. Some events of Boston and its neighbors . CAFTH JAMSS MtJ&yOKB, .TAL ORUtSCR 1776. i-rom a colored print. Collection of the State Street Trust Company. CAPTAIN JAMES MUGFORD, A HERO OF OUR REVOLUTION. The inscription in fine type on this cut reads as follows: One of the heroic men with Thomas Russell ist Lieut, and 19 Officers and men from Marble-head who captured the armed British Transport Ship Hope Ladened with Powder, imple-ments of War and Pioneer Tools, destined for and in sight of the British Admiralty Fleetthen in Nantasket Roads Novr 1775. The scarcity of Powder was severely felt by
. Some events of Boston and its neighbors . CAFTH JAMSS MtJ&yOKB, .TAL ORUtSCR 1776. i-rom a colored print. Collection of the State Street Trust Company. CAPTAIN JAMES MUGFORD, A HERO OF OUR REVOLUTION. The inscription in fine type on this cut reads as follows: One of the heroic men with Thomas Russell ist Lieut, and 19 Officers and men from Marble-head who captured the armed British Transport Ship Hope Ladened with Powder, imple-ments of War and Pioneer Tools, destined for and in sight of the British Admiralty Fleetthen in Nantasket Roads Novr 1775. The scarcity of Powder was severely felt by the Con-tinental Congress the procuring of it attracted their particular and constant attention, had been held by them to the inhabitants of the Country, to engage in themanufacture thereof, no opportunity was neglected in importing, or seizing it from theEnemy.—March 1776 Genl Washington entered Boston in triumph, the British evacuatedand embarked, and lay in Nantasket Roads waiting the arrival of their Powder S
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