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A Revolutionary Parole.

British officers promise to remain in the quarters assigned, within the limits:—

Beginning at Swan's shop on Charlestown Neck, the Cambridge road up to the crossway to Fort No. 3, and from Learned's tavern the Cambridge road on to the common to the Menotomy road, up said road to Cooper's tavern, taking in the Menotomy pond, but not to pass the beach on the south, west, or north sides thereof, from Cooper's tavern down to the east end of Benjamin Tuft's house in Medford, and from Medford bridge the Boston road to Swan's shop, the first-mentioned bound. The intermediate roads are within the parole, and the back yards of the respective quarters to the distance of eighty yards from them.

Dated December 13, 1777.

Original in Boston Public Library. O'Callaghan, Burgoyne's Orderly book, 176.

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Medford, MA. 1922.

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