[402] E. E. Hale, One Hundred Years Ago.
[403] Cf. John Adams's account of this choice, Works, ii. 417; Familiar Letters, 65; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iv. 68. Also see Sparks' Washington, i. 138, etc.; iii. 1; Barry's Mass., iii. 18, and references; Irving's Washington, i. 411. His commission and instructions are in Sparks' Washington, iii. 479.
[404] Frothingham's Warren, 512; Evacuation Memorial, p. 731; Wells's Sam. Adams, ii. 13, 17.
[405] It was torn down in the summer of 1884. See cut and note in Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. p. 108.
[406] Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 83.
[407] The first boat to approach was struck by a three-pound shot from the redoubt. Life of Josiah Quincy, by Edmund Quincy, p. 372.
[408] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xii. 69.
[409] This is Stedman's statement, but it seems at variance with the official report, which states that they took sixty-six rounds with their guns, and did not use over half. Denman's Royal Artillery, 3d ed., ii. 303.
[410] Washington, on his arrival in Cambridge, recognized the services of Col. Joseph Ward, who at this time had borne an order from General Ward across Charlestown Neck amid the cross-fire of the British batteries, by giving him a brace of pistols, now preserved; and perhaps the only written order of the battlefield now remaining is a requisition by Jos. Ward for ammunition, which is given in fac-simile in Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 86, where are also other notes on Jos. Ward. Cf. also J. V. Cheney in Scribner's Monthly, xi. 424. Some memoranda respecting Joseph Ward are in the Sparks MSS. (LII. vol. iii.)
[411] Only one or two hundred people, out of a population of from two to three thousand, were now remaining in the town.