Created January, 2004
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. --| Lexington Alarm in Northern Middlesex | 1 |
| Groton Plantation | 2 |
| Groton Patriots on April 19, 1775 | 4 |
| In Camp at Cambridge | 5 |
| The Death-Roll at Bunker Hill | 5 |
| The Prescott Family | 6 |
| Champney House | 7 |
| Grave of Captain Abram Child | 9 |
| Origin of Shirley and Pepperell | 11 |
| Colonel Willian Prescott | 11 |
| Reverend Joseph Emerson | 14 |
| Pepperell's Relief for Boston in 1760 | 15 |
| Town and Church Records | 15 |
| Patriotic Acts in Pepperell | 19 |
| The Prescott family | 21 |
| Prescott homestead | 23 |
| Echoes from its Wood-Capped Hills | 25 |
| Society of the Cincinnati | 25 |
| Connection with Governor Roger Wolcott | 26 |
| Alliance with the Linzee Family | 27 |
| Characteristics of Colonel William Prescott | 30 |
| Rev. Charles Babbidge gives the General Report of the Battle of Bunker Hill as he heard it from the Old Soldiers | 34 |
| The Preacher in Camp | 36 |
| Pepperell's Dead at Bunker Hill | 36 |
| Colonel Prescott's Grave | 38 |
| Graves of Other Heroes | 39 |
| Lieutenant Joseph Spaulding | 41 |
| The Sword of Bunker Hill | 44 |
| Rev. Charles Babbidge's Experience with Old Soldiers of the Revolution | 46 |
| Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" | 46 |
| No Government Homes for Veterans of the War | 47 |
| Military Service of Harvard College | 49 |
| Story of Edmund Bancroft | 50 |
| Burgoyne's Officers and their Dogs | 50 |
| Story of Edmund Blood | 53 |
| Pepperell, continued | 55 |
| Williams's Place | 55 |
| Parker Homestead | 56 |
| The Plough in the Furrow | 56 |
| Shattuck Family | 57 |
| Blood Family | 57 |
| Warner Home | 61 |
| Jewett's Bridge | 61 |
| "Paugus John" | 62 |
| First Settlers of Shirley | 70 |
| Longley and Hazen | 70 |
| Longley homestead | 77 |
| Story of "Will the Miller | 78 |
| Joshua Longley and Bridget Melvin | 80 |
| Hon. George S. Boutwell as a Schoolmaster | 83 |
| Holden Family | 87 |
| Shirley, continued | 88 |
| John Holden, the Boy Fifer | 88 |
| Oliver Holden, the Composer of "Coronation" | 91 |
| The Meeting-House a Magazine | 94 |
| Gift of Madam Lydia Hancock | 96 |
| Bounty Coat | 97 |
| Story of the Town of Hollis, N. H. | 101 |
| Movements of Hollis Patriots | 101 |
| At Old Homesteads | 103 |
| Evil Work of a Tory Woman | 108 |
| Hollis Gun-Makers | 110 |
| Hollis, continued | 113 |
| The Worcester Home | 114 |
| The Lexington Alarm at the Worcester Door | 114 |
| Town Meeting called | 116 |
| Death-Roll at Bunker Hill | 118 |
| Equipments lost in the Battle of June 17, 1775 | 119 |
| Call from General Sullivan | 121 |
| Boy Soldiers | 122 |
| The Worcester Family in the World | 124 |
| Thanksgiving Day at the Old Home | 124 |
| Hollis, continued | 126 |
| Tenney Homestead | 126 |
| Deacon Enoch Jewett Colburn | 128 |
| Washington's Soldiers make Maple-Sugar for the Army | 129 |
| Whole Families in the War | 129 |
| The Nevens Boulder | 131 |
| Schoolteachers' Pay in the Revolution | 135 |
| The Old Burying-Ground | 135 |
| John Colburn tells his Father's Story of the Northern Campaigns | 139 |
| Burgoyne's Alliance with Indians | 140 |
| King George III. hires the Germans to fight the Provincials | 144 |
| Prisoners of War in America | 146 |
| Journey to Cambridge | 147 |
| Provincial Barracks again occupied | 148 |
| Honor among Prisoners of War | 149 |
| The Baroness tells her Story | 154 |
| "Tory Row" | 154 |
| Route from Saratoga to Cambridge | 161 |
| Baron and Baroness Riedesel | 164 |
| German Allies | 164 |
| Start from Germany | 164 |
| The Baroness at the Court of King George III | 168 |
| Reception in America | 171 |
| Women follow the Army | 174 |
| Danvers | 175 |
| First Settlers | 175 |
| Home of Colonel Jeremiah Page | 176 |
| Office of Governor Thomas Gage | 179 |
| Family Recollections of Last Governor under the Crown | 180 |
| Origin of Lucy Larcom's Poem, "A Gambrel Roof," | 183 |
| The Lexington Alarm | 186 |
| Burial of Danvers Heroes killed at Menotomy, April 19, 1775 | 189 |
| The Bell Tavern | 191 |
| Danvers, continued | 194 |
| Moses Porter's' Homestead | 194 |
| Story of his Patriotism | 195 |
| Patriotic Women work for the Soldiers | 196 |
| Home of Deacon Putnam, who led a Company on April 19, 1775 | 197 |
| Danvers Ministers in the Fight | 198 |
| General Israel Putnam | 199 |
| The Putnam Home and Family | 200 |
| Baptism of Israel Putnam | 200 |
| Story by "Old Put's" Great-Granddaughter | 206 |
| Danvers, continued | 209 |
| King Hooper and Governor Gage | 210 |
| Camp of the Enemy | 213 |
| Holton Family | 214 |
| Samuel Holton's Letter to Daniel Putnam | 217 |
| King George's Whipping-Post | 215 |
| Washington's Letter to Major Lowe | 220 |
| Major-General Gideon Foster | 222 |
| List of Eight Danvers Companies | 221 |
| The Story of Dill, a Negro Slave in the Revolution | 224 |
| Chelmsford and Early Patriots | 238 |
| Early Means of Protection from the Enemy | 239 |
| Old Garrisons | 240 |
| The Patriot Preacher | 240 |
| Story of Henry S. Perham | 244 |
| Positive Acts of the Chelmsford Patriots | 245 |
| Relief to Boston Sufferers | 247 |
| Lexington Alarm | 249 |
| Mr. George Spaulding tells his Grandfather's Story | 249 |
| Patriots too much in haste to stop for Prayer | 250 |
| Journal of Reverend Ebenezer Bridge | 251 |
| Footprints of the Patriots of the Revolution in Lowell | 261 |
| Bowers Family Homestead of Two Hundred Years | 262 |
| Story of Ford Homestead | 265 |
| Captain John Ford's Descendant tells the Story of the Patriot Miller | 266 |
| Captain Ford's Journal in the Northern Campaign of 1776 | 269 |
| List of Patriots preserved by Captain Ford | 273 |
| Story of Father of President Franklin Pierce | 275 |
| Old Hearth-Stones in Chelmsford | 276 |
| Perham Homestead, where Nine Generations of the Family have lived | 277 |
| Ten Generations of Spauldings on the Old Farm | 278 |
| The Old Garret of the Spaulding House | 281 |
| Eleven Generations of Fletchers on the Old Farm | 292 |
| Hayward Home the Old Garrison | 283 |
| Old Home of the Byams since 1655 | 285 |
| Thomas Henchman and the Warren Family | 286 |
| The Burying-Ground | 296 |
| Contagion from the Army | 316 |
| Formation of the Government by the Patriots | 318 |
| Story of a Patriot Spinner | 321 |
| Peter Brown writes to his Mother from Cambridge Camp | 323 |
| Miss Susan Brown tells the Story of her Grandfather | 327 |
| The First Blood at Bunker Hill | 332 |
| A Boston Family takes Refuge in Chelmsford | 334 |
| The Town of Boston after the Siege | 334 |
| Four Emersons, Patriot Preachers of the Revolution | 344 |
| Ancestry | 346 |
| Letter from Reverend Samuel Moody | 348 |
| Reverend Daniel Emerson in French War | 351 |
| Reverend Joseph Emerson in the Army | 359 |
| Courtship of the Minister | 359 |
| Reverend William Emerson of Concord | 362 |
| Reverend John Emerson and the Tories | 364 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Sidney Craige Perham, Ninth Generation, by the old Hearth Stone | Frontispiece |
| Stone marking Birthplace of Colonel William Prescott, Groton | 6 |
| Champney House, Groton | 7 |
| Monument on Site of the Meeting-House in the Mother Town | 20 |
| Prescott Homestead, Pepperell | 25 |
| Swords of Colonel William Prescott and Captain John Linzee | 28 |
| Tablet seen in the Mother Town | 30 |
| Rev. Charles Babbidge | 32 |
| Fac-Simile of Page--Pepperell Church Records | 37 |
| Grave of Rev. Joseph Emerson, Pepperell | 38 |
| Grave of Colonel William Prescott, Pepperell | 39 |
| Lieutenant Joseph Spaulding's Commission | 43 |
| The Sword of Bunker Hill | 44 |
| Discharge of Edmund Blood | 53 |
| The Blood Homestead | 54 |
| Old Parker Plough | 56 |
| Colonel Shattuck's Home, Pepperell | 58 |
| Colonel Samuel P. Shattuck | 62 |
| Mrs. Samuel P. Shattuck | 63 |
| Pepperell Magazine | 68 |
| Edmund H. N. Blood, Pepperell | 69 |
| Hazen Home, Shirley | 71 |
| Shirley Oak | 74 |
| Shirley Schoolhouse | 83 |
| A Battered Seat from Shirley Schoolhouse | 84 |
| Old Home, Shirley | 85 |
| Longley Ball, and Shirley Relics of the Revolution | 95 |
| Longley Well | 98 |
| W. Shirley | 100 |
| John Colburn | 102 |
| Bunker Hill Monument | 119 |
| Worcester Homestead, Hollis, N.H. | 123 |
| Jesse and Sarah Worcester | 124_1 and 124_2 |
| Hollis Training Field | 125 |
| Tenney Homestead, Hollis, N.H. | 127 |
| Nevens's Boulder | 138 |
| Hessian Tobacco Box | 145 |
| Baroness Riedesel | 153 |
| Apthorp House, Cambridge where Burgoyne was imprisoned | 158 |
| Burgoyne's Candlesticks | 161 |
| Colonel Jeremiah Page Home, Danvers | 176 |
| Governor Gage's Office | 179 |
| Page Garrett, Danvers | 182 |
| Danvers Monument, Peabody | 190 |
| Birthplace of General Israel Putnam | 201 |
| Mary (Waldo) Webber, Great Granddaughter of "Old Put" | 205 |
| Scions of Putnam Tree in the Fifth Generation | 207 |
| King Hooper House, Danvers | 211 |
| Dill's Daughter, Anstiss | 235 |
| St. Peter's Church at Salem | 236 |
| Chelmsford Monument (Revolutionary) | 258 |
| Bowers Homestead, Lowell | 262 |
| Captain Ford Homestead, Lowell | 265 |
| Perham Homestead, Chelmsford | 277 |
| Spaulding Home, Chelmsford | 279 |
| Spaulding Watch, used at Bunker Bill | 280 |
| Mrs. Shedd | 282 |
| Hayward Garrison, Chelmsford | 284 |
| Byam Home, Chelmsford | 285 |
| Captain Bill Fletcher's House | 292 |
| Major Thomas Hinchman's Military Order | 297 |
| Hinchman Stone, Chelmsford | 297 |
| Cornelius Waldo Stone | 298 |
| Minister's Table, Chelmsford | 300 |
| Tablet to the Memory of the Town Clerk, Chelmsford | 302 |
| Clark Stones, Chelmsford | 303 |
| Clark Tavern, Lowell | 305 |
| Parker Homestead, Lowell | 307 |
| Commission to Benjamin Parker, Chelmsford | 309 |
| Parker Garrett Treasures, Lowell | 314 |
| Fletcher Stone in Chelmsford | 317 |
| Polly Carter's Reel | 321 |
| South College (Massachusetts Hall) | 327 |
| Dudley Foster | 333 |
| Birthplace of Asa Pollard, Billerica | 333 |
| Rand Pincushion | 338 |
| Mary Rand Slippers | 343 |
| Emerson Autographs | 346 |
| Joseph Emerson's Chair, Pepperell | 350 |
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