about midnight
It was a pitiful parting between Mrs. Wilson and her husband and son . It had been arranged that she should sail for England in a ship that was leaving in the following week and should there stay with her husband 's family , from whom she had a warm invitation to make their home her own until the war was over . The _ Thetis _ ran out to sea . As soon as night fell her bow was turned to land again , and about midnight the anchor was let fall near the shore some twenty miles north of Boston . The landing was quickly effected , and with three days ' provisions in their knapsacks the little party started on their march . One of the scouts who had come from that neighborhood led them by paths which avoided all villages and farms . At daybreak they bivouacked in a wood and at nightfall resumed the march .