Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . >:Here lies buried in aStone Grave lo fee^ deep who departed this LifeOctober 23^ 1/69 Aged 44 Yearsa true son of LibertyaFriend to the PubJickan Enemy to opprefsionand one of the foremoftin oppofing the RevenueAclson America. Here lies buried the Body ofKAnn Malcom Widow ofCap Daniel Malcomdied April 4 | 770Aged 40 Years 7^+Y<«^^tvTOK-M!lb ftt*^ STONE IN COPPS HILL, USED AS A TARGET BY BRITISH SOLDIERS to give from fifteen pence to two shillings apound for all we ate of the forme
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . >:Here lies buried in aStone Grave lo fee^ deep who departed this LifeOctober 23^ 1/69 Aged 44 Yearsa true son of LibertyaFriend to the PubJickan Enemy to opprefsionand one of the foremoftin oppofing the RevenueAclson America. Here lies buried the Body ofKAnn Malcom Widow ofCap Daniel Malcomdied April 4 | 770Aged 40 Years 7^+Y<«^^tvTOK-M!lb ftt*^ STONE IN COPPS HILL, USED AS A TARGET BY BRITISH SOLDIERS to give from fifteen pence to two shillings apound for all we ate of the former, and a loafof bread of the size we formerly gave three-pence for thought ourselves well off to get fora shilling. Butter at two shillings. Milk, formonths without tasting any. Potatoes fromnine shillings to ten shillings and sixpence abushel and everything else in the same strain. OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 175 Very soon after the Battle of Bunker Hill,General Howe succeeded Gage in the directionof the soldiers in Boston, and in his large mili-tary family things went on in fairly orderlyfashion. The number of the troops (includingwomen and children) was about fourteen thou-sand. Of these seven hundred men lived in bar-racks on Bunker Hill, while, of the remainder,all who were not stationed at the castle or onboard the fleet,
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