[33] Letters of John Adams to his wife, Vol. I, pages 12-13.
[34] Letters of John Adams to his wife, Vol. I., page 12.
[35] Diary of John Adams, page 413.
[36] Sabine. Vol. I., page 13.
[37] "History of Harvard University," by Josiah Quincy, Vol. II., pp. 182-209.
[38] Letter of Governor Wentworth, New Eng. His. Gen. Reg., 1869, page 274.
[39] As the wounded soldier was crawling away he was met by a boy who had been chopping wood, and who, inflamed by the spirit of the hour, killed him with his axe. The two soldiers lay buried near the stonewall where they fell. More than a century later a young woman came here recently from Nottinghamshire, who was a relative of one of them. She went to the graves and placed upon them a wreath, singing as she did so, "God save the King!"
[40] John Adams' Letters. Vol. X, page 197.
[41] "Massachusettsensis."
[42] "Moor's Diary." Vol. I., page 359.