Book/Printed Material History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service men of 1775 from York County ; with a full account of their movements during the battle of Bunker Hill and complete muster rolls of the companies
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Image 1 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 2 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 3 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 4 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 5 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 6 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 7 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... HISTORY OF Col. James Scamman s Thirtieth Regiment of Foot EIGHT MONTHS SERVICE MEN OF 1775 FROM .YORK COUNTY WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THEIR MOVEMENTS DURING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 8 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... k^ (^ok-- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 9 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... COL. JAMES SCAMMAN S 30TH REGIMENT OF FOOT, 1775. BY NATHAN GOOLD. Read before the Maine Historical Society, March SI, 1899. Colonel James Scamman s 30th Regiment of Foot, the first to...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 10 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... to keep men here, excepting something to be done. I therefore pray that the plan may be completed and handed to me this morn- ing, that you, gentlemen of the Congress, issue...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 11 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... These two orders having been received the several captains proceeded with their enlistments, and, in some towns, more men came than were wanted. In a little over two weeks from the first...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 12 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... myself to all the orders and regulations of the army, and faithfully to observe and obey all such orders as I shall receive from my supe- rior oflScer. At first the regiments...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 13 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 6 pearing by the disposition of our men, who are acquainted with him in the service, that he will be the most likely to raise a regi- ment of good eflfective men,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 14 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 6 raised in that County. The Committee taking these matters into their most serious consideration, and the necessity of an Army be- ing formed as soon as possible, as the salvation of...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 15 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... a student in the law office of Gen. John Sullivan, his brother. That Scammell was not a resident of York County was probably the only reason of his failure to receive the...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 16 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 8 ty in Berwick or the County of York. We being military Officers in said County of York not attending the County meeting in advis- ing to the field Officers do approve...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 17 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 9 to be made against said army or any of the English American colo- nies, so help me God. May 20, Gen. Artemas Ward was sworn and re- ceived his commission as...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 18 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 10 Capt. Lieut. Ensign. Rank and File Capt. Samuel Darby s Co., 56 Tobias Fernald s Co., 56 Ebenezer Sullivan s Co., 56 Samuel Leighton s Co., 56 Samuel Sawyer s Co.,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 19 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 11 The following is a copy of a commission given to one of the captains of Col. Scamman s regiment: In Congress. The delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 20 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 12 Imagine such an army, without artillery or effective small arms, without magazines or discipline, and unable to execute the smallest tactical maneuver should their lines be forced at any point, laying...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 21 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 13 Narrow Pass. Where the Ameri- cans passed over. Bunker Hill. The farthest point reached by Col. Scam- man s regiment In its advance. Breed s Bill. Moulton s Point. Where the...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 22 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 14 vocations could not accept, and Asa Whitcomb was elected in his place May 9. Col. John Whitcomb was elected the first major general June 13, 1775, and Gen. Joseph Warren was...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 23 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 15 Charges were preferred against Col. Scasnman for disobedience of orders and for not showing the proper spirit during the battle. A court martial was con- vened for this trial, July 13,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 24 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 16 (Minutes of the Court, with Comments by Colonel Scammans.) General Court Martial held July 13th, 1775. Col. Nixon, President with one Lieut. Colonel, one Major, and ten Captains. William Tudor, Judge...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 25 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 17 The above comment was probably intended to have been inserted after the testimony of the next witness, and was probably put here by mistake. Ensign Joshua Trafton deposed, about two of...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 26 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 18 cried, Come my Yorkshire lads, now let us show our bravery the deponent does not know the distinction between Bunker s and Brew- er s-Hill. Major Daniel Wood deposed, we marched...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 27 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 19 Lieut. Thomas Cutts in substance as Lieut. Lewis. Serjeant Aniaziah Goodwin agrees with Lieut. Cutts. Serjeant Samuel Goodale deposed, that General Whitcomb or- dered Col. Scammans from Lechmere s-Point to take...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 28 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 20 toas it not his duty to have been there We viay also observe, that he is positive if his memory served him, tvhich (by the deposition of others) did not.^ The...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 29 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 21 we got to Bunkei- s-Hill we could not form the regiment. \_It is observable that the Adjutant would insinuate hy his deposition that the regiment arrived at Bunker s-Hill time enough...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 30 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 22 1776 What he said in referance to Col. Scamman was, when writing of the Americans defeat at Bunker Hill, which together with the cowardice of the clumsy Col. Ge rrish and...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 31 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 23 Henry Dearborn, who was a captain in Stark s reg- iment, in the battle of Bunker Hill, wrote, in 1818, of the battle Nothing like discipline had entered at that time....- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 32 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 24 for despatches from the general Contiuental Congress, immediately to form the army into three grand divisions, and of dividing each of those grand divisions into two brigades. According to the above...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 33 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 25 coats were furnished the army in the fall of 1775. If a soldier had a coat suitable to keep him comfortable he was not required to take the one from the...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 34 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 26 spirituous liquors. They said effectual measures should be taken to put a stop to this, as not only the morals and health, but also the lives and liberties of this people...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 35 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 27 Kittery Wells CAPT. TOBIAS FERNALD S COMPANY. Captain, Tobias Fernald, Kittery Lieutenant, Thomas Cutts, Ensign, Parker Foster, Total, 59 men. CAPT. EBENEZER SULLIVAn s COMPANT. Captain, Ebenezer Sullivan, Berwick 1st Lieut.,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 36 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 28 CAPT. JONATHAN NOWELL S COMPANY. Captain, Jonathan No well, Lieutenant, Thomas Nowell, Ensign, Edwai d Low, Total, 50 men. CAPT. JESSE DORMAn s COMPANY. Captain, Jesse Dorman, Lieutenant, Daniel Merrill, Ensign,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 37 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 29 his lines until they could be strengthened, but from what source help was to come he then could not tell. As this regiment whs In the same brigade with Col. Edmund...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 38 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 30 Old York County has an enviable war record. In the early Indian wars, her sons, with her Major Charles Frost, and others, drove back their savage enemies. They were at Louisburg,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 39 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 31 A Muster Koll of the Field Staff Officers Commanded by Col. James Scammans from the Day of Engagement to the ist Day of August, 1775. Enlisted 1775 James Scamons, Col., Pepperrellboro,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899
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Image 40 of History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth regiment of foot : eight months' service ... 32 died October 4, 1789, and his widow married May 19, 1793, John Storer of Wells, and had four daughters. 2. Daniel, sea captain, born December 12, 1764; married Sep- tember 10,...- Contributor: Goold, Nathan
- Date: 1899