[75] Under date of September 13, 1776, is the following from the letter of Reverend Andrew Eliot to S. Eliot: “Every house is now taken as the officers please. General Clinton is in Mr. Hancock’s, Burgoyne in Mr. Bowdoin’s.”
[76]“I am by a cruel necessity turned out of my home; must leave my books and all I possess, perhaps to be destroyed by a licentious soldiery.” Andrew Eliot to Thomas Hollis, Proceedings Mass. Hist. Society, vol. xvi.
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