The history and antiquities of Boston .. . k. He was a veteranofiicer ; had seen hard service under Gen. Braddock ; being severelywounded at the Monongahela, and carried a musket-ball in his was now commander-in-chief in North America. There accom-panied him Colonels Robertson and Maitland, Majors Small andSheriff, and Captains Kemble, Mathurine, and Gamble. The troopsreceived him under arms on the Common, and he was saluted with seventeen rounds from the Gage was now in theprime of life, being about forty-eight years of age. He was thesecond son of Thomas ViscountGag
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . k. He was a veteranofiicer ; had seen hard service under Gen. Braddock ; being severelywounded at the Monongahela, and carried a musket-ball in his was now commander-in-chief in North America. There accom-panied him Colonels Robertson and Maitland, Majors Small andSheriff, and Captains Kemble, Mathurine, and Gamble. The troopsreceived him under arms on the Common, and he was saluted with seventeen rounds from the Gage was now in theprime of life, being about forty-eight years of age. He was thesecond son of Thomas ViscountGage ; entered the army at anearly age, and served, with con-siderable credit, under several dis-tinguished commanders. By hiswife, Margaret, daughter of PeterKemble, Esq., President of theCouncil of New Jersey, he hadeleven children, six sons and fivedaughters. His death occurred onthe second of April, 1788 ; and hisage was about LordAbingdon, of Wytham, living in1853, married, for his first wife, Emily, daughter of Gen. * The land on which the guard-house was accompanying autograph is copied from a being erected had been hired of the Town by letter belonging Mr. Robert Pierpoint for several years, and he to the Author, forbid the erection of the guard-house before dated NewYork, ^^^^ _ *^ evidence. It was said to be nearly finished May 3d, 1709, when pulled down. and addressed to f For the facts in this paragraph I am in- Col. Bradstreet, debted to the Georgia}^ Era, li. 67-8. The then at Albany, in that Province. 1768.] ANTI-TEA COMBINATION. MANUFACTORY HOUSE AFFAIR. 751 Her maternal grandmother was Margaret, daughter of the Van Cortlandt, of New York.* At period, anti-tea combinations were being formed in thecountry towns, agreeably to the recommendation of the Boston Pa-triots ; and other measures were taken to render the people independ-ent of England in respect to the importation of goods. The studentsof Harvard College, with a spirit
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