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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
es. It adjourned, too, leaving some hundred barrels of powder scattered, as General Gage wrote to Lord Dartmouth of the colonial office, in different places up and doston until the committees of neighboring towns shall consent to it. When General Gage began the fortification of Boston Neck, the committee of safety in Medford bill stands just across the Somerville line. Three days before the troops of General Gage seized the ammunition, Thomas Patton of Medford removed the Medford stores ton was intended to be secret. To prevent his movements from becoming known, General Gage sent out ten or more sergeants, posted along the highways in Cambridge and t realizing the significance of the signal guns and alarm bells, sent back to General Gage for reinforcements. At five o'clock the troops had covered the eleven milr, alarmed by the general uprising that was becoming evident he sent back to General Gage for reinforcements. A thousand men under Lord Percy proceeded to his relief