Note 521 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

The entire series (twenty in number) is printed in Force's American Archives, 4th ser., ii. 490, et seq.; Shattuck's History of Concord, pp. 342, et seq.; Journal of second continental congress, pp. 79, et seq.; and portions of it are given in Frothingham's Siege of Boston, pp. 367, et seq.; Remembrancer, 1775, i. 35, et seq.; London Chronicle, June 1, 1775; also in various Boston newspapers of the time. They were also printed in a tract without imprint, Affidavits and depositions relative to the commencement of hostilities at Concord and Lexington, April 19, 1775. They were again issued by Isaiah Thomas, at Worcester, in a Narrative of the incursions and ravages of the King's troops on the nineteenth of April (Haven, in Thomas, ii. p. 661); again at Boston, in 1779 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xiv. 204). Dawson (i. 23) prints some of the depositions, and so does Hinman in his Connecticut during the Revolution, App. Governor Franklin, of New Jersey, transmitted copies to Dartmouth (N. Jersey Archives, x. 612). Lieut. E. T. Gould, of the King's Own, captured by the provincials, testified that he "could not exactly say which fired first."