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Total Officers and Soldiers, 548. In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 7, 1775. Ordered, That Commissions be delivered to the Officers of Colonel Fellows’s Regiment, agreeable to the above list. SAML. FREEMAN, Secretary. COLONEL THOMAS GARDNER’S REGIMENT. William Bond, Lieut. Colonel; Michael Jackson, Major.
The Committee of Safety hereby certify the honourable Congress, that they approve the above named Officers, and recommend it to the honourable Congress, that they be commissioned accordingly. WILLIAM COOPER, Secretary. In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 2, 1775. Ordered, That Commissions be delivered to the Officers of Colonel Gardner’s Regiment, agreeable to the above list. SAML. FREEMAN, Secretary. COLONEL ASA WHITCOMB’S REGIMENT, JUNE 3, 1775.
In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 9, 1775. We recommend to the honourable the Provincial Congress, that the within Officers, belonging to Colonel Whitcomb’s Regiment, may be commissioned, if the Congress have no objection. BENJAMIN WHITE, Chairman. In Congress, June 10, 1775. Resolved, That the gentlemen above named be commissioned. JAS. WARREN. Cambridge, June 30, 1775. A list of the Staff Officers and Commissioned Officers, in Col. Asa Whitcomb’s Regiment, not commissioned. Staff.—Jeremiah Gage, Adjutant; Jeremiah Laughton, Quartermaster; William Dunsmore, Doctor. Samuel West, Second Lieutenant in Captain Abner Cranston’s Company, in the place of him that was killed at the fight at Charlestown. N. B. I have a full Regiment, exclusive of Benjamin Hastings, who has fifty-three in his Company; and he has done duty with me, and declines joining any other Regiment; and I desire that the Officers of that Company, viz: Benjamin Hastings, Captain; Jonathan Haughton, Lieutenant; Jonathan Meriam, Second Lieutenant, may be commissioned, and join my Regiment. ASA WHITCOMB. Camp No. 2, Cambridge, June 30, 1775. This may certify, that we, the subscribers, being chosen Officers of a Minute Company, in Bolton, have taken orders to raise a Company in the present Army; and having fifty-three able-bodied, effective men, fit for service, in our Company, and having done duty in Colonel Whitcomb’s Regiment from our first taking out orders, we desire that we may be commissioned under the above said Colonel, which was the expectation of the Company. BENJAMIN HASTINGS, Captain. To the Honourable the Provincial Congress. In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 30, 1775. It is recommended to the honourable the Provincial Congress, that Samuel West, above named, be commissioned as Second Lieutenant, in Captain Abner Cranston’s Company, in Colonel Asa Whitcomb’s Regiment. WILLIAM COOPER, Secretary. COLONEL DOOLITTLE’s REGIMENT; JUNE 12, 1775.
In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 12, 1775. The within mentioned Captains and Subalterns in Col. Doolittle’s Regiment are recommended to be commissioned. BENJAMIN WHITE, Chairman. In Provincial Congress, June 19, 1775. Ordered, That Commissions be delivered to the Officers of Col. Doolittle’s Regiment, agreeable to the above list. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Secretary. COLONEL WOODBRIDGE’S REGIMENT, JUNE 16, 1775. Abijah Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel; William Stacy, Major.
In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 21, 1775. Colonel Woodbridge having satisfied this Committee that the above eight Companies are in good forwardness, it is recommended to the honourable Congress that said Regiment be commissioned accordingly. BENJAMIN WHITE, Chairman. In Provincial Congress, June 21, 1775. Ordered, That Commissions he delivered to the Officers of Col. Woodbridge’s Regiment, agreeable to the above list. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Secretary. In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, July 3, 1775. It is recommended to the honourable the Provincial Congress, that Asa Barnes be commissioned as a Captain in Col. Woodbridge’s Regiment, Caleb Smith as Lieutenant in said Company, Timothy Read as Second Lieutenant; also William Smith as Third Lieutenant, and Oliver Wagget as Second Lieutenant in Captain King’s Company, of said Woodbridge’s Regiment. WILLIAM COOPER, Secretary. COLONEL JOHN GLOVER’S REGIMENT, JUNE 15, 1775.
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