of the Revolution." Hastening to him, she smoothed
the patriarch's pillow in his passage to the grave.

JOSEPH LEE,

Merchant, on Long Wharf, afterwards at 9 Doane Street, was a member of
Massachusetts Lodge of Freemasons, in 1773, and died February 6, 1831;
aged eighty-six.

[Illustration: signature, Joseph Lee]

AMOS LINCOLN,

Born in Hingham, Mass., March 17, 1753, died at Quincy, Mass., January
15, 1829. He was apprenticed to a Mr. Crafts, at the North End, who, on
the evening of December 16, 1773, secretly procured for him an Indian
disguise, dressed him in his own chamber,--darkening his face to the
required tint,--and then, dropping on his knees, prayed most fervently
that he might be protected in the enterprise in which he was engaged.
Joining Stark's New Hampshire regiment, he was in the battle of Bunker
Hill; was afterwards a captain in Craft's artillery regiment, and was at
one time in charge of the castle, in Boston harbor. When Shays'
insurrection broke out, he assisted in its suppression. He was a
housewright of much skill. The wood-work of the State House was under
his charge, and evinces the grace and beauty of his workmanship. He
married a daughter of Paul Revere. His grandson, Frederick W. Lincoln,
has been mayor of Boston. He joined St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons,
in 1777. Governor Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts, and Governor Enoch
Lincoln, of Maine, were nephews of Captain Amos Lincoln.

[Illustration: Signature, Amos Lincoln]

MATTHEW LORING

Was a cordwainer, on Devonshire Street, residing on Brattle Street. He
died November 7, 1829; aged seventy-nine.

THOMAS MACHIN

Was born in Staffordshire, England, 20th March, 1744; was employed by
Brindley in canal construction, and in 1772 came to America, and settled
in Boston. He was wounded at Bunker Hill, while acting as lieutenant of
artillery; 18th January, 1776, was commissioned second lieutenant in
Col. Knox's artillery regiment, and was employed from April to June in
that year in laying out the fortifications for the defence of the town
and harbor of Boston; from July, 1776, to 1781, he was employed in
constructing the fortifications which were to render the Hudson
impassable to British vessels. In October, 1777, when Forts Montgomery
and Clinton were taken by the British, Captain Machin was wounded by a
musket-ball, which entered his breast and passed out under his right
shoulder. In April, 1779, he accompanied Colonel Van S