without prejudicing their begun Settlement Wherefore we most Humbly pray Yor. Excellency & Honrs. to compassionate Our Circumstances and that thay may not be set off and as in Duly bound &c Benja. Parker Thomas Fisk John Shattuck Benj'n. Robines Isaac Woods John Woods Samuel Shattuck iu William Spoalding Jonathan Woods Enoch larwance John Blood James Green Wiliam Cumings Joseph Blood Called Nissitisitt Do hereby authorize and Fully Impower Abraham Taylor Jun'. and Peter Power to Represent to Gen11. Court our unwillingness that any Part of Dunstable should [be] sett off to Groton to make a Township or Parish and to Shew forth our Earness Desire that a Township be maide intirely out out [sic] off Dunstable Land, Extending Six mils North from Groton Line which will Bring the on the Line on ye Brake of Land and Just Include the Present Setlers: or otherwise As ye Hon. Commitee Reported and Agreeable to the tenour thereoff as The Honrd Court shall see meet and as Duly bound &c Thos: Dinmore, and 20 others. Dunstable Decer: ye 21st: 1739 These may sertifie to ye Honrd. Court that there is Nomber of Eleven more yt Nathaniel Lawrence iu has not signed this Nor ye Petetion of [Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 282-284.] Wee the Subrs: Inhabts: of ye Town of Dunstable & Resident in that part of it setled and About to setle [Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 277.] With softened light, and grief's dread, dark array. Life's work all over ere 't was well begun, And all the place with bud and bloom o'errun ; BRITISH FORCE AND THE LEADING LOSSES IN THE REVOLUTION. [From Original Returns in the British Record Office.] COMPILED BY HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A. AT Boston, in 1775, 9,147. At New York, in 1776, 31,626. In America: June, 1777, 30,957; August, 1778, 33,756; February, 1779, 30,283; May, 1779, 33,458; December, 1779, 38,569; May, 1780, 38,002; August, 1780, 33,020; December, 1780, 33,766; May, 1781, 33,374; September, 1781, 42,075. ton, 360; Bennington, 207 (besides prisoners); Freeman's Farm, 550; Bemis Heights, 500; Burgoyne's Surrender, 5,763; Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 190; Brandywine, 600; Germantown, 535; Monmouth, 2,400 (including deserters); Siege of Charlestown, 265; Camden, 324; Cowpens, 729; Guilford Court House, 554; Hobkirk's Hill, 258; Eutaw Springs, Bunker Hill, 1,054; Long Island, 693; New London, 163; Yorktown, 400; Fort Washington, 454; Trenton, 552; Cornwallis's Surrender, 7,963. 1,049 (including prisoners); Hubbard CASUALTIES. HISTORICAL NOTES. BIRD AND SQUIRREL LEGISLATION IN laid before the meeting respecting the 1776. "Whereas, much mischief happens from Crows, Black Birds, and Squirrels, by pulling up corn at this season of the year, therefore, be it enacted by this Town meeting, that ninepence as a bounty per head be given for every full-grown crow, and twopence half-penny per head for every young crow, and twopence halfpenny per head for every crow blackbird, and one penny half-penny per head for every red-winged blackbird, and one penny half-penny per head for every thrush or jay bird and streaked squirrel that shall be killed, and presented to the Town Treasurer by the twentyeth day of June next, and that the same be paid out of the town treasury.” BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND. Ar the meeting of the town held on the fourteenth of March, 1774, James Brown, the fourth, was the first on the committee to draw up resolves to be infringements made upon the Americans by certain "ministerial decrees." These were laid before a meeting held March 21, 1774, and received by the town's votes, as follows: "The inhabitants of this Town being justly Alarmed at the several acts of Parliament made and passed for having a revenue in America, and, more especially the acts for the East India Company, exporting their tea into America subject to a duty payable here, on purpose to raise a revenue in America, with many more unconstitutional acts, which are taken into consideration by a number of our sister towns in the Colony, therefore we think it needless to enlarge upon them; but being sensible of the dangerous condition the Colonies are in, Occasioned by the Influence of wicked and designing men, we enter into the following Resolves; "First, That we, the Inhabitants of the Town ever have been & now are Loyal & dutiful subjects to the king of G. Britain. Second, That we highly approve of the resolutions of our sister Colonies and the noble stand they have made in the defense of the liberties & priviledges of the Colonys, and we thank the worthy author of 'the rights of the Colonies examined.' "Third, That the act for the East India Company to export their Tea to America payable here, and the sending of said tea by the Company, is with an intent to enforce the Revenue Acts and Design for a precedent for Establishing Taxes, Duties & Monopolies in America, that they might take our property from us and dispose of it as they please and reduce us to a state of abject slavery. Fourth, That we will not buy or sell, or receive as a gift, any dutied Tea, nor have any dealings with any person or persons that shall buy or sell or give or receive or trade in s Tea, directly or indirectly, knowing it or suspecting it to be such, but will consider all persons concern in introducing dutied Teas . . . . into any Town in America, as enemies to this country and unworthy the society of free men. "Fifth, That it is the duty of every man in America to oppose by all proper measures to the uttermost of his Power and Abilities every attempt upon the liberties of his Country and especially those mentioned in the foregoing Resolves, & to exert himself to the uttermost of his power to obtain a redress of the grievances the Colonies now groan under. "We do therefore solemnly resolve that we will heartily unite with the Town of Newport and all the other Towns in this and the sister Colonies, and exert our whole force in support of the just rights and priviledges of the American Colonies. Sixth, That James Brown, Isaiah Humphrey, Edw Bosworth, Sam' Allen, Nathaniel Martin, Moses Tyler, & Thomas Allen, Esq., or a major part of them, be a committee for this town to Correspond with all the other Committees appointed by any Town in this or the neighboring Colonies, and the committee is desir to give their attention to every thing that concerns the liberties of America; and if any of that obnoxious Tea should be brought into this Town, or any attempt made on the liberties of the inhabitants thereof, the committee is directed and empowered to call a town meeting forthwith that such measures may be taken as the publick safty may require. "Seventh, That we do heartily unite in and resolve to support the foregoing resolves with our lives & fortunes." JOHN ROGERS, Esquire. A DESCENDANT of John Rogers, of Smithfield farm, came to America in the early emigration. Can any one give any information as to the life and death of a son, John Rogers, Jr., of Roxbury? Answer. John Rogers, Jr., or second, was born at Duxbury, about February 28, 1641. He married Elisabeth Peabody, and, after King Philip's War, removed to Mount Hope Neck, Bristol, Rhode Island, about 1680. He again removed to Boston in 1697; to Taunton in 1707; and to Swansea in 1710. He became blind in 1723, and died after nine days' sickness, June 28, 1732, in the ninety-second year of his age, leaving at the time of his death children, and great-grandchildren. ninety-one descendants, children, grandHe was buried at Prince's Hill Cemetery, in Barrington, Rhode Island, where his grave is marked by a fine slate headstone in excellent preservation. M. H. W. 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