One Crean Brush,[597] acting under orders of Howe, endeavored to carry off the merchandise from the stores of the town, so far as he could, on a vessel put at his disposal. Howe's proclamation in his favor is in fac-simile in the _Mem. Hist. of Boston_, iii. 97. Brush's vessel was later captured by Manly (_Evacuation Memorial_, 166). Similar experience in trying to escape with his merchandise was suffered by Jolley Allen, as portrayed in his _Account of a part of his sufferings and losses_, ed. by C. C. Smith, given in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, Feb., 1878, and separately. Allen's narrative was reprinted in the spelling of the original MS. in _An Account of a part of the sufferings and losses of Jolley Allen, a native of London, with a preface and Notes by Mrs. Frances Mary Stoddard_ (Boston, 1883). An inventory of the stores left by the British is in the _Siege of Boston_, 406.[598] In the cabinet of this society is a handbill adopted by the freeholders of Boston, Nov. 18 [1776?], calling upon all who had suffered in property in Boston since March, 1775, to report the same to a committee.[599] Washington's instructions (April 4, 1776) to Ward are in the printed _Heath Papers_, P. 4. The Mass. legislature, April 30, 1776, ordered beacons to be set at Cape Ann, Marblehead, and Blue Hill, ready to be fired in case of the enemy's reappearing, which was for a long time dreaded. Ward writes to Washington of his measures in progress.[600] The correspondence of John Adams and John Winthrop (_Mass. Hist. Coll._, xlv.) shows constant anxiety lest the defences should not be prepared in case of need.[601] [Illustration: SIEGE OF BOSTON, 1776. The westerly half of the map in the octavo atlas of Marshall's _Washington_, which is a reduction of the map in the earlier quarto atlas (1804). It is reproduced in the French translations of Marshall and of Botta.] The cut on the title of the present volume represents one side of the medal given by Congress to Washington, to commemorate his raising the siege of Boston.[602] =F.= MAPS OF THE SIEGE OF BOSTON.—Plans of Boston and its neighborhood, including its harbor, for the illustration of the siege of Boston, are numerous, and the account of them given in the _Mem. Hist. of Boston_ (iii., introd.) is in the main followed in the present enumeration, which divides them into those of American, English, French, and German origin, and adheres as far as possible to the order of publication in each group.