Bunker Hill

Advertiser
claims that the feud between Gage and Graves “first originated with their wives; both of whom led their husbands,” in
Letters on the American Revolution
(
LAR
), edited by Margaret Willard, p. 238. Major James Wemyss claimed that Gage “was governed by his wife, a handsome American,” in “Character Sketches of Gage, Percy and Others,” Sparks Papers, Harvard University, xxii, 214. In his
Diary
,
Lieutenant John Barker tells of Margaret Gage’s subscription “scheme” for the ball in January as well as the February ball attended by both the Gages and the Graveses, pp. 19–24; he also writes of the Gage-Graves squabble over the marines, p. 15. Hannah Mather Crocker writes nostalgically of “The Last Queen’s Ball” in
Observation on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings
, pp. 161–62.
    Frothingham writes of Joseph Warren’s role on the Committee of Safety in
LJW
, pp. 389–91. The huge numbers of supplies deposited in Concord are listed in
Diaries and Letters of William Emerson
, edited by Amelia Forbes Emerson, p. 60. John Andrews reports on how the “quantities that are barreled up” have contributed to the “dearness of provisions among us” in Boston, in LJA, pp. 394–95. Edward Warren in
Life of John Warren
claimed that Joseph Warren “induced his brothers Eben and John to appropriate a large portion of their small paternal estate” to help purchase gunpowder for the provincial army (p. 33); he includes the letters between Joseph and John during January and February 1775 in which Joseph attempts to convince his younger brother to take out a note of 200 pounds to Dr. Greenleaf (pp. 34–36, 41–42), and comments, “Like other people of ardent disposition, [Joseph Warren] does not look forward to what might happen even within six months” (p. 42). Samuel Forman in
DJW
documents Warren’s April 4, 1775, purchase of medical supplies from Greenleaf with 20 percent in cash (p. 266). Paul Revere tells of “a gentleman who had connections with the tory part but was a whig at heart” and who acquainted him with the existence of a spy, in “A Letter . . . to the Corresponding Secretary,” p. 106. On Henry Knox and his involvement in patriot spying efforts, see Mark Puls,
Henry Knox
, pp. 20–23. The January 3, 1775, letter in which Josiah Quincy writes to his son Josiah Jr. in England recounting the intelligence concerning the miserable morale of the British soldiers and sailors is in
Memoir of Josiah Quincy
, pp. 212–15. Paul Revere writes of the spy network he was involved with that met regularly at the Green Dragon Tavern in “A Letter . . . to the Corresponding Secretary,” p. 106.
    Joseph Warren describes Gage being of “honest, upright principles” in a November 21, 1774, letter to Josiah Quincy Jr. in Frothingham’s
LJW
, p. 395. Samuel Forman writes of how Warren formed an alliance with British traveling masonic lodges so that his own St. Andrew’s could achieve grand lodge status (
DJW
, pp. 116–25). Joseph Warren’s April 20, 1775, letter to Gage, in which he wishes he had “told you all I knew or thought of public affairs,” is in
PIR
, 3:1925–26.
    On Benjamin Church, see Clifford Shipton’s essay in
SHG
, 13:380–98; and Revere’s “Letter to . . . the Corresponding Secretary,” pp. 110–11. In just about every issue of the
Boston Gazette
in 1774 Benjamin Church’s auctioneer father ran an advertisement. On Benjamin Church as the Indian fighter in King Philip’s War, see my
Mayflower
, especially p. 358. Alan French was the first to document Dr. Benjamin Church’s role as a spy; see
General Gage’s Informers
, pp. 147–201. French writes that when it came to Gage’s decision to send troops to Salem in February, he “was strongly influenced by his secret information” (p. 25). Although Church does not identify himself as the source of each specific report, his role as a delegate in the Provincial Congress and stylistic similarities to his earlier and later writings have led me to identify him as the author of the reports that are attributed to him in the text. The March 4, 1775, “Intelligence of Military Preparations in Massachusetts” is reprinted in
DAR
, 8:63–66. The report filed by Brown and DeBerniere is in an appendix to “The Diary of Lieutenant John Barker,” in
Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research
, pp. 170–74. George Nash, in “From Radicalism to Revolution: The Political Career of Josiah