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71 Son of Harrison Gray.
72 See Sabine, i. 490 ; who gives a brother John Gray," not to be confounded with John, the son of Harrison.
73 Brother of Joseph.
74 Died in Boston in 1807.
75 Citizenship restored in 1789 ; died in 1812.
76 Died at Boston in 1817.
77 Graduated at Harvard College, 1760 ; after some years spent in Nova Scotia and England, he returned to Medford in 1797, and died there in 1809.
78 Estate settled by Dr. Thomas Bulfinch. " An inven- tory of the goods and effects found in the house of Joseph Green in School Lane, improved by John Andrews," is in the Mass. Archives, " Royalists," i. 433. See his portrait in Mr. Goddard's chapter in this volume.
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79 Sheriff, died in Boston in 1795.
Bo Lawyer ; H. C. 1751 ; embarked with the troops in 1776.
11 Commanded the " Dartmouth," one of the tea-chips in 1773 ; proscribed in 1778.
82 Estate settled by John Winthrop. See Vol. 11. p. 343 ; Drake's Town of Roxbury, 408. The heirs of Mrs. Hallowell, in whom was the fee, subsequently recov- ered the estate. N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., April, 1858, p. 72. His sons were Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew, and Ward Nicholas Boylston.
13 Estate settled by Zepbion Thayer. He was Comp- troller of the Customs He left with the troops in March, 1776 ; after the war he returned to America, and i11 1792 lived in Batterymarch Street, but removed to Gardiner, Me., in 1816, and died there in 1818. He was brother of Benjamin.
44 Collector of Customs in 1768.
45 Son of Joseph.
86 Of Dorchester ; H. C. 1742.
17 Chief butcher to the British army during the siege. His shop was on the south corner of Washington Street and Harvard Place, opposite the old South. Drake'a Land- marks, p. 270. Died in Boston in 1813.
88 Printer ; finally returned, and died at Newton.
89 Father of Hon. Joseph Howe, distinguished i Canadian politics.
90 Estate settled by Edward Carnes. His property in- cluded Shirley Hall in Roxbury, shown in the frontispiece of Vol. 11., and his wife was Governor Shirley's daughter. He died in 1775.
91 Son of the Governor ; partner of Thomas, Jr .; died in England in 1824.
92 Estate settled by Joshua Pico ; brother of the Gov. ernor ; died in Nova Scotia in 1799.
93 Governor Hutchinson's estate in Milton was sold in 1779 for £38,038. Masz. Archives, " Royalists," ii. 66. Died in England in 1780. .
94 Died in England in 1811 : son of the Governor.
95 Died in Cambridge in 1788.
96 Died in England in 1810.
97 Returned, and died at Milton in 1813.
9ª Estate settled by Dr. Scollay. He graduated at Har- vard College, 1763 : left Boston with the troops in 1776 ; re- turned in 1790 ; died in 1819.
99 Distiller ; died in London in 180g.
100 Died in New Brunswick in 1827.
101 Estate settled by Mungo Mackay. He died in Eng- land in 1814.
102 Was allowed to remain in Cambridge ; died in 1803. 103 Sabine gives it " Linkletter "
104 Died in London in 1795 ur 1796.
105 See Dr. Green's chapter in Vol. IV.
106 Returned, and died in Boston in 1798.
107 Estate settled by John Fenno. See Vol. 11. p. 344 ; Drake's Town of Roxbury, p. 416. His estate in Roxbury was sold, June 1779, for £26,486. 6s. 3d. Mass. Archives. " Royalists," ii 66. It comprised seventy.two acres. His house in Boston was "next the south writing school, adjoining on the Common." He was commissary nf prisoners in New York, and is charged with cruelty in his treatment of them. There was a witticism current among the British that he fed the dead and starved the living, - alluding to his practice of charging for supplies in prison- ers long after their death, and giving scant allowance to others. Monre's Diary, ii. 110. Died in England in 178t. 10# Died in England in 1789.
109 Son nf John Lovell ; died in England in 1828.
110 The school-master. See Vol. II. index. Died in Halifax in 1778.
111 Died at Halifax in 1776.
113 Died at New York in 1812.
113 Printer and bookbinder, opposite the Old South. Died in Glasgow in 1788.
114 Her husband, Dr. William McKinstrey, died in the harbor, belore sailing, in March, 1776 ; she afterward re- turned and died at Haverhill in 1756. See Sabine.
113 Died in New Brunswick in 1830.
116 Died in New Brunswick in 1804.
117 Customs officer of Portland ; but suffered his tribula- tions in Boston in 1774. See Sabine.
115 Printer ; he fled from Whig wrath as early as 1769. See Mr. Goddard's chapter in Vol. 11.
119 Printer ; went to Nova Scotia.
120 A New Hampshire minister, who left the American camp after Bunker Hill and went into Boston ; preached at Brattle Street Church and became a commissary. See Sabine.
121 Sabine gives it " Mulcarty."
123 Sabine gives it " Mulbalf."
134 Of Rutland : fled into Bostoo in 1774; left with the British in 1776; died at St. John in 1794.
124 Hle lived at the lower corner uf North and Centre streets in a house still standing. His son of the same name became a baronet. Drake's Landmarkz, 153 ; Sabine, li. 121.
135 Sou of Daniel Oliver ; Lieut. - Governor ; died in Boston in 1774
126 Died in England in 1791.
127 Of Middleborough ; fled to Boston ; died in England iD 1822.
128 The last royal Lieut .- Governor ; lived at " Elm- wood," Cambridge, and in 1774. moved into Boston ; left with the troops ; died in England in 1782.
129 Son nf Andrew ; died at St. Joho, 1813. For the Oliver family, see Vol. I. p. 580 : 11. 539.
130 Estate settled by William Bant See chap. I. in this volume. He died in the Isle of Jersey in 1804.
IST Became surgeon on the British ude ; died in New Brunswick in 1817.
132 See Mr. Goddard's and Dr. Brooks'a chapters in this volume.
133 Estate settled by Joseph Shed ; Commissioner of Customs. His portrait is in the Ilist. Soc. gallery. Sce chap. 1. in this volume. Left with the troops. Died in England in 1788.
134 Died in 1794.
135 Pastor of Old North Church. See Dr. Mckenzie'e chapter in Vol. 11.
136 The grandson of the first Sir William. He lived where Otis Place now is. He was sum of Col. Nathaniel Sparhawk. the son-in-law of the first Sir William ; and assumed the name, and was subsequently created baronet. He married the daughter of Isaac Royall. He was the first president of an association of Loyalists formed in London, in 1779. and was pensioned by the British government. See Sabine, ii. 171. He died in London in 1876.
137 Died in Halifax in 1778.
130 Arrested in 1776; died in his home, on the site of the Tremont House, in 1803.
139 Died in England in 1797.
140 Died in Boston in 1794.
[4] Son of Lieut .. Governor Spencer Phips ; colonel of a troop of guards in Boston ; died in England in 1811.
143 Died in Halifax in 1817.
143 Comptroller-General of the Customs; embarked in 1776.
144 Driven into Boston from Worcester, and left with the troops : and died in New Brunswick in 178g.
143 Son of preceding ; died in England in 1838.
146 See Vol. 11. 546, and Mr. Morse's chapter in Vol. IV Samoel Quincy, who succeeded Sewall as Solicitor-General, was his cousin ; and when Quincy's younger brother, Josiah the Patriot, rose to eminence, a natural disappointment in the older son was used by llutchinson and Sewall to seduce him from the Patriot cause ; and thus he shared the fortunes of h's expatriated associates An inventory of the confiscated library of Samuel Quincy is given in Mass.
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Archives, "Royalists," i. 415. This estate was settled by Thomas Crofts.
147 He was inactive in politics and remained in Boston.
148 Died in England in 1789.
149 He shot the boy Soider. See chap. I. of this volume.
150 Graduated at Harvard College, 1762; took refuge in Boston; commissary to British troops in Charlestown ; left with them, and died at Halifax in 1784. The grand- father of the Rev. Drs. Geo. E. and Rufus Ellis.
151 Collector at Salem; left with the troops.
152 Lived io Medford : left in 1778; closely connected with leading Boston Loyalists. See Brooks's Medford.
153 Took refuge in Boston in 1774 : left with the troops ; and died in Nova Scotia in 1795.
154 Printer ; died in 1796.
155 Of Charlestown ; died in 1798 ; grandfather of James Russell Lowell.
156 Was in commercial life in Boston; left with the British ; and served under Cornwallis.
157 Took refuge in Boston from Haverhill ; left in 1775; died in England in 1788.
158 Auctioneer ; died in England in 1801.
159 Fled from Cambridge and took refuge in Boston in 1774; returned from England to New Brunswick ; and died there in 1796.
160 Estate settled by John McLane ; died in London in 1811.
161 Son of William.
162 The young son of William Sheaffe ; protégé of Lord Percy ; afterwards Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, bart. ; revisited Boston in 1788, 1792-93, 1803 and 1806; died at Edinburgh ISS1.
163 Son of William ; died in Boston before 1793.
164 Deputy Collector of Customs. Sabine gives an account of the family.
165 Died in Boston in 1834.
166 Went to Halifax ; returned, and died in Boston in 1801.
167 Commander of the Governor's guard ; lived opposite Eliot's Church in Hanover Street : went to Halifax ; died there in 1782. His son Jonathan married a daughter of Foster Hutchinson, and died in Halifax in 1809.
168 Tonk refuge in Boston, and left with the troops.
169 Of Charlestown ; died 1792.
170 Carted to the British fines at Rhode Island in 1777.
171 Proscribed in 1778 ; returned, and died in Boston in 1316,
172 Proscribed in 1778 ; died in Quebec in 1806.
173 Proscribed in 1778, but returned and settled in Dor- chester, where he died in 1831.
174 Took refuge in Boston as a mandamus councillor, and died in Nova Scotia in 1791.
173 Assistant rector of King's Chapel.
176 See Mr. Morse's chapter in Vol. IV.
177 Proscribed in 1778; died in 1802.
178 Of Cambridge, in 1775; took refuge in Boston ; died
in England in 1797.
179 Brother of John ; died in England in 1800.
180 Son of William ; died in England in 1843.
181 Died in England in 1816.
182 Rector of Trinity Church ; in 1776 went to England ; returned in 1791 ; became rector of Christ Church, and died in 1800: grandfather of Lynde M. Walter, founder of the Boston Transcript.
183 Died in Boston in 1794.
184 Fled from Plymouth into Boston : and was at Bun- ker Hill on the British side.
185 Died in Boston in 1794.
186 Died in Europe in 1799.
187 Attended in Boston the Provincials wounded and made prisoners at Bunker Hill; died in Boston in 1779. 188 Died in England in 1778.
189 Accompanied the British in 1776; died in England in 1781.
190 Of Lancaster; left with the troops in 1776; died in New Brunswick in 1789.
191 Cut down " Liberty Tree." See Mr. Scudder's chapter. Left with the British.
192 Inspector-General of the Customs.
193 Of Taunton ; took refuge in Boston ; and left in 1776. 194 Brother of General John; took refuge in Boston ; embarked in 1776; died in 1784.
195 Son of Edward; joined the royal army in Boston in 1775, and became a colonel; died in New Brunswick in 1815. See Vol. fl. pp. 124, 551.
196 See Drake's Town of Roxbury, p. 256. Embarked in 1776 : died in London in 1790.
197 General Winslow, whose portrait is given in Vol. II. p. 123 ; considered by Sabine a " prerogative man :" died in 1774 ; and his widow is said to have embarked with the troops in March, 1776.
198 Son of General John, of Plymouth ; took refuge in Boston in 1774; embarked in 1776; died in Brooklyn in 1783.
AFTER THE EVACUATION. - Howe had be- gun his embarkation early in the morning of Sunday, March 17. By nine o'clock he with- drew his guard from Charlestown, and soon after the last boats put off from the wharves. " From Penn's hill," writes Abigail Adams from Braintree, March 17, 1775, "we have a view of the largest fleet ever seen in America. You may count upwards of a hundred and seventy sail. They look like a forest." - Familiar Letters, 142. The American advance pushed forward cau- tiously down the Charlestown peninsula, and found the works tenanted only by wooden sen- tinels. A strong force embarked in boats on the Charles and fell down the river, prepared to act as might be required. A detachment from Rox- bury under Colonel Learned entered the works on the Neck, and, unopposed, unbarred the gates. The entry was made under the immedi- ate command of Putnam, who proceeded to seize the principal posts. On the 20th, the main body of the troops entered,I and the next day Wash- ington, who still kept his headquarters at Cam- bridge, issued the proclamation given (on next page) in reduced fac-simile from a copy in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
An inventory of the stores, ordnance, and vessels left by the British was made March 18 and 19, and is printed in the Siege of Boston, p. 406. Some of the cannon are now to be seen on Cambridge Common, about the Soldier's Monument. Drake's Landmarks of Middlesex, 265.
Dr. John Warren's account of the condition of the town is given in Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, p. 161; and with a statement of the strength of the works left by the British, in Frothingham's Siege of Boston, 329; and in the Life of Dr. John Warren, by his son Edward Warren, Boston, 1873, which has a portrait, en-
1 Dr. John Warren's diary chronicles the action of the enemy this same day: "March 20th. This evening they burn the castle and demolish it, by blowing up all the for- tifications there. They leave not a building standing."
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
George Wafhington, Efq:
Captain- General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the Thirteen United Colonies.
HEREAS the Miniferial Army bave abandoned the Town of BOSTON ; and the Forces of the Umted Colonies, inder ny Command, are in Poffefion of the fame :
I HAVE therefore thought it necellary "for' the Prefervation of Peace, good Order and Difcipline, to pustifh the following ORDERS, that oo Perfon offending thercia- may plead Ignorance as an Excuse for chew Atifconduct.
ALL Officers and Soldiers are herchy ordered tb live in the fridtell Peace and Amity with the Inhabitants ; and no Inhabitane, or other Perfon employed in his lawful Bulinefs in th: Town, Is to be molefted in tus Perfon or Property on any Presence what- Over -If any Officer or Soldier thall prefume to fhike, imprifon, or otheruse ill-treat any of the Inhabitants, they may depend on being punished with the utmof Seventy .- And if any Officer or Soidies Shall receive any lofult from any of the Inhabitants, he is to feck Redrefs, in a legal Way, and no other.
ANY Non-commitioned Officer, Soldier, or others under my Command, who Shall be guilty of robbing or plundering in the Town, are to be immediately confined, and will be moft rigidly punithed -All Officers are therefore ordered to be very vigilant in the Dicovery of fuch affenders, and report their Names, and Crime, to the Commanding Officer to the Towa, as foon as may be.
THE Inhabitants, and others, ase called upon to make known to the Quarter.Maller General, or any of hra Depoties, all Stores belonging to the Minifferial Army, that may be remaining or fecrered in the Town : Any Perlon or Perfons whatever, thai A:tf be known to conceal aoy of the faid Stores, or appropriate them to bas or their own Ufe, witt be coolderes as ID Enemy of Ameris. and treated accordingly.
THE Selechnen, and other Magiftrates of the Town, are defired to return to the Commander in Chief, the Names of all or any Perfon or Perfons they may fufpeet of being employed as Spies upon the Continental Army, that they may be dealt with accordingly.
ALL Officers of the Continental Army, are enjomed to aflift the Civil Magifretes in the Execution of theit Duty, and to promote Peace and good order .- They are to prevent, as much as pufinale. the Soldier from frequening Topphay Houles, and Living from theu Pofts .- Partcular Notice will be taken of fuch Officers as art inatreotive tod rerufs in their Dury , and on the contrary, fuch only who are active and ngiant, will be cotitled to future Favor and Promouon
GIVEN under my Hand of Head Quarters in Cambridge, non Twsty Frf Day of March, 1776
GEORGE WASHINGTON ..
graved from the painting, now owned by Dr. "Copy of acc. of losses the town sustained by the enemy. John Collins Warren. It is Dr. John Warren's Given in Dec. 17, 1777. statements upon which the affirmation is some- £ s. .. times made that the redoubt on Bunker Hill, Town stock of powder in the Powder House. 350 6 8 found by the Americans, was one erected by 149 small arms and bayonets 745 the British after they had levelled the earth- 3 pr. pistols 0 O works of June 17, 1775; but it seems probable, King George the ad picture, full ) Town library . 0 Jeagth O O as Frothingham, p. 331, shows, that the British preserved, perhaps with modifications, the origi- Gen Conway, do. io Faneuil nal redoubt. Col. Barré, do. Hall . 133 6 8
There seems to have been left behind a con- siderable stock of the inhabitants' arms; for a memorandum on a letter, April 20, 1776, from the Provincial Congress at Watertown, signed by Wm. Sever, and asking of the selectmen a state- ment on this point (now in the Charity-building collection), has an endorsement on it: "1778 guns, 273 bayonets, 634 pistols, 38 blunderbuses, - inhabitants' arms." This enumeration, how- ever, may refer to the number of arms which had been surrendered to Gage in April, 1775-
In the same collection is the following pa- per : -
Peter Faneuil, Esq., do.
Gov. Shirley, do.
1140 13 4"
The portraits of Conway and Parre were the ones ordered by the town in their joy at the re- peal of the Stamp Act.
John Adams (Familiar Letters, p. 216), speaks of the portraits of Conway and Barré as by Rey- nolds; but the Life of Reynolds, by Leslie and Tom Taylor, i. 257, makes no mention of them, although Sir Joshua painted Barré more than once.
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Abigail Adams writes, March 31, 1776, to her husband : " The town in general is left in a bet- ter state than we expected. . . . Some individu- als discovered a sense of honor and justice, and have left the rent of the houses, in which they were, for the owners, and the furniture unhurt, or, if damaged, sufficient to make it good. Others have committed abominable ravages. The man- sion house of your president [llancock] is safe and the furniture unhurt; while the house and furniture of the Solicitor-General [Samuel Quin- cy] have fallen a prey to their own merciless party." - Familiar Letters, p. 149.
Greene succeeded Putnam for a short time ; but upon Washington's leaving for New York be placed Ward in command ; and in his instruc- tions, April 4, 1776, he particularly enjoined upon him to arrange some system of signals by which to rouse the country in case of the approach of a hostile fleet. Heath Papers, in 5 Mass. Hist. Coll., iv. 4.
Mr. Samuel F. McCleary printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. (1876), vol. xxx. p. 380, and in succeeding volumes, the records of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, Inspec- tion, and Safety, from May to November, 1776.
On the 17th of May the " Franklin," a small craft under the command of an' adventurous Marbleheader, Captain Mugford, whom Ward had commissioned, boldly attacked, just off the harbor, a large armed ship-the "Hope "- bringing supplies to the town, then supposed to have a British garrison. British ships were still in Nantasket Roads, and saw the engagement, but failed to render any assistance ; and Mugford carried his prize through the Broad Sound into Boston. She had on board one hundred half- barrels of powder, - a much needed addition to the Continental store. Two days later, the " Franklin " grounded in trying to escape from the harbor, and was attacked by boats from the English fleet; but they were repelled, at the cost, however, of Mugford's life. See Force's Ameri- can Archives, 4th ser. vi. 494-96, 532, 629; Gor- don's American Revolution, ii. 264; Moore's Diary of the American Revolution, i. 244.
A good deal of good service was now done in this way by Captain Tucker, who intercepted more than one important British supply-ship and brought them into Boston, where his presence was not unfamiliar throughout the war. He had before this prepared some fireships at Ger- mantown to send down among the fleet, but the very day he was ready the fleet sailed. Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, p. 156 (April 14, 1776).
In June better organized efforts were made to drive off a few ships of the British which still lingered in Nantasket Roads. Detachments un- der Colonels Marshall and Whitney, and some artillery under Lieutenant Crafts, joined with
some Continental troops and coast guards, the whole under the command of General Lincoln, took post at commanding points in the lower harbor and brought their guns to bear on the " Commodore " frigate and the other attendant vessels, which had recently been joined by a ficet of transports with troops. The demonstration caused them all soon to put to sea. Adams's Familiar Letters, p. 185; Moore's Diary, i. 251.
The admiral had kept a detachment on the lighthouse island to protect that structure; but when the fleet finally left, these men were taken off, but not until they had laid a train by which the tower was thrown down ; and it was not till 1783 that the present lighthouse was erected. Shurtleff's Description of Boston, p. 572.
A day or two later the Continental brig " Defence," of Connecticut, captured in the bay two armed transports with Highlanders on board, and brought them safely in under the newly mounted guns at Nantasket. The "Defence " was aided by a small privateer under Captain Burk. (Familiar Letters of John Adams, p. 187.) In July a fleet of the enemy hovered about the bay for a week, but left without attempting hos- tile acts. (Ibid. p. 201.) In September, "the ' Mil- ford' frigate rides triumphant in our bay, taking vessels every day, and no Colony or Continental vessel has yet attempted to hinder her. She mounts but twenty-eight guns, and is one of the fastest sailers in the British navy. They com- plain we have not weighty metal enough, and I suppose truly."- 1 bid. p. 226.
A committee of the Provincial Congress, with James Sullivan at the head, had soon been ap- pointed to consider a plan for fortifying the approaches to Boston by water ; and Sullivan was also named first on a committee for carrying his report into execution. Under General Lincoln's direction the works at Fort Hill, on Dorchester Heights, and on Noddle's Island were completed, and hulks were sunk in the channel. The Con- gress provided the cannon left by the enemy as an armament for them. The letters written by John Adams to his wife show his anxiety at the delays in this work. In one of her replies, May 9, she says : " I believe Noddle's Island has been donc by subscription. Six hundred inhabitants of the town 'meet every morning in the Town House, from whence they march with fife and drum, with Mr. Gordon, Mr. Skilman, and Mr. Lothrop at their head, to the Long Wharf, where they embark for the island; and it comes to the subscribers' turn to work two days in the week." Familiar Letters, p. 171.
Later in the year, when Massachusetts an- swered renewed calls for troops for the New York campaign, Boston was left exposed to sud- den incursions from the enemy. In December the regiments in the harbor were prevailed upon to continue their service, and additional regi-
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ments were ordered to be raised for the same service.
INDEPENDENCE DECLARED. - There was published some years since in the (British) United Service Journal an account of the way Independence was first proclaimed in Boston, written by a British officer, who in June, 1776, had been captured on board a transport in the bay, and was then held as a prisoner in the town. lle was invited, with other officers then on pa- role, to the Town House, on the ISth of July. " As we passed through the town," he says, "we found it thronged; all were in their holiday suits; every eye beamed with delight, and every tongue was in rapid motion. The streets adjoining the Council Chamber were lined with detachments of infantry tolerably equipped, while in front of the jail [Court Street] artillery was drawn up, the gunners with lighted matches. The crowd opened a lane for us, and the troops gave us, as we mounted the steps, the salute due to officers of our rank. ... Exactly as the clock struck one, Colonel {Thomas] Crafts, who occupied the chair, rose and read aloud the Declaration. This being finished, the gentlemen stood up, and each, repeating the words as they were spoken by an officer, swore to uphold the rights of his country. Meanwhile the town clerk read from a balcony the Declaration to the crowd; at the close of which a shout, begun in the hall, passed to the streets, which rang with loud huzzas, the slow and measured boom of cannon, and the rattle of musketry. ... There was a banquet in the Council Chamber, where all the richer citizens appeared ; large quantities of liquor were dis- tributed among the mob; and when night closed in, darkness was dispelled by a general illumi- nation."
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