Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs . The times in which thisbeacon was erected were troublous, and the beacon had often to render important service to the straggling andharassed colonists, of whom twenty thousand came to the colony in the first ten years after the settlement ofBoston. When the beacon was raised on the hill, a rude castle arose on an island before the town, and warvessels wero commissioned, because at various times the port was menaced with attacks from Dutch, Spanish,and French fleet*. In 1639 a thousand well-ar
Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs . The times in which thisbeacon was erected were troublous, and the beacon had often to render important service to the straggling andharassed colonists, of whom twenty thousand came to the colony in the first ten years after the settlement ofBoston. When the beacon was raised on the hill, a rude castle arose on an island before the town, and warvessels wero commissioned, because at various times the port was menaced with attacks from Dutch, Spanish,and French fleet*. In 1639 a thousand well-armed men mustered on the Common, and powerful contingent*went out from Boston to aid the British expeditions against Louisburg, Quebec, Acadia and Havana; and thecolonists, marching side by side with the best troops in the world, became veteran and skilful soldiers. Oneot „ms earliest colonists wrote to his folks in the old country that the new land was a hidooris^wilderness,possessed by barbaroqs Indians, very cold, sickly, rocky, barren, unfit for culture, and like to keep the Lief Ericsson—Commonwealth Avenue. t 41 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. Tlic evening of the Ml. enmc on. . Parties of soldiers were driving about the streets, making a pa-rade of valor, challenging resistance, and striking the inhabitants indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cut-lasses. A band poured out from Murrays barracks, in Brattle Street, armed with clubs, cutlasses and bayonets,provoked resistance, and a fray ensued. One soldier after another levelled a firelock and threatened to makea lane through a crowd. At about nine oclock, a party of soldiers issued violeutly from the main guard, inKing Street, their arms glittering in the moonlight, hallooing. Where arc they ? Where arc they f Letthem come on! Presently twelve or fifteen more, uttering the same cries rushed from the south-side intoKing Street, and so by way of Cornhill (Washington Street) toward Murrays barracks. They knocked
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