Note 531 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Cf. Dawson's Battles of the United States, i.; Frank Moore's Diary of the Amer. Revolution, i. 63; Niles's Principles and Acts of the Revolution; L. Lyons's Mil. Journals of two private soldiers, 1758-1775 (Poughkeepsie, 1855), with notes by Lossing, and an App. of "official papers" (Field, Indian Bibliog., 963; Sabin, x. 42,860); a letter by John Andrews in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., July, 1865, p. 403; one by Dr. Foster (?) of Charleston, in Ibid. (April, 1870), xi. 306; and others by D. Greene in xiii. 57, and by Jos. Greene in xiii. 59. Cf. also letter of Jos. Thaxter in Hist. Mag., xv. 206; and one by Alex. Scammell in Ibid., xviii. 141. A significant handbill was issued at the time, with a row of coffins at the head, called Bloody Butchery by the British Troops. The narrative had before appeared in the Salem Gazette for April 21, 25, and May 5, which, with an elegy and a list of the killed and wounded, constituted this broadside as printed at Salem. It was reproduced a few years since in fac-simile. The Essex Gazette and the Worcester Spy (May 3) also contained accounts. Thaddeus Blood, of Concord, jotted down at some later period his recollections which, found among his papers, were printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, April 20, 1886.