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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
nce of his excellency General Washington, should be immediately put in such a condition as may make it convenient for that purpose. Ibid., p. 593. Precisely how soon the new quarters were occupied does not appear; but Thacher represents that before July 20 the General was residing in a convenient house, about half a mile from Harvard College, Thacher's Military Journal, p. 32. a description which indicates the Vassall house; and these quarters were retained until he left Cambridge, April 4, 1776. Quartermaster-general Mifflin's Headquarters were at the Brattle House. Immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill, the Americans began to erect works on Prospect Hill, a very commanding height above Charlestown Common, and at several other places Several works were also constructed at Roxbury, and the British confined to Boston and Charlestown within the neck. Heath's Memoirs, p. 22. These works were extended, after the arrival of Washington, from Dorchester on the south, thro