This is a Work in Progress

Please take note, before you read on in this blog that this is definitely a work in process. It is hard enough to find data on ancestors in colonial period of this country or earlier; let alone to "prove" or "disprove" that data.

A case in point is whether or not Capt. Philip Hubbard and the 30th. (Massachusetts) Regiment of Foot served at the battle of Bunker Hill that followed on the heels the action at Lexington and Concord. Several historians of note have reported differently on this subject. One story is that they did serve and the other is that they were assigned by Gen. Washington to patroll duty at Cambridge.

Until I can find irrefutable evidence that they did not serve at that battle; I will continue to assume they did. It certainly has to be acknowledged that the captain and six of his sons did enlist in Scamman's 30th. in May and June of 1776 and did serve long after that date. Also, it appears that two of his sons-in-law served with him. Immagine; a father and six of his eight sons and two of his daughter's husbands enlisting and marching off together to war and to who knows where and to what fate.

Immagine the consternation of the wives and children left back at the garrison house in Berwick. That, in an age without radios, telegraph, telephones and TV with imbeded journalists tracking and reporting live their every movement on an hourly basis, ad infinitem.