...ife at Menotomy, and tradition says two men named Smith and Francis were victims of the fight. The minute-men brought home one of their number mortally wounded. He was William Polly, the son of Widow Hannah Polly . He was only eighteen years old. Henry Putnam earned the title of lieutenant during the Louisburg campaign. On account of his age he was exempt, but, as his great-grandson says, he showed his...