Ch 10:The Colonial Christmas Chapter Ten The autumn and winter of 1774 passed with mostly uneventful circumstance. Apart from the odd patrol and crowd control problems, we had the regular schedule of any other British regular company. As more and more of them streamed into Boston, however, the colonials began refusing quarters for them. Beyond the city there were open fields meant for livestock, and the redcoats began having to camp out there. Crude huts were built and we gave thanks that we had the Revere's home as the American winter set in. Sometimes late at night I would wake and hear Mr. Revere's horse ga