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Diary of Saiiiut'/ Cooper 335 with M" C. (my H. and ch) to Sister Cooper's : at D. Livermore's and to M' Payne's Family. M' Payne kindly presented me with a new Wig made for himself worth 44/. L. M. slept and H : at home, we drank Coffee at M' Payne's. 2y. Tiifsi/ay. M" C. went (my H. and ch) and M' Kory attended her with his Cart to Ro.xbury to bring home our Trunks left at M' William's, it rain'd all day. I went in M'^" Cockran's chaise to Capt Brown's, pray'd with his Daughter sick, to M" Cockran's pray' d there her little Son sick, attended Overseer's Meeting at Council Board, (lin'd with President, M' Murray Boothbay &c at M' Fowle's. return'd home. Mrs C. and M' Kory came in Evg home with the Trunks, slept and H. at home. 28. Wednesday. Went (my H. and ch) to Watertown. din'd at home, went (my H : and ch) p. m to M" Turell's. Drank Coffee there, paid Wellman for shoeing my Horse 7 /. O. Ten. M' Brad- shaw gave me dressing my Hat 7 /. O. Tenf Snowy Weather. M' SamI Eliot spent Evg with us. slept and Horse at home. 2<). Fet^. M" C. went (my H : and ch) to Watertown. Patten mended Saddle. We din'd at home. Went p. m. (my H. and ch) to Watertown. I pray'd with M" Cockran's Son, Amos Bond's Wife, Jonas White. Drank Coffee at Mrs Cockran's. Slept and H at home. I). Storer with his Son and Daught'r. visited us. March I. Fryday. We din'd at home. Master Tho' Thatcher visited us p. m. I went (my H : and ch) to M' Paynes, slept and H : at home. 2. Sat : Went with M" C. my H : and Ch. to Watertown. We din'd at home. Went p. m. (my H. and Ch) to Saml Whites Son's Funeral, return'd by Deacon Fisk's. Boston Cannonaded and bombarded from our Lines for the first Time this Night. Two of our Mortars split. J. Lord's day. Went my H : and ch. to Watertown. din'd at D. Fisk's. M" C. came in my chaise sent back for her after Dinner, pch'd all day and administer'd. no Firing f'm our Lines to day : but begun about i "Clock at Night, continued till Morn^. The fine brass Mortar call'd the Congress crack' d.' 4. An Alarm that the King's Forces were coming f'm Boston to Cambridg, but groundless. Sent off Nabby's Trunks to M' Miliquets. Went there with M C. my H. and ch. f'm thence to Watertown. we din'd at home, went p. m. to Watertown. call'd at M'" Storer's. This and all the near Towns round us call'd into the Lines. Prepara- tions making by our Army to take Possession of Dorchester Heights and Point. M' Kory and Son and M' Clarke all gone to the Army, last took Possession — Dorchester Hill.' 1 C/. Diar)- of Ezekiel Price, /. c, p. 240. ' See Washington to the President of Congress, March 7, ed. Sparks, III. 302 ; Let- ters of Ebenezer Huntington, in .^M. HisT. Rev., V. 708, 709 ; Robert Pierpont to James Bowdoin, March 5, in A/a.'s. Hist. Coll., sixth series, IX. 393, 394 ; Timothy Newell's Journal, ibiiL, fourth series, I. 272 ; General Gates to John Adams, March 8, in P>-oc. Mass. Hist. Soc, 1875-76, p. 281; Diary of Ezekiel Price, ibid., 1863-64, p. 240 ; Diary of John Rowe, ibid., second series, X. 94, 95 ; Diary of John Tudor, pp. 60, 61.