[61] Deposition of Robert Douglass.
[62] Beneath Old Roof Trees. A. E. Brown.
[63] Hansen's History of Beverly, page 88; Hurd's Middlesex County, II, page 1010.
[64] Journal of Thomas Boynton of Capt. Ames's Company, and Hurd's History of Essex County, II., page 1572.
[65] In an article on the Munroe Tavern in the Proceedings of the Lexington Hist. Soc., III., 146, Albert W. Bryant recites a tradition that the information of ten British officers riding up the road was given to Sergeant Munroe, who gave the first general alarm that assembled Captain Parker's Company. A messenger later was sent down the road on a scouting trip for the British, but who did not return. A second was sent who did not return. A third was sent who also did not return. A fourth was despatched who did return with the news that the British Army was really marching on Lexington, and that the previous messengers who had been sent down the road had met and passed two or more British soldiers riding in advance of the main body, who then closed in on them as prisoners. The horse of the fourth messenger had become frightened at the two advancing Britons and turned back in spite of his rider, who caught a glimpse of the British front ranks on the march. [This last messenger was Captain Thaddeus Bowman, F. W. C.]
[66] Our Grandmothers of 1775, by Miss Elizabeth W. Harrington in Lex. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, I, 51.
[67] Rev. Jonas Clarke's Narrative.
[68] Life of Elbridge Gerry, by James T. Austin, page 67.
[69] Dep. of Joseph Underwood.
[70] Sanderson having no horse was offered one by Thaddeus Harrington, which he accepted. Dep. of Elijah Sanderson.