His mother came and pounded with her fist on the door of his chamber, and said, "Git up, Jonathan! The Reg'lars are comin' and somethin' must be done!" Governor Briggs repeated this anecdote in the old man's presence at the Concord celebration in 1850.

Charles Storey, a noted wit, father of the eminent lawyer, Moorfield Storey, sent up to the chair this toast: "When Jonathan Harrington got up in the morning on April 19, 1775, a near relative and namesake of his got up about the same time: Brother Jonathan.

But his mother didn't call him." A very curious and amusing incident is said, and I have no doubt truly, to have happened at this celebration.

It shows how carefully the great orator, Edward Everett, looked out for the striking effects in his speech.

He turned in the midst of his speech to the seat where Amos Baker and Jonathan Harrington sat, and addressed them.