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1066 AMERICAN THEATRE
firing from both parties commenced; our troops however got safely back with
their prisoners, with the loss of one man killed, and two or three wounded.
1. London Chronicle, October 10 to October 12,1775.
[Watertown] Saturday, August 5,1775
Whereas it has been represented to this House, that several persons are
detained in Boston by General [Thomas] Gage, for the purpose of procuring the
release of [Josiah] Jones and [Jonathan] Hicks from Concord Jail, and until they
shall be suffered to go into Boston, therefore,
Resolved, That the said Jones and Hicks be released from the Jail at Concord,
and suffered to go "into Boston, upon condition that the several persons who have
been detained on account of their imprisonment, viz : John Gill, Thomas Boylston,
Peter Edes, Wm. Starr, James LoveI1, Samuel Whitwell, Samuel Partridge, John
Leach, Richard Boynton, and all the Selectmen of Boston, and also Benjamin
Hitchborne, lately taken on board a Man of War at Newport, be suffered to come
out of Boston, with their families and effects; and that the said Jones and Hicks
be produced on the lines at Roxbury or Charlestown, at such time as shall be agreed
,on, in order to be exchanged for the persons aforesaid; and that Mr. John Pit& and
Captain Brown of Watertown, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a
Committee to wait on his Excellency General Washington, and desire him to send
into Boston a Trumpeter with a copy of this Resolve to the Selectmen of said
Town.
[Endorsed] In Council, August 5, 1775; Read and concurred and Mr. Joseph
Palmer is joined.
1. Force, Comp., American Archives, 4th, 11, 310, 311, from Mass. Arch.
August 1775
Saturday 5.
1. PRO, Admiralty 5 1 /375.
Moored with Springs on our Cables in Chas Town River
at f/2 past Noon Made the signal for a Pilot who came on board
at 1 at j/2 past 2 saluted Vice Admiral [Samuel] Graves of the
White with 15 Guns at 5 came to with the best bower above Charles
Town in 6 fm got the stream Anchor to steady her at 9 veered a
Cable each way and moored, with the stream Cable for a spring on
the small, And a Hawser on the best bower:
DIARY OF BRIGADIER GENERAL JEDEDIAH PREBLE
[Roxbury] Sat. Aug. 5th, 1775.
We dined very agreeably; after dinner Gen'l [John] Thomas one other
Gentleman and myself rode to Dorchester Neck and viewed the lines there, which
are within point blank shot of the enemy . . . We then returned to Roxbury,