Several thousand men bent on violence gather…
September 1774 CE
Sheriff Phips is forced, in writing, to dissociate himself from any and all government actions.
Eventually facts catch up with the rumors, and militia units (some of which are still heading toward Boston) return home.
Also on the 2nd, Boston newspapers publish a letter from William Brattle in which he protests that he had not warned Gage to remove the powder; Gage had requested from him an accounting of the storehouse's contents, and he had complied.
The content of his letter to Gage will be published on the 5th.
Brattle will remain on Castle Island through the siege of Boston, leaving when the British evacuate the city in March 1776.
He will die in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in October 1776 at the age of seventy.