On this day 250 years ago on Ploughed Hill, the Continental Army troops besieging Boston were again bombarded by British artillery. First Lieutenant Paul Lunt of his cousin Captain Ezra Lunt’s Company from Newburyport of Colonel Moses Little’s 17th Regiment of Massachusetts recorded in his diary that

some cannon fired in the afternoon; killed one of the Rhode Island men with a cannon shot, and wounded Robert Martial of Captain Lunt’s company in the thigh with a small shot

I cannot identify the Rhode Island soldier who gave his life for American Liberty that day but another soldier from Col. Little’s Massachusetts regiment recorded that

We had one man killed at Ploughed Hill and one of our company wounded by a musket at the lower sentry.

Perhaps there were two Americans killed that day 250 years ago — one from Rhode Island and one from Massachusetts. At any event the unnamed soldier[s] killed on Ploughed Hill 250 years ago should be honored for their sacrifice for American Liberty.

Sources: https://archive.org/details/paulluntsdiaryma1775lunt/page/10/mode/2up; https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-move-onto-ploughed-hill-and-poor.html

Also on this day 250 years ago, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery led 1200 men on boats from Fort Ticonderoga to attack the British fort at St. John’s, Canada at the northern end of Lake Champlainin the beginning of the American invasion of Canada.

Source: https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/american-invasion-of-quebec-begins.html