He was
n deacon in ithe church and was town
clerk from FITS until 1904. 1t is said that
| Ohio aver sustained an unblemighed char.