[Footnote 73: This alarm came from the part of the town farthest removed
from Boston. Mr. Weld's meeting-house was in the south precinct, and
immediately to the west of Weymouth. It was accessible by the river
Monatiquot, which was the cause of the apprehension.]
[Footnote 74: Dr. Cotton Tufts, a resident of Weymouth, the neighboring
town. He had married one of the daughters of John Quincy, a sister of
the writer's mother.]
[Footnote 75: He had taken the engine under guard, in consequence of a
report that the liberty party intended to fire the town. See _The
Remembrancer_ for 1775, pp. 95, 98.]