From Kingdom to Colony

uly, in the year

tine hue, shut in protectively by the "Neck," thrust out like a strong arm between it and t

d in trees and verdure, but showing here and there a grayness of beach or b

fternoon sunshine; and here, amid the desolation, a few of the blackened timbers still remained upright, like arms lifted in

ge Gerry, John Glover, Azor Orne, and Jonathan Glover petitioned that a hospital be built on Cat Island, for the

vided the adjoining town of Salem gave its consent; it being also stipulated that the hospital shoul

ined from Salem, preparations were made

g pest amongst them. Their terror made them unreasonable, and they now fiercely opposed the scheme to which they had once given their consent, and demanded that the

ess in the treatment of smallpox. Several hundred patients came under his care, with gratifying results. But a few had died, and this fact brought

then, to assure themselves that the hospital should not be reopened, a party of the townspeople, closel

acticable to enforce the duty upon tea, and resorting to subterfuge, adopted a compromise whereby the East India Company, hitherto t

. And when the news was received that the East India Company had freighted ships with tea consigned to its colon

t the tea should not be unloaded or sold by them; and they were forthwith publicly stigmatized as enemies to t

oston harbor; and in the following spring Governor Hutchinson

ts to terms. The quartering of English troops in Boston was made legal. Town meetings were prohibited except by special permission from the Gov

Boston, who were suffering from the operation of the "Port Bill," and all the buildings which could be uti

express their views, and discuss the grave questions then agitating the entire country. The very air of the sea seemed to murmur of wa

nt shadows across the grassy meadows and slopes, rising and falling to meet the sand-beaches, or ending

he way, a horseman was going leisurely al

nd there a clump of bushes and tangled vines, or a thicket of wild roses. The road before him ended in two branches, one leading to the rising ground on the right, where stood the Fountain Inn, while to the left it terminated in a

the Neck and the town, the enemy's vessels might anchor by the land itself. And here the townsfo