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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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