Note 7 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]

In anticipation of an attack from the British, the Americans had been collecting stores for some time. Cannon-balls, and muskets had been brought from Boston into the country under loads of manure; and cartridges and powder by the women, in candle-boxes, baskets, etc.—See Lossing’s Pict. Field Book of the Rev., vol. i., p. 522.