3. Joseph Parsons, Captain.
Joseph Dow, Lieutenant.
Jonathan Leavitt, Ensign.
4. Simon Marston, Captain.

Jeremiah Abbott, Lieutenant.
James Martin, Ensign.

1778

The duty of mustering, organizing and sending into the field so many troops as were sent by New-Hampshire in 1777, was very arduous, and Maj. Gen. Folsom could have had but little respite from his military duties, and it is probable that Gen. Nathaniel Peabody assisted him as Adjutant-General of the New-Hampshire militia. Certain it is, that Gen. Peabody held that office the following year, when there was not so much necessity for such an officer, as New-England was comparatively at rest, the seat of war, as before suggested, having been transferred to the Southward.

New-Hampshire kept still her three regiments in the field. The rolls of officers of these regiments for the years 1777-8 and 9, were as follows:

First, or Col. Cilley's Regiment, 1777–8 and 9.
Joseph Cilley, Colonel and Lieut. Colonel.
Jeremiah Gilman Lieut. Colonel.
William Scott, Major and Captain.
Caleb Stark,* Adjutant.

* Caleb Stark was a son of Gen. John Stark, and was born Dec. 3, 1759. He followed his father to Medford, a lad of only 16, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. He continued in the army attached to Capt. Reid's company, and had a commission as ensign in 1776. In 1777, Feb. 10, he was appointed Adjutant of the 1st New-Hampshire Regiment, commanded by his father. After his father resigned the command, in the Spring of 1777, Adj. Stark still continued with the regiment, and won the reputation of a gallant and brave officer in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga. In 1778, he was brigade major in his father's brigade, by appointment of Congress, and was aid to his father, and continued in that capacity till the close of the war. He afterward engaged extensively in mercantile, manufacturing and agricultural pursuits. In 1812 he moved from Boston, where he had been an importing merchant for some years, and purchased an unfinished factory in Pembroke, in the part now called Suncook, and

Simon Sartwell, Captain and Lieutenant.
John House, Captain.

Moody Dustin, Captain and Lieutenant.
Nathaniel McCauley, Lieutenant.

Jeremiah Pritchard, "

Simon Merrill, Lieutenant and Ensign.

Jonathan Willard, Lieutenant and Ensign.

Joshua Thompson, Lieut., Ensign and Paymaster.

Joseph Lawrence, Ensign.

Thomas Blake, Lieut., Ensign and Paymaster.
William Hutchins, Lieutenant.

Jona. Perkins, Sergeant and Ensign.

Joseph Mills, Ensign.

Hobert Carter, Sergeant and Ensign.

Samuel Thompson, Ensign and Sergeant.
William Lee, Lieutenant.

furnishing it with machinery, operated it as a cotton mill until 1830. At the same time he cultivated his fine farm in Dunbarton with skill and perseverance. While attending to an extensive estate in Ohio, granted for military services, Maj. Stark died in Oxford, August 26, 1838, in the 79th year of his age.

The Second, or Col. Reid's Regiment, for 1777–78–79.
George Reid, Colonel.*

Nathan Hale, Colonel.

George Reid, Major and Lieut. Colonel.
Winborn Adams, Major and Lieut. Colonel.
Benjamin Whitcomb, Captain and Major.
Benjamin Titcomb, Captain and Major.
Jer. Fogg, Paymaster, Capt. and Aid-de-camp.
William Parker, Surgeon.

Robert R. Henry,

William Wood, Surgeon's Mate.

Richard Brown, Quartermaster.

Daniel Gookin, Sergt. Major and Ensign.

Jonathan Downing, Sergt. Major.

Theophilus Colby, Quartermaster Sergeant.

George Aldrich,

James Carr,

Captain.

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* Col. George Reid was of Londonderry, the son of James Reid, and was born in 1733. He was captain of a company of minute men in 1775, and marched with his company to Medford, upon the news from Lexington, and joined Gen. Stark's regiment. He took an honorable part in the battle of Bunker Hill, continued with the army, and January 1, 1776, was commissioned as captain in the Continental army. In the Spring of 1777, upon the reorganization of the New-Hampshire Regiments, in consequence of Poor's promotion and Stark's resignation, he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the "2d New-Hampshire Regiment," Nathan Hale, Colonel, and in the summer following, when Col. Hale was taken prisoner at Hubbardton, he succeeded him in command of the regiment, and continued its colonel till 1781. He was brigadier-general in the New-Hampshire Militia, in 1785, and as such, in 1786, led a portion of his command, by order of President Sullivan, against the rebels in arms against the Legislature, in session at Exeter. In 1791 Gen. Reid was appointed high-sheriff of the county of Rockingham. He died in September, 1815, being 82 years of age.-Parker's History of Londonderry.

Caleb Blodgett, Private, Sergeant and Ensign.
George Burnham, Sergeant and Ensign.

William Twombly,

Thomas Chellis,

3d, or Col. Scammel's Regiment for 1777-78-79.

Alexander Scammel, Colonel.

Enoch Poor,* Colonel and. Brig. General.

* Gen. Enoch Poor was from Exeter, where he had been a successful shipbuilder. He was the son of Thomas Poor, of Andover, Ms. At the commencement of the Revolution he had a vessel upon the stocks, a large number of men in his employment, and was a man of sound judgment, and popular; hence his appointment, as he could readily raise a regiment, and could command one when raised. His mechanical skill kept him from participating in the battle of Bunker Hill, as he and a portion of his men were employed in building fire-rafts at Exeter, for use in case the British fleet should attempt to burn Portsmouth. He was at Winter Hill until the evacuation of Boston by the British. He went to Canada with Sullivan,

Henry Dearborn, Major and Lieut. Colonel.
Andrew Colburn, Lieut. Colonel.
James Norris, Captain and Major.
Nicholas Gilman, Adjutant and Captain.
Israel Evans, Chaplain.

Jos. Blanchard, Qr. M., Lieut. and Paymaster.
Dudley L. Chase, Ensign and Quartermaster.
William Weeks, Paymaster.

and was made a brigadier by Congress, in 1777, which fact caused the resignation of Col Stark. In the fall of that year he fought his brigade in those battles that caused the downfall of Burgoyne. In 1779 he had the honor of being detached by Gen. Washington, under Sullivan, to join the expedition against the Indians of the Genesee country, and fought and gained the battle of Newton, that broke the power of those haughty tribes. In 1780, at the request of Gen. LaFayette, Gen. Poor was appointed to command the brigade of light infantry in his command, and it is no small tribute to his memory, and that of another gallant soldier and friend, that the Marquis, when last in this country, at a public entertainment given in his honor, should have proposed as his sentiment on the occasion: "The memories of Light Infantry Poor and Yorktown Scammel." His last command was under LaFayette, for, being in Hackensack, New-Jersey, he died, September 8, 1781, in the forty-third year of his age. It was reported that he died of an attack of bilious fever, but this was not true. He was killed in a duel with a French officer, and the falsehood as to the cause of his death was promulgated as a matter of public policy. Gen. Poor was so beloved by his troops, and so popular with the army generally, that it was thought if the cause of his death were known, a fearful collision might be the consequence betwixt the American and French troops. The truth as to his death was not promulgated until after LaFayette's last visit to America, and is not now generally known. A handsome monument has been erected to his memory at Hackensack, by citizens, admirers of his character as a man and a soldier.