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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
oyne and Heath. The case was duly examined by a court martial, and Col. Henley was acquitted. Ibid., p. 155. June 17, 1778. A British officer was shot by an American sentinel on Prospect Hill, the officer attempting to pass contrary to the standing orders. A jury of inquest, consisting of William Howe, Benjamin Locke, John Brown, Ebenezer Stedman, Samuel Manning, Nathaniel Austin, Joseph Read, jr., James Hill, Thomas Barrett, Benjamin Baker, Aaron Hill, Isaac Bradish, James Munroe, Joseph Johnson, good and lawful men of Cambridge, rendered their verdict on the 18th of June, that the said Richard Brown was shot with a fire arm by the centinel in Charlestown, near Prospect Hill, between the hours of five and six P. M., on the 17th day of June, A. D. 1778, in attempting to pass the centinel with two women, after being properly challenged by said centinel, and so came to death. Heath's Memoirs, p. 175. By the official census, it appears that the population of Cambridge was 1,5