Militia Officers in the Massachusetts Bay, December 1702

The Boston Regiment - 810 men

Col. Charles Hobby

Lt.-Col. Thomas Savage

Major Benjamin Davis

First Regiment of Suffolk County - 650 men

Col. Nicholas Paige

Major William Tailer

Second Suffolk Regiment - 540 men

Lt.-Col. Ephraim Hunt

Major Samuel Eelles

Lower Middlesex Regiment - 1,060 men

Col. John Phillips

Lt.-Col. Francis Foxcroft

Major James Converse

Upper Middlesex Regiment - 871 men

Lt.-Col. Jonathan Tyng

Major Thomas Brown

South Essex Regiment - 700 men

Col. John Hathorne

Lt.-Col. John Legg

Major Samuel Browne

Middle Essex Regiment - 638 men

Col. John Wainwright

Lt.-Col. John Appleton

Major Francis Wainwright

North Essex Regiment - 750 men

Col. Daniel Peirie

Lt.-Col. Dudley Bradstreet

Major Thomas Noyes

Hampshire Regiment - 836 men

Col. John Pynchon

Lt.-Col. Samuel partridge

York Regiment - 280 men

Major Joseph Hammond

Plymouth County Regiment - 720 men

Col. Nathaniel Thomas

Lt.-Col. Isaac Winslow

Major John Bradford

Barnstable County Regiment - 700 men

Col. John Thacher

Lt.-Col. John Goreham

Major William Bassett

Bristol County Regiment - 915 men

Col. Nathaniel Byfield

Lt.-Col. Benjamin Church

Major Ebenezer Brenton

Duke's County Regiment - 120 men

Major Benjamin Shiffe

Island of Nantucket - 52 men

Total: 9,642

Headlam, Cecil, ed., Calender of State Papers, Colonial Series (Volume 21), America and West Indies, Dec. 1, 1702-1703, Preserved in the Public Record Office (Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1964) First Published London: HMSO, 1913. pp. 38-39.

More information about early Massachusetts can be found in the books:

A People's Army: Massachusett Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War

and:

Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623-1636

 

 

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