Register of Old Suffolk Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, 1900 Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop, Massachusetts - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... company. By me Samuel Sprague, Capt." On the back of this roll is the endorsement of the action of the General Court, as follows: "The Committee appointed to consider the petition of Capt. Sprague together with the Rool accompanying the same beg leave to Report--"' In the House of Representatives, April 30, 1776--"' Resolved, that their be paid out of the public Treasury of this colony the sum of thirty four pound in full to the seventeen men bourn on the Rool exhibited by Capt. Sprague for one months sarvis for keeping guard at Pullin Point in Chelsea, each man to draw his own wages or by his order upon his giving oath that he performed the sarvis mentioned in said Rool.'" Part of the service by the seventeen men above-mentioned probably was performed at Point Shirley in the old fort, the earthworks of which were clearly defined up to a few years ago. A paper is still preserved, signed by some military authority of the time, granting leave to Mr. Joseph Belcher, the ancestor of many of the present Winthrop Belchers, to pass and repass to Point Shirley. Captain Sprague had twenty-eight men belonging to his company from the section of Chelsea in which he lived, now the town of Revere, and under his command they served fifteen days, following the Lexington Alarm. The company assisted in removing the live-stock from the Islands, 4 May, 1775, and 27 May of the same year burnt a British armed schooner somewhere in Chelsea Creek. Under Captain Cheever of Chelsea the company took part in other engagements during the Revolution. It is not probable that the Pullin Point members of the company took part in these operations. As near as we can ascertain the men above-mentioned comprised nearly the whole male population of the territory now cal...
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