Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . OF THE UNITED STATES 401 went to Fort William and Mary at Portsmouth (now New Castle) on thenight of Dec. 14, 1774, and captured one hundred barrels of gun-powder and carried it to Durham, N. H., from which place seventeen bar-rels were carted by ox team to Charlestown, arriving so as to be dis-tributed to Putnams army the day before the Battle of Bunker Hill. Healso commanded a company in
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . OF THE UNITED STATES 401 went to Fort William and Mary at Portsmouth (now New Castle) on thenight of Dec. 14, 1774, and captured one hundred barrels of gun-powder and carried it to Durham, N. H., from which place seventeen bar-rels were carted by ox team to Charlestown, arriving so as to be dis-tributed to Putnams army the day before the Battle of Bunker Hill. Healso commanded a company in one of the four regiments of minute menraised by order of the Fourth Provincial Congress, Sept. i, 1775,for four months service to be stationed at Portsmouth, New Castle, Kit-tery and vicinity to defend the coast seaward, and Captain Hills companywas ordered to Pierces Island, Nov. 5, 1775. He also appears asensign on the pay-roll of a company of volunteers commanded by ColonelJohn Langdon, which was with General Gates at Saratoga. His son,James, married Abigail Hill, a descendant of the Connecticut branch ofthe Hill family. Of William Henry Hill, of Boston, son of James Hill,we learn from Names and
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