Historic Mansions And Highways Around Boston volume 2
Historic Mansions And Highways Around Boston volume 2
Drake Samuel Adams
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At the time he quitted Boston to repair to the American camp, Knox rented of Benjamin Ilarrod a store in old Cornhill (now the site of the "Globe" newspajier), who readily con- OLD CHAELESTOWN EOAD. 173 sented that Knox's goods iniglit remain there, i]i the behef that his tory connections — he had lately married the daughter of Secretary Flucker — would be a safeguard for both. The store, however, was rifled by the British, and the landlord put in a claim against Knox for the time it was shut u...p, which Knox indignantly refused to allow. After the evacuation, William Knox, brother of the general, continued the business of a Ijook- seller at the same stand. "When the Revolution began, Knox was a lieutenant of the Boston Grenadiers, commanded by Thomas Dawes, with the rank of major. Dawes was an officer of activity and address, and had exerted himself to bring the militia to a high standard of excellence. The presence of some of the best 'regiments in the British ser\dce offered both a model and incentive for these efforts.
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