Nourse, Military Annals of Lancaster (1889), p. 116: source reference (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, XII. 135) for the Lexington Alarm company roster. The foot of the Lexington Alarm roster that begins on p. 115, with Nourse's reference to the Massachusetts Archives.

The page sets each company's names in three unlabelled columns, read top to bottom, column by column (left column first, then middle, then right); transcribed here in that reading order, one name per line.

> 116 ANNALS OF LANCASTER.

>

> [Continuing a roll from p. 115, no new heading on this page:]

> Jonathan Robins, William Ross, Jonas Welch, Joseph Sawyer, Thomas Atherton, Amos Fuller, Jacob Houghton. 58

>

> [Mass. Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, XII. 135.]

>

> *Captain Artemas How's Militia Company* . . . . . .

>

> Capt. Artemas How, Lieut. David Nurss, 2 Lieut. Joseph How, Sergt. Wm. Pollard, " Wm. Jones, " Jotham Maynard, " David Rice, Corp. Josh. Johnson, Timo. Bailey, Elisha Hodson, Drumr. Jabez Fairbank, Fif. Samuel Jones, Jr., Samuel Baker, John Coolidge, Joseph Woods, Solomon Jones, Benja. Bailey, Eben. Bailey, George Sawyer, Jonas Johnson, Samuel Jones, Nath. Longley, Thos. Pollard, Amos Osgood, Eben. Worcester, Nathan Jones, John Bruce, Asa Fay, Silas Bailey, Jr., Benj. Muzzy, Asa Johnson, Silas Bailey, Sen., Jacob Moor, John Barnard, Robert Fife, Steph. Bailey. 36

>

> [Mass. Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, XIII, 194.]

>

> *Company of Captain Robert Longley, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment.*

>

> Capt. Rob. Longley, Lieut. Paul Whitcomb, Lieut. Thos. Osborn, Sergt. John Townsend, " Oliver Barrett, " Phin. Moore, " Abel Piper, " Oliver Jewett, Drummer Jona. Priest, Gabriel Priest, Jona Nurss, Isaiah Bruce, Beriah Oak, David Stiles, Jabez Walkett, Thaddeus Pollard, Sam. Blood, Epm. Whitney, David Stratten, Jonas Whitcom, John Peirce, Jona. Whitcom, Jr., Sanderson Houghton, Saml. Bruce, Asa Nurss, Benj. Nurss, Israel Foster, James Flood, Wm. Cooledge, [Cyrus] Gates, Josiah Edwards, Richard Hazeltine, Jacob French, Ephm. Chamberlain. 34

>

> [Mass. Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, XII, 182.]

>

> *Field and Staff of the regiment of minute men.*

>

> Colonel John Whitcomb, of Bolton.

> Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Legate, of Leominster.

> First-Major William Dunsmoor, of Lancaster.

> Second-Major Ephraim Sawyer, of Lancaster.

> Adjutant Jeremiah Gager, of Westminster.

> Quartermaster David Osgood, of Lancaster.

## Notes

- "Beriah Oak," appears as a private in the Company of Captain Robert Longley, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment (this page's only Oak/Oake/Oakes/Oaks entry); no rank, town or further detail is given beyond his place in the name list and the roll's cited source (Mass. Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, XII, 182). No identification with a tree person is made here.

- The three-column layout is not meaningfully grouped by row (compare "William Ross, Thomas Atherton, Jacob Houghton" at the top of the page, plainly unrelated continuing names); transcribed in column-major reading order as noted above rather than reproducing the visual columns.

- "[Cyrus] Gates" is printed with the editorial brackets in the source itself, not added here.

- The numbers 58, 36 and 34 at the end of each company's list, and the bracketed "[Mass. Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, ...]" source line beneath each, are part of the printed page.

- Superscript abbreviations (Wm., Jona., Epm., Drumr., etc.) are reproduced as plain text; the printed page sets them as superscript.