Lynn in the Revolution . before. The Lexington alarm rolls tail to show his name, but a record in thestate archives gives the following: List of men, who served as privatesat Concord battle and elsewhere, belonging to Lynn, Lynnfield, andSaugus; also matross, Captain Jonathan Edess company. ColonelThomas Crafts (artillery) regiment; abstract for advance pay datedJuly l2.), 1776; also gunner. Captain Edess (4th) company. ColonelCrafts regiment; enlisted May 20, l??(i: roll made up November (, N \ i m \\, son of Nathan and Anna (Ramsdell) Attwill, was bornin Lynn. October Mi. 1744;
Lynn in the Revolution . before. The Lexington alarm rolls tail to show his name, but a record in thestate archives gives the following: List of men, who served as privatesat Concord battle and elsewhere, belonging to Lynn, Lynnfield, andSaugus; also matross, Captain Jonathan Edess company. ColonelThomas Crafts (artillery) regiment; abstract for advance pay datedJuly l2.), 1776; also gunner. Captain Edess (4th) company. ColonelCrafts regiment; enlisted May 20, l??(i: roll made up November (, N \ i m \\, son of Nathan and Anna (Ramsdell) Attwill, was bornin Lynn. October Mi. 1744; married, by Rev. John Treadwell, to Mar\ Stone. November 24, 1768. His chil- ji/ ,// Ay/— f/7 (mi were ^;irv- Elizabeth, Anna. iSY 0///yUsT1 ^THknCi> JameS) Nathan, and Charles. His will. which was dated May 15, ISOt, wasproved October to, I so C lie was a cordwainer, and brother to Wil-liam, who was also a cordwainer and a Revolutionary soldier. Revolutionary record: Sergeant, Captain Rufus Mansfields com I 192 I. THE NATHAN ATTWILL HOUSE, WHITING STREET, LYNN Lynn in the Revolution pany (4th), which marched on the alarm of the 19th of April, 1775;service, two days.—Mass. Archives. Attwill, Thomas Hicks,—son of William and Lydia (Hicks) Attwill,was baptized April 20, 1766; married, by Rev. Obadiah Parsons, Janu-uary 22, 1788, to Joanna Mansfield, and lived at one time in the oldJohnson house, which stood where the First Methodist Church nowstands. They had one daughter, Joanna, who became the wife ofChristopher Bubier and mother of Samuel M. and Edward T. M. Bubier became mayor of Lynn. After the RevolutionThomas Hicks Attwill taught music and travelled through Vermont andNew York. Although he was in Lynn as late as 1798, as would appearfrom the ledger of Dr. James Gardner, it is probable that his later yearswere not spent here, inasmuch as his relatives lost track of him. Hiswife, Joanna, died here, February 24, 1817, at the age of fifty-two years,and
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