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May 29, 1775, to keep in touch with similar committees all 

 over the province. They were : — 



Deacon Isaac Lincoln. Thomas Bourne. 



Obadiah Lincoln. Thomas Lothrop. 



Stephen Stoddard. Benjamin Gushing. 

 Abel Kent. 



Six or seven town meetings in course of the year were 

 held to do necessary legislating. 



What became of the Cohasset company after the battle 



Military Hat and CARTRmcE Box, worn by Cohasset Revolution- 

 ary Soldiers. The Box was at Burgoyne's surrender. 



of Bunker Hill can never be very fully known. Their 

 time was out on August i and they were paid off, 

 averaging about seventeen dollars for privates, less than 

 seven dollars a month. No doubt many were reenlisted 

 in other service. Perhaps some went with Benedict 

 Arnold upon his daring march into Canada, losing their 

 lives in the terrible journey through the woods of Maine 

 or in the fierce assault upon Quebec. Some came home 

 again to do their farm work which had been sadly neg- 



