Person:Enoch Collamore (3)

BIOGRAPHY: Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamer Of Scituate, Massachusetts By Charles Hatch Newcomb & Gauss, Publishers Salem, Mass. 1915 Page 87-88 Capt. Enoch Collamre married Hannah, daughter of Pyam Cushing of Hingham, and resided in the house where he was born, it having been willed to him by his father, who died when he was but ten years of age. He was a prominent, active and useful citizen in the town of Scituate. On the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1776, he was a Sergeant, and marched as a Minute-man in Capt. John Clapp's company, in Col. John Bailey's regiment. From 1777 to the end of the war he was one of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety. In 1787 he was on a committee to consult for the general good of the town and prepare instructions for their representatives. He served the town in the State Legislature for a number of years. He was captain of the Scituate Militia. Capt. Collamore's name is among those that organized the Universalist Church Society in West Scituate. In early life he signed his name as Collamer; but after the Revolution he signed it as Collamore, conforming to the spelling in the county of Devonshire in England, from which his ancestors had come. (Copy of an order found among his papers.) To Sergt. Peleg Curtis Jun.: Sir, You are required to Warn Your District of my Company, Both the Train Band and Alarm List to appear Compleat in arms With a Good firearm, Priming Wier and Breast and Bayonet and Scaboard and Belt, a Cartridge box to hold fifteen Rounds of Cartridge, Six flints one lb. Powder, forty Laden Balls, a Haversack and Blanket and Canteen, on Wednesday, the Seventeenth day of December at the Alarm Post at one OClock in the afternoon, thereof fail not. Per me, Enoch Collamore, Capt. Scituate, December 6, 1783