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"1775 April 19th.
We were alarmed by the tidings that a party of the regular troops quartered in Boston were come out & killed eight men in Lexington & had got as far as Concord North Bridge & was fighting there which was true & they did much damage in that town by destroying the Publick stores, carriages, great sums but they soon set their forces for Boston & fled in a precipitate manner before the country people who killed & wounded some of the regulars & some of the country people also lost their lives in the skirmish though but a few so that the regulars had nothing to boast of but the contrary."
"June 17th 1775
A very severe battle was fought between a small party of our colony forces to the amount of but a few hundred who were attacked (as it was said) by five thousand regulars in which the colony post lost but about 200 men & the King of Old England's troops lost more than 1000 altho the latter gained the entrench then within Charlestown neck."