The wages in this pay-roll are given as follows:

The original pay-roll is in the Massachusetts Archives, Volume XXXVII, page 83, and there is another on page 128.

CAPT. JOHN GRAY'S COMPANY.

This company was raised at North Yarmouth. Capt. John Gray was the son of Andrew and Phebe (Chandler) Gray and was born November 29, 1732. He married in November, 1755, Sarah Mitchell, a daughter of Deacon Jacob and Rachel (Lewis) (Cushing) Mitchell, who died May 27, 1796, aged sixty years. He died December 27, 1796, aged sixty-four years. They had five boys and seven girls. He was a shipmaster and farmer and lived at North Yarmouth.

First Lieut. John Soule was the son of Barnabas and Jane (Bradbury) Soule and was born March 12,

1740. He married first, November 30, 1763, Elizabeth Mitchell, a daughter of Benjamin and Mehitable (Bragdon) Mitchell. She was born September 29, 1747, and died December 26, 1794. He married second, October 10, 1795, Elizabeth Stanwood of Brunswick, who died April 26, 1800, and he married third, April 17, 1814, Chloe Josselyn, who died September 26, 1831. His children were Mehitable, Dorcas, Cornelius, Benjamin, John, Elizabeth, Bradbury, Joanna, Rufus, Joseph and Barnabas. He was a sea captain.

Lieut. Soule was a lieutenant in the militia at North Yarmouth in 1776, also in Col. Mitchell's regiment in 1779, in the Bagaduce Expedition.

Second Lieut. Ozias Blanchard was the son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Shaw) Blanchard, and was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, July 31, 1742. He married in 1769, Mercy Soule, the daughter of Barnabas and Jane (Bradbury) Soule, and, therefore, a sister to Lieut. John Soule of this company. She was born November 27, 1749. They had Samuel, Jeremiah, David, Reuben, Daniel and Olive.

Lieut. Blanchard was a sergeant in Captain George Roger's company of the 2d Cumberland County militia regiment, and served six days fortifying Falmouth Neck in November, 1775. He was second lieutenant in Capt. John Worthley's company in Col. Reuben Fogg's militia regiment, December 9, 1776, also commissioned January 14, 1777, in Capt. John Gray's company in the militia, and served in Col. Mitchell's regiment in 1779, two months and six days at Bagaduce. was a lieutenant colonel in the militia in 1792.

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"A Pay Roll for Capt. John Gray's Company in Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regt. of Militia in the Service of the United States in the Expedition at Penobscot from the 7th of July to the 12th of Sept. inclusive, 1779."

The privates' wages were £2 per month, and the original pay-roll of this company is in the Massachusetts Archives, Volume XXXVI, page 18.

The people of America are appreciating more and more, each year, the value of the services of the suffering soldiers of the Revolution. Their victories were few and their defeats many, but their resolute devotion to a cause which they believed just, and time has proved it so, commands the admiration and respect of all lovers of liberty. The regiments that suffered in defeat and disaster were a part of the noble army of men that gained for us our independence, and will always be honored for what they attempted to do towards that end.

"The contest was long, bloody and affecting. Righteous heaven approved the solemn appeal, victory crowned their arms, and the peace, liberty and independence of the United States of America was their glorious reward."

THE MEETING-HOUSE WAR IN NEW

MARBLEHEAD.

BY SAMUEL T. DOLE.

Read before the Maine Historical Society, January 28, 1897. ONE important condition of the grant of New Marblehead, now Windham, was that the proprietors should build a convenient meeting-house for the public worship of God within five years of their admission. Accordingly, at a meeting held in the parent town, June 9, 1737, they voted to comply with this condition, and chose a committee to report "the dimensions and form of the proposed edifice. At the adjourned meeting, June 23, the committee reported as follows: "That it was their opinion that a meetinghouse suitable for said township at present, be about forty feet long, thirty feet wide, and ten feet high from the bottom of the sill to the upside of the plate, with a sufficient roof so as to make convenient accommodations, the building of which will cost near one hundred pounds." Whereupon, says the old record, they "voted to build according to the report."

At the same time they "voted that the meetinghouse be built on the westermost corner of the tenacre lot, to be laid out, and belonging to the ministerial lot,"

This was home lot, No. 33, in the first division of ten-acre lots in the new township. It appears that