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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
was then put to know the minds of the town, whether they will all be prepared and stand ready equipt as minute men? And the town answered in the affirmative. How quickly the minute-men of the towns of Massachusetts responded to the call of their Committee of Safety, issued the day after the battle of Lexington, is too well known to be repeated here. Companies and individual volunteers rushed from every quarter to the seat of hostilities. Stiles, in his Mss. Diary, writes that on Friday, April 21st, an American army of 20,000 men was assembled. On the 22d many of the regiments were at Waltham and Watertown; but on the 26th they were ordered to march forward to Cambridge. Frothingham's Seige of Boston, p. 92. May 13, 1775, in accordance with the recommendation of the Provincial Congress, the Selectmen furnished each of the following named persons, who had enlisted in the service of Massachusetts for the defence of the liberties of America, with a good blanket:— Eliphale