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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning : after- ward thou shalt be called . .. the faithful city. - ISAIAH I. 26.
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BURNING OF CHARLESTOWN DURING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. (Taken at the time by a British officer front Beacon Hill )
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THE
MEMORIAL
HISTORY OF BOSTON
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SUFFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
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EDITED BY JUSTIN WINSOR, LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. PART I.
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CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
FRONTISPIECE. View of Charlestown during the Battle of Bunker Hill, taken from Beacon Hill (described on p. 87) Facing titlepage
INTRODUCTION.
MAPS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, i; PLANS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, i; BRITISHI LINES ON BOSTON NECK, V ; MAPS OF BOSTON SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVOLUTION. The Editor vii
ILLUSTRATIONS: Plan of Boston (Gentleman's Magazine) in 1775, heliotype, i; Nix's Mate in 1775, heliotype, i; Plan of Boston, 1775 (Pelham's), heliotype, iii; Plan of Boston (Page's), heliotype, iii ; Boston Light in 1789, viii ; Castle Island in 1789, ix.
AUTOGRAPHS : Henry Pelham, iii; James Urquhart, iii; Osgood Carleton, viii.
The Revolutionary Period.
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CHAPTER I.
THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION. Edward G. Porter I
ILLUSTRATIONS : James Otis, 6; Kevenue Stamp, 12 ; Table of Stamps, 12 ; Lieut .- Governor Oliver's Oath, 15; Letter by James Otis, 20; Boston Ifarbor from Fort Hill, and Boston from Willis's Creek, two heliotypes, 23; Thomas Cushing, 34; Samuel Adams, 35; Josiah Quincy, Jr., 37; Extract from John Adams's brief, 38; Boston Massacre, 40; Andrew Oliver, 43; Revere's En- graving of Hancock, 46; John Adams's diary on the Tea-party, 50; Earl Percy, 58; Warren House, 59; General Warren, 60; Mrs. Warren, 63.
AUTOGRAPHS : Chas. Paxton, 4; James Otis, 6; Lord George Grenville, S; Isaac Barré, 11 ; Earl of Bute, 13; "The Sons of Liberty," 13; Duke of Grafton, 21; Lord North, 26; Town's Committee (Thomas Cushing, Jonathan Mason, Edward Payne, Wm. Phillips, Joseph Waldo, Isaac Smith, Ebenezer
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AUTOGRAPHIS (continued) :
Storer, Wm. Greenleaf), 29; General Knox, 32 ; Thomas Cushing, 34 ; Josialı Quincy, Jr., 37; Samuel Shaw, 38; Sampson S. Blowers, 38; Benj. Lynde, 38; letter signatures (James Bowdoin, Samuel Pemberton, Joseph Warren), 39; Andrew Oliver, 43; Peter Oliver, 43; William Cooper, town clerk, 44; Earl Percy, 58; Joseph Warren, 60; Adino Paddock, 62; Jedediah Preble, 64; Artemas Ward, 64; Earl of Chatham, 65; General John Thomas, 65; Gen- eral William Heath, 65.
CHAPTER II.
THE SIEGE OF BOSTON. Edward E. Hale 67
ILLUSTRATIONS : Paul Revere, 69 ; Fac-simile of " A Circumstantial Account " (Apr. 19, 1775), 73; Gage's order, 76; Panorama from Beacon Hill in 1775, heliotype, 79; Mifflin's plan of the lines on Boston Neck, heliotype, 80; Colonel Trumbull's map of Boston and vicinity, heliotype, 80; British lines on Boston Neck, looking in and out, two heliotypes, 80; plan of the redoubt on Bunker Hill, 82; "General morning orders, June 17, 1775," fac-simile, 83; " On the field," fac-simile, 86; After the Battle, 88 ; General Knox, 95; General Howe's proclamation, 97; Washington at Dorchester Heights, 98; Major Judah Alden, 99; Washington medal, heliotype, 100.
AUTOGRAPIIS : Paul Revere, 69; John Parker, 74; Timothy Ruggles, 77; Israel Putnam, 80; Admiral Samuel Graves, 81 ; General Wm. Howe, SI ; General Henry Clinton, 81 ; General John Burgoyne, 81; Colonel William Prescott, 82; Colonel Richard Gridley, 82; John Brooks, 83; General R. Pigot, 85; Joseph Ward, 86; John Jeffries, 87 ; John Stark, 89; John Manly, 90; Judah Alden, 99.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. The Editor
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ILLUSTRATIONS : Plan of Lexington fight, 102; Wadsworth house, 107 ; Holmes house, 108; Artemas Ward, 109; Washington Elm, 110; Craigie house, 112; Elmwood, 114; Roxbury parsonage, 115; plan of Roxbury fort, 115.
AUTOGRAPHS : Richard Devens, 101; Peter Thacher, 103; James Barrett, 103; R. Derby, 103; John Sullivan, 104; Daniel Morgan, 104 ; Thomas Learned, 104; Alexander Scammell, 105; John Nixon, 105; Nathanael Greene, 105, 117; Charles Lee, 105; William Bond, 105; Ebenezer Bridge, 106; Ralph Inman, 106; Ephraim Doolittle, 107; Artemas Ward, 109; Benjamin Church, III; William Eustis, 111 ; John Warren, 112 ; William Gamage, Jr., 112; Joseph Recd, 113; John Glover, 113 Andrew Craigie, 113; Wil- liam Prescott, 115; John Greaton, 116; Thomas Chase, 116; Ebenezer Learned, 117.
CHAPTER III.
THE PULPIT, PRESS, AND LITERATURE OF THE REVOLUTION. Delano A. Goddard 119
ILLUSTRATIONS : Joseph Green, 132; The Massachusetts Spy, fac-simile, 135; The Independent Chronicle, fac-simile, 139; fac-simile of Warren's second Massa- cre Oration, 143-
AUTOGRAPHS : Samuel Mather, 127 ; John Mein, 131 ; Daniel Leonard, 133; R. T. Paine, 144; William Tudor, 144; Benjamin Church, Jr., 145; Phillis Wheatley, 147.
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CHAPTER IV.
LIFE IN BOSTON IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. Horace E. Scudder 149
ILLUSTRATIONS : Liberty Trec, 159; Peace-extra (of 1783), 174-
AUTOGRAPUIS : Boston merchants of the Revolutionary period (John Amory, Richard Salter, Timothy Fitch, Daniel Malcom, Alexander Ilill, Richard Cary, Joshua Henshaw, John Scott, Samuel Eliot, Henry Lloyd, John Erv- ing, Jr., Joshua Winslow, Samuel Hughes, Thomas Gray, Thomas Amory, J. Rowe, Jos. Green, Edward Payne, Nicholas Boylston, John Hancock, Wil- liam Bowes, Ebenezer Storer, William Coffin, Sol. Davy, John Barrett, Nathaniel Greene, Thomas Russell, Jno. Spooner, Joseph Lee, Joseph Sher- burne, W. Phillips, John Avery, Isaac Winslow, Wmn. Fisher, Benjamin Hallowell, Jona. Williams, Nathaniel Appleton, Daniel Hubbard, Jona. Mason, Henderson Inches, Nathaniel Cary, Harrison Gray, Jr.), 152, 153; John Lovell, 160; James Lovell, 160; French officers (Lauzun, Comte de Grasse, Barras, De 'Ternay, Comte de Rochambeau), 166; Lafayette, 173.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. The Editor 175
ILLUSTRATIONS : Washington's proclamation, 181 ; Order to Captain Hopkins, 184 ; Bill for pine-tree flag, 188.
AUTOGRAPHS : William Tudor, 185; Baron Steuben, 185; Solomon Lovell, 185 ; Peleg Wadsworth, 186; Artemas Ward, 186.
The Last Hundred Years. PART I.
CHAPTER I.
'THE LAST FORTY YEARS OF TOWN GOVERNMENT. Henry Cabot Lodge . . . 189 ILLUSTRATIONS : John Adams, 192; James Bowdoin, 195; Washington, 198; Triumphal arch, 200; Hancock house, 202; Hamilton statue, 206; Gerry- mander, 212; George Cabot, 214.
AUTOGRAPHIS: George R. Minot, 194; B. Lincoln, 194; John Hancock, 201 ; Increase Sumner, 204; Moses Gill, 205; Caleb Strong, 205; James Sullivan, 208; Elbridge Gerry, 211; Massachusetts signers at Hartford Convention (George Cabot, Nathan Dane, 11. G. Otis, Wm. Prescott, Timothy Bigelow, Joshua Thomas, Saml. S. Wilde, Joseph Lyman, Stephen Longfellow, Jr., Daniel Waldo, George Bliss, Hadijah Haylies), 213.
CHAPTER II.
BOSTON UNDER THE MAYORS. James M. Bugbee .
ILLUSTRATIONS : John Phillips, 223; Josiah Quincy, 227; Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall, 228; Park Street, 232; Harrison Gray Otis, 235; Theodore Lyman, 237 ; Samuel A. Eliot, 244.
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AUTOGRAPHS: HI. G. Otis, 235; the mayors (John Phillips, Josiah Quiney, HI. G. Otis, Theodore Lyman, Jr., Charles Wells, Samuel A. Eliot, Samuel T. Arm- strong, Jonathan Chapman, M. Brimmer, Thomas A. Davis, Josiah Quincy, Jr., Benjamin Seaver, John P. Bigelow, J. V. C. Smith, Alexander II. Rice, F. W. Lincoln, Jr., J. M. Wightman, Otis Norcross, N. B Shurtleff, William Gaston, Henry L. Pierce, Samuel C. Cobb, Frederick O. Prince), 290, 291.
CHAPTER III.
BOSTON AND THE COMMONWEALTH UNDER THE CITY CHARTER. John D. Long 293
CHAPTER IV.
BOSTON SOLDIERY IN WAR AND PEACE. Francis W. Palfrey 303
ILLUSTRATIONS: Thomas G. Stevenson, 317 ; William F. Bartlett, 318; Paul J. Revere, 319; Robert G. Shaw, 321 ; Wilder Dwight, 322; Henry L. Abbott, 323 ; Soldiers' Monument, 324.
CHAPTER V.
THE NAVY AND THE CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD. George Henry Preble . 335
ILLUSTRATIONS : Plan of Navy Yard as originally purchased, 337 ; Isaac Hull, 339 ; plan of Navy Yard (in 1823), 342 ; (in 1828), 350; (in 1874), 366.
AUTOGRAPHS: Commandants (Samuel Nicholson, Wm. Bainbridge, Isaac Hull, C. Morris, W. M. Crane, W. B. Shubrick, J. D. Elliot, John Downes, John B. Nicholson, Foxhall A. Parker, F. H. Gregory, S. H. Stringham, W. L. Hudson, J. B. Montgomery, E. G. Parrott, Chas. Steedman, John Rodgers, Wm. F. Spicer, E. T. Nichols, M. Haxtun, F. A. Parker, George M. Ransom), 352, 353.
CHAPTER VI.
THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT IN BOSTON. Fames Freeman Clarke ·
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ILLUSTRATIONS: William 1.loyd Garrison, 373; Charles Sumner, 391 ; Theodore Parker, 394.
AUTOGRAPItS : Theodore Parker, 394 ; John A. Andrew, 400.
CHAPTER VII.
THE CONGREGATIONAL (TRINITARIAN) CHURCHES. Increase N. Tarbox . 40I ILLUSTRATIONS : Lyman Beecher, 408.
AUTOGRAPHIS : Joseph Eckley, 406 ; J. Morse, 407 ; E. D. Griffin, 407 ; John Cod- man, 407; Wm. Jenks, 407; Lyman Beecher, 408; B. B. Wisner, 409; W. Adams, 409; Justin Edwards, 409; N. Adams, 410; J. S. C. Abbott, 410; Silas Aiken, 411 ; W. M. Rogers, 411 ; Samuel Green, 411 ; E. N. Kirk, 412 ; W. I. Budington, 412 ; J. B. Miles, 413.
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CHAPTER VIII.
THE BAPTISTS IN BOSTON. Henry M. King . 421
ILLUSTRATION : Samuel Stillman, 422.
CHAPTER IX.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Daniel Dorchester 433
CHAPTER X.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Phillips Brooks 447
ILLUSTRATIONS : Tremont Street (about 1800), 451 ; J. S. J. Gardiner, 453; Ruins of Trinity (in 1872), 457.
CHAPTER XI.
THE UNITARIANS. Andrew Preston Peabody 467
ILLUSTRATIONS : James Freeman, 473; Joseph S. Buckminster, 475.
CHAPTER XII.
A CENTURY OF UNIVERSALISM. A. A. Miner 483
ILLUSTRATIONS : John Murray, 486; First Universalist meeting-house, 489 ; Hosea Ballou, 493 ; Columbus Avenue Church, 501.
AUTOGRAPHS: John Murray, 486; Edward Mitchell, 490; Sebastian Streeter, 490 ; Abner Kneeland, 491 ; Edward Turner, 491 ; L. S. Everett, 491 ; Calvin Gardner, 491 ; J. S. Thompson, 491; E. H. Chapin, 492 ; Thomas F. King, 492 ; T. S. King. 492; IIosea Ballou, 493; Thomas Whittemore, 497 ; Paul Dean, 498; Walter Balfour, 499; HI. Ballou, zd, 502; J. G. Bartholomew, 502 ; Benj. Whittemore, 503; Lucius R. Paige, 503; Otis A. Skinner, 504 ; Thomas B. Thayer, 504 ; Sylvanus Cobb, 504.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. James Reed 509
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. William Byrne . . 515
ILLUSTRATIONS : Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 516; Bishop Cheverus, 518; Mount Benedict, 522.
AUTOGRAPHS : John Thayer, 515; J. Carroll, 517; John Cheverus, 518; F. A. Matignon, 519; P. Byrne, 519; Benedict, Bishop Fenwick, 520; John B. IFitzpatrick, 526.
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CHAPTER XV.
CHARLESTOWN IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. Henry H. Edes
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ILLUSTRATIONS : Richard Devens, 550; the Edes house, 553; Charlestown (in 1789), 554 ; Tufts's Map of Charlestown (in 1818), 568.
AUTOGRAPHS : Josiah Bartlett, 548; Nathaniel Gorham, 549; Richard Devens, 550 ; Walter Russell, 551 ; Samuel Swan, 551 ; Samuel Holbrook, 551 ; Phil- . lips Payson, 551 ; John Kettell, 551; Samuel Devens, 551 ; David Dodge, 551; Charles Devens, 551 ; John Leach, 552 ; Robt. B. Edes, 552 ; Wm. J. Walker, 552; Josiah Wood, 552; Thomas Edes, Jr., 552; Samuel F. B. Morse, 553; Joseph Cordis, 554; Joseph Hurd, 554; Samuel Sewall, 554 ; Ebenezer Breed, 555; Nathan Tufts, 555; Nathaniel Austin, Jr., 555; Isaac Rand, 555; Aaron Putnam, 556; Samuel Dexter, Jr., 557 ; Timothy Trum- ball, 557 ; Franklin Dexter, 557; L. Baldwin, 557 ; M. Bridge, 557; Samuel Payson, 558; Benjamin Frothingham, 559; Jedediah Morse, 560; Wm. I. Budington, 561 ; Thomas Prentiss, 562; James Walker, 562 ; David Wood, Jr., 562; William Austin, 564; Thomas Russell, 564; Richard Frothingham, 566; Thomas B. Wyman, 566; Solomon Willard, 566; Timothy Walker, 567 ; Oliver Holden, 570. -
CHAPTER XVI.
ROXBURY IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. Francis S. Drake 571 ILLUSTRATIONS: Henry Dearborn, 574; Meeting-house Hill (in 1790), 577.
AUTOGRAPHS : H. Dearborn, 574; W. Eustis, 575.
CHAPTER XVII.
DORCHESTER IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. Samuel F. Barrows
. 589 ILLUSTRATION : Thaddeus Mason Harris, 593.
CHAPTER XVIII.
BRIGHTON IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. Francis S. Drake 601 ILLUSTRATION : The Winship mansion, 608.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHELSEA, REVERE, AND WINTHROP FROM THE CLOSE OF THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD.
Mellen Chamberlain 611
CHAPTER XX.
THE PRESS AND LITERATURE OF THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. Charles A. Cummings 617
ILLUSTRATIONS : Benjamin Russell, 619; George Ticknor, 661 ; Ticknor's li- brary, 662; Prescott's library, 667 : Edward Everett, 671 ; original draft of Longfellow's " Excelsior," fac-simile, 673 ; Verse from Lowell's "Courtin'," fac-simile, 674.
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AUTOGRAPHIS : Benj. Russell, 619; Nathan IIale, 628; Epes Sargent, 630; Joseph T. Buckingham, 631 ; Jeremy Belknap, 635; Willard Phillips, 639; J. Q. Adams, 642 ; Jared Sparks, 647; C. M. Sedgwick, 648 ; L. Maria Child, 648; Jacob Abbott, 649; Richard H. Dana, 650 ; Charles Sprague, 650 ; John Pierpont, 651 ; S. Margaret Fuller, 656; George Ticknor, 661 ; Samuel G. Howe, 664; George Bancroft, 665; W. H. Prescott, 666 ; Daniel Webster, 670 ; J. L. Motley, 670; Edward Everett, 671; J. R. Lowell, 674 ; Oliver Wendell Ilolmes, 674; John G. Whittier, 675; Nat aniel Hawthorne, 676; II. B. Stowe, 678; R. H. Dana, Jr., 679; G. S. Hlillard, 679; Edward E. Hale, 680; E. P. Whipple, 681.
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INTRODUCTION.
MAPS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. In the Introduction to the second volume the Editor offered as full a list as he could make of the maps of Boston and its vicinity, belonging to the Provincial Period. He brought the enumeration down to a time when the struggle of the Revo- lution began to require a new issue of maps, and at this point he again takes up the list.
1774. A Chart of the Coast of New England, from Beverly to Scituate Harbor, in- cluding the Ports of Boston and Salem. Engraved by }. Lodge. This map appeared in the London Magazine, April, 1774 (10 × 7/2 inches). In the upper left-hand corner is a Plan of the Town of Boston (5 X 3/2 inches). There are but few names of interest on the plan. There is a copy in the Boston Athenaeum. The same plate was used in the American Atlas, issued by Thomas Jefferys in 1776, and printed by Sayer and Bennett.
1774. A Map of the most Inhabited Part of New England, by Thomas Jefferys, Nov. 29, 1774 (374 × 40 inches). In one corner is a map of the town (81% × 51% inches), and also a chart of the harbor (834 × 51/2 inches), " from an accurate survey." See Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., September, 1864. This map is contained in The American Atlas, by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, London, Sayer and Bennett, 1776, numbers 15 and 16. It was also re-engraved for a Map of the most Inhabited Part of New England, published without date, at Augsburg, by Tobias Conrad Lotter.
The map of the town seems to be based on the London Magazine map of the same date : is called A New and Accurate Plan of the Town of Boston in New England. Mr. A. O. Crane issued a fac-simile, Boston, 1875. See the map described under 1784.
1775. A Plan of the Town and Chart of the Harbor of Boston, exhibiting a View of the Islands, Castle, Forts, and Entrances into the said Harbor. Dated Feb. 1, 1775 (14 × 12 inches) : includes Chelsea and Hingham, and gives soundings. It appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, January, 1775. Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc .. May. 1860. It is given herewith in fac-simile. The view on the same page of heliotype is of Nix's Mate as it appeared at this time, - now only a shoal. This is a reduction of one of the Des Barres series of coast views.
1775. BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. The earliest plan of the battle is a slight sketch, after information from Chaplain John Martin. drawn by Stiles in his Diary, and reproduced in Historical Magazine, June, 1868 : where will also be found a rude plan, made by print- ers' rules, given in Rivington's Gazette, Aug. 3, 1775. This last is reproduced in Fro- thingham's Siege of Boston. Lieutenant l'age 1 made an excellent plan, based on a survey
1 Page was one of the royal engineers, and England on leave in January, 1776, when the served as aid to Howe; was wounded; was in London Chronicle spoke of him "as the only one VOL. 111. - a.
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by Montresor, of the British Engineers, showing the laying-out of Charlestown. The suc- cessive positions of the British line are indicated on a smaller superposed sheet. This was issued in London in 1776, called A Plan of the Action at Bunker's Hill on the 17th June, 1775, between His Majesty's Troops under the Command of Major-General Howc. and the Rebel Forces. The same plate, with some changes, was dated April 12, 1793, and used in Stedman's American War. It was re-engraved., reduced, by D. Martin, substitut- ing " American " for " Rebel," and " Breed's " for " Bunker's " in .he title, with a few other changes in names, and issued by C. Smith in 1797, in The American War from 1775 to 1783. See Hunnewell's Bibliography of Charlestown and Bunker Hill, 1880, p. 18, where a heliotype is given. It was again re-engraved, much reduced (5)4 × 9 inches), for Dear- born's Boston Notions, 1848, p. 156; and soon after, full size, following the original of 1776, in Frothingham's Siege of Boston.' A map of Boston, showing also Charlestown and Bun- ker's Hill, - but called Plan of the Battle on Bunker's Hill. Fought on the 17th of June, 1775. By an Officer on the spot. London, printed for R. Sayer and T. Bennett, . . . Nov. 27, 1775, - has the text of Burgoyne's letter to Lord Stanley on the same sheet. It has been reproduced in F. Moore's Ballad History of the Revolution, part ii.
Henry de Berniere, of the Tenth Royal Infantry, made a map similar in scale to Page's, but not so accurate in the ground plan. It was called Sketch of the Action on the Heights of Charlestown, and having been first mentioned in the Gleaner, - a newspaper published at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by Charles Miner, - as found recently in an old drawer, it was engraved, in fac-simile, in the Analectic Magazine, Philadelphia, February, 1818 ; where it is stated to have been found in the captured baggage of a British officer, and to have been " copied by J. A. Chapman from an original sketch taken by Henry de Berniere, of the fourteenth regiment of infantry, now in the hands of J. Cist, Esq." General Dearborn commented on this plan in the Portfolio, March, 1818 (reprinted in Historical Magazine, June, t868), with the same plan altered in red (1972 × 12 14 inches), which alterations were criticised by Governor Brooks in June, 1818. See N. E. Hist. and Gencal. Reg , July, 1858. G. G. Smith worked on this rectified plan in producing his Sketch of the Battle of Bunker Hill, by a British Officer (12 × 19 inches), issued in Boston at the time of the completion of the monument in 1843.
Colonel Samuel Swett made a plan (18)2 × 121/2 inches), based on De Berniere's, which was published in his History of the Battle of Bunker Hill, and has been reproduced, full size, in Ellis's Oration in 1841 ; and reduced variously in Lossing's Field-book of the Rev- olution, in Ellis's History, and Centennial History ; and in other places.
There are other plans in the English translation of Botta's War of Independence, in Ridpath's United States, and in other popular histories. A good eclectic map is given in Carrington's Battles of the American Revolution, ch. 15. A map of Charlestown and plan of the battle (1634 × 14 inches), by James E. Stone, was published by Prang & Co. in 1875. Felton and Parker's large survey of Charlestown, 1848, is of use in identifying localities, being made on the same scale as Page's plan ; and it helped Thomas W. Davis in making a Plan showing the redoubt, breastwork, rail-fence, and grass protection, which was published in the Bunker Hill Monument Association's Proceedings, t876, of which a section is given in Dr. Hale's chapter.
1775. A Plan of Boston, in New England, with its Environs ; made by Henry Pelham (and often signed by him) under permission of Ja : Urquhart, town major, Aug. 28, 1775. It shows the lines about the town and the harbor. It was printed in two sheets (together, 421/2 X 281/2 inches), and published in London, June 2, 1777, done in
now living of those who acted as aides-de-camp to General !Iowe, so great was the slaughter of officers that day. He particularly distinguished himself in the storming of the redoubt, for which he received General Howe's thanks." - Mass. list. Soc. Proc., June, 1875, p. 56.
1 Frothingham, it will be seen, was in error in supposing his to be the earliest American re- production. See Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., June, 1875, where will be found his account of the maps and views of Charlestown before and after the battle.
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aquatinta by Francis Jukes. Dr. Belknap said of it in 1789: "1 believe there is no more correct plan than Mr. Pelham's."- Belknap Papers, ii. 115. There is a copy in Harvard College Library, and a tracing made from! Henry Pelham this by George Lamb was given in the Evacuation Memorial, 1876. There are two copies in the Massachusetts Histor- ical Society's Library ; another is owned by Samuel S. Shaw, Esq. Frank Moore, in his Diary of the American Revolution, gives a reduced representation of it; and a small fac-simile will be found in S. A. Drake's Old Landmarks of Middlesex. A reduced fac-simile of it is also given herewith.
Head Quarters Boston 28th August 1775 Ja: Urquhart Town Major
1775. A Plan of the Town of Boston with the Intrenchments, etc., of His Majesty's Forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from the plans of other gentlemen ; engraved and printed for William Faden, Oct. I, 1777 (1134 × 171/2 inches). It is reproduced by Frothingham, in his Siege of Boston, and also in the present History. It gives the peninsula only, with a small bit of Charles- town, and according to Shurtleff it gives names to several streets, ete., different from Bonner's. There was a later edition, October, 1778. The original drawing of this plan is in the Faden collection in the Library of Congress.
1775. Boston, its Environs and Harbour, with the Rebels' Works Raised against that Town in 1775, from the Observations of Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engi- neers, and from the Plans of Capt. Montresor ; scale, 2% inches to the mile : extends from Point Alderton to Cambridge, and from Chelsea to Dorchester (33 × 18 inches) ; "engraved and published by William Faden, Oct. 1, 1778." There is a copy in the Massa- chusetts Historical Society's Library, book 572, No. 3, " Miscellaneous Maps." The original drawing is in the Faden Collection, Library of Congress.
1775. A large chart of Boston Harbor, and the neighboring country, surveyed by Samuel Holland' (42 × 30 inches and without title), dated Aug. 5, 1775. It takes in Nahant, Nan- tasket, and Cambridge. It was subsequently dated Dec. 1, 1781, with some changes, and with the fortifications of the siege marked in and explained in marginal references ; and is included by Des Barres in the Atlantic Neptune, part iii. No. 6, 1780-83. A text, some- times with this later issue, says it was composed from different surveys, but principally from that of George Callendar, 1769, late master of His Majesty's ship " Romney." Richard Frothingham's copy of this later plate was used in making the reproduction in Shurtieff's Description of Boston, 1870. The same plate was used in Charts of the Coast and Harbors of New England, from Surveys taken by Samuel Holland, etc., for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain. By J. F. W. Des Barres, 1781.
1 Samuel Holland was Surveyor-general of the northern colonies, and, working down the coast from the north, he had completed his sur- veys as far south as Boston in 1773; and in 1775 he reported to Lord Dartmouth that he was i. 537.
ready to run the line between Massachusetts and New York. Ile adhered to the crown in the Revolutionary war, and died in Lower Canada in 1801. Sabine's American Loyalists,
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