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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
repared to act in his own defence should he be by necessity driven thereto. And I must here beg leave to recommend to the consideration of the people on this continent whether, when we are by an arbitrary decree prohibited the having of arms and ammunition by importation, we have not, by the law of self-preservation, a right to seize upon those within our power, in order to defend the liberties which God and nature have given us. The news of the assault caused the greatest excitement in England. Parliament almost at once adopted the address to the King, which was practically a declaration of war, and which was presented on Feb. 9, 1775. The King in his reply, says Bancroft, pledged himself speedily and effectually to enforce obedience to the laws and the authority of the supreme legislature. His heart was hardened. Having just heard of the seizure of ammunition at the fort in New Hampshire, he intended that his language should open the eyes of the deluded Americans. Thus, whi
Concord, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
upon Fort William and Mary, at Newcastle, in Portsmouth Harbor—one of the earliest acts of hostility against the mother-country; and, by the aid of a portion of a force he had been for some months engaged in drilling in their military exercises in preparation for the anticipated conflict, carried ninety-seven kegs of powder and a quantity of smallarms in gondolas to Durham, where they were concealed, in part, under the pulpit of its meeting-house. Soon after the battles of Lexington and Concord had aroused the people to a realizing sense that they were actually engaged in hostilities, these much-needed supplies, or a portion of them, were brought by him to the lines at Cambridge, where he marched with his company, and were used at the battle of Bunker Hill. This account is in some respects clearly inaccurate, and it is altogether incommensurate with the importance of the act. The assault was made, not on the 12th, but on the night of the 13th or 14th of December—for there is so
Dover Point (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
r River, a tide-water stream that ebbs and flows through the broad and picturesque Piscataqua into Portsmouth Harbor. A century ago Durham was a flourishing ship-building town, on the highway to Portsmouth, and a bathingplace for the stage from Boston to Portland. Then a long bridge spanned the reach where the waters of the Oyster River and of the Great Bay debouch into the Piscataqua. The bridge was carried away by the ice in the first quarter of the century. Another was built from Dover Point, the course of the highway was changed, the neighboring forests were exhausted, and the shipwrights moved up to the Maine coast. The village fell into a sleep from which it will probably never awaken; but one house, built more than a hundred years ago, still crowns one of the village hills, and before it grateful America should erect a monument, for in that house was planned the initial movement of the Revolution. On the proper site for such a monument was buried a store of powder, whic
Charlestown, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
e highway was changed, the neighboring forests were exhausted, and the shipwrights moved up to the Maine coast. The village fell into a sleep from which it will probably never awaken; but one house, built more than a hundred years ago, still crowns one of the village hills, and before it grateful America should erect a monument, for in that house was planned the initial movement of the Revolution. On the proper site for such a monument was buried a store of powder, which, carted down to Charlestown, saved the wearied battalions of Prescott and Stark from capture or annihilation. Sullivan was born at Somerworth, New Hampshire, in 1740. His father was in the Pretender's service, and fled from Ireland to America. His mother also emigrated from Ireland when a young girl. During the voyage a passenger laughingly asked of her, And what do you expect to do over in America? Do? was the reply; why, raise governors for them, sure. （One of her sons was governor of Massachusetts; a g
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
rganized investment of a royal fortress where the King's flag was flying, and where the King's garrison met them with muskets and artillery. It was four months before Lexington, and Lexington was resistance to attack, while this was deliberate assault. On Dec. 13, when Paul Revere rode through Durham, there was a young student in Sullivan's law office named Alexander Scammell. He accompanied his chief on the expedition to William and Mary, and it was he who pulled down the King's colors from over the fort. He became the adjutant-general of the army, was beloved by Washington as was no other man in the command, and, it is said, no other person's quips and jokes ever brought a smile to that grave countenance during the progress of the war. Scammell fell at Yorktown almost as Cornwallis was laying down his arms. Thus, a participant in the first act of the rebellion, he died as that rebellion was crowned with perfect and fateful victory. It was a noble span of patriotic service.
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
e, another was only lately a United States Senator from New Hampshire, and still another was lieutenant-governor of Illinois. the test of single combat. It will be remembered that New Hampshire alone of the New England colonies was settled, not by t. In the spring of 1774 he was sent as a delegate from New Hampshire to the Congress. Returning in September, it seems that president of the United States Senate and governor of New Hampshire. From Governor Wentworth's correspondence with the Earommand. Later on in the campaign Sullivan wrote to the New Hampshire committee of safety: General Washington has, I presume,ere is apparently no record to show whether or riot the New Hampshire committee responded to the call, but as old Mr. Demerit just heard of the seizure of ammunition at the fort in New Hampshire, he intended that his language should open the eyes of in. In a recent address on the history of that part of New Hampshire, the Rev. Dr. Quint, of Dover, referred briefly to the
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
as before intimated, played an important part at the battle of Bunker Hill. In the Continental army gathered about Boston there was a terrible lack of ammunition. It is a fact, says Bancroft, referring to the day before Prescott occupied Breed's Hill, that the Americans, after collecting all the ammunition north of the Delaware, had in their magazine, for an army engaged in a siege and preparing for fight, no more than twenty-seven and a half barrels [kegs?] of powder, with a gift from Connecticut of thirty-six and a half barrels more. When, as the British were forming for a decisive charge on his hotly defended works, Prescott discovered that he had barely one round of ammunition among his men, and gave the order to retreat, both his and Stark's men would undoubtedly have been cut to pieces or captured except for the galling fire with which Stark, from behind the Bringing the powder to Bunker Hill. grass-stuffed fence on Bunker Hill, met the Welsh Fusileers who were marching
New England (United States) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
ranguing them from an upper window, Sullivan offered to submit the question to the test of single combat. It will be remembered that New Hampshire alone of the New England colonies was settled, not by the Puritans, but by needy sons of the Cavaliers—sent out with Capt. John Smith on his first voyage to these shores. There was dof record that they again took them off, lest a spark from the iron-nailed soles might ignite the powder. And this was in December, in the severe winter of northern New England. The gondola —pronounced by the natives gundolo, with accent on the first syllable—is an unwieldly, sloop-rigged vessel, still in use in the shallow waters of the New England coast. It is apparently named on the lucus a non lucendo principle, being of almost the exact shape of an old-fashioned wooden kneading-dish —broad and flat-bottomed—with bow and stern but little rounded, and carrying a large lateen-sail. Not possibly could a boat be constructed more unlike the gondola o
Fort William (Canada) (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
e well doubted whether even one in every hundred thousand Americans could recall any of the circumstances of this noteworthy event. This was the attack upon Fort William and Mary in Portsmouth Harbor by a band of young patriots led by John Sullivan, afterwards major-general in the Continental army. The assault was made in Decelivan had been a delegate to the Continental Congress] he planned with Thomas Pickering and John Langdon an attack, on the night of the 12th of December. upon Fort William and Mary, at Newcastle, in Portsmouth Harbor—one of the earliest acts of hostility against the mother-country; and, by the aid of a portion of a force he had bnd 100 small-arms, which we brought down to the boat. In wading through the water it froze upon us. What a simple story of heroism! The The surrender of Fort William and Mary. Transporting powder from the Fort. men took off their boots that they might not make a noise in mounting the ramparts, and after getting back to
Scotia (search for this): entry william-and-mary-fort
of powder, which, carted down to Charlestown, saved the wearied battalions of Prescott and Stark from capture or annihilation. Sullivan was born at Somerworth, New Hampshire, in 1740. His father was in the Pretender's service, and fled from Ireland to America. His mother also emigrated from Ireland when a young girl. During the voyage a passenger laughingly asked of her, And what do you expect to do over in America? Do? was the reply; why, raise governors for them, sure. （One of herIreland when a young girl. During the voyage a passenger laughingly asked of her, And what do you expect to do over in America? Do? was the reply; why, raise governors for them, sure. （One of her sons was governor of Massachusetts; a grandson was governor of Maine, another was only lately a United States Senator from New Hampshire, and still another was lieutenant-governor of Illinois.) The most famous of her sons, John Sullivan, was married at twenty, and opened a law office in Durham. There were then but two lawyers in the entire colony. The profession was apparently not regarded with favor, for, on the coming of Sullivan, it is a tradition that the good citizens about Durham Fa
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