Edmund was the first of the Chadwick line to move to Boscawen, NH.[1]
From the Chadwick Genealogy Album by Edith Clark Chadwick:
In 1775 he was one of the 300 signers of the manifesto issued by the town of Boscawen, NH. News of the Battle of Lexington reached Boscawen, April 20th, 1775; sixteen men, including Edmund, started for Cambridge April 21st, under Captain Henry Gerrish, where they were placed under Col. Stark. At Bunker Hill the Boscawen soldiers were stationed near the Mystic River, behind a barricade of hay... Among those enlisted to go the relief of Gloucester in 1775 was the name of Edmund Chadwick. Enlisted in the Continental and Northern Army to go to the relief of Ticonderoga, in 1776, were Edmund Chadwick (and John Chadwick, Jr., probably cousins.
Edmund Chadwick is listed as a Private in Col. Stark's Regiment during the Revolutionary War.[2] His name is also listed as one of the participants in the Battle of Bunker Hill.[3]His 2nd cousin, Dr. Edmund Chadwick also served in the Continental Army as a surgeon.
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