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 Daniel Kilham, ’77, of Wenham (20)—minuteman, same as preceding; service, two days.

Thomas Noyes, ’77, of Newbury (19)—captain of minutemen; service, four days. After graduating, served in John Noyes’s company, Johnson’s regiment, August to November, 1777, “Northern Department.”

Aaron Bancroft, ’78, of Reading (18)—minuteman at Lexington; also at Bunker Hill.

The following seniors enlisted immediately; but as there were no more college exercises until after the usual time for Commencement, having good records they received their degrees in course, by “general diploma”; that is, they were “undergraduates” only in a technical sense:

Samuel Dogget, ’75, of Boston (16)—2d lieutenant, Gridley’s artillery regiment, May to December, 1775; 2d lieutenant, Knox’s artillery regiment, all of 1776; 1st lieutenant, second company, First Suffolk Regiment militia, commissioned October 2, 1778.

Isaac Hall, ’75, of Boston (16)—captain of a company of minutemen, April 19, 1775; captain, Gardner’s regiment, April to December, 1775.

Benjamin Heywood, ’75, of (?), (?)—lieutenant, Nixon’s regiment, May to December, 1775; 2d lieutenant (later paymaster), Fourth Continental Infantry, all of 1776; lieutenant and paymaster, Sixth Massachusetts, January, 1777. Burgoyne campaign. A letter from William Weeks, ’75, paymaster in Scammel’s (Third New Hampshire) Continental Regiment, dated Stillwater, August 6, 1777, mentions “my classmate Haywood” as present. Captain, April 10, 1779. Served to June, 1783.

Jonathan Maynard, ’75, of Framingham (19)—sergeant (later lieutenant), Drury’s company, Nixon’s regiment, May to December, 1775. Returned to College and took his degree in 1776. 1st lieutenant, Seventh Massachusetts, January 1, 1777. Mentioned as present in Weeks’s letter above. Taken prisoner at Coverskill in