40
Rowe, John 62
Savage, Samuel Phillips 338
Sprague, Samuel 164
Warren, Joseph 48
AUTOGRAPHS.
Adams, Samuel 299
Bradlee, Nathaniel 97
Bradlee, David 97
Bass, Henry 96
Church, Benjamin 26
Cheever, Ezekiel 46
Chase, Thomas 102
Clarke, Benjamin 103
Crane, John 108
Franklin, Benjamin 185
Faneuil, Benjamin, Jr., 294
Frothingham, Nathaniel 111
Green, Nathaniel 114
Grant, Moses 113
Gore, Samuel 113
Hodgdon, Alexander 79
Hancock, John 288
Hutchinson, Thomas 308
Inches, Henderson 27
Kennison, David 122
Lovering, Joseph 182
Lincoln, Amos 125
Lee, Joseph 124
Molineux, William 137
Melvill, Thomas 135
Newell, Eliphelet 138
Purkitt, Henry 150
Prentice, Henry 146
Pitts, Lendall 145
Peck, Samuel 140
Palmer, Joseph P. 139
Proctor, Edward 149
Russell, John 159
Revere, Paul 154
Rowe, John 63
Rotch, Francis 41
Swan, James 168
Sprague, Samuel 164
Sloper, Samuel 162
Shed, Joseph 161
Sessions, Robert 160
Savage, Samuel Phillips 57
Urann, Thomas 169
Winslow, Joshua 223
Williams, Jonathan 43
Warren, Joseph 30
Wyeth, Joseph 171
[Illustration: _Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on
BUNKERS-HILL in the Peninsula of CHARLESTOWN_, the 17^th of June 1776.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Dr. Holmes, the annalist, says, that tea began to be used in New
England in 1720. Small quantities, must, however, have been made many
years before, as small copper tea-kettles were in use in Plymouth, in
1702. The first cast-iron tea-kettles were made in Plympton, (now
Carver,) Mass., between 1760 and 1765. When ladies went to visiting
parties, each one carried her tea-cup, saucer, and spoon. The cups were
of the best china, very small, containing about as much as a common
wine-glass.
[2] Hist. of Mass., iii. 422.
[3] This body, which originally consisted of sixty-one members, with Dr.
Thomas Young for its president, was organized by Dr. Joseph Warren, who,
with one other person, drew up its regulations. Its usual place of
meeting was at William Campbell's house, near the North Battery, though
its sessions were sometimes held at the Green Dragon tavern. Here the
committees of public service were formed, and measures of defence, and
resolves for the destruction of the tea, discussed. It was here, when
the best mode of e
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