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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
from Boston, at nine o'clock that morning, through Roxbury, and over the Great Bridge to Cambridge, and thence through Menotomy by the great road to Concord to support the first detachment. One who saw the passing column on the road at Menotomy, Deacon Ephraim Cutter, born 1767, died 1841. and heard the measured tread of the veteran and disciplined regulars, said their burnished arms and bright bayonets, glittering in the sunlight, looked like a flowing river. A little girl, named Nabby Blackington, as they marched by, was watching her mother's cow while she fed by the road-side; the cow took her way directly through the passing column, and the child, faithful to her trust, followed through the ranks bristling with bayonets. We will not hurt the child, they said.—Smith. Gordon in his Hist. Am. Revolution, says, The brigade marched out playing, by way of contempt, Yankee Doodle, a song composed in derision of the New Englanders, scornfully called Yankees. A smart boy observin