 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1848 - 362 pages
...Shattuck of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's Bridge, over the Nashua, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent...freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge. For rumors were rife, that the regulars were approaching, and frightful stories of slaughter flew rapidly... | |
 | Caleb Butler - 1848 - 526 pages
...Shattuck of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's bridge, over the Nashua, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent...freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge. For rumors were rife, that the regulars were approaching, and frightful stories of slaughter flew rapidly... | |
 | Lorenzo Sabine - 1864 - 618 pages
...Shattuck, of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's Bridge, over the Nashua, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent...foreign or domestic, — should pass that bridge. For rumors were rife that the Regulars were approaching, and frightful stories of slaughter flew rapidly... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1876 - 686 pages
...Shattuck of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's Bridge, over the Nashua, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent...freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge. For rumors were rife, that the regulars were approaching ; and frightful stories of slaughter flew... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1882 - 746 pages
...Shattuck of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's Bridge, over the Nashua, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent...freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge. For rumors were rife, that the regulars were approaching ; and frightful stories of slaughter flew... | |
 | 1899 - 42 pages
...pitchforks, and such other weapons as they could find. Having elected Mrs. Wright their commander, they resolutely determined that no foe to freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge. Soon a man appeared on horseback, supposed to be treasonably engaged in carrying intelligence to the... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 524 pages
...Canada to the British in Boston, and was arrested in Groton, Mass., under the following circumstances. After the departure of Col. Prescott's Regiment of...of slaughter flew rapidly from place to place and from bouse to house. Soon there appeared Mr. Leonard Whiting (the subject of this notice), on horseback,... | |
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Mrs. David Wright of Pepperell, Mrs. Job Shattuck of Groton, and the neighboring women, collected at what is now Jewett's Bridge, over the Nashua, between Pepperell and Groton, clothed in their absent husbands' apparel, and armed with muskets, pitchforks,... 