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A Muster Roll of the Persons Enrolled and Serving in The Dartmouth Independent Volunteer  Field Artillery, Commanded by Henry Studdy.

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J.M. Hawker , (Ed.). Second Report of the Committee on Devonshire Folk Celebrities. Trans. Devon. Assoc., 1878, Vol X, pp. 108-109.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Militia Act of 1757 established militia regiments for each county and required each parish to provide a number of able-bodied men, aged between 18 and 50 (reduced to 45 in 1762) for military training. Militia regiments served in Britain or Ireland but not overseas. Men had to serve for three years (for five years after 1786). In peacetime the men spent just a few weeks at a military camp. Regimental musters, from the early 18th century onwards, were taken every month or quarter (frequency varied over the years) for pay and accounting purposes. They, along with pay lists, were effectively the main everyday service records kept by the army of men in active service. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

A Muster Roll of the Persons Enrolled and serving in the Dartmouth Independent Volunteer Field Artillery commanded by Henry Studdy.

Henry Studdy, John Teage, Nicholas Brooking, junr., Richard Heed, Joseph Gloyn, Cholwil Adams, Benjamin March, John Paige, Thomas James, William Cholwich, John Snell, Thomas Egg, Wm. Gloyn, Benjamin March, junr., John Coggins, William Bartlett, William Burgess, Robert Burgoin, Abraham Brimage, Samuel Cholwich, Richard Chasty, John Dimond, Wm. Eales, Samuel Earl, William Egg, William Efford, Isaac Fooks, John Ford, Richard Gripe, Thomas Harding, Robert Harris, John Head, William Heath, Richard Hannaford, Robert Hardy, Wm. Jiffard, Samuel Kelland, William Langmead, Edward Light, Arthur Lee, Samuel Lidstone, James Mardon, Henry Martin, William Mitchelmore, John Mitchelmore, Robert Narramore, Joseph Norman, Samuel Nott, John Nott, Robert Peek, junr., Nathaniel Pike, Nicholas Parinton, John Pillar, Henry Rowe, Robert Roads, Peter Rogers, Richard Stevens, John Skedgil, William Sanders, James Issiel, Isaac Taylor, William Thomas, Edward Towl, John Wills, Richard Wootten.

A List of Officers and Men of the Dartmouth Associated Corps for the Defence of the Town and to conduct Provisions or Prisoners one stage, if required, Commanded by William Newman, Esq. Enrolled in 1798.

William Newman, Captain; Robert Sparke, First Lieutenant, George Bridgman, Second-Lieutenant; Allen Perring, First Ensign, William Burgoin, Second-Ensign ; Robert Hyne, Serjeant, Robert Cranford, Serjeant, Joseph Pearce, Serjeant, John Luke, Serjeant; Thomas Way, Corporal, William Pentecost, Corporal, John Penny, junr., Corporal, James Traies, Corporal; Arthur Perry, Surgeon; and the following Privates - Roope Harris Roope, Lydstone Newman, Richard Newman, William Wilson, John Alpross, Henry White, John Hele, George Sparke, junr., Samuel Sharman, George Cranford, Stephen Jarvis, Joseph Rowe, George Spark, senr., Thomas Lee, John Simmons, Timothy Norris, Thomas Shapley, Richard Walters, Robert Mortimore, John Quick, John Phillips, Robert Edwards, James Clowter, William Terry FfFord, Thomas Cawley, Bartholomew Port, Jarvis Veale, Thomas Fox, Richard Chastey, Henry Ferris, William Libby, William Lee, Francis Graham, Jacob Howe, junr., William Petherbridge, Robert Peeke, Abraham Kine, John Bryant, John Harvey, jun., Thomas Kemp, Thomas Lock, Joseph Ford, William Manning, John Harvey, senr., William Lang Paige, William Adams, Richard Cove, Arthur Lee, Thomas Lee, Thomas Lake, junr., William Beer, John Norman, John O. Bridgman, William Newman, junr., William Egg, Joseph Hamlyn, James Fox, John Stevens, Peter Ougier, junr., Robert Newman, John Luke, junr., Henry Newman, William Roope, William Petherbridge, George Banfill, Richard Lee, Thomas Way, Samuel Linnington, George Goodridge, Nicholas Mortimore.