Thatchers Massachusetts Regiment

Boston Siege 1776

 * Samuel Barnard (1737-1792) - 1st Major, in Col. Samuel Thatcher's (1st Middlesex Co.) regt.; list of officers of Mass. militia; commissioned Feb. 7, 1776; pay roll for service from March 4 to March 9, 1776, 5 days, at Roxbury, at the taking of Dorchester Heights;

New York Campaign
January 1777, a Fourth Middlesex company under Captain Nathaniel Maynard of Sudbury MA served for two months in the New York City area in Colonel Samuel Thatcher's regiment. The militia at that time was active in continual skirmishes with British and Hessian foraging parties and other detachments supporting Howe's army as it wintered in New York.

Minuteman 1775

 * Smith, Parsons, - was a Private, Captain Samuel Thatcher's Company, Colonel Thomas Gardner's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, "Lexington Alarm;" Private, Captain John Walton's Company, Massachusetts Militia, December 9-13, 1776, served at Noddle's Island ; Private same company, Colonel Samuel Thatcher's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, September 2 — November 9, 1778;

Bunker Hill

 * Samuel Barnard (1737-1792) - 1st Major.