Sanbornton Men
in the
War of 1812

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Taken from History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire 1885

A large majority of the citizens of Sanbornton were at first opposed to the War of 1812. On one occasion, the year before, at a "test vote" in town-meeting, it is said that only eleven in the whole town were found ready to support what were then called the Republican or war measures of the administration, which were thought to be tending towards the opening of hostilities. But after the British had perpetrated their outrages upon our seat of government, in August, 1814, and their fleets were seen hovering along the coast of New England as if meditating an attack, then the patriotic spirit of '76 was easily stirred. It seems that a mass-meeting of the citizens had been previously held, and at a second meeting, "September 21, 1814," the committee, through Nathan Taylor, chairman, reported a draft for a "military association," which was immediately signed by seventy-two individuals, as follows:

"Joshua Lane, William Weeks, Robert Steele, John Clark (3rd), John Morrison, James Chapman, Samuel Dustin, Symmes Sawyer, Jona. Gove, Jonathan Moore, J.B. Perkins, Caleb Kimball, Nathaniel Burley, James Clark, Benjamin P. Sanborn, Rueben Philbrick, Joseph Smith, Jr., Daniel Burleigh, David Burley, Durban Sanborn, Samuel Shirley, James Sanders, Christopher Sanborn, George Whicher, Obadiah Elkins, Nathan Taylor, Joshua Lovejoy, Cole Weeks, Jona. Perkins, Ebenr. Sanborn, Elisha Smith, Jacob Tilton, Jereh. Tilton, Page Philbrick, Jereh. Sanborn, Jr., William Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, Jr., Jonathan Taylor (3rd), Elipht. Ordway, Reuben P. Smith, Benjamin Brown, Phillip Hunt, Nat. Perley, Jonathan Whicher, Jeremiah Smith, John Durgin, Robert Hunkins, Aaron Wadleigh, Thomas Morrison, Stephen Merrill, John P. Hayes, Richard Hazelton, Peter Hersey, D.C. Atkinson, Saml. C. Dudley, John D. Sanborn, Jeremiah Sanborn (3rd), Simeon Moulton, Jonathan Morrison, Wilm. Robertson, Joseph Chapman, Stephen Bowles, Joseph Sanborn, Jr., John Saunders, Ebenr. Sanborn, Jr., Ebenr. Chase, Josiah Sanborn (3), John Lane Jr., Joseph Huse, Jr., Caleb Rogers, Sanuel Clark, Zebulon Smith."

List of Soldiers

Jonathan Darling, James Herrick, Demetrius Holcomb, Nathaniel Burliegh, Moses Gilman, Daniel Johnson, David Burleigh, Ephraim Burse(?), William Cawley, Nathaniel Danforth (4th), Barachias Rarnham, James Mason, John S. Mason, Nathaniel Proctor, Roberty Seavey, Jr., John Twist, Seth Tappan, Moses Smith, Luther Wallace, Noah Robertson, John Wiggins, Nathaiel Woodman, Jonathan Whicher, Joshua Smith, Chase Perkins, Bradbury Morricson, William Eaton, Ebenezer Brown, Asa Currier, Jonathan Taylor, Nathan Fogg, Nathaiel Buswell, Stephen Hersey, Abijah Sanborn, Ebenezer Colby, Thomas Webster, John Abram, Charles Ayres, Nathaniel E. Badger, Thomas Bruse, Jacob Bumford, John Bumford, Peter Burley, James Cate, Ebenezer Caverly, Taylor Clark, John Crockett, David Ellsworth, Jeremiah Ellsworth, Abram Fowler, Reuben Giles, Samuel Gilman, David Henderson, William S. Haniford, John Hunkins, Robert Hundins, Abraham Hunt, Kelly Lakeman, David Lane, Thomas Lane, John Leavitt, Joseph Leavitt, Charles Lougee, John Morrison, Joseph Philbric (3d), Joseph Philbric, Jr., Nathan Philbric, Richard Prescott, Nathaniel Robinson, James Sanborn (4th) Jonathan Sanborn (3d), Jonathan Sanborn (4th), Josiah Sanborn, Simeon Sanborn, William Sanborn, John Sawyer, Joesph shute, Levi Tilton, Reuben Whicher, Jona. Soames, Nathan T. Moore, Jona. Bailey, James P. Tilton, John Blake, William Chase (discharged November 3, 1814), Nathan Huse, Levi Conner, Henry Sanborn, William Durgin, William Hayes, Jr., Moses Rollins, Walker Buzzel, Jeremiah Burleigh, Jonathan Cate, Joseph Clark (died while in service of Boston, 1815), David Clark (died in the service, in Ohio, 1814), John Critchett (killed on board the "Chesapeake," 1813), James Hersey (died of gun-shot wound, in Northern New York, November, 1813), Robert S. Hoyt, Zebulon S. Johnson, Dudley Pottle, George W. Prescott, John L. Sanborn (died on board a prison ship, 1813), James Silver (died in Northern New York), Israel Tilton, Richard Wallis (died in Sanbornton, 1814).