History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, embracing a comprehensive history of the county from its first settlement to the present time . UF KOUXEY WALLACE, FITCHBURG, . KESIUENCE OF WILLIAM H. VCISE, EITCHBlKO, MASS. EEVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. 471 the inhabitants of the town might sec fit to contril)Uto to the relief of the poorof Boston, who were now suffering under the vengeance of the British Parlia-ment for the tea affair. The eventful 19th of April arrived and found the little town ready for rapidly did the news spread that at nine oclock in the morning the ala
History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, embracing a comprehensive history of the county from its first settlement to the present time . UF KOUXEY WALLACE, FITCHBURG, . KESIUENCE OF WILLIAM H. VCISE, EITCHBlKO, MASS. EEVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. 471 the inhabitants of the town might sec fit to contril)Uto to the relief of the poorof Boston, who were now suffering under the vengeance of the British Parlia-ment for the tea affair. The eventful 19th of April arrived and found the little town ready for rapidly did the news spread that at nine oclock in the morning the alarmwas fired in front of the store of Doa. Ephraim Kimball, in the Old City, wherethe guns and equipments of the minutc-meu were kept. The compan}^ hadspent the previous day at drill, and at the summons the members promptlyassembled in front of the little store, and being joined by a few volunteers,about fifty men soon took up their line of march for Concord, under the com-mand of Capt. Ebenezer Bridge, who afterwards became Colonel. Theyarrived at Concord in the evening, in time to sec some dead bodies and somewounded British soldiers. We who have, during the war of the Rebellion, s
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