Diary of William Pynchon, January 9, 1776

News came from Charlestown that Bunker's Hill was taken last night by the Provincials; on inquiry it proved to be the burning of some houses at the bottom of the hill, and the taking four or five prisoners. Mr. Farnham¹ came here, and returned on Wednesday. At night a violent wind.

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¹ Daniel Farnham, of Newburyport, was one of a group of eminent lawyers more or less distinguished at the bar and in public life. He was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1739, and died in 1776. Among others mentioned in this diary are Nathaniel P. Sargent, afterward Chief Justice of the Superior Court, John Chipman of Marblehead, the Cushings, Theophilus Parsons, and John Lowell, afterward Chief Justice of the first U. S. Circuit Court.

SOURCE: Fitch Edward Oliver, Editor, The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem, p. 1