[299] Cutter's Arlington and Paige's Cambridge.
[300] Deposition of Rachel Cooper.
[301] Smith's Address, page 52.
[302] King's Address, page 14.
[303] Dr. B. Cutter's Statement in Smith's Address, page 47.
[304] Paige's History of Cambridge, page 414.
[305] See Thanksgiving Sermon in the Camp at Roxbury, Nov. 23, 1775, by Rev. Isaac Mansfield, Jr., Chaplain to Gen. Thomas's Regiment. Mr. Mansfield fully believed such plans to have been made and states that his information came so direct that he could not hesitate to accept it but did not feel at liberty to publish the name of his informer.
[306] Booth, in Somerville Journal. April, 1875.
[307] The old highboy was in existence in 1910 and treasured by a Somerville man, Francis Tufts, to whom it descended. I have seen it, with its blood stains and three bullet holes.
[308] E. C. Booth in an article on Somerville in Drake's History of Middlesex County, Vol. 2, page 312.