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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
ainty had become more acute, for Hancock and Adams slept in Lexington with a guard of eight men posted at the door. In all the ominous period that ends for the moment as the patriot leaders slept in the fancied security of Lexington, Medford was stirred as were her neighbors. In 1766, when the Stamp Act was repealed, a great bonfire on Pasture hill celebrated the passing of that odious measure. In 1773, when the sons of liberty steeped the English tea in the Atlantic, a townsman, John Fulton, wielded a tomahawk in the righteous cause. In 1774, in town meeting assembled, the inhabitants voted, That we will not use any East India tea in our families until the act be repealed. In 1774, too, when the Boston Port Bill brought to a standstill the business of lightering down the Mystic, the town, though trade was at an end and whole families were in calamity and distress, voted not to approve of any bricks being carried to Boston until the committees of neighboring towns shall