tained fourteen months. Placed on board a transport for New York, and
destined to the horrible Jersey prison-ship; after being two days at
sea, the prisoners rose on the ship's company, captured the vessel, and
took her into Marblehead.

[Illustration: Signature, Samuel Sprague]

CAPTAIN PHINEAS STEARNS,

A farmer and blacksmith of Watertown, born February 5, 1736, died March
27, 1798. He was a soldier at Lake George in 1756, and commanded a
company at Dorchester Heights, when the British evacuated Boston. He,
with Samuel Barnard and John Randall, all of Watertown, were among the
famous Boston tea party. He was offered a colonel's commission in the
army, but the care of his young motherless children, and of a family of
apprentices and journeymen, prevented his continuing in the public
service. He was distinguished for his benevolent and cheerful
disposition, and for strong common sense and strict integrity.

[Illustration: Signature, Lendall Pitts]

GENERAL EBENEZER STEVENS,

A distinguished artillery officer in the Revolutionary war, son of
Ebenezer and Elizabeth Weld Stevens, of Roxbury, was born in Boston,
11th August, 1751, and died at his residence, in Rockaway, now Astoria,
N.Y., 22d September, 1823. He joined Paddock's artillery company, which
was composed almost entirely of mechanics, many of whom were active
members of the organization, which, under the name of Sons of Liberty,
did effective service in opposing the machinations of the crown. Under
its first lieutenant, Jabez Hatch, (Captain Paddock being a Tory,) this
company volunteered as a watch on the "Dartmouth." The Boston Port Bill
drove the mechanics out of the town, and Stevens went to Providence,
where he became a partner with John Crane, in the business of
carpentering. Commissioned first lieutenant of Crane's train of Rhode
Island artillery, 8th May, 1775, he accompanied it to Boston, and served
through the siege; made captain in Knox's artillery regiment, 1st
January, 1776; took part in the expedition to Canada; made major 9th
November, 1776; and in the campaign ending in the surrender of
Burgoyne; appointed lieutenant-colonel 3d April, 1778, and soon after
assigned to Colonel Lamb's regiment, with which he took part in
Lafayette's operations in Virginia, and at Yorktown commanded the
artillery alternately with Lamb and Carrington. After the war, he was a
leading merchant of New York; member of the New York assembly in 1800,
an alderman