Bunker Hill

116, 118, 122, 150, 165, 209, 243, 266, 282
    Charlestown, 23–24, 52, 64, 67, 116, 118, 150, 153
    and Battle of Bunker Hill, 195, 197–200, 205, 208–9, 214–15, 217, 292
    and Battle Road, 158–60
    during British evacuation, 285–86
    British march on, 182–83, 198
    British plan to attack, 191, 197–98, 206, 208
    burned by the British, 218–20, 224, 227, 255, 286, 340n
    commons of, 69, 197
    description of, 198, 200, 211
    location of, 14, 15, 63, 184
    raided by Continental army, 266
    rail fence built in, 211, 213–14
    Charlestown Neck, 196–97, 203, 205, 212–13, 216, 235, 249
    Chatham
, 258
    Chatham, Lord, 94
    Cheever, David, 204
    Chelmsford militiamen, 138
    Chelsea, Mass., 12, 63, 183–85, 191, 218, 254, 312n
    Chester, John, 208–9, 222–23
    Christ Church, 15, 116, 322n, 349n
    Church, Benjamin, 91–92
    Church, Dr. Benjamin, 90, 96, 100, 166, 171, 173, 176, 182, 192
    court-martial of, 251–53
    personality of, 82, 91
    and Provincial Congress, 318n, 321n
    punishment of, 288
    as spy, 91–92, 101, 105, 113, 115, 318n, 321n, 322n
    as surgeon general, 244
    Clarke, John, 222
    Clarke parsonage, 112, 119, 122, 324n
    Clarke, Rev. Jonas, 120, 325n
    Clinton, Henry, 189–91, 199–200, 203, 206, 234, 266, 271, 338n, 340n
    Cobble Hill, 63–64, 254, 258, 275–76, 279, 353n
    Coercive Acts, 53, 55, 57–58, 74–75, 95, 120
    Coffin, Nathaniel, Sr., 304n
    comet, 8, 304n
    commissions
    and British army, 192, 201, 238–39
    of loyalists, 60
    and provincial army, 39, 192–93, 243–45
    Committee of Correspondence
    and “Boston Declaration,” 35–36
    and boycott of British goods, 37, 41–42, 44
    correspondence of, 34–36, 52, 54
    and Gage’s actions, 79, 84, 103
    leaders of, 34, 66–67
    meetings of, 58, 69, 103, 310n
    members of, 34, 39, 53, 72, 82, 316n
    and Solemn League and Covenant, 47–49
    Committee of Donations, 52, 54
    Committee of Safety, 109–10, 118–19, 121, 123, 126, 150, 176, 331n, 334n
    and Battle of Bunker Hill, 195, 198, 204, 208, 215, 337n, 338n, 339n, 342n
    and Battle Road, 154
    duties of, 88, 104, 204
    and Fort Ticonderoga, 173–74
    headquarters of, 175, 195
    leaders of, 191–92, 236, 336n
    meets in Cambridge, 163–64, 166, 175
    and provincial army, 164, 179–80
    Committee of Supplies, 204
    Conciliatory Proposition, 95
    Concord, Mass., 62, 75, 81, 88, 91, 96, 109, 111, 113
    battle at North Bridge, 133–47, 151, 160, 162, 326n, 327n, 342n, 343n
    and Battle Road, 152–54
    British expedition to, 114–19, 122–24, 129–30
    liberty pole of, 133–35, 139
    militia of, 134–36, 141–42
    war begins at, 140–43, 145, 189
    Concord fight, 132–47, 163, 168, 171, 188–89, 206, 323n
    Concord Hill, 148, 153, 328n
    Concord River, 133–34, 137, 139–41, 144
    Congregational Church, 11, 19, 53, 169
    Connecticut, 57, 167, 214, 241, 243, 253, 266, 288
    delegates of, 74
    and gunpowder, 204
    militia/army of, 65, 165, 197, 208, 211, 223, 259–60, 268
    supports Massachusetts, 52, 173–75
    Continental army, 214, 236, 249, 258
    ammunition/artillery for, 268–72
    and cowardice, 277–78
    devoid of Bostonians, 289
    and free African Americans, 251, 262–63
    generals/officers of, 262, 270–74
    and the King’s Speech, 264–65
    and reenlistment crisis, 267, 271–72
    winter mobility of, 259, 266, 271–72
    Continental Congress.
See
First Continental Congress; Second Continental Congress
    Cooper, Rev. Samuel, 33, 46, 96, 100, 111, 308n, 321n
    Cooper, William, 42, 96
    Cooper’s Tavern, 153, 158
    Copley, John Singleton, 22–23, 37, 46–47, 68, 306n
    Copp’s Hill, 14, 15, 21, 168, 196, 198, 202, 206, 210, 217, 254, 340n
    Cornhill, 19, 97, 320n, 321n, 339n
    council of war, 195, 250–51, 267, 271–75, 277, 282
    county conventions, 74–75, 77, 79
    couriers/messengers, 54, 75, 204, 322n.
See also
Revere, Paul
    courts-martial, 243–44, 251–53, 257
    Crafts, Thomas, 271, 290
    Crocker, Hannah Mather, 87–88
    Cromwell, Oliver, 178–79
    Cromwell’s Head Tavern, 56, 312n
    Cushing, Thomas, 48, 55–56, 104
    customs/customs officers, 7, 14, 16–19, 21, 68, 70, 247, 256, 284, 303–4n, 315n
    Daily Atlas
, 292
    Danforth, Samuel, 69, 72, 314–15n
    Danvers, Mass., 40, 58–59, 76, 156–57
    Dartmouth
, 9
    Dartmouth, Lord, 23, 72, 94, 259
    and account of Concord/Lexington, 188–89
    Gage reports to, 31, 49, 59, 80, 85, 316n
    orders of, 104, 114–15
    and Port Act, 31
    Davis, Ezekiel, 141–42
    Davis, Isaac, 137–43, 147, 327n
    Davis, William, 276
    Dawes, William, 78, 118–19, 123
    Deane, Silas,