Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . oston, 18 June, 1775. Heranked among the most zealous sons of liberty,and was a member of the convention of Middlesexcounty, in 1774, held to consult on measures forpublic safety and defence, and of the Provincialcongress of Massachusetts of October, 1774, andFebruary, 1775. By this congress he was ap-pointed one of the committee of safety chosen toact instead of the council and governor, who werebelieved to be mere tools of the British. In May,1775, he raised a regiment according to the in-structions of the Provincial congress, and was com-mission
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . oston, 18 June, 1775. Heranked among the most zealous sons of liberty,and was a member of the convention of Middlesexcounty, in 1774, held to consult on measures forpublic safety and defence, and of the Provincialcongress of Massachusetts of October, 1774, andFebruary, 1775. By this congress he was ap-pointed one of the committee of safety chosen toact instead of the council and governor, who werebelieved to be mere tools of the British. In May,1775, he raised a regiment according to the in-structions of the Provincial congress, and was com-missioned its colonel. At the battle of BunkerHill, 17 June, 1775, while hastening with a part ofhis regiment to the redoubt, and in the act of de-scending the hill, he received a mortal wound, ofwhich he died the next day. GARDNER, William Henry, naval officer, Maryland in 1800; d. in Philadelphia, 18 Dec,1870. He entered the navy in 1814 as a midship-man, was commissioned lieutenant in 1825, servedon the Vandalia, of the British squadron, in.
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