290 HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



dred barrels of flour, brought in a coaster from New 

 York to the head of Buzzard's Bay, were taken overland 

 from Manomet to Scusset River and thence in boats to 

 Plymouth. The next morning the whaleboats loaded with 

 flour were rowed cautiously up the shore for fear of the 

 enemy's ships to Cohasset Harbor, where they landed at 

 five o'clock in the afternoon. Carts were procured and the 

 precious food stuff was hauled overland to Washington's 

 camp.* 



Another piece of blockade running at this period of the 

 war is credited to a Cohasset heroine, Persis (Tower) Lin- 

 coln. She was the daughter of another heroine of whom 

 we shall speak, Mrs. Daniel Tower, nicknamed " Resolu- 

 tion " Tower, because of her indomitable disposition. Per- 

 sis had been married to Allen Lincoln, November 23, 1775, 

 and they lived on Elm Street, where the Osgood School 

 ground now is. Allen Lincoln was a seaman, and tradi- 

 tion says that he was taken from a vessel which the Brit- 

 ish captured and was carried to England, where he was 

 placed in Dartmoor prison, from which he never returned. 

 The wife of this absent seaman knew how to sail a boat 

 and was not afraid of the sea. In that year when Boston 

 was besieged by our soldiers on land and when the harbor 

 was filled with British vessels, it is said that Persis did 

 the work of our absent men by sailing one of our vessels 

 across the bay to Gloucester to get supplies that could not 

 be had in the blockaded port of Boston. This daring 

 deed makes her properly a Revolutionary heroine ; and it 

 was fitting that after the war was ended, which had made 

 her a widow, she should marry, 1786, the gallant Captain 

 James Hall. 



While the soldiers were in active service upon the field 

 of war, the townsmen who were left at home did their 

 share in adjusting the country to an independent govern- 

 ment. A Committee of Correspondence was chosen on 



*See Pilgrim Republic, Goodwin, p. 291, note. 



