ABSTRACT
When in March 1776 fast-riding couriers brought word to cities and towns up and down the American coast that the British had evacuated Boston, joy over the American success mixed with consternation over the whereabouts of the British fleet. Hazard, who either witnessed the action of the crowd or heard about it, remarked that the lead of the statue was to be melted and recast into thousands of musket balls; the King's troops as a result will 'have melted Majesty fired at them'. The goal of horse and rider was to stay warm. After Hazard ordered the post road from Philadelphia to Falmouth, he turned his attention southward. All the Windows of the College are broken, & every room in it looks like a Stable. The British continued to maintain a presence around Amboy, across from Staten Island, so the post road, and Hazard, proceeded from Princeton north-west to Morristown.
