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
