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The Lawrence Light Guard. by Helen Tilden Wild.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society, May 19, 1902.]
IN an oration delivered in Winchester, July 4, 1860, Hon. John A. Bolles said: Of the Winchester Light Guard I can find no surviving trace. . . They and their guns have both gone off.
The orator could not have made a very extensive search, for that organization has a lusty surviving trace which has existed over forty years within three miles of its first armory.
The military company of Winchester went off to Medford and formed the Lawrence Light Guard.
The company was organized March 27, 1851, with Frederick O. Prince, afterward Mayor of Boston, as captain.
It was named in honor of Col. William P. Winchester.
The armory was on Main street in Winchester.
It was organized as Co. A, 7th Regt., designated as Co. E, 7th Regt., December 15, 1852, and as Co. E, 5th Regt., in 1855. Captain Prince commanded from 1851 to 1853; Capt. Wallace Whitney, 1853 to 1855. Capt. Wm. Pr
Errata.
Vol. 5, No. 3, P. 65, 37th line, read 1901 instead of 1902.
Part 2 of Miss Wild's paper on The Lawrence Light Guard, and Recollections of Main Street, by the authors of Medford Square, 1835-1850, will appear in the next volume of the Register.