”On the 3d of March, 1753, the town appropriated £20 ‘ to purchase guns, powder, and bullets,’ and this ammunition was stored in the meetinghouse. …

Many of the Hopkintonians were now absent from the town as soldiers in the army. In September, 1755, Joseph Cody, Jr., George Ware, Daniel Gassett, and George Stimpson were hired to go to Crown Point. …

…Captain Elisha Jones presented, about the same time, a bill for mustering one hundred and sixty men for the expedition against Crown Point, for his journey to Boston, etc., amounting in all to £ 4. Ebenezer Rider, February 15, 1760, petitioned Governor Pownal for indemnification for loss by sickness, in the expedition against Canada in 1758. He was taken sick at Lake George; in about ten days he came to Fort Edward, and so by the aid of others, eventually made his way to Hopkinton. George Ware and James Hiscock were with him, and made affadavit to the facts in the case before Simpson Jones, Esq., justice of the peace. The sum of 40s. was granted to him.”

Reference Data:

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, by Samuel Adams Drake, 1879, page 489