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dred. 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 reacherefore 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
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follow, he himself pushed forward without changing the check shirt he had worn in the field, and reached Cambridge at sunrise the next morning, having ridden the same horse a hundred miles within eighteen hours. He brought to the service of his country courage which, during the war, was never questioned; and a heart than which none throbbed more honestly or warmly for American freedom. From Weathersfield, a hundred young volunteers 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
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ousands 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 members were all of one mind; and when Wanton, with several of the council, showed hesitation, they resolved, if necessary,
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Chapter 29: Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord: the alarm. April, 1775. darkness closed upon the country and upon the Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April 19. town, but it was no night for sleep. Heralds on swift relays of horses transmitted the war-message from hand to hand, till village repeated it to village; the sea to the backwoods; the plains to the highlands; and it was never suffered to droop, till it had been borne north, and south, and east, and west, throughout the land. d. Ever renewing its strength, powerful enough even to create a commonwealth, it breathed its inspiring word to the first settlers of Kentucky; so that hunters who made their halt in the matchless valley of the Elkhorn, commemorated the nineteenth day of April by naming their encampment Lexington. With one impulse the colonies sprung to arms: with one spirit they pledged themselves to each other to be ready for the extreme event. With one heart, the continent cried Liberty or Death. The
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thed its inspiring word to the first settlers of Kentucky; so that hunters who made their halt in the matchless valley of the Elkhorn, commemorated the nineteenth day of April by naming their encampment Lexington. With one impulse the colonies sprung to arms: with one spirit they pledged themselves to each other to be ready for the extreme event. With one heart, the continent cried Liberty or Death. The first measure of the Massachusetts committee of safety after the dawn of the twentieth of April, was a circular to the several towns in Massachusetts. Chap XXIX.} 1775. April. We conjure you, they wrote, by all that is dear, by all that is sacred; we beg and entreat, as you will answer it to your country, to your consciences, and above all, to God himself, that you will hasten and encourage by all possible means the enlistment of men to form the army; and send them forward to Headquarters at Cambridge with that expedition which the vast importance and instant urgency of the af
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a. 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.} 1775. April. stores and provisions, as we have none of either, more than is absolutely necessary for ourselves. And without stores, or cannon, or supplies even of powder, or of money, Massachusetts by its congress, on the twenty-second of April, resolved 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 equ
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e supplied with military Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. stores and provisions, as we have none of either, more than is absolutely necessary for ourselves. And without stores, or cannon, or supplies even of powder, or of money, Massachusetts by its congress, on the twenty-second of April, resolved 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 r
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darkness closed upon the country and upon the Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April 19. town, but it was no night for sleep. Heralds onotomac near Mount Vernon, it was sent forward Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. without a halt to Williamsburg. It traversed the ircular to the several towns in Massachusetts. Chap XXIX.} 1775. April. We conjure you, they wrote, by all that is dear, bome to our aid, may be supplied with military Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. stores and provisions, as we have none of either, So many followed, that on the morning of the Chap. XXIX.} 1775 April. twenty-second, he was detached with three hundred torom Weathersfield, a hundred young volunteers Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. marched for Boston on the twenty-second, well armeever prevailed. Companies of the men of Rhode Chap XXIX.} 1775 April. Island preceded this early message. The convictio an immediate stop to supplies of every kind. Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. The troops, in consequence, suffered severely from
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Chapter 29: Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord: the alarm. April, 1775. darkness closed upon the country and upon the Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April 19. town, but it was no night for sleep. Heralds on swift relays of horses transmitted the war-message from hand to hand, till village repeated it to village; the sea to the backwoods; the plains to the highlands; and it was never suffered to droop, till it had been borne north, and south, and east, and west, throughout the land. It spread over the bays that receive the Saco and the Penobscot. Its loud reveille broke the rest of the trappers of New Hampshire, and ringing like bugle-notes from peak to peak, overleapt the Green Mountains, swept onward to Montreal, and descended the ocean river, till the responses were echoed from the cliffs of Quebec. The hills along the Hudson told to one another the tale. As the summons hurried to the south, it was one day at New York; in one more at Philadelphia; the next it lighted
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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
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