The Battle-Field of Bunker Hill

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Excerpt from The Battle-Field of Bunker Hill: With a Relation of the Action by William Prescott, and Illustrative Documents, A Paper Communicated to the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 10, 1875, With Additions The high land rising from the settled part of the town was not known, prior to the day of the battle, by a particular name. It was, like Bunker Hill and Moulton's Hill, covered with orchards and pasture grounds. On the portion near the monument were Russell's Pasture, Green's Pasture, and Breed's Pasture. I have not met the term Breed's Hill before the date of 1775, either in the Charlestown records, the Middlesex county records, or in private letters, but saw it for the first time in a letter giving an account of the battle. It soon came into use. The name is from a respectable citizen who was a large land-owner here. I am aware that Colonel Prescott, in his letter of Aug. 25, 1775, says that he re ceived orders to March to Breed's Hill, but this must have been an inadvertence. He was certainly ordered to Bunker Hill. The eastern side sloped to low land, on which were clay pits and marsh, which has been filled up. Beyond this, or along the margin of the Mystic, the land became higher, and so continued from Moulton's Point to the base of Bunker Hill. It is the surface of to-day. Thirty years ago I searched the town archives, the State archives, and several public libraries for a map of Charles town of the date of 1775, or before that year, but un successfully. Nor has there yet been found, of that date, more than plans of parts of the town. At that time, I sue ceeded in getting from England a map published on a sheet, under the following title A Plan of the Action at Bunker's Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775, between His Majesty's Troops, under the Command of Major General Howe, and the Rebel Forces, by Lieutenant Page of the Engineers, who acted as aide-de-camp to General Howe in that action. N. B. The Ground Plan is from an Actual Survey by Captain Montresor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.