Bunker Hill

129, 321n, 322n
    and Mass. Government Act, 52–53
    and Massacre Day Oration, 96, 99
    misleads Bostonians, 168–69, 175, 177
    as new governor, 26–27, 30–31, 37–40
    and patriots, 49, 111–12, 121
    and provincial army, 163–64, 166–67, 174–75, 320n
    replacement of, 253, 255–56, 258
    reports to Lord Dartmouth, 31, 49, 59, 80, 85, 316n
    sends regulars to countryside, 102–5
    sends regulars to Lexington, 148–49
    sends sloops to Grape Island, 183
    uses spies, 90–93, 101, 105, 113, 115–16, 135, 173, 176, 180, 182, 192, 318n, 321n
    gallows, 15, 20–21
    Gaspée
, 140
    Gates, Horatio, 242, 250, 272–73, 277
    General Court, 24, 35, 38–41, 44–46, 75, 81, 164, 236, 247, 253, 288
    George III, King, 25, 41, 50, 52, 60, 94, 103, 190, 252
    1775 speech of, 264–65
    independence from, 262
    and crisis in colonies, 112–15
    loyalty to, 29
    confidence in, 112
    royal authority ends, 291
    and war with colonies, 216, 257, 264, 321n
    Gerry, Elbridge, 123, 150, 173, 215, 339n
    Gibbon, Edward, 188
    Glasgow
, 184, 196, 203
    Gordon, Rev. William, 119, 130, 142, 147, 150, 162, 260, 266, 272–73, 280–81, 322n, 323n, 327n, 328n, 354n
    Gorham, Mass., 35, 41
    Government Act.
See
Massachusetts Government Act
    Governors Island, 12, 63, 283
    Grand American Army, 181
    Grape Island, 13, 183, 191, 336n
    Graves, Samuel, 51, 79, 217–18
    abilities of, 349n
    and Battle of Chelsea Creek, 185–86
    criticism of, 256–58, 317n
    and Fort William and Mary, 84
    and Gage, 87, 162, 170, 198
    orders of, 87, 167–68
    promotion of, 185–86
    ships of, 161, 167, 170, 203
    Graves, Thomas, 170, 185–86
    Gray, Harrison, 4, 48, 284, 321n
    Great Britain
    America’s connection to, 34, 55, 74–75, 93–94, 181, 285
    bans gunpowder export, 62
    defends colonies, 5
    economic prosperity of, 255–56
    loyalty to, 60, 252
    military strength of, 3–5, 93
    opposition to, 54, 58–59, 112, 140, 190, 257
    reconciliation with, 74, 91, 172, 182, 262, 264
    right to search premises, 7, 32
    and rights of colonies, 33–34, 44, 55, 134
    Green Dragon Tavern, 15, 68, 90, 192, 256, 318n
    Greene, Nathanael, 236, 246, 250–51, 260, 274, 282, 347n, 348n
    Greene, Rufus, 233
    Greenleaf, John, 89, 318n
    Greenleaf, William, 290
    Greenwood, John, 8
    Gridley, Richard, 172–73, 197–99, 201–2, 205, 210, 244, 270, 276, 337n
    Griffin’s Wharf, 3, 9–10, 15
    Groton militiamen, 138
    gunboats, 196, 212, 217
    gunpowder, 125, 313n, 318n
    of British army, 62, 64–65, 124
    for cannons, 209–10
    explanation of, 62, 64
    lack of, 234, 249–50, 267, 272, 276–77
    needed by provincial army, 78, 173, 198, 204, 210, 245
    stolen by patriots, 62, 140
    supplies of, 62, 128, 130, 180, 195, 220–21, 224, 226, 228, 244–45
    See also
Powder Alarm
    guns, 78, 122, 186, 228, 343n
    Haldimand, Frederick, 27, 86, 93, 324n
    Halifax, Nova Scotia, 283–85, 287, 290, 355n
    Hallowell, Benjamin, 63, 68, 70–71, 256–57, 284, 315n
    Hallowell, Mary Boylston, 70
    Hancock, John, 22, 24, 33, 79–81, 86, 163, 168, 199, 323n
    alerted by Revere, 123
    chairman of Committee of Safety, 88, 121
    flees to Lexington, 111–12, 116, 118–19, 122
    and Gen. Gage, 38–40
    as leading politician, 121–22
    and Lexington fight, 130, 325n
    and martial law, 190
    and Massacre Day Oration, 96, 100
    and Mercy Scollay, 247
    official papers of, 125
    personality of, 130
    and secret patriot committee, 90
    vessel seized by British, 7, 18
    and Washington, 274, 351n
    and whale oil market, 9
    Handley, Charles, 138
    Harrington, Jonathan, 119, 127, 323n
    Harris, George, 177, 227, 309n
    Hartwell, Mary, 132, 134, 147, 153
    Harvard College, 11, 40, 63, 67, 97, 178, 197, 253, 294
    Hastings House (Cambridge), 175, 195, 204, 208, 215–16, 339n, 340n
    Hawley, Joseph, 33, 59, 104, 118, 307n
    hay, 170–71, 183, 185–86, 214, 219, 256, 276, 280, 285
    Hayward, James, 147
    Heath, William, 130, 159–60, 243, 258, 276, 329n
    background of, 150
    and building fortifications, 275, 353n
    at council of war, 248
    tactical leadership of, 151–52, 154–55, 158, 330n
    and Joseph Warren, 151–52, 194, 273, 336n
    Hewes, George, 15, 16–17, 21, 247, 305n
    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(Gibbon), 188
    Hog Island, 12, 63, 183–85, 254
    Hollis Street Meeting, 15, 288
    Hooten, Elizabeth.
See
Warren, Elizabeth Hooten
    horses, 127–28, 140, 150, 152, 154–55, 173, 204–5, 285
    Hosmer, Abner, 142
    Hosmer, Joseph, 136, 139, 326n
    hospitals, 152, 244, 252, 255–56, 312n
    Howe, William, 189, 338n
    ambivalence of,