Westminster in Worcester County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)

Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

1. Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

Inscription. Erected
by Joseph Hager, 1905,
in Memory of Westminster Men who were
in the Revolutionary War.
[side 1, SE face]
Minute Men
Joel Adams • Edward Bacon • John Ball • Jonathan Bancroft • Benjamin Barnard • Andrew Beard • Joseph Beard • David Bemis • Edmund Bemis • Thomas Bemis • Zaccheus Bemis • William Bickford • Elisha Bigelow • Ephraim Bigelow • Jabez Bigelow • Joshua Bigelow • Aaron Bolton • Ebenezer Bolton • James Bowers • Nehemiah Bowers • Isaac Brooks • Levi Brooks • Barron Brown • Jonathan Brown • Stephen Calef • David Child • Isaac Child • Jonathan Child • Samuel Childs • James Clark • David Comee • Jedediah Cooper • John Cowee • Andrew Darby • John Darby • Nicholas Dike • Henry Dunster • Ebenezer Eaton • Nathaniel Eaton • John Edgell • William Edgell • John Estabrook • Joshua Everett • Peletiah Everett • William Everett • Thomas Farnsworth • John Fessenden • Samuel Foster

[side 2 • NE face]
Solomon Garfield • Amos Gates • Michael Gill • John Glazier • John Goodale • Jonathan Graves • Levi Graves • Peter Graves • Jonathan Hager • Ephraim Hall • Elijah Hardy • Zachariah Harvey • Josiah Headley • Aaron

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Hill • Daniel Hoar • John Hoar • Stephen Hoar • Abner Holden • Joseph Holden • Stephen Holden • Joseph Holland • Barzillai Holt • Silas Holt • William Horsley • Lemuel Houghton • William Houghton • Nathan Howard • Edward Jackson • Elisha Jackson • Josiah Jackson • Eli Keyes • Nathaniel Kezar • Thomas Knower • Nathan Lewis • John Matthews • Samuel Merriam • Abner Miles • Joel Miles • John Miles • Levi Miles • Nathan Miles • Noah Miles • Noah Miles Jr • Reuben Miles • Joshua Millens • Ephraim Miller • Isaac Miller • Joseph Miller • William Murdock • Alpheus Newton • Joseph Perry • John Pierce • Nathan Pierce • David Pratt • Josiah Puffer • Hannaniah Rand • Zachariah Rand • Asa Ray • Charles Reed • Isaac Russell • Jonathan Sawin • Reuben Sawin • Samuel Sawin • Darius Sawyer • Jonathan Sawyer • Jude Sawyer • Paul Sawyer • Moses Seaver • Norman Seaver • Samuel Sever • Elijah Simonds • John Snow • Amos Spring • Elias Stearns • Abram Stone • Asa Taft • Asa Taylor • Jedediah Tucker • Samuel Warren • Ephraim Wetherbee • Nathan Wetherbee • Josiah Wheeler • Josiah Wheeler Jr • Nathaniel Wheeler • John White • Samuel Whitney • Silas Whitney • Isaac

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2. Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

Williams • Zachariah Willis • Edward Wilson • Abel Wood • Elijah Wood • Nathan Wood Jr

[side 3 • NW face]
Enlisted Men
John Abbey • Joel Adams • John Atwell • Edward Bacon • Dudley Bailey • Joseph Bailey • Stephen Bailey • Jonadab Baker • John Ball • John Batt • Joseph Beard • Abner Bemis • Edmund Bemis • Edmund Bemis Jr • Elijah Bemis • John Bemis • Joshua Bemis • William Bickford • Jabez Bigelow • John Bigelow • Joshua Bigelow • Josiah Bliss • Ebenezer Bolton • John Bowen • James Bowers • Nehemiah Bowers • William Boynton • Asa Brooks • John Brooks Jr • Joseph Brooks • Levi Brooks • Samuel Brooks • Barron Brown • John Brown • Stephen Calef • Joseph Cavendar • Joseph Chaplin • Isaac Child • Jonathan Child • Samuel Childs • James Clark • Aaron Cleveland • James Cohee • Daniel Colburn • David Comee • Amos Conant • Josiah Conant • Timothy Crystal • John Cutting • Andrew Darby • Jonas Darby • Nathan Darby • Nicholas Dike • Nicholas Dike Jr • Henry Dunster • Isaac Duree • John Duree • Benjamin Eaton • John Edgell • Samuel Edgell • William Edgell • John Estabrook Jr • Jeremiah Everett • Peletiah Everett • Richard Everett • William Everett

3. Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

side 1, SE: Minute Men, A-F

• Elias Farnsworth • John Fessenden • John Fessenden Jr • Samuel Fessenden • Solomon Fessenden • David Foster • Francis Fullam • Jeremiah Gager • Solomon Garfield • Elijah Gibbs • Samuel Gibbs • Michael Gill • Jacob Goodale • Jonathan Graves • Levi Graves • Joseph Green • Nathan Green • Zeeb Green • Calvin Hale • Ephraim Hall • Samuel Harris • Ebenezer Hart • Samuel Hart • Jonathan Harvey • Zachariah Harvey • Zachariah Harvey Jr • Josiah Headley • Charles Hendrick • Aaron Hill • John Hoar • Samuel Hoar • Elias Holden • Joseph Holden • Stephen Holden • Silas Holt • William Houghton • Benjamin Howard • Samuel Hunt

[side 4 • SW face]
Edward Jackson • Elisha Jackson • John Johnson • Eli Keyes • Amos Kimball • Thomas Knower • Moses Larned • Thomas Laws • Nathan Lewis • Thomas Lewis • Nathan Maynard • David Merriam • Samuel Merriam • Samuel Merrifield • Abner Miles • Ephraim Miles • Joel Miles • Levi Miles • Reuben Miles • Stephen Miles • Joshua Millens • Isaac Miller • Samuel Miller • John Morson • Alpheus Newton • Shadrack Newton • Zipron Newton • Samuel Norcross • James Osborne • William Parker • Nathaniel Pattin • Nathan Permenter

4. Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

side 2, NE: Minute Men, G-W

• Joseph Perry • Abel Pierce • Nathan Pierce • Samuel Pomeroy • Grant Powers • Isaac Puffer • Josiah Puffer • Ebenezer Putnam • William Putnam • Hannaniah Rand • Zachariah Rand • Asa Ray • Jonathan Raymond • Charles Reed • Ephraim Robbins • Joseph Robbins • Abraham Sampson • Aaron Sanderson • Samuel Sanderson • Abner Sawin • David Sawin • Jonathan Sawin • Reuben Sawin • Samuel Sawin • Jonathan Sawyer • Paul Sawyer • Benjamin Seaver • Isaac Seaver • Joseph Seaver • Moses Seaver • Norman Seaver • Samuel Seaver • Elijah Simonds • Daniel Smith • Jonathan Smith • Jonathan W. Smith • John Snow • Amos Spring • Gideon Stanley • Jonathan Stedman • Abram Stone • George Stone • William Switcher • Henry Talburst • Asa S. Taylor • Isaiah Taylor • Benjamin Treadway • Jedediah Tucker • Robert Vaughn • James Walker • Paul Walker • Israel Walton • James Webber • Asa Wesson • Caleb Wetherbee • Ephraim Wetherbee • Nathan Wetherbee • Thomas Wetherbee • Nathaniel Wheeler • Bulter Whitney • Elisha Whitney • Hannaniah Whitney • Phineas Whitney • Isaac Williams • Zachariah Willis • John Wills • Edward Wilson • Nathaniel Wilson • Aaron Wood • Abel Wood • Abijah

5. Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

side 3, NW: Enlisted Men, A-H

Wood • Samuel Wood • John Woodman • John Woodward • Nathaniel Woodward • David Wyman

Erected 1905.

Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.

Location. 42° 32.415′ N, 71° 53.604′ W. Monument is in Westminster, Massachusetts, in Worcester County. It is on Narrows Road east of Hager Park Road (Massachusetts Route 140), on the right when traveling east. Located in Woodside Cemetery. Touch for map. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial monument is in the Quiet Corner

and in Greater Worcester.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in New England.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Redemption Rock (approx. 2.6 miles away); Site of Mary Rowlandson’s Release (approx. 2.6 miles away); Patrick Joseph Moran (approx. 3.6 miles away); Old Town House (approx. 5 miles

6. Westminster Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

side 4, SW: Enlisted Men, J-W

away); Seth Heywood Site (approx. 5½ miles away); Rollstone Boulder (approx. 5½ miles away); In memory of Arthur M Longsjo Jr (approx. 5½ miles away); World War ll Memorial (approx. 5½ miles away).

More about this monument. It is an unusual marker, with separate lists of Minute Men and Enlisted Men, with the result that many names are given twice. Of the total 353 names, 79 are in both lists. Presuming these are the same persons named twice, there are 274 unique names. Also, on sides 2-4 the names begin on the bronze plaque and continue on the stone below it.

Also see . . . Westminster Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument.

A brief history of the Monument and its builder Joseph Hager

(Submitted on September 3, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio.)

Credits. This page was last revised on November 12, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 3, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio. This page has been viewed 45 times since then. Last updated on November 4, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio. Photos: 1. submitted on November 4, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio. 2. submitted on September 3, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio. 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on November 4, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.