Lexington, April 23d, 1775. We, Bradbury Robinson, Samuel Spring, Thaddeus Bancroft, all of Concord, and James Adams, of Lincoln, all in the county of Middlesex, all of lawful age, do testify and say, that on Wednesday morning last, near ten of the clock, we saw near one hundred of regular troops, being in the town of Concord, at the north bridge in said town, so called, and having passed the same they were taking up said bridge, when about three hundred of our militia were advancing towards said bridge, in order to pass said bridge, when, without saying any thing to us, they discharged a number of guns on us, which killed two men dead on the spot, and wounded several others, when we returned the fire on them, which killed two of them, and wounded several; which was the beginning of hostilities in the town of Concord. MIDDLESEX, SS. APRIL 23D, 1775. BRADBURY ROBINSON, The within named Bradbury Robinson, Samuel Spring, Thaddeus Baneroft and James Adams, made solemn oath to the truth of the within deposition by them subscribed: before us, I, James Marr, of lawful age, testify and say, that in the evening of the eighteenth instant, I received orders from George Hutchinson, adjutant of the fourth regiment of the regular troops stationed in Boston, to prepare and march to which order I attended, and marched to Concord, where I was ordered by an officer, with about one hundred men to guard a certain bridge there. While attending that service, a number of people came along, in order, as I supposed, to cross said bridge, at which time a number of regular troops first fired upon them. MIDDLESEX, SS. APRIL 23D, 1775. JAMES MARR. The above named James Marr appeared, and after due caution to testify the truth, and nothing but the truth, made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him voluntarily subscribed: before us, I, Edward Thornton Gould, of his majesty's own regiment of foot, being of lawful age, do testify and declare, that on the evening of the eighteenth instant, under the order of General Gage, I embarked with the light infantry and grenadiers of the line, commanded by Colonel Smith, and landed on the marshes of Cambridge, from whence we proceeded to Lexington. On our arrival at that place, we saw a body of provincial troops armed, to the number of about sixty or seventy men. On our approach, they dispersed, and soon after firing began, but which party fired first I cannot exactly say, as our troops rushed on, shouting and huzzaing, previous to the firing, which was continued by our troops so long as any of the provincials were to be seen. From thence we marched to Concord. On a hill near the entrance of the town, we saw another body of the provincials assembled. The light infantry companies were ordered up the hill to disperse them. On our approach they retreated towards Concord. The grenadiers continued on the road under the hill towards the town. Six companies of light infantry were ordered down to take possession of the bridge which the provincials retreated over. The company I commanded was one of the three companies of the above detachment, and went forward about two miles. In the mean time, the provincial troops returned, to the number of about three or four hundred. We drew up on the Concord side of the bridge. The provincials came down upon us; upon which we engaged and gave the first fire. This was the first engagement after the one at Lexington. A continued firing from both parties lasted through the whole day. I myself was wounded at the attack of the bridge, and am now treated with the greatest humanity, and taken all possible care of, by the provincials at Medford. Medford, April 20th, 1775. EDWARD THORNTON GOULD. Province of the Massachusetts Bay, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, APRIL 25TH, 1775. Lieutenant Edward Thornton Gould, aforenamed, personally made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed: before us, THADDEUS MASON, SIMON TUFTS. Justices of the Peace. Province of the Massachusetts Bay. CHARLESTOWN, SS. 1, Nathaniel Gorham, Notary and Tabellion Public, by lawful authority, duly admitted and sworn; hereby certify to all whom it doth or may concern, that Thaddeus Mason, Josiah Johnson, and Simon Tufts, Esq'rs, are three of his majesty's justices of the peace, quorum unus, for the county of Middlesex, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to their transactions as such, both in court and out. In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my name and seal, this twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. NATHANIEL GORHAM. N. B. A certificate was made out under the signature of the notary public, that all the other justices who administered the oaths to the several deponents, were his majesty's justices of the peace, in the counties where such certificates were made, and were legally appointed to that office, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to their transactions. A paper having been printed in Boston, representing, that one of the British troops killed at the bridge at Concord, was scalped, and the ears cut off from the head, supposed to be done in order to dishonor the Massachusetts people, and to make them appear to be savage and barbarous, the following deposition was taken that the truth might be known. We, the subscribers, of lawful age, testify and say, that we buried the dead bodies of the king's troops that were killed at the north bridge in Concord, on the nineteenth day of April, 1775, where the action first began, and that neither of those persons were scalped, nor their ears cut off, as has been represented. ZACHARIAH BROWN, Concord, May 11th, 1775. Zachariah Brown, Thomas Davis, Jun., personally appeared before me, and made oath to the above declaration. DUNCAN INGRAHAM, Justice of the Peace, Hannah Adams, wife of Deacon Joseph Adams, of the second precinct in Cambridge, testifieth and saith, that on the nineteenth day of April last past, upon the return of the king's troops from Concord, divers of them entered our house, by bursting open the doors, and three of the soldiers broke into the room in which I then was, laid on my bed, being scarcely able to walk from my bed to the fire, not having been to my chamber door from my being delivered in child-birth to that time. One of said soldiers immediately opened my curtains with his bayonet fixed, pointing the same to my breast. I immediately cried out, "for the Lord's sake do not kill me;" he replied, "damn you." One that stood near said, "we will not hurt the woman, if she will go out of the house, but we will surely burn it." I immediately arose, threw a blanket over me, went out and crawled into a corn-house near the door, with my infant in my arms, where I remained until they were gone. They immediately set the house on fire, in which I had left five children, and no other person; but the fire was happily extinguished, when the house was in the utmost danger of being utterly consumed. HANNAH ADAMS. MIDDLESEX, SS. CAMBRIDGE, SECOND PRECINCT, 16TH MAY, 1775. Hannah Adams, the subscriber of the above deposition, personally appeared, and made oath to the truth of the same: before me, JONATHAN HASTINGS, Justice of the Peace. Cambridge, May 19th, 1775. We, Benjamin Cooper and Rachel Cooper, both of Cambridge, aforesaid, of lawful age, testify and say, that in the afternoon of the nineteenth day of April last, the king's regular troops under the command of General Gage, upon their return from the blood and slaughter which they had made at Lexington and Concord, fired more than a hundred bullets into the house where we dwelt, through doors, windows, &c. Then a number of them entered the house, where we and two aged gentlemen were, all unarmed. We escaped for our lives into the cellar. The two aged gentlemen were, immediately, most barbarously, and inhumanly murdered by them: being stabbed through in many places, their heads mauled, skulls broke, and their brains dashed out on the floor and walls of the house; and further say not, BENJAMIN COOPER, RACHEL COOPER. MIDDLESEX, SS, MAY 10TH, 1775. The above named Benjamin Cooper and Rachel Cooper, appeared, and after due caution, made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition, by them subscribed: before me, JONAS DIX, Justice of the Peace. The following is a list of those provincials who were killed, wounded, and missing in the action of the nineteenth of April, 1775, and the towns to which they respectively belonged: including all that were lost on that day. CAMBRIDGE.-Killed: William Marcy, Moses Richardson, John Hicks, Jason Russell, Jabish Wyman, Jason Winship. Wounded: Capt. Samuel Whittemore. Missing: Samuel Frost, Seth Russell. CHARLESTOWN.-Killed: James Miller, and a son of Captain William Barber. WATERTOWN.-Killed: Joseph Cooledge. SUDBURY.-Killed: Deacon Josiah Haynes, Asahel Reed. Wounded: Joshua Haynes, Jun. ACTON.-Killed: Capt. Isaac Davis, Abner Hosmer, James Hayward. BEDFORD.-Killed: Capt. Jonathan Wilson. Wounded: Job Lane. WOBURN.-Killed: Asa Parker, Daniel Thomson. Wounded: George Read, Jacob Bacon. MEDFORD.-Killed: Henry Putnam, William Polly. LEXINGTON-Killed: Jonas Parker, Robert Munroe, Jedediah Munroe, John Raymond, Samuel Hadley, Jonathan Harrington, Jun., Isaac Muzzy, Caleb Harrington, Nathaniel Wyman, John Brown. Wounded: Francis Brown, John Robbins, Solomon Peirce, John Tidd, Joseph Comie, Ebenezer Munroe, Jun, Thomas Winship, Nathaniel Farmer, Prince, a negro. BILLERICA -Wounded: John Nichols, Timothy Blanchard. CHELMSFORD.— -Wounded: Deacon Aaron Chamberlain, Capt. Oliver Bar ron. CONCORD.-Wounded: Abel Prescott, Jun., Capt. Charles Miles, Capt. Nathan Barrett. FRAMINGHAM.—Wounded: Daniel Hemenway. STOW.-Wounded: Daniel Conant. DEDHAM.-Killed: Elias Haven. Wounded: Israel Everett. NEEDHAM.-Killed: Lieut. John Bacon, Serjeant Elisha Mills, Amos Mills, Nathaniel Chamberlain, Jonathan Parker. Wounded: Capt. Eleazer Kingsbury, and a son of Doct. Tolman. ROXBURY.-Missing: Elijah Seaver. SALEM.-Killed: Benjamin Peirce. DANVERS.-Killed: Henry Jacobs, Samuel Cook, Ebenezer Goldthwait, George Southwick, Benjamin Deland, Jun., Jotham Webb, Perly Putnam. Wounded: Nathan Putnam, Dennis Wallis. Missing: Joseph Bell. BEVERLY.-Killed: Mr. Kinnym. Wounded: Nathaniel Cleaves, Samuel Woodbury, William Dodge. LYNN.-Killed: Abednego Ramsdell, Daniel Townsend, William Flynt, Thomas Hadley. Wounded: Joshua Felt, Timothy Munroe. Missing: Josiah Breed. BRITISH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. A CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF AN ATTACK THAT HAPPENED ON THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1775, ON HIS MAJESTY'S TROOPS, BY A NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. DRAWN UP BY ORDER OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR GAGE, AND ENCLOSED IN A LETTER TO GOVERNOR TRUMBULL, OF CONNECTICUT. On Tuesday, the eighteenth April, about half past ten at night, Lieutenant Colonel Smith, of the 10th regiment, embarked from the common, at |