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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
His military spirit was inherited by one of his great-grandsons, James P. Richardson, Esq., who organized the first volunteer company for the defence of the country in the late War of the Rebellion, as will be mentioned in another place. William Marcy was a laborer, employed by Dr. William Kneeland. His origin and former residence have not been ascertained; but he seems to have been here about five years before his death. He was probably the person named in a vote of the Selectmen, Sept. 3, 1770, when such proceedings were customary: Voted, to warn out of the town William Mercy, a man of very poor circumstances; he for some time hath lodged in Steward Hastings' barn; the Steward paying the charges. Tradition says he was a person of feeble intellect,— who imagined the military parade to be an ordinary training or muster, and the conflict to be a sham fight; he was sitting on a fence near the street, enjoying the spectacle, when he was shot by the British flank guard. My inform