MIDDLESEX, ss. April 23 d, 1775.
THE within named John Hoar, John Whitehead, Abraham
Garfield, Benjamin Munroe, Isaac Parks, William Hosmer,
John Adams and Gregory Stone appeared, and made oath solemn-
ly to the truth of the above deposition. Before us,
Jilliam Read, John Cummings, Jonathan Hastings, Duncan Ingraham.     Justices of the Peace.

Lexington, April 23 d, 1775.
WE NATHAN BARRET, Captain; Jonathan Farrer, Jo-
seph Butler and Francis Wheeler, Lieutenants ; John
Barret, Ensign ; John Brown, Silas Walker, Ephraim Melvin,
Nathan Butterick, Stephen Hosmer, jun. Samuel Barrett, Tho-
mas Jones, Joseph Chandler, Peter Wheeler, Nathan Peirce,
and Edward Richardson, all of Concord, in the county of Mid-
dlesex, in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, of lawful age,
testify and declare, that on Wednesday the nineteenth instant,
about an hour after sunrise, we assembled on a hill near the meet-
ing-house in Concord aforesaid, in consequence of an informa-
tion that a number of regular troops had killed six of our coun-
trymen at Lexington, and were on their march to said Concord,
and about an hour after we saw them approaching, to the number,
as we imagine, of about twelve hundred, on which we retreated
to a hill about eighty rods back, and the aforesaid troops then
took possession of the hill where we were first posted. Presently
after this we saw them moving towards the north-bridge, about
one mile from said meeting-house, we then immediately went
before them, and passed the bridge just before a party of them to
the number of about two hundred arrived, the there left about
one half of those two hundred at the bridge, and proceeded with
the rest towards Colonel Barrett's, about two mile from the said
bridge, we then seing several fires in the town, thought our hous-
es were in danger and immediately marched back towards said
bridge and the troops who were stationed there observing our
approach, marched back over the bridge, and then took up some
of the planks, we then hastened our steps towards the bridge and
when we had got near the bridge, they fired on our men first
three guns one after the other, and then a considerable number
more, upon which, and not before, (having orders from our
commanding officers not to fire till we were fired upon) we fired
upon the regulars and they retreated. At Concord, and on their
retreat through Lexington, together with a shop and a barn, and com-
mitted damage, more or less, to almost every house from Con-
cord to Charlestown.