Loyalists in Boston

[Boston, Massachusetts]. REGULATIONS OF THE BOSTON TRAIN OF ARTILLERY. Manuscript document, written on both sides of a large [36.5 by 24.5 cm] sheet of paper. Folded in four, with some separation at folds, in the lowest case causing some slight disturbance of the written text. Good to very good. The Boston Train of Artillery was a militia formed in the1760s, commanded by Col. Joseph Jackson though led under the direction of Captain Adino Paddock. The train split at the time of the Revolution and while most of its members apparently sided with the Revolution, Paddock remained a loyalist and fled to Canada, then to Jersey. An interesting document, probably dating from the 1760s, though possibly from the early 1770s.