[241] U. S. Geological Survey, 1886.
[242] Statement of H. M. Houghton to the Rev. Carlton A. Staples, who so informed me. Mr. Houghton lived in that vicinity during his boyhood and furnished a roughly sketched plan to Mr. Staples.
[243] James Fletcher's History of Acton, in Hurd's History of Middlesex County.
[244] See Foster's Narrative.
[245] The exact spot was pointed out to me by the late Rev. Carlton A. Staples, Sept. 11, 1900, who received his information accompanied by a plan from H. M. Houghton.
[246] Diary of a British Officer in Boston in 1775, who was a member of the expedition.
[247] U. S. Geological Surveys, 1898, 1900.
[248] Foster's Account. E. P. Bliss gives the number as two, in Lexington Hist. Soc., I, 75.
[249] E. P. Bliss, in Lexington Historical Society, I, 75.
[250] C. Stedman. History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London, 1794.