The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 by Various
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Isaac Sollendine, laborer " 21
Jacob Stiles, housewright " 19 Lemuel Turner, laborer " 18 Nathaniel Turner, " " 18 William Turner, " " 18 Aaron Wilder, " " 30 William Warner, " " 20 David Wilson, " " 18 Levi Woods, laborer aged 20 Silas Willard, " " 19 Uziah Wyman, apothecary " 21 John Warner, laborer " 20 James Willard, " " 18 John Wilson, " " 20 Besides the above forty-five, there were, in other companies, three natives of Lancaster:-- Nathaniel Johnson, yeoman aged 25 Jonas Moor, " " 32 John Rugg, husbandman " 31 What special part these men took in the investment and capture of the formidable fort of Beau Sejour, or in the assaults upon the minor forts, neither record nor tradition tell, and we are equally uninformed respecting their participation in the pitiable scenes enacted along the shores of Minas and Chignecto Bays. The Massachusetts Archives contain no pay-rolls of this expedition, and no papers of Captain Abijah Willard are known to exist throwing any light upon its history. That the service was not only inglorious in part, and ungrateful to the truly brave, but |
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