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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Medford in the War of the Revolution. (search)
f duty. For weeks in succession men were on half allowance—for four or five days being without bread, and then as many more without meat. The unusually severe winter which made Burgoyne's army shiver and complain of ill-treatment at Winter Hill made the condition of the Continentals at Valley Forge almost unendurable. In February, 1778, Rev. Edward Brooks came home from captivity at Halifax. He had been chaplain of the frigate Hancock, built at Newburyport by order of Congress in December, 1775. She had been taken by the British man-of-war Rainbow renamed the Iris, and attached to the British fleet. Mr. Brooks was exchanged for Parson Lewis, a British chaplain, and left Halifax on the Favorite, Jan. 29, 1778. While in Nova Scotia he had the small-pox. He was not strong when commissioned; he returned with health hopelessly shattered. It is said that a large proportion of the graduates of Harvard became Tories. David Osgood and Edward Brooks were exceptions. At the time