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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boston, (search)
lief because of a military order which was given out on the reception of the declaration of the Prince of Orange in England. The order charged all officers and people to be in readiness to hinder the landing of the troops which the prince might send to New England. The people first imprisoned Captain George, of the Rose frigate, and some hours afterwards Sir Edmund Andros (q. v.) Was taken at the fort on Fort Hill, around which 1,500 people had assembled. The people took the castle on Castle Island the next day. The sails of the frigate were brought on shore. A council of safety was chosen, with Simon Bradstreet as president, and on May 2 the council recommended that an assembly composed of delegations from the several towns in the colony should meet on the 9th of the same month. Sixty-six persons met, and having confirmed the new government, another convention of representatives was called to meet in Boston on the 22d. On that day fifty-four towns were represented, when it was
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Canada (search)
rters for his troops, and his drafts on the British treasury could not purchase provisions. Meanwhile, Massachusetts and Rhode Island had raised nearly 4,000 troops, and were waiting for an English squadron. Instead of a British armament, a French fleet of forty war vessels, with 3.000 veteran troops was coming over the sea. New England was greatly alarmed. It was D'Anville's armament, and it was dispersed by storms. Ten thousand troops gathered at Boston for its defence; the fort on Castle Island was made very strong. and the land expedition against Montreal was abandoned. When Quebec fell, in the autumn of 1759, the French held Montreal, and were not dismayed. In the spring of 1760, Vaudreuil, the governor-general of Canada, sent M. Levi, the successor of Montcalm, to recover Quebec. He descended the St. Lawrence with six frigates and a powerful land force. The English. under General Murray, marched out of Quebec, and met him at Sillery, 3 miles above the city; and there
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
fire and hard-working zeal of Massachusetts. How long, O Lord! how long will they delay our people? To George Ashmun, Springfield, Mass.: A Mr. T. Jones Lyman, of Montreal, Canada West, informs me that there are two hundred thousand percussion muskets at the armories, either at Quebec or Montreal. Will you ascertain if there is any way in which they can be bought? Governor to General John E. Wool, commanding Department of the East, New York: I have garrisoned Fort Independence, on Castle Island, in Boston harbor, with a battalion of infantry of one hundred and fifty men; and shall have another battalion of the same strength in Fort Warren, on George's Island, on Monday morning. I have a third battalion, which I can station at Fort Winthrop; and there are from two to three thousand volunteers, whom I wish to place under drill and discipline, in these forts. In Fort Independence, there are none of the casemate guns mounted, and no barbette guns on the face which vessels entering
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
rbor of Boston. Within gunshot of the State House, he said there was a population of five hundred thousand people, and an amount of private property of an assessed value of five hundred millions of dollars; besides which, there were the Custom House, the Sub-Treasury, the Navy Yard, and the Arsenal at Watertown, belonging to the Federal Government. In the fortifications, built by the Government at immense outlay, there was less than one-fifth of proper armament. In Fort Warren and at Castle Island there was not a single gun of more than eight-inch calibre, and those poorly mounted, and of old and abandoned patterns. Not a single Federal war-vessel was on our coast. The officer in command at Fort Warren had no authority to detain or examine suspicious vessels. In the Vineyard Sound, where ninety thousand sail of vessels annually pass Gay-Head Light, there was no protection whatever. A swift war-steamer, like the Alabama, might run into Boston Harbor or the Vineyard Sound, and d
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
ort Richard Davenport, of Salem, against whom an attachment was issued to appear and answer for Endicott's mutilation of the King's colors. He named a daughter, born soon after, Truecross. He was afterwards for several years Commander at Castle Island, in Boston Harbor, where he was killed by lightning in July, 1665. ... embarked in three pinnaces, and carried two shallops and two Indians with them. They had orders to kill the men of Block Island, and bring away the women and children. en at Dorchester. In December, 1632, he went on an expedition with John Gallup after a pirate named Bull, for which service he received £ 10. He was a member of the Committee to establish fortifications at Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Castle Island. Removed with Ludlow's company from Dorchester to Windsor. He wrote a History of the Pequot War. May 10, 1637, Mason, with all his levy, and seventy friendly Indians under the command of Uncas, a Mohegan chief, taking the Rev. Mr. Stone as ch
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
.} 1614. company of merchants interested in these discoveries, a three years monopoly of trade with the territory between Virginia and New France, from forty to forty Brodhead's Colon'l Documents, 110. five degrees of latitude. Their charter, given on the eleventh of October, 1614, names the extensive region New Netherland. Its northern part John Smith had that same year called New England. To prosecute their commerce with the natives, 1615. Christiaensen built for the company, on Castle Island, south of the present city of Albany, a truck-house and military post. The building was thirty-six feet by twenty-six, the stockade fifty-eight feet square; the moat eighteen feet wide. The garrison was composed of ten or twelve men. The fort, which may have been begun in 1614, which was certainly finished in 1615, was called Nassau; the river for a time was known as the Maurice. With the Five Nations a friendship grew up, which was soon ratified according to the usages of the Iroquoi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 5 (search)
st a fatted Ox On noted Bunker Hill combine To toast our Patriot Cox. 38. May North and South and Charlestown all Agree with one consent, To love each one like Indian's rum, On publick good be sent. Powder and wire making were not the only benefits conferred on the public, beside bridge building, by Cox. In 1785 it was found necessary, for the safety of the people to find some place, other than the common jails, for the confinement of persons convicted of larceny and other crimes. Castle Island in Boston Harbor was selected, it then being owned by the state. Here was a garrison (of which the governor of the state was the captain) stationed under an officer, usually of the rank of major (as a lieutenant), with a gunner, surgeon and chaplain and a detail of privates. The gunner was William Hickling, brother-in-law of Lemuel Cox. The officers appointed an overseer, to superintend the convicts' labor, in repairing the fortifications and picking oakum and making nails. This em