Col. Learned's Regiment

May, 1775. The following enrollment and organization of the regiment of Col. Ebenezer Learned is from Force's Archives, Vol. 11, 4th series, p. 823,

Peter Harwood
Adam Martin
John Granger
Joel Greene
Samuel Billings
William Campbell
Arthur Daggett
Nathaniel Nealey
Samuel Curtis
Isaac Bolster

Asa Danforth
Abel Mason
Matthew Gray
David Prouty
Barnabas Lean
Reuben Davis
Jonathan Carrier, Salem Town
Samuel Learned
John Haselton

Benjamin Pollard
Benjamin Felton
Stephen Gorham
Thomas Fisk
John Howard
William Powdry

Soon after the arrival of Col. Learned's regiment at Roxbury occurred the famous battle of Bunker Hill, "all of which it saw a part of which it was," although it was not actually engaged in the fight on the hill. It formed a part of the right wing of the army, under the command of Gen. John Thomas, which was stretched round from Dorchester, through Roxbury, to Boston line, to prevent the enemy from breaking through and making a flank movement.

This regiment enlisted for eight months; from May 1, 1775, till January 1, 1776. The regiment was in service in and around Boston. When their time expired the men were regularly discharged.

SOURCE: Records of Oxford, Mass. Mary de Witt Freeland. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1894, pages 370-371.

Retyped and reformatted by Kathy Leigh, February, 2002.