Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . )risoners ofwar, some of the officers pushed on over the ferry into Boston;but their hopes of comfortable quarters and good cheer werespeedUy dashed, for they were all peremptorily ordered back tothe prisoners camps at Union, Winter, and Prospect Hills,where barracks liad been prepared for them. Burgoyne him-self had tlu! privilege of entree iiitu the town, whii-li he im- 2U4 OF THE MATHER TOMB. proved as we have seen, thougli times were changed since hestood on Copps Hill and saw his comrades-in-arms advance upthe hillside
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . )risoners ofwar, some of the officers pushed on over the ferry into Boston;but their hopes of comfortable quarters and good cheer werespeedUy dashed, for they were all peremptorily ordered back tothe prisoners camps at Union, Winter, and Prospect Hills,where barracks liad been prepared for them. Burgoyne him-self had tlu! privilege of entree iiitu the town, whii-li he im- 2U4 OF THE MATHER TOMB. proved as we have seen, thougli 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 snjiplieil the best English narration of the battle ofBunker Hill. .\. rapier once b(lon;,nng 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, lirst called the Xorth Burying- Place, was the second place ofsepulture AWthin 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 Avife Hannali, the daughter ofJohn Hull, for the purpose of enlargement. In the convey-ance was reserved one rodd square in which IMrs. MaryThatcher now lyeth buried, which they ha
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