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Identifier: minuteboysofbost00otis (find matches)
Title: The minute boys of Boston
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Otis, James, 1848-1912
Subjects: United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Juvenile fiction
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d at beingrepulsed from the Field of Slaughter, will, withoutthe least doubt take the first Opportunity in theirPower to ravage this devoted Country with Fireand Sword. We conjure you, therefore, that yougive all Assistance possible in raising an Army.Our all is at Stake. Death and Devastation arethe certain Consequences of Delay. Every Momentis infinitely precious; an Hour lost may deluge yourCountry in Blood, and entail perpetual Slavery uponthe few of your Posterity who may survive theCarnage. We beg and entreat you, as you will an-swer it to your Country, to your own Conscience,and, above all, as you will answer to God himself,that you will hasten and encourage, by all possibleMeans, the Enlistment of Men to form the Army,and send them forward to Headquarters at Cam-bridge, with that expedition which the vast Impor-tance and instant Urgency of the affair demands. JOSEPH WARREN, President. I would I might set down all I heard and sawduring that day in Cambridge; but it cannot be if
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THE ENCAMPMENT AT CAMBRIDGE. ASTO?l. LENOX ANDTIt-DBN OUNOATION THE PRISONER 83 I am to tell the story of what we Minute Boys suc-ceeded in doing during a certain portion of the yearof Grace 1775. It is enough to say that before nightfall I had re-ceived all the instructions and advice that could begiven, and was ready to make an attempt at gettinginto town once more, mourning meanwhile becauseof having left the skiff so far away that a longtramp would be necessary in order to come at her. Even amid his duties, and they were many, Doc-tor Warren had time to think of me and my well-being, for when, near to sunset, I was standing withmy father in front of the building occupied by theCommittee of Safety, already taking leave of him,the doctor came up smiling as if seeing in me anold and valued friend, and said: I am not minded, lad, that you should trampfrom here to the ferry in order to regain your skiff.Leave her where she is, and she may serve you agood turn at another time. Hiram Gri

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