. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. stated in the Salem Gazette of April 18, 1775, and was to pre-vent communication of the intended movement to the vessel served to cover the disorderly retreat of the regularsover Charlestown Neck on their return from Lexington andConcord. We shaU see that the Somersets watch was iU-kept,and tluit a North End mechanic looked into the muzzles of herguns as he carried Warrens errand and spread the tidingsabroad. The Somerset went ashore on Cape Cod during thewar, and her officers and crew were made prisoners by themilitia, and sent t
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. stated in the Salem Gazette of April 18, 1775, and was to pre-vent communication of the intended movement to the vessel served to cover the disorderly retreat of the regularsover Charlestown Neck on their return from Lexington andConcord. We shaU see that the Somersets watch was iU-kept,and tluit a North End mechanic looked into the muzzles of herguns as he carried Warrens errand and spread the tidingsabroad. The Somerset went ashore on Cape Cod during thewar, and her officers and crew were made prisoners by themilitia, and sent to Boston. When Burgoynes army was near Cambridge as prisoners ofwar, some of the officers pushed on over the ferry into Boston;but their hopes of comfortable quarters and good cheer werespeedily dashed, for they were all peremptorily ordered back tothe prisoners camps at Union, Wint(T, and Prospect Hills,where barracks had been pre])ared for them. Burgoyne him-self, had the privilege of entree into tlie town, which he im- 204 LANDMARKS OF THE MATHER TOMB. proved as we have seen, though times were changed since hestood on Copps Hill and saw his comrades-in-arms advance upthe hillside across the river to storm the American graphic account of the battle written to Lord Stan-ley has supplied the best English narration of the battle ofBunker Hill. A rapier once belonging to the general is inpossession of a descendant of that Benjamin Goodwin whoseproperty was so ill-used by the kings troops. Copps Hill Burying-Ground, first called the ISTorth Burying- Place, was the second jolace ofsepulture within the tliree acres is enclosedby the cemetery walls, madeup of several tracts. Thefirst was conveyed to the townin 1659, and composed thenortheastern part. An addi-tional parcel was conveyed in1711 by Samuel Sewall and his wife Hannah, the daughter ofJohn Hidl, for the purpose of enlargement. In the convey-ance was reserved one rodd square in which Mrs.
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