. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Wait AIonl 96 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD Kings troops drove our men out of our intrenchment because theyhad no powder and they have intrenched on Bunkers Hill and ourmen have intrenched on Winter Hill where the regulars retreated to when the first battlewas at Concord which wasJune 16. They fired thesame day at Roxbury andthrew bombs and car-casses in order to set thestreet on fire, but by thegoodness of God theydid not, for our men, assoon as
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Wait AIonl 96 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD Kings troops drove our men out of our intrenchment because theyhad no powder and they have intrenched on Bunkers Hill and ourmen have intrenched on Winter Hill where the regulars retreated to when the first battlewas at Concord which wasJune 16. They fired thesame day at Roxbury andthrew bombs and car-casses in order to set thestreet on fire, but by thegoodness of God theydid not, for our men, assoon as they had setit afire, would go up andput it out and the}^ firedno more until last Satur-day. Then they fired again and tried to set it on fire but theywould go and put it out. One of our men took one of the car-casses and brought it up to the General before it went they set two or three houses afire. But they were as fierceas a bloodhound to put them out. Then the Rhode Islanderswent down on the Neck with two or three field pieces andfired at them and made their sentries run to the breast-workAnd then they fired upon our sentries and killed two ofthem.
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