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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"In this Role(2) is contained the Names of those belonging to the fourth foot company of Andover who marched in consequence of the alarm on the 19th of April A. D. 1775 Under the Command of Joshua Holt with an account of Travel from their Alarm Post to Cambridge & from Cambridge to the Place again with the expence and service Set in Distinct Colums as follows:" (3)

Capt. Joshua Holt.	Ezra Anice(?)	Moses Kimball.
Lieut. Nehem. Abbot.	Obadiah Johnson	Isaac Osgood.
Ensign Jonathan Abbot.	Saml. Frye.	Daniel Ordway.
Sergt. Moses Bailey.	Philemon Dane.	Nathaniel Sawyer.
Sergt. Ephraim Abbot.	Francis Dane.	Charles Furbush.
Sergt. Jeduthan Abbot.	Abiel Stevens.	Jeremiah Blanchard
Sergt. Benjam. Ames.	Jeremiah Lovejoy.	Samuel Bailey, jr
Clerk John Mooar.	Josiah Blanchard,jr	Ebenezer Dow.
Samuel Phelps.	Josiah Johnson.	Nathan Chandler,jr
Obadiah Foster.	Samuel Lovejoy.	Joseph Shattuck.
Shemuel(?)Griffin.	Thomas Peavey.	Joseph Shattuck jr

(1) "Lexington Alarm", Vol. xi., p. 188.
(2) Ibid., vol. xii., p. 136.
(3) The "expence and-service" are here omitted.

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Aaron Blanchard.	Zebadh Abbot.	Simon Crosby.
Ezra Anice, jr.	John Foster.	Zebadh Chandler.
Isaac Chandler.	Daniel Blanchard.	Jonathan Buxton
Isaac Chandler, jr.	Benj. Buxton.	Gideon Foster.
Joshua Chandler.	Samuel Stevens.	Nathan Bailey.
William Blunt.	Samuel Stevens, jr.	James Anice.
Samuel Fealds, jr.	William Clark.	Isaac Ingalls.
Daniel Dane.	John Wood.	James Barnard.
Peter Martain.	Benj. Wood.	Thomas Smith.
Joseph Chandler.	Israel Wood.	Joseph Blanchard
Kendal Parker.	Thomas Haggit,jr.	Abijah Clark.
Jacob Osgood.	Joseph Burt.	Samuel Kittredge

"Jan. 13, 1776, Made oath Joshua Holt before S. PHILLIPS."

The roll of Capt. Joshua Holt's company has appended to it the following statement:--

     "There were also in the aforesaid company a number of aged men and some unable to bear arms who rode to Cambridge on the day of said alarm and the day following to carry provisions for those who stood in need, who humbly ask the same allowance for time and travel that is made for others, having made no charge for the provisions they carried. their travel to an from Cambridge is generally about thirty-six miles.

Dea. John Dane.	Saml. Fields.
Thomas Blanchard.	James Holt, Jr.
Joseph Dane.	Ebenezer Rand.
Benj. Mooar.	William Dane."

Retyped and reformatted by Kathy Leigh, October 6, 2005