History of the Battle of Lexington: On the Morning of the 19th April, 1775 |
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1825.-Then personally appeared 19th of April Abel Prescott affidavit alarm Americans AMOS MUZZY arrived assembled attempting to load balls bayonet beat to arms Benjamin Boston British officers British Parliament British soldiers British troops Buckman's tavern Caleb Harrington Cambridge cask of powder Chelmsford citizens Clark common discharged disperse drum beat Ebenezer Lock Ebenezer Munroe enemy governour ground Hancock and Adams hundred rods immediately inhabitants of Lexington Isaac Muzzy James Reed Jedidiah Munroe John Hancock John Munroe John Robbins Jonas Parker Jonathan Harrington Joshua Justice Justice of Peace Killed king's troops leading to Bedford Lexington company main body march to Lexington meeting-house mile militia Missing morning musket o'clock oath passed pistol province Provincial Congress publick regulars retreated Revere road leading Robert Munroe rode Samuel Hadley Samuel Whittemore second fire Seth Pomeroy sheriff shot Solomon Brown soon stand taken prisoners town of Lexington William Munroe Woburn Wounded
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Page 7 - An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Page 13 - While the company were collecting, Capt. Parker, then on the left, gave orders for every man to stand his ground until he should order them to leave. Many of the company had withdrawn to a considerable distance, and, by the time sixty or seventy of them had collected, the drum still beating to arms, the front ranks of the British troops appeared within twelve or fifteen rods of our line. They continued their march to within about eight rods of us, when an officer on horseback, Lt. Col. Smith, who...
Page 15 - Parker's company were summoned by the beat of the drum, and the line formed. When the regulars had arrived within about one hundred rods of our line, they charged their pieces, and then moved toward us at a quick step. Some of our men, on seeing them, proposed to quit the field.
Page 13 - I, William Munroe, of Lexington, on oath do testify, that I acted as orderly sergeant in the company commanded by Capt. John Parker, on the 19th of April, 1775; that, early in the evening of the 18th of the same April, I was informed by Solomon Brown, who had just returned from Boston, that he had Seen nine British officers on the road, travelling leisurely, sometimes before and sometimes behind him; that he had discovered, by occasional blowing aside of their top coats, that they were armed.
Page 14 - Parker of said Lexington, in the year 1775; and, knowing that several British officers went up the road towards Concord in the evening of the 18th of April of said year, I, with Benjamin Tidd, at the request of my captain, went to Bedford in the evening, and notified the inhabitants through the town, to the great road at Merriam's Corner, so called, in Concord, and then returned to Lexington.
Page 13 - Disperse, you damned rebels! you dogs, run! Rush on my boys!" and fired his pistol. The fire from their front ranks soon followed. After the first fire, I received a wound in my arm, and then, as I turned to run, I discharged my gun into the main body of the enemy. As I fired, my face being toward them, one ball cut off a part of my ear locks, which was then pinned up.
Page 13 - Parker ordered the roll to be called, and every man to load his piece with powder and ball. After remaining on parade some time, and there being no further accounts of the approach of the regulars, we were dismissed, but ordered to remain within call of the drum. About day-light, Capt.
Page 13 - I perfectly well recollect of taking aim at the regulars. The smoke, however, prevented my being able to see many of them. The balls flew so thick, I thought there was no chance for escape, and that I might as well fire my gun as stand still and do nothing.
Page 7 - An Act for the better regulation of the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England...
Page 13 - I should have 500 men there soon," he said, adding, "if I had not known people had been sent out to give information to the country, and time enough to get fifty miles, I would have ventured one shot from you, before I would have suffered you to have stopped me.'16 As the conversation continued, the British officers grew more and more agitated. They were outraged by the effrontery of this infernal Yankee scoundrel who dared to threaten the King's officers even while their pistols were pointed at...