Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga

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BY JAMES OTIS
YOUNG PATRIOT SERIES
CORPORAL ’LIGE’S RECRUIT.
A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga.
By JAMES OTIS.
With Six Page Illustrations by J. Watson Davis.
NEW YORK: A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.
Copyright, 1898, by A. L. Burt.
CORPORAL ’LIGE’S RECRUIT.
There was great excitement among the citizens of the town of Pittsfield in the province of Massachusetts on the first day of May in the year 1775.
Master Edward Mott and Noah Phelps, forming a committee appointed by the Provincial Assembly of Connecticut, had arrived on the previous evening charged with an important commission, the making known of which had so aroused the inhabitants of the peaceful settlement that it was as if the reports of the muskets fired at Lexington and Concord were actually ringing in their ears.