Battles at Breed’s Hill/Bunker Hill, “They were a body of husbandmen, not in uniform, bearing for the most part no other arms than fowling pieces..."

Battles at Breed’s Hill/Bunker Hill, “They were a body of husbandmen, not in uniform, bearing for the most part no other arms than fowling pieces which had no bayonets, and carrying in horns and pouches their stinted supply of powder and bullets.”/”the free negroes of the colony had their representatives. For the right of free negroes to bear arms in the public defence was, at that day, as little disputed in New England as their other rights.”, June 16-17, 1775