S11343
New Hampshire Service

    August 28, 1832 Edmund Sawyer of Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, seventy-one years of age, deposed:
    that he enlisted at Hampstead, N. H., where he then resided, January 1778, for one year, under Capt. Ezekiel Gile, Col. Peabody, New Hampshire Regiment, marched to Providence, to the Island in Rhode Island, thence to Horse Neck on the Nanicut River; "the British troops were stationed on the opposite side of the River;" and was verbally discharged at the expiration of his term;
    that about September 1779 he again enlisted at Hampstead for two months under Capt. Brown, Col. Dame, New Hampshire troops, marched to Portsmouth, N. H., from thence to Salter's Island, sometimes called Seavey's Island, and after serving one month, he with the rest of the company, was discharged by the Captain in the absence of the Colonel, and returned home;
    that he was born in "Newbury newtown", Mass., was moved by his father when very young to Hampstead, where he lived during the Revolutionary war and for thirty years after the war; lived in Vermont seven years, and has lived in Franklin, N. H., for the past four years.
                                                   Edmund Sawyer