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In the Concord Company which is with the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, are four Buttricks, sons of one man, and he the descendant of Col. Buttrick who gave the word of command at Concord Bridge, on the 19th of April, 1775, “Fire! Fellow-soldiers! For God's sake, fire!” --Boston Transcript, April 29.

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