D 27. The inlistment came out to inlist men for the masechusetts
Service Some of our minute men inlisted the Same day but captain Pond
went home and several of his company they went as far as Doctor
cheanys that night and the next morning reached home on monday the
company were called together in order to inlist men Lietunant
messenger with a party went down to Roxbury and we Still remaing in
Mr. Slaks house also on the same day their war four tories caried
throug roxbury[108] to cambrigg[109] from marshfield[110] and their
was a great Shouting when they came through the camp.[111]
[Footnote 108: One mile from Boston.]
[Footnote 109: Three miles northwest from Boston.]
[Footnote 110: Thirty-one miles southeast from
Boston.]
[Footnote 111: Tories were those who adhered to the
British. It is a name derived from the vocabulary
of English politics in the time of Charles II. A
_tory_, then, was an adherent of the crown; a
_whig_ was an opposer of the government. The word
was first used in America about 1770.]
D 28. This day our regement paraded and went through the manuel
exesise then we grounded our firelocks and every man set down by their
arms and one abial Petty axedentely discharged his peace and shot two
Balls through the Body of one asa cheany through his Left side and
rite rist he Lived about 24 hours and then expired he belonged to
Walpole[112] and he was caried their and Buried on the 30 day of April
on Sunday after meting this young man was but a few days Before fired
at by one main guard in atempting to pass the guard and was not hurt
in the least.
[Footnote 112: Twenty-one miles southwest from
Boston.]
D 29. About nine o clock the said cheney died about fore in the
afternoon We had another alarm but their was nothing done.
30th. Being the Lord's day we went to meeting and heard Mr. Adams[113]
and he preached a very Sutable Sermon for the ocation.
[Footnote 113: Rev. Amos Adams, a minister at
Roxbury. He was a graduate of Harvard college. He
died of dysentery, which prevailed in the camp, at
Dorchester, on the 5th of October, 1775, in the
forty-eighth year of his age.]