- BLISS, Ichabod, Sgt.
- BULLINGS, Joseph, Sentinel
- BURT, Henry, Sentinel
- CLARK, Nathaniel, Sentinel
- FERRY, Mark, Sentinel
- GARDNER, Humphrey, Sentinel
- GRAVES, Daniel, Sentinel
- HOAR, Charles, Sentinel
- KILBORN, Samuel, Sentinel
- MERRICK, James, Ensign
- MORETON, E., Sentinel
- MORGAN, Daniel, Sentinel
- MUNGER, Nathaniel, Sentinel
- NELSON, John, Sentinel
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
- 1755
Captain Daniel Burt's Company
- ARMS, Ebenezer, Drummer
- BAXTER, Francis
- BISHOP, Ebenezer, Sentinel
- BISHOP, John, Sentinel
- BLODGETT, Thomas
- BRIGHTWELL, John
- BROWN, John, Sgt.
- BURKE, Simeon
- BURT, John
- CARPENTER, Deliverance
- CHANDLER, Samuel, Lt.
- COLLINS, Nathaniel, Sentinel
- DADEE, William
- DAVIS, Joseph
- DAVIS, Trustrum, Ensign
- DIMOCK, Gideon
- DUNKLY, Robert., Jr.
- GAREY, Joshua
- GORDON, William
- HALLOWELL, John, Cpl.
- HARKNESS, John, Sgt.
- JANES, William, Sgt.
- KEEP, Jabez, Cpl.
- LIVERMORE, Samuel
- LOOMIS, Daniel, Clerk
- MARSH, Perez, Jr.
- MEECHAM, Ichabod
- MERRITT, Asa
- MIGHILL, Elijah
- MIGHILL, John, Cpl..
- MIGHILL, Nathaniel
- MOFFATT, Daniel
- MOFFATT, Joseph, Jr., Sentinel
- MORGAN, Jehiel
- ROATCH, Edward
- RUSSELL, Joshua, Cpl.
- SCOTT, Ebenezer, Jr.
- THOMPSON, John
- TURNER, James
- WALTON, Thomas
- WEBBER, Benjamin
- WEDGE, Dennis
- WHITE, Ephraim, Sentinel
Captain Ebenezer Moulton's Company
- ANDERS, Thomas
- APLIN, Issac
- BELKNAP, Asa
- BELKNAP, Joseph, Sgt.
- BELKNAP, William
- BLODGETT, Abner
- BRITTIAN, David
- BULLEN, Samuel
- BURGESS, Joshua, Cpl.
- CHEDLE, John
- CLARK, Stephen
- COLLINS, Timothy
- CONVERSE, Josiah, Jr.
- COOLEY, Ebenezer
- CRANE, Humphrey, Clerk
- CROSS, John
- DANIELSON, John, Jr.
- DEARING, Samuel
- DURKEE, Phineas, Cpl.
- FARRELL, Timothy
- FLEMING, William
- FROST, Ebenezer
- FROST, Jonathan
- FROST, Samuel
- GARDNER, William
- GAREY, William
- GORDON, Richard, Drummer
- GRAVES, Aaron, Cpl.
- HEALEY, Abijah
- HIEL, John
- KIILBOURN, Jonathan
- KING, JONATHAN
- LAMBERTON, John
- LUMBARD, David
- LUMBARD, Jonathan
- LYON, Henry
- McCLELLAN, Samuel
- McMASTER, Robert
- MIRRACK, Phineas, Cpl.
- MIRRICK, Gideon, Lt.
- MORGAN, Reuben
- MOULTON, Joseph
- MUNGER, Joseph, Sgt.
- NEEDHAM, Nehemiah
- RIDDLE, Thomas
- RUNNELS, James
- RUSSELL, Adonijah
- STEBBINS, Benjamin
- TACKLES, Hugh, Sgt.
- WALKER, Timothy
- WALLIS, David, Ensign
- WEBBER, Henry
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CROWN POINT EXPEDITION
- 1756
Captain Trustram Davis' Company
- ALLEN, David
- ALLEN, Samuel
- BATES, Samuel
- BELKNAP, Asa
- BURT, John
- COBB, Edward
- DAVIS, John
- FOOT, Joseph, Drummer
- GARLE, William
- HUBBARD, Simeon
- KING, Jotham
- LEE, Samuel
- MIGHILL, Elijah
- MIGHILL, John, Clerk
- MOULTON, Joseph
- NEEDHAM, Joseph
- POST, John
- SMITH, Josiah
- SMITH, Samuel
- TOWNSLEY, Reuben *
- WALKER, Israel, Sgt.
- WALLIS, Isaac
- WALTON, Andrew
- WEBBER, Jacob
- WHITE, Ephraim, Cpl.
* Reuben TOWNSLEY also served in the Expedition
Against Canada, 1758. He was taken captive by the Indians, and was
subjected to their favorite ordeal of running the gauntlet. Despite this
trying reception, he became a favorite with his captors, was adopted into
the tribe, and lived with the red men for ten years. He then returned to
Brimfield, but finding civilized life distasteful, went back to the forest.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- 1776
In January, 1775, it was voted that a company
of fifty minute-men be raised and equipped at the expense of the town.
Joseph THOMPSON was chosen as their captain. He remained in the service
until the close of the war, attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
With the opening of the war, the demands upon
the people of Brimfield became heavy, and so continued to the close of
the struggle. Not only were soldiers furnished in liberal number
to maintain the continental army, but the tax upon the people who remained
at home, to supply the necessities of the troops, to pay for their service,
and to meet other requirments, was enought to appal the bravest. Yet there
was no faltering or demur. Whaever was required was voted with unanimity,
and the most serious burdens were assumed unflinchingly. The list of those
who served in the patriot army, so far as preserved, is given below; but
it is believed that in all, the town sent full 200 of her sons into the
service - a most heroric number considering the population at the time.
Where these men served, the battles in which they were engaged, the marches
and the hardships which they endured, are not recorded. But it is
of record that at the close of the war, the town bore a burden of over
1,700 Pounds as its share of the arrears of pay due the faithful troops
who had won the independence of the colonies.
So far as it is preserved, the names of Brimfield's
soldiers in the War of the Revolution, were:
- ABBOTT, Henry
- ABBOTT, Zebediah
- ALEXANDER, Peter
- AMES, Nathan
- ANDREW, Samuel
- ATCHINSON, John
- BAKER, Joseph
- BALLARD, Sherebiah
- BARTLETT, John
- BEMENT, George
- BEMENT, Jesse
- BISHOP, Abner
- BISHOP, Hooper
- BISHOP, Solomon
- BLANCHARD, George
- BLASHFIELD, James
- BLASHFIELD, John
- BLASHFIELD, Ozem
- BLASHFIELD, William
- BLISS, Blodgett
- BLISS, Henry
- BLISS, Thomas
- BLODGETT, Admatha
- BLODGETT, Benjamin
- BLODGETT, Ephraim
- BLODGETT, Jonas
- BLODGETT, Rufus
- BLOSS, John
- BOND, Edward
- BOND, Ephraim
- BOND, Luke
- BOND, Samuel
- BELKNAP, Daniel
- BRIDGHAM, Jonathan
- BROOKS, Silas
- BROWN, Bartholomew
- BROWN, Jonathan
- BROWN, Jonathan, Lt.
- BROWNING, Joseph, Maj.
- BRYANT, John
- BURNETT, James
- BURR, Noadiah
- BURT, Abel
- BURT, Thomas T., Capt.
- CADDY, Stoddard
- CARPENTER, Abial
- CARPENTER, John, Maj.
- CARPENTER, William
- CORLISS, Timothy
- CHAPMAN, Lemuel
- CHARLES, Aaron
- CHARLES, John
- CHARLES, Jonathan
- CHARLES, Nathaniel
- CHARLES, Nehemiah
- CHARLES, Solomon
- CHICKERING, Nathaniel
- CLARK, Benoni
- CLARK, Peter
- COLLINS, Lewis
- COLLINS, Nathaniel
- COLLINS, Stephen
- COLLINS, Thaddeus
- COOLEY, Azariah
- COLLIS, John
- DANIELSON, Altamont
- DANIELSON, Calvin
- DANIELSON, Daniel
- DANIELSON, John
- DANIELSON, Lothario
- DANIELSON, Luther
- DANIELSON, Timothy, Brigadier-General
- DAVIS, Samuel
- DAVIS, William
- DICKINSON, Nathaniel, Maj.
- DRAPER, Isaac
- DRAPER, Samuel
- DUNHAM, Joseph
- ELLINGWOOD, Hananiah
- FAIRBANKS, Ebenezer
- FAIRBANKS, Rufus
- FAY, Elijah
- FAY, Levi
- FERRY, Judah
- FISK, Jonathan
- FULLER, Luther
- GRAVES, Jesse
- GARDNER, John
- HARRIS, John
- HAYNES, Danial
- HAYNES, Jonas
- HAYNES, Samuel
- HILL, Josiah
- HITCHCOCK, Aaron
- HITCHCOCK, Abijah
- HITCHCOCK, Abner
- HITCHCOCK, Eldad
- HITCHCOCK, Eli
- HITCHCOCK, Elijah
- HITCHCOCK, Ezra
- HITCHCOCK, Jacob
- HITCHCOCK, Joseph
- HITCHCOCK, Levi
- HITCHCOCK, Luther
- HITCHCOCK, Medad
- HITCHCOCK, Winchester
- HOAR, Joseph, Maj.
- HOAR, Leonard
- HOOKER, Henry
- HOWARD, Jeremiah
- HUBBARD, John B.
- HUBBARD, Jonathan
- JAMES, David
- JANES, Elijah
- JANES, Eliphalet
- JANES, Isaac
- JANES, Israel
- JANES, Jonathan
- JANES, Peleg Cheney
- JANES, Solomon
- JANES, Thomas
- JANES, William
- LANE, Asaph
- LEWIS, Samuel
- LILLY, Benjamin
- LILLY, Joseph
- LILLY, Reuben, Lt.
- LILLY, Samuel
- LIVERMORE, Daniel
- LUMBARD, Absalom
- LUMBARD, Aaron
- LUMBARD, David
- LUMBARD, Jeremiah
- LUMBARD, Stephen
- LUMBARD, Thomas
- MASON, Oliver
- MAY, Ezra
- McCLURE, Thomas
- MIGHILL, Aaron, Lt.
- MIGHILL, Abner
- MIGHILL, Nathaniel
- MILLER, Amos
- MILLER, Nathaniel, Ensign
- MOFFATT, Daniel
- MOFFATT, Jacob
- MOFFATT, Joel
- MOFFATT, Judah
- MOFFATT, Lewis
- MOFFATT, William
- MORGAN, Abner, Maj.
- MORGAN, Benjamin
- MORGAN, David
- MORGAN, Enoch
- MORGAN, Jacob
- MORGAN, Jonathan
- MORGAN, Joseph
- MORGAN, Pelatiah
- MORGAN, William
- NELSON, Benjamin
- NELSON, Samuel
- NEWELL, John
- NICHOLS, Asher
- NICHOLS, John
- NICHOLS, Zadok
- PARKER, Jesse
- PARKER, Lemuel
- POWERS, Eli
- ROGERS, Simon
- RUSSELL, Joseph
- SABIN, Abner
- SANDERSON, Sylvanus
- SHAW, George
- SHAW, Samuel
- SHERMAN, Benjamin
- SHERMAN, Beriah
- SHERMAN, Bezaleel
- SHERMAN, James, Maj.
- SHERMAN, John
- SHERMAN, Joseph
- SHERMAN, Lemuel
- SHERMAN, Noah
- SHERMAN, Phineas, Lt.
- SHERMAN, Noah
- SHERMAN, Samuel
- SHERMAN, Thomas
- SHUMWAY, George
- SMITH, Elijah
- SMITH, John
- STEARNS, Daniel
- STEBBINS, Abner
- STEBBINS, David
- STEBBINS, John
- STEBBINS, Jotham
- STEBBINS, Judah
- STEBBINS, Levi
- STONE, Thomas
- THOMPSON, Alpheus
- THOMPSON, Asa
- THOMPSON, Amherst
- THOMPSON, James
- THOMPSON, John
- THOMPSON, Jonathan, Col.
- THOMPSON, Joseph, Lt. Col.
- THOMPSON, Samuel
- THOMPSON, Solomon
- THOMPSON, Stephen
- TOWNSLEY, Adam
- TOWNSLEY, Daniel
- TOWNSLEY, Gad
- TOWNSLEY, Gad
- TOWNSLEY, Reuben
- TRASK, Benjamin
- TRASK, Noah
- TRASK, William
- TUCKER, Joseph
- WARD, Christopher
- WARD, Comfort
- WARD, Ebenezer
- WARD, Elijah
- WEBBER, Bradley
- WHITNEY, Gershom
- WITHAM, Joshua
- WORTHINGTON, Calvin
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