Col. Benjamin Bemis

Colonel Benjamin Bemis was a distinguished soldier in the Revoloutionary Struggle and in the War of 18 1 2. He was a private in Capt. Joseph Walcott's Company of Rangers, from Spencer in the Lexington Alarm. Sergeant in Capt. Joel Green's Company, Col. Frye's Regiment, Mass. Militia 1775. Lieut. 8th Comp. Worcester County Militia, in Col. Washburne's Regiment, Worcester Co. Mass. Militia Jan. 12, 1781. Also Member of the Spencer Committee of Correspondence and Safety. He commanded a Regiment in the War of 18 12, and was ordered to the Canadian frontier, where however they did not have an engagement with the British. He was Assessor in 1785, Town Clerk 1781-82 and 86, Selectman 1784, 85, 86.

THE BEMIS HISTORY AND GENEALOGY being an account, in greater part of the descendants of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown, Mass. ... By Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper ... Published 1900, San Francisco, California, p. 124, 125

[Draper:125-6] Colonel Benjamin Bemis was a distinguished soldier in the Revolutionary Struggle and in the War of 1812. He was a private in Capt. Joseph Walcott's Company of Rangers from Spencer in the Lexington Alarm. Sargeant in Capt. Joel Green's Company, Col. Frye's Regiment, Mass. Militia 1775. Lieut. 8th Comp. Worcester County Militia, in Col. Washburne's Regiment, Worcester Co. Mass. Militia Jan. 12, 1781. Also Member of the Spencer Committee of Correspondence and Safety. He commanded a Regiment in the War of 1812, and was ordered to the Canadian frontier, where however they did not have an engagement with the British. He was Assessor in 1785, Town Clerk 1781-82 and 86, Selectman 1784, 85, 86.