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��Lancaster in Acadie and the Acadiens in Lancaster.

��[April,

��dislodging the French from their newly fortified positions along the north side of the Bay of Fundy, and on the isthmus connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Among the vessels of the fleet was the sloop Victory, and to this was assigned a company belonging to the second, or Lieutenant-Colonel Scott's, battalion, largely composed of, and officered by, Lancaster men, a list of whose names is subjoined : —

Captain Abijah Willard.

��First Lieutenant " Haskal."

� �Henry

�Haskell ?]

�Second Lieutenant Willard. [Levi ?]

�Ensign Willard. [Aaron ?]

�Sergeants.

�Thomas Beman, husbandman. . . aged 25

�James Houghton, „. . . ,,25

�Corporals.

�Jacob Willard, husbandman. . . aged 21

�Thomas Willard, „ 23

�Drummers.

�Joseph Famsworth, husbandman. . aged 20

�Joseph Phelps, „. . „ 21

�Privates.

�Benjamin Atherton, laborer .... aged 20

�Phineas Atherton, „

� � � � �, 16

�Daniel Atherton, „

� � � � �, 21

�Jonathan Brown, „

� � � � �. 17

�Joseph Bailey, „

� � � � �. 30

�Phineas Divoll, „

� � � � �, 22

�Abel Famsworth, husbandman

� � � � �, 22

�John Famsworth, laborer.

� � � � �. 30

�Jeremiah Field,

� � � � � �, 18

�Ephraim Goss,

� � � � � �, 22

�Thomas Henderson, „

� � � � � �. 40

�Daniel Harper,

� � � � � �, 21

�Elias Haskell, cooper

� � � � � �. 19

�William Hutson, cordwainer

� � � � � �, 22

�John Johnson, laborer.

� � � � � �> 22

�Samuel Kilham, „

� � � � � �, 20

�Matthias Larkin, „

� � � � � �. 30

�Joseph Metcalf, cooper.

� � � � � �, 21

�Joseph Pratt, laborer

� � � � � �. 30

�Joseph Priest,

� � � � � �. 45

�Daniel Sanders, „

� � � � � �. 19

�Isaac Sollendine, laborer

� � � � � �. 21

�Jacob Stiles, housewright

� � � � � �. 19

�Lemuel Turner, laborer

� � � � � �, 18

�Nathaniel Turner, „

� � � � � �, i8

�William Turner, „

� � � � � �, 18

�Aaron Wilder, „

� � � � � �. 30

�William Warner, „

� � � � � �, 20

�David Wilson, „

� � � � � �. 18

��Levi Woods, laborer aged 20

Silas Willard, „ .■ 19

Uziah Wyman, apothecary ,,21

John Warner, laborer ,,20

James Willard, „ ,18

John Wilson, „ ,,20

Besides the above forty-five, there were, in other companies, three natives of Lancaster : —

��Nathaniel Johnson, yeoman

Jonas Moor,

John Rugg, husbandman

��aged 25 .. 32 .. 31

��What special part these men took in the investment and capture of the for- midable fort of Beau Sejour, or in the assaults upon the minor forts, neither record nor tradition tell, and we are equally uninformed respecting their participation in the pitiable scenes enacted along the shores of Minas and Chignecto Bays. The Massachusetts Archives contain no pay-rolls of this expedition, and no papers of Captain Abijah Willard are known to exist throwing any light upon its history. That the service was not only inglorious in part, and ungrateful to the truly brave, but attended with much hard- ship, is attested by the following docu- ments copied from Massachusetts Archives, Iv, 62 and dT^- They are there in the handwriting of Secretary Josiah Willard : —

" Sir : I have received your Letter giving me an acct. of the Hardships your poor Soldiers are exposed to. I sincerely Compassionate their unhappy case & I pray God to find out some Way for their Relief. The Governor is not expected here till the month of Decemb^ When he arrives I shall endeavour to mention the affair to him. In the mean time, I have written a Let- ter to Major General Winslow which I have left open, Leaving it with you to deliver it or not as you shall judge best,

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