The Boston news-letter, and city record, Part 47

Author: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850
Publication date: 1825
Publisher: [Boston] : Abel Bowen
Number of Pages: 850


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BOSTON REPRESENTATIVES.


For the purpose of making an His- torical Memorandum of the candidates, in connection with the names of the gentlemen who have been elected to represent the city of Boston in the en- suing Legislature, we give the follow- ing particulars, which we believe con- tain all the essential facts. The City Council determined on sending twenty Representatives to the Legislature the present year.


At a meeting of a respectable num- ber of the Federal electors of the city, the following list of names was agreed upon, as candidates for the office of Representatives.


Hon. John Welles, William Sturgis,


William Sullivan, George W. Otis,


" Benjamin Gorham, Gerry Fairbanks,


" Samuel Ilubbard, Thomas Motley,


" Lemuel Shaw, John Pickens,


" Francis C. Gray, Franklin Dexter,


" Theodore Lyman jr. Daniel Weld,


Redford Webster, William P. Mason,


Enoch Silsby,


Edward Brooks,


Thomas Welsh Jr. George. W. Adams Jr,


Many of the Federal electors, not being satisfied with the above, gave their suffrages to the following list, viz.


William Sullivan, Daniel Weld,


Benjamin Gorham, Isaac C. Pray,


Samuel Hubbard, John Pickens,


Theodore Lyman Jr.


Amos Lawrence,


Redford Webster,


John Cotton,


Enoch Silsby, Francis Watts,


William Sturgis, George Darracott,


George W. Otis, Francis Jackson,


James C. Merrill,


Joseph Austin,


Franklin Dexter,


Daniel Messinger.


The Republican Citizens of Boston convened at the Old Court House, 3d May, voted to refer the selection of candidates for Representatives to the County and Ward Committees ; who in pursuance of said vote, presented the following names, viz :


Henry Dearborn, John T. Winthrop,


William Barry, Adam Bent,


Thomas Welsh Jr. David L. Child,


Abner Phelps, Charles Wells,


Nathaniel Richards, 2d. George W. Adams Jr.


Joseph E. Smith, Samuel Austin Jr.


John K. Simpson, Prentice Hobbs,


Andrew Dunlap, Daniel Baxter Jr.


Gerry Fairbanks, George Hallett,


Jobn B. Davis,


Ward Jackson.


Besides the above, there was the Union list, composed of the following gentlemen.


William Sullivan, William Tileston,


Enoch Silsby, Lemuel Pope,


William Barry, Joel Prouty,


Joseph Lovering, Abner Phelps,


Joseph Coolidge, John T. Winthrop,


Andrew Dunlap, Adam Bent,


George W. Otis, Ezra Dyer,


Charles Welles, John Cotton,


Samuel L. Knapp, Jehn B. Davis,


John K. Simpson,


Francis J, Oliver.


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AND CITY RECORD, MAY 27, 1826.


'The foregoing were all the candi- dates presented to the Electors, except the self-nomination of Mr. Wm. Em- mons, which first appeared by his ad- vertisement in the Commercial Ga- zette. Afterwards he circulated hand- bills, setting forth his qualifications, &c. to keep his friends awake to the subject of his ambition.


The election on Thursday, May 18, resulted in the choice of only ten, viz :


CHARLES WELLS


1560


ADAM BENT


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THOMAS WELSH Jr.


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JOHN K. SIMPSON


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ANDREW DUNLAP


1442


GEORGE W. ADAMS 1440


JOHN T. WINTHROP


1408


WILLIAM BARRY


1368


JOHN B. DAVIS


1345


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1321


The whole number of votes given in was 2614. Necessary for a choice 1308.


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Nathaniel Richards, 2d.


1112


Joseph E. Smith


1194


David L. Child


1085


Samuel Austin Jr.


1283


Prentiss Hobbs


1189


Daniel Baxter Jr.


1215


George Hallet


1176


Ward Jackson


1130


Gerry Fairbanks


1281


John Welles,


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Benjamin Gorham


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Samuel Hubbard


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Lemuel Shaw,


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Francis C. Gray


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Theodore Lyman Jr.


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Thomas Motiey


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Franklin Dexter


Daniel Weld


Win. P. Mason


Edward Brooks


Enoch Silsby


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John Pickens


James C. Merrill


Isaac C. Pray


Amos Lawrence


John Cotton


Francis Watts


George Darracott


Francis Jackson


Joseph Austin


Daniel Messenger


Joseph Lovering


Joseph Coolidge


Samuel L. Knapp William Tileston Lemuel Pope


Joel Prouty


Ezra Dyer


Francis J. Oliver


William Emmons


Jona. Phillips


Thomas B. Wales John R. Adan


The whole number of votes given in on Thursday, 18th May, for ten Representatives to make up the nom- ber agreed upon by the City Council, was 2140. Necessary to a choice 1071. The four following were chosen.


SAMUEL AUSTIN Jr. 1031


DANIEL BAXTER Jr.


1075


DAVID L. CHILD


1075


PRENTISS HOBBS


1073


The following gentlemen had the number of votes set against their res- pective names, viz :


Samuel Hubbard, 394 | Wm. P. Mason, 233


Francis C. Gray, 421 Joseph Lovering, 326


Theodore Lyman Jr. 564 | 512


Gedney King. 535


Redford Webster,


George Hallet, 024


Enoch Silsby, 480


Joseph E. Smith,


877


Franklin Dexter,


406


Jona. Simonds, $25


William Sturgis, 01


Gerry Fairbanks, 870


Thomas Motley, S11 Ward Jackson,


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Francis Bassett, 161


| Geo. W. Otis,


143


George Darracott, 347


John D. Dyer. 1010


Daniel Weld. 279


William Erimons, 619


William Sullivan,


720


A third trial took place on Saturday, May 20, which resulted in the choice of only one individual. The whole number of votes given in - was 2405 : necessary to a choice 1203.


FESSENDEN CLARK, had 1214


The following gentlemen had the number of votes set against their respective names, viz :


Wm. Sullivan, 557 | Samuel Hubbard,


Enoch Silsby, 488 | Wm. Emmons, 833


Joseph Lovering, 250 | George Hallet, 1087


Theodore Lyman Jr. 350 | Jobn D. Dyer, 1158


Redford Webster, S16 | Wm. Simonds, 1177


Francis C. Gray, 267 | John Sullivan, 1104


William Sturgis, 223 | Joshua Sears, 1061


The Constitutional period, within which representatives can be elected having passed, rendered it impossible to have another election ; Boston, therefore will send only 15 Repre- sentatives.


In Boston, as well as in many oth- er towns, a radical revolution has tak- en place in the political character of its entire delegation. 'Happy will it be for the State,' says the Nantucket Inquirer, 'if these changes foretell also a change in the recently pursued system of legislation-if they bespeak the progress of truly Republican principles ; those principles which teach a public servant that his atten- tion to the interests of his constituents, is a duty paramount to every selfish


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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,


consideration-to be faithfully dis- charged, before he ventures, in his person, to worship at the altar of Mammon.'


Till the late election, the people of Boston have never been fully acquain- ted with the apper ance, nor indeed the effect of nominating one's self to a public office. The farce, as it may rightly be denominated, so recently played by Mr Emmons, is only a rep- resentation in miniature, of what every season takes place in Kentucky, or in more enlightened England. Where this custom is tolerated, liberty is in


danger, and the rights of a community are sold to the highest bidder. Like the sale of the Roman Empire, will be- the certain destiny of the republic, whenever the odious practice of self- nomination becomes a general and fixed mode of filling responsible offi- ces.


The effect of the late scheme of Mr Emmons, must sicken every candid man, and we believe it will forever put a stop in New England to one of the most odious kind of elections, which ever disgraced a sensible people in any country. Intrigue, corruption, and a total want of feelings of respon- sibility in the individual, characterizes the operations of all men who have been made legislators by self-nomina- tion. According to the genius of our laws, all nominations should come from the people, and every departure from this principle, involves the char- acter as well as freedom of the country.


CHAPTER OF NEWIS.


Distressing accounts have been re- ceived from Greece ; particulars are given in the London and Paris papers of the fall of Missolonghi, accompani- ed by dreadful slaughter .=== The Legis- lative Assembly of Jamaica have voted Mr Marqueen, the Editor of the Glas- gow Courier, 50007. for his unsolicited services in advocating the Colonial in- terests == An Antiquarian society has recently been established in Norman- dy, for the purpose of collecting and publishing facts tending to illustrate the history of that country. They


have already published ten volumes. =Newspapers continue to be publish- ed in several parts of Greece, and are extensively circulated =From the Na- tional Journal, we learn that about thirty members of Congress, of both Houses, on the 14th May, wishing to visit the Tomb of Washington, pro- ceeded in a steam-boat to Mount Ver- non, and on their arrival, Judge Wash- ington, the proprietor of the place, re- fused to let them land and view the seat of the deceased Father of their Independence. Query. Would not the privilege have been granted on any other day except the Sabbath ?== A company in New York is about commencing to build a splendid Ar- cade in that city, with forty stores, similar to the one erecting in Philade !- phia == Mr Cooper's novel ' The Last of the Mohicans,' has been republish- ed in London .== Mr Kean is now per- forming at the Park Theatre, New York, it is said, to crowded houses .== The Literary Cadet says the increas- ing prosperity of the town of Provi- dence is amply evinced in the erection of stores, ware-houses, and public edi- fices which are to be seen daily rear- ing their heads in the different sections of the town .== A small volume has re- cently appeared in New York, enti- tled ' Biography of Coloured People,' said to have been written by a female member of the Society of Friends. It contains sketches of the lives of Ne- groes, ' who have been distinguished by more than ordinary talent or merit.' =Galignani has published in Paris, the ' Pilot,' by Cooper, whom he styles the American Walter Scott =The first session of the 19th Congress end- ed on the 25th May .== A fire in the woods has raged to considerable ex- tent in the Catskill mountains, near Pine Orchard .== The Belfast News- Letter gives a wonderful account of an Infantile Arithmetician, now in that metropolis, scarcely six years old, of the name of George Noakes .== Hon. Samuel A. Foote is elected a Senator to Congress, for Connecticut, in place of Mr Edwards, whose term expires in March next.


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AND CITY RECORD, JUNE 3, 1826.


HISTORICAL.


LEXINGTON,


AND THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, '75.


(Continued from p. 269.)


SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES, AND SOCIE- TIES .- A handsome edifice was erect- cd, and an Academy incorporated in 1822, near the meetinghouse, of which Mr Sherwin is the Principal.


The town is divided into six dis- tricts, in cach of which a neat school house is erected, where regular tuition is given, by students from Cambridge, &c. during a part of the year, and school-mistresses in summer. The location of some of these buildings was a few years since a fruitful source of contention ; the poor schoolhouses were even put on rollers and wheels, and trundled about from place to place ; but a better state of feeling now predominates, the schoolhouses have gained a ' local habitation and a name,' and the town is freed from the expense and animosity attending this petty warfare. The schools are now con- ducted in conformity to the late statute of the commonwealth.


There is a social library in the town, in which are a good selection of the best historical and other books.


A Debating Society has recently been formed.


The Hiram Lodge of Free-masons was instituted here some years since.


HISTORY .--- The early history of Lexington we have endcavoured brief- ly to sketch at the beginning of this article ; it remains for us as briefly to notice the more interesting period of April 19, 1775. A great people has suddenly appeared among the nations of the earth from the assemblage in arms of about 60 inhabitants of this town on that memorable morning. The materials of explosion through- out the country, it is true, had long been ready ; but the match was ap- plied on this spot, and the conflagra- tion from hence spread over the con- tinent. The details of these events 24"


are too well known to require repeti- tion, and would require more room than is allowed in this work.


The people of Massachusetts, think- ing themselves possessed of an un- doubted right to the privileges granted by charter, by William III, were de- termined, soon after the French war, upon providing the requisites for self- defence, in case the unconstitutional acts depriving them of these privileges should be put in execution by force, and of making that resistance which the laws of God and nature justified. The inhabitants of Lexington, as early as 1765, manifested their ap- prehension of the arbitrary measures of the British ministry, especially of the Stamp Act. In 1767, they concur- red with Boston in their resolves ros- pecting the nonconsumption of foreign commodities. In the autumn of 1768, they set apart a day for public fasting and prayer on account of the alarming situation of the country. In 1772, a committee was appointed to corres- pond with committees of other towns ' on matters of common concern.' In 1773, resolves were passed prohibiting the use of tea. In Sept. 1774, the prov- ince stores of powder, which were de- posited at Medford, were clandestine- ly seized by a large detachment of British troops ; as were, at the same time, some field-pieces at Cambridge. This surreptitious and arbitrary nicas- ure roused the indignation of the ' rebels,' as the respectable freeholders of the neighbouring towns were called, who, collecting on the next day to the number of several thousands, without tumult or outrage, called Lieut Gov. Oliver and several mandamus coun- sellors before them, and invited them to resign their seats, desiring them at the same time to declare that they nev- er would hold any office by virtue of the several specified unconstitutional acts ; these conditions were complied with by Mr Oliver and the counsellors, and the 'rebels' peaceably separated.


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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,


Day, Feb. 26. The party consisted ofabout 2 or 300 men, commanded by Lieut. Col. Leslie. The vessels which carried them to Marblehead arrived in the harbour on the morning of the sab- bath ; and, the better to conceal their intention, lay quietly at anchor near to the wharves, with but very few hands upon deck, the troops being kept below till the people had gone to meeting. While the inhabitants werc engaged in their devotions to God, the party hastily landed and made a speedy march towards Salem ; but some of the Marblehead people had despatched messengers thither to put the inhabi- tants upon their guard, and before the regiment could reach the North river, which it was necessary to cross, the Salem people had raised the draw of the bridge. The colonel ' desired it might be immediately let down ; but they refused, saying it was a private road, and he had no authority to de- mand a passage that way. On this, he determined to ferry a few men over in a gondola,' of which two were on the river's bank, take forcible possession of the draw, and expel the 'rebels' from the bridge ; but the people scuttled the gondolas ere he could reach them. The royal regiment, after having been on the bridge an hour and a half, and every thing being secured against their assault,* returned from their boot- less expedition to Boston, which they reached the next day.t Although this unsuccessful attempt afforded much merriment among the yankee wits, and chagrin to the British, it raised a well- grounded fear that a similar enterprize would be undertaken to seize the mili- tary stores provided by the provincial congress at Concord, and the compa- nies of minutemen or militia in every town in the neighbourhood met fre- quently in order to be ready for any emergency.


* The Colonel finally promised on his honour that if they would let him pass over the bridge, he would not march more than 50 rods beyond it, and immediately return. The draw was then low- cred, and he fulfilled his promise .- See Hist. of Boston, p. 300.


| In retaliation for the laugh raised at their ex-


At length Gen. Gage resolved upon an expedition to Concord. On the evening of the 18th of April, an ex- press arrived at Lexington from the Committee of safety at Cambridge, bringing messages to John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were visiting at Rev. Mr Clark's, 'that eight or nine officers of the king's troops were seen just before night passing up the road towards Lexington.' A sergeant's guard was immediately assigned to protect Messrs. Hancock and Adams. In the mean time the British officers, armed with pistols and swords, passed through Lexington on the road towards Concord. About ten o'clock, three unarmed men, on horseback, were des- patched from Lexington to watch their motions. In the borders of Lincoln they were taken prisoners by these of- ficers, who occupied different parts of the highway, to prevent intelligence passing to Concord ; and were searched, insulted, and detained, with other prisoners, several hours.


The British grenadiers and light in- fantry had been taken off duty a day or two previous, under pretence of learning a new exercise, which had excited the jealousy of the Bostonians; in consequence, expresses were for- warded to alarm the country on the night of the 18th, some of which were secured by the British officers on the road. Between the hours of twelve and one, news was received at Lexing- ton, by express from Hon. Joseph Warren, at Boston, that a large body of king's troops, supposed to be a brigade of about 12 or 1500, were em- barked in boats from Boston, and gone over to land on Lechmere point, probably to seize the military stores at Concord. On receipt of this intel- ligence, signal guns were fired, the bell rung, and the militia of this town were ordered to meet at the usual place of parade. About the same time two persons were sent express to Cam-


pense on this occasion, the British soldiers tarred and feathered an honest countryman from Billerica, on some frivolous pretence, and drummed him out of Boston to the tune of the ' Rogue's march.'


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AND CITY RECORD, JUNE 3, 1826.


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bridge, to gain intelligence and watch the route of the enemy.


The Lexington train band or militia, and the alarm men, consisting of the aged and others exempted from milita- ry duty, excepting in case of alarm, met according to order, on the com- mon near the meeting house, and wait- ed the return of the messengers. There were present when the roll was called, about 120, militia and alarm list together. Between 3 and 4 o'clock one of the expresses returned, and in- formed that there was no appearance of troops, neither on the Cambridge or Charlestown roads; and that it was supposed the movements of the enemy the evening before were merely a feint to alarm the people. Put off their guard by this information, and the night being chilly and uncomfortable on the parade, the privates were dis- missed, to appear again at the beat of drum. Some who resided in the neigh- bourhood went to their homes, others to the public house at the east corner of the common. Messrs. Hancock and Adams had been persuaded to de- part from the town, as the seizure of their persons was probably one object of the enemy. The common or parade in rear of the meetinghouse is an area of about two or three acres, enclosed by a fence, the meetinghouse standing on the S. E. side. The common is surrounded by a plain of considerable extent, half a mile or a mile in cirumfe- rence, the whole elevated but a few feet above the neighbouring meadows, and perhaps as low as any cultivated land in the town, yet it is said to be no less than 90 feet above the spot where the Concord meetinghouse stands, which seems almost incredible to the passing traveller.


The return of the second messenger was anxiously awaited by the officers, who continued at their posts, but he had been taken prisoner by the enemy,aseve- ry other person had been passing up or down the road ; so that, after every pre- caution, the brigade was actually in the town, and upon a quick march towards


the place of parade,* within half an hour after company was dismissed. The commanding officer, however, thought it proper to muster them in the very face of the enemy ; aların guns were accordingly fired and the drum beat to arms, about half past four o'clock. Part of the company, to the number of about 60, were soon on the parade, others were hastening towards it, when the attack was made. We have never seen a published list of these hardy yeomen who first confront- ed 800 British veterans. The muster roll, it is said, was destroyed ; we have therefore been at some pains to pro- cure a complete list of the names from a gentleman in the town. If our na- tion has increased in fifty years from two millions of inhabitants to twelve, and is to continue increasing in a simi- lar ratio, public curiosity may hereaf- ter be inquisitive concerning these self- devoted patriots, who here laid down their lives like the Curtii and Decii of antiquity. They are as follows :


John Parker, Captain


William Tidd, Lieutenant (still living)


Joseph Simonds, Ensign William Munroe, Orderly Sergeant (still living)


Daniel Harrington, Clerk


Francis Brown, Sergeant, wounded


Nathaniel Freeman, wounded


Simon Winship


John Winship


Joseph Robinson, (still living)


Francis Bowman


Joseph Smith


Ebenezer Smith


Thaddeus Smith


Abraham Smith Josiah Smith (still living)


* Their mode of capturing all persons on the road was accomplished by placing a single soldier on each side of the highway, about a quarter of a mile in advance of their advance guard. When a traveller was heard coming, they concealed themselves, favoured by the darkness of the night, till he had passed them, when they silently rushed into the middle of the road & cut off his retreat.or drove him into the clutches of the advance guard.


The moon rose, this night, about 12 o'clock, when they landed from the boats at Lechmere-point, be- yond which place, for a mile or two, they some- times had to wade knee-deep in water, there being no regular road in the direction they took across marshes and fields ; they arrived at Lexington in 4 hours, about half an hour before sunrise.


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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,


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