Bunker Hill

of Dorchester Heights in his
Journal
, pp. 273–76. The reference to “Great Britain being fast asleep” is in a March 7 letter in
LAR
, p. 279. The reference to the loyalists carrying “death in their faces” comes from a March 21 letter from Caleb Adams to General Folsom cited in Allen French’s
FYAR
, p. 664. Washington writes of the loyalists being “at their wit’s end” in a March 31, 1776, letter to John Augustine Washington in
PGW
, 3:568. Allen French in
FYAR
writes of the travails of the loyalists Adino Paddock, Benjamin Hallowell, and Harrison Gray, pp. 665–66. Lieutenant Governor Thomas Oliver estimated in French,
FYAR
, that of the 3,500 inhabitants in Boston toward the end of the Siege, “The loyal and their connections may amount to 2,000 and upwards. . . . There are, I suppose, 60 or 70 persons with their families who could never make their peace with the rebels” (p. 651). This means that only about half of those whom Oliver considered loyalists chose to sail to Halifax. My thanks to Gregory Whitehead for his insights regarding Boston’s “second culling” in a personal communication. Archibald Robertson describes his last day in Boston in his
Journal
, p. 79. Inventories of “British Stores Left in Boston” and “British Ordnance Stores Left in Boston” are in
PGW
, 3:525–27, 549–50. My thanks to Philip Budden for pointing out the significance of March 17 for Boston’s Irish population in a personal communication.
    John Sullivan in a March 19 extension of a letter started on March 17, 1776, to John Adams describes the “lifeless sentries” guarding the British fortress at Bunker Hill, in Taylor,
Founding Families
. James Wilkinson writes of Boston on evacuation day in his
Memoirs
, p. 32–33. James Thacher writes of the “melancholy gloom” of the Bostonians in his
Journal
, pp. 41–42. John Andrews writes of how his longing for his wife Ruthy has not prevented him from feeling a sense of optimism throughout the siege in LJA, p. 411. Archibald Robertson describes assisting John Montresor in the destruction of the Castle in his
Diary
, pp. 80–81. Washington writes of “lamenting the disappointment” of not having been allowed to attack Boston in a March 27, 1776, letter to Landon Carter, in
PGW
, 3:545. The “Address from the Boston Selectmen” thanking Washington for “the recovery of this town” is in
PGW
(3:571–72), as is Washington’s “Address to the Boston Selectmen and Citizens” (3:572–73) and his March 7 installment of a letter started on February 26 to Joseph Reed, in which he claims, “I will not lament or repine at any act of Providence because I am in a great measure a convert to Mr. Pope’s opinion that whatever is, is right” (3:373–74).
    John Warren writes of retrieving his brother’s body from Breed’s Hill in his journal, which is quoted in Edward Warren’s
Life of John Warren
, p. 74. John Rowe writes of being insulted at Joseph Warren’s funeral in his
Diary
, p. 307. Clifford Shipton details the demise of Benjamin Church in
SHG
, 13:395–97. A. W. H. Eaton in
The Famous Mather Byles
writes about the minister losing his congregation in 1776; he recounts Byles’s comment about being ruled by “one tyrant 3,000 miles away” instead of “3,000 tyrants not a mile away” (pp. 146–47), as well as Byles’s pun about his “observe-a-Tory” (p. 173). Albert Mathews in “Joyce, Junior” quotes from the advertisement in the March 17, 1777,
Boston Gazette
in which Joyce Jr. refers to taking action against the “shameless brass-faced Tories who have the audaciousness to remain” (p. 94). Abigail Adams describes Joyce Junior’s carting of the loyalists across the town line in an April 20, 1777, letter in Taylor,
Founding Families
. Washington’s General Orders forbidding the observance of “that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the effigy of the Pope” can be found in
PGW
, 2:300. Esther Forbes in
Paul Revere
cites Revere’s April 1777 letter to John Lamb in which he writes, “I find but few of the Sons of Liberty in the army” (p. 323). Ruth Bloch in
Visionary Republic
cites Thomas Paine’s claim that the “birthday of a new world is at hand” (p. 75). J. L. Bell in his July 4, 2007,
Boston 1775
blog entry, “Sheriff Greenleaf and Col. Crafts Read the Declaration,” cites Greenleaf’s son’s account of his father and Crafts declaiming the Declaration of Independence,