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A Roll of Capt. Ebenezer Mason's Company
Who marched as minutemen, for the defense of the colonies, on the 19th of April last 1775 from Spencer, belonging to
Col. Jonathan Warner’s Regiment
Source : History of Spencer Mass. By James Draper , page 274-275
Ebenezer Mason, Capt.
Abijah Livermore, Lieut.
Joseph Livermore, Ensigh.
Sergeants:
Benjamin Bemis, Jun.
William Green
William White
Samuel Hall
Corporals:
Oliver Watson
Jonas Muzzy
Asa Sprague
Jeduthan Green
James Draper, Drummer
Luther Prouty, Fifer
John Draper
Jesse Bemis
Issac Prouty
Nathaniel Wilson
Isaac Livermore
Michael Hatch
Jonathan Hatch
Joathan Rich
John Waite
John Knapp
Joseph Grout
Benjamin Gleazen
Joesph Wheat
Levi Thayer
Joshua Draper, Jun.
Elisha Whitney
Reuben Lamb
John Hatch
Amos Whittemore
Wright Woodward
Samuel Bemis
Rand White
Benjamin Sumner
John Woodward, Jun.
Jonas Lamb
Thomas Speague
John Bemis
John Ball
David Livermore
James Watson
Robert Watson
Thomas Whittemore
Nathaniel T. Lorning
David Rice
Richard Huttice
Samuel Garfield. Jun.
Nathaniel Cunningham
John Lamb, Jun.
Asa Whittemore
John Worster
Elijah Southgate
Knight Sprague
David Lamb
Timothy Capen
On the 23rd of the same month, (April) forty of the above named enlisted into another company, commanded by Capt. Joel Green, David Prouty, Lieut., both belonging to Spencer, for eight months service in Cambridge. I have not obtained the names of those who enlisted into this new company, but Joseph Wheat was one of them. This company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Jeremiah Larned of Oxford, Mass.
I had intended to have procured the names of all officers and soldiers, those brave and patriotic men, who ventured their lives, endured great sufferings, with little or no pay, in the service of their county. I also intended to have ascertained the amount of money raised and expended for paying the troops and supporting them while in service in the war for independence, but it was found to be impracticable, although some further information might probably have been obtained with further labor and expense. Besides, the events of the revolution are every day losing their interest with the present generation, as the period of their transaction, as time passes along, grows more and more remote, and those who took an active part in those scenes are all departed from among us, and the persons and places who knew them, "will know them no more forever."
In Capt. Seth Washburn’s company, which afterwards marched from Leicester on the 17th of Juan to Bunker Hill, were Joseph Livermore , Lieut., Elijah Southgate, Corporal, Andrew Morgan, Jonas Lamb, Peter Rice, Thomas Sprague, John Hatch, Wright Woodward and Isaac Livermore, Privates, but only Joseph Livermore, Elijah Southgate, Jonas Lamb, Peter Rice, Thomas Sprague and Isaac Livermore, are now known to have been actually in the battle.
In relation to the expenditures made by the people of this town, during the seven years war of the revolution, some opinion may be formed by the following items, furnished to me by Gov. Washburn. In a letter he says," find Spencer paid in bounties, between January, 1777 and April, 1777, £199 14s, and for supplies for their troops, between March and July, 1779, £89 17s. After making all necessary deductions for a depreciated currency, it is a perfect mystery to me, how the men of that day were able to find means of meeting the enormous burdens they bore."
By James Draper