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too many instances. Witness llie wanton cruelty 

 discovered in burning Charlestown, Norfolk, 

 Falmouth, &c. But as the events which have 

 taken place since the ever-memorable nineteenth 

 UfAprjl 1775, <lo not properly come within the 

 compass of this narrative, they must he left to 

 some abler pen to relate. 



The following are title pages and parts of titles 

 "from the three first anniversary sermons preached 

 at Lexington, as they appear in the first and only 

 -editions in print : 



The Fate of Blood-thirsty Oppressors, and God's 



tender Care of his distressed People. 

 4 sermon, preached at Lexington, April li», 177G. 

 To commemorate the Murder, Bloodshed and 

 i- Commencement of Hostilities, between Great 

 Britain and America, in that Town, hy a 

 , Brigade of Troops of George III under Com- 

 mand of Lieutenant Colonel Smith, on the 

 Nineteenth of April 1775. 



To which is added 

 A brief Narrative of the principal transactions 



of that day. 



By Jonas Clark, A. M. Pastor of the Church in 



Lexington. 



These Things doth the Li.rd hale: A proud Lnok, a 



lying Tongue, and Hands that shed innocent blood.— Prov. 



vi. 16.17. 



Quidnon mortnlla pectora cogls, 



Aura sacra fames ? 



Quis (alia fando 

 ■ Myrmidemein, Dolopumve, ant duri miles 

 Ulyssie 

 Temperet a lachrymis ? Vir. JEneUl. 



MassHchuseits-Stute : Boston : 

 Printed hv Powars and Willis 



M,DCC,LXXVI. 



Text. Joel in. 19,20,21. Egypt shall be a desolation, and 

 Edom shall bc> a desolate wilderness, lor the violence 

 against the children of jTdab, because they have shed 

 innocent Blood in their Ijnd. Bui Judah shall dwell for- 

 ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For 

 I will cleanse their bb>od that I have not cleansed ; lor 

 the Lord dwelled, in Zion. 



The violent destroyed : And oppressed delivered. 

 A sermon preached at Lexington, April lit, 1777, 

 for a memorial of the Bloody Tragedy, barba- 

 rously acted, by a party of British Troops, in 

 that Town and the Adjacent, April 19, 1775. 

 By Sami^l Cooke, A. M. Pastor of the Second 

 Church in Cambridge. 

 Bostot; printed by Draper and Phillips, 

 for '1'iomas Leveret! and Nicholas * 

 Bowes in Cornhill. 

 JM,DCC,LXX,VII. 



Divine Judgements upon tyrants : And compassion 



o the opnresstd. 



A sermon preachy .,, Lexington, April 20, 1778, 



By Jacob Cashing, \, M. Pastor of the Church 



"•Woltbam. 



From Vol. 7 Massachi, al3 Historical Collections. 



Amht^ jv. H, JVov. 4, 1S17. 

 Dear Sir— Enclosed .,,„ „j|| g,,,] a |; s , () r 

 those who first fell in tl. achievement of our 

 (Independence. It is derivfl from a Narrative of 

 the Excursions and Ruya eB f t i |e King's 

 Troops under the conmiaiid ?Q enera \ (j ; ,„ e q,, 

 the nineteenth of April, 1775, ublished by a' re- 

 solve of the Provincial Congt^ of Massachu- 

 setts. I have made a few co. ect j onS) wI|icn 

 have been derived from other 1U( - ceg . This 

 list includes all that was lost on ti t memorable 

 day. 



With much resp, t 



„ , . , J - l 'nMER. 

 Rev. Dr. IloLiiKS, Cambridge. 



A list of the Provincials, wlio were killed, > un ,/ f ,/ 

 anil missing, in the action of the VJIh Apn.^~^ 

 and the towns to which they respectively bch„ C( j[ 



Timothy Blancbard 

 Edward Barber* 

 Diae Aarou Chamber 

 Nathan Chamberlain 

 Nathaniel Cleaves 

 Joseph Cotnee 

 Daniel Conant 

 Samuel Cook 

 Joseph Cooledge 

 Capt Isaac Davis 

 Benjamin Deland jun 

 William Dodge 

 Nathaniel Fearniix 

 John Kelt 

 William Flynt 

 Samuel Frost 

 Isaac Gardner 

 Ehenezer Gold th wait 

 Deac Jonah Ilaynes 

 Joshua Ilaynes Jr 

 James Hayward 

 Elias Haven 

 Abner llosmer 

 John Hicks 

 David llemmenway 

 Jonathan Harrington 

 Caleb Harrington 

 Samuel Hadley 

 Thomas Hadley 

 Henry Jacobs 

 Capt Ebene'r Kingsbury 



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Job Lane 



Capt Charles Miles 

 William May . 

 James Miller 

 Sergeant Elisba Mills 

 Amos Mills 

 Robert M tin roe 

 Jedediah Mtinroe 

 Ehenezer Miinroe jr 

 Timothy Mumoe 

 Isaac Muzzy 

 John Nickles 

 Asa Parker 

 Jonathan Parker 

 Jonas Parker 

 Solomon Peirce 

 Benjamin Peirce 

 Abel Prescolt Jr 

 William Polly 

 Henry Putnam 

 Perley Putnam 

 Nathan Putnam 

 Prince, a Negro. 

 Abednego Ramsdell 

 John Raymond 

 John Robbing 

 George Read 

 Asabel Reed 

 Moses Richardson 

 Jason Russell 

 Seth Russell 



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Elijah Sanderson of Salem, deposes before 

 Benjamin Merrill, Dec. 17, 1824, relative to battle 

 of Lexington, 



"In the afternoon I saw the reinforcement 

 come up under Lord Percy. I had then no 

 musket, and retired to Eslah'rook's Hall, whence 

 ' saw tne reinforcement meet the troops retreat- 



g from Concord. When they met, they halted. 



Et 16, son of Capt William Barber, 

 'in of Doctor Tolman. 



Billeriea * 



Charlestown 



Chelmsford 



Neeilhani 



Beverly 



Lexington 



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Danvers 



Watertowii 



Acton 



Danvers 



Beverly 



Lexington 



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do 

 Cambridge 

 Brookline 

 Danvers 

 Sudbury 



do 

 Acton 

 Dedham 

 Acton 

 ( 'nnihridge 

 Framingbatn 

 Lexington 

 do 

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 Danvers 

 Needham 

 Beverly 

 Bedford 

 Concord 

 Cambridge 

 Charlestown 

 Needham 



do 

 Lexington* 

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 Lynn 

 Lexington 

 Billeriea 

 Woburn 

 Needham 

 Lexington 



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 Salem 

 Concord 

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 Danvers 



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 Lexington 

 Lynn 

 Lexington 

 Lexington 

 Woburn 

 Sudbury 

 Cambridge 



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Roxbury 



Danvers 



Lexington 



Lynn 



Woburn 



Needham 



Bedford 



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 Lexington 



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 Newtown 

 Beverly 

 Danvers 

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After this they set fire to Deac Loring's barn ;— 

 then to his house; then to widow Miilliken's 

 house; then to the shop of Nathaniel Mulliken, 

 a watch and clock maker; anil to the bouse and 

 shop of Joshua Bond. All these were near the 

 place where the reinforcements took refresh- 

 ments. They hove lire into several oilier build- 

 ings. It was extinguished alter their retreat.'' 



Col. William Munro, orderly sergeant of Lex- 

 ington company, deposes March 7, 1825, before 

 Aiiuis Muzzy at Lexington, and says, 



"On the return of the British troops from 

 Concord, they stopped at my tavern house in 

 Lexington, and dressed their wounded. 1 had 

 left my house in llie care of a lame man, by the 

 name of Raymond, who supplied them with 

 whatever the house afforded, and afterward when 

 he was leaving the house, he was shot by the 

 regulars, and found dead within a few roils of 

 the house." 



[Extracts from the BritUh Annual Register, 1775] 



Upon their arrival in Lexington, about live in 

 llie morning, they found llie company of militia, 

 belonging to that town, assembled on a green 

 near the road, upon which an officer in llie van 

 called out, Disperse, you rebels ; throw down your 

 arms, and disperse : the soldiers at the same lime 

 running up with loud huzzas, some scattering 

 shots were tirsl tired, and immediately succeeded 

 by a general discharge, by which eight of the 

 militia were killed and several wounded. 



Summing up probabilities, the Annual Register 

 concludes: "Indeed it seems evident, that a 

 single company of militia, standing, as it may he 

 said, under the muzzles of our soldiers guns, 

 would have been sufficient pledges to prevent 

 any outrage from their friends and neighbors in 

 the adjoining houses." 



The king's troops, as may be expected, were 

 the greatest sufferers, having lost in killed, 

 wounded and prisoners, 273 men, of which 65 

 were killed, 2 lieutenants and above 20 private 

 men taken prisoners, and Colonel Smith, with 

 another lieutenant colonel and several officers, 

 wounded. By the provincial account, which 

 gives the names and places of abode of those 

 who fell on their sijie, their loss in killed and 

 wounded (including those who fell in the first 

 fire in the morning at Lexington) amounted lo 

 only about sixty, of which nearly two-thirds 

 were killed. 



By llie nearest calculation that can be made, 

 there were from 1800 lo 2000 of the best troops 

 in ihe service (being about half the force that 

 was then slalioned at Boston) employed upon 

 this expedition. The event sufficiently showed 

 how ill informed those who had so often asserted 

 at home, that a regiment or two could force their 

 way through any pail of the continent, and that 

 the very sight of a grenadier's cap would be 

 sufficient to put an American army to flight. 



Upon this occasion, each side charged the 

 other wiib the most inhuman cruelties. Civil 

 wars produce many such charges ; but we have 

 good reason, and some authority tor believing, 

 that these accounts, if at all Hue on eilher side, 

 were much exaggerated. On one side it is cer- 

 tain, that an officer and some of the soldiers who 

 were wounded and prisoners, gave public testi- 

 monials of the humanity with which they were 

 treated ; and that the provincial commanders 

 Sent an officer to General Gage, to admit his sur- 

 geons lo come and dress the wounded. 



Although on the other side, the regulars were 

 charged with killing the old, ihe infirm, the un- 

 armed, and the wounded, without mercy ; with 

 burning several houses, and plundering every 

 thing that came in their way ; we have had too 

 constant and uniform an experience of ihe hon- 

 or of our officers, and ihe humanity of our sol- 

 diers, not to consider this account as equally ex- 

 aggerated. [From the testimony of indubitable 

 facts, history must settle down at the point that 

 the statements of the provincials were not great- 

 ly, if at all exaggerated.— Ed. f'isilor.] 



This affair immediately called up the whole 

 province in arms ; and though n sufficient iitiui- 

 lier were speedily assembled effectually lo invest 

 the king's troops in Boston, it was with difficulty 

 that the crowds who were hastily marching from 

 different parts, could be prevailed upon lo return 

 lo their respective homes. The body of militia, 

 which surrounded Boston, amounted, as it was 



