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slightly wounded,— cannot remember ilio name of any, or that he ever 

 heard. 



After the accommodation had been arranged, Leslie asked Felt why 

 he stuck so near him all the time. Felt answered "Had your meu 

 Jired, 'twas my purpose to have immediately seized and sprung with 

 you into the channel." Capt. Northey who knew Felt afterwards 

 remarked, " He could havedone so, and drowned him and then swam off." 

 The reckless spirits upon the draw blackguarded the soldiers by every 

 epithet they could think of, and while it aggravated the soldiers to 

 repeated threats that they would fire upon them, they still tantalized 

 them by daring them to do it. The soldiers had been heated by a quick 

 march, and during the delay (the day being very cold) they had become 

 chilly and trembled violently, when one ■ — - — ■ Teague, who was on the 

 draw, cried out " I should think you were all fiddlers you shake so." 

 The majority of the people however it ia believed desired not to exasper- 

 ate the troops but to overcome them by a determined and manly resis- 

 tance. 



When the alarm was first given, Mr. Benjamin Daland mounted hia 

 horse and rode with all speed and alarmed the people of Danvers, where 

 there was a company of cavalry who rode in every direction into the 

 country and spread the alarm far and wide. Daland returned from 

 Danvers through the JSTorth fields in season to march off with the troops 

 and riding up to Col. Leslie, with whom he was personally acquainted, 

 he jeered him in these words, "Well Colonel, I think you have done 

 right, for in a short time we shall have more men here than your 

 soldiers have 1-ce in their heads." 



Col. Leslie had about 300 men with him. They marched about as 

 far as Mason street. On this march in Northfields a woman opened 

 her window and gave them the length of her tongue. They threatened 

 to shoot her if she did not desist. 



A company of militia commanded by Capt. Samuel Eppcs arrived 

 from Danvers, and as Col. Leslie's troops marched off, they were 

 formed across Federal street, on the west side of North street, in 

 double rank, and after the regiment had passed they formed in behind 

 and marched thus to the bounds of the town in South Salem, where 

 they met a Marblehead company, when the Danvers company returned. 

 The Marblehead company formed in behind as they had done and 

 marched by the music of the English. 



Capt. Northey says whenever his father spoke of the affair "it was 

 ail Felt, Felt, Felt." He was the spirit on whom the crowd depended. 

 Col. Pickering's regiment was forming in School street, now Washington 

 street. Did not remember anything about Col. Mason. Capt Northey's 

 father was at the bridge, — never heard him say anything of himself in 

 connection with the occasion. Mr. William Northey mentioned in 

 Mr Gavett's account was the brother of his father. 



Extract from a Manuscript Memoir of Col. David Mason, written hj 

 his daughter. 



In the summer of 1774, he [Col. Mason] was one of a committee to 

 prevent any tea being brought into the town, [of Salem] or being sold, 



