THE TOWNS OF LEE AND SPRINGFIELD
request for military
division,1838.
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THE TOWNS OF LEE AND SPRINGFIELD |
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State of
Maine In Council June 25th,
1838 The Standing Committee on Military Affairs, to
which was referred the petition of Samuel F. Hersey and others, officers
in the sixth Regiment of the First Brigade in the third Division, praying
for alterations in the limits of Companies, and the organization of new
ones, having examined the subject, Report, that the petition is approved
by the commanding officers of said Brigade and Division, and the Committee
are of opinion, that the prayer thereof, ought to be
granted.
They therefore recommend that the Governor and Commander in Chief
be advised to issue an order to issue, whereby the H Company in said
Regiment, located in the Towns of Lee and Springfield, shall be divided,
and the limits of said H Company shall be so far altered as to embrace
only the town of Lee; an that a new company shall be organized in the
towns of Springfield and township number six [Carroll] in the second range
of townships north of the Bingham Penobscot Purchase, and the bounds of
said new company shall embrace said towns of Springfield and township
number six. And also that the G Company in said Regiment, located in the
towns of Passadumkeag and Burlington, shall be divided, and the limits of
said G Company shall be altered as to embrace only the town of
Passadumkeag; and that a new Company shall be organized in the towns of
Burlington and Lowell and the two mile strip (so called) south of Lowell
[Page Mill Settlement], and the bounds of said new Company shall embrace
said towns of Burlington and Lowell and said two mile strip. And further,
that the D Company in said Regiment, located in the towns of Howland,
Edinburg and Maxfield, shall be divided, and the limits of said D Company shall be so far
altered as to embrace the towns of Howland and Edinburg only; and that a
new company shall be organized in the town of Maxfield and in the Whitney
half township (so called), and the bounds of said new Company shall
embrace said towns of Maxfield and said Whitney
half-township.
Which is respectfully submitted.
B.W. Hinchly In Council June 25,
1838 Read and accepted by the Committee and by the
Governor Approved.
Attest
Saml P. Benson, Secretary of State. *
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* To the Honorable the Governor & Council of the
State of Maine 24th May 1838
Saml Hersey Col. Elect of the
6th Regmt 1st Brigade and 3
Div
Aaron Haynes
Lieut. Col
elect of the 6 Reg
Theodore Taylor Maj. Elect of the 6th
Div.
Approved by B Gen John Williams Brig. Genl 1st Brigd 3d
Division
Approved Isaac Hodsdon
Maj Genl 3d Diiv *
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was presiding Officer at the organization of the militia in the Towns of
Lee & Springfield. Thee are men enough liable to do military duty in
said town for two large companies. At the day of Election there where
eighty eight men from Springfield present. Enclosed is a petition praying
that a company of Infantry may be organized in the Town of Springfield
& I think the petition ought to be
granted. 24 April 1838
Saml F Herey For Gen. J Williams
Capt Samuel F Hersey is the commanding officer of the sixth
regiment first Brigade and Division 26th Apr 38
Isaac Hodsdon
Major Genl Bangor
April 25th 1838 Approved by John William Brig
Genl
1 Brig 3d
Division *
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* The object of the petitioners is to divide the
company of local militia composed of the troops of the towns of Lee &
Springfield in the sixth regiment of the first Brigade & third
Division and that a new company of local Infantry be formed embracing all
those liable to the performance of military duty who reside within the
town of Springfield and that the said company be attached to and become a
part of the said sixth regt and I approve their
petition. April 26th 1838
Isaac Hodsdon
Major Genl
3rd Division P.S. No officer has been commission to command the
company in Lee & Springfield Wm Pope Recd April 27,
1838 Petition of Horatio Barrett al et for div. Of H
Com. Infantry 6 3 In Committee May 24, 1838 Refd to Com On
Milt Attest Saml Busan Sec of
State *
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* To the
Honorable the Governor and Council of the State of
Maine
Your Petitioners would respectfully represent that at the
organization of the militia of the Towns of Lee and Springfield,
there appeared to be upwards
of one hundred and eighty eight solders, eighty four of whom belonging in
Springfield. We therefore, soldiers duly enrolled in said militia and
Citizens of Springfield, respectfully request that we may be cut off from
Lee and be organized separately as a company of Militia and as in duty
bound will always pray. Horatio
Barrett
Bial H Scribner A.G. Barrett
Charles L Doe Joseh Gould
Wm. B. Merrill Wm A[O]lmster
Charles Merrill Jonathan Chase
Elias Breck A. B. Shaw
Wm. Douglass Jr. Clement D. [Lowe or Lewis]
Benj Ridlon [?Melihes] Lewis
Henry Black J. C. Chamberlain
Aaron A Carsley James Butterfield
Nathaniel Kimball James M Baldwin
[?C luis] Hathorn
Nathaniel Gould Reulen Tucker {?}
Averill John Thompson
Cyrus W McKenney R. H. Merrill
Allen Warren Phineas Scribner
Miles S Scribner R. T. Starbird George
Carsley John Woodard
L. J. R. Crocker John
P. Johnson William Cushman
Moses Tewksbury Luther Walker
Isaac McKenny Jeremiah Higgins
Mark Carsley William Trask
Shepherd [?ronsey] Wm Warren
Ebenezer Warren Samuel Rowe
Charles Grave John S Weeks
John Schumway James McKeen *
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* Township NO. 6 East of Springfield
September 13th 1838 Penobscot County State of
Maine To the Hon Governor and Council at their session
holden at the council chamber in Augusta the second week in October
next. We the undersigned inhabitants of the above
named Township have been
called upon by the superior officers of the Lincoln Regiment to organize
with the town of Springfield [?leb] a company of Militia which under the
present existing circumstances we deem very improper and inexpedient.
Therefore it is our earnest prayer and desire to be excluded from doing
military duty. The following are the reasons why we deem it improper and
inexpedient. Finally the township is very thinly settled and abut about
fourteen or sixteen persons which will be liable to do military service
and their situated in the most remote manner in the town through which we
have not one rod of road excepting what we call winter roads through the
woods. [?Paths] [?formed] by individuals for their convenience and can be
traveled only in the day time and on foot secondly. The town of
Springfield unanimously [ ]
they have full company
without us ( and do not want us-crossed out) and do not want us to act as
soldiers in the militia in their company. Thirdly we are situated thinly
and are without horses or carriages for conveyance besides ours
[illegible] our poverty is extreme. Fourthly, not a single individual in
the above mentioned township had any knowledge of the petition of
Springfield addressing your honorable body for power to organize the above
mentioned company and neither of the officers of the regiment know the
situation of us nor the trouble or expense of the performance of military
duty. Again we repeat this is the situation of your soldiers in the above
mentioned township. Therefore your petitioners pray your honourable
body to exclude us from doing military duty and as in duty bound will ever
pray. Ekekiel Brown Rufus
H Merrill Homer Gates
Horatio Barrett Abner Wade Jr
Samuel [?Graves] John Getchell Charles Brown Horace Brown Moses W. Larrabee Stephen Dow William Coffin Augustus W
Lothrop Silas A Lindsay Hubbard Champney John A Larrabee *
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To His Excellency Edward Kent: Governor of Maine and the Hon.
Executive Council
There having been recently organized a company of Infantry in the
Towns of Passadumkeag and Burlington, your petitioners would beg leave to
state that half township No I which is incorporated in 1837 by the name of
Huntsville and in 1838 changed to that of Lowell lies directly between
Passadumkeag and Burlington and by reference to Greenliefs map of Maine,
it will be found that Passadumkeag, formerly Township No 1 on the mouth of
the Passadumkeag Stream and Lowell or half township No 1 lies east of
Passadumkeag and Burlington or township No 2 in the same direction. The
inhabitants of Burlington therefore have to travel from 14 to 18 miles
passing through Lowell to the principal Settlement in Passadumkeag. And as
Lowell is not included within the limits of any company of Infantry now
organized your petitioners would pray that orders may be issued for the
organization of a company of Infantry composed of inhabitants of Burlington, Lowell
and Page Mill Settlement, about one mile south of Lowell in the County of
Hancock and as in duty bound will ever pray, Burlington
18 April 1838 (of Burlington) (not
of Burlington) Amzi Libby
Alanson Houghton Everett Richardson
Wm Folsom George W Taylor
Enoch P[?aob]y Samuel C. Page Alfred
Miller James H Emery Jonathan Page 2d Philip Page Luther C Woodman Abraham Sibley Nathl Shorey [one name illegible] Jabez Bradbury David Shorey James Page Thomas Hurd {?Andrew Woodman] Dean Page John Page Norman Page Joseph Mayberry Thomas Page Alfred Lovett Isreal Lovett Jere. Page Isaac Hanson Wm Hanson F
Constigan Wm Costigan Wm Batchelder Jonathan Fogg Ichabod L Withan Andrew Bradbury Jere, Folsom Isaac Brown Joseph Cate E. Miller *
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* Passadumkeag
June 12, 1838 Dear Sir
Enclosed of [ ] the petition for the division of companies in the
6th Regiment it has been presented to the commanding officers
of each of the companies which we wish to have divided, Capt Wm S Lee of D
Company refuses to sign it and says he think his comp ought not to be
divided. He says there is only sixty one privates within the limits of his
company that are liable to do military duty and he has ascertained the
number of soldiers in the Whitney half township and there is but five that
are liable to do duty. And as this is the case, I (for one)shall not urge
the matter to have that company divided.
Your obedient Sert
Aaron Haynes A.B. Thompson, Adj
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