A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824 . hard pressed by the British, drew up,and sent for reinforcements. At that time, the greater part of thepeople of old Chelsea lived at what is now Revere, and there werethe chief interests to be protected, and there was the guard whichJohn Pratt entertained. (Ante, 429, n.) With these explanations, a tolerably clear account of the affair ispossible. At the time when General Ward at Cambridge, on the morningof May 27, 1775, sent a body of troops to remove the live stock f
A documentary history of Chelsea : including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824 . hard pressed by the British, drew up,and sent for reinforcements. At that time, the greater part of thepeople of old Chelsea lived at what is now Revere, and there werethe chief interests to be protected, and there was the guard whichJohn Pratt entertained. (Ante, 429, n.) With these explanations, a tolerably clear account of the affair ispossible. At the time when General Ward at Cambridge, on the morningof May 27, 1775, sent a body of troops to remove the live stock fromHog and Noddles islands, the only practicable route was from]\Iedford, turning the Maiden marshes, by following the foot of theuplands to Revere, near the meeting-house, where Starks party wasprobably Joined by the Chelsea company, under Captain SamuelSprague. These forces then followed the old road, now Beachstreet, down to the Sale farm, from which the Creek was fordableat low water, to the easterly end of Hog Island. Having sent to the main land the sheep and cattle collected on» Boston Rec. Com. Rep., vii. CuAP. XLII] REMOVAL OF LIVE STOCK 443 that island, they crossed to Noddles Island, where they gatheredstock and destroyed property which might be serviceable to theBritish. But before they had completed their work, the Britishappeared in force, and after some skirmishing, the provincials re-treated by the road they came, to Chelsea Neck, and therewaited for a reinforcement. Meantime, probably late in the after-noon, the British had sent a schooner with a sloop and severalbarges up Chelsea Creek, to cut off Starks retreat. At 9 oclock,p. M., it is said, General Putnam with 200 men and two four-pounders, and accompanied by Dr. Joseph Warren, appeared on thescene. With his artillery drawn up in front of the Newgate, orYeaman house, he arrested the advance of the schooner and madeher retreat impracticable from the point she had reached, — a littleabove the Eubber
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