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The schoolhouse, occupied during the war as a guard house and prison, stood about twenty rods east of the Bridge. When the sentry was killed at the school house (see Enos Hobby's account) the officer in command was thought to have done wrong. He posted the third sentinel without informing him where the second was. Whaleboats sometimes used sails and masts which they raised and lowered or struck at pleasure. At the capture of the Shuldham, Andrew Mead, was the first man who boarded. He saw the British sailors run to get the spears, and he then armed himself with one and called out to his followers to do the same. He told me the story. He was always the foremost in every thing. Coscob is where the first bridge occurs in going east from Putnam Hill on the turn pike.
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When peace took place Titus's Bridge was one of the outposts, and during the latter part of the war, the lines ran from Titus's Bridge north westerly towards Pines Bridge.
<left margin> Isaac Davis one mile from here - an old man - Denham Palmer aged 84 - ½ mile from Davis's. </left margin>
I think Enos Hobby is mistaken, and that it was the sentinel posted in advance about thirty rods from the school house near a hickory tree who flashed his gun, upon which the sentinel by the school house fired and killed him. The second sentry, it was said, didn't know where the first ^third? one was stationed. I am certain I am not mistaken in this. Captain Frink resigned his commission when he went below, and consequently could not be made out a deserter. Samuel Reynolds of Horseneck was the man who killed Shube Merritt.