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Cambridge, May 19 th, 1775.
WE BENJAMIN COOPER and RACHEL COOPER,
both of Cambridge aforesaid, of lawful age, testify and
say, that in the afternoon of the 19th day of April last, the King's
regular troops, under the command of General Gage, upon their
return from blood and slaughter which they had made at Lex-
ington and Concord, fired more than an hundred bullets into
the house where we dwell, through doors, windows, &c. then
a number of them entered the house, where we and two aged
gentlemen were, all unarmed, we escaped for our lives into the
cellar, the two aged gentlemen were immediately most barbar-
ously and inhumanly murdered by them, being stabbed thtrough
in many places, their heads mauled, skulls broke, and their
brains out on the floor and walls of the house, and further saith
not.     BENJAMIN COOPER, RACHEL COOPER.

MIDDLESEX, ss. May 19 th, 1775.
THE above-named Benjamin Cooper and Rachel Cooper, ap-
peared and after due caution, made solemn oath to the truth
of the above deposition by them subscribed. Before me,
    Jonas Dix, Justice of peace.

The following is a list of those provincials who were killed,
wounded and missing in the action of the 19th of April, 1775,
and the towns to which they respectively belonged. Including
all that was lost that day.