He told me he was on the Common when the British Regulars fired upon the Lexington men.

He did not tell me then the story which he told afterward at the great celebration at Concord in 1850.
He and Amos Baker were the only survivors who were there that day.

He said he was a boy about fifteen years old on April 19, 1775.

He was a fifer in the company.

He had been up the greater part of the night helping get the stores out of the way of the British, who were expected, and went to bed about three o'clock, very tired and sleepy.