Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Putnam” in chapter 17, page 87 of Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904:
..., in his ‘Old Landmarks of Middlesex,’ with somewhat more probability or truth transfers it to Lechmere Point in East Cambridge at a time in the dead of winter, 1775–‘76, when Putnam was there constructing works of defense, and when, owing to the ‘heavy fire’ of the British and to ‘the frozen condition of
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