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

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Northampton, with Asa Ludden of Williamsburg and Richard
Sylvester of Chesterfield as Lieutenants. It was composed
of men from Northampton, Southampton, and Westhampton,
and was mustered in at Westhampton. The
company marched to Pittsfield in August, then to Albany,
where they remained two or three weeks, and thence to
Saratoga. They were quartered in the barracks erected
four years before. Several regiments were stationed there
to prevent the British from sending reinforcements from
Canada, while the campaign against Cornwallis was in pro-
gress. Barnabas Sears of Greenwich was the Colonel of
the regiment, and the detachment was under the command
of Gen. Stark. When news came of the surrender of
Cornwallis, there was a general rejoicing among the troops.
The company was discharged in November. Amaziah
Lucas and Jacob Pomeroy, both of Southampton, were
members of this company, and from them Mr. Judd obtained
the above information. Their principal duty was
scouting, and they picked up many tories, filling the
Albany jails with them.
The Last Requisition. Gov. Haucock iu September issued a call
for a number of men equal to one quarter
of the train-band companies. The totvn agreed to pay the
men £3 per month specie, if they were called into active
service. Few if any enlisted under this requisition, and no
record remains concerning them.
The Town hires In August the towu agreed to pay nine
Teamsters. teamsters for carrying nine loads of public
stores from Springfield to Great Barrington,
a distance of fifty-five miles, at the rate of 2s. Gd. per mile.
Closing Year of the
With the cud of the sixth year of the war
'^'^'- came its closing battles. Though hostili-
ties did not immediately cease at the sur-
render of Cornwallis, yet that event was the beginning of
the end. But there was no relaxation of endeavor, and the
country had still another year of sore labor and dire dis-
tress before peace was finally established. The brilliant
campaigns of Gen. Greene who, though defeated in two
pitched battles, wrung from every disaster all the effects of