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's Bunker Hill Battle, pp. 40-42. Colonel Gardner, a few days after the battle, being asked if he was well enough to see his son, Yes, answered the hero, if he has done his duty! He had the satisfaction to see him and learn that he bravely distinguished himself. Ibid., p. 55. He suffered more than a fortnight, but was mercifully released by death on the 3d of July. An obituary notice, eulogistic, but well merited, was published in the New England Chronicle, July 13th: On Monday the 3d instant, died of the wounds received in the late engagement, Thomas Gardner, Esq., Colonel of a Regiment in the American Army, in the 52d year of his age; and on the Wednesday following was interred with martial honors General Washington's Orders, July 4, 1775: Colonel Gardner is to be buried to-morrow, at three o'clock, P. M., with the military honors due to so brave and gallant an officer, who fought, bled, and died, in the cause of his country and mankind. His own regiment, except the compa
January (search for this): chapter 22
s that a general mutiny was at that time prevented, and the Fort preserved from falling into the enemy's hands (your petitioner's company being the first to whom the Colonel's orders were communicated), as Col. Frye is ready to testify to your Excellency and Honors, and as appears by the annexed affidavits. Notwithstanding which, the said Jackson, soon after his return to this Province, sued your petitioner for striking at him as aforesaid, and at the Superior Court, held in Charlestown in January last, the Jury gave a verdict for your petitioner to pay him six pounds and costs (although the Honble Judges all gave their opinion to the Jury in your petitioner's favor), by which means your petitioner has been put to very great trouble and costs. And as your petitioner was doing his duty with regard to said Jackson, and his so doing was the means of preserving the King's Fort, he most humbly requests that your Excellency and Honors would be pleased in some measure to relieve him, by ma
2nd (search for this): chapter 22
n related, --possibly with some embellishments in later years. He died Feb. 2, 1793, aged 96 years and six months. His age is overstated in the obituary, as 99 years, and on his gravestone as 98 years, as is manifest from the record of his birth. At the date of the conflict he was not 81, but lacked three months of 79 years. His obituary was published in the Columbian Centinel of February 6, which I quote rather than more recent publications for obvious reasons. Died at Menotomy, the 2d instant, Capt. Samuel Whittemore, Aet. 99. The manly and moral virtues, in all the varied relations of brother, husband, father, and friend, were invariably exhibited in this gentleman. He was not more remarkable for his longevity and his numerous descendants (his progeny being 185, one of which is the fifth generation), than for his patriotism. When the British troops marched to Lexington, he was 81 years of age, and one of the first on the parade; he was armed with a gun and horse-pistol. Af
1790 AD (search for this): chapter 22
n of Cambridge, rendered their verdict on the 18th of June, that the said Richard Brown was shot with a fire arm by the centinel in Charlestown, near Prospect Hill, between the hours of five and six P. M., on the 17th day of June, A. D. 1778, in attempting to pass the centinel with two women, after being properly challenged by said centinel, and so came to death. Heath's Memoirs, p. 175. By the official census, it appears that the population of Cambridge was 1,586 in 1776, and 2,115 in 1790; a very large proportion of which number served in the Revolutionary Army. My list is doubtless imperfect; yet it contains more than four hundred and fifty names. Among the officers were Colonels Ebenezer Bridge, Thomas Gardner, Samuel Thatcher; Captains, Benjamin Locke, John Walton; Lieutenants, Solomon Bowman, Samuel Butterfield, William Colson, Stephen Frost, Samuel Locke, Josiah Moore, Josiah Warren, Jotham Walton, John Wyman; Sergeants, Joseph Bates, Joseph Belknap, Nathaniel Bemis, Ol
March 27th, 1676 AD (search for this): chapter 22
. I judge, if the Captains do their duty in uprightness, there may be about 100 men, or near it. I have written to Capt. Hammond to send up Capt. Cutler to conduct this company; I am uncertain about his compliance; I desire your order, in case of failure, and also directions to what rendesvous to send this company when raised. It is a very afflictive time to be called off, considering we have planting in hand this week, and our fortification So imminent was the peril, that on the 27th of March, 1676, at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town to consider about fortifying the town against the Indians, it was agreed upon by a public vote of the town as followetlh: It is by the inhabitants jointly agreed, that they judge it necessary that something be done for the fencing in the town with a stockadoe, or something equivalent; and in pursuance thereof do nominate and empower the militia of the town and selectmen to set out the place where, and to each one their proportion, and
February 2nd, 1793 AD (search for this): chapter 22
where he was born July 27, 1696, but early removed to Cambridge. His estate bordered on Menotomy River and his house stood on the northerly side of the Main Street, near the magnificent elms which are still preserved. He was now nearly seventy-nine years old, but yet vigorous in body and mind. In spite of the expostulations of his family, he repaired to the post of danger. His exploits and sufferings have often been related, --possibly with some embellishments in later years. He died Feb. 2, 1793, aged 96 years and six months. His age is overstated in the obituary, as 99 years, and on his gravestone as 98 years, as is manifest from the record of his birth. At the date of the conflict he was not 81, but lacked three months of 79 years. His obituary was published in the Columbian Centinel of February 6, which I quote rather than more recent publications for obvious reasons. Died at Menotomy, the 2d instant, Capt. Samuel Whittemore, Aet. 99. The manly and moral virtues, in all
July 27th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 22
22d Regiment, Oct. 1, 1861, which he resigned June 10, 1862. He soon afterwards enlisted as a private, became a Sergeant, was mortally wounded in battle, May 18, 1864, and died on the 26th of the same month. He nobly redeemed his pledge at the ovation on the 23d of July, 1861, when he is reported to have said, he was determined to go back to the seat of war, and to fight till the war was over; and if need be he would leave his bones to bleach on southern soil. Cambridge Chronicle, July 27, 1861. He sacrificed his life, but his remains, transported by friendly hands, were honorably deposited in the Soldiers' Lot in the Cambridge Cemetery. Cambridge furnished about two hundred commissioned officers, during the War of the Rebellion. The following list is doubtless imperfect; yet it is the result of an examination of the Adjutantgeneral's Reports, supplemented by personal inquiry, and an inspection of the names on the Soldiers' Monument in Cambridge. Brigadier-Generals.
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