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Joseph Dow's History of Hampton
Chapter 13 -- Part 6

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LOVEWELL'S WAR, 1722-1725

A considerable number of Hampton men were employed in the war which bears the name of the intrepid captain of Dunstable. Capt. John Sherburne's company of twenty-three men, in 1722, were mostly of Hampton. In June, 1724, Sergt. John Sanborn's company of thirty-one Hampton men made a three days' march; and about the last of that month, seventeen Hampton men, under Benjamin Lamprey, were sent out for three days. In July, thirty-nine men, of Hampton and Hampton Falls "marched out of Capt. Tilton's company under the command of Daniel Weare, for a three days' march, above the frontiers, finding themselves provisions." What special service these soldiers rendered is not recorded; but probably they formed scouting parties.

Many dastardly acts were committed by the savages and their French instigators; but no violence seems to have been done within the limits of our town; and in December, 1725, another treaty closed the three years' struggle.

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