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Deposition Taken by Order of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts
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Lexington, April 23, 1775.
We, Bradbury Robinson, Samuel Spring, Thaddeus Bancroft, all of Concord, and James Adams, of Lexington,
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all in the County of Middlesex, all of lawful age, do testify and say, that on Wednesday morning last, near ten of the clock, we saw near one hundred of the Regular Troops, being in the Town of Concord, at the North Bridge in said Town, (so called,) and having passed the same, they were taking up said bridge, when about three hundred of our Militia were advancing towards said bridge in order to pass said bridge, when, without saying any thing to us, they discharged a number of guns on us, which killed two men dead on the spot, and wounded several others, when we returned the fire on them, which killed two of them and wounded several; which was the beginning of hostilities in the Town of Concord.BRADBURY ROBINSON,
SAMUEL SPRING,
THADDEUS BANCROFT,
JAMES ADAMS.