...remonstrance from the body of Worcester County, which consists of five and forty towns; where they have incorporated seven regiments consisting of a thousand...— which are called minute men, ie to be ready at a minute's warning with a fortnight's provision, and ammunition and arms. ... At Newbury bridge they...

...series of letters written by John Andrews, a prosperous merchant with a good deal at stake, to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia, we get a better idea...for Minute Men with THREE companies, membership one hundred and sixty-three men, and of course there were Stetsons, for I find among the "Soldiers and...

...remonstrance from the body of Worcester County, which consists of five and forty towns ; where they have incorporated seven regiments consisting of a thousand...perfect themselves in the military art — which are call'd minute men, ie, to be ready at a minute's warning with a fortnight's provision, and amunition...

...sympathetic to the British and establishing seven regiments, each to be one-third "minute men" who were "to be ready at a minutes warning with a fortnights provision, and ammunition and arms." Such were the men who were warned by Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, that the British were coming and...