On this day 250 years ago, Commodore Esek Hopkins and the Continental Navy fleet he commanded sailed into the harbor at New London, Connecticut with the prizes, prisoners, artillery and gunpowder seized in their raid to the Bahamas and return cruise to America.

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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Joseph Warren was reburied. After the British evacuated Boston, Warren’s body was disinterred from the unmarked grave on Breed’s Hill where he had been killed. The body was identified by Warren’s brothers and his friend Paul Revere from toothwork Revere had fashioned. Doctor Warren’s remains lay in state in the Massachusetts Provincial State House in Boston for three days before an elaborate funeral. A few days later, Abigail Adams would write to her husband John about the funeral:

The Dr. was Buried on monday the Masons walking in procession from the State House, with the Military in uniforms and a large concourse of people attending. He was carried into the Chaple, and their a funirel Dirge was played, an Excellent prayer by Dr. Cooper, and an oration by Mr. Morton which I hope will be printed. I think the Subject must have inspired him, a young fellow could not have wished a finer opportunity to have displayed his talents. The amiable and heroick virtues of the disceased recent in the minds of the Audience, the noble cause to which he fell a Martir, their own Sufferings and unparrelled injuries all fresh in their minds, must give weight and energy to whatever could be deliverd upon the occasion, the Dead Body like that of Caesars before their Eyes, whilst each wound, “like dumb mouths did ope their ruby lips, and beg the voice and utterance of a Tongue.”

“Woe to the Hands that shed this costly blood;

A curse shall light upon their line;

Domestick fury, and firce civil Strife

Shall cumber all the parts of Britton.”

Sources: “Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 April 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0244. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, December 1761 – May 1776, ed. Lyman H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 374–376.]; https://salinabakerauthor.com/2018/04/05/in-remembrance-of-dr-joseph-warrens-funeral-and-second-burial-april-8-1776/