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 REVOLUTIONAEY LETTERS. 367 the truth of the story, it may Be that Another man will give you more satisfaction than if I wrote myself as he was one that was in my Company all the time. So no more at present, but I Remain, Your Loveing Brother Matthew Allin. The following letter was written to his wife two days after the battle of Bunker Hill : RoxBURY, Rhode Island Camp, June 19th, A. D. 1775. My Dear Wife : These few lines will come to let you know that I am well at present and hoping that thay may find you so and all my friends. Last Friday night we began to intrench on Dorchester Hill (Heights) and the next morn- ing the Reglars began to fire on our people. Then we ware ordred to march to Roxbury Town. When we got there we sent a party to intrench down near the line ; at the same time the Brigade was drawn up below the meeting house and the Reglars began to fire upon our Senterers at the line and at us on the hill ; from the block house they fired on Dor- chester Neck at a party of our men that were there but hurt none of them. At Roxbury the Cannon Balls came pretty thick but did no great hurt, only wounded one man belong- ing to Connecticut and he died the next morning. As soon as the sun was down they began to throw Bums at us and held on all night ; they wounded one man and that was all. We returned back to our camps this morning. The Reglars At the same time Begun to fire on Colonel Putnam and Con- tinuing till this Day and I do not think that it will sese until t'is settled one way or the other. We have Nuse that there was a number of Reglars killed but how many we do not know. There were five hundred Reglars brought in wounded. Seventy of them were officers and the Number of our men we can not tell that was killed. Your loveing husband until death, Matthew Allin.