ren, and lived to be eighty-two
years old--dying in 1841. Her sister Mercy was engaged to be married
to General Warren, but he fell at Bunker Hill: and his betrothed
devoted herself afterwards to the care and education of his orphaned
children whom he had by his first wife.

NOTE 37.

Miss Bella Coffin was probably Isabella, daughter of John Coffin and
Isabella Child, who were married in 1750. She married Major
MacMurde, and their sons were officers in India.

NOTE 38.

This Miss "Quinsey" was Ann Quincy, the daughter of Col. Josiah
Quincy (who was born 1710, died 1784), and his third wife, Ann
Marsh. Ann was born December 8, 1763, and thus would have been in
her ninth year at the time of the little rout. She married the Rev.
Asa Packard, of Marlborough, Mass., in 1790.

NOTE 39.

In the universal use of wines and strong liquors in New England at
that date children took unrestrainedly their proportionate part. It
seems strange to think of this girl assembly of little Bostonians
drinking wine and hot or cold punch as part of their "treat," yet no
doubt they were well accustomed to such fare. I know of a little
girl of still tenderer years who was sent at that same time from the
Barbadoes to her grandmother's house in Boston to be "finished" in
Boston schools, as was Anna, and who left her relative's abode in
high dudgeon because she was not permitted to have wine at her
meals; and her parents upheld her, saying Missy must be treated like
a lady and have all the wine she wished. Cobbett, who thought liquor
drinking the national disease of America, said that "at all hours of
the day little boys at or under twelve years of age go into stores
and tip off their drams." Thus it does not seem strange for little
maids also to drink at a party. The temperance awakening of this
century came none too soon.

NOTE 40.

Paste ornaments were universally worn by both men and women, as well
as by little girls, and formed the decoration of much of the
headgear of fashionable dames. Many advertisements appear in New
England newspapers, which show how large and varied was the
importation of hair ornaments at that date. We find advertised in
the _Boston Evening Post_, of 1768: "Double and single row knotted
Paste Combs, Paste Hair Sprigs & Pins all prices. Marcasite and
Pearl Hair Sprigs, Garnet & Pearl Hair Sprigs." In the _Salem
Gazette_ a