History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

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afterwards to White Plains. They came home in the latter
part of November. Thirteen men from Northampton were
members of this company.
Losses by North- Thomas Clark, Solomon Wright, Thomas
ampton Men. Smith, Silas Bartlett, Isaac Clark, Solomon
Dewey, and Eleazar Root lost their knapsacks,
blankets and clothing at Saratoga. The company
was obliged to retreat hurriedly, when almost surrounded
by the enemy. Each man made a claim upon the town or
state for his loss, amounting in the aggregate to between
£30 and £40, but the claim seems not to have been allowed.
Transporting Stores Epliraiui Wright of Northampton was ento
the Army. gaged as a teamster, or as he was called in
the documents of that date, " waggon mas-
ter," throughout the Revolution, and transported large
quantities of stores to the army. One of his earliest accounts
is dated June, 1777. He received at that time from
Robert Breck Esq. , a member of the State Committee on
Supplies, who was also commissary for Hampshire County,
" 12 hogsd & 9 Tier. Rum, 2 hogds Mollasses, three hgds
Sugar, 2 hgds & one Tier. Coffee, 7 barrels of Ginger, one
Tier. Pepper, 31 boxes Chocolate of 50 lbs. each, & one box
chocolate of 250 lbs.. Two Tierces of Oatmeal, four tierces
of Indian Meal," which the department conveyed to Fort
George. These stores were intended for the army at Ticonderoga,
but for want of boats, only a portion went to the
army, the rest remaining at the Continental storehouse at
Fort George. Mr. Wright was evidently at the head of
the transportation department in Western Massachusetts,
and the teamsters received their pay of him. In another
document may be found a description of several loads carried
in July, 1777, "from New Providence towards the
northern army, being 69 miles & four shillings per Tun per
mile." Among the articles transported by them were ten
seven
tierces, casks and barrels of rum, brandy, and wine ;
tierces, casks and boxes of chocolate ; two tierces of rice ;
one hhd. and one box of " cloathing ; " six tierces of salt
a cask of mustard ; a hhd. or two of molasses, etc. From
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