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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Our Seal. (search)
er House commemorates one of the earliest hostile acts of the Revolution. On the morning of September 1, 1774, General Gates sent an expedition to seize the powder at the magazine, and 260 soldiers embarked at Long Wharf in Boston and proceeded up Mystic River, landing at Ten Hills Farm, from where they marched to the Powder House. The 250 half-barrels of powder which the magazine contained were speedily transferred to the boats and removed to Castle William (now Fort Independence), in Boston Harbor. A detachment of troops also visited Cambridge, and carried off two field pieces which they found there. The news of the seizure of the powder spread with great rapidity, and on the following morning thousands of armed men from the surrounding towns assembled on Cambridge Common, ready to oppose the forces of the king. The Powder House was used for storing powder until the erection of a new magazine at Cambridgeport. In 1836 it came into the possession of Nathan Tufts, in whose fami
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
lessing of the Bay, The, 49, 62. Bolles, David, 10, 12. Bolles, Lucy Stone, 11. Bond, Lieutenant-Colonel, William, 5. Bonner Avenue, 10, 14. Bonner, David, 10. Bonner, Eliza, 10. Bonner, Emily, 10. Bonner, George, 10. Bonner, George Washington, 10. Bonner, John, 10. Bonner, Jonathan, 10. Bonner, Mary, 10, 12, 13. Bonner, Philip, 9, 13. Bonner, William, 10, 14. Booker, Simeon, 43. Booth, Dr., Chauncy, 25. Boston Chamber of Commerce, 17. Boston Corn Exchange, 17. Boston Harbor, 51. Boston & Maine Railroad, 71. Boston, Mass., 9. Boston Society of Civil Engineers, 62. Boston Street, 6, 20. Boston Tea Party, The, 54. Boston Transcript, 27. Bow Street, 6, 7, 11, 13. Boston Water Power Co., The, 58. Bowdoin College, 46. Brashear, La., 66. Brastow, George O., 62. Bridgewater Normal School, 23. Brimmer School, Boston, Mass., 23, 24. Bristol, Eng., 53. British Retreat from Concord, 61. Broadway, 5, 6. Broadway Park, 17, 59. Brooklin