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Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. --| Some of the General Facts of the Opening Revolution | 1 |
| A Glance at the Enemy's Route | 8 |
| Some Leading Steps | 10 |
| Marshfield Tories | 12 |
| Salem might have been the Concord of History | 12 |
| A Billerica Teamster | 14 |
| Activity of Friend and Foe | 16 |
| Important Messages | 19 |
| Parsonage Guests | 21 |
| Midnight Messengers | 21 |
| Echoes of the Lexington Belfry | 23 |
| Belfry Echoes, continued | 28 |
| John Parker's Story | 28 |
| Joshua Simonds's Story | 32 |
| More Belfry Echoes | 37 |
| Boston Poor | 42 |
| Theodore Parker | 45 |
| A Belfry Listener | 45 |
| The Parson and Parsonage | 52 |
| Burlington or Precinct Parsonage | 56 |
| Guests of April 19, 1775 | 56 |
| Amos Wyman Home | 59 |
| Reed Home | 61 |
| Diary of Rev. John Marrett | 62 |
| Description of Camp by Rev. William Emerson | 73 |
| Origin of Continental Army | 74 |
| Journal of Jabez Fitch | 75 |
| Old Manse of Concord and its Ministerial Occupants | 79 |
| Cupid in the Revolution | 90 |
| Told and Retold | 102 |
| Incidents of Concord Fight | 102 |
| Concord Homes of History in 1775 | 113 |
| A Concord Patriot's Secret | 122 |
| Footprints of Acton Patriots | 139 |
| Faulkner Residence | 140 |
| Speech of Rev. James T. Woodbury | 149 |
| Eagle in Concord Fight | 167 |
| Footprints of the Patriots at Bedford | 171 |
| Through the Old Burial-Ground of Bedford with a Nonagenarian | 181 |
| The Old Colonial Banner, and Flag of the Minute-Men of Bedford | 195 |
| Cupid's Heirloom | 204 |
| Story of Lincoln Patriots | 214 |
| Capture of Paul Revere | 215 |
| The Most Deadly Fight | 220 |
| Brave Women | 225 |
| Burial of the King's Soldiers | 226 |
| New England Ancestors of President James Abram Garfield | 227 |
| Billerica Patriots | 236 |
| Hill Homestead | 238 |
| Provision for the Army | 240 |
| Mrs. Abbott's Story | 244 |
| The Story of Menotomy | 247 |
| The Russell Family Store | 250 |
| Story of Whittemore Family | 262 |
| Cambridge | 264 |
| General Artemas Ward | 275 |
| The Old Homestead | 290 |
| Groton Patriots | 293 |
| The First Ride of Paul Revere, and its Consequences | 293 |
| James Sullivan | 297 |
| Groton Inn | 298 |
| Rev. Samuel Dana | 299 |
| Charlestown's Distress | 300 |
| Story of the Rev. Joseph Wheeler | 309 |
| Woburn's Part | 312 |
| The Thompson Family | 313 |
| Colonel Loammi Baldwin | 319 |
| The Winn Home | 324 |
| A Romance of War | 325 |
| General Gage's Excursion Reported in 1775 | 337 |
| List of Killed and Wounded April 19, 1775 | 340 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Tell it Again, Grandpa | Frontispiece |
| Territory covered in the Volume (Map) | 1 |
| Somerville Powder-House | 10 |
| Salem Bridge | 18 |
| Lexington Parsonage. Home of Rev. Jonas Clarke | 20 |
| Eli Simonds | 24 |
| Lexington Belfry | 25 |
| Buckman Tavern, Lexington | 29 |
| Jonathan Harrington House, Lexington | 31 |
| Lexington Battle Monument | 37 |
| Certificate carried by Boston's Poor into the Country | 43 |
| Munroe House, Lexington | 46 |
| Birthplace of Theodore Parker, Lexington | 47 |
| Precinct Parsonage. Sewall Home, Burlington | 56 |
| Site of Home of Amos Wyman, Billerica | 57 |
| Parsonage Table, Burlington | 58 |
| Forest Path taken by Hancock and Adams, April 19, 1775 | 59 |
| Parsonage Clock, Burlington | 60 |
| Old Manse, Concord | 79 |
| Window of Old Manse, Concord | 89 |
| Merriam's Corner, Concord | 98 |
| Old Parish Meeting-House and Wright Tavern, Concord | 104 |
| Hunt Home, Concord | 108 |
| British Officer's Sword, Concord | 112 |
| Graves of British Soldiers, Concord | 112 |
| Elisha Jones House, Concord | 112 |
| Barrett Home, Concord | 115 |
| Buttrick Home, Concord | 119 |
| Ebenezer Hubbard, Concord | 123 |
| Hubbard Home, Concord | 129 |
| Statue of Minute Man, Concord | 136 |
| Battle Monument, Concord | 138 |
| Faulkner Residence, Acton | 140 |
| Luke Smith, Acton | 144 |
| Acton Powder Horn | 146 |
| Acton Monument | 165 |
| Eagle of Concord Fight | 168 |
| The Old Oak in Bedford | 171 |
| Page Home, Bedford | 172 |
| Cyrus Page, Bedford | 173 |
| Fitch Tavern, Bedford | 174 |
| Eleazer Davis Home, Bedford | 178 |
| Home of John Reed, Bedford | 180 |
| Tombstone of Calley Fasset, Bedford | 184 |
| Tombstone of Captain Jonathan Willson, Bedford | 194 |
| Flag of Minute Men, Bedford | 196 |
| Continental Money | 209 |
| Farrar Homestead, Lincoln | 216 |
| Whitman House, Lincoln | 220 |
| Samuel Farrar, Lincoln | 223 |
| Burial of British Soldiers, Lincoln | 226 |
| Monument Over British Dead, Lincoln | 227 |
| Abraham Garfield Tombstone, Lincoln | 228 |
| Garfield Homestead, Lincoln | 233 |
| Garfield Footstone, Lincoln | 234 |
| Hill Homestead, Billerica | 238 |
| Susan (Jaquith) Abbott | 245 |
| Russell House, Menotomy | 248 |
| Russell Store, Menotomy | 249 |
| Attack by the Exempts, Menotomy | 253 |
| Mrs. Sophronia Russell, Arlington | 259 |
| Mrs. Parmelia Fiske, Arlington | 260 |
| Ward Homestead, Shrewsbury | 276 |
| General Ward's Sword | 279 |
| Rocky Hill Meeting-House, Salisbury | 288 |
| Groton Inn | 298 |
| Benjamin Thompson House, Woburn | 312 |
| Colonel Baldwin's Mansion, Woburn | 319 |
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