AMESBURY TRAINING BAND

Petition to the General Court, May, 1680.

   The Amesbury “Training band,” being without “an officer to conduct & instruct them in military exercises,” the following persons signed a petition that “our well respected and esteemed Friend Sam^ll Foot, our late Sergeant & chieffe officer,” “be o^r Lieftena’tt.”  They state that they consider him the most suitable person for the place, as they “have experienced or observed his faculty in Military disciple.”

App^rtaining to the souldierye off y^e training band

 

Edmond Elliott

Dat:  Amsbury: 10: 3: mo: 1680

 

“We do empower leftent. Georg. Browne to deliver this to the Cort and to prosecute

                                                                                                    William Barnes

                                                                                                     Philip Challis

                                                                                                     Jaritt Haden

                                                 “Selectmen of the towne of Amesbury”

 

 

*The petition, p. 23, is from Hist. Gen. Reg., 1864, p. 76.   The “Freemen” except Rev. Thomas Wells, were original settlers of both Salisbury and Amesbury, now old men, and doubtless ‘free” from training.  Challis had been Lieutenant of the Salisbury company, and was appointed Lieutenant of the Amesbury company in June, 1680.  John Hoyt, Sen., had been Sergeant.

 

 

Taken from "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts" By David W. Hoyt Providence, R. I. 1897. Transcribed by BSW 10/06

 

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