Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 192
by successive gradesto be a captain of artillery in 1780. He was secretary of theofficers who formed the Society of the Cincinnati, major andaide-de-camp to General Knox, his old commander, at thepeace, and was appointed by him to a post in his bureau whensecretary-at-war. In 1794 Major Shaw… … CO a 02 a HO FEOM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 159 family monument in Copps Hill. The company of artilleryattached to the Boston regiment gave to the Continental ser-vice upwards of forty young men, most of whom became dis-tinguished officers of that arm. A tradition is preserved that Wragg,…
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