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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)
and gives two others that do not appear above, namely, those of William Ellery and Cato Wood (negro), both belonging to Charlestown. Paige, Hist. Camb. p. 410, names the Cambridge members of the company, all of whom he considers very likely were engaged in the battle of the 19th of April. June 21, 1775, the Committee of Safety recommended Stephen Frost, ensign in Capt. Locke's Company of Col. Gardner's Regiment, to the Honorable Congress for a commission; and in Provincial Congress, June 22, 1775, it was ordered that an ensign's commission be delivered to Mr. Stephen Frost, of Capt. Locke's Company in Col. Gardner's Regiment.—Journals of each Provincial Congress of Mass., pp. 374, 573. The British entered Menotomy about two o'clock in the morning; citizens were awakened by the stir of their march, and began making preparations to resist them. One man was aroused by the rattle of the pewter plates on his dresser, jarred by the measured tramp of the soldiers. Solomon Bowman,