BATH DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
After the Revolutionary war commenced, a fort was built on Eastman's
meadow, into which all the families that remained in town were
collected, together with some from Landaff and Lisbon. No enemy,
however, came to molest them.
During the war, when the population of
the town is supposed to have been more than seventy families, no
less than forty-six of the inhabitants enlisted as soldiers. The
following is a list of the enlistments:
Timothy Bedel, John Bedel,
Richard Bedel, Obadiah Eastman, Daniel Bedel, Jacob Bedel, Robert Bedel,
William Eastman, Moody Bedel, Joshua Bedel, Jonathan Eastman*,
John Foreman, Francis Fullington, Peter Hugh Gammel, Jeremiah Gilman,
Peter Gilman, Samuel I. Gilman, David Greenleaf, Daniel Hunt,
Joshua Hunt, Zebulon Hunt, Ira Hand, Ebenezer Holladay, John Beard,
Cyrus Bailey, Abel Chase, Eliphalet Cleaveland, Elisha Cleaveland,
Solomon Cleaveland, John Dodge, James Eastman, Noah Holladay,
John Jewett, Benjamin Lovekin, John Merrill, Thomas Newman,
Moses Pike, Moses Pike Jr. John Rowell, Ebenezer Sandborn,
Mark Sandborn, Richard Sandborn, Joshua Sanders, Stephen Smith,
John Waters, David Weeks.
About thirty Revolutionary soldiers became inhabitants of Bath after
the close of the war, as follows: Ezra Abbott, George Amy,
William Alexander, David Bailey, Jonathan Baron, Timothy Barron,
Amasa Buck, Edmond Brown, Jesse Carlton, Peter Carlton, Samuel Chase,
John Clement, Thomas Currier, Ezra Gates, Jesse Hardy, Aaron Hibbard,
Timothy Hibbard, Seth Johnson, Jacob Hurd, Samuel Lang, Jirah Martin,
Phineas Merrill, Annis Merrill, Moses Moore, Edward Polland [?Pollard],
Robert Rollins, James Smith, Timothy Stevens, and Glazier Wheeler.
*After the war, Jonathan Eastman settled in Littleton, NH in 1789, near the mills, which is now known as Rankin’s Brook.
Source: New Hampshire Genealogy and History
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