4**  Boston,  yohn  Foster,  1679

8967  American  Bevolution.  Plans,  broadsides  and  Manuscripts
relating  to  the  Revolution,  beginning  with  the  Stamp  Act;  about
23  pieces.        (The  lot.)

Includes  a  vbry  interesting  autograph  letter  of  two  4^  pp.  from  PRESI-
DENT JOHN  ADAMS  on  the  constitution  and  command  of  the  Army  at  Cambridge,
1775,  dated  **  Quincy,  June  19th,  1818."  .  . .  *'  The  Army  at  Cambridge  was  not  a  National
Army,  . . .  Massachusetts  had  her  Army,  Connecticut  her  Army,  New  Hampshire  her
Army,  and  Rhode  Island  her  Army. . .  .  And  I  pray  let  the  Commissions  of  Ward,  Put-
nam, Poor,  and  Green,  be  all  produced. . .  .  Who  was  the  first  officer  of  Massachusetts  on
Bunkers  Hill  or  Breeds  Hill  ?  I  have  always  understood  he  was  CoHonel  Pomroy,  or
General  Pomroy"  «ftf.;  LeUerfrom  William  Williams  (the  Signer)  **  To  the  Hon"*
Eliphalet  Dyer,  Roger  Sherman  and  Silas  Deane  Esq'*  Delegates  at  the  Gen'  Congress,


Philadelphia,"  dated  Lebanon  21  (?)  June  1775,  ^^  "^^^  action  conmienced  at  Charles-
town  on  Sat*y  mom'g  last "  in  which  he  speaiks  of  intelligence  which  **  is  just  come  by
Capt.  Elij.  Hyde  of  this  Town,"— and  with  this  letter  is  a  MS.  account  "  taken  from  Cap*


Elijah  Hide  of  Lebanon  who  was  a  Spectator  on  Winter's  Hill  during  the  whole  actioQ.'
Also,  three  letters  by  Dr.  John  C.  Warren  on  the  Bunker  HUI  Monument  Assoc ;  notices,
ttc.^  on  same  subject  signed  by  Edward  Everett  ;  A  Lexington  Alarm,  addressed  to
Capt  Philip  Mortimer,  MS.  by  Silas  Deane  ;  Muster  and  pay  roUs  of  Capt  Weed's
company,  cth  Conn.  Regt,  1777-lto;  Plans  of  Boston  and  Bunker  Hill,  engr.  by  Nor-
man, and  Aitken ;  Procl^nations,  etc,^  by  Gov.  Trumbull,  Gen.  Gage,  et  aL

8968  Brown  (John)  D,  D,  An  Estimate  of  the  Manners  and  Prin-
ciples of  the  Timfes.    7th  tA.,pp,  no.
