Part I

NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

Edited by

JUSTIN WINSOR

Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society

VOL. VI

Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1887, By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

[_The cut on the title shows the obverse of the Washington medal, struck to commemorate the siege of Boston._]