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s, who were slain in this town by the British Troops on their retreat from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19th, 1775. Being among the first to lay down their lives in the struggle for American Independence. See history of the town, under 1848. The monument was erected June 24, 1848. The remains of the twelve occupants of the common grave were disinterred, and placed in a stone vault, now under the monument, April 22, 1848. The monument was cut from Concord granite at Mr. Luther Roby's stoneyard, at Concord, N. H.—See Frothingham's Siege of Boston, p. 83; Bouton's Hist. Concord, N. H, p. 484. The Salem Gazette for May 5, 1775, states, On Thursday the twentieth past, the bodies of eleven of the unfortunate persons who fell in the battle, were collected together and buried at Medford. Menotomy is occasionally confounded with Medford by Essex county writers on the battle. On the morning of the 20th, Capt. John Battle, of Dedham, was ordered with his company of
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