1. Marston Diary, UNBL. Writing to John Adams from Watertown, December 3, 1775, James Warren said: "Howe I believe has received such intelligence and assurances from one Benja. Marston who has fled from Marblehead to Boston. This fellow is a cousin of mine. Had ever any man so many rascally cousins as I have." Warren-Adams Letters, I, 188. Marston was the son of Benjamin Marston and Elizabeth Winslow. He also prided himself as a poet. Interspersed in his diary are several of his poetic efforts, two of them having been composed while in Halifax prior to the first entry in his diary. One of these, to his sister Lucia Watson was "Wrote from Windsor Nova Scotia May 1776 ー " the other, "To Eliza" was penned "From Halifax June 1776." See illustration opposite.