The Granite Monthly. Vol. II. No. 7. Apr., 1879: A New Hampshire Magazine devoted to Literature, History, and State ProgressVarious
History
The Granite Monthly. Vol. II. No. 7. Apr., 1879: A New Hampshire Magazine devoted to Literature, History, and State Progress
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New Hampshire -- History -- Periodicals
Dr. Henry Dearborn, Joseph Cilley, Jr., Thomas Bartlett, Henry Butler,
Zephaniah Butler, John Simpson, Nathaniel Batchelder, Daniel Moore,
Peter Thurston, Maj. Andrew McClary, Benjamin Johnson, Cutting Cilley,
Joseph Jackson, Andrew Neally, Samuel Johnson, Robert Morrison, William
Woolis, Eliphlet Taylor, William Blake, Nathaniel Twombly, Simon
Batchelder, Abraham Batchelder, Simon Marston, Moses Gilman, William
Simpson, John Nealey, and Samuel Sias. Let us briefly glance at the
record of some of these men in the years that came after.
Henry Dearborn was born in Hampton, Feb. 23, 1751. He studied medicine
and settled at Nottingham Square as a physician, in 1772. He married
Mary D. Bartlett, daughter of Israel, and sister of Thomas Bartlett of
Nottingham. He was always fond of military affairs, and is said to have
been a skilful drill-master and well posted in the tactics in use
previous to the Revolution. He fought with his company at the battle of
Bunker Hill. In the September following, he joined Arnold’s expedition
to Quebec, accompanied by these Nottingham men,—James Beverly, John P.
Hilton, Samuel Sias and Moses Gilman. They marched up the Kenebec river,
through the wilds of Maine and Canada. In the assault upon that city,
Captain Dearborn was taken prisoner. Peter Livias, the Tory councilor at
Quebec, influenced the authorities to parole and send him home, on
condition that Dearborn should forward his wife and children to him from
Portsmouth to Quebec, which was done as agreed. In April, 1777, Capt.
Dearborn was appointed Major in Scammel’s regiment. He was in the
battles of Stillwater and Saratoga and fought with such bravery, having
command of a distinct corps, as to win the special commendation of Gen.
Gates. In 1778, he was in the battle of Monmouth, with Col. Cilley
acting as Lieut. Col., and helped retrieve Lee’s disgraceful retreat. He
was with Gen. Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians, in 1779,
and was at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis in 1781. Upon the
death of Scammel, the gallant Colonel of the Third N. H. Reg., at the
hands of a barbarous foe, Dearborn was made Colonel and held that
position to the end of the war. After the war, he settled in Maine,
where he was Marshal by appointment of Washington. He was two terms a
member of Congress; Sec’y of War under Jefferson from 1801 to 1809;
collector of the port of Boston between 1809–12; senior Maj. General in
U. S. Army, 1812–13,and captured York in Canada, and Fort George, at the
mouth of Niagara. He was recalled by the President, July 6, 1813, and
put in command of the military district of N. Y. City, which recall was,
no doubt, a great mistake. In 1822 he was appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary to Portugal; recalled in 1824, at his own request: died
at Roxbury, Mass. June 6, 1829. General Dearborn was a man of large
size, gentlemanly deportment, and one of the bravest and most gallant
men of his time.
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