. Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . Baum was killed, and most of hisforce were made prisoners. General Starksaid of this battle, It lasted two hours, andwas the hottest I ever saw. Mr. Evans served until the close of thewar, and was then honorably in service he received a wound in theankle, which did not heal for several the war ended he returned to Salisbury,bought with his Continental scrip the Buzzellfarm, and built a house there. Mr. Evansspared no pains to educate his own chil
. Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . Baum was killed, and most of hisforce were made prisoners. General Starksaid of this battle, It lasted two hours, andwas the hottest I ever saw. Mr. Evans served until the close of thewar, and was then honorably in service he received a wound in theankle, which did not heal for several the war ended he returned to Salisbury,bought with his Continental scrip the Buzzellfarm, and built a house there. Mr. Evansspared no pains to educate his own took their books into the fields, whereafter working for a time they withdrew to theshade of a tree, where he taught them to write,using birch bark instead of paper, and doingtheir sums on the same material. WhenMaster Evans became unsuited for teachingby reason of age, he moved to Franklin on theriver road, near his eldest son Josiah. Herehe died May 26, 1818, aged eighty-two descendant of Lieutenant Edward Evanshas recently placed a bronze marker over hisgrave in the Simonds Cemetery, RANSOM F- EVANS. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S3 Tins marker is the emblem used by the Massa-chusetts Society, Sons of the American Revo-lution, to designate the last resting-place ofour Revolutionary patriots. At the top of arod is the cross of the Order of St. Louis,about one foot in diameter, back of which is alaurel wreath, all of bronze metal. Each armof the cross contains a letter of the inscrip-tion, S. A. R. (Soldier of the AmericanRevolution), the lower arm having the date1775. The centre is a medallion in which,in relief, is the figure of a minute-man stand-ing by the side of a plough, surrounded bythirteen stars. The other children of Mrs. Davisonsparents were: Ransom F., Edward D., LucyAnn, Susan, George S., and Ellen ¥. Ran-som F., the eldest son, was born in about twenty years of age, he went toBoston, and was in the employ of his uncle ona farm for a
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