Military Service
| Date | 1755-02-25 |
| Place | Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts |
Notes
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"as a private soldier to serve his majesty King George ye 2nd in a regiment of foot, to be employed for the removal of the French encroachments upon his majesties territories in North America to the eastward and northward and in Pennsylvania, whereof his excellency Gov. Shirley is Col. for the term of one year."
Returned in Capt. Gage's co., Lancaster, on roll dated Boston, March 2, 1756. Allowed for travel home from Albany ; in Capt. Anthony Towle's co. , in the defense of Fort Edward, Aug. 24 to Dec. 10, 1757. In Capt. Francis Peabody's co., Crown Point Expedition, in 1759.
He represented the town of Salisbury in the Fourth Continental Congress at Exeter, N.H., May 17, 1775 also in N. H. House, which met there Dec. 18, 1776; was in Col. Stickney's regt., raised for the relief of Ticonderoga in 1777; joined the Continental army at Bennington and Stillwater in 1777. Matthew Pettingell was first lieutenant at Winter Hill in 1775 on the alarm list in 1776 called captain.