Note 550 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Bibliography of Charlestown, etc., p. 19. Taking precedence in time is that in the Boston Gazette of June 19, at this time printed at Watertown. The Massachusetts Spy (Worcester, June 21st) had the next account, and this is reprinted in Frothingham's Centennial. The Connecticut Journal printed an account the same day; and in New York a handbill was circulated, Fresh news just arrived, by an express from the provincial camp near Boston, giving an account by Capt. Elijah Hide, of Lebanon. See fac-simile in Mag. of American Hist., March, 1885, p. 282. Hide saw the battle from Winter Hill, and his account is printed by Ellis (1843), p. 142, and Dawson, p. 378. Frank Moore's Diary of the American Revolution (i. pp. 97, 102), which begins Jan. 1, 1775, gives most of these contemporary press articles, and so does Dawson. Several of these newspaper accounts were reproduced in fac-simile in 1875.