Show TOWN TO BUY lighthouse to acquire tower from which two girls scared off british invaders boston mass the old light located on the sand hills ate scene of the exploit of rebecca and abigail bates who during the war ot 1812 scared off a british ship by playing the fife and drum will become the property ot the town ot when the town purchases it from the government the old stone tower from which the lantern has long been removed haa lain idle on the end of the sand hills since the establishment ot old tower light with which it was confused by marinero mariners ma many years ago A year ago the scheme of a local land company to acquire the light house was defeated by the hue and cry that was raised by citizens of and patriotic societies all over tha country in the town meeting last march the town raised 1000 tor the purchase of the lighthouse the story of the heroic bates girls may ba found in many of the histories of the bay state the two young daughters of aaron bates the light keeper lived with their father on the then lonely strip of beach halt a mile from the village ot one day when their father was in his fields a mile from the lighthouse a british mano war came in and an choked halt a mile off the shore the boatloads of sailors started ashore the invasion of was edly prevented by the two girls who taking from the wall a fife and drum which had been carried by their grand father in the revolution and on which they had frequently practiced they got behind a sand hill and struck up yankee doodle to such good effect that the sailors returned to the ship which sailed away the girls have been called the american army ol 01 two |