Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When preparing, in 1849. An introduction to a narrative of the military transactions in 1775 and 1776, contained in a volume entitled History of the Siege of Boston, &c., I found but meagre accounts of the revolutionary movement in the town from 1767 to 1775. The Space allotted to it in Dr. Snow's History is about thirty pages. It was not a part of the plan of William Tudor, in his Life of James Otis, or of Josiah Quincy, in his Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, jun.