Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 325 instance, who lived so near the seat of war thatthe first shock and tumult of Lexington day lefther covered with dust and smoke, wrote to a wonderful letter about her flight fromCambridge, begging that the moving scene bedepicted as it ought by the literary ladys poetic pencil. Yet I challenge any pencil todo better than Mrs. Winthrop herself in the lastparagraph of the following: Time will nevererase the horrors of the midnight Cry precedingthe Bloody Massacre at Lexing
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 325 instance, who lived so near the seat of war thatthe first shock and tumult of Lexington day lefther covered with dust and smoke, wrote to a wonderful letter about her flight fromCambridge, begging that the moving scene bedepicted as it ought by the literary ladys poetic pencil. Yet I challenge any pencil todo better than Mrs. Winthrop herself in the lastparagraph of the following: Time will nevererase the horrors of the midnight Cry precedingthe Bloody Massacre at Lexington, when wewere roused from the benign slumbers of theseason, by beat of drum & ringing of Bell, withthe dire alarm That a thousand of the Troopsof George the third were gone forth to murderthe peaceful inhabitants of the surroundingvillages, a few hours with the dawning dayConvinced us the bloody purpose was platoon firing assuring us the rising sunmust witness the Bloody Carnage. ** Not knowing what the event would be atCambridge at the return of these bloo
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