The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-02
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TENSE FEELING Or THE FATsioTs
BEFORE the GREAT EVENT.

I TvafeIiInE dhe BrltIsh ships That
Vuer. seeninfs WIN Hedepats.
E1rinIsinas Tea In secret IN q Car
I ret-Tle story 81 an I2yevitness.
| ny great grandmother, PaFneu
Brooks, whose maiden, name was
eoyiston. In the year 1s2o sold her
homestead. on which now stands
l Bunker IIiI monument, TO the city Of
Boston for 5000. At the time Of the
I 1affle OF that name she was a little
zfri OF seven and a half years living
/ With her parents, Richard and Parnell
Revision. in the old homestead resi-
ience. which then stood on the very
mot where the monument now stands.
She retnined to the end OF her days q
most vivid recollection of events there,
especially ON the day and night pre-
! seifng that memorable battle, the Tart-
,us Incidents of which she never tired
II telling and retelling.
AS nearly as can, shall give these
little items as she used to relate them.
IS follows:
NY father, Richard Boylston, was
ihs- grandson of the celebrated DE-.
zabdIel Boylston of BrOokline, who
was the FIRST to Introduce Gin 1721l vac
.inatfon into the civilized world and
lie llu A5ANs-s ClSRS'AN-SA-p
| preceding Dr. Edward Jenners fur
,ther development of the practice In
England by about fifty years. At the
Ibove date, during the epidemic OF
ImaIIpox In Boston. DR.. BOylston In
ScuIated 2S6 persons. OF whom only six
He'd
MY father, grandson of this Ia
nous physician, was prosperous mer-
>hant of Charlestown. Our home was
IN Breeds hill, a little less than half
mile from the village, my father
owning that and much of the adjacent
and down to the waters edge.
For months things had been very
unsettled, and had heard much talk
among my elders about oppression.
tyranny and taxation. Up In the gar
.et, hidden behind the big loom, were
chest of tea, a teakettle. teacups,
suucers, etc, carefully covered with
l heap of fax. Every afternoon my
mother would retire to this garrett
with any guest she might have to
| brew and drink cup of that forbid
len beverage. How often had been
soId to stay near the door and play.
put to run quickly and tell my moth
or lf saw any one coming up the
all.
For days. out in the harbor mother
and the servants had been watching
md discussing the big ships which
we're anchored there. There were so
many and so different from the little
ishing and harbor boats 1 had been
accustomed to see there.
Il was too young to fully under
stand exactly what it all meant, but
lad a vngue idea that something aW-
!ul was going to happen
The day before the battle, juno 16,
we children. my brother Richard, sis
Ter Ann and myself, had been playing
N the newly gathered hay which the
farm hands had left in little cocks
:eady for cartIng to the barn. These
We had seen fit to scatter mostly In
III directions.
MY father. returning for midday |
Inner. looked very serious, and we |
thought him exceedingly cross, for he
commanded that we should rake up |
every particle of the hay into cocks
again Immediately.
Eat dinner there was much talk of |
war and the British, and the ships |
were watched closer than ever. They |
seemed now to be teeminS with COM
sanity moving red coated men. At
supper the family talked with bated /
breath, and afterward father went
bacIk to the village, which mother did
not seem to like him to do and was
very unusual for him. We were not
put to bed at the usual time. They
seemed to forget us, and we huddled
lround mother as she talked anxiously
with neighbors who had called to see
father.
aAt 10 O'Clock. when father returned,
oe said orders had been issued to Colo
nel Prescott to fortify Bunker Hill, as
every evidence showed the British
we're intending to land. Our callers
departed, and we retired.
at must have been nearly midnight
when the whole household was aroused
by terrible knocking ut our doors and
the tramping OF horses in the yard
Father. hastily throwing up his win
low, demanded who was there. The
answer was: General Putnam. Get
the women and children out of the
louse MS quickly as possible. We are
Certifying the hill and must have the
.louse.'
"Instantly candles were lighted and
Ill was excitement and for some time
confusion. Some big chests were got
Down from the garrett, however, and
clothing, silver, jewelry, everything at
hand promiscuousIy flung in, my father
assuring us that we probably should
never again look upon anything left
behind.
Horses were quickly hitched to the
carriage and others to a big farm
wagon. Mother and we children-Ann
clInging to her pet kitten and hugglng
my dear old dog Bose, both crying for
we knew not what-were put into the
carriage, the women servants and
shests into the wagon, and away we
went down the hill among hundreds