Note 572 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

The earliest English accounts which we have are two dated June 18, a letter of John Randon, a soldier (Lamb's Journal of Occurrences, 33; Dawson, 358), and that of an officer of rank from Boston (Force, iv.; Dawson, 357; Ellis, 115). Written on June 19, is a short letter from Brig.-Gen. Jones, colonel of the fifty-second regiment (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 91; Frothingham's Battle-Field, 45). Henry Hulton, commissioner of his majesty's customs at Boston, wrote a long letter on June 20 (Emmons's Sketches of Bunker Hill Battle, 123; Dawson, 359; Ellis, 123). On the 22d, Adjutant Waller, of the Royal Marines, wrote a letter which is given in S. A. Drake's Bunker Hill, the Story told in Letters from the Battlefield. (Cf. P. H. Nicholas's Historical Record of the Royal Marine Forces, London, 1845, i. 84-89.) On the 23d we have the account of an officer on one of the king's ships (Force, iv.; Dawson, 360; Ellis, 117), and a brief letter by Dr. Grant, one of the surgeons (Dawson, 361; Ellis, 114). On the 24th, a merchant in Boston writes to his brother in Scotland (Ellis, 119).