menced at this place.
One company (Harris') went to the rail fence.
The greater part under the lead of their colonel on the third attack advanced towards the redoubt.
On the way, Colonel Gardner was struck by a ball, which inflicted a mortal wound.
The loss of the regiment in this battle was six killed, seven wounded.
September 1, 1775, Isaac Hall was discharged to organize another company of men from Medford, Stoneham and other adjoining towns.
With this company he marched to Dorchester Heights in March, 1776.
During 1775 and 1776 he acted as commissary for the troops that were quartered here.
His business affairs had evidently suffered from his absence on military duties.
He and his brothers also lost large sums from furnishing the government with rum and other medical and military supplies, and receiving payment in a constantly depreciating currency.
In 1778 he was assessed for a tax of about £ 30 in gold.
In 1789, the year of his death, his tax had decreased to £ 4 in
Edwin Forrest Locke.
Mr. Edwin Forrest Locke, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Brown) Locke, was born in Charlestown, January 9, 1847, and died in Amherst, N. H., October 3, 1905.
He was descended from Dea. William Locke, one of the first settlers of Woburn and others who assisted in organizing different towns of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His great-grandfather, Lieut. Samuel Locke, served at Dorchester Heights in 1776; another great-grandfather, Joseph Brown, was in the Battle of Bennington, and a great-great-grandfather, Caleb Kimball, was in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
His early education was obtained at the public schools and at Chauncy Hall.
When about nineteen he entered the employ of his father at Faneuil Hall Market, and in a few years was admitted to the firm under the name of Isaac Locke and Company, in which he continued as long as he lived.
He was an active member of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Massachu
rom Medford to Malden.
From along the roads that crossed at the Square they gathered where we stand.
Near here the company formed, and before the sun rose, marched off into that day and into history.
Long years have passed since those Minute Men of Medford went up the road into the first battle of the Revolution.
In the later days of that grim struggle other companies followed and other recruits filled the waning ranks of the Continental army.
Medford men were at Bunker Hill, at Dorchester Heights, at Ticonderoga and Saratoga.
But here and now, on the very ground where the first Minute Men assembled, our gratitude is kindled as we fancy that sturdy troop in the early morning, advancing to the unknown fate of pioneers in that most perilous venture of all,—the quest of liberty against constituted authority.
It was our liberty, not theirs alone, for which they risked all they had to give.
It is therefore fitting that we evidence our remembrance of these men by a memorial more
ed beyond most others.
He moved to Beverly and, in 1766, married Miss Judith Wood, by whom he had four daughters and one son. That son he named Ebenezer, and he became a prominent merchant of Boston.
Colonel Francis had three brothers who became officers in the Revolutionary army and their records reflected credit to their native town.
Ebenezer was commissioned Captain by the Continental Congress July 1, 1775; next year he rose to the rank of Colonel, and commanded a regiment on Dorchester Heights from August to December, 1776.
Authorized by Congress, he raised the Eleventh Massachusetts (Continental) regiment, and in January, 1777, marched at its head to Ticonderoga.
Burgoyne had started on his campaign from Canada and arrived at Ticonderoga, which was commanded by General St. Clair, with about three thousand men. The American forces were not sufficient to hold the fort and an adjacent hill (Sugar Loaf) which commanded the position.
The British succeeded in dragging guns t
ble enthusiasm was manifested in many places on the reception of General Gillmore's dispatch.
The Sixty-ninth regiment have offered their services to the Government to garrison Charleston for three months.
Troy, New York,February 21.--A salute of one hundred guns was fired here to-day in honor of the capture of Charleston.
Boston,February 21.--Washington's birthday will be celebrated to-morrow.
A salute of one hundred guns will be fired on the Common, and one hundred on Dorchester Heights, in honor of Sherman's victorious march.
Discussion in the Yankee Congress upon the Government of the "Rebellious States."
The bill for the government of the "rebellious States" was again under consideration in the Yankee House on the 21st instant:
Mr. Davis (Maryland), from the present condition of affairs, argued that by the 4th of July next armed rebellion will have failed to lift its brazen front.--His object, as expressed in the bill, was to prevent the States now in
