Benjamin Atherton, laborer aged 20 Phineas Atherton, " " 16 Daniel Atherton, " " 21 Jonathan Brown, " " 17 Joseph Bailey, " " 30 Phineas Divoll, " " 22 Abel Farnsworth, husbandman " 22 John Farnsworth, laborer " 30 Jeremiah Field, " " 18 Ephraim Goss, " " 22 Thomas Henderson, " " 40 Daniel Harper, " " 21 Elias Haskell, cooper " 19 William Hutson, cordwainer " 22 John Johnson, laborer " 22 Samuel Kilham " " 20 Matthias Larkin," " 30 Joseph Metcalf, cooper " 21 Joseph Pratt, laborer " 30 Joseph Priest, " " 45 Daniel Sanders, " " 19 Isaac Sollendine, laborer " 21 Jacob Stiles, housewright " 19 Lemuel Turner, laborer " 18 Nathaniel Turner, " " 18 William Turner, " " 18 Aaron Wilder, " " 30 William Warner, " " 20 David Wilson, " " 18 Levi Woods, laborer aged 20 Silas Willard, " " 19 Uziah Wyman, apothecary " 21 John Warner, laborer " 20 James Willard, " " 18 John Wilson, " " 20 Besides the above forty-five, there were, in other companies, three natives of Lancaster:-- Nathaniel Johnson, yeoman aged 25 Jonas Moor, " " 32 John Rugg, husbandman " 31 What special part these men took in the investment and capture of the formidable fort of Beau Sejour, or in the assaults upon the minor forts, neither record nor tradition tell, and we are equally uninformed respecting their participation in the pitiable scenes enacted along the shores of Minas and Chignecto Bays. The Massachusetts Archives contain no pay-rolls of this expedition, and no papers of Captain Abijah Willard are known to exist throwing any light upon its history. That the service was not only inglorious in part, and ungrateful to the truly brave, but attended with much hardship, is attested by the following documents copied from Massachusetts Archives, lv, 62 and 63. They are there in the handwriting of Secretary Josiah Willard:--