Shall inform you of the Prossedings from Time to Time as we
have New occurencys.
mean Time I am Sir yr very Humble Servt
Israel Putnam.
N.B. The Throop of Horse is not Expected to come on till further
notice.
Sir. Being in hast and cannot write Disire a copy of this to be
transmitted to Governor Trumble.
A true copy, Ebenezer Williams.
Pomfret, April 22, 1775.
In the Lexington-Concord fight, the first engagement between British and
native Americans, the former lost two hundred and seventy-three, and the
latter about one hundred, in killed and wounded, twenty-three towns
being represented among the wounded and slain. "It was not a great fight
in itself, but it was great, and even grand, in its consequences. On
that day a nation was born. Then the American learned for the first time
how to stand and fight for their own liberties."
The rallying minutemen flocked to the scene of the encounter, springing
to arms without a thought of consequences, rising to the defense of
their homes as one man, and within a week there were sixteen thousand
men investing the demoralized enemy at Boston.
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