SAMUEL HOAR I was born in Concord August 29, 1826.

My grandfather, two great-grandfathers, and three of my father's uncles were at Concord Bridge in the Lincoln Company, of which my grandfather, Samuel Hoar, whom I well remember, was lieutenant, on the 19th of April, 1775.

The deposition of my great-grandfather, John Hoar, with a few others, relating to the events of that day, was taken by the patriots and sent to England by a fast- sailing ship, which reached London before the official news of the battle at Concord came from the British commander.
John had previously been a soldier in the old French War and was a prisoner among the Indians for three months.

His life was not a very conspicuous one.

He had been a Selectman of Lexington, dwelling in the part of the town afterward incorporated with Lincoln.