History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . Barilis, WilliamGoddard, James Shafter, and Peter Starkey. It will be seen that Richmond and Winchesteracted largely together in the militia service they ren-dered during the Revolutionary war. Winchestersoldiers joined Captain Caprons company in 1775,and Richmond soldiers were in Captain Humphriesand in Captain Wrights companies in 1776 and1777. This indicates a fraternal feeling existingbetween the two towns at that time, and the same isprobably true during all the time since. This townhas e
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . Barilis, WilliamGoddard, James Shafter, and Peter Starkey. It will be seen that Richmond and Winchesteracted largely together in the militia service they ren-dered during the Revolutionary war. Winchestersoldiers joined Captain Caprons company in 1775,and Richmond soldiers were in Captain Humphriesand in Captain Wrights companies in 1776 and1777. This indicates a fraternal feeling existingbetween the two towns at that time, and the same isprobably true during all the time since. This townhas ever had more trade and intercourse with Win- 8o HISTORY OF THE Chester than with other towns ; and, at the presenttime Richmond is quite fully represented in the popu-lation of Winchester, and it may fairly be presumedthat the latter town has gained by the acquisition. THE WOMEN OF SEVENTY-SIX. The women who shared with the men of the Revo-lutionary period in the toils, privations, and difficultiesattendant on a new settlement in the wilderness, to-gether with the additional burden of a long and. OF 76. exhaustive war, are entitled to special the husbands and fathers were away in theservice, the care of the household and farm largelyfell upon them. The family must have been quite de-pendent for support on the labor of the soldiers, as nostate aid was regularly furnished (as in the late war) to TOWN OF RICHMOND. 8l the needy and destitute ones. The self-sacrifices madeby the women of this period would, undoubtedly,make an interesting chapter of the times, if theincidents pertaining to the same could be snatchedfrom that oblivion to which they have been mostlyconsigned. The foregoing cut, representing theBelles of Seventy-six, may not be wholly appli-cable to the women of our town in all the toiletarrangements therein exhibited, but it may be safelyassumed that in their go-to-meeting fixings theywere not inferior, either in natural charms or infashionable dre
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