[89] England declared war against France March 31st.
[90] Seven hundred men from Massachusetts, of which Woodstock was then a part, were impressed for this service.
[91] Lieut.-Col. Thomas Chandler was the son of Col. John Chandler, and was Woodstock’s first representative to the General Assembly of Connecticut. Ante p. 44.
[92] The forces were furnished by New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and amounted to 4,070.
[93] October 7th.
[94] Fight at “Charlestown, No. 4,” New Hampshire, May 2, 1748, in which Peter Perrin and Aaron Lyon, of Woodstock, were killed.
[95] Or the Seven Years’ War (1753-1760).
[96] At town meeting, June 21, 1774.
[97] Miss Ellen D. Larned’s “History of Windham County.”
[98] There is no evidence to prove the reiterated statement that one hundred and eighty-nine Woodstock men fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. This number was stationed at Cambridge, and some of them may have been at Bunker Hill.