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Ripley, Ezra 1751-1841

Clergyman; born in Woodstock, Conn., May 1, 1751; graduated at Harvard in 1776; ordained in 1778. In a pamphlet entitled A history of the fight at Concord, he proved that though the enemy had fired first at Lexington, the Americans fired first in Concord, his own town. He died in Concord, Mass., Sept. 21, 1841.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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