History of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Thirty-first Regiment of Foot: Eight Months' Service Men of 1775, with Biographical Sketches of the Commissioned Officers and Rolls of the CompaniesThurston Print, 1896 - 54 頁 |
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12th Massachusetts regiment 18th Continental regiment 1st Lieut 2d Lieut 2nd Massachusetts regiment 31st Regiment 66 Daniel 66 Ebenezer 66 Gorham 66 James 66 John 66 Joseph 66 Joshua 66 Moses 66 Nathaniel 66 Samuel 66 Thomas 66 William ABRAHAM TYLER'S arrived battle of Monmouth Brackett Bradish's company cannon Cape Elizabeth captain colonel Continental Army Cumberland County David Bradish died Drummer Edmund Phinney entered the service Falmouth Neck Fifer fired George Gloucester Gorham Hart Williams Jacob Brown John Brackett's John Worthley July June Libby lieutenant in Capt marched to Cambridge married Massachusetts regiment McKenney McLellan militia Milliken Moses Merrill North Yarmouth o'clock patriots Pearsontown Phinney's regiment Ploughed Hill probably regi regiment in 1776 Regiment of Foot Samuel Dunn Samuel Noyes Saratoga campaign Scarborough Second Lieut Sept Sergt served service April 24 siege of Boston Silas Burbank soldiers Stroudwater tavern town Tyler Washington Wentworth Stuart Windham
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第 17 頁 - His stature is noble and lofty, he is well made, and exactly proportioned ; his physiognomy mild and agreeable, but such as to render it impossible to speak particularly of any of his features, so that in quitting him, you have only the recollection of a fine face.
第 29 頁 - But my situation is inexpressibly distressing; to see the winter fast approaching upon a naked army; the time of their service within a few weeks of expiring, and no provision yet made for such important events. Added to these, the military chest is totally exhausted; the paymaster has not a single dollar in hand; the commissary-general assures me he has strained his credit for the subsistence of the army to the utmost.
第 29 頁 - It gives me great pain to be obliged to solicit the attention of the honorable Congress to the state of this army, in terms which imply the slightest apprehension of being neglected. But my situation is inexpressibly distressing, to see the winter fast approaching upon a naked army, the time of their service within a few weeks of expiring, and no provision yet made for such important events.
第 54 頁 - They left the ploughshare in the mould, Their flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn, half-garnered on the plain, And mustered, in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a stern redress, To right those wrongs, come weal, come wo, To perish, or o'ercome their foe.
第 9 頁 - Country, and ready to venture everything for the defence of it. Colonel March informs me your Honors have appointed him a colonel and gave him orders to raise a Regiment in this County, and to appoint all his officers: this he acquainted me with after I had delivered Colonel Phinney the papers back again which he brought me. It is impossible we can spare two Regiments out of this County, and they both made considerable progress: am much afraid there will be some difficulty in settling the affair....
第 32 頁 - 7, " Mass. Archives, Vol. 26, page 272. COL. EDMUND PHINNEY. Col. Phinney was of good Pilgrim and fighting stock. His father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great grandfather were all named John Phinney. The earliest John Phinney was at Plymouth, Mass., before 1638. Col. Phinney's grandfather was a soldier in the Swamp Fight in the King Philip war in 1675. His father, Capt. John Phinney, came from Barnstable, Mass., to Falmouth, and was the first settler of Gorham, Me., May 26, 1736....
第 54 頁 - They left the plowshare in the mold, Their flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, Their corn half-garnered on the plain, And mustered in their simple dress, For wrongs of yours to seek redress." Thus they mustered around the spring I speak of, and from thence they made their "bee-line for Boston.
第 48 頁 - Company in the 31st Regt. of Foot, commanded by Col. Edmund Phinney, Sept 29, 1775. with an abstract of pay due from the last of July inclusive.
第 43 頁 - April 24, 1775, was first lieutenant in the 18th Continental regiment, in 1776, and was discharged Feb. 1, 1776 He also served in Col. Joseph Vose's 1st Massachusetts regiment from May 15, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779. He came from Kensington, NH.