it was determined to drive them out.   Accordingly the Kingston and other minute men were one day marched over here.   When near the place a halt was made, and a conference of officers was held, Capt. Wadsworth of the Kingston men, impatient of delay, marched his company alone to within a few rods of he enemy.   His force, however, was too small to venture an attack; and while waiting for others to come up, the enemy quietly retreated by the back way, Balfour leading his troops through Cut River to British ships anchored off Brant Rock, by which they were conveyed back to Boston."
   "Had the militia arrived three hours earlier, the second battle of the Revolution would, without doubt, have been fought in Marshfield."
   "The 'Queen's Guards' were called the flower of the British Army in New England; and it is said that only five of the fine fellows, with their Captain, survived the batle of Bunker Hill."
   Marshfield, it is said, was a center of Toryism at the outbreak of the Revolution.   It maintained an organization called the "Associated Loyalists of Marshfield," in which 300 persons were enrolled.   Nearly every member of the old Winslow family, then living here in Marshfield, were leading Associated Loyalists, and Dr. Isaac Winslow's house (the old Winslow's house now standing) was the chief place of meeting.
   There was one Thomas, however, who was not a loyalist in the Revolution, but he was a patriot worthy of note.   This was Major Gen. John Thomas, born and reared on the ancestral home at Marshfield at or near the old Careswell Estate once occupied by Gov. Edward Winslow.   He served in 1760 as Colonel in the American army at Crown Point.   He was again called into service in 1775.   He was somewhat indignant because another officer was promoted above him, and accordingly Gen. Charles Lee wrote him a letter