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meeting house and beating the alarm signal agreed upon, and crying 

 out, " To arms — to arms ! " A person, on the watch, saw the soldiers 

 come out of the neck lane [in] single file, [form] upon Bubier's plain, 

 and then march to Salem, playing "Yankee doodle.'' Mrs. Story also 

 states that after the draw w^as lowered, Col. Leslie and his men passed 

 over and advanced upon the road the number of paces agreed upon, 

 wheeled about, the music playing the old fashioned tune of "/Ae world'' s 

 turned upside </oi«7i," and marched to Marblehead neck, whence they 

 embarked. 



From the Essex Gazette of FeVy 28, 1775. 



As it is reported about this town, much to my injury, that I gave 

 information of certain pieces of artillery, which was the occasion of a 

 Regiment's marching to this place yesterday ; — I take this public 

 method of acquainting the good people, that the character of an 

 Informer, is of all characters the most odious to me, that 1 Avas in no 

 way instrumental in bringing troops hither, and shall be ready to 

 satisfy any one, who will call upon me, of my innocence. 



Salem, Feb. 27, 1775. Andrew Dalgleish. 



This man was one of the signers of the iory Address to Gov. Gage on. 

 his arrival in Salem, in June, 1774, and kept an English goods store in 

 " King street," afterwards " Old Paved street," and was burnt out at 

 the great fire of October 6th, 1774, when the Rev. Dr. Whitaker's 

 meeting house, situate near Balch's corner, eight dwelling houses, the 

 Custom House, and fourteen buildings occupied as stores, shops and 

 barns, besides sheds and other small outhouses, were wholly destroyed. 



{Essex Gazette, Oct. 11, 1774. 



