“Plymouth remained loyal to the State government, and the censure expressed in this vote was an incident of location within a county to a considerable extent enlisted in the Dresden conventions and the many phases of the Vermont controversy. The first of the two companies was raised in July, and remained in service on the frontiers four months. It was commanded by Lieut. Peter Stearns of Plymouth. The roll of the company is not preserved, but from the return of Colonel Webster the men from Plymouth were Jonathan Robbins, Jr., and John Brown. It was in reference to this company that Meshech Ware, the unwearied chairman of the committee of safety, wrote to Col. Charles Johnston of Haverhill: —

State of Hew Hampshire

In Comtee of Safety.

Exeter Augst 10 1781

Sir The comtee have received information that Colo David Webster has sent on to your care the men he was directed to raise in his Regiment for the defence of the frontiers — if this be the case, you are hereby requested to send them forward immediately to the Upper Coos there to be placed under the direction of Joseph Whipple Esq. who will on their arrival see that provision is made for their support — which measure appears to be necessary as some depredations have lately been committed by the Enemy in that quarter.

M. Weare, Presdnt.”

Reference Data:

History of Pylmouth, New Hampshire, Vol. 1, by Ezra S. StearnsMoses Thurston Runnels and Plymouth (N.H.) Town History Committee, 1906, page 132