[260] Edward Everett Hale in Memorial History of Boston. Vol. 3.
[261] West Cambridge on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, An Address by Samuel Abbot Smith, Boston, 1864, page 27.
[262] Frothingham's Siege of Boston.
[263] Edward Everett Hale in Memorial History of Boston, Vol. 3.
[264] Brown's Beneath Old Roof Trees.
[265] Smith's Address.
[266] Smith's Address. Some of the opposition newspapers in England were quite merry and some quite sarcastic over the surrender of six lusty soldiers to one old woman, and inquired, on that basis, how many British troops would it take to conquer America?
[267] Smith's Address.
[268] He signed his official report to Gen. Gage, "Percy, Acting Brig. Gen." So that was his title for April Nineteenth.
[269] See the rough or preliminary draft of his report to Gage.