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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
d with the greatest humanity, and taken all possible care of by the Provincials of Medford. Gould is said to have had a fortune of £ 1,900 a year, and to have offered £ 2,000 for his ransom. Gordon, Hist. Am. Rev., i. 311, says Lieut. Gould would have been killed at the North Bridge, had not a minister present prevented. He infers Gould was made a prisoner at the Bridge, and Heath (Memoirs, p. 13), says an officer of the British was taken prisoner at the Bridge. Gould was exchanged May 28, 1775, for Josiah Breed, of Lynn. See Hist. Medford, 158. The severe part of the battle of the 19th in Menotomy, occurred in the latter part of the day, or, according to Hannah Bradish's deposition (see Genealogies), about five o'clock. Lord Percy's detachment met the retreating first detachment of the British, a half mile below Lexington meeting-house, about two o'clock in the afternoon, where, after some delay, the march to Boston was resumed by both detachments. The light infantry