BULLETIN 



OF THE 



VOL. 8. SALEM, MASS., MAR., APR., MAT, 1876. Nos. 3, 4. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. Ten Cents a Single Copy. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1876. 



Meeting this evening. The PRESIDENT in the chair. 

 Records read. 



WILLIAM P. UPHAM, Esq., read a very interesting 

 paper narrating 



INCIDENTS DURING THE OCCUPANCY QF BOSTON BY THE 

 BRITISH TROOPS IN 1775-6. 



These incidents were gleaned from many family letters, 

 journals, diaries, etc., that had recently come into his 

 possession, or had been loaned to him for the preparation 

 of this paper. 



Among them were many letters written at that period 

 to Oliver Wendell, a merchant in Boston at the time of 

 the Revolution. Mr. Wendell was in consultation with the 

 early patriots of the Revolution, and contributed to the 

 country's liberty and independence. He was for some- 

 time one of the Selectmen of Boston, was often a mem- 



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