Only the following had their college careers actually broken off:
Ebenezer Crosby, ’77, of Braintree (now Quincy) (20)—hospital mate, October, 1775; surgeon’s mate, “flying [i. e., field] hospital,” January, 1777; surgeon to Washington’s body-guard, June, 1779. Resigned, January, 1781. Marked in Faculty Records, “left college.” Received his A.B. in 1782, as of 1777. Also M.D. (U. of Pa.) 1780, etc.
Richard Perkins Bridge, ’78, of Framingham (17)—surgeon’s mate, brigantine Tyrannicide, March, 1777. Marked “left college.” Never received degree.
William Spooner, ’78, of Boston (14)—Lincoln’s independent company, May, 1775, to 1776. Coast defence at Hingham. Bombardier, Bryant’s company, Crane’s artillery regiment, March, 1777. Three-year enlistment. Lost arm at Brandywine, September 11, 1777. Hospital. Corps of Invalids, Boston, 1778 to 1780. Pensioned, September, 1782. Received his A.B. in course, apparently by special dispensation. Also M.D. (Edin.) 1785. Overseer, etc.
Job Sumner, ’78, of Milton (probably 20)—Bradley’s company, Robinson’s regiment, April, 1775; service four days. Ensign, Draper’s company, Gardner’s (Thirty-Seventh) regiment, May to December, 1775; 1st lieutenant, Twenty-Fifth Continental Infantry, January, 1776; Captain, Third Massachusetts, January, 1777. Mentioned in letter of William Weeks, ’75, as “my freshman Sumner at College, who is a captain of a company from Milton,” Stillwater, August 6, 1777. Major, as of October 1, 1782. Retained as captain, Jackson’s Continental Regiment, November, 1783. Served to June, 1784. Received A.B. in 1785, as of 1778. Faculty abates his quarter-bill charges, June, 1777, “as he has been engaged in the Army ever since the Commencement of the War, tho he never appeared to give up his Relation to the College.” Died in 1789, and buried in Trinity Churchyard, New York City.
After 1778, when the classes were smaller and the worst of the fighting was over, scarcely a name appears
