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Litchfield, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in the Revolution

Sunday, July 18, 1999 04:30:11 PM

The Following list of of revolutionary is probably incomplete:

    Sergeant   David MCQuig,  drummer Harry Glover, Edward Bicksby and James Gibson were members of capt. John Moore's company in General Stark's regiment, and were present at Bunker Hill. John Parker commanded a company in Colonel Timothy Bedel's regiment of rangers, Northern Division, Continental army, under the command of General montgomert in 1775. Willian Darrah, John Thompson, Joseph Harvell, Stephen Lowell and John Loring wer privates in Captain Parker's company. They enlisted july 6, 1775, and were discharges December 31, 1775. In 1776 John Loring (second enlistment) and James Butterfield emlisted in Massachusetts for thrree years. William Darrah (second enlistment) and John Lare were attached to general Washington's Life-Guard. Hon. John Underwood was commissioned adjutant of Colonel Joshua Wingate's regiment, raised to reenforce the Northern army in July 1776. For the First New Hampshire Continental Regiment (Colonel Cilley), raised in 1776, Litchfield furnished the following-named officers and privates:

   Chaplain Rev. Samuel Cotton; First Lieutenants, Nathaniel McCauly and Moody Dustin; Privates, James Simpson Thompson, Obed McLain, Samuel Smith, Joseph Haselton, John Stone, Thomas Coleburn and Joshua Blodgtt.

    At a special Meeting of the lagal voters held April 177, the town voted a bounty of fifty dollars each to those who had enlisted in the Continental army.

    William Reed command a company in Colonel Nahum Baldwin's regimnt, raised in September 1776, to reinforce the army near New York City. Dr. Joseph Barnes was commissioned surgeon of Colonel David Gilman's regiment, which was raised in answer to a requisition from General Washington, in Decemner 1776, for service at Fort George and Fort Ticonderoga. In the "Great Return" of 1782, the following soldiers were cedited with bounties:

      Robert Cunningham, Samuel Chase, Jr., William Whittle, John Williams, Stephen R. Youngman, Thomas Coleburn and Obed McLain. It is not known where the first five of the foregoing list served, but from the amounts paid to them, they are supposed to havee been in service a considerable time.

In June 1777, a party of sixteen men, including Major Samuel Chase, Captain Samuel Cochran and Ensign Daniel McQuig, marched from Litchfield for Ticonderago, upon news of General Burgoyne's advance upon the fort. On raching Charlestown (No.4) they rcived news of the evacuation, and returned to their homes. In 1779 the sum of one thousand dallors was appropriated for the purpose of raising men to fill the town's quota for the army. The Committee of Safety for 1775 and 1776 consiste of James Underwood, Robert Darrah, John Havell, John Thompson and Daniel Kendall.

Source: The History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, (1885) transcribed by Fred Kunchick

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Litchfield - Revolutionary War