Jabez Lewis

In the book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, it states that Jabez Lewis served 13 days on alarm at Dartmouth and Falmouth in September 1778, in Capt. Lot Crowell's company, Col. Nathaniel Freeman's regiment. According to the history of the young town of Bedford Village in Dartmouth County, Bedford Village was a flourishing and sizeable community at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Although a large number of its inhabitants were Quakers, the village furnished troops for the war, as did the rest of the county of Dartmouth . Privateers had made New Bedford harbor a base for assaulting English shipping. To end this practice, on September 5, 1778, a large number of troops (one source states 3-5,000) landed at Clark's Point and marched into town by way of County Street. During the attack many houses, buildings, warehouses, and wharves were burned. Large numbers of goods were destroyed and four men were killed. It was in response to this that Capt. Crowell's company, to which Jabez Lewis was attached, was called out on alarm. The history further states that it took the small village more than a decade to recover.

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