A Historical Address, Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1839, at the Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Windham (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Historical Address, Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1839, at the Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Windham Capt. Richard Mayberry, of this town, enlisted a company of 64, ih cluding officers and privates, into the Continental service for three years, The captain of this company and eleven of the members belonged to this town. This was the fifth company in the eleventh regiment of the Mass. Bay Forces. This company was in the left wing of the army commanded by Gen. Gates, in the memorable campaign of 1777, and shared in common with their brethren in arms, in all the hardships and dangers of that campaign, which terminated so gloriously in the capture of Gen. Burgoyne and his army at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777. They were in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, in which they suffered severely, and also in the engagement at Hubbardstown. We may judge of the efforts put forth by the inhabitants of this town during the revolutionary war from the facts, that there was but one military com pany in town during the war, that the number of men enrolled at any time did not amount to 55, of whom more than 30 were known to be out in the continental service and service of the State at one time, and during the war 71 men performed service in the continental armyoand drafted militia, being 16 more than the number enrolled at any time, 40 of whom served three years in the army: that this town, small in numbers, poor in point of pecuniary means, in one of the darkest peri~ ods of the revolution, voted 2280 dollars in silver money, to support the war, are facts which will forever stand forth as living mementoes of the devotion and attachment of this town to the cause of civil liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.