Daniel Kelly was ordered to appear before the Committee of Safety at Exeter to account for being concerned in the destruction of powder at Brentwood, May 20, 1799. Daniel Kelly was one of two grantees of a bridge, called Bridgewater and New Hampton bridge, at New Hampton in 1784.
Daniel Kelly was a soldier in Captain Light’s company at Louisburg in 1745. Daniel Kelly of Hawke and Sandown was interested in some scheme relating to the currency in 1786. The Province deeds contain the name of Daniel Kelly three times from 1720 to 1731, from Hampton; five times, from 1737 to 1740, from Kingston, and once each from the towns of Epping and Newton, and twice from the town of Nottingham, from 1752 to 1764.
Edward Kelly of Sanbornton was one of the signers of the test oath in 1775 and his name and that of his son Edward appears on a petition for a ferry in 1781, and Edward Kelly was one of the men who enlisted under Sullivan’s call in November, 1775. He served in the company of Captain Copp. An Edward Kelly recruited from the militia regiment of Colonel Webster in 1780 for the Continental army.
The name Edward Kelly is written in two deeds dated 1761 and 1765, both at Brentwood.
David and Ebenezer Kelly were two signers for the incorporation of a new town in Strafford County in 1788. David Kelly was a private in Captain Tilton’s company, Colonel Poore’s regiment, June 12, 1775. Later, he was promoted to sergeant-major and second lieutenant.
David H. Kelly of Warner was a soldier in Capt. Jonathan Bean’s company in 1812. Jacob Kelly and Micajah Kelly were in Gilmanton in 1789. Jacob Kelly and Israel Kelly were two of the grantees of Newport, N. H., in 1753.
Nehemiah Kelly served in Captain Calfe’s company, Colonel Bartlett’s regiment, in 1776–1777. He was also under Sullivan in Rhode Island.
Philip Kelly was a soldier in Colonel Blanchard’s regiment, at Crown Point, in 1755.
Robert Kelly’s name was on a petition for the appointment of Captain Folsom to be lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth regiment in 1775.
Jonathan Kelly of Epping was a soldier in Captain Moore’s company, Poore’s regiment, in 1775, and served in an expedition to Canada in 1776. He re-enlisted in 1777 in the First New Hampshire of the Continental line for three years, or during the war. This man had a splendid record, serving from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. He is recorded as re-enlisting in 1781 for three more years. His grave, wherever it may be, should be decorated Memorial Day.