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Hopkins (search for this): chapter 30
y, agreed with his men to march the next morning for Boston. Wait for proper orders, was the advice of Wooster; but the selfwilled commander, brooking no delay, extorted supplies from the committee of the town; and on the twenty-ninth, reached the American Headquarters with his company. There was scarcely a town in Connecticut that was not represented among the besiegers. The nearest towns of Rhode Island were in motion before the British had finished their retreat. At the instance of Hopkins and others, Wanton, the governor, though himself inclined to the royal side, called an assembly. Its members were all of one mind; and when Wanton, with several of the council, showed hesitation, they resolved, if necessary, to proceed alone. The council yielded, and confirmed the unanimous vote of the assembly which authorized raising an army of fifteen hundred men. The colony of Rhode Island, wrote Bowler, the speaker, to the Massachusetts congress, is firm and determined; and a greater
Percy (search for this): chapter 30
gton had begun a fight with a detachment that outnumbered them as twelve to one. They did not make one gallant attempt during so long an action, wrote Smith, who was smarting under his wound, and escaped captivity only by the opportune arrival of Percy. Men are prone to fail in equity towards those whom their pride regards as their inferiors. The Americans, slowly provoked and long suffering, treated the prisoners with tenderness, and nursed the wounded as though they had been members of their own families. They even invited Gage to send out British surgeons for their relief. Yet Percy could degrade himself so far as to calumniate the countrymen who gave him chase, and officially lend himself to the falsehood, that the rebels scalped and cut of the ears of some of the wounded who fell into their Chap. XXIX.} April. hands. He should have respected the name which he bore; famed as it is in history and in song; and he should have respected the men before whom he fled. The fals
Benedict Arnold (search for this): chapter 30
rs Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. marched for Boston on the twenty-second, well armed and in high spirits. From the neighboring towns, men of the largest estates, and the most esteemed for character, seized their firelocks and followed. By the second night, several thousands from the colony were on their way. Some fixed on their standards and drums the colony arms, and round it in letters of gold, the motto, that God who brought over their fathers would sustain the sons. In New Haven, Benedict Arnold, captain of a volunteer company, agreed with his men to march the next morning for Boston. Wait for proper orders, was the advice of Wooster; but the selfwilled commander, brooking no delay, extorted supplies from the committee of the town; and on the twenty-ninth, reached the American Headquarters with his company. There was scarcely a town in Connecticut that was not represented among the besiegers. The nearest towns of Rhode Island were in motion before the British had finished
Cilley (search for this): chapter 30
ved unanimously that a New England army of thirty thousand men should be raised, and established its own proportion at thirteen thousand six hundred. The term of enlistment was fixed for the last day of December. Long before this summons the ferries over the Merrimack were crowded by men from New Hampshire. We go, said they, to the assistance of our brethren. By one o'clock of the twentieth upwards of sixty men of Nottingham assembled at the meeting-house with arms and equipments, under Cilley and Dearborn; before two they were joined by bands from Deerfield, and Epsom; and they set out together for Cambridge. At dusk they reached Haverhill ferry, a distance of twenty-seven miles, having run rather than marched; they halted in Andover only for refreshments, and traversing fiftyfive miles in less than twenty hours, by sunrise of the twenty-first, paraded on Cambridge common. The veteran John Stark, skilled in the ways of the Indian, the English, and his countrymen, able to take
Israel Putnam (search for this): chapter 30
not to return before the work was done. Many who remained near the upper Connecticut, threw up the civil and military commissions held from the king, for said they: The king has forfeited his crown, and all commissions from him are therefore vacated of course. In Connecticut, Trumbull, the governor, sent out writs to convene the legislature of the colony at Hartford on the Wednesday following the battle. Meantime the people could not be restrained. On the morning of the twentieth, Israel Putnam, of Pomfret, in leather frock and apron, was assisting hired men to build a stone wall on his farm, when he heard the cry from Lexington. Leaving them to continue their task, he set off instantly to rouse the militia officers of the nearest towns. On his return, he found hundreds who had mustered and chosen him their leader. Issuing orders for them to follow, he himself pushed forward without changing the check shirt he had worn in the field, and reached Cambridge at sunrise the next
Trumbull (search for this): chapter 30
battalion, which was one of the fullest in the besieging army, became a model for its discipline. By the twenty-third, there were already about two thousand men from the interior parts of New Hampshire, desirous not to return before the work was done. Many who remained near the upper Connecticut, threw up the civil and military commissions held from the king, for said they: The king has forfeited his crown, and all commissions from him are therefore vacated of course. In Connecticut, Trumbull, the governor, sent out writs to convene the legislature of the colony at Hartford on the Wednesday following the battle. Meantime the people could not be restrained. On the morning of the twentieth, Israel Putnam, of Pomfret, in leather frock and apron, was assisting hired men to build a stone wall on his farm, when he heard the cry from Lexington. Leaving them to continue their task, he set off instantly to rouse the militia officers of the nearest towns. On his return, he found hundr
Dearborn (search for this): chapter 30
sly that a New England army of thirty thousand men should be raised, and established its own proportion at thirteen thousand six hundred. The term of enlistment was fixed for the last day of December. Long before this summons the ferries over the Merrimack were crowded by men from New Hampshire. We go, said they, to the assistance of our brethren. By one o'clock of the twentieth upwards of sixty men of Nottingham assembled at the meeting-house with arms and equipments, under Cilley and Dearborn; before two they were joined by bands from Deerfield, and Epsom; and they set out together for Cambridge. At dusk they reached Haverhill ferry, a distance of twenty-seven miles, having run rather than marched; they halted in Andover only for refreshments, and traversing fiftyfive miles in less than twenty hours, by sunrise of the twenty-first, paraded on Cambridge common. The veteran John Stark, skilled in the ways of the Indian, the English, and his countrymen, able to take his rest on
Cornelius Harnett (search for this): chapter 30
more at Philadelphia; the next it lighted a watchfire at Baltimore; thence it waked an answer at Annapolis. Crossing the Potomac near Mount Vernon, it was sent forward Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. without a halt to Williamsburg. It traversed the Dismal Swamp to Nansemond along the route of the first emigrants to North Carolina. It moved onwards and still onwards through boundless groves of evergreen to Newbern and to Wilmington. For God's sake, forward it by night and by day, wrote Cornelius Harnett by the express which sped for Brunswick. Patriots of South Carolina caught up its tones at the border, and despatched it to Charleston, and through pines and palmettos and moss-clad live oaks, still further to the south, till it resounded among the New England settlements beyond the Savannah. Hillsborough and the Mecklenburg district of North Carolina rose in triumph, now that their wearisome uncertainty had its end. The Blue Ridge took up the voice and made it heard from one end to
Wooster (search for this): chapter 30
rgest estates, and the most esteemed for character, seized their firelocks and followed. By the second night, several thousands from the colony were on their way. Some fixed on their standards and drums the colony arms, and round it in letters of gold, the motto, that God who brought over their fathers would sustain the sons. In New Haven, Benedict Arnold, captain of a volunteer company, agreed with his men to march the next morning for Boston. Wait for proper orders, was the advice of Wooster; but the selfwilled commander, brooking no delay, extorted supplies from the committee of the town; and on the twenty-ninth, reached the American Headquarters with his company. There was scarcely a town in Connecticut that was not represented among the besiegers. The nearest towns of Rhode Island were in motion before the British had finished their retreat. At the instance of Hopkins and others, Wanton, the governor, though himself inclined to the royal side, called an assembly. Its m
Pepperell (search for this): chapter 30
took part in preparing the men of their households to go forth to the war. The farmers rushed to the camp of liberty, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs, without a day's provisions, and many without a farthing in their pockets. Their country was in danger; their brethren were slaughtered; their arms alone employed their attention. On their way, the inhabitants gladly opened their hospitable doors and all things were in common. For the first night of the siege, Prescott of Pepperell with his Middlesex minute men kept the watch over the entrance to Boston, and while Gage was driven for safety to fortify the town at all points, the Americans already talked of nothing but driving him and his regiments into the sea. At the same time the committee by letter gave the story of the preceding day to New Hampshire and Connecticut, whose assistance they entreated. We shall be glad, they wrote, that our brethren who come to our aid, may be supplied with military Chap. XXIX.
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