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the inlbi'inatioii about tlio guns ; lie wag alarmed and left the town 

 immediately and never returned. Went the day ai'ter the afl'air to the 

 north fields, Avhere the cannon had been deposited, in the barn of Capt. 

 booster ; stood upon a cannon he found there ; asked why they did not 

 carry it away ; was told it Avas injured — looked round and saw a crack 

 in the breech ; asked how many guns there had been in all, was told 

 twelve ; understood they were French pieces, and came from Nova 

 Scotia after the late French war ; were guns taken from the French ; 

 does not koow to Avhom they belonged previous to being fitted up on 

 this occasion. Heard they were distributed in various directions— some 

 to Cole's hole, in what is now called Paradise ; others towards Orne's 

 point, &c.; were not all carried to one place, for fear if they were 

 discovered by the troops they would all be lost. The only arms seen in 

 the hands of any one at the bridge was a brace of pistols peeping out 

 from under the cloak of a person whom he did not know. 



With reference to Colonel Pickering and his forty militia men, the 

 late Mr. Samuel Holman stated, in a memorandum written by himself ; 

 " There was no embodying of armed men on our side, and, of course, 

 Colonel Pickering did not perpetrate the shamefully ridiculous 

 manoeuvre of running backwards with his forty men in front of a bat- 

 talion of regular troops marching in quick time." Mr Holmaa was at 

 that time 11 years old. 



Abuah Northey Es(fs Account of ivhat he heard Ms Father relate. 



Colonel Leslie came in pursuit of some cannon which were at a 

 blacksmith's shop, on the north side of the North Bridge, where they 

 had been left to be repaired, and the iron work put upon the carriages. 

 Where the cannon came from, or how many, or what became of them 

 after being carried off out of the way of the troops, Mr. Northey did 

 not know. 



The northern leaf of the draw was raised, to stop the troops in their 

 march, and the people on that side climbed upon the top of it by the 

 help of the chains which held it, and sat astride there, as many as 

 could do so, like hens at roost. 



When the alarm was given, men from the south side rushed over and 

 raised the draw, and with the neighbors, who lived on the other side, 

 made the collection there ; most of whom stood on a small wharf which 

 jutted out from the east side of the bridge. Capt. Robert Foster was 

 conspicuous among them. 



The Rev. Mr. Barnard tried to persuade the people upon the draw 

 to let it down, as he in the spirit of a christian minister was very 

 anxious to prevent a collision ; he was answered, " We don't know you 

 in the business, when Felt orders it 'twill be time enough." 



Mr. Felt during the whole affair kept close by Colonel Leslie, nar- 

 rowly watching him in every movement and order. When Leslie 

 ordered his troops into the gondolas, Felt ordered his men to scuttle 

 them ; a scuffle ensued in which one or more of our citizena were 



