Samuel Kelly of New Hampton, undoubtedly one of Darby’s descendants, served in Col. Hercules Mooney’s regiment in Rhode Island in 1779. Another Samuel Kelly of Meredith, saw service at Ticonderoga. Rev. Samuel Kelly, according to Bouton’s History of Concord, N. H., was the first settled pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Concord. He was chaplain of the state prison in 1730. The name of Samuel Kelly of Brentwood is mentioned four times in the Provincial deeds, and once again in Derryfield in 1768. He was undoubtedly the oldest son of Darby Kelly and one of the first settlers of New Hampton. Daniel Kelly was in Sanbornton, N. H., in 1748, and another Daniel Kelly was recorded as a deserter from a British vessel in Boston Harbor in 1770. He probably found the change from the forecastle of a ship to the picturesque hills of New Hampshire desirable. Daniel Kelly was ordered to appear before the Committee of Safety at Exeter to account for being concerned in the destruction of powder at Brentwood, May 20, 1799. Daniel Kelly was one of two grantees of a bridge, called Bridgewater and New Hampton bridge, at New Hampton in 1784. Daniel Kelly was a soldier in Captain Light’s company at Louisburg in 1745. Daniel Kelly of Hawke and Sandown was interested in some scheme relating to the currency in 1786. The Province deeds contain the name of Daniel Kelly three times from 1720 to 1731, from Hampton; five times, from 1737 to 1740, from Kingston, and once each from the towns of Epping and Newton, and twice from the town of Nottingham, from 1752 to 1764. Edward Kelly of Sanbornton was one of the signers of the test oath in 1775 and his name and that of his son Edward appears on a petition for a ferry in 1781, and Edward Kelly was one of the men who enlisted under Sullivan’s call in November, 1775. He served in the company of Captain Copp. An Edward Kelly recruited from the militia regiment of Colonel Webster in 1780 for the Continental army. The name Edward Kelly is written in two deeds dated 1761 and 1765, both at Brentwood. David and Ebenezer Kelly were two signers for the incorporation of a new town in Strafford County in 1788. David Kelly was a private in Captain Tilton’s company, Colonel Poore’s regiment, June 12, 1775. Later, he was promoted to sergeant-major and second lieutenant. David H. Kelly of Warner was a soldier in Capt. Jonathan Bean’s company in 1812. Jacob Kelly and Micajah Kelly were in Gilmanton in 1789. Jacob Kelly and Israel Kelly were two of the grantees of Newport, N. H., in 1753. Nehemiah Kelly served in Captain Calfe’s company, Colonel Bartlett’s regiment, in 1776–1777. He was also under Sullivan in Rhode Island. Philip Kelly was a soldier in Colonel Blanchard’s regiment, at Crown Point, in 1755. Robert Kelly’s name was on a petition for the appointment of Captain Folsom to be lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth regiment in 1775.