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Identifier: gazetteerofstate00innaso (find matches)
Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts;
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887. cn
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Publisher: Boston, B. B. Russell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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unt of this, Parliament passed, March 31, 1774,the Boston Port Bill, which prohibited intercourse by water with thetown, and removed the custom-house to Salem. Gen. Thomas Gage, the newly-appointed governor, arrived in BostonMay 13, 1774, and occupied the town with four regiments of Britishsoldiers. On the 19th of April, 1775, he sent a detachment to destroysome military stores at Concord; and on their way occurred the battleof Lexington, from which the opening of the drama of the Revolutionmay be dated. On the 10th of June, says Mr. Lossing, Gage issued a proclamation declaringall Americans in arras to he rebels and traitors, and offering a free pardon to all whoshould return to their allegiance, except those arch-offenders, John Hancock and Sam-uel Adams. These he intended to seize, and send to England to be hanged. The vigi-lant patriots, aware of Gages hostile intentions, strengthened their intrenchments onBoston Neck : anil, on the evening of the 16th of June, Gen. Ward sent Col.
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THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 43 Prescott, with a detachment of one thousand men, to take possession of and fortifyBunkers Hill, within cannon-shot of the city; and, laboring with pick and spade all thatnight, they had cast up a strong redoubt of earth on the summit of that eminencebefore the British were aware of their presence. Gage and his officers were greatlyastonished at the apparition of this military work at the dawn of the 17th. The British generals perceived the necessity for driving the Americans from thiscommanding position before they should plant a heavy battery there ; for, in that event,Boston must be evacuated. Before sunrise (June 17, 1775) a heavy cannonade wasopened on the redoubt from a battery on Copps Hill in Boston and from shippingin the harbor, but with very little effect. Hour after hour, the patriots worked on inthe erection of their fort; and at noonday their toil was finished, and they laid asidetheir implements of labor for knapsacks and muskets. Gen. Howe

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