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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)
775, p. 332, 333, which is essentially the same as that in the London Gazette for June 10, 1776, the official organ of the British government. To counteract the impressions conveyed by the British, or Ministerial account, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts published a narrative of the excursion and ravages of the King's Troops, under the command of General Gage, on the nineteenth of April, 1775, to which were appended many depositions of eye-witnesses, and which was transmitted to England and to the Continental Congress, and otherwise extensively circulated. The opening paragraph was as follows: On the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, a day to be remembered by all Americans of the present generation, and which ought and doubtless will be handed down to ages yet unborn, the troops of Britain, unprovoked, shed the blood of sundry of the loyal American subjects of the British king in the field of Lexington. * * * * The engagement lasted thr