Footnote 152: Lamb's dam was between Roxbury and Dorchester. There the Americans completed a strong work on the 10th of September, and mounted four eighteen-pounders.[(Back)]
Footnote 153: Skirmish.[(Back)]
Footnote 154: We can not explain this local allusion.[(Back)]
Footnote 155: The breastworks in the thicket were the Roxbury lines of fortifications in advance of the fort.[(Back)]
Footnote 156: Mystic.[(Back)]
Footnote 157: The road leading from Roxbury across the neck into Boston.[(Back)]
Footnote 158: Captain Pond was from New Hampshire, and was an officer in Colonel Stark's regiment.[(Back)]
Footnote 159: From the vessels known as men-of-war.[(Back)]
Footnote 160: Coronation. George III. and his wife Charlotte were crowned on the 22d of September, 1761. It was always a holyday next to that of the king's birthday.[(Back)]
Footnote 161: Frothingham says: "On the 23d, the British discharged one hundred and eight cannon and mortars on the works at Roxbury without doing any damage."[(Back)]