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683 INDEX.<br />

POMEROY.<br />

Pomeroy, Samuel Jr., tailor, 13,<br />

receives portion <strong>of</strong> addi-<br />

note ;<br />

tional s^rant, 189.<br />

Pomeroj', Seth, has charge <strong>of</strong> town<br />

clock, 78 ; on committee to provide<br />

attorney for tovv^n, 94 ;<br />

capta<strong>in</strong>, 108, 104 ; major <strong>in</strong> expedition<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st Louisburg,<br />

114 ; voyage to Canseau, 115 ;<br />

seasickness, 115, 116; repairs<br />

guns at Grand Battery, 116,<br />

letters to wife, 117, 118;<br />

117 ;<br />

sick at Louisburg, 119 ; returns<br />

home, ib.; journal, 121-<br />

146 ; rema<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong> this section,<br />

149 ; enlists men for <strong>in</strong>vasion<br />

<strong>of</strong> Canada, 150; ordered to<br />

pursue Indians, 150, 151 ; sent<br />

to Hoosuck, 151 ; at Fort <strong>Massachusetts</strong>,<br />

ib.; extract <strong>from</strong><br />

letter, 151, 152 ; <strong>in</strong> Boston, 152;<br />

<strong>in</strong> scout<strong>in</strong>g expedition, 161 ;<br />

boards the schoolmaster, 180 ;<br />

receives i^ortion <strong>of</strong> additional<br />

grant, 186 petitions for pre-<br />

;<br />

c<strong>in</strong>ct meet<strong>in</strong>g, 206 ; on committee<br />

to confer with Mr. Edwards,<br />

207, 212 ; opposes a<br />

mutual council, 210, 211 ; au-<br />

thorized to wait on Lyman,<br />

appo<strong>in</strong>ted to manage case<br />

214 ;<br />

before council, 222 ; appo<strong>in</strong>ted<br />

commands<br />

lieiit. -colonel, 251 ;<br />

company aga<strong>in</strong>st Crown Po<strong>in</strong>t,<br />

ib. ; at Greeubush, 255;<br />

Crown Po<strong>in</strong>t journal, 260-280 ;<br />

ill, 256, 271, 275, 276, 277,<br />

starts for home, 277;<br />

285, 535 ;<br />

at home, 279 ; reports to Col.<br />

Williams, 281 ; describes the<br />

Bloody Morn<strong>in</strong>g Scout, 282-<br />

283 ; takes Dieskau prisoner,<br />

283 ; receives commission, 284;<br />

mal-ches to the relief <strong>of</strong> Fort<br />

Col. has<br />

William Henry, 294 ;<br />

charge <strong>of</strong> frontier forts, 299 ;<br />

committee to purchase bell,<br />

308; builds road to Westhampton,<br />

314 ; committee on<br />

workhouse, 317 ; on committee<br />

to consider bill pend<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />

legislature, 323 ; blacksmith,<br />

328 ; Committee <strong>of</strong> Correspondence,<br />

349 ; <strong>in</strong> command <strong>of</strong><br />

military, 352 ; <strong>in</strong> Prov<strong>in</strong>cial<br />

Congress, 352, 353, 357, 365;<br />

Committee <strong>of</strong> Inspection, 354 ;<br />

chosen colonel, 355 ; addresses<br />

the m<strong>in</strong>ute-men, 360 plans for<br />

;<br />

capture <strong>of</strong> Ticonderoga, 363<br />

;<br />

at<br />

PORTER.<br />

Bunker Hill, 365, 366, and<br />

notes ; <strong>of</strong>fered position <strong>of</strong> brigadier<br />

general, 367 ; ordered to<br />

draft every fifth man <strong>in</strong> his<br />

regiment, 387; enters the<br />

army, 393; journal, 394; death<br />

<strong>of</strong>, 394, 395 ; sketch <strong>of</strong>, 395 ;<br />

appearance<br />

letter quoted, 402 ;<br />

<strong>of</strong> his men, 404 ; vis<strong>its</strong> Hawley,<br />

543, and note ; at Louisburg,<br />

606, 607 ; referred to,<br />

107, 113, 364,<br />

ferred to, 252.<br />

603; journal re-<br />

Pomeroy, Seth Jr., referred to,<br />

266, 278.<br />

Pomeroy, Shammah, on duty at<br />

Southampton, 246.<br />

Pomeroy, Simeon, drowned, 29.<br />

Pomeroy, Simeon, <strong>in</strong> expedition<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st Lotiisburg, 120, 606<br />

receives portion <strong>of</strong> additional<br />

grant, 189 ; <strong>in</strong> Father Rale's<br />

War, 606 ; Revolutionary soldier,<br />

626 ; <strong>in</strong> Ely Insurrection,<br />

631 ; <strong>in</strong> Shays Rebellion, 632.<br />

Pomeroy, Solomon, Revolutionary<br />

soldier, 626.<br />

Pomeroy, Thaddeus, <strong>in</strong><br />

bellion. 633.<br />

Shays Re-<br />

Pomeroy. Timothy, Revolutionary<br />

soldier. 626.<br />

Pomeroy, Titus, goes home with<br />

Major Seth, 277.<br />

Pomeroy, William, signs militia<br />

company agreement, 375; Revolutionary<br />

soldier, 626; <strong>in</strong><br />

Shays Rebellion, 632.<br />

Pomeroy. Hunt & Co., stage l<strong>in</strong>es<br />

<strong>from</strong> Boston to Albany, 556.<br />

Pomeroy's Mounta<strong>in</strong>, Indians<br />

slaughter cattle at, 152.<br />

Pond, John, Revolutionary "soldier,<br />

626.<br />

Porter, Abel, Revolutionary soldier,<br />

626.<br />

Porter, Col. Eleazar, suggests fit<br />

persons for <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> regiment,<br />

103 ; succeeds John<br />

Stoddard, 158 ; committee for<br />

new Court-House, 318 jus-<br />

;<br />

tice, 488 ; answer to <strong>in</strong>surgents,<br />

502 ; favors Williams,<br />

521.<br />

Porter, Col. Elisha, committee to<br />

sell Shepherd's Island, 303<br />

has smallpox, 310 ; command<br />

<strong>of</strong> regiment for Quebec, 380,<br />

382 ; with company pursues<br />

the mob, 459 protects the<br />

;<br />

jail, 460 ;<br />

; ;<br />

decl<strong>in</strong>es to hold con-

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