ABSTRACT
Travellers aboard Knight’s Ferry felt the reluctance of spring to command winter in the icy breeze skimming the cold water of the Piscataqua River. Stating in a letter feelings that Patriots and Tories alike felt, those who lived in Boston and those who contemplated the proceedings of civil war, Pelham condemned those on both sides who allowed conflict to reach such a point of despair and desperation. The anxiety of Jeremy Belknap and his extended family over British attacks of the Piscataqua Valley and the continued occupation of Boston continued through the autumn and winter. The inhabitants of Boston, meanwhile, watched as ‘the whole fleet and army’ sailed from Boston Harbor ‘to the universal joy of its Inhabitants’.
