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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Capt. Charles Furbush's Company (presumably) at Bunker Hill.(1)

"A Muster Roll of the Company under the command of Captain Charles Furbush in Col. Bridge's Regiment to the first of August 1775."

Charles Furbush, Capt., Andover.	John Baldwin, private, Andover.
Jeremiah Blanchard, Lieut(2) Andover.	William Bailey, Andover.
James Silver, Lieut., Methuen.	John Craford, Andover.
Joseph Frost, Sgt., Tewksbury.	Jeremiah Blanchard, Andover.
Daniel Silver, Sgt., Salem.	David Clough, Dracut.
William Smith, St., Salem.	London Cittizen, Andover.
Hugh Riley, St., Danvers.	Theodore Emerson, Methuen.
Jeremiah Morrel, Corporal, Andover.	Samuel Farmer Tewksbury.
William Moorland, Corporal, Salem.	Isaac Foster, Tewksbury.
Jacob Amas, Corporal, Andover.	Charles Furbush, Jr., Andover.
Thomas Smith, Corporal, Andover.	William Gorden, Salem.
Simeon Furbush, drum, Andover.	Elijah Hildreth, Dracut.
Abraham Stickney, fifer, Tewksbury.	Israel Hunt, Tewksbury.

(1) This return was made October 6, 1775, for the purpose of showing the men who had been eight months in service, and were, therefore, each to receive a coat as bounty. They enlisted February, 1775. See "Coat Rolls", Col. James Fry's Regiment," p. 10.
(2) "Muster Rolls", vol. xiv., p. 95.

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Keto Hubbard, Tewksbury.	Danl. Petengel, Methuen.
William Kemp, Billerica.	Cuff Blanchard, Andover.
John Hancock, Methuen.	Cesar Porter, Andover.
Thomas Hadley, Boston.	Abraham Silver, Methuen.
Danl Longren, Andover.	Marcus Shedd, Tewksbury.
Thomas Hagget, Andover.	David Silver, Salem.
John Morrison, Boston.	Nathan Tyler.
Josiah Mecom, Boston.	Abiel Upton.
Isaac Melvin Kidah, Methuen.	Benjamin Clark, Reading.
Nehemiah Ridale, Methuen.	Samuel Bealy, Andover.(1)
Joseph Petengel, Methuen.	John Boughton, Andover.

Among the "Coat Rolls" of Col. Ebenezer Bridge's regiment is a copy of a paper which contains the same names as the fore-going, with a few exceptions. Five additional ones appear, namely, Ezra Anes, John Loyd, Joshua Ball, David Merril, Alexander Silver.

     The paper without the names is as follows:--

"CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE, Nov. the 21, 1775.

     TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMITTEE OF CLOTHING sitting at Watertown. Please to deliver to the Bearer Capt. Charles Furbush a coat for each one of us the subscribers, being soldiers in Capt. Furbush's company in Col. Bridge's Regt" ...

     "These may certify that the soldiers within named belong to my company and have not received the coats within mentioned nor the money.       CHARLES FURBISH, Captain."

Retyped and reformatted by Kathy Leigh, October 6, 2005