!92 



HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



lected in the excitement of war. A few of them reappear 

 upon later pay rolls for service on guard at Hull from that 

 December to the next April. 



The British soldiers were in the habit of foraging for 

 food and booty at convenient distance from their ships-, so 

 that these coast defenses were posted. The one at Hull 

 was the famous fortification overlooking the channel of 

 Boston Harbor. 



Oath by Obediah Beal before Benj. Gushing, J. P. 



WOODBRIDGE & BROWN, 

 SETH LORING, 



Examined December 25. Clerks on part of the Board. 



* Revolutionary Records, Vol. XXV, p. 83. 



