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SOURCE: Historical sketches of Andover: (comprising the present towns of North Andover and Andover), Massachusetts; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1880

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Captain Benjamin Farnum's Company (presumably) at Bunker Hill.(2)

Benjamin Farnum, Capt. John Johnson, a. Thomas Clark.
Saml. Johnson, Lieut. Benjm. Parker. Zachariah Chickering.
Cyrus Marble, Lieut. Ephraim Lasey. John Dillaway.
John Chickering, a. Nehemiah Abbot. Stephen Farrington.
William Johnson. Spofford Ames. John Farrington.
John Parker. George Abbot. Samuel Fowler.
Saml. Carlton. John Barker. Jonathan Gardner, a.
John Barker. Ingalls Bragg, a. William Gordon.
Joshua Frye. Jacob Barnard. David How.
Joshua Long. Timothy Carlton. Phineas Johnson, a.
Peter Farnham, a. John Cross. Peter Johnson.


(1) Killed June 17.
(2) This company was formed of men of Capt. Thomas Poor's, and some other companies, in May. They were enlisted in February. See Coat Rolls, "Col. James Fry's Regiment."

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Isaiah Ingalls. Timothy Poor. Ebenezer Thompson
Phineas Ingalls. John Parker. John Wilson.
Samuel Lasey. Stephen Poor. James Wiley.
Stephen Long. Enoch Parker. Simon Wardwell.
Thomas Kenney. Jonathan Robinson. Joshua Wood.
Dudley Messer, Methuen. Jonathan Stephens. Frederick Frye.
John Nichols. James Stephens. Phineas Parker.
Timothy Noyes. David Stephens. Cato Negro.
Asa Osgood. Darius Sessions (taken Amos Stephens.
Jacob Osgood.       captive at Bunker Hill) Philip Farrington
Michael Parker, a. John Tyler. Jacob Tyler.
Danl. Poor. John Turner, Deserted, a.


There is in a manuscript memorandum of Captain Farnum a list of names of men who received pay in his company. It differs in some respects from the foregoing roll. The names marked "a" in that roll are absent from it, and the following additional names(1) appear:--

William Parker. Peter Poor. Benjamin Abbot.
William Dilloway. Stephen Messer.

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