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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
c, 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 consent to it. When General Gage began the fortification of Boston Neck, the committee of safety in Medford began to collect ammunition. It was stored in the powder house which still stands just across the Somerville line. Three days before the troops of General Gage seized the ammunition, Thomas Patton of Medford removed the Medford stores to a place of safety. In November, 1774, it was voted in town meeting to pay no more province taxes to the royal treasurer. Later it was voted to pay this money to the treasurer under the Provincial Congress. In that Congress Benjamin Hall of Medford represented the townspeople. As a member of the committee of supplies, he sent to Concord a large consignment of military stores and material for constructing barracks. When in the October previ