Greater Nashua
Nashua men led the way at Bunker Hill
NASHUA - Decades before Nashua was established, on the afternoon of April 19, 1775, residents of what was then Dunstable were enraged when word reached them about the American defeat at the Battle of Lexington earlier that day. Less than a week later, 66 men made the 36-mile trek from Dunstable to Cambridge, Mass. and formed the Army’s Sixth Company led by Capt. William Walker. “From no other town in New Hampshire was there so large a number in the Army,” said historian Charles Fox on page 173 of his book, History of the Old Township of Dunstable. Some of the soldiers under Walker’s command included John Lund, Simeon Butterfield, Joseph Greeley and James Harwood. The Dunstable men were among the most passionate in the young nation’s quest for independence drawing on the spirit of their fathers who had served in the French Wars. Known for their tenacious fighting ...
