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of Bunker Hill, where he was wounded. His wounds were dressed by Dr. Marshall Spring Dr. Spring during his long life sustained such a high professional repute as very few private practitioners have attained to. He was eminent as a wit, and it is said that he was the only man of that time who could successfully meet Chief Justice Parsons in the keen encounter of wits. In the Revolution he was a Tory, fully and firmly convinced of the entire inexpediency of resisting. Yet, on the 19th of April, 1776, he arrived early at Lexington, and devoted his best skill and care to his wounded fellow citizens.—Bond. who lived a short distance below, on the opposite side of the road in Watertown. Dr. Spring was one of the members from Middlesex in the Constitutional Convention of 1788, who voted against the adoption of the Federal Constitution. The building afterwards became the farm house of the Gore place. It was finally divided and removed. Christopher Gore, received as a citizen of the