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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Medford in the War of the Revolution. (search)
rang the nine o'clock bell the fires were banked, the candles were put out one by one, and the people went to bed; but some were restless and wakeful. Hark! A clatter of hoofs in the village street! Men sprang up and threw the windows wide. Paul Revere had come to summon them to arms. But why did he not go to Lexington by the road he knew the British were to follow, instead of taking time to arouse one little village, off the line of march? His own account says that when just outside Charlestown Neck, on the road to Cambridge, two British officers suprised him, and tried to seize his horse. In an instant Revere thought of the Medford road which he had passed a moment before. Suddenly wheeling, he dashed back toward Winter Hill, and was well on his way to Medford before the astonished horsemen had extricated themselves from a clay-pit in which they found themselves floundering. Early on the morning of the 19th the minute-men were in motion. The company consisted of fift