Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-07-07

We" 'N"SH'u HuHhtlN IN the leg.
Jonas Parker the strongest and best
wrestler in Lexington, had promised never
to run from British troops, and kent his
vow, a wound brought him on his knees.
Having discharged his gun, he was pre-
pairing to load it again, when as sound
heart as ever throbbed for freedom was
stllled by bayonet, and he lay on the post
which he took at the mornings drum
beat. SO fell Isaac Muzzey, and SO died
the aged Robert Monroe, the same who.
in li5S, had been the ensign at Louisburg.
/ Jonathan Harrington, Jr., was struck i'm
'front.' OF his own house on the north Of
| the Common. His wife was at the window
as he fell. With the blood gushing from
ms breast, he rose in her sight, tottered.
fell again, then crawled on his hands and
knees towards his dwelling: she ran to
meet him, but only reached him as be ex-
pred on the Threshold Caleb Harring.
ton who had gone into the meeting house
for powder was shot as he came out. Sam
uel Hadley and John Brown were pursu-
ed and killed, after hey had left the
green. Ashahel Porter of Woburn, who
had been taken prisoner by the British on
the march, endeayoring to escape, was
shot within few rods of the Common.
Day came in all the beauty of an early
spring. The trees were budding; the
grass growing rankly full month before
the time; the blue bird and the robin
gladdening the genial season, and calling
forth the beams of the sun, which on that
morning shone with the warmth of sum
mer; but distress and horror gathered
over the inhabitants of the peaceful town.
There on the green lay in death the gray
haired and the Young; the grassy field
was red with the innocent blood of their
brethren slain crying unto God for VEN
geance from the ground.
The British troops drew up on the
village green, and, after halt ofless than
half an hour, marched on for Concord
Upon their approach children and women
fed for shelter to the hills and woods. and
men were busy in hiding the military
stores. The rural militia of Concord for
med on the usual parade ground near the
village Westinghouse. About two hun
dred appeared in arms on that day. The
minute company from Lincoln and a few
men from Acton, pressed in at an early
hour but amounting in all to not a quar-
ter OF the British. They retired accord
ingly to an eminence about a mile to the
north, where they waited for aid The
British entered the village about seven in
the morning, and at once proceeded to
search for stores in different places Mean
time the minute men Of Acton, under the
command of Isaac Davis, with small bands
of husbandmen from the neighborlng
hamlets, had increased the number of A.
mericans Oh the rising ground above Con
cord bridge to more than four hundred
The whole was a gathering not so much
of officers and soldiers rs of brothers and
equals, of whom every one was a man well
known in his village, observed IN the NEE
ting house on Sundays, familiar at town
meetings, and respected as a treeholder or
lleeh0.dcr's SON They saw before them
within guu-shot. British troops in posses
sion Of their J.-.ra, and in the distance a.
still lalG. uuuuag occupying their town.
'saiah. U,u rNn r-iug smoke seemed t5
nave teen -a. ua lla. They lad gsvc. r"-
e..eA u'r unrataiu rumnr. ot the
ss,u.. ar I.zl.-i.u. 4 rae .igat ol fire
,u '.t. VILLAGE .0.rG.sJ impulse was 90
"I.c oi4,,.- meeting in front Of farir
a.d wen, back to- their places BUfe.f,
tie Go, uel. on horseback IN ..arclr.l. en-
1--we the order a. advance u no; 10 fire
nle-> attacked. The calm .eturcs Of
Isaac Davis. OF Acton, became changed;
jhe town schOulmastrr. who wr, present
could never afterwards find words strong
cuua-u to eX, res, how his cr re 'oNol
at the word of command. i have not q
man tlat Is AFRAID to 90, said Davis, look
il at the men of Aeon, and drawing his
,wurd e cried 'Malca. lI,s cnnuany hn-
3 Ting On the right. iei ne wsg J.r.,d> t.,
b. la @. he himself ~ their bead. and hg
/ his side Major John Butrjck OF Concord
with John Robin on OF WcStinrd, L.ru:c~
snant Colonel in Prescott regiment. hu-
on this day volunteer without comm nj.
Thus these three men walked tore.H-
I er in front, followed by minute men and
militia. in double file, trailing arms. They
went down the hilock. entered the bye
road. came to its angle with the main road
and there turned into the causcway that
led straight to the bridge. The British
began to tear up the planks; the Ameri-
cans to prevent it, quickened their steps
the British fred one or two shots up the
river then another. by which Luther
Blanchard and Jonas Brown were wound
ed. A vollev followed, and Isaac Davis
and Abner Hosmer, the latter q son of
the deacon of Acton church, fell dead
Three hours before. Davis had bid his wife
and children farewell. Thataf,ernoon he
was carried home and laid in her bedroom
His countcnance was little altered, and
pleasant in death. The bodies of the two
other Of his company who were slain that
day, were also brought to her house, and
the three were followed to the grave yard
by a concourse of the neighbors for miles
around. God gave her length of days in
the land which his generous selfdevotion
assisted to redeem. She lived to see her
country touch the Gulf of Mexico and the
I Pacific, and when it was grown great in
wealth and power, the Unitod States in
Congress paid honors to the husbands
martyrdom, and comforted her under the
double burden ofsorrow and more than
ninety years.
"As the British fired, Emerson, who was