Col David Hobart

Col. David Hobart, then of Plymouth, N.H., who was b. in Groton, MA, 8.31.1720

"Col. David Hobart settled in that part of Hollis, N.H., known as "One Pine Hill" about 1748, and was a Sergeant in the company of Capt. Powers, in the French War, in 1775. He was one of the granees of Plymouth, N.H., an done of the first settlers of that town. His name last appears on the Hollis tax lists in 1765. In 1777, he was Col. of the Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment of Militia, and had commanded of a New Hampshire regiment under Gen. Start, at the battle of Bennington, where he greatly distingished himself for his gallantry and good conduct, for which he received due commendation from Gen. Stark, in his report of the battle. In that battle, Col. Hobart, with Col. Thomas Stickney, led the attack against the Tory breastwork on the right, where the contest was most desperate, the Tories, it is said, "fighting like tigers", and neither asking nor giving quarter. Col. Hobart having lost his first wife, after the war, removed to Haverhill, MA, where he died 20 April, 1799. The name of this heroic officer is erroneously spelt "Hubbard: in "Belknap's History of New Hampshire" as it was also said to have been in Gen. Stark's report of the battle."