Subject: May 1, 1775 Source: History of Harvard College etext book online http://hbook.harvard.edu/navigation.html <A HREF="http://hbook.harvard.edu/navigation.html">Enter the Harvard Book</A> "May 1, 1775, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety ordered the students to be removed in order to provide barracks for the gathering militia; and on June 15 the Massachusetts Provincial Congress at Watertown voted that the library and apparatus should be transported to Andover. In the evening of the 16th twelve hundred men, under William Prescott of Pepperell, formed on Cambridge Common and thither came President Langdon of the College to pray for Divine blessing on the march to Bunker Hill. It was not till September that the students were gathered at Concord, where they remained until the following June and then returned to Cambridge. They were driven out again in the autumn of 1777 to make room for the troops surrendered by Burgoyne; but the college buildings were saved from this occupation and the students came back in February 1778.