Battles of Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere and William Dawes were detained by a British Army patrol nearby during the "Midnight Ride" to Concord of April 18. Samuel Prescott, who was also riding with them, escaped by jumping his horse over a wall and into the woods. Prescott emerged at the Hartwell Tavern, awakened Ephraim and informed him of the pending arrival of the British soldiers. Ephraim sent his black slave, Violet, down the road to alert his son and his family. Mary then relayed the message to Captain William Smith, commanding officer of the Lincoln minutemen,''Battle Road: Birthplace of the American Revolution'', Maurice R. Cullen (1970) who lived a little to the west and whose home still stands along Battle Road. The minutemen received the notice in time, and arrived at Old North Bridge before their enemy. Prescott made it to Concord. The battles of Lexington and Concord took form before dawn on April 19, 1775. Soldiers passed by the house on their way to Concord, and again on their way back to Boston. Neither Jacob nor Moses fought with the Lexington militia on April 19, although Jacob had trained with them and Moses volunteered for other Revolutionary War campaigns. Instead, Jacob helped Moses carry his wife, Sarah, who was still recovering from the birth of her third child eighteen days earlier, and her children, to the relative safety of a nearby woodlot just before the battle reached their home. To the west of the house, Captain John Parker led the Lexington militia in engaging the retreating British regulars.Gallery
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