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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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