Files for the Kennebec Co. page
Date:	97-11-08 17:26:44 EST
From:	wether@value.net (Bob & Karen Wetherell)
Reply-to:	wether@value.net
To:	Itigapa@AOL.COM (David C. Young)


Kingsbury, Henry D. and Simeon L. Deyo
Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine
New York:  H. W. Blake and Co., 1892
F27 K2 K5 (Sutro)

page 115  
Military History, War of 1812
Litchfield:

Col. Abel Merrill commanded a regiment at Bath in which was a company from Litchfield.  The
commissioned officers of this company were:  
Hugh Getchell, Captain
William Randall, Lieutenant
Jesse Richardson, Ensign

The non-commissioned officers were:
James B. Smith, Cornelius Richardson and Cyrus Burke, Sergeants
Adam Johnson, Isaac Smith, Thomas Springer and William Towns, Corporals
John Hodgeman, Cornelius Thompson and Isaac Shirtleff, musicians

The company contained 57 privates [not named].

page 115-116

A company in Litchfield was drafted from the 10th division and mustered into the US service to
garrison the forts on the eastern coast of Maine.  The commissioned officers were:
David C. Burr, Captain
John Dennis, jun., Lieutenant
Benjamin White, jun., Lieutenant
John A. Neal, Ensign.

Caleb Goodwin, Joshua Walker, Andrew Goodwin and William Hutchinson were Sergeants
William Bailey, Francis Douglas, Hezekiah Richardson and Moses Stevens, Corporals
Joseph Hutchinson and David Weymouth, musicians

Fifty privates [not named] went out in the company.


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