Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 57 on February 17, and recommending that themiHtia drill as much as possible and that suchpersons as are skilled in the Manufacturingof firearms & bayonets be encouraged dih-gently to apply themselves thereto for supplyingsuch of the inhabitants as shall be is signed by John Hancock as president. From this time on events crowd. The fifthof INIarch was at hand and Dr. Warren craved theprivilege of delivering the customary address,in the Old South Meeting-House, in commem-
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 57 on February 17, and recommending that themiHtia drill as much as possible and that suchpersons as are skilled in the Manufacturingof firearms & bayonets be encouraged dih-gently to apply themselves thereto for supplyingsuch of the inhabitants as shall be is signed by John Hancock as president. From this time on events crowd. The fifthof INIarch was at hand and Dr. Warren craved theprivilege of delivering the customary address,in the Old South Meeting-House, in commem-oration of the Boston Massacre. The actualdate having fallen on Sunday, a warrant wasissued for a town meeting to be held on Marchsixth. The trifling difficulty that town meetingswere no longer permissible was got over by theannouncement that this was an adjournmentof the Port Bill Meeting of the June 17 pre-ceding ! It required considerable nerve to speak in apatriotic strain just then, for Gage had nowunder his command eleven regiments of infantryand four companies of art
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