| Adams, Samuel | [299] |
| Bradlee, Nathaniel | [97] |
| Bradlee, David | [97] |
| Bass, Henry | [96] |
| Church, Benjamin | [26] |
| Cheever, Ezekiel | [46] |
| Chase, Thomas | [102] |
| Clarke, Benjamin | [103] |
| Crane, John | [108] |
| Franklin, Benjamin | [185] |
| Faneuil, Benjamin, Jr., | [294] |
| Frothingham, Nathaniel | [111] |
| Green, Nathaniel | [114] |
| Grant, Moses | [113] |
| Gore, Samuel | [113] |
| Hodgdon, Alexander | [79] |
| Hancock, John | [288] |
| Hutchinson, Thomas | [308] |
| Inches, Henderson | [27] |
| Kennison, David | [122] |
| Lovering, Joseph | [182] |
| Lincoln, Amos | [125] |
| Lee, Joseph | [124] |
| Molineux, William | [137] |
| Melvill, Thomas | [135] |
| Newell, Eliphelet | [138] |
| Purkitt, Henry | [150] |
| Prentice, Henry | [146] |
| Pitts, Lendall | [145] |
| Peck, Samuel | [140] |
| Palmer, Joseph P. | [139] |
| Proctor, Edward | [149] |
| Russell, John | [159] |
| Revere, Paul | [154] |
| Rowe, John | [63] |
| Rotch, Francis | [41] |
| Swan, James | [168] |
| Sprague, Samuel | [164] |
| Sloper, Samuel | [162] |
| Shed, Joseph | [161] |
| Sessions, Robert | [160] |
| Savage, Samuel Phillips | [57] |
| Urann, Thomas | [169] |
| Winslow, Joshua | [223] |
| Williams, Jonathan | [43] |
| Warren, Joseph | [30] |
| Wyeth, Joshua | [171] |
Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June 1776.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Dr. Holmes, the annalist, says, that tea began to be used in New England in 1720. Small quantities, must, however, have been made many years before, as small copper tea-kettles were in use in Plymouth, in 1702. The first cast-iron tea-kettles were made in Plympton, (now Carver,) Mass., between 1760 and 1765. When ladies went to visiting parties, each one carried her tea-cup, saucer, and spoon. The cups were of the best china, very small, containing about as much as a common wine-glass.
[2] Hist. of Mass., iii. 422.
[3] This body, which originally consisted of sixty-one members, with Dr. Thomas Young for its president, was organized by Dr. Joseph Warren, who, with one other person, drew up its regulations. Its usual place of meeting was at William Campbell's house, near the North Battery, though its sessions were sometimes held at the Green Dragon tavern. Here the committees of public service were formed, and measures of defence, and resolves for the destruction of the tea, discussed. It was here, when the best mode of expelling the regulars from Boston was under consideration, that John Hancock exclaimed, "Burn Boston, and make John Hancock a beggar, if the public good requires it."
[4] Thomas Crafts was, in 1789, a painter and japanner, opposite the site of the great tree (corner of Boylston and Washington Streets). He became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew in 1762.
[5] Benjamin Edes, journalist, born in Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 14, 1732; died in Boston, December 11, 1803. In 1755, he began, with John Gill, the publication of the "Boston Gazette and Country Journal," a newspaper of deserved popularity, unsurpassed in its patriotic zeal for liberty,—the chosen mouth-piece of the Whigs. To its columns, Otis, the Adamses, Quincy and Warren, were constant contributors. Their printing-office, on the corner of Queen (now Court) Street and Dassett's Alley (now Franklin Avenue), was the place of meeting of a party of the "Mohawks," on the afternoon of December 16, 1773. During the siege of Boston, the "Gazette" was issued at Watertown. It was discontinued September 17, 1798. At the opening of the war, Mr. Edes possessed a handsome property, which was wholly lost by the depreciation of the currency. Edes was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1760, and a prominent "Son of Liberty."