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tline of the life of John Brooks, the Medford boy who was friend of Lafayette and Washington and governor of this Commonwealth. We are justly proud of him for the dignity of his character and his three-fold able service along military, civic and medical lines. You may see his face portrayed in Trumbull's picture of the surrender of Burgoyne in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. Colonel Stark in a letter to Matthew Thornton, who was president of a Provincial Convention at Exeter, New Hampshire, addressed a letter to him there, two days after the battle stating that Major McClary was killed by a cannon-ball and Captain Baldwin and Lieutenant Scott by small arms. He further furnished the following:— The whole number, including officers, killed and missing,15 wounded,45 — 60 He also transmitted the account of Reed's losses, at the desire of the latter. This letter of Stark may have been written at the Admiral Vernon Tavern or at the Royall House. Major