Thomas Gage

 “Cambridge April 21, 1775. May it please your Excellency, A number of Officers and Soldiers under your command were wounded on Wednesday last: they now lie in Cambridge and one or two adjacent Towns. They have had proper assistance from Surgeons, and are treated in every aspect with much humanity; but as they are desirous […]

[to His Excellency General Gage] “Cambridge, April 20, 1775. Sir, – The unhappy situation into which this colony is thrown gives the greatest uneasiness to every man who regards the welfare of the empire, or feels for the distresses of his fellow-men: but even now much may be done to alleviate those misfortunes which can­not […]

 [Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee] “Boston, Feb. 20, 1775. Dear Sir, -My friend, Mr. [Samuel] Adams, favored me with the sight of your last letter. I am sincerely glad of your return to England, as I think your assistance was never more wanted there than at present. It is truly astonishing that Administration should have […]

Author: Anonymous Application of Doctor Warren to General Gage Boston, September 27, 1774. A few days ago General Gage paid for, and deposited in his Majesty’ s Magazine, a quantity of military stores, which had been provided many years since at the desire of Colonel Bradstreet, and had laid from that time on the hands […]

Date: September 4, 1774 [To Samuel Adams in Philadelphia] Dear Sir, – Our friends, Drs. Church and Young (whose letters I have seen), write so fully to you by this conveyance, that it will be needless for me to take up your time in giving a minute account of what has passed since my last. […]

 Author: [Anonymous], probably by Joseph Warren “Extract of a Letter from the Camp at Cambridge, June 14 [1775]. “I have the pleasure of transmitting to you an infamous proclamation of General Gage’s, which has just come to hand. I hope your body, Sir, in a continental way, will answer him in the true spirit of […]

by James Lovell to Josiah Quincy, Jr. “Nov.r 3.d 1774 Dear Sir From the same Reasons which I have given already for writing by Dundass (be the Name of his Vessel what it will,) I add a few Lines. You will receive the Proceedings of our [Massachusetts Provincial] Congress which is adjourned to ye 25.th […]

Author: John G. Battier Date: undated, probably late April 1775 “Capt: Gordon, Thos: Lugg, Wm: Lewis, Charles Carrier & Rich:d Grimshaw in the presence of Captn Battier of the 5th Light Company do solemnly declare, when they were returning to Join the Grenediers they saw a man belonging to the Light Company of the 4:th […]

by Thomas Gage Date:  March 8, 1775 Letter to Capt De la Place 26th Regt: Ticonderoga “…no doubt have put you on your Guard against any attempts to Surprize your Fort; and I conclude that you have made Report thereof to Major General Carleton, to whom you will apply for any Succor you may stand […]

“TOWN MEETING IN BOSTON. Friday, May 13, 1774. On this day there was a numerous and respectable meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town, legally warned and assembled at Faneuil Hall, to consider an edict lately passed by the British Parliament, for shutting up the harbor, and otherwise punishing the inhabitants;  and […]