Racine County WI Archives News.....THE MILITIA September 28, 1887
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Racine Journal (Racine, Wisconsin) - W Ed, Sep 28, 1887 - Page 3 September 28, 1887
THE MILITIA

That existed in 1842 when James 
Jones Bartlott was Captain and 
L.S. Blake was Lieutenant.

The Officers and Privates. 

The journal reporter today was 
shown a document that is of great 
interest to old settlers and a 
rare relic. It is the enrollment 
of Company A  fourth regiment ef 
the Wisconson militia, 1842, when 
James Duane Doty was Governor of 
the the Territory of Wisconson. In 
those days, they spelled Wisconson 
like this: Wiskonsan (Whee 
honsaa). The document, old and 
worn, is the property of Ed. 
Bartlett, of Franksville. His 
father, James O Bartlett, 
deceased, was captaln of the 
company. Lucias B. Blake, of this 
city, First Lieutenant; Charles 
Smith; First Sergeant, Hiram 
Sherman; Second Sergeant, Benj. 
Perkins; Third Sargent Joseph 
Blanson; 4th sargent; Newtoe 
Parker; First Corporal, Miles 
Colton; Second; Cyrus Parks; 
Third,  Wa. Meeker: Fourth, and on 
the muster roll are the names of 
160 privates. As the names will 
make interesting reading for old 
timers they are given. 

Artemus Walker, Lewis Butterfield, 
Samon F. Heath,  Wm. W. Holden,
Gaines D. Aldrich, Charles 
Herrick, Henry Stevens, George G. 
Stevens,  Abram Hickman, John H. 
Bromhall, Caleb E. Rouse, Hiram 
Walton, Alfred Taylor, Samuel H. 
Graves, Walter Mitchel, Wm. 
Anderson, David Jenkins, Silas H. 
Fenn, David Bradley, Wm. Cooley, 
Henry Cooley, Sidney A. Sage, 
Stephen Sage, Marshal M. Strong, 
Frederick Deberard, D. Smith Wing, 
John Pearsons, Chancey Banker, 
Reuben Chadwick, Eli R. Cooley, 
Thomas J. Wisner, N. O. Mayhew, 
Chester M. Mann, C. W. Spofford, 
Ransom Cole, Roswell Morris, 
Samuel Lane, Benjamin Fink, Taunt, 
Ira Hurlbut, Wa. Felter, Truman G. 
Wright, Charles S. Wright, Silas 
N. Smith, Hiram Cook, John Kelly, 
Joel Carpenter, H.F. Rogers, Henry 
L. Marsh, L. Butrick, Socrates 
Hopkins, Henry L. Holt, Wm. H. 
Bennett, Jacob Lybrand, Edward 
Smith, John A. Carswel, James A. 
Lee, George Perkins, George D. 
Fellows, A. H. Lee, Samuel G. 
Knight, Oliver Deerduff, John 
Barret, Wm Hodges, Alfred Hodges, 
R.O. Redfield, Stephen N. Ives, 
Levi Cary, Edwin Gould, Luke 
Fletcher, Benjamin Pierce, 
Canfield, Leonard Sweet, Hector 
Adams, Theodore Secor, Harvey 
Smith, Alanson Filer, David 
Reaves, Ira Dean, Norman Clark, 
James, Stanley, Edgar Waite, Wm. 
H. Galespie, Moses Vilas, John 
Ramsdel, Grey Parker, Edwin 
Colyin, Lyman K. Smith, Matthew B. 
Mead, Samuel Smith, Frances M 
Rublee, James H. Chapman, Horace 
N. Chapman, Horace Sanders, 
Augustas Titus, James M. Titus, 
Francis H. Orvis, L. A. Spofford, 
Milton Blake, Darius Pierce, Abram 
G. Young, Albert Knowlton, James 
Hines, Charlie Bunce, John 
Johnson, St. John, Ludlow F. 
Lewis, John Davis, Orson Phelps, 
Michael Hin man, Alfred R.Hodge, 
Asa Rice, James Walker, Henry 
Darling, Wm. Hamilton, Silas Loyd, 
Oliver Ives, Daniel Farling Hubbel 
Rice, Hiram Cross, George Crane, 
Charles Bowerman, Lorenzo Kate, 
Augus tus Crane, Wm. Balding, 
Samuel Eaton, David Yates, John 
Shepherd, Addison Jones, John 
Learch, Nelson Walker, Martin 
Liscomb, Charles Morris, Thomas 
Bones, Samuel Hill, James Page, 
Osmond Pesko, Vernon Pasko, Lacier 
Pasko, Abram Jackson, Quincy 
Pasko, Elihu Doad, Joshua Pierce, 
Hophnia Hurilburt, Alexander 
Robinson, Blanson Allen, Benjamin 
Smitt, Hiram Morse, Charles Thorn, 
Andrew Dibble, Thomas Hood, Isaac 
Goodpasture, Daniel Lucas, 
Benjamin Fowler, Ebenezer Weed, 
Jacob Young, Robert Forbes, Issac 
Eorbes, Adna Wooster, Jas. Weed, 
Oliver Rouse.





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