Browsing named entities in Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register. You can also browse the collection for April 25th or search for April 25th in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
ee of militia of Charlestown, Cambridge, and Watertown, were ordered and required to impress such armor, breasts, backs, and head-pieces, and blunderbusses, as you can find in your respective towns, and to give express and speedy order that they be cleaned and fitted for service, and sent in to Cambridge to Captain Gookin at or before the 15th of this instant, by him to be sent up to the army by such troopers as are ordered to go up to the army. 1 Mass. Arch., LXVIII. 114. And on the 25th of April, Captain Gookin received instructions as Commander-in-chief of all the forces of horse and foot in this expedition, for the service of the Colony, against the enemy. Ibid., p 228. A letter addressed by him to the Council for the management of the War affords a glimpse of the magnitude of the perils which then beset the Colony, and the spirit in which they were met: Honored sirs, I received your orders after I was retired to rest; but I suddenly got up and issued forth warrants for the