aul Revere.
Moses Grant.
Joseph Lovering.
Dr. Elisha Story.
Thomas Chase.
Benjamin Edes.
Joseph Pierce, Jr.
Captain Riordan.
John Crane.
John McFadden.
Thomas Knox, Jr.
Robert Hitchborn.
November 30. Captain, EZEKIEL CHEEVER.[14]
Thomas Urann.
William Dickman.
Samuel Peck.
Thomas Bolley.
John Rice.
Joseph Froude.
Obadiah Curtis.
George Ray.
Benjamin Ingerson.
Adam Collson.
Daniel Hewes.
Joseph Eayres.
William Sutton.
Ebenezer Ayres.
William Elberson.
Benjamin Stevens.
James Brewer.
Rufus Bant.
William Clap.
Nicholas Pierce.
Thomas Tileston.
Richard Hunnewell.
[Illustration: Signature, Ezekiel Cheever]
[Illustration: MAJOR GEN^L. JOSEPH WARREN
Slain at the Battle of Bunker Hill _June 17 1775_
(_Copied from the Boston print of 1782, it being from the London print
previous to this date._)
"May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of
the oppressed, a name, a praise in the whole earth."--JOSEPH WARREN.
March 5, 1772.]
Hancock and Henry Knox were members of this volunteer guard. Volunteers
were, after the first night, requested to leave their names at the
printing-office of Edes and Gill; the duty of providing it having
devolved upon the committee of correspondence.
Obadiah Curtis, born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1724; died in
Newton, Mass., November 11, 1811. He was a wheelwright by
trade, and his wife, Martha, kept an English goods store, at
the corner of Rawson's Lane, (now Bromfield Street,) and
Newbury (now Washington) Street, and accumulated a handsome
estate. Becoming obnoxious to the British authorities, Mr.
Curtis removed with his family to Providence, remaining
there until after the evacuation of Boston. A person who saw
him at this time thus describes his appearance: "He was
habited according to the fashion of gentlemen of those
days,--in a three-cornered hat, a club wig, a long coat of
ample dimensions, that appeared to have been made with
reference to future growth, breeches with large buckles, and
shoes fastened in the same manner."
James Henderson was a painter, in Boston, at the beginning
of this century.
Daniel Hewes, a mason by trade, resided on Purchase Street,
where he died July 9, 1821; aged 77. He was a brother of
George Robert Twelves Hewes.
Robert Hitchborn was a cooper, on Anne St
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