sinking a vessel at sea and
defrauding the underwriters. In 1771 the pillory was in constant use
in Newport.

NOTE 54.

In 1770 British troops were quartered in Boston, to the intense
annoyance and indignation of Boston inhabitants. Disturbances
between citizens and soldiers were frequent, and many quarrels
arose. On the night of March 5 in that year the disturbance became
so great that the troops, at that time under command of Captain
Preston, fired upon the unarmed citizens in King (now State) street,
causing the death of Crispus Attucks, a colored man, Samuel Gray and
James Caldwell, who died on the spot, and mortally wounding Patrick
Carr and Samuel Maverick. At the burial of these slaughtered men the
greatest concourse ever known in the colonies flocked to the grave
in the Granary Burying Ground. All traffic ceased. The stores and
manufactories were closed. The bells were tolled in all the
neighboring towns.

Daniel Webster said, that from the moment the blood of these men
stained the pavements of Boston streets, we may date the severance
of the colony from the British empire.

The citizens demanded the removal of the troops, and the request was
complied with. For many years the anniversary of this day was a
solemn holiday in Boston, and religious and patriotic services were
publicly held.

NOTE 55.

Mather Byles was born March 15, 1707; died July 5, 1788. He was
ordained pastor of the Hollis Street Congregational Church, of
Boston, in 1733. He was a staunch Loyalist till the end of his days,
as were his daughters, who lived till 1837. His chief fame does not
rest on his name as a clergyman or an author, but as an inveterate
and unmerciful jester.

NOTE 56.

Henry Green, the brother of Anna's mother, was born June 2, 1738. He
was a Latin School boy, was in business in Nova Scotia, and died in
1774.

NOTE 57.

This stove was a foot-stove,--a small metal box, usually of sheet
tin or iron, enclosed in a wooden frame or standing on little legs,
and with a handle or bail for comfortable carriage. In it were
placed hot coals from a glowing wood fire, and from it came a
welcome warmth to make endurable the freezing floors of the
otherwise unwarmed meeting-house. Foot-stoves were much used in the
Old South. In the records of the church, under date of January 16,
1771, may be read:--

"Whereas, danger is appreh