[523] P. O. Hutchinson, 436.
[524] These depositions of the combatants, thus falling among Arthur Lee's papers, were finally separated in a strange division, by the younger R. H. Lee, who gave a part to Harvard College and a part to the University of Virginia. Cf. Calendar of the Lee MSS. in Harvard University Library, p. 6; Sparks's Washington, iii. 35.
[525] Mag. of Amer. Hist., May, 1883, vol. ix; Mahon, vi., App. p. xxvii.
[526] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 343, 349; Hudson's Lexington, 249; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1857, p. 165.
[527] Sabin, viii 33,030. This money was later paid to Dr. Franklin, and by him, in October, to a committee of the Mass. assembly. Sparks's Franklin, iii. 134.
[528] Frothingham's Siege of Boston, 86; Sparks's Washington, iii 512. In the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., May, 1876 (vol. xiv, p. 349), is Percy's report to Gage, April 20, 1775, and Smith's, of April 22 (p. 350),—both from the Public Record Office. Cf. Sparks MSS., xxxii., vol. i., and the Appendix to Lord Mahon's Hist. of England, vol. vi. The government's bulletin, dated Whitehall, June 10, 1775, as printed in the London Gazette, is given in Dawson, i. 26. For the effect of the news in England, see Bancroft, orig. ed., vii. 342.
[529] One of these despatches, dated Watertown, April 19, endorsed by the officers of the towns through which it had passed, is printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1873, p. 434. It is pointed out in Greene's Life of Nathanael Greene (i. 77), how the news affected Rhode Island. The confused statements which reached Connecticut can be seen in the Deane Correspondence in the Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 218, and in the broadside Letter of James Lockwood and Isaac Bears, dated Wallingford, April 24, 1775, respecting the Battle near Winter Hill, in which Lord Percy was killed. The news reached New York, Sunday, April 23, and the response was sudden. Vessels loaded for Boston were seized; arsenals were taken in charge, and cannon planted at Kingsbridge (Dawson's Battles, i. 130, and his Westchester County during the Amer. Rev., Morrisania, 1886, p. 75; Bancroft, orig. ed., vii. 328; Leake's Lamb, 101; Mag. of Amer. Hist., Apr., 1882, p. 283). Governor Colden describes the effects in his despatch to Dartmouth (N. Y. Col. Docs., viii. 571). Jones, in his New York during the Rev. War (i. 39, 497), gives a curiously perverted story, saying, among other things, that the British muskets were unloaded when the Americans attacked them at Lexington, and describes the stormy meeting of the governor's council in the afternoon. From New Jersey, Governor Franklin wrote to Dartmouth May 6, and June 5 and 7. (New Jersey Archives, x. 590, 601, 642.) The tidings reached Philadelphia April 24, and the original endorsed despatch is in the Pennsylvania Hist. Soc. library. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1864, p. 23; Hazard's Reg. of Penna., iii. 175, Christopher Marshall's Diary, p. 18.) In the second week in May the news reached Western Pennsylvania, and the resolutions which were passed at Hannastown were drawn by St. Clair (St. Clair Papers, i. 363). It reached Williamsburg, Va., April 29 (Moore's Diary, i. 75.) It came to Kentucky just as the settlers were founding a town, and they named it Lexington. (Winthrop's Speeches, 1878, etc., p 106.) A despatch which was written at Wallingford, Conn., April 24, embodying the reports which had reached that point, and representing that both the American commander and Lord Percy had been killed, was sent South, receiving endorsements as it passed along, and reached Charleston, S. C., May 10 6.30 p.m. It is given in R. W. Gibbs's Doc. Hist. of the Amer. Rev., pp. 82-91. (See broadside mentioned above.) A military company, the Fusiliers, was at once formed, and its roll and career are registered in the Charleston Year Book, 1885, p. 342.
For the effect of Lexington and Concord upon the other colonies, see, beside Bancroft and the other general histories, Stuart's Jonathan Trumbull; Moore's Diary, i. 77; John Dickinson's Letter in Lee's Arthur Lee, ii. 307; Lossing's Philip Schuyler, i. 307.
[530] This was reprinted in Nathaniel Low's Astronomical Diary or Almanac (Boston), 1776; in George's Cambridge Almanac, 1776 and in Stearns's North Amer. Almanac (Boston), 1776. It is substantially included with additions and abridgments in Gordon's History of the Amer. Revolution, and can be found in Force's Amer. Archives.
[531] Cf. Dawson's Battles of the United States, i.; Frank Moore's Diary of the Amer. Revolution, i. 63; Niles's Principles and Acts of the Revolution; L. Lyons's Mil. Journals of two private soldiers, 1758-1775 (Poughkeepsie, 1855), with notes by Lossing, and an App. of "official papers" (Field, Indian Bibliog., 963; Sabin, x. 42,860); a letter by John Andrews in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., July, 1865, p. 403; one by Dr. Foster (?) of Charleston, in Ibid. (April, 1870), xi. 306; and others by D. Greene in xiii. 57, and by Jos. Greene in xiii. 59. Cf. also letter of Jos. Thaxter in Hist. Mag., xv. 206; and one by Alex. Scammell in Ibid., xviii. 141. A significant handbill was issued at the time, with a row of coffins at the head, called Bloody Butchery by the British Troops. The narrative had before appeared in the Salem Gazette for April 21, 25, and May 5, which, with an elegy and a list of the killed and wounded, constituted this broadside as printed at Salem. It was reproduced a few years since in fac-simile. The Essex Gazette and the Worcester Spy (May 3) also contained accounts. Thaddeus Blood, of Concord, jotted down at some later period his recollections which, found among his papers, were printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, April 20, 1886.