ACTON.
Reading edition
Captain Isaac Davis's Company.
Entered the Contest at Concord.
Davis was killed and the command fell to his Lieutenant, John Hayward, who became Captain. The following official Roll does not include Acton's slain:
"A list of the names of a minute-Company under the Command of Captain John Hayward in Colonel Abijah Pierce's Regiment, who entered the Service nineteenth of April One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Five."
Lexington Alarms, XII, 116
(Captain, Isaac Davis, killed) (Succeeding) Captain, John Hayward Lieutenant, John Heald Second Lieutenant, David Forbush Sergeant, William Macksfield Sergeant, Oliver Emerson Corporal, John Davis Corporal, David Davis Corporal, John Barker Thomas Darby John Harris Ebenezer Heald James Davis Phillip Piper Reuben Low Benjn. Hayward Simon Hunt, Jur.
Elijah Davice Ephraim Forbush Abraham Hapgood Ezekiel Davis Ebenezer Edwards John Robbins Joseph Barker William Johnson Reuben Davis Joseph Reed Stephen Shepherd Thomas Thorp Solomon Smith Jonas Hunt Moses Wood Ephraim Billings Joseph Chaffin Samuel Tempel Abraham Young Francis Barker, Drummer Luther Blanchard, Fifer
Acting Captain Lieutenant Simon Hunt's Company.
Entered the Contest at Concord.
Names and number of men unknown.
Captain Joseph Robin's Company.
Entered the Contest at Concord.
Names and number of men unknown.
Captain, Joseph Robins (Officer) Israel Heald (Officer) Robert Chaffin
Acting Captain, Simon Hunt Ensign, Thomas Noyes