[344] Ibid., p. 413.
[345] P. O. Hutchinson, p. 371.
[346] Frothingham's Warren, p. 418.
[347] Gage seems to have reported to the War Office that the information was erroneous which induced him to send out this expedition. P. O. Hutchinson's Gov. Hutchinson, 432. Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 348.
[348] They started April 5th. Howe's record appears in A Journal kept by Mr. John Howe, while he was employed as a British Spy during the Revolutionary War; also while he was engaged in the smuggling business during the late war. (Concord, N. H., 1827.) The only copy known is in the library of the New Hampshire Hist. Soc. Extracts from it are printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, Apr. 20, 1886.
[349] Their reports to Gage are in Force's Amer. Archives.
[350] P. O. Hutchinson, p. 397.
[351] Ibid., p. 529; Joshua Green's diary in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 101.
[352] Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, Mar. 16, 1775, cited in Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, 60; also Moore's Diary of the Amer. Rev., i. 34.
[353] The manuscript of Warren's address is preserved in the hands of Dr. John C. Warren, and a page of it is in fac-simile in the Mem. Hist. of Boston, 143. Frothingham enumerates the editions of the printed pamphlet in his Warren, p. 436.