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:—­

“Sir:  I have received your Letter giving me an acct. of the Hardships your poor Soldiers are exposed to.  I sincerely Compassionate their unhappy case & I pray God to find out some Way for their Relief.  The Governor is not expected here till the month of December.  When he arrives I shall endeavour to mention the affair to him.  In the mean time, I have written a Letter to Major General Winslow which I have left open, Leaving it with you to deliver it or not as you shall judge best, First sealing it before you deliver it The Council being informed that I had a Letter from you upon the subject of these Hardships of the Soldiers desired me to communicate it to them, which I did.  What they will do upon it I know not.

“Octob’r 31, 1755.

To ABIJAH WILLARD.”

     “BOSTON, Oct. 31, 1755

“Sir:  I have lately received a Letter from my Kinsman Cpt.  Abijah Willard expressing his tender concern for his soldiers who are exposed to ly in Tents in this cold season now coming on and their cloath now worn out.  I would fain use any Interest I could make that may contribute to the Relief of these and other the Provincial soldiers in Nova Scotia in the like circumstances, but I am a perfect