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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge town, 1750-1846. (search)
ciate their watchfulness. After March 17, 1776, when Boston was evacuated, Cambridge ceased to be involved in the military events of the Revolution. It was a curious feature of the preliminary contest of the colonies with Great Britain, that the people constantly asserted their loyalty to the Mother Country; but contact with actual bloodshed and participation in active military measures in time destroyed all feelings of allegiance on the part of the citizens of Cambridge. On the 27th of May, 1776, they unanimously voted that the towns of the province ought to instruct their representatives to favor independence. The resolutions adopted at the time concluded with these words: We the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, in full town meeting assembled and warned for the purpose aforesaid, do solemnly engage with our lives and fortunes to support them in the measure. Massachusetts was already practically under a government of its own, organized at the suggestion of the Provincial