. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. chain, which came with thewatch, her husband had her initials engraved,and these are still distinguishable. Rathercuriously, those little letters, S. H. C, are to-day the only marks on the handsome is not even a makers name. The numberof the watch, which is in an 18-carat gold case,is 24,650, and that it was well made is demon-strated by the fact that to-day, more than onehundred and twenty-five years after the nightit served its owner on his famous ride, it keepsgood time. This very interesting
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. chain, which came with thewatch, her husband had her initials engraved,and these are still distinguishable. Rathercuriously, those little letters, S. H. C, are to-day the only marks on the handsome is not even a makers name. The numberof the watch, which is in an 18-carat gold case,is 24,650, and that it was well made is demon-strated by the fact that to-day, more than onehundred and twenty-five years after the nightit served its owner on his famous ride, it keepsgood time. This very interesting timepiece must havepointed to twelve, midnight, when Revere rodeup to the Lexington parsonage, at which SamuelAdams and John Hancock, together with DorothyQuincy and her chaperon, Hancocks aunt, werestaying as guests. An orderly stationed out- OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 133 side requested the horseman not to make somuch noise, lest he disturb the family. Noise! answered Revere, youll havenoise enough before long. The regulars arecoming out. When Hancock heard this stirring news, he. THE RESTORED HANCOCK-CLARK HOUSE, LEXINGTON was impelled by martial pride, coupled, per-haps, with the feeling that he must show him-self every inch a hero in the presence of hislady-love, to show fight and, in after years, hiswidow related that it was only with great diflS-culty that he was dissuaded from going out tojoin the soldiers who soon assembled. As itwas, he was all night cleaning his gun and sword,and putting his accoutrements in order. Adams 134 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS good sense it was which finally settled the matterfor, clapping Hancock on the shoulder, he said,decisively: That is not our business; webelong to the cabinet. Yet it was not tillbreak of day that Mr. Hancock could be per-suaded that it would be improper for him toexpose himself against such a powerful force,ran the story as his widow related it, nearlyfifty years later at a little dinner-party givenin Boston by Mr. Stephen Co
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