Lynn in the Revolution . u Colonel John Greatons regiment and famous in hisday as ;i drummer. Thus was closed one of the mostpathetic incidents of the war, and one which was toldbeside Lynn firesides for many years by men who wereeye-witnesses of the event. The following lists will give, so far as is known, themen who went from Lynn to West Point that summer: Six Months Men drafted fob Service in July. 1780, fromthe Town of Lynn. John Mead Oliver Walton Ebenezer Parsons James Newhall Joshua Danfoilli Noah Newhall Andrew Mansfield Allen Newhall Joseph Burrill Blanev Newhall Ezra Moulton Joseph
Lynn in the Revolution . u Colonel John Greatons regiment and famous in hisday as ;i drummer. Thus was closed one of the mostpathetic incidents of the war, and one which was toldbeside Lynn firesides for many years by men who wereeye-witnesses of the event. The following lists will give, so far as is known, themen who went from Lynn to West Point that summer: Six Months Men drafted fob Service in July. 1780, fromthe Town of Lynn. John Mead Oliver Walton Ebenezer Parsons James Newhall Joshua Danfoilli Noah Newhall Andrew Mansfield Allen Newhall Joseph Burrill Blanev Newhall Ezra Moulton Joseph Lindsey Philip Coals Theophilus Farrington John Brown Benjamin Jaeobs John Flynn Daniel Parrott Andrew Newhall Thos. Hitchings Benjamin Newhall Ebenezer Ramsdell Samuel Bates Richard Pappoon Three Months Men in Captain Richardsons Nathaniel Wades Essex County Regiment,enlisted in julyr, 1780, fob service at west point. Jos. Stocker, 1st Lieut. Joseph Lewis Josiah Martin, 2nd Lieut. Benjamin Massey [ 140 ]. Lynn in the Revolution John Ireson, Tarbox, Newhall, CorporalThos. Cheever, CorporalWm. Mansfield, CorporalThos. Attwill, FiferJohn CheeverRobert FeltJohn Hallo wellJoshua HowardRufus JohnsonIsaac Lewis( aleb Lewis Thomas NewmanSolomon NewhallDavid NewhallJosiah RhodesJoseph Rhodes John Symons (may be Simms John SmithWm. TarboxJames ThompsonNathaniel ViallThos. WhiteCaleb WellmanJf Micajah Burrill [ 141 Chapter XI THE END OF THE STORY There is little more to record regarding the movementsof the soldiers of Lynn. Only once after this are we ableto discover that recruits were sent to the army. Thiswas in response to a patriotic appeal to the people forlong-term enlistments, embodied in a resolve in the councilof Massachusetts on the second of December, 1780. Itwas at a time when the army was in the greatest desti-tution, and enlistments were hard to obtain. Washingtonexpressed the need in a private letter, in which he said: We are with
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