29 



Such hasty entries as these mark the progress of their con- 

 struction and occupancy. 



May 23 & 24. Joseph Pudney and als. built their chimnies. 



" 28. Joseph Pudney and Ob h Foster moved into y e houses. 

 June 23. built y e Tailor's chimney " (Isaac Walker, the 

 tailor) 



This garrison of the first minister was one of the twelve 

 erected in the township for the protection of its people. 1 To 

 it a committee of the provincial government assigned eight 

 neighboring families besides his own. A portion of the men 

 maintained watch and ward upon the walls. A part went out 

 daily with implements of husbandry, and armed, to their work 

 in the fields. Three guns from this garrison was a signal for 

 all outside to repair at once within their respective strongholds 

 for safety. 2 * 



As indicating the dangers to which the people of Pennycook 

 were daily exposed at this time, we quote further entries from 

 his diary of 1746 : 



April 22. Y e indians took Woodwell's Garrison. 



" 25. Went to Boston to carry news of y e indian mischief. 



May 24. In the night we had tidings of mischief being done 

 about sunset, at Contoocook, by y e indians. Thomas Cook 

 and als. killed. 



June 11. Benj n Blanchard of Canterbury was scalped by y e 

 indians. 



June 12. Our town was universally alarmed by hearing some 

 guns discharged in y e woods. 



June 24. Mr. Stickney brought up my new gun. 



iThe several locations of these garrisons are designated upon the accom- 

 panying map of Concord (formerly Pennycook) in 1746. 



*The danger to which the inhabitants of Pennycook were at this time ex- 

 posed is farther indicated by a vote of the proprietors, passed March 19, 1746, 

 that a copy of their town records be made, and that the originals be sent to 

 Massachusetts for safe-keeping. — Proprietor's Records, vol. 3, p. 184. 



Half a dozen years before this, notwithstanding it was a time of peace, the 

 general feeling of insecurity was such that the town "Voted, That there shall 

 be a good and Sufficient Garrison built around the Revd Mr Timothy Walk- 

 ers dwelling House as soon as may be Conveniently at the Town's Cost." 

 — Concord Town Records, printed copy, p. 46. 



