 | James Davie Butler - Vermont - 1846 - 46 pages
...correspondence in Boston : " March W, 1775. hostilities be committed by the king's troops. The people of the New Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business...This will effectually curb this province, and all the troops that may be sent here." This last particular, the importance of Ticonderoga as the key alike... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin DeCosta - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1868 - 218 pages
...Montreal, saying : "One thing I must mention to be kept a profound secret — the fort of Tyconderoga must be seized as soon as possible, should hostilities be committed by the King's troops." He adds, moreover, " The people on Ne »v Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business, and in... | |
 | Berkshire County (Mass.) - 1869 - 546 pages
...forbade both. But he closed his letter of March 29 2 with these words : — " One thing I must mention as a profound secret. The Fort at Ticonderoga must...hostilities be committed by the king's troops. The people on New-Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business, and, in my opinion, are the most proper persons... | |
 | Berkshire County (Mass.) - 1869 - 570 pages
...forbade both. But he closed his letter of March 29 2 with these words : — " Ont thing I mu.it mention as a profound secret. The Fort at Ticonderoga must...as possible, should hostilities be committed by the fang's troops. The people on New-Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business, and, in my opinion,... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) - 1872 - 162 pages
...suggestion, brought to his notice while on the Grants, says— " One thing I must mention, to be kept a profound secret. The fort at Ticonderoga must be...hostilities be committed by the King's troops. The people on the New Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business ; and, in my opinion, they are the most proper... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1875 - 450 pages
...on his way to Montreal, on the twenty-ninth, wrote to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren at Boston : " One thing I must mention to be kept as a profound...secret. The fort at Ticonderoga must be seized as soon us possible, should hostilities be committed by the king's troops. The people on New Hampshire Grants... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 658 pages
...his way to Montreal, on the twenty-ninth wrote to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren at Boston, that, " should hostilities be committed by the king's troops, the people on New Hampshire Grants would seize the fort at Ticonderoga ; and they were the proper persons for the job." The assembly of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1879 - 758 pages
...New Hampshire Grants, which may be depended upon, and adds : " One thing I must mention, to be kept a profound secret. The Fort at Ticonderoga must be...opinion, they are the most proper persons for this job." It does not appear that the Massachusetts Committee took, at the time, any steps to accomplish this... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 484 pages
...through the district on his way to Montreal, wrote to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren at Boston, that, "should hostilities be committed by the king's troops, the people on New Hampshire Grants would seize the fort at Ticonderoga; and that they were the proper persons for the job." The assembly... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 490 pages
...through the district on his way to Montreal, wrote to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren at Boston, that, "should hostilities be committed by the king's troops, the people on New Hampshire Grants would seize the fort at Ticonderoga; and that they were the proper persons for the job." The assembly... | |
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One thing I must mention, to be kept as a profound secret. The fort at Ticonderoga must be seized as soon as possible, should hostilities be committed by the king's troops. The people on New Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business, and in my... 
