1. In November of 1774, the selectmen of the town voted to tax itself "forty pounds for the purpose of mounting cannon, ammunition, for a pair of drums for the use of the Training Band in the town and for carriage and harness for burying the dead." Lexington Town Records, Nov. 10 - Dec.27, 1774, Lexington Town Hall.
2. Edwin M. Harris, Andover in the American Revolution, (Missouri, 1976), 37.
3. Alexander R. Cain, We Stood Our Ground: Lexington in the First Year of the American Revolution, (North Andover, 1995).
4. Deposition of Ebenezer Munroe, April 2, 1825.
5. Massachusetts provincial Congress, Saturday, October 29, 1774.
6. Anthony Darling, Red Coat and Brown Bess, (New York, 1993), p. 11
7. Id.
8. John O. Newell, Battle Road 1998, (Weston, 1998).
9. Id.
10. Darling at 10.

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