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Title: Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Copp's Hill Burial-Ground
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Cemetery Dept
Subjects: Cemeteries
Publisher: Boston : Municipal Print. Office
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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theTown, which command the whole Bay, and make it impossiblefor an Enemy s Ship of Burthen to ride there in safety. In 1706 the battery was extended 120 feet, with a breadth of40 feet, at an expense of £1,000. It was finally sold to Jeffreyand Russell, and became Jeffreys Wharf between 1787 and1796. To-day it is appropriately called Battery Wharf. The site of the North Battery was, possibly, where Win-throps company landed, and where Anne Pollard, the firstwhite woman to tread on Boston soil, jumped ashore. Here,too, was Francis Hudsons ferry landing. From the Batteryalso, the 52d, 48d, and 47th British regiments, together withdetachments of grenadiers, light infantry and marines, embarkedfor Bunker Hill; and here, after the battle, the wounded werebrought ashore. At the time of the evacuation, the Battery wasarmed with seven 12-pounders, two 9-pounders, and four6-pounders, all left dismantled. In the old days of short rangeguns, the North Battery was regarded as of great importance,
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25 because covering the harbor, the mouth of the Charles, and theentrance to the Town (<»\ e. In May, 1644, while the civil war was raging in England, aparliamentary man-of-war of 24 guns, (apt. Thomas Stagg,sailed into the harbor and demanded the surrender <»t a Bristolship of LOO tons then in port. All the townspeople assembled:on Windmill Hill to watch the expected hostilities. The Bristolcraft, however, prudently surrendered. In June, two years before, the windmill was struck by light-aing, shattering the sail, breaking the standard and riving offthe boards of the sides, beside setting on fire the sacks in thenull. The miller, being under the mill upon the groundchopping a piece of hoard, was struck dead; but companycoming in found him to breathe, and within an hour or two hebegan to stir, and strove with such force, as six men could scarcehold him down. The next day he came to his senses, but knewnothing of what had befallen 111111. The surrender of Quebec was celebrated

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