Born 10 Feb 173(1)2 - Died 26 Mar 1809
Married 22 Jan 1765 to Mary Nye, Born 11 Jun 1735 (15 Aug 1738) - Died 4 Apr 1768

Noah was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, after his father went there and became one of the largest owners of the original Agawam Plantation. Noah was the Town Clerk and also a Justice of the Peace (1778). With these positions he was active in the town affairs and well respected and loved by Wareham citizens. In 1774 the Body of the People appointed Noah Fearing and two others to the committee. He married Mary Nye from Sandwich, Massachusetts. Together they had eight children with only the first three living to adulthood. They were Martha, Silas, and Paul. He subsequently married Lucy and together they had a daughter, Lucy.

Noah, listed as the captain of a Company of Minute Men, marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775, to Marshfield, serving four days. The Payroll Record states his service as private with Captain John Gibb's Company, 4th Regiment in the County of Plymouth, commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, who marched on an alarm to Dartmouth the 6th September 1778. He was paid 13 shilling 4 pence for his service and travel of 40 miles. He was 47 years at the time of his service and died in his 78th year in Marietta, Ohio.

SILAS FEARING

Born 11 Nov 1759 - Died 11 Jan 1812
Married 1 Mar 1783 to Hannah Pope, Born 21 Apr1761 - Died 4 Jun 1830

Silas, living in Wareham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, entered service as a 19-year-old private in Captain John Gibb's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's 4th Plymouth Company, enlisting the13 September 1778 and being discharged on the 18th of September serving 5 days on an alarm at Falmouth. The payroll states that Silas was paid 14 shillings for his service and travel of 44 miles. On 6 October 1992, the United States Government provided a headstone for the unmarked grave of Silas Fearing in Coal Run, Ohio.

He married Hannah Pope, a Quaker girl from Sandwich, Massachusetts. They had five sons and three daughters.

EBENEZER FIELD

Born 11 Oct 1744 – Died 27 Mar 1811-13
Married 21 July 1767 to Eunice Wright Born 26 Jan 1752 – Died 6 July 1826

Ebenezer Field lived in Northfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War. Corporal Field was one of the company of Minute Men on the Lexington Alarm Roll which marched April 20th from Western Massachusetts to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in Captain Reuben Reed’s Company, Colonel Jonathan Warner’s regiment. They responded to the alarm of 19 Apr 1775. He was also a member of the Committee of Correspondence for supplying beef to the Army, being appointed 20 October1780.

PETER GROVES

Born 18 Aug 1739 - Died 6 Jul 1807
Married c 1766 to Lydia Lumbard, Born 15 Jul 1746 - Died 1818

Peter Groves, living at Brimfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, was a private in the 10th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall. On 1 July 1774, he signed "The Covenant" at the town meeting of Brimfield, Massachusetts, not to purchase any goods imported from Great Britain. On 16 August 1779, he was granted 10 pounds sterling by the town of Brimfield for his service in the Continental Army.

AMBROSE MORTON

Born 24 July 1756 – Died 8 Jan 1832
Married 13 Dec 1781 to Sarah Tolman Born 17 July 1756 – Died 5 Sept 1821

Ambrose Morton of Stoughton, Suffold County, Massachusetts, marched with his company on the Lexington alarm under Dapt. William Briggs and Colonel James Reed.

JOHN PHILLIPS

Born 9 May 1747 - Died 1 Nov 1833
Married 25 May 1768 to Sarah Pond Born 13 Nov 1750 - Died 27 Jan 1841

The following information about John Phillips was taken from his Pension file. In 1775 he enlisted in the service as a Private in the town of Bellingham, Massachusetts. He was attached to the following Continental Companies in Massachusetts for varying amounts of time:

1. A Company, commanded by Captain Samuel Cobb, in Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment: 8 months he served as a Private
   
2. Captain Sabel Mann's Company: 3 months he served as a Sergeant
   
3. Captain Samuel Cowell's Company, in Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment: 3 months he served as a Sergeant
   
4. Captain Joseph Daniels' Company in a Colonel Wheelock's Regiment: 5 months he served as an Orderly Sargeant

After 19 months of service, Orderly Sergeant Phillips was discharged from the service at Ticonderoga in December 1776. Quoting from his Pension file, probably written in 1824, Mr. Phillips says "I am by occupation a farmer and unable to labour without family or friends, able to contribute to my support. My family, who lives with me consists of my wife, Sarah Phillips, aged seventy-four years, and unable to labour." The Phillips' home, during the Revolutionary War, was Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

JOSEPH RAINSFORD

He lived in Suffolk County, Massachusetts and served as a fifer in the Navy on the Frigate “Alliance” commanded by Captain John Barry, for 22 months and was commended for never missing a muster roll. He sailed with the Marquise de Lafayette who was bringing the famous three million loan from the King of France to America for the war effort. Two naval engagements: one with 28 gun frigate encountered while Alliance was en route to Philadelphiwith the three million and one with a British Gun Ship commanded by Captain Green.  He was aso a gunner at the Battle of Monmouth and served a 2nd enlistment at the Battle of Valley Forge. He received Pension #SW 10232.

DAVID REED Sr.

Born between 1737 and 1739 - Died between 1808 and 1810
Married 2 Jun 1759, to Diantha (Anna) Rogers., Born 6 May 1741 - Died 28 Oct 1815

David Reed Sr. served as a 1st Lieutenant in Captain James Musterd's 2nd Company, 1st Lincoln Company Regiment, of the Massachusetts militia. David Reed was among the list of officers chosen by several Companies in this Regiment, as returned by Lieutenant Colonel Dummer Sewall and others. They ordered in Council 1 July 1776, that this list of officers be commissioned and on that date they were so commissioned. David Reed served, also, as a 1st Lieutenant in Captain Musterd's 2nd Company, and Colonel Samuel McCobb's Lincoln Company Regiment of the Massachusetts militia. Further, he served in the Regimental return made by Lieutenant Colonel Sewell, dated 19 November 1779, at Georgetown. Also David Reed's service included activity in: 1st Lieutenant Captain, Acter Patten's Company; Colonel Samuel McCobb's Regiment for two months; and 19 days on the Penobscot Expedition.Reed was born in Topsham, Maine and died in Orono, Maine.

DAVID READ Jr.

Born 7 Mar 1767 - Died 8 Sept 1858
Married 2 Mar 1796 to Nancy Phillips, Born 20 Apr 1779 - Died 1 Oct 1838

David Reed Jr. was living in Topsham, Lincoln County, Massachusetts, with his family when he went off to war with his father at 13 years of age. He served as a waiter for a term of six months with Captain David Reed in Colonel McCobb's regiment, and immediately accompanied Captain Reed to Castine. He remained there until some time in August. Upon the arrival of two British ships of War, the troops retreated up the river with the ships Warren, Black Prince and Hunter. These vessels were set on fire and abandoned. He was taken to Kennebec River and proceeded down that river to Cox's Head at its mouth. There he continued to serve until discharged in the month of December, 1780. In May, 1781 he enlisted again as a waiter under Captain John Reed, to serve another term of six months. Born in Topsham, Maine, David died in Pomeroy, Ohio, and was buried in Weldon Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

On 6 October, 1992, his grave was dedicated and marked with a Government marker with a SAR/DAR/C.A.R. ceremony that included a full National Guard, posting the colors and firing the 21 shots with a bugler playing taps afterwards. The townspeople all gathered for a reception afterwards at the social hall of the Guard headquarters in Weldon.

EBENEZER WHITE

Born 1733 - Died 11 Oct 1817
Married ??? to Sarah Church, Born 17 Aug 1738 - Died 1802

JOSIAH WHITNEY SR.

Born 11 Sept 1731 - Died 24 Jan 1806
Married 3 Feb 1774 to (2nd) Sarah Dwelly, Born ??? - Died 18 Feb 1817

Josiah Whitney Sr. of Harvard, Massachusetts, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Asa Whitcomb Regiment on 19 April 1775 with service of six days. He served from 25 April 1775 to 1 August 1775 in the Asa Whitcomb Regiment for three months and 14 days. He served short terms in various places. He was commissioned Colonel on 21 February 1776 in 2nd Worcester Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia. His last mention of service was on 5 July 1779.