This is a transcription of the soldiers from A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, Columbus, Ohio: Press of Spahr & Glen, 1901.
DUBLIN SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTION
The following list of Dublin Revolutionary Soldiers does not include those who removed to that town after peace was declared 1783. Some names about which there is more doubt are placed at the end of the roll. Additions and corrections, based upon documentary evidence, are desired:
ELISHA ADAMS, served in Capt. Jason Wait’s company, Col. Enoch Hale’s regiment in 1778, and was then 20 years old. He was one of the six months’ men raised by New Hampshire in 1781 to reinforce the continental army at West Point after Arnold’ s treason. He removed to Maine. Elisha Adams’s brother Joseph served from Holliston, Mass., and not long ago a fragment of the diary which he kept during the siege of Boston seas found in Dublin and is now in possession of Mr. A. L. Ball.
THOMAS ALDEN, who came to Dublin as early as 1773, was a private in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company, Col. Enoch Hale’s regiment, mustered July 18, 1776. He joined the Northern army at Ticonderoga. He removed from Dublin subsequent to 1787.
HART BALCH saw much service. From April 23 to August 1, 1775, he was a member of Capt. William Walker’s company, Col. James Reed’s regiment. The members of this company were from Dunstable and vicinity. In Col. Enoch Hale’s return, 1777, he is described as a nine months’ man, 26 years old, from Jaffrey. June 29, 1777, he went in Capt. Roger Gilmore’s company, under Lieut. Col. Thomas Heald, to reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga, and served 14 days. May 14, 1778, he enlisted for one year in Capt. Caleb Robinson’s company, Col. Nathan Hale’s regiment. April 24, 1781, he enlisted from Dublin for three years and was a member of the 9th company of Col. Joseph Cilley’s regiment. He m. September 27, 1779, Dorcas, dau. of Isaac and Abigail (—) Somes, who came to Dublin, 1777. July 17, 1782, the selectmen of Dublin, Joseph Greenwood, Moses Adams and Reuben Morse, made Hart Balch bearer of a letter to the New Hampshire Committee on Claims, then in session at Exeter. He was “warned out” of town, 1779. Hart Balch resided in Dublin for several years after the war; to what town he removed is not known.
NATHANIEL BATES, who was a tax payer in 1771 and bought his farm in 1774 from Bartholomew Goyer, was returned by Dublin, April, 1777, as in Capt. Jason Wait’s company. He was then 39 years old. He was a member of the 3d company, Col. Joseph Cilley’s regiment. He was killed at the first battle of Stillwater, Sept. 19, 1777. His widow sent the following petition:
“To the Honble the House of Representatives assembled
and Convend at Exeter: State of New-hampshire &c:
“The memorial of abagil Bates widow of the Late Nathanel Bates
of Dublin Decd Humbly Sheweth that ye memorialist was Left a widow with two small children and only a New Lot of Land containing forty one acres only and but five acres Improved Labour and Provisions being scarce and Dear Renders it Impossible to manetane hir self and children without selling said Land–These are therefore humbly to Solicit your Honrs to
take it into your wise Consideration and give orders that the same might
be sold &c, &c.
” Octr 28—1778 ABAGILL BATES.
” N. B. Said Nathaniel Bates was killed at Stillwater Last year
by Generall Birgines army.”
Nathaniel Bates lived on the north side of the Derby Hill. The later history of his family is unknown. John Stroud appears to have been the next occupant of Nathaniel Bates’s little farm and to have come to Dublin about 1778.
NATHANIEL BELKNAP, whose name appears upon the tax list of Dublin first in 1775, was a corporal in the company of Capt. Daniel Emerson (Hollis), Col. Hercules Mooney’s regiment, raised July, 1778, for service in Rhode Island. Mr. Belknap served six months and two days, and received, pay and bounty, ?148 4s 7d. He died in Dublin.
ASA BULLARD was in Capt. Othniel Thomas’s company, Lieut. Col. Daniel Reynolds’s regiment. May 5, 1786, he gave receipt to Dublin authorities for rations and traveling money to Springfield, Mass., in 1781. Probably he was an older (b. 1743) brother of Simeon Bullard. He became a physician and settled at Mt. Vernon, N. H., where he died about 1826.
SIMEON BULLARD, a native of New Ipswich, b. 1745, who came to Dublin about 1770, was a sergeant in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company, raised in the 14th military district and a part of Col. Isaac Wyman’s regiment, which went in the summer of 1776 to reinforce the northern army at Ticonderoga; rendezvous at Haverhill, N. H. He died in Dublin Jan. 28, 1828, æt. 82 years. Bullard (Thorndike) pond, on whose shore he resided, the spot still marked by a magnificent elm of more than local fame, was named for him.
JAMES CHAMBERLAIN, who came from Sherburn to Dublin, 1772, was probably in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, which went in 1777 to take part in the battles of Bennington and Stillwater; the name “James Chandler ” is supposed to be intended for “James Chamblen.” April 24, 1781, he enlisted for three years, and was a corporal in 9th company, 1st regiment (Cilley’s). He died in Dublin Jan. 24, 1826, æt. 86 years. He commanded the Dublin militia company from 1786 to 1793, when the company was divided into two companies.
JOSEPH FROST was a private in Capt. Othniel Thomas’s company, Col. Daniel Reynolds’s regiment. In 1781 he joined the army at West Point. Nothing further is known of him.
BARTHOLOMEW GOYER, a Frenchman, whose previous history is unknown, but who was a resident of Dublin and bought land there in 1766, served as a private in Capt. John Mellen’s company, which went in June and July, 1777, to reinforce Ticonderoga. July 29, 1779, he enlisted and received $6 billeting money to Springfield, Mass. April 24, 1781, he enlisted for the war and was in the 2d regiment, 5th company. He was paid $60 bounty. How he fared appears in the following paper. It is likely that the experience of Bartholomew Goyer and Samuel French found many parallels among the soldiers of the Continental army and that the treatment of such captives did not a little to embitter the feeling between the people of the United States and England, whose government was held responsible for the acts of the Indians and Tories in its service. In the Mohawk valley, owing chiefly to the great influence of the Johnsons and their adherents, the hostilities were marked by extreme brutality.
The petition of Bartholomew Goyer of Dublin in the County of Cheshire humbly shows that in year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, he Enlisted into the Continental army in Captain Dustin’s company, and Col. Read’s Regt., and served as a soldier in said Company till June, 1782, at which time being on Command at Mohawk River he was surprised by a party of Indians and carried into Canada where he remained a prisoner untill September, 1783, and as it was reported that he was killed by said Indians Return was made accordingly and your petitioner was not made up in any roll and Consequently drew no pay dureing the whole time of his Captivity—and also after his return out of Captivity he being poor and also not possessed of that knowledge which was requisite to direct the proper way to obtain a recompense for his servises in behalf of his Country both he and his family hath greatly suffered on that account. Wherefore your petitioner Humbly prays your Honours to take his case into wise Consideration and grant him the pay for his services in the Cause of his Country for which he has Received no Compensation and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray,
Dover June ye 11th 1792 BARTHOLOMEW GOYER
——
I certify that sometime in June 1782 Indians attacked carried and burned a mill on Mohawk river in which was a Serjeant’s party belonging to the Regimt then under my Command & that the bearer Bartholomew Goyer being in the party instead of being taken was supposed to have been killed, and was accordingly returned dead in consequence of which his pay ceased.
Given under my hand at Londonderry this 6th day of June 1792
GEO. REID
Then Lt Col Comdt 2d N Hampr Reg.
The following paper throws more light upon the preceding petition:
A Return of N Hamps Troops & where Station’d
The first Regt Consisting nearly of 270 R & File fit for Duty are Stationed at Saratoga
The 2d Regiment are distributed as follows (viz) 3 Companies at
Fts Harkimer and Dayton their number about so R & File one Compy at Esqr Harkimers & the Indian Castle R & F 30 — the Remaining part of the Regt which is nearly 150 are Station’d at Fort Plain or Ransler from which they detach guards weekly to Fort Willett Parrisses Mill Moyen House & the
Ferry near the Post
GEO REID Lt Colo Comm’d
N B this Return is taken from the Musters of May last; Can’t say that it is .so accurate as I could wish – G REID
Albany 1st July 82
Samuel French of Hopkinton, a member of the same company, was taken prisoner, apparently with Goyer, at Little Falls, and held a captive by the Indians till March, 1787. French was allowed by the N. H. authorities ?96, which was in lieu of four years’ wages, and an allowance for two years’ clothing. See N. H. State Papers, vol. XXI.
Goyer was allowed $30, and interest from Sept. 30, 1783, see N. H. State Papers, vol. XXII. He lived on the Derby Hill and removed from Dublin to North Adams, Mass., about 1796.
The localities mentioned in Col. Reid’s Return were situated, Ft.
Herkimer in German Flats township; Ft. Dayton in Herkimer; Herkimer’s house and Indian Castle, the residence of the famous Indian Chiefs, King Hendrick and Joseph Brant, in Danube; Ft. Willet in Minden; Ft. Rensselaer in Canajoharie, and the other posts in the neighborhood. These towns all lie on the Mohawk, near Little Falls, and all suffered very greatly in the Revolutionary War from the frequent raids of Tories and Indians. Nowhere were hostilities more embittered by feuds and vindictive hatred. Harold Frederic’s novel, “In the Valley,” gives a good account of the struggle.
JOSHUA GREENWOOD, son of William and Abigail (Death) Greenwood, was in Capt. Josiah Brown’s company, May 6, 1777; also in Capt. John Mellen’s company, June 28, 1777, and in Capt. Samuel Twitchell’s company, which took part in the Rhode Island campaign of 1778. All three companies were raised in the 14th regiment (Enoch Hale’s).
MOSES GREENWOOD, who removed to Dublin from Newton, Mass., 1771, was a private in Capt. John Mellen’s company, which went to Ticonderoga, June and July, 1777. Died in Dublin July 2, 1827.
WILLIAM GREENWOOD, was in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company which marched to relieve Ticonderoga in July, 1776, and also a member of Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, which took part in the battles at Bennington and Stillwater, 1777. He was a brother of Eli and Joshua Greenwood, and died in Dublin, 1830.
THOMAS HARDY, is named in the return of April 29, 1777; and described as 22 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, “well set.” He was sergeant in Capt. Benj. Spaulding’s company at West Point, 1781; died in Dublin, July 25, 1816. He was a native of Hollis, N. H.
JAMES HOUGHTON, who came to Dublin, July, 1781, enlisted June 4, 1782, for the war. He may have been the James Houghton, sergeant in Col. Timothy Bedel’s regiment, 1777-78. He removed from Dublin, whither is not known.
CALEB HUNT when 16 years old was a private in Capt. Samuel Blodgett’s company, May, 1777, Col. Nathan Hale’s regiment, and was left severely wounded at Hubbardston, Vt. Dr. Abraham Downer, of Charlestown, was allowed 42 shillings for medical care of Caleb Hunt. In 1779 he was in the 2d New Hampshire regiment (Col. George Reid’ s) and is described as 5 ft. 10 in. tall, with light hair and complexion. July 18, 1781, he enlisted from Amherst for six months, and was of Amherst in 1794, when he petitioned for a grant of state land because of depreciation of pay.
HENRY HUNT was a private in Capt. Benj. Spaulding’s company, Col. Moses Nichols’ regiment, which marched in 1780 to West Point. In 1781 he enlisted from Amherst for six months. Perhaps brother of Caleb Hunt.
WILLARD HUNT, who came to Dublin as early as 1774, served in Capt. Abijah Smith’s company, which went to reinforce Washington’s army near New York in September, 1776. April, 1778, he enlisted for one year. He removed from Dublin.
It is not known from what town the Hunts came; they may have been relatives of Willard Hunt whose name appears upon the Dublin tax list, first in 1774.
ITHAMER JOHNSON was a private in Capt. Jacob Miller’s company, Col. Ephraim Doolittle’s regiment (Mass.) at Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775.
MOSES JOHNSON who, with his brother, Simeon Johnson, paid taxes in Dublin, 1771, was a private in Capt. Abbott’s company, Col. Stark’s regiment, at Medford, Oct. 4, 1775. He served, also, in Capt. John Mellen’s company, 1777, and in Capt. Samuel Twitchell’s company, Rhode Island expedition, Aug, 1778.
SIMEON JOHNSON was in Capt. Jacob Miller’s company at Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775. He removed, 1819, to Keene, O. At the Johnsons removed from Dublin.
JOHN KNOWLTON, a native of Holliston, Mass., came to Dublin, 1770, and was a private in Capt. Abijah Smith’s company, Col. Nahum Baldwin’s regiment. This regiment was raised to reinforce Washington’s army at New York; it served from Sept. to Dec. 1776, and was at White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. John Knowlton was a corporal in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, which went from Rindge, July, 1777, to join the Northern army at Stillwater, and served July-Sept. In Aug. 1778, he was sergeant in Capt. Samuel Twitchell’s
company in the Rhode Island campaign. He died in Dublin, 1835, æt.
89.
BENJAMIN MASON was fifer in Capt. Salmon Stone’s Company, Col. Moses Nichols’s regiment, July 21 to Sept. 25, 1777. This regiment was present at the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. He died in Dublin, May 16, 1840, æt. 79 years.
FRANCIS MASON was a private in Capt. Samuel Blodgett’s company, Col. Nathan Hale’s regiment, 1777, and then returned by Jaffrey. Later he is credited to Dublin and reported as absent from the same company. As a member of 7th Co., 2d N. H. Regt. (Col. George Reid’s) he is said to be of Dublin. He was 34 years old in 1777. His later history is unknown.
JOSEPH MASON was a member of Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, Col. Moses Nichols’s regiment, which marched to Bennington and Stillwater, 1777. He died in Dublin March , 1806, æt. 58.
MOSES MASON was in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company, Col. Nathan Hale’s regiment, 1776, marched to Ticonderoga; he marched to relieve same place in Capt. John Mellen’s company June-July, 1777; in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company July-Sept. 1777, he fought at Bennington and Stillwater; he went with the troops under Col. Daniel Reynolds in 1781 to West Point. May 5, 1786, he gave a receipt for rations and travel money to Springfield, Mass. He removed from Dublin to Bethel, Me., in 1799, was much employed there in public business, and died, Oct. 31, 1837, aged 80.
DANIEL MORSE served in company of Capt. Josiah Brown, Col. Enoch Hale’s regiment, and marched to the relief of Ticonderoga, May 6, 1777; August, 1778, he was a soldier in Capt. Samuel Twitchell’s company, Rhode Island campaign. He removed, about 1800, to Queensbury, Vermont.
EZRA MORSE was a soldier in Col. Paul Dudley Sargent’s regiment, Capt. Jere Stiles’ company, Oct. 6, 1775, and was probably at Bunker Hill; he served also in Capt. Twitchell’s company in Rhode Island, August, 1778. He died in Dublin June 3, 1830, aged 77.
JOHN MORSE was a corporal in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company, which went to Ticonderoga in 1776; in Capt. John Mellen’s company June-July, 1777, went again to Ticonderoga; and served six months in 1780 in Capt. Henry Dearborn’s company at West Point. He died in Dublin Feb. 19, 1813, aged 58 years. In later years he was styled “Major.”
JONATHAN MORSE was at Winter Hill Oct. 6, 1775, in Col. Ephraim Doolittle’s regiment, and probably fought at Bunker Hill; went to Ticonderoga in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company, 1776; was corporal in Capt. Josiah Brown’s company May 6, 1777; in 1780 he served six months in Capt. Henry Dearborn’s company; July-Sept. 1777, he was present with Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, Col. Moses Nichols’ regiment, at Bennington and Stillwater. In 1781 he served in the 1st N. H. Continental regiment (Col. Joseph Cilley’s); he was 24 years old in 1780. He removed to Vermont and died at Leicester, Vt., 1812, aged 56 years.
MICAH MORSE 1ST was in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, July-September, 1777; went to Bennington and Stillwater, and is said to have died in the war. There is much obscurity about his early life and his fate.
MICAH MORSE 2D was at West Point in 1780 in Capt. Henry Dearborn’s company. He removed from Dublin to Dansville, N. Y.
REUBEN MORSE was a private in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company; Lieut. in Col. Moses Nichols’s regiment, 1780, and was present at Bennington and Stillwater. He resided in Dublin and died there April 27, 1810, aged 67 years.
THOMAS MUZZEY was in Col. Ephraim Doolittle’s regiment, Capt. Jacob Miller’s company, at Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775, and probably fought at Bunker Hill. He removed from Dublin.
LEVI PARTRIDGE in Capt. John Mellen’s company, went to Ticonderoga June-July, 1776. Removed to Keene, N. H. He was a resident of Dublin as early as 1762.
ASA PRATT was a private in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company July-September, 1777, and fought at Bennington and Stillwater.
JAMES ROLLINS was in Capt. John Mellen’s company for relief of Ticonderoga, June-July, 1777; enlisted July 15, 1779, for one year and received $60 bounty and $6 billeting money to Springfield, Mass. He removed to Parkerstown, Vermont.
JOSEPH ROLLINS was a member of Capt. Othniel Thomas’s company, Col. Daniel Reynolds’s regiment, for service at West Point, Sept. 18-Oct. 29, 1781; he died in Dublin, Dec. 20, 1836, aged 73.
JOHN STONE was in Capt. Samuel Twitchell’s company for Rhode Island campaign, August, 1778; in 1780 he served in Captain Benjamin Spaulding’s company and went to West Point. In 178 I he enlisted for the war. He received 13 shillings, 4 pence traveling money, Jaffrey to Cambridge. He died in Dublin, Nov. 18I3, aged 62.
SILAS STONE is named in Dublin’s Return of 1777, and was then 48 years old; he was in Capt. Samuel Blodgett’s company, Col. Enoch Poor’s regiment. Oct. 6, 1775, he was in Capt. Ben. Bullard’s company, Col. Jona. Brewer’s regiment at Prospect Hill. His later history is unknown.
RICHARD STRONGMAN was a private in Capt. John Mellen’s company June-July, 1777. He spent the rest of his life in Dublin and died there, Aug. 12, 1791, aged 38.
WILLIAM STRONGMAN served in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company which went July, 1776, to reinforce the Northern army at Ticonderoga. He removed to North Hero, Vt.
JOHN STROUD was in Capt. Ben. Mann’s company, Col. James Reed’s regiment, 1775; in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company July to Sept. 1777, in the Burgoyne campaign; in 1781 he served from Peterboro’. He removed from Dublin and his later history is not known.
JOHN SWAN went in Capt. Abijah Smith’s company Sept. 1776, to New York; in 1777 was a member of Capt. Samuel Blodgett’s company, Col. Enoch Poor’s regiment. In 1779 he was in Col. George Reid’s regiment; he is described as 38 years old, 6 ft. tall, of light complexion and with blue eyes. Other soldiers of same name served from Peterboro’ and Sharon.
GARDNER TOWN in Capt. Joseph Parker’s company, July, 1776; and in Capt. Samuel Twitchell’s company for the Rhode Island campaign, August, 177S. He removed from Dublin. He is supposed to have been the only slaveholder in Dublin.
ABIJAH TWITCHELL served in Capt. John Mellen’s company June-July, 1777. He died in Dublin, July 11, 1777. He was first taxed in Dublin in 1774.
SAMUEL TWITCHELL was lieutenant in Capt. John Mellen’s company which went to reinforce the army at Ticonderoga, June-July, 1777. He was captain of a company for the Rhode Island campaign, Aug. 1778. He died in Dublin, April 16, 1820. He held higher rank than any other man who served for Dublin in the Revolutionary War.
STEPHEN TWITCHELL served as a private in Capt. Abijah Smith’s company. He also served at New York, Sept. 1776; he was in Capt. John Mellen’s company June-July, 1777. He removed from Dublin and his later history is unknown.
ABRAHAM VAN NORTH was in Capt. Samuel Blodgett’s company, 1777; Jan. 10 he is said to be absent from same company, Col. Nathan Hale’s regiment; he was in 7th Co., Col. George Reid’s regiment, 1780. His later history is unknown. He paid taxes in Dublin, 1774.
JOHN WRIGHT served in Capt. Salmon Stone’s company, July 21-Sept. 26, 1777, at Bennington and Stillwater; July 15, 1779, he enlisted for one year, receiving $60 bounty. He removed from Dublin. The name may be Wight, the names Wight and Wright, are often interchanged in the records.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS was a private in Capt. Mellen’s company June-July, 1777. Four of his children m. children of Thomas White, who removed to Cornish, N. H.
EBEN WOODS received coat money in Capt. Samuel Richard’s company, Col. John Stark’s regiment, 1775; he was in Capt. John Mellen’s company with men from Dublin, June-July, 1777. His later history is unknown.
OLIVER WRIGHT. This name occurs so frequently in the records that it is difficult to decide as to identity. There was a soldier of this name from Hollis, one from Alstead, two probably from Marlboro, and possibly one from Dublin, where Oliver Wright signed the Association Test, 1776, and was on the invoice list, 1777. Oliver Wright was in Capt. John Mellen’s company, 1777. He and his family removed from Dublin.
To the above list are to be added the names of several persons given in the History of Dublin, p. 149, viz: RICHARD GILCHRIST, ELI GREENWOOD, THOMAS GREEN, JAMES MILLS, ROBERT MUZZEY, JAREZ PUFFER, HENRY STRONGMAN, THOMAS MORSE.
The names of some of these persons do not appear upon the “Revolutionary Rolls” of New Hampshire. This may be due to a loss of certain rolls, or to their serving in Massachusetts regiments whose lists do not state the town from which these soldiers came. Such, I think, is the reason why there is no record of Richard Gilchrist’s service. He is claimed by both Dublin and Peterboro’. He was taxed in Dublin for a poll tax in 1775, and in 1776 signed the Association Test there. It is not probable that he was ever a resident of Peterboro’. There is some evidence that he and Thomas Green went from Swanzey to join the army at Cambridge.
Eli (a son of William Greenwood) Greenwood’s name is not found in the New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls. He died in Dublin Oct. 8, 1827, aged 76.
Robert Muzzey’s name does not appear there, nor that of Jabez Puffer, who died, as is believed, in Dublin. Robert Muzzey probably served in the forces of Massachusetts, from Holliston. He removed from Dublin to Sandy Creek, N. Y., and died there Sept. 9, 1831, æt. 93.
Jabez Puffer was a son-in-law of Capt. Thomas Morse. It is probable that he was a Revolutionary soldier, but positive evidence is lacking.
Henry Strongman was probably above military age, yet he may have seen service. His name is not found on the Rolls. He died in Dublin, 1786.
James Mills served in the company of Capt. William Stilson, Col. Isaac Wyman’s regiment, July-Dec. 1776. He removed from Dublin to Bethel, Me., 1785, where he was killed by the fall of a tree, 1790.
Thomas Morse was a member of Capt. Abijah Smith’s company, which went to New York in the summer of 1776. In the same company appears the name of Eli Morse, who may have been one of the Dublin Morses.
Thomas Morse was in the company of Capt. Isaac Davis, Col. Sam. Ashley’s regiment, which served at Ticonderoga, Oct. 21 to Nov. 16, 1776. He was also in Capt. Elisha Mack’s company, June-July, 1777. In 1778-’79 he served in the Rhode Island campaign in Capt. Daniel Reynolds’s company. Thomas Morse (b. 1748) appears to have made his home in Keene, with his brother-in-law, Daniel Wilson, and served with him in Capt. Jere. Stiles’s company and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. Thomas Morse is said to have removed to Canada.
Thomas Green was in the company of Capt. William Scott (Peterboro’) at Bunker Hill, where he was severely wounded. He is credited in the rolls to Swanzey and drew half pay as an invalid from Jan. 1, 1776, to Jan. 1, 1779. New Hampshire granted him a pension of 18 shillings a month after 1785. Apparently he resided in Swanzey while drawing his pension. He was returned in 1780 as 27 years old. His case is described with considerable fulness in the New Hampshire Rolls, vol. XVI., pp. 388-90.
The case of Abel Twitchell, a brother of Capt. Samuel Twitchell, may be typical of that of several others. He returned, it is said, to Sherborn, Mass., his native place, and enlisted from that town. It is likely that his return to Sherborn was late in 1775, or early in 1776. It is, also, probable that he came back to Dublin some months after the British evacuated Boston, March, 1776. Abel Twitched died in Dublin, March 8, 1837.