[594] Sparks, iii. 319, 320, 330; Dawson, i. 96; Life of Jos. Reed, i. ch. 8; N. H. Prov. Papers, viii. 86.
[595] Force's Amer. Archives. A letter by Eldad Taylor, Sunday, March 18, 1776, in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., viii. 231; Edmund Quincy's, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., April, 1858, p. 27, etc.; John Winthrop to John Adams, in Heath Papers, etc. (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.); Abigail Adams, in Familiar Letters, p. 148. See Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii., with references; and Potter's Amer. Monthly, vi. 166; and Chief Justice Oliver's diary, in P. O. Hutchinson's, Thomas Hutchinson, ii. 46.
[596] It appears from Hutchinson's Diary (ii. 44) that while Dartmouth had directed the evacuation, Lord George Germain, in coming into office, had rescinded the order, but for some reason the despatch was not forwarded.
[597] There is a description of Crean Brush in a letter from Ebenezer Hazard (Feb. 18, 1775) in the Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 201.
[598] The royal arms carried off from the old State House are now in St. John, N. B. (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xx. 231).
[599] Edmund Quincy wrote at the time: "The tories, they say, have been equal plunderers with the military." N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1859, p. 231. Washington wrote to Lee, "The destruction of the stores at Dunbar's camp, after Braddock's defeat, was but a faint image of what was seen in Boston" (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1872, p. 32). For the contributions of the Friends of Philadelphia to the poor of Boston, see the Penna. Mag. of Hist., i. 168.
[600] Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 191, 200. There is an orderly-book of Colonel Francis's regiment, at Dorchester Point, Aug.-Dec., 1776, among the Moses Greenleaf MSS. (Mass. Hist. Soc.) Various castle and harbor rolls, seacoast defence rolls, etc., are in the Mass. Archives; Rev. Rolls, vols. xxv., xxxvi., xxxvii.
[601] Similar letters are in John Adams's Works, ix. 381, etc. Abigail Adams constantly informed her husband of the condition of affairs (Familiar Letters, 78, 85, 91, 111, 124, 129, 137, 138, 141, 156). There is a diary of Chief Justice Oliver at Halifax, after the refugees had reached there, in P. O. Hutchinson's Hutchinson, ii. 50.
[602] It was not procured from Paris till four years after the peace (Colonel Humphrey's letter, Nov., 1787, in Amer. Museum, ii. 493). John Adams (Familiar Letters, 210) describes a device proposed for it, as early as 1776. It was purchased for the city of Boston in 1876, and is now preserved in the Boston Public Library. Its history is given in the Boston Evacuation Memorial. It has been described and delineated, obverse and reverse, several times, as in Sparks's Washington, i. 174, iii. 356; in Frothingham's Siege (cover); Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii. 100; Amer. Journal of Numismatics (July, 1880), xv. 1, 38; Snowden's Medals of Washington; Loubat's Medallic Hist. of the United States; Nat. Port. Gallery (N. Y. 1834); Johnston's Orig. portraits of Washington, p. 235; Guizot's Atlas to his Washington. Baker (Medallic Portraits of Washington, p. 27) says the artist made in it the earliest use of Houdon's bust. See Washington's letter in Force's Archives, v. 977. On one side are the words "Hostibus primo fugatis", and Mahon (vi. 85) seizes upon them to show that they plainly renounce all "the idle vaunts of Lexington", that the British had there fled.
[603] There is a reduction of this issue in the Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii. p. lv.