Word: centinel
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Columbian Centinel, published at Boston, July 2,1806, appears the following notice...
...late Mr. Benjamin Russell, well known as the editor, during many years, of the Columbian Centinel, used to relate that he was then a boy at school in Boston; and the pedagogue, when he heard that morning of Lord Percy's sally, laconically remarked, "Boys! War's begun. School's done. You may go." Russell followed the soldiers out through Roxbury; but when he returned on that evening, he was refused entry into the city, and was obliged to remain nearly a year, until the evacuation of Boston in March following, beyond the ken of his parents...