Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memorial of Captain Charles Cochrane, a British Officer in the Revolutionary War, 1774 1781
AT a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, May 14, 1891, the Hon. Mellen chamberlain said that within a few years there had come to light much interesting and some historically important information respecting a group of young men who followed the British ?ag to Boston in the summer of 1774, in the attempt by the mother country to reduce the colonies to imperial subjection.
The first was a series of letters written from Boston or New York, in 1774 - 1776, by Capt. W. Glanville Evelyn, a copy of which is in the library. Captain Evelyn, of the same family as the author of Sylva, was in the famous Fourth Regiment, The King's Own, and participated in the affairs at Lexington and Bunker Hill. He was mortally wounded in the skirmish at Throg's Neck, Oct. 18, 1776, and died November 6. Captain Cochrane was one of the executors of his will.
Of similar interest was a collection of original letters of Lord Percy written about the same time, and now in the Boston Public Library.
But the most valuable was a memorial of his military career prepared by Capt. Charles Cochrane, who was with the main army from its arrival at Boston, in 1774, or with Clinton or Cornwallis in their Southern campaigns, till his death at York town, Oct. 17, 1781.
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