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was dead. I have read General Dearborn's account of the battle, 

 and think it correct, particularly with regard to the occurrences at 

 the gateway of the redoubt. 



(Signed) Samuel Lawrence. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



County of Middlesex, jFime 5, 18 18. 



Personally appeared Samuel Lawrence, Esq. and made oath, that 

 the above declaration by him subscribed, is just and true in all its 

 parts, according to the best of his knowledge and belief. Before 

 me, 



(Signed) Samuel Dana, Justice of 



the Peace throughout said Commonwealth. 



CAPTAIN ASA LAWRENCE. 



Asa Lawrence, mentioned below, commanded one of the 

 two companies that marched from Groton to Cambridge on 

 the alarm of April 19, 1775. He was a son of Peleg Law- 

 rence, and lived on the farm now known as the Governor 

 Sullivan place. It is situated on the Lowell road and took 

 its name from James Sullivan, who was afterward Governor 

 of the Commonwealth. Sullivan was the Justice of the Peace, 

 who took Lawrence's deposition on February i, 1779. 



State of the ) ^^ ^^^ Honourable the Council and 



Massachusetts Bay i ^°"^^ °^ Representatives in general 



Court assembled. 



Humbly shewes Asa Lawrence of Groton in the County of Mid- 

 dlesex that he was in the Engagement of the 1 7th of June at 

 Charlestown and there lost goods an account whereof is hereunto 

 annexed — and that at the Battle of Chelsea he risqued his Life 

 at the Command of general Putnam to Burn one of the Enemies 

 armed Vessels and after many attempts he finally effected the same 

 whereby there was an acquisition of twelve peices of Cannon to the 

 Public, and also that he served seven weeks in the late Expedition 

 against Rhode Island as a Volunteer and has never had any reward 

 for said services or Compensation for his said Losses Wherefore 



