The Samuel Brooks House is a historic

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site in

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, United States. It is part of today's Minute Man National Historic Park. It is located on North Great Road, just off Battle Road (formerly the Bay Road). The house is situated near the border of the town of

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, in an area that had been owned by members of his family since the mid-17th century. By the time of the Revolution, this area was known as

Brooks Hill Brooks Hill is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord. It was here, beside the Battle Road, that the British regulars passed on their marches to Conco ...

, and the cluster of houses on it Brooks Village.Job Brooks House, 1740
–

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There are three other Brooks-family houses within a quarter mile — the Job Brooks House, the Noah Brooks Tavern and the Joshua Brooks House.Minute Man National Historical Park , JOB BROOKS HOUSE
– National Park Planner Samuel Brooks inherited the house from his father, also Samuel. When he married Mary Bateman Flint, in 1781, he inherited seven stepchildren. Brooks died in 1811. The property was purchased by the

in 1963.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

The battles of Lexington and Concord took form before dawn on April 19, 1775. Soldiers passed by the house on their way to

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, and again on their way back to

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and

William Dawes William Dawes Jr. (April 6, 1745 – February 25, 1799) was one of several men who in April 1775 alerted colonial minutemen in Massachusetts of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the outse ...

were detained by a

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patrol nearby during the " Midnight Ride" to Concord of April 18.

Samuel Prescott Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – ) was an American physician and a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts ...

, 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks House, Samuel Buildings and structures completed in 1692 Residential buildings completed in the 17th century Houses in Concord, Massachusetts Massachusetts in the American Revolution 1692 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay Minute Man National Historical Park