Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 90

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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Mary (Starr) Eldredge were the parents of twelve children: I. Ensign Charles, Jr., born August 28, 1743; died September, 1781, as result of wounds received in the battles of Groton Heights. 2. James, see forward. 3. Mary, March 21, 1747. 4. Zuriah, February 7, 1749. 5. Samuel, November 27, 1750. 6. Jonathan, 'November 17, 1752. 7. Katherine, November 7, 1754. 8. Elizabeth, December IO, 1756. 9. Daniel, December 24, 1757 ; seriously wounded in battle of Groton Heights. 10. Abigail, March II, 1761. II. Joseph, Novem- ber 28, 1763. 12. Fanny, April 26, 1766.

(V) James, son of Charles Eldredge, was born in Groton, May 18, 1745 ; died in Brook- lyn, Connecticut, March 29, 1811. He partici- pated in the war for national independence and the following is a record of his military serv- ices : "On the first call for troops in 1775 James Eldredge volunteered his services and was commissioned first lieutenant, May first, 1775, of the third company, Sixth regiment of Conn. troops. Promoted to captain July first 1775. Discharged Dec. 10th. 1775. Re-entered the service in 1776, Tenth Regiment, Colonel Samuel H. Parsons. After the siege of Boston, the regiment marched under Washington to New York by way of New London, and the Sound in vessels, and continued in that vicinity from April until the close of the year. They assisted in fortifying the city and were ordered August 24th to the lines around Brooklyn ; en- gaged in the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27th, and in retreat from Long Island on the night of Aug. 29th. Caught in the panic in the re- treat from New York, September 15th. Pres- ent with the army at White Plains, Oct. 28th ; remained on the Hudson in the vicinity of Peekshill under Gen. Heath till term of service expired Dec. 31st. 1776. Commissioned cap- tain in Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Ist Regiment Conn. Line, January 1, 1777. Took the field at Peekskill in the spring of '77. and remained there in camp until ordered under General MeDougall to Washington's army in Pennsylvania, September, 1777. Engaged in the left flank at the battle of Germantown, October 4th. Wintered at Valley Forge in Stonington Brigade during the scason of 1777- 1778. He resigned from the service January 211d. 1778." In addition to being a staunch patriot, James Eldredge was a firm believer in the principles of christianity, and was noted for his kindly disposition, unostentatious benev- olence and bountiful hospitality. March 28, 1765, he married Lucy Gallup, born in Ston- ington, Jannary 5. 1747; died September 7.

1802, daughter of Joseph and Eunice ( Will- iams) Gallup, and a descendant in the fifth generation of John Gallup (1), the immigrant, through John (2), Benadam (3) and Joseph (4). Her death occurred September 7, 1802, and James Eldredge married for his second wife Mrs. Chloe Hubbard, a widow. James and Lucy (Gallup) Eldredge were the parents of thirteen children: I. Gurdon, born Decem- ber 9, 1765 ; died at sea in December, 1795. 2. James, February 5, 1768; died February 23, 1798. 3. Lucy, May 22, 1770; died November 6, 1847 ; married Captain Perkins, of Lisbon, Connecticut. 4. Eunice, March 24, 1772 ; died November 21, 1804; married James McClellan, of Woodstock, Connecticut, and was the grand- mother of General George B. McClellan, of civil war fame. 5. Henry, August 4, 1774; died September 24, 1860. 6. Joseph Warren, May 17, 1777; died April 3, 1842. 7. Giles Russell, January 2, 1780; died March 7, 1859. 8. Nancy, March 25, 1782; became the second wife of James McClellan, previously mention- ed. 9. Charles, July 31, 1784 ; practiced medi- cine in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, died in 1838. 10. Frank, August 3, 1787; died Janu- ary II, 1800. II. Frances Mary, February 29, 1791 ; died in Woodstock, January 2, 1878. 12. Edward, October 18, 1794, see forward. 13. Oliver, March 14, 1798, see forward.

(VI) Edward, son of James Eldredge, was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, October 18, 1794 ; died September 8, 1847, in Pomfret, Connecti- cut. When a young man he went to South America, and for a number of years was en- gaged in mercantile business in Bahia, Brazil. He subsequently became a successful merchant in Boston. He was president of the Atlas and Merchants' banks, and a director of the Boston and Worcester railroad, now a part of the New York Central system. He was quite active in political affairs and held several public offices. He married, March 6, 1822, Hannah Grosvenor, born in Pomfret, Connecticut, May 19, 1799. (lied there August 5, 1866, daughter of Colonel Thomas and Ann ( Mumford) Grosvenor (sec Grosvenor, IV). Children: I. Elizabeth. 2. Frances. 3. Henry Grosvenor, see forward. 4. Helen Grosvenor, born in Boston, May 9, 1838; married Charles Wells Goodhuc, and much of the genealogical data for this article was furnished by her son, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhuc. 5. Constance. 6. Edward.

(VII) Henry Grosvenor, son of Edward Eldredge, was born in Boston, December 6, 1834; died in Belmont, Massachusetts, October 6, 1906. He was reared in Pomfret, attended

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the public schools, and began his business career in the dry goods commission house of Eli Mygatt in New York City. He later returned to Pomfret, and in 1867 accepted a position as salesman for D. A. Snell, a cracker manu- facturer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1871 he formed a connection with the firm of Bangs & Horton, coal agents, Boston, and acquiring an interest in the concern continued in that business for the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum. He married Eliza Elderkin. Children : I. Ed- ward Davis. 2. Alice. 3. William Athearn, see forward. 4. Fannie. 5. Ellen H., married Gil- bert R. Payson. All were born in Pomfret.

(VIII) William Athearn, son of Henry Grosvenor Eldredge, was born in Pomfret, April 7, 1862. He studied preliminarily in the public schools of New Bedford and completed his education at the Brookline ( Massachusetts ) high school, graduating with the class of 1880. Preferring a business career he entered as a clerk the office of a Boston stock broker, re- maining there one year, and then accepted a clerkship with E. T. Milliken & Company, oil dealers, retaining that position four years. In 1886 he entered the employ of the John Wales Company, eastern agents of the Cleveland Roll- ing Mills, and for the succeeding four years held a responsible position with that concern. From 1890 to the present time (1909) he has devoted his energies exclusively to investments and other financial interests. Politically he is independent. He attends the Church of Christ, Scientist. He married, June 29, 1897, June Stevens, born in Bangor, Maine, June 11, 1868, daughter of George W. and Harriet (Shepley) Stevens, of that city.

(VI) Oliver, youngest son of James El- dredge, was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, March 14, 1798; died in Boston about the year 1857. He was prominent as a merchant and banker in Boston. He lived on Somerset Place (now Alston street ), but in 1842 removed to Otis Place, leading to Summer street, to a house which adjoined that of Dr. Bowditch. During the war of 1812 he served ten days, from Sep- tember 18 to 28, 1814, as quartermaster of First Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division, under Amos Binney, lieutenant-colonel. He married, January 20, 1814, Hannah Smalley, born in Provincetown, Nova Scotia, August 27, 1793. Children: I. Edward Henry, born August 21, 1816; died April 26, 1865 ; married Lydia B. Richardson, June 16, 1852, and Eliz- abeth Welch, 1857. 2. Oliver Hazard, Decem- ber 17. 1817 : died July 25, 1857. 3. Emeline

Bartlett, September 17, 1820; married William Wetmore Story, of Salem, Massachusetts, and Rome, Italy, October 30, 1843; died January 7, 1894. 4. Hannah Wells, August 3, 1822; died May 13, 1884 ; married Nathaniel Greene, January 12, 1841. 5. Harriet Maria, Decem- ber 13, 1823 ; died January 24, 1897 ; married John H. B. McClellan, her cousin, December 6, 1848. 6. Francis Oliver, March 13, 1825; died November 13, 1861, married Theresa Salazar. 7. James Thomas, June 1, 1828, see forward. 8. Charles Warren, May 19, 1830; died September 23. 1895. 9. George, Novem- ber 29, 1832; died December 27, 1864. 10. Mary Elizabeth, February 20, 1835; died June 6, 1894: married William Bangs, of Boston.

(VII) James Thomas, son of Captain Oliver Eldredge, was born June 1, 1828, in Boston ; (lied December 18, 1889. The Boston Transcript said of him at the time of his death: "Mr. Eldredge in one way or another has been con- nected with the real estate business for up- wards of forty years and some of the largest schemes in this line have been brought about by him." Mr. Eldredge was a native of Bos- ton, was a graduate of the Boston Latin School. which he entered in 1840, and of Harvard College, graduating in 1849. The class of '49 was a celebrated one and many of its members arose to national and local distinction, and suc- cess in their chosen avocations. Among his classmates were: Abbott Lawrence, Caleb A. Curtis, Augustus Lowell, Lemuel Shaw. Charles R. Codman and Horace Davis. After leaving college he entered commercial life and went as supercargo on a trading vessel to the East Indies. He also made several trips to Australia, San Francisco and other ports, in that and various capacities, arriving in San Francisco in the height of the gold fever. Upon his return to Boston, in 1858, he engaged in the real estate and brokerage business, under the firm name of James T. Eldredge & Company. at 23 Congress street, where he remained until the great fire in 1872, when he was burned out, his building being the last to be enveloped by the conflagration. He was one of the most prominent real estate men of his time and con- trolled and was agent or trustee for many large estates in Boston.

He married, October 24. 1855, Ellen S. Williams, sister of Henry Bigelow Williams and daughter of John D. W. and Ellen Sophia ( Bigelow) Williams. Children : I. Ellen S., born October 28, 1856; married Dr. Francisque Prudon, of France. 2. James Y., January 29, 1858; died February 14, 1859. 3. Arthur S.,

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February 4, 1860, at Elm Hill, Roxbury ; at- tended private schools (Noble's and Chauncey Hall) and Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology ; after concluding his studies he sailed to the East Indies, in the sailing ship "For- mosa," and on return voyage was shipwrecked in the "Straits of Allas," the vessel being a total loss; returned home by way of Europe. In 1881 he went to Texas, Burnet county. bought a stock ranch, raised cattle, sheep and horses; still owns and conducts it; married, October 17, 1889, at St. Anne's Church, South Lincoln, Massachusetts, Emma Motley, daugh- ter of Howard and Anna ( Rodman) Snelling ; children: i. Emma Margaret, born October 15, 1890; ii. Anna Rodman, September 23, 1891 ; iii. Ellen Williams, February 14, 1893; iv. Ida Bigelow (twin of Ellen Williams) ; v. Arthur Stuart, Jr., August 13, 1897. 4. Ida Prescott Bigelow, January 17, 1864; married Franklin Quimby Brown at the First Church, Boston, June 12, 1893; children: i. Dorothy Emma, born March 10, 1894; ii. Phyllis Wildes, October 14. 1895, at 23 West Cedar street. Boston : iii. Sylvia Eldredge, June 21, 1898, at "Springhurst." Dobbs Ferry, New York; iv. Franklin Quimby, Jr., February 9, 1906, at "Springhurst," Dobbs Ferry, New York; v. Dudley Williams, June 6, 1908. at "Tangle- wood." Concord, Massachusetts. 5. Colonel Edward I., September 13, 1866; see forward.

6. Elizabeth Emeline, July 17, 1876. 7. Theo- dora Maria, June 27, 1879: married, Decem- ber 14, 1905, Henry Hooper Lawrence; chil- dren: i. Caroline Freeman, born October 4, 1906; ii. Henry Hooper, Jr., June 26, 1908; iii. Barbara, July 30, 1909.

(VIII) Colonel Edward H., son of James Thomas Eldredge, was born in Roxbury, Sep- tember 13, 1866. He attended the public schools, including the English High and the Boston Latin schools. At the conclusion of his studies, he went to Texas, spending two years on the Mexican frontier, and upon his return to Boston in 1887 entered the employ of his father's real estate firm, James T. Ei- dredge & Company. In 1889, upon the death of the senior partner, he became a member of the firm of Sargent & Eldredge, and after Mr. Sargent's death in 1892, he became senior part- ner of the succeeding firm of Edward H. El- dredge & Company, and has since continued in the real estate and insurance business. His offices at the present time are in the Devon- shire Building, 16 State street, Boston. He is a member of the board of appeal of the city of Boston, and of the Real Estate Exchange, of

which he was for several years a director. Colonel Eldredge has not only acquired promi- nence in the business and social circles of Bos- ton but is still more widely known on account of his military record, which is an exceedingly honorable one, both in point of ability and length of service. For a period of over twenty- one years he has been enrolled in the Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia, working his way up to a lieutenant-colonelcy of the line, and in the Spanish-American war rendering unusually efficient service in Cuba, as a major in the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry, United States Volunteers. While in Cuba, amongst other duties, he was detailed to receive from the Spanish government the various forts, arsenals and military depots in the province of Matanzas and to turn the same over to the United States government, with inventories of their contents. While on this detail, he was the first American officer to enter this portion of the island, and, incidentally, wired back to headquarters re- ports of the condition of affairs which enabled the relief committee to send the needed sup- plies and assistance to the reconsentrados. He was inspector of small arms practice in his brigade, and as provost-marshal of the district reorganized the police system of the city of Matanzas. He is now on the retired list with the rank of colonel. He is past commander of the Massachusetts Commandery of Naval and Military Order of Spanish-American War. He is a member of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Military Historical Society, the Mili- tary Service Institution, the United Spanish War Veterans, also of the Somerset. New Eng- land Kennel and Boston City Clubs, the Boston Athletic Association, the Army and Navy Club, of New York, and the Masonic Order.

Colonel Eldredge married, November 29, 1900, in Florence, Italy, the Marchesa Cressida Peruzzi De Medici, daughter of Marchese Simone Peruzzi De Medici, of Florence, Italy. Master of Ceremonies to the late King Hum- bert of Italy, commander of the Order Man- riziana and of the Corona d' Italia, Isabella the Catholic of Spain, the Red Eagle, the Crown of Prussia, the Danebrog of Denmark. officer of the Legion of Honor of France, Cavalier of Salvatore of Greece, St. Ann of Russia, the Sun and Lion of Persia, and of the Ottoman Medjidich, etc. The Marchese married, February 9. 1875. Edith Marion Story, daughter of William Wetmore and Emelyn ( Eldredge) Story, the former of Salem, Massachusetts, then living in Rome. Italy, and the latter of Boston, Massachusetts.

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The coat-of-arms of Peruzzi De Medici: Per pale, first azure, six pears, stalked and leaved or, two, two and one; a second or. a hurt in chief charged with a fleur-de-lis and five torteaux. two, two and one. The Boston resi- dence of Colonel Eldredge is at 44 Chestnut street. Beacon Hill.

(The Grosvenor Line).

The surname Grosvenor is of ancient Nor- man origin and means "great hunter." The ancestry of the English family is traced to Gil- bert Le Grosvenor, who was related to Will- iam the Conqueror and came with him to Eng- land. Grosvenor in time became the family surname. The family has held a leading place since the days of the Conquest, many of the branches have produced men of wealth, title and distinction. The Grosvenors of Chester have been particularly conspicuous. The coat- of-arms, the same that was inscribed on the tombstone of the immigrant ancestor, was: Azure, a garb d'or.

(I) Gilbert Le Grosvenor was the first of the family in England.

(II) Robert Le Grosvenor, his son, had the Lordship of Over Lestock, in Cheshire, given him by the Conqueror's uncle, and continued in the family until 1465. Robert settled in Cheshire.

(III) Ralph (or Raufe) Le Grosvenor, grandson of Gilbert, adhered to the cause of the Empress Maud against Stephen.

(IV) Robert Le Grosvenor, son of Ralph, engaged in the crusade with Richard I. and was with him in Sicily in 1190 when he took Messina ; also in 119I at the Conquest of the Island of Cyprus, where some of the English forces had been wrecked and barbarously treat- ed. He assisted also at the siege of Acre, in Palestine, and in the victory over Saladin.

(V) Richard Le Grosvenor, son of Robert. was of Lestock.

(\'I) Robert Le Grosvenor, son of Richard, succeeded his father, and purchased Nether Pever in the reign of Edward VIII. ; he served five times in the office of the sheriff of Chester.

(VII) Sir Robert Le Grosvenor, son of Robert, was heir to his father's estate and was present with King Edward III. at the siege of Vannes in Brittary, the passage of the Somms and the battle of Cressy, and the siege of Calais. 4

(VIII) Robert Le Grosvenor had a contest with Richard Le Scrope, concerning a coat-of- arms. He was granted the arms showing that

he was a lineal descendant of the ancient Earls of Chester-Azure, a garb or.

(1X) Robert Le Grosvenor, son of Robert, was several times sheriff of Chester, and died in 1396.

(X) Sir Thomas Grosvenor, knight, was son of Robert. He had a son Robert, Lord of Hulme, who was in the wars against France in the reign of Henry VI. His second son Raufe is mentioned below.

(XI) Raufe Grosvenor left three sons and two daughters.

(XII) Robert Grosvenor, eldest son and heir of Raufe, died in the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VII. He left two sons. Thomas, the eldest son, died without issue in the twenty- seventh year of the reign of Henry VIII. Richard is mentioned below.

(XIII) Richard Grosvenor, son of Robert, succeeded to the estate and left five sons and seven daughters.

(XIV) Sir Richard Grosvenor, son of Rich- ard, was knighted by James 1., and afterwards created a baronet. He served in the office of sheriff for the counties of Chester and Dur- beigh. He was mayor of the city of Chester and one of the knights of the shire for the county in the first parliament called by Charles I. He died in 1664.

(I) John Grosvenor, immigrant ancestor of the American family, is believed to be the son of Sir Richard Grosvenor. He was certainly a member of the Grosvenor family of county Chester, England, as he bore the same arms, which are quartered with others on his grave- stone at Roxbury. They are: Azure, a garb or. He was born in England, in 1641, and came to America from county Chester, when a young man. The family Bible of General Lemuel Grosvenor, owned by his granddaugh- ter, Mrs. Clarissa Thompson, of Pomfret, Con- necticut, states that John Grosvenor and Esther, his wife, came from Cheshire, England, in 1680, and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The records show that he was here as early as 1673, when he was a proprietor of Roxbury. He was one of the original purchasers of the Mashamoquet grant in 1686, which included fifteen thousand acres, the present towns of Pomfret, Brooklyn and Putnam, and the parish of Abington, Connecticut. In the division of this purchase to the twelve Roxbury proprietors who bought it, there was allotted to the widow and sons of John Grosvenor, all the land where the village of Pomfret now stands, and the hills which surround it, including Prospect hill.

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which faces the east, and the commanding eminences called Sharp's Hill and Spaulding's Hill on the west. Here he settled. He mar- ried in England, Esther Clarke, born 1642; died June 16, 1728 (gravestone). He died at Roxbury, September 27, 1691, in his forty- seventh year, and his gravestone may still be seen in the old Roxbury burying-ground. Chil- dren: I. Rev. William, baptized October 14, 1673; graduated at Harvard College, 1693; minister at Charlestown and Brookfield. 2. John, baptized April 6, 1675; killed by the Indians at Brookfield, June 22, 1709. 3. Leices- ter, called sergeant ; died in Pomfret, Septem- ber 8. 1759, aged eighty-three. 4. Susanna, born February 9, 1680-81 ; married, 1702, Jo- seph Shaw, of Stonington. 5. Child, baptized and died April 21, 1683. 6. Ebenezer, born October 9. 1684, see forward. 7. Thomas, born June 30, 1687, died same day. 8. Joseph, born September 1, 1689. 9. Thomas, married, 1718. Elizabeth Pepper.

(II) Ebenezer, son of John Grosvenor, was born October 9. 1684, and shared in the division of his father's estate at Pomfret. The first house erected by them was situated on the road leading from Worcester to Norwich on the western declivity of Prospect Hill, not far from the mansion house of Colonel Thomas Grosvenor, where an ancient well is still to be seen, which was evidently dug for the accom- modation of Esther Grosvenor and her chil- dren. Ebenezer Grosvenor lived at Pomfret and died there September 3. 1730. He mar- ried Ann Marcy, born 1687; died July 30. 1743. Children: 1. Susannah, born October 31. 1708. 2. John, May 22, 171I, see forward. 3. Ebenezer, December 12, 1713. 4. Caleb, May 15, 1715. 5. Joshua, died young. 6. Moses, died young. 7. Ann, born September 24, 1724. 8. Penelope.

(III) Captain John (2), son of Ebenezer Grosvenor, was born at Pomfret, Connecticut, May 22. 1711; died there in 1808. He was captain of the Pomfret company in the Crown Point expedition, under Lieutenant Dyer, Lieu- tenant-Colonel Nathaniel Tyler's regiment, of which company Israel Putnam was second lieutenant. He married Hannah Dresser, of Thompson, Connecticut, who was his second wife. Children: 1. John, removed to Buffalo, New York. 2. Abel, died young. 3. Seth, married Abigail Keyes, and had a large family. 4. Thomas, see forward.

(IV) Colonel Thomas, son of Captain John (2) Grosvenor, was born in Pomfret, Sep- tember 20, 1744 ; died in 1825. He graduated

at Yale College in 1765. Judge Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, was a classmate. He established himself as a lawyer in Pom- fret. When Connecticut raised and officered her first seven regiments for the relief of Massachusetts, Mr. Grosvenor was com- missioned second lieutenant in the first com- pany of the third regiment, under Colonel Israel Putnam and Lieutenant-Colonel Experience Storrs, of Mansfield. The minute-men fol- lowed Putnam to Cambridge and the old red house is still standing in the village of Pom- fret where they assembled on the morning of their departure, April 23, 1775. After the reverend and excellent Aaron Putnam, of Pomfret, had poured out their mutual prayers and petitions to God, in front of that house, the minute-men marched for Cambridge by way of Grafton, Massachusetts. On the even- ing of June 16, 1775, Lieutenant Grosvenor was detailed with thirty-one men drafted from his company to march to Charlestown under command of Captain Thomas Knowlton, of Ashford, and these men, with about one hun- dred others from General Putnam's regiment. before noon of June 17 were stationed at the rail fence on the left of the breastworks on Breed's Hill, and extending thence to Mystic river. The whole force was under the com- mand of Knowlton. When the British attack was made one column under General Pigott was directed against the redoubt, and another under General Howe advanced against the rail fence, Captain Dana relates that he, Lieutenant Grosvenor and Orderly Sergeant Fuller, were the first to fire. When at the third attack the British burst through the American line at the left of the redoubt, Captain Knowlton, Chester and Clark, clung persistently to the position near the Mystic river, though separated from the main body of the Provincials, and event- ually protected the retreat of the men who were in the redoubt fighting, according to the report of the Massachusetts committee of safety, with the utmost bravery and keeping the British from advancing further than the breach until the main body had left the hill. Colonel Grosvenor related in his letter to Colo- nel Daniel Putnam, dated April 30, 1818, re- specting General Dearborn's charges against General Putnam's behavior at Bunker Hill. that of his command of thirty men and one subaltern, there were eleven killed or wounded. "among the latter was myself, though not so severely as to prevent my retiring." At Winter ITill, where entrenchments had been thrown up by the Connecticut troops, the Provincials

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made their last stand, and it was at Bunker Hill that the battle ended at five o'clock in the afternoon. Colonel Grosvenor carried a musket or rifle in this action, and he said that the cartridge belt around his waist contained nine cartridges, which were all exhausted before the battle ended; that he fired with the same precision and deliberation that he was accus- tomed to exercise in firing at a fox, and that he saw a man fall on each discharge of his rifle. Prior to the retreat he was wounded through the palm of his hand by a musket ball which passed through a portion of a rail, then his hand and the butt of his musket, and bruised his breast. He bound up his hand with his white cravat, and remained on the field encouraging his men, until after the re- treat was ordered. This circumstance is one of which Colonel Trumbull, the painter, avail- ed himself in the picture of the battle of Bunker Hill. The fine figure in the fore- ground was intended to represent Lieutenant Grosvenor accompanied by his colored servant.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 90

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886