Life and times in Hopkinton, . cial authority passed an act form-ing two military bands known as the Training Band andthe Alarm Band. The first band included all the able-bodied men from sixteen to sixty years of age, exceptingcertain public officers and employees, negroes, mulattoes,and Indians; the second, all persons from sixteen to sixty-five not included in the first. In Hopkinton, on the 4th of March, 1776, Major Chand-ler, Joshua Bayley, and Moses Hill were made a local com-mittee of safety. However, the existence of war impliessoldiers. They are either volunteers, conscripts, hirel
Life and times in Hopkinton, . cial authority passed an act form-ing two military bands known as the Training Band andthe Alarm Band. The first band included all the able-bodied men from sixteen to sixty years of age, exceptingcertain public officers and employees, negroes, mulattoes,and Indians; the second, all persons from sixteen to sixty-five not included in the first. In Hopkinton, on the 4th of March, 1776, Major Chand-ler, Joshua Bayley, and Moses Hill were made a local com-mittee of safety. However, the existence of war impliessoldiers. They are either volunteers, conscripts, hirelings,or, in the peculiar language of the records of Hopkinton,persons sent for. Soldiers are recompensed by govern-mental wages, by bounties, or by local allowances. In theprogress of Revolutionary events in Hopkinton, therewere repeated votes to carry on the war by rates. Thetown voted money, corn, and beef for the support ofthe army. On the 14th of January, 1777, votes werepassed to procure shovels, spades, one hundred pounds of. Hon. Abram Brown. THE REVOLUTION. 61 gunpowder, with lead and flints; but the vote to buy intrenching tools was rescinded on the 3d of the nextMarch. During the progress of the war, the town allowedparents and masters for service done by their sons andapprentices, gave militia the same pay as soldiers, madeContinental soldiers good in respect to the depreciation ofmoney, and chose committees to hire men when sent also aided the families of non-commissioned officers andsoldiers. The town having on one occasion voted to raise twenty-six men, the following act, passed February 8,1779, becameeffective through evident opposition, it showing how thedues of citizens were adjusted : Voted that Each and Every Person which was Rated to Pay thehire of the 26 men which was Raised to go in to the ContinentalSarvis that went in this Towns Behalf in the year 1777 Shall Eachof them have the Benefit of theare Proportion of the Sarvis ofthem Sd. 26 men accordin
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