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 ST OF THE 
 
 Soldiers* qf the 
 Revolution 
 
 From WORCESTER 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 arid Memorial Exercises held 
 M^y thirty, nineteen hun- 
 dred and one !M !N !N !N 
 

A LIST OF THE SOLDIERS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 WAR OF THE REVOLUTION 
 
 FROM 
 
 WORCESTER, MASS. 
 
 WITH A RECORD OF THEIR DEATH AND PLACE OF BURIAL. 
 
 COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY 
 
 MARY COCHRAN DODGE. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY COL. TIMOTHY BIGELOW CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE 
 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 With the organizing of the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, D. A. 
 R., the work of locating the graves of Worcester's revolutionary soldiers 
 was begun. The list itself was first compiled from the State Archives 
 and a few other authentic sources. No records other than the original 
 ones were used except in one instance, viz. — the roll of fifty-four men 
 enlisted from Worcester under Capt. William Gates, Col. Jonathan Hol- 
 man's regiment, who marched July 17, 1776, for service in New York. 
 Capt. Gates' record for this time can be found in the State Archives, 
 but no roll of his men is to be found there. In 1876 Mr. Albert A. 
 Lovell included in his history of Worcester in the War of the Revolution, 
 a copy of this roll, the original of which he found in the possession of 
 the American Antiquarian Society. This roll cannot now be found, and 
 but for the copy made by Mr. Lovell the names of seventeen of these 
 Worcester men whose only enlistment this was, would be unrecorded. 
 
 After completing the list of men credited to Worcester, came the more 
 arduous task of identifying these men, tracing many of them to other 
 States, obtaining records of death, and locating graves. To accomplish 
 this the sources of information have included town, church, family and 
 county court records, registries, private papers and local newspapers. 
 
 While realizing that the most exact accuracy must be observed to 
 make such a record of value, the compiler feels that even with the greatest 
 care errors are unavoidable where so many sources of information have 
 been called upon. , 
 
 It is a pleasure to acknowledge the kindly and valuable aid so cordi- 
 ally given by the many different persons upon whom she has called for 
 information. It is hoped the publishing of these lists will bring to 
 her knowledge dates of death and places of burial of those she has been 
 unable to ascertain. With this in view certain information has been in- 
 cluded in the lists which might lead to the identification of those whose 
 death dates could not be found. 
 
 In 1901 the City of Worcester appropriated a sum of money with which 
 bronze markei's were purchased and placed at each grave located in 
 Worcester and the " South Parish" (until 1778 a part of Worcester), now 
 Auburn. A bronze tablet was also placed on the "Common" in 
 memory of seven soldiers buried there. 
 
 MARY COCHRAN DODGE. 
 
 Worcester, June, 1902. 
 
A. 
 
 This list includes the "minute and militiamen" who marched April 
 19, 1775, on the alarm at Lexington, and enlisted men belonging to or 
 credited to Worcester. The names with an asterisk were from the " South 
 Parish," now Auburn. 
 Allen, Salmon. 
 Annum, Cuff. 
 AvES, John. 
 Bacon, William. 
 Baird, Daniel. 
 
 "Reported died, April 19, 1779." 
 
 Ball, Joseph. 
 Ball, Samuel. 
 Bancroft, Jonas.* 
 
 Bancroft, Jonas, 2nd* 
 Bancroft, Jonathan.* 
 Bancroft, Reuben (or Ray- 
 ham).* 
 Bancroft, William.* 
 Barnard, Richard, (black) 
 Barrett, Israel. 
 Barton, Timothy. 
 Benglaris, Pomp. 
 Bennet, Benjamin. 
 Bennet, Joseph.* 
 Bennet, Samuel. 
 Betterly, Thomas. 
 Betterly, William. 
 
 BiGELOW, GeRSHOM, Jr. 
 
 BiGELOw, Timothy. 
 
 Booth, Robert. 
 BoYDEN, Darius.* 
 BoYDEN, Joseph.* 
 BoYDEN, Peter. 
 
 Bradley, John. 
 Brooks, Nathaniel. 
 
 Brown, Samuel. 
 
 Brown, William. 
 Buckler, James. 
 Buxton, William. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Dec. 9, 1819, aged 77. 
 
 Rural Cemetery, Lot 563. 
 Living in Concord, Vt., 1825. 
 
 Died, Auburn, Jan. 2, 1821, aged 76. 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Living in Gardner, 1803. 
 
 Died, Dana, Aug. 18, 1834. 
 
 Living in Winchendon, 1784. 
 
 " Reported killed July 22, 1777." 
 
 Living in Newfane, Vt., 1784. 
 
 Died, Royalston, 1807-8. 
 Died, Worcester, April 4, 1790, aged 50. 
 Old Common. 
 
 Died, Auburn, Mar. 18, 1783, aged 39. 
 1777, aged 
 
 32. 
 
 Died, Auburn, July 28, 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 Living in Newfane, Vt., 1801. 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 3, 1838 
 
 Rural Cemetery. 
 Died, Worcester, May 25, 1785, aged 41 
 
 Old Common, No. 107. 
 
 aged 97. 
 
Carter, Benjamin.* 
 Carter, Timothy. 
 Case, James. 
 Chadwick, Daniel. 
 
 Chadwick, David. 
 Chadwick, Isaac. 
 Chamberlain, Wilson. 
 Chapln, Benjamin. 
 Chapin, Eli. 
 
 Chase, Ameriah. 
 Christian, John (also 
 
 Sutton). 
 Clark, David. 
 Clark, Elisha. 
 Clark, Jonas. 
 Clark, Joseph. 
 
 Clark, Samuel. 
 
 Clews, Thomas. 
 Cole, John. 
 C omens, Daniel.* 
 Connor, Edward. - 
 Cook, Robert. 
 Cook, Samuel. 
 Cowden, William. 
 
 Crafts, Edward. 
 
 Living in Newfane, Vt., 1785. 
 Died, Auburn, Aug., 1784. 
 
 Died, Worcester, May 23, 1836, aged 84. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier G. 
 
 Died, , 1794, aged 57. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Aug. 21, 1836, aged 78. 
 
 "Died in service Aug. 25, 1776." 
 
 Died, Worcester, Mar. 7, 1830, aged 76. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier D. 
 Living in New Salem, 1792. 
 
 of 
 
 Died, Auburn, Dec. 26, 1807, aged 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 Died, -Aratettf a - , Oa. 21, 1812, ^ 
 
 - C c u Lc i C e mete r y . 
 
 Died, 
 
 1796. 
 
 Crawford, Robert. 
 
 Crosby, Elisha. 
 
 Crosby, Simon (also of 
 
 Boston) . 
 Crowle, Andrew.* 
 Crowle, John. 
 Cuff, William. 
 CuMMiNGS, Eluah. 
 Cummings, John. 
 Cunningham, Joseph. 
 Curtis, Joseph. 
 Curtis, Oliver. 
 Curtis, William. 
 Cutler, Jonathan. 
 Cutler, Nathan* (also of 
 Sutton). 
 
 Died, Petersham, Aug. 25, 1838. 
 
 " Died, Albany Grand Hospital, Oct. 21, 
 
 1777." 
 Died, Middlesex, N. Y., April 11, 1806, 
 
 aged 60. 
 Died, Royalston, Sept. 10, 1785. 
 
 Died. Pelham, Mar. 10, 1815. 
 
Cutting, Benjamin. 
 Cutting, Francis. 
 Cutting, Isaac. 
 Cutting, Zebulon. 
 Dana, William. 
 Dawes, Cato. 
 DiBBiLL, Cato. (black) 
 Donehue, Philip. 
 Draper, Richard. 
 Drury, John. 
 Drury, Thomas, Jr. 
 Duncan, Samuel. 
 
 Duncan, Simeon.* 
 Duncan, Simeon, Jr. 
 
 Dunham, Elisha. 
 
 DuTTON, Asa. 
 
 DwELLE, Joseph. 
 
 Eaton, Samuel. 
 
 Eaton, Thomas. 
 
 Eaton, Uriah (also of Hol- 
 
 den and Sudbury). 
 Eddy, Levi.* 
 
 Edmunds, John. 
 Elder, John. 
 Ephraim, Ebenezer. 
 EsTABROOK, Benjamin. 
 Fairfield, Samuel. 
 Feether, John, (or Fiafter) 
 FiLMORE, George. . . - - 
 FiSK, Ebenezer. 
 FiSK, James. 
 FiTTS, Robert.* 
 
 Flagg, Abel. 
 
 Flagg, Benjamin. 
 
 Flagg, Benjamin, Jr. 
 
 Flagg, Josiah. 
 Flagg, Nathaniel. 
 Flagg, Phineas, 
 
 Forbush, James. 
 
 Died, Belpre, O., 
 
 -, 1809. 
 
 Died, Auburn, July 6, 1836, aged 91. 
 Died, Dummerston, Vt., July 28, 1820, 
 
 aged 72. 
 Died, Auburn, June 19, 1781, aged 56. 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 22, 1836, aged 80. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier F. 
 
 Died, Oakham, April 27, 1839. 
 Died, Worcester, Aug. 25, 1783. 
 
 Died, Auburn, May 6, 1821, aged 76. 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 13, 1819. 
 
 " Reported died Jan. 4, — ."(probably 1778) 
 
 JJfed'. filuc^<Ay, Sijit. Jf- /^sz- <^t^ ?^. 
 
 Died, Auburn, Dec. 29, 1831, aged 74. 
 
 West Cemetery. 
 Died, Worcester, Sept. 18, 1775, aged 22. 
 
 Old Common, No. 109. 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 8, 1818, aged 95. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Lot 962. 
 Died, Worcester, Mar. 9, 1819, aged 73. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
 
 Died, July, 1810. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 1, 1791, aged 39. 
 Old Common, No. 63. 
 
Foster, Elisha. 
 Fuller, Elisha. 
 Gale, Daniel. 
 Gale, Henry.* 
 Gale, Noah. 
 Gamble, Joseph. 
 Gates, Asa. 
 Gates, James. 
 Gates, Josiah. 
 Gates, Paul. 
 Gates, Samuel. 
 
 Gates, Silas. 
 G.\TES, Simon, 
 
 Gates , Stephen . 
 Gates, Thomas. 
 Gates, William. 
 
 Gates, William. 
 Glasco, Simon. 
 Gleason, David. 
 
 Gleason, Isaac. 
 Gleason, John. 
 Gleason, Jonathan. 
 
 Gleason, Joseph. 
 Gleason, Phinehas. 
 
 Gleason, Reuben. 
 Gleason, Thomas. 
 Gleason, Vernon. . 
 Goodwin, John. 
 Gray, John. 
 Gray, Joseph. 
 Griggs, Gideon. 
 Griggs, Samuel. 
 Griggs, William. 
 GuRNEY, Jacob. 
 Hair, Edward. 
 Hair, John. 
 Hall, John. 
 Hamilton, Moses. 
 Hamilton, Samuel. 
 Hamilton, William. 
 Hardy, Peter.* 
 
 Died, Monson, Nov. 21, 1835, aged 78. 
 
 Died, Franklin, Vt., June 25, 1826, aged 71. 
 Died, Worcester, Dec. 19, 1831, aged 77. 
 Rural Cemetery, Lot 315. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 2, 1849, aged 93. 
 Hope Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Rome, N. Y. 
 
 Died Worcester, July 7, 1811, -aged 76. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier C. 
 
 Died, Auburn, April 29, 1833, aged 86. 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 Died, Worcester, A u g. 11, 1832, aged 70. »J^/<v 
 Died, Worcester, Aug. 20, 1839, aged 75. 
 Died, Worcester, June 4, 1827, aged 82. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Lot 739. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Dec. 26, 1809, aged 56. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier A. 
 
 U/'ei.JliyO.'t^- hl<ty //. /S'X'h 
 
 •/■'/ 
 
 -, 1807. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. - 
 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 24, 1831. 
 
Harrington, Asa 
 Harrington, Joshua, Jr. 
 Harrington, Josiah, Jr. 
 Harrington, Nathaniel. 
 
 Harrington, Noah. 
 
 Harrington, Samuel. 
 
 Harrington, Silas. 
 
 Harrington, William. 
 Harris, Daniel. 
 Harris, Thomas, (black) 
 Harris, William. 
 Hastings, Ebenezer. 
 Haven, Daniel. 
 Hawes, Eleazer. 
 Hawes, Elijah. 
 Healy, Jedediah. 
 
 Hemmenway, Adam. 
 Hemmenway, Jeffrey. 
 
 Hemmenway, Samuel. 
 Henry, Silas. 
 Heywood, Daniel. 
 
 Heywood, Nathaniel. 
 
 HiGGiNS, Archibald. 
 
 Hinds, John. 
 HoLBROOK, Abel. 
 HoLBROOK, Eleazer. 
 HoLMAN, Samuel.* 
 
 Holmes, Gershom. 
 Holmes, Jacob, Jr. 
 Houghton, Levi (also 
 
 Stow). 
 Howe, Ezekiel, Jr. 
 Howe, Joel. 
 Hubbard, Jonas. 
 Hubbard, Levi. 
 
 Hubbard, Reuben. 
 
 Died, Pelham, Oct. 
 
 -, 1817, aged 66. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 28, 1831, aged 89. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier G. 
 Died, Worcester, July 18, 1832, aged 73. 
 
 Providence St., Millbury. 
 Died, Worcester, Mar. 27, 1838, aged 84. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
 Died, Worcester, June 15, 1831, aged 79. 
 
 Rural Cemetery, Lot 764. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 22, 1807. 
 " Reported died May 27, 1775." 
 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 7, 1821, aged 63. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier D. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Aug. 15, 1819, aged 82. 
 Hope Cemetery, Lot 1245. 
 
 Died, Princeton, Aug. 5, 1832. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Dec. 15, 1809, aged 55. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier A. 
 Died, Shrewsbury, Nov. 18, 1834, aged 86. 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 "Reported right arm shot off Oct. 6, 1775, 
 
 and as having died Oct. , 1775. 
 
 Died, Worcester, . 
 
 Died, Auburn, Dec. 29, 1793, aged 48. 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 18, 1803, aged 67. 
 
 of 
 
 Living in Gardner, 1824. 
 
 " Mortally wounded, Quebec, Dec. 31,1775." 
 Died, Paris, Me., Feb. 18, 1836, aged 73. 
 
 Tomb at homestead. 
 Died, Norway, Me., before 1802. 
 
Hunter, John. 
 Jennison, Daniel.* 
 
 Jennison, Peter.* 
 Jennison, Robert. 
 Johns, Isaac. (Indian) 
 Johnson, Amos. 
 Johnson, Benjamin. 
 Johnson, Daniel. 
 Johnson, John. 
 Johnson, Nathan. 
 Johnson, Samuel. 
 Johnson, Uriah. 
 Jones, Asa. 
 Jones, Isaac. 
 Jones, Noah. 
 Jones, Phinehas. 
 
 Died, Auburn, Feb. 4, 1839, aged 81, 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 15, 1807, aged 44. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Mar. 22, 1814, aged 66. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier A. 
 
 Jones, Samuel. 
 
 Jones, Thomas. 
 
 Jones, William. 
 
 Jordan, Edmund. 
 
 Jupiter, (black) 
 
 Kannady, John, (or Kennedy) 
 
 Kelso, Hugh. 
 
 Kennedy, James. 
 
 Kennedy, William (also of 
 
 Sutton). 
 Kingman, Isaac. 
 Kingsbury, James. 
 Knapp, Cyrenus. 
 Knight, Artemas. 
 Knight, Edward. 
 
 Knight, Isaac. 
 Knight, Thomas. 
 Knight, William. 
 Knower, John. 
 Lane, John. 
 Lanman, James. 
 Larnard, Samuel* (or Lear 
 ned, also of Oxford). 
 
 LOVELL, EbENEZER. 
 
 Lynde, Thomas. 
 McCoNKEY, William. 
 McCracken, Samuel. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Sept. 15, 1819, aged 69. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier H. 
 Died, Worcester, Feb. 7, 1812. 
 
 Died, Shrewsbury, 
 
 1817. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Dec. 6, 1817, aged 88. 
 
 Old Common. 
 Died, Leicester, Dec. 24, 1811. 
 
 Living in Holden, 1785. 
 
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 McFarland, James. 
 
 McFarland, William. 
 
 McGuiRE, John. 
 Mahan, John. 
 
 Mahan, Samuel. 
 Marsh, Ebenezer. 
 Mattel, William. 
 Miles, William. 
 Miller, Ephraim. 
 Miller, Joseph. 
 Mills, Ephraim. . 
 Moore, Daniel. 
 Moore, James. 
 Moore, John. 
 Moore, John. 
 Morse, Isaac. 
 Morse, Joseph. 
 Morse, Thomas. 
 Muzzy, Seth. 
 Nash, Jacob. 
 Nazro, Nathaniel. 
 Newton, Samuel. 
 Nichols, Jonas.* 
 Nichols, Thomas. 
 Niles, Silas. 
 NoYES, Bela. 
 Noyes, John. 
 Partridge, Seth. 
 Patch, Joseph. 
 
 Patch, Nathan. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Dec. 22, 1835, aged 77. 
 
 Hope Cemetery. 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 27, 1805, aged 83. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Lot 1489. 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 30, 1831, aged 85. 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. , 1789, aged 32. 
 
 Old Common, No. 11. 
 
 Died, Worcester, May , 1793, aged 54. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 30, 1831, aged 85. 
 
 Perry, Josiah. 
 Peter, John. (Indian) 
 Phillips, Jonathan. 
 Phillips, Josiah. 
 Pierce, Amos. 
 Pierce, David. 
 Pierce, John. 
 Pierce, Joseph. 
 Pierce, Josiah. 
 Pierce, Oliver. 
 Potter, James (also of 
 Holden) . 
 
 Reported killed." 
 
 Died, Worcester, Mar. 17, 1828, aged 72. 
 
 Died, Worcester, April 8, 1836, aged 76. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
 Died, Worcester, June 22, 1808, aged 72. 
 
 Rural Cemetery, Lot 98. 
 Died, Worcester, . 
 
 Died, Worcester, Mar. 2. 1808, aged 63. 
 
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 Powers, Nicholas. 
 Pratt, Isaac* 
 Priest, Samuel. 
 Prue, Gershom.* 
 Putnam, Eli. 
 QuiGLEY, James. 
 QuiQLEY, John. 
 Raymond, William. 
 Reed, Joseph. 
 Rice, Jonathan. 
 
 Rice, Josiah. 
 Rice, Lemuel. 
 
 Rice, Phinehas. 
 Rice, Reuben. 
 Rice, Timothy. 
 Richards, David. 
 
 Richards, Dick, (black) 
 Russell, Benjamin. 
 
 Savage, Francis. 
 Severy, Thomas. 
 Shield, William. 
 Slater, Peter. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Aaron. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Amos. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Elisha. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Ithamar. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Jacob. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Joel. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 John. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Phinehas. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Robert. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Simon. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Solomon. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Titus. 
 
 Smith, 
 
 William Spencer 
 
 Snow, 
 
 William, Jr. 
 
 Spring 
 
 ;, John. 
 
 Spaulding, Reuben. 
 
 Stearns, Asa. 
 
 Stearns, Daniel. 
 
 Stearns, Samuel, Jr. 
 
 Living in Marietta, O., 1788. 
 
 Died, Auburn, May 3, 1834, aged 70. 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Worcester, May 17, 1806, aged 66. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
 
 " Mortally wounded, Quebec, Dec. 31,1775." 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 29, 1829, aged 78. 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier E. 
 
 Died, Boston, Jan. 4, 1845, aged 83. 
 Granary Burial Ground, No. 100. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 13, 1831, aged 71. 
 Hope Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 5, 1777, aged 33. 
 
 r?vin^-ia Heath, iSe&.X/.^^.. /5^ t/. 
 Died, Worcester, July 4, 1807, aged 80. 
 Old Common, No. 41. 
 
 Died, Chazy, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1852, aged 93. 
 Died, Newport, N.H., May 4, 1849, aged 93. 
 Died, Claremont, N.H., , 1840, aged 85. 
 
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 Stkarns, William. 
 Stevens, Cyprian. 
 Stewart, William. 
 Stone, Aaron. 
 Stone, David.* 
 Stone, Israel.* 
 
 Stone, Jonathan.* 
 
 Stone, Jonathan, Jr.* 
 
 Stone, Joseph.* 
 
 Stone, William. 
 
 Stone, vis. 
 
 Stowell, Daniel. 
 
 Stowell, David. 
 Stowell, William. 
 
 Stowers, Richard. 
 Streeter, Joseph.* 
 Sturtevant, Noah. 
 Sturtevant. Samuel. 
 Swan, Edw^ard. 
 Swan, James. 
 Taylor, James. 
 Taylor, John. 
 Taylor, Thomas. 
 Thomas, David. 
 Thorp, Joseph. 
 ToTMAN, John (orTatman) 
 
 Treadw^ell, William. 
 
 Trowbridge, William. 
 
 Turner, sha. 
 
 Walker, George. 
 Walker, William. 
 Ward, Asa. 
 
 Ward, Phinehas. 
 
 Ward, William. 
 Warren, Abiah. 
 Warren, John. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 10, 183S, aged 92. 
 
 Died, Auburn, Jan. 3, 1844, aged 91. 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 Died, Auburn, Dec. 21, 1806, aged 81. 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 Died, Auburn, Nov. 24, 1809, aged 59. 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 Died, Auburn, Feb. 22, 1837, aged 79. 
 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Paris, Me., Sept. 20, 1828, aged 70. 
 Stowell Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Paris, Me., Jan. 8, 1829, aged 72. 
 Stowell Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Auburn, April 15, 1787, aged 42. 
 
 -, 1834, aged 72. 
 
 Died, Providence, 
 
 Died, Worcester, Oct. 3, 1833, aged 88. 
 
 Tatman Burial Ground. 
 Died, Worcester, April 10, 1796, aged 46. 
 
 Old Common, No. 5. 
 Died, Worcester, Sept. 30, 1833, aged 82. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier C. 
 
 Died, Worcester, June 27, 1818, aged 70. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier 13. 
 Died, Worcester, Nov. 20, 1808, aged 79. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
 
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 Warrkn, Samuel. 
 Waters, William. 
 Weeden, Job. 
 Weld, Edward Church. 
 Wesson, Samuel. 
 Wesson, Silas. 
 Wesson, Thomas. 
 Wheelock, Joseph. 
 Whitney, Benjamin, Jr. 
 Whitney, Ebenezer. 
 
 Whitney, Joshua. 
 
 Whitney, Samuel, 
 Whitney, Samuel, Jr. 
 Whitney, Silas. 
 Wilder, Moses. 
 Wilder, Reuben. 
 Wiley, Samuel, 
 Williams, Richard. 
 WiLLiNGTON, Daniel. 
 Wilson, Alexander. 
 Wiser, James. 
 
 Wis WALL, Daniel. 
 WiswALL, Ebenezer. 
 
 Wolf, John. 
 Works, Jacob.* 
 Works, Samuel. 
 Wyman, Reuben. 
 Young, William, Jr. 
 
 " Killed, Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775." 
 
 Died, Worcester, July 30, 1823, aged 86. 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 17, 1836, aged 76. 
 
 Rural Cemetery. 
 Died, Worcester, May 7, 1809, aged 72. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Lot 310. 
 Died, Gilsum, N. H., June 1, 1831. 
 
 Died, Stockbridge, Vt., before Nov., 1793. 
 
 Died Worcester, Sept. 17, 1823, aged 70. 
 
 Died, Auburn, April 24, 1811, aged 58, 
 Center Cemetery. 
 
 Died, Worcester, Jan. 20, 1822, aged 67. 
 Hope Cemetery, Lot 310. 
 
 Died, Leicester, June 13, 1808, aged 87. 
 
 B. 
 
 This list includes those who at time of enlistment were not inhabitants 
 of Worcester, but later resided and died here, and whose graves have 
 been marked. 
 FowLE, Curtis. Died, Worcester, Mar. 18, 1825, aged 80. 
 
 Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
 Merrifield, Timothy. Died, Worcester, May 6, 1806, aged 68. 
 
 Rural Cemetery, Lot 233. 
 Died, Worcester, Aug. 29, 1849, aged 86. 
 
 Rural Cemetery, Sanford Lot. 
 Died, Worcester, April 4, 1831, aged 82. 
 
 Rural Cemetery, Thomas Tomb. 
 Died, Worcester, July 29, 1831, aged 80. 
 Rural Cemetery, Lot 745. 
 
 Smith, Ethan. 
 
 Thomas, Isaiah. 
 
 Warren, William. 
 
EXERCISES 
 
 IN COMMEMORATION OF REVOLUTIONARY HEROES HELD AT 
 CITY HALL, MAY 30tH, 1901, UNDER THE AUSPICES 
 OF THE HISTORICAL AND PATRIOTIC SOCIE- 
 TIES OF WORCESTER, MASS. 
 
 Song by the school children of Worcester under the direc- 
 tion of Mr. Seth Richards. 
 
 " O Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER, 
 DANIEL KENT, ESQ. 
 
 Ladies ajid Ge?itlenien : We had hoped that these exercises 
 mig^ht be held upon our historic Common beside the monument 
 which marks the resting place of Col. Bigelow, a man who 
 served with distinguished valor in the War for Independence. 
 The weather, however, has forced us to meet here in the City 
 Hall. I think it is very appropriate we should gather in this 
 place, for this building stands upon the site of the Old South 
 Church in which were held many of the meetings of those 
 stirring times which led up to and extended through the Revo- 
 lution. It was in this close vicinity that the minute-men 
 gathered on the nineteenth of April, 1775, and it was here ser- 
 mons were preached and prayers were offered up for the safety 
 of the country. 
 
 This meeting has been arranged under the auspices of the 
 historical and patriotic societies of the city. Some two years 
 ago, one of our sister organizations, the Colonel Timothy 
 Bigelow Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion, undertook the commendable task of obtaining as accurate 
 a list as was possible of the soldiers who enlisted for the 
 Revolution from Worcester, and ascertaining where those 
 
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 soldiers died and where their graves were located. This has 
 been an arduous labor and faithfully performed. Upon its 
 approximate completion two months ago the Chapter invited 
 the other local patriotic and historical societies to join with 
 them in exercises commemorative of those Revolutionary- 
 heroes. 
 
 No complete list of the Revolution's soldiers from Wor- 
 cester has ever been published. Their names have only been 
 preserved on fragmentary records, some of them long since 
 forgotton. Now these have been gathered together by the 
 secretary of this Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution and to her should be the praise that at last, over 
 one hundred and twenty-six years after the Revolution began, 
 we have, perhaps, as complete a list as we ever can obtain at this 
 distant day. I wish to read the names of those whose graves 
 have been located in Worcester, and also of those whose death 
 records are in Worcester, but whose place of burial is unknown. 
 The total number enlisting from Worcester was three hundred and 
 seventy-five. Of these, sixty-one graves have been located in 
 Worcester ; twenty-one have been located in other places ; 
 eleven soldiers were killed or died in service ; twenty-six death 
 records are recorded at the City Hall, but the graves are un- 
 located ; leaving two hundred and fifty-six whose place of death 
 is not known. 
 
 Of the sixty-one graves located in Worcester, eight are on 
 the Common, namely : Timothy Bigelow, Phineas Flagg, Robert 
 Smith, Samuel Brown, Ebenezer Lovell, William Treadwell, 
 Abel Flagg, and John Mahan. 
 
 Ten are in Rural Cemetery : Isaiah Thomas, Daniel Baird, 
 Silas Harrington, Timothy Merrifield, Nathaniel Brooks, Nathan 
 Patch, Samuel Gates, Ebenezer Whitney, WilHam Warren, 
 Ethan Smith. 
 
 Twenty-seven are in Hope Cemetery : Benjamin Flagg, 
 Daniel Chadwick, Jedediah Healey, William Trowbridge, Eli 
 Chapin, Jeffrey Hemmenway, Asa Ward, Daniel Heywood, 
 Phineas Ward, Benjamin Flagg, Jr., Phineas Jones, Ebenezer 
 Wiswall, William Gates, Edward Knight, Simon Gates, Jonathan 
 Gleason, Willian McFarland, Joseph Patch, Phineas Gleason, 
 Lemuel Rice, Joshua Whitney, Nathaniel Harrington, David 
 
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 Richards, Simeon Duncan, Jr., Samuel Harrington, Peter 
 Slater, Curtis Fowle. 
 
 In the Tatman Burying Ground at Quinsigamond one Revo- 
 lutionary soldier rests, — John Tatman. 
 
 In 1778, the South Parish was, as you know, set off to the 
 town of Ward, and in 1837 the name of the town was changed 
 to Auburn. Of the Revolutionary soldiers buried in Auburn 
 who enlisted in Worcester prior to the division, there are 
 fifteen graves located : Jonathan Stone, Sanuel Clark, Jonathan 
 Stone, Jr., James Wiser, Peter Boyden, Jonas Bancroft, David 
 Gleason, Levi Eddy, Daniel Jennison, Jonathan Rice, Samuel 
 Holman, Israel Stone, Joseph Clark, Robert Fitts, Joseph Stone. 
 
 This completes the list of the sixty-one graves which have 
 been identified. As I said before, there are also twenty-six 
 other death records in the City Hall, but it seems impossible 
 to tell where these twenty-six patriots are buried. I think it 
 would be well in this presence to read their names because we 
 are always looking for some clew that will locate them either 
 here in Worcester or wherever they may rest, and possibly by 
 reading this list some of you may recognize the name of a 
 lineal ascendant or collateral relative. If so, you will do a 
 great kindness, not only to the Chapter which is preparing this 
 list, but to the public at large, by giving us any information 
 you may possess. These are the twenty-six : David Chadwick, 
 Isaac Chadwick, Robert Cook, Thomas Eaton, John Elder, 
 Nathaniel Flagg, Paul Gates, Asa Gates, Isaac Gleason, John 
 Gleason, John Hair, Edward Hair, Jacob Holmes, Jr., Ebenezer 
 Hastings, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Knight, John McGuire, John 
 Moore, John Moore, Thomas Nichols, John Pierce, Joel Smith, 
 Daniel Stearns, Benjamin Whitney, Jr., Daniel Wellington, 
 William Stearns. 
 
 I understand that it is the intention of the Colonel Timothy 
 Bigelow Chapter to publish very soon the complete list of 
 Worcester's Revolutionary soldiers which they have gathered 
 together. High among the names upon that list stands that 
 of Col. Timothy Bigelow. Of his wise counsel and inspiring 
 enthusiasm; of his heroic service and loyal devotion to the 
 cause of Independence, the other speakers will, I doubt not, 
 speak in fitting terms. Other heroes, too, are there,— men who 
 
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 gave their all to their country that we their children might in- 
 herit freedom. 
 
 On that list is the name of Major William Treadwell. 
 William Treadwell was a private in Capt. Timothy Bigelow's 
 Company of Minute-men. On the return from the Lexington 
 Alarm he enlisted as Lieutenant in Capt. Edward Crafts' Com- 
 pany of Artillery, Col. Thomas Crafts' regiment. He was a brave 
 man, a born soldier. He served through the war and lived to 
 come home. He was one of the founders of the Worcester 
 Artillery. Like many another hero of that war, he lost all his 
 property. Theirs were in truth experiences which tried men's 
 souls. He died at last in 1795, broken-hearted. 
 
 There was Major Edward Crafts : Major Crafts was a prom- 
 inent man here in those times, yet, I doubt if more than a 
 few of our citizens know there was such a Revolutionary soldier 
 who went forth from Worcester. He was the intimate friend of 
 John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and a brother of Col. 
 Thomas Crafts, of Boston. He fought at Bunker Hill. He has 
 a glorious record. He was a man of superb physique, but he 
 returned from his long term of service with shattered health 
 and bearing the burden of heavy financial losses caused by the 
 depreciation of the Continental currency. He later emigrated 
 to Murrayfield, now the town of Chester, and from there, his 
 sons having gone further on to New York state, he went with 
 them to Middlesex, N. Y., where he died at the early age of 
 sixty. His children pressed still further on and settled in Ohio, 
 and every year his descendants gather there to honor the 
 memory of Major Edward Crafts, their Revolutionary ancestor, 
 and his brave wife, his equal in patriotism, — Eliot Winship 
 Crafts. 
 
 There was Col. Benjamin Flagg who marched as captain 
 of the second company of minute-men on that memorable 
 nineteenth of April. He afterward commanded a regiment 
 from this county and won glory for himself as well as for the 
 town. 
 
 It was Capt. Jonas Hubbard of Worcester who on that 
 awful march under General Arnold, one of the most terrible 
 marches ever luade in any war, said, " I do not value life or 
 property, if I may secure liberty for my children." Those 
 
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 were the words of a patriot. While he lay under the ramparts 
 at Quebec, mortally wounded, his comrades came to carry him 
 away, and he said, "I came to fight with you; I will stay 
 here to die with you." There spoke the hero. 
 
 These are a few of the names, unfamiliar to us now, but 
 which we trust through the work of our historical and patriotic 
 societies will become again household names. These were the 
 men who took up the work of former generations, of the 
 earlier settlers of the town of Worcester and carried it forward. 
 They were equal to the task. Gloriously did they perform 
 their duty. Bear in mind that at this time Worcester was a 
 town of less than two thousand inhabitants, with about two 
 hundred and fifty voters. It has grown and grown until now 
 we have over one hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants. 
 As the years have passed men have arisen to meet the questions 
 which have come, and have solved them to the city's good. 
 
 Mr. Mayor, we trust and believe that the present incum- 
 bent of the highest office in the gift of the city, when his term 
 shall close, will take an honorable position with those honor- 
 able men who have preceded him. When the subject of decor- 
 ating and marking these Revolutionary soldiers' graves was 
 first brought to your attention, you took a deep interest in it, 
 and it is largely, perhaps, owing to your influence that the city 
 has to-day marked with appropriate markers flfty-four Revolu- 
 tionary graves, and placed a tablet to commemorate those 
 seven upon the Common. Ladies and Gentlemen, I know you 
 will all be glad to hear from one who has taken such deep interest 
 in this cause, and I take great pleasure in introducing to you 
 his Honor, Mayor Philip J. O'Connell. 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 BY 
 MAYOR PHILIP J. O'CONNEL. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens : 
 
 It is very fitting that on this day set apart by the Common- 
 wealth for the purpose of affording the people an opportunity 
 of paying a tribute of love and honor to the men who, in the 
 
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 hour of the nation's peril, offered their lives in defense of 
 country that we should assemble for the purpose of unveiling 
 this simple memorial to the soldiers of the Revolution. 
 
 Though this recognition on our part of the valor and 
 patriotism of the heroes of the Revolution is somewhat tardy 
 after a lapse of a century and a quarter, it yet is no less appro- 
 priate and opportune to-day. 
 
 Next to the love which I have for my country is my love 
 for the Commonwealth and this beautiful city of Worcester, 
 and it has always been to me a matter of the utmost satisfaction 
 and pride to realize that the men who lived in this city in 1775 
 and 1776 were as brave and loyal and patriotic as they were. 
 
 When one stops to realize that the greater portion of the 
 able-bodied men of the town of Worcester were at one time 
 or the other enrolled in the army of Washington, then can be 
 appreciated the spirit of the Worcester citizens of 1775. 
 
 The soldiers of the Revolution have done more than all 
 other agencies combined for human rights throughout the 
 civilized world. 
 
 They asserted and demonstrated beyond question the 
 eternal truths of the Declaration of Independence, that all 
 men were created free and equal and had an inalienable right 
 to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This influence 
 can be seen not only here in free America but in the democratic 
 spirit that to-day animates very largely the people of England 
 herself. 
 
 It can be seen in the liberalizing tendency of the people 
 of Germany, and the example they furnish to the world was 
 followed in the Republic of France. 
 
 To you, who, by virtue of your kinship to the soldiers of 
 the Revolution are privileged to membership in the patriotic 
 societies represented around me, I extend my congratulations 
 upon the successful completion of your desires; and I con- 
 gratulate the members of the City Government on their 
 wisdom and foresight in erecting this memorial. It will long 
 serve as an incentive to patriotic endeavor and as a reminder 
 of the great debt which we owe to the men whose courage and 
 valor made possible this free republic. 
 
 As the Chief Executive of this city, I can safely promise 
 
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 for myself and those who are to follow me in this honorable 
 office to guard, cherish and protect it for the years to come. 
 
 SONG, 
 " The Soldiers Grave." 
 
 Presiding Officer: 
 
 Strange as it may seem, but few of the members of our 
 patriotic societies in Worcester are descended from Worcester's 
 Revolutionary heroes. Those patriots, or their descendants, 
 have passed to other places and the descendants of men who 
 fought and enlisted from other towns and other cities have 
 come to Worcester and have made this their home. 
 
 We have with us to-day one whose Revolutionary ancestor 
 was at that time on the frontier of Vermont and took part in 
 the Battle of Bennington. His father fought in our Civil War. 
 He himself showed his love and devotion to his country when 
 in our late war with Spain, he served as chaplain of a New 
 Hampshire regiment. 
 
 I take great pleasure in presenting to you this afternoon 
 the Chaplain of the 2nd Regiment, the Rev. Frank L. Phalen, 
 of Worcester. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY REV. FRANK L. PHALEN, 
 CHAPLAIN SECOND REGIMENT, M. V. M. 
 
 Sacred is the ground upon which we meet. Hallowed and 
 glorious is the hour. The soil we stand upon is the peaceful 
 sepulchre of American soldiers. It is the last resting place 
 of those who faced danger and death that freedom might not 
 die and that democracy might not be strangled in the womb of 
 time. 
 
 We have assembled here to mark the graves and to com- 
 memorate the deeds of the men of Worcester who fought and 
 suffered and died in that long and bitter war which established 
 the independence of this republic. The many years that have 
 fled, and the mighty transformations that have occurred have 
 
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 not destroyed our admiration and affection for the brave 
 soldiers who, over a century and a quarter ago, marched from 
 this Common to defend and maintain the sacred principles of 
 liberty and justice. Their deeds are our most precious legacy. 
 Their graves are the shrines which awaken the noblest emotions 
 which are native and honorable to the human heart. 
 
 We tread softly here, amid the thronging train of memories. 
 We bow our heads before the God of Battles and of Nations, 
 and thank him for the heroic men and the heroic deeds of the 
 brave days of old. 
 
 This historic Common, this Memorial day, — the monument 
 and witness of another mighty crisis and victory in the life of 
 our Republic, — and this patriotic occasion, conspire to fill our 
 minds with tender and grateful memories. The majestic spirit 
 of the past speaks to our listening ears. The recollection of 
 the great and terrible conflict through which our fathers and 
 mothers fought their way to victory and independence, unrolls 
 before our vision like a scroll. The over-arching sky, the firm 
 and beautiful earth, and the very atmosphere in which we are 
 embosomed, are eloquent with voices of heroic history. 
 
 " Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, 
 O, kingdom of the past." 
 
 The fair and patriotic women of Worcester who trace their 
 ancestry to the soldiers of the Revolution, have done a noble 
 service, the influence of which will abide through generations 
 yet unborn, in undertaking and carrying forward the arduous 
 yet commendable duty which brings us here on this memorable 
 occasion. 
 
 We should be lacking in the qualities of appreciation and 
 gratitude, if we did not pay a tribute of admiration to the 
 patriotic women of this city, who conceived and have brought 
 to completion this sacred and ennobling recognition of our dead 
 but not forgotton soldiers. 
 
 Our city honors herself also, and adds another proud page 
 to her patriotic annals, by lending her official sanction and sup- 
 port to the respect we here pay to the valor and achievements 
 of her faithful soldiers. 
 
 The memorial tablet we have here unveiled will perpetuate 
 
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 the names, the sacrifices and the achievements of the men who, in 
 the times that tried men's souls, dared for a high cause to ven- 
 ture their fortunes and their lives. Our words and our names 
 may be forgotten, but the luminous fact that Worcester grate- 
 fully remembered her soldiers of the Revolution and did honor 
 to their memories will remain on the historic records, which 
 will perpetuate the story of this eventful hour. 
 
 The veil which hides the past refuses to be lifted ; yet we 
 are permitted to recall the fact that this goodly home of ours, 
 now a proud and prosperous city, — rightly named "The Heart 
 of the Commonwealth," — was founded by men of sterling 
 quality and high character. Here beside our beautiful lake, 
 the early settlers of the 17th century built their primitive 
 dwellings and established their homes. But the little village of 
 Quinsigamond, which was the pioneer of our splendid city, did 
 not escape the terrible and treacherous attacks of the Indians, 
 who descended upon it on the second of December, 1675, and 
 left its six or seven dwellings in ruins. But when the power 
 of the Indians was broken by the death of their great chief 
 Philip, there was a speedy renewal of the plan to settle and 
 establish a town in this locality. 
 
 In 1684 the General Court granted the request of the com- 
 mittee, Daniel Gookin, Daniel Henchman and Thomas Prentice, 
 that their plantation at Quinsigamond be called " Worcester." 
 
 This is commonly supposed to have been in honor of the 
 city of Worcester in England; "but," says Senator Hoar, 
 whose authority I am now following, "there is a tradition that 
 the name was given by the committee to commemorate the 
 battle of Worcester, ' the crowning mercy' where Cromwell 
 shattered the forces of Charles II, and as a defiance to the 
 Stuarts." 
 
 I think we are justified in believing that it was the 
 memory of the great victory for civil and religious liberty 
 which God had vouchsafed to the Puritan over Charles Stuart, 
 and not out of any loyalty to the English throne, — which was 
 the great distinction of the English city that the three stout 
 soldiers of the committee who founded this city " desired to 
 perpetuate." 
 
 Accepting this interpretation of the origin of the name of 
 
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 our city, and taking; it for granted that the spirit which ani- 
 mated the founders was transmitted to their successors, we can 
 understand why it is that Worcester has ever been at the front 
 in every patriotic and righteous cause wherein the rights of 
 humanity have been concerned. 
 
 In all those formative and silent years from the founding 
 of the first plantation to the decade that preceded Lexington 
 and Concord, the student of our annals will find that the men 
 and women of this community were alive to the g:reat political 
 problems which were pressing for solution. 
 
 In his noble address on the 200th anniversary of the city 
 Senator Hoar said : 
 
 "The people of Worcester knew well on what ground they 
 stood. The great debate was conducted at every fireside. One 
 spirit moved through them all. They debated the great ques- 
 tion of resistance, as though God were hearkening; and they 
 took counsel reverently with their ministers, and the aged, and 
 the pious, and the brave, in their villages. The shire of Wor- 
 cester, in August, 1774, set the example of a county Congress, 
 w^hich disclaimed the jurisdiction of the British House of Com- 
 mons, asserted the exclusive right of the colonists to originate 
 laws respecting themselves, rested their duty of allegiance on 
 the charter of the province, and declared the violation of that 
 charter a dissolution of their union with Britain." 
 
 The activity and patriotisiu of Worcester's men and 
 women were so marked and noticeable, that General Gage, the 
 British commander in Boston, sent his spies here; and "it was 
 rumored in August, 1774, that he meditated sending part of his 
 army to execute the regulating act, which forbade town meet- 
 ings except by the written leave of the governor." 
 
 Think of the citizens of Worcester waiting to hear from a 
 British governor whether or not they might be permitted to call a 
 towm meeting ! We can understand the spirit in which they 
 received these decrees of a government enthroned on an island 
 beyond the Atlantic, when we learn that "they purchased and 
 manufactured arms, cast musket balls, provided powder and 
 openly threatened to fall upon any body of soldiers who should 
 attack them." 
 
 It is no wonder that the hour came when a people so in 
 
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 love with liberty and so unwisely affronted by a stupid and 
 foolish system of oppression and extortion, should have reached 
 the point where they were ready with musket and sword to 
 resist the British government. Let no one think, however, 
 that the Revolution was a sudden or spasmodic outbreak of 
 rash and thoughtless forces and men ! It was nothing of the 
 sort. It was the spontaneous and normal development of the 
 free spirit of an enlightened and progressive people who would 
 not submit to the arbitrary and tyrannical exactions of political 
 despotism. It was the logic of events, and not the conscious 
 purpose of the people which at last braced and heartened the 
 colonists to attempt and to carry to a successful issue the war 
 for independence. The first resistance was not intended to 
 strike at the sovereignty of the British crown, but to vindi- 
 cate the rights of the people ; and it was only by an inevitable 
 and manifest destiny that the colonists came slowly to believe 
 in complete independence. 
 
 The American Revolution was not the product of passion 
 nor malice. It was the mature and deliberate protest of a peo- 
 ple who were determined to maintain their rights whatever the 
 cost. Our fathers did not unsheathe the sword in the stress 
 and strain of that wild frenzy which sometimes seizes a nation 
 and plunges it into a disastrous war. They resorted to arms 
 with prayers on their lips, with the consciousness of fighting 
 for a just cause thrilling their souls, and with that personal 
 consecration to liberty which makes heroes of the humblest 
 men. 
 
 In Lincoln's History of Worcester, there appears this 
 stirring paragraph, which is of particular interest on this 
 occasion : 
 
 " Before noon, on the 19th of April, 1775, an express came 
 to town, shouting as he passed through the street at full speed, 
 ' To arms ! to arms ! the war 's begun ! ' His white horse bloody 
 with spurring, and dripping with sweat, fell exhausted by the 
 church. Another was instantly procured, and the tidings went 
 on. The bell rang out the alarm, cannon were fired, and mes- 
 sengers sent to every part of the town to collect the soldiery. 
 As the news spread, the implements of husbandry were thrown 
 down in the field ; and the citizens left their homes, with no 
 
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 longer delay than to seize their arms. In a short time, the 
 minute-men were paraded on the green, under Capt. Timothy 
 Bigelow," — the brave soldier who sleeps beneath yonder monu- 
 ment. "After fervent prayer by Rev. Mr. Maccarty, they took 
 up their line of march to the scene of conflict." 
 
 Lexington and Concord aroused the colonies, and Worcester 
 then (as later in the great Rebellion and the late war with 
 Spain) was quick and vigorous in her efforts to put her brave 
 sons into the field, commissioned by her prayers and sympa- 
 thies to battle for the right. 
 
 What a picture it would be if we could reproduce that 19th 
 of April, 1775, and see Worcester as it was in those heroic 
 days, and see this Common, with Captain Timothy Bigelow 
 and his brave companions-in-arms gathering here to begin 
 their march towards Boston ! Did I say Boston ? Yes ! And 
 not only toward Boston but toward the glory and immortality 
 which shall ever abide like a halo around the names and deeds 
 of those who fought in that splendid struggle for liberty. 
 
 In that day Worcester was only a small town of about two 
 thousand inhabitants, and yet before the conflict with Great 
 Britain had ended, she had sent forth into the Continental Army 
 almost four hundred soldiers. What a magnificent record! 
 What a testimony to the spirit which dwelt in our noble ances- 
 tors ! 
 
 On the 19th of April, 1861, yonder monument just men- 
 tioned which guards the grave and perpetuates the memory of 
 Colonel Timothy Bigelow was dedicated. "Only two days be- 
 fore," says the record kindly furnished me by Mr. Nathaniel 
 Paine, " the Worcester Light Infantry, who were expected to 
 have joined in the exercises of the day, had started with the 
 Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, for the defence of 
 Washington, and at the very time the exercises of dedication 
 were going on, they were bravely fighting their way through 
 the streets of Baltimore." 
 
 The venerable ex-Governor Lincoln, speaking on that day, 
 was introduced as one who had a distinct personal recollection 
 of Colonel Timothy Bigelow, and inasmuch as there are many 
 here who at this hour remember Governor Lincoln, a few words 
 from his speech may serve to make us feel that, after all, 
 
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 Colonel Bigelow and the soldiers of the Revolution buried on 
 this Common are not so far removed even from the Worcester 
 of to-day as we sometimes think. 
 
 ' Colonel Bigelow," said Governor Lincoln, " was a type 
 of a generation now passed away. Of such, in patriotism and 
 valor, were the corps of minute-men under his command, and 
 the Train Band of the brave Captain Benjamin Flag-g, who 
 alike, on the 19th of April, 1775, at the horseman's cry ' To 
 arms ! ' hastened with no delay but for prayer and benediction, 
 to join their brethren of Lexington and Concord in resistance 
 to tyranny and the oppressor's sword. Such was the towns- 
 man and friend of Captain Bigelow% the intrepid and beloved 
 Captain Jonas Hubbard" (whose brave and noble story Mr. 
 Kent has just told you), " his inferior only in rank, his com- 
 panion and comrade in the dreadful winter's march through 
 the wilderness to the siege of Quebec ; who in the midst of 
 hardships and privations almost unequalled in the experiences 
 of human suffering, uttered the noble declaration, ' I do not 
 value life and property if I may secure liberty for my children ;' 
 and who, when mortally wounded at the foot of the ramparts, 
 in the storming of the fortress, said to his men who sought to 
 remove him from the field, ' I came to fight with you, I will stay 
 here to die with you.' And he did ; and beside him, under 
 the frowning walls of Quebec, and in the midst of a fierce 
 snow storm, died two other of Worcester's patriot soldiers." 
 
 At Saratoga, at Valley Forge, at Monmouth and at York- 
 town, the soldiers of Worcester were among the bravest of 
 the brave, and earned not only the commendation of Washing- 
 ton and the praise of their contemporaries but the perpetual 
 gratitude of all who shall ever enjoy the liberties and blessings 
 they so heroically and victoriously vindicated. Surely no higher 
 patriotic service could have been done by the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution than to summon the people of Wor- 
 cester to stand by the graves of these modest yet brave 
 Continental soldiers to whom we render with deeper apprecia- 
 tion as the years fly away, our reverence, our love and our 
 praise. 
 
 "On Fame's eternal camping ground 
 Their silent tents are spread, 
 And memory guards, with solemn round, 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
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 Now, as in the years that are gone, the women of this 
 community have been the pride and inspiration of every move- 
 ment or reform looking to the uplifting and ennobling of 
 humanity. The spirit that animated their hearts in 3775 live§ 
 in 1901. It cheered and sustained the soldiers of the Union in 
 1861-1865 and it burst forth again in 1898. 
 
 God be praised for the soldiers who have fought for our 
 flag and our rights on every field, or on the sea, but praise and 
 love to our women, living and dead, whose devotion and 
 patriotism chasten and strengthen our hearts. 
 
 O, Worcester ! thou art the guardian of a glorious past ! 
 Thou art the interpreter to children yet unborn, of the storms 
 and trials through which, under God, our fathers and mothers 
 advanced to peace, and power and prosperity. Once thou wert 
 a weak and humble daughter of Massachusetts ; Now, thou art 
 grown to noble womanhood with the consciousness and respon- 
 sibility of material and political superiority. May thy proud 
 boast in future days (as it is thy joy to-day) be, like that of 
 the mother of the Roman Gracchi, who could say that her most 
 precious treasures were her children. 
 
 Men and women of Worcester, there are no dividing bar- 
 riers of creed, or color, or race, as we stand here to-day beside 
 these graves of our heroes. In the fervent gratitude and 
 affection of our patriotism, all political, social and religious 
 distinctions are ignored and forgotton. We only remember 
 that we share the same holy memories and are heartened by 
 the same great hopes. In the language of our martyred Lin- 
 coln, we here " dedicate ourselves anew to the majestic ideals of 
 liberty and democracy, pledging our faith to the principles of 
 our fathers, that a government of the people by the people 
 and for the people shall not perish from the earth." 
 
 " Our Father's God from out whose hand 
 The centuries fall like grains of sand 
 We meet to-day, united, free, 
 And loyal to our land and thee. 
 
 "O, make thou us, through centuries long, 
 
 In peace secure, in justice strong ; 
 Around our gift of freedom draw 
 
 The safeguards of thy righteous law ; 
 And, cast in some diviner mold, 
 
 Let the new cycle shame the old." 
 
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 Presiding Officer 
 
 It was our intention, had these exercises been held on the 
 Common, by the Col. Timothy Bigelow monument, to have 
 unveiled the tablet which has been placed upon the fence in 
 memory of the seven Worcester soldiers who lie buried upon 
 the Common and whose graves were levelled when the old 
 cemetery was removed. After the singing of another song 
 by the school children, we shall be pleased to have all those 
 who desire, go and view the tablet, which is now covered with 
 a flag. 
 
 Now let us all join with the school children in singing 
 that grand old song, "America."