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Captain Parker's Company of Militia

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Captain Parker's Company roster numbered approximately 152 men, at least eighty-one of whom responded to the sound of William Diamond’s drum on the morning of April 19, 1775 and defied the order to "lay down your arms.”

The name of those eighty appear below.


Capt. John Parker
Lt. William Tidd
Ensign Robert Munroe
Ensign Joseph Simonds
Clerk Daniel Harrington
Orderly Sgt. William Munroe
Sgt. Francis Brown
Cpl. John Munroe
Cpl. Samuel Sanderson
Cpl. Ebenezer Parker
Cpl. Joel Viles
William Diamond, Drummer
Jonathan Harrington, Fifer

Timothy Blodgett
Ebenezer Bowman
Thaddeus Bowman, Esq.
John Bridge, Jr.
James Brown
John Brown
Solomon Brown
John Chandler
John Chandler, Jr.
Joseph Comee
Robert Douglass (Woburn)
​Isaac Durant
Prince Estabrook
Nathaniel Farmer
Isaac Green
William Grimes
Samuel Hadley
Thomas Hadley, Jr.
Caleb Harrington
John Harrington
Jonathan Harrington Jr.
Moses Harrington, 3rd.
​Moses Harrington, Jr.
Thaddeus Harrington
Thomas Harrington
Isaac Hastings
Samuel Hastings
Micah Hagar
John Hosmer
Amos Locke (Woburn)
Benjamin Locke
Ebenezer Locke (Woburn)
Reuben Locke
Abner Mead
Ebenezer Munroe, Jr.
Jedediah Munroe
John Munroe, Jr.
Nathan Munroe
​William Monroe, 3rd
Nathaniel Mulliken
Isaac Muzzey

John Muzzey
Jonas Parker
Jonas Parker, Jr.
Nathaniel Parkhurst
Solomon Pierce
Joshua Reed
Joshua Reed, Jr.
Nathan Reed
John Robbins
Phillip Russell
Benjamin Sampson
Joshua Simonds
John Smith
Phineas Smith
Simeon Snow
Phineas Stears, Esq.
Jonas Stone, Jr.
John Tidd
Samuel Tidd
Joseph Underwood
Benjamin Wellington
Enoch Wellington
John Winship
Thomas Winship
Sylvanus Wood (Woburn)
James Wyman
Nathaniel Wyman
*Robert Douglass, Amos Locke, Ebenezer Locke and Sylvanus Wood heard the alarm bell from Woburn Precinct and came to Lexington. Although they were not members of the Lexington militia, they were asked to join the assembly.

The battle was really a brief skirmish. Neither Captain Parker nor Major Pitcairn had intended to fire. However, during the confrontation shots were fired. One of the regulars was wounded while 7 members of the militia were killed along with Asahel Porter from Woburn who had been held prisoner by the Regulars. Many of those killed or wounded were shot while dispersing from the Common.
Killed: Ensign Robert Munroe (on the Common), Isaac Muzzy (on the Common), Samuel Hadley and John Brown (leaving the Common), Jonas Parker (killed by bayonet after being wounded and firing one shot), Jonathan Harrington (wounded on the Common, died at his doorstep), Caleb Harrington (at the meetinghouse), Asahel Porter (prisoner from Woburn, killed while escaping).

Wounded: John Robbins, Solomon Pierce, John Tidd, Joseph Comee, Ebenezer Munroe Jr., Thomas Winship, Nathaniel Farmer, Prince Estabrook, and Jedediah Munroe.

Only a few of the militia were known to have returned fire.

Among those known to have fired: Solomon Brown, Ebenezer Lock, Ebenezer Munroe, Jr., Cpl. John Munroe, Nathan Munroe, Jonas Parker, Lt. William Tidd and possibly Benjamin Sampson

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