St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-06-21

| MIS- JOuu Ohccic, OISeuDuSu, MASS.
Miss Katherine Kidder, Mystic, Conn
Mrs. Elsie Merrill, Peacham, Vt.
The Ver-Cal-Pe Club, Peacham, Vt.
Sketches Of the life and service of eacI
| SOLDIER
SAMUEL DAVIS.
Nothing is known of Samuel Davis be
fore he came to Peacham. His wife wa
Elisabeth Meader of Ryegate, and he lef
her to enlist, probably about 1880. H,
returned to Peacham, and lived with hi
wife in house standing on knoll OF
the north side of the Marsh6eld road
nearly opposite the gate to the towr
farm.
1t is not known where he served, but
the name of Samuel Davis appears in tn,
pay roll of scout from Moretown,
NOW Bradford, Vt.) in January, 1850
"Hezehiah Silaway, Commandant OF sale
Scout" The fact that he was pension
er is well attested. He died in Peacham
June 6, 1852, aged 90 years, and left nc
direct descendants.
Grave decorated by Mrs. Helen Bailey
who contributed the marker.
EDWARD CLARK.
Edward Clark served under Col. Moses
Hazen, when, in 1879, be continued the
Hazen road northward, which was
begun by Gen. Jacob Bailey in 1776, and
cut to point six miles north Of
Peacham. He was in the battle of York.
town where he was wounded by spent
ball and his leg broken.
He was the builder of the old academy
on the hill, and of the first meeting house
in the same locality. He settled on the
Buel farm about 1906. He was born
Nov. 8, 1859, probably in Raverhill,
Mass, and died in Peacham, January 9,
1910, aged 80 years.
Grave decorated by Mr.. Lafayette
Strobridge, his grandson.
WELLS BURBANK.
The name OF Wells Burbank appears In
"Pay Roll of Capt. James Osgood's
Company, in Col. Timothy Bedel's Regi-
ment," in 1916, as private. Also as a
private in pay roll of Capt. Peter
Kimball's company in Col. Thomas
Stickney's Regiment, in Gen. Stark's Bri-
gade in the Continental army at Ben
nington and Saltwater, July 20, 1777."
Also in Pay Roll as a private, in Capt.
Ebenezer Websters company in Col.
Nichols Regiment, Gen. Whipple's Bri-
gade ofN II. Volunteers, in the expedi-
ton to Rhode Island, August, 177S."
He came from Sanbornton, N. H., and
with his wife and four young children, to
Walden, VT, about 1900. he removed
to Peacham where he spent the remain
der OF his life. He was born about 1856,
and died in Peacham, August II, 1928.
[Grave decorated by Miss Katherine
Hooker, great-great-grand daughter
Prayer, by Deacon Moses Martin.
Hymn, second verse of America.
HENRY BLAKE.
Henry Blake when about twenty years
old enlisted in Boston, and was in the
battle of Bunker Hill. In 1776 he was
in the expedition to Canada, serving
about seven months, when he obtained
a leave of absence and returned to his
home in Hopkinton. N. H. He enlisted
again Sept. %, 1777, and joined the
Continental Army at Saltwater, N. Y.
He kept diary while in the expedition
to Canada, which is said to have "a sub
stantial historical value, as the details
about this expedition which he describes
are not very numerous"
He was born in Kensington, N. H.,
November 25, 1855, and came to Peach
am between 1890 and 1900 from Hop.
kinton, N. H., He died July II, 1888.
He was associated large part of his life
with Rev. Leonard Worcester, who
printed The Spy for Isaiah Thomas from
1893 to 1899, in Worcester, Mass.
(kote:-No official record of his rank as
major has yet been found and it does not
appear in extracts from his diary published
in 1908. 1t is therefore not known, at the
present time. whether he acquired this rank
in the Revolutionary War, or later In life In
the state militia)
[Grave decorated by Ellen EMERSON, a
great-great.grand daughter.
AsHBEL MARTIN.
Ashbel Martin enlisted in 1776, from
Woodbury., Connecticut, when under six.
teen years of age, in the company of Cap
tain Hurd, regiment of Col. Silliman,
and brigade of General Wadsworth,
which in June marched to Norwalk on
the way to New York. He was in the
service until December 25, 1776. He was
not in the engagement which resulted in
the capture of Gen. Sullivan, probably
August 81, but re.crossed from Long
Island to New York City, evacuated by
the American army September 18th, and
was sick at private house in Stamford,
after which he joined the army after the
battle at White Plains. In 1777, was
in the Connecticut militia at Crumpond
and Fishkill, and Peekskill at the time of
the burning of Esopus. In the winter of
1777-S. was three weeks at Horseneck.
In IT'S, three weeks at Fishkill. In
1879 was in the service two weeks at
the burning of Norwalk.
He was working in Peacham in the
summer of 1880, at the time his brother
David entered the service. He settled on
the Andrew Whitehill farm, but died at
East Peacham, in the Noah Martin inn,
Dec. 7, 1888. This old inn, built by
Noah Martin, is the residence of James
Clark.
Ashbel Martin, in 1882, applied for
and received a pension. He was the
father of Deacon Moses Martin, whose
son, Deacon Ashbel Martin, was the
father of the present Deacon Moses Mar
tin.
[Grave decorated by Alma Bailey,
great.great granddaughter
DAVID MARTIN.
David Martin, brother to Ashbel, was
born in Woodbury., Conn.,, and was
drafted in Woodbury., in May, 1880, into
the lighthouse service, but soon trans
ferred to the infanty, in the guard OF Cen