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3. Rev. David Avery, David Avery Papers, Princeton Theological Seminary.
4. Samuel Webb to Joseph Webb, June 19, 1775, Worthington Ford, Ed., Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb, 2 vols., New York, 1893, New York Times-Arno Books, 1969, I: 63–65; Samuel Ward to Mary Ward, August 17, 1775, Samuel Ward Papers, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
5. Robert Steele to William Sumner, July 10, 1825, Samuel Swett Papers on Bunker Hill, New York Historical Society, in George Scheer and Hugh Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats, New York: World Publishing Company, 1957, pp. 59–60.
6. Scheer and Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats, p. 61.
7. William Prescott to John Adams, August 25, 1775, Richard Frothingham, History of the Siege of Boston, 3rd ed., Boston, 1872, pp. 395–396.
8. Peter Brown to his mother, June 28, 1775, in Stiles, Literary Diary, I: 595.
9. Amos Farnsworth, June 17, 1776 entry in “Diary of Amos Farnsworth,” in Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris, Eds., The Spirit of ’seventy Six, 2 vols., New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958, I:122–123.
10. Thacher, p. 27.
11. Scheer and Rankin, p. 55–64.
Chapter Two
1. Harry Zobel, The Boston Massacre, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, p. 191.
2. Walter Muir Whitehill, Boston’s Topographical History, 2d ed., Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1968, pp. 3–45.
3. Thomas O’Connor, Bibles, Brahmins and Bosses, A Short History of Boston, Public Library of the City of Boston, 1991, 2d ed., pp. 38–52.
4. Pennsylvania Journal, August 2, 1775.
5. Thomas Hutchinson, Ed., Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson, with an Account of His Administration, Boston: Houghton, 1889–1896, in Commager, Spirit of Seventy-Six, I: 117–118.
6. Elijah Fisher, Elijah Fisher’s Journal While in the War for Independence and Continued Two Years After He Came to Maine, 1775–1784, Augusta, ME: Press of Badger & Manley, 1880, p. 5.
7. James Stevens, The Journal of James Stevens, of Andover, Massachusetts, a Soldier in the American Revolution, Salem, Mass., 1911, p. 7.
8. From a letter in Rivington’s Gazette (NY), June 20, 1775.
9. Stevens, The Journal of James Stevens, of Andover, Massachusetts, a Soldier in the American Revolution, p. 6.
10. August diary notes of Sam Haws, Abraham Tomlinson, The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758—1775, New York: DeCapo Press, 1971, pp. 64–70.
Chapter Three
1. John Littell, ed., Alexander Graydon’s Memoirs of His Own Time, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1846, reprinted by the New York Times-Arno Press, 1969, p. 152.
2. George Wingate Chase, Diary of David How, a Private in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent’s Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, in the Army of the American Revolution . . . with illustrative notes by Henry Dawson, Morrisania, N.Y., 1865, entry May 27, 1775, p. 19.
3. George Ewing, Military Journal of George Ewing, 1754–1824, a Soldier of Valley Forge, Yonkers, NY: Thomas Ewing, 1928, p. 26.
4. Nathan Avery to David Avery, June 19, 1775; Papers of David Avery, Princeton Theological Seminary.
5. Fisher, Elijah Fisher’s Journal While in the War for Independence and Continued Two Years After the War in Maine, 1775–1784, p. 5.
6. Tomlinson, Haws, Military Journals, p. 82.
7. Tomlinson, Haws, Military Journals, p. 77.
8. Rev. David Avery, David Avery Papers.
9. Leven Powell to Sarah Powell, February 24, 1776, William Dodd, Ed., John Branch Historical Papers of Macon-Randolph College, Richmond: Everett Weoddry Co., 1902, pp. 29–31.
10. GW to John Hancock, September 24, 1776, GWW VI:110–111; GW to William Livingston, January 4, 1777, GWW VII: 56; GW to Jack Custis, January 22, 1777, GWW VII: 52–53; GW to Lund Washington, Aug. 20, 1775, GWW III: 433; Scheer and Rankin, p. 81.
11. Scheer and Rankin, p. 87.
12. Jesse Lukens to John Shaw Jr., September 17, 1775, in Scheer and Rankin, p. 88; Richard Harwell, Ed., Douglass Southall Freeman, George Washington, abridged ed., p. 236.
13. GWW III: 357.
14. Scheer and Rankin, p. 78.
15. Avery,