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��Micajah Otis, born in Dover, preached in Barrington, (the part now Strafford) ; Richard Martin, born in Portsmouth, preached in Gilford ; John D. Knowles, born in Sandwich, preached in Gilman- ton ; Winthrop Young, born in Barring- ton, preached in Canterbury; Samuel Weeks, born in Greenland, preached in Parsonsfield, Me. ; Jesse Burnham, born in Lee, preached in Maine, and moved to Janesville. Wis. ; Samuel B. Dyer, born in Newmarket, preached in Nottingham, Loudon and Deerfield; Elijah Watson, born in Nottingham, preached in Ando- ver; Enoch Place, born in Rochester, preached in Strafford; Josiah Magoon,

��born in East Kingston, preached in New Hampton ; Simeon Dana, born in Leba- non, preached in New Hampton; David Fisk, born in New Hampton, preached there ; Timothy Morse, born in Newbury, Mass., preached in Fishersfield, (now Newbury) ; Wilson Colcord, born in New- market, preached in Fairfield, Me. ; Josh- ua Quiinby, born in Kingston, preached in Lisbon; Daniel Quimby, born in Weare, preached in Lyndon, Vt. ; Isaac Townsend, born in Wolfeborough, preach- ed there ; Ebenezer Scales, born in Not- tingham, preached in Wilton, Me., Peter Clark, born in Gilmanton, preached there, in the part now Belmont.

��NEW HAMPSIBHE AT HUBBARTON.

��BY HON. G. W. NESMITH.

��The town of Hubbarton is situate in the northern part of Rutland County, Vt., about twenty-five miles from the western boundary of the State. On July 7, 1777, a battle was fought there be- tween the British and American forces. Ticonderoga had been evacuated by or- der of Gen. St. Clair, two or three days before. The larger wing of the Ameri- can army retreated down Lake George and the Hudson River, until they made their final stand at Saratoga. Gen. Bur- goyne, after severe fighting, surrendered here his army on the 17th of October, 1777. Gen. St. Clair ordered three regi- ments into Vermont, consisting of about 1200 effective troop3, to protect the pub- lic property, which was being collected at Castleton, Manchester and Benning- ton for the use of the Northern Army. These regiments were severally com- manded by Col. Ebenezer Francis of Massachusetts, Col. Nathan Hale of New Hampshire, and Seth Warner of Ver- mont. To Col. Hale was entrusted the special charge of the sick or invalids of the Northern Army. It has been stated that the invalids embraced a portion of the two other New Hampshire Regi-

��ments. These encumbered his march, so that on the evening of the 6th of July he found himself six miles be- hind the other American troops. Col. Hale was not aware that Burgoyne had sent forward in pursuit Gen. Frazer and Col. Reidesdel with about 1600 of his best troops. Hence, on the morning of the 7th of July he was suddenly first sur- prised by Gen. Frazer with 800 men, to- gether with a band of Indians. Hale was not prepared to resist this superior force, and, without making a very strenuous opposition, surrendered such of the men under his command as had not the power to escape. The rolls show that only a small part of his regiment was actually surrendered, including also a few men from the other New Hampshire regi- ments. Belknap says New Hampshire lost one hundred men in that battle. The record against each man's name then en- rolled in our regiments does not show that we actually lost many more than fifty men. It may be admitted that most of those marked missing were actually killed in their retreat or died after their surrender, while nearly all the prisoners afterwards appear in service in their re-

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