Bunker Hill

282, 285
    Robinson, John, 138, 140, 142, 342n, 343n
    Rogers’s Rangers, 57, 212
    Rotch, Francis, 9
    Rowe, John, 24, 36–37, 40–43, 49, 82, 100–1, 288, 316n
    Roxbury, Mass., 71, 112, 116, 149–50, 254, 266, 353n
    American lines in, 264
    British plan to attack, 191, 204, 208
    fortifications in, 246, 275
    Gen. Thomas’s forces in, 195
    location of, 12, 63
    militiamen in, 161–62, 164–65, 167–69, 175–76, 178–79, 182–83, 234
    and taking of Dorchester, 276–77, 279, 282–83
    Royal American Magazine
, 47
    Ruggles, Timothy, 85
    rum, 80, 179, 202, 238, 316n
    Rush, Benjamin, 240
    Russell, Benjamin, 149, 165, 246–47, 331n
    Russell, Jason, 153, 156–57
    Salem, Mass., 31, 40, 43–45, 48, 51–52, 55, 57–59, 67, 76, 93, 100, 158, 160, 171, 188, 235, 318n
    Salem witch trials, 59, 121
    Sandwich, Lord, 257–58, 316n
    Scammon, James, 209
    schooners, 170
    Schuyler, Philip, 269
    Scituate, 170, 332n
    Scollay, John, 47, 312n
    Scollay, Mercy, 47, 55, 70, 101–2, 112, 192, 247–48, 310n, 312n, 319–20n, 347n
    Scollay, Priscilla, 55
    Second Continental Congress, 83, 113
    Sewall, Jonathan, 65, 233–34
    sharpshooters, 222, 224
    Shirley, Gov. William, 31
    Shrewsbury, Mass., 65–66, 73, 164
    Shuldham, Molyneux, 258
    siege
    Boston under, 246–47, 254, 286, 289–91, 355n
    definition of, 245, 248–49
    devolves into stalemate, 265–66
    Siege of Louisbourg, 5, 77, 120
    signal flags/lanterns, 116, 192
    Simons, Joshua, 128
    slavery, 23–24, 121, 159, 165, 197, 240, 244, 262, 278, 293–95, 306n, 356n
    smallpox, 54, 68, 255, 312n, 314n
    Smith, Francis, 152, 154, 280
    leads expedition to Concord, 116, 118, 122–23, 128–29, 132, 136
    marches to Lexington, 145, 148–49
    reinforcements of, 140, 143–44
    searches for supplies, 139
    smuggling, 7, 9, 21, 304n
    Solemn League and Covenant, 42, 47–49, 55, 75, 118
    Somerset
, 182, 184, 203, 218
    South Carolina, 3, 52, 167
    South End (Boston), 10, 15, 20, 234
    spears, 250, 348n
    spies, 89–93, 115–16, 135, 170, 180, 192, 246, 318n, 321n, 334n.
See also
Church, Benjamin; Gage, Thomas
    Spitfire
, 196, 203
    Spunkers, 68, 314n
    St. Andrew’s Lodge of Masons, 68, 89–90, 192, 288, 318n
    St. James’s Palace, 25, 29
    St. John’s Masonic Lodge, 90
    St. Patrick’s Day, 285
    Stamp Act (1765), 4, 6, 17–18, 20, 30, 163
    Stark, John, 185, 196, 205, 211–14, 220–21, 226, 339–40n
    Stevens, James, 178–79
    Stiles, Rev. Ezra, 66, 325n
    Stockbridge, Mass., 58, 241
    Storrs, Experience, 209
    Stoughton, Mass., 179, 194
    Stow militiamen, 138
    street-firing, 141, 327n
    Stuart, Gilbert, 237, 240
    Stuart kings, 4, 6
    Suffolk County militia, 150
    Suffolk Resolves, 74–76, 102, 115
    Sukey
, 171, 188
    Sullivan, John, 245, 249–51, 281–82, 286
    Sullivan, Thomas, 229
    surgeons, 54, 152, 192–94, 235, 244, 281, 284, 312n, 335n.
See also
specific names
    Sutherland, William, 124, 128, 141, 143, 149, 162, 324n
    swords, 51, 124, 228–29, 325n, 343n
    Symmetry
, 196, 203
    tarring and feathering, 16–22, 24, 32, 39, 99, 145, 288–89, 305–6n
    Taunton, Mass., 44–45, 58, 84–85, 317n
    taxation, 6–8, 16, 30, 52, 81, 88, 95, 111–12, 303n
    tea, 7, 10–11, 22, 30, 36, 41, 45, 52–53, 100.
See also
Boston Tea Party; East India Company tea
    Tea Act (1773), 8–10, 34, 120
    Ten Hills Farm, 63–64
    Tewksbury militia, 146
    Thacher, James, 281–82, 286, 339n
    Thomas, John, 164–67, 175–76, 183, 191, 194–95, 208, 243, 250, 280
    Thomas, Isaiah, 47, 70, 101, 112, 150, 247, 310n, 321n
    Thomas, Mary Dill, 101
    Thomas, Nathaniel Ray, 85–86, 166–67
    Thompson, Benjamin, 101
    Thompson, Daniel, 147
    Thorp, Thomas, 142, 330n
    Tories, 71, 86, 274, 284, 288–89, 317–18n, 356n
    Tory Row.
See
Cambridge: Tory Row in
    Town House (Boston), 8, 15, 19–20, 39, 290–91
    town meetings, 32–34, 36, 39, 41, 48–49, 53, 58, 74, 120, 136, 139, 178, 307n
    town militias, 58, 77–78, 81, 93, 119–20, 136, 242, 267–68, 270.
See also
militiamen;
specific towns
    Townsend, Daniel, 157
    Townsend, David, 215–16, 339–40n
    Townshend Act (1766), 7–8
    traitors, 89–93
    Trask, Israel, 244
    treason, 49, 201–2, 252, 284
    Trevett, Samuel, 210–11, 213, 223
    Trumbull, Gov. Jonathan, 174–75, 253
    Trumbull, John, 241, 294
    Trumbull, Joseph, 240–41
    Tryon, Gov. William, 16
    Tudor, William, 162
    Tupper, Benjamin, 257
    Tyler, John, 292–93
    uniforms
    of British officers, 155, 220
    of British regulars, 124, 132, 134, 155, 219–20, 222, 325n
    of militiamen, 124, 325n
    of provincial army, 208,