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Maine Militia, War of 1812: Capt. J. Bemis' Artillery Company

Source: Records of the Massachusetts volunteer militia called out by the Governor of Massachusetts to suppress a threatened invasion during the war of 1812-14 (Boston, Mass.: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1913).

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Capt. J. Bemis' (Artillery) Company, Lieut. Col. W. Ryerson's Regiment.
From Sept. 25 to Nov. 7, 1814. Raised at Paris and vicinity. Service at Portland.
Rank and Name.
Jonathan Bemis, Captain
Samuel Rawson, Lieutenant
Ebenezer Fessenam, Lieutenant
James Bemis, Sergeant
Jonathan Bemis, Jr., Sergeant
James Hutchinson, Sergeant
Frederic N. Hall, Sergeant
Abraham Pray, Corporal
Peter Droell or Dwell, Corporal
Anthony Besse, Corporal
John R. Bullen, Corporal
James Jackson, Musician
Jacob Emerson, Musician

Privates.
Abel B. Abbott
Stephen Abbott
Timothy Anderson
Asa Ayer
Asa Barrows
Francis Bemis
Peter Bracket
Daniel Bragdon
Jonas A. Brown
Andrew R. Bucknell
Daniel Bullen
Sprague Churchill
Isaac Davis
John Dennet
William Dovell or Dwell
William Elder
Jacob Evans
William Fessenden
Ansel Field
Frederic Frye
Joshua Gamage
John Gordan
William Greenleaf
Josiah Grover
William Grover
Ephraim Hall
John W. Heath
Moses Hersey
Chipman Hodgkins
Jacob Jackson
Elijah Jordan
Seth Morse
Isaac Osgood
James Osgood
John Page
Jedediah Pratt
Nathaniel W. Rawson
Solomon Shaw
Jonathan Shirley
William Spencer
John Sterling
John Stevens
Samuel Thompson
Thayer Townsend
Simeon Tufts
Jonathan Ward
Benjamin Whitham