rest, and part returned to the ground they had left. After the firing, every one appeared to be his own commander; it was thought best to go the east part of the town and take them as they came back. Each took his own station; for myself, I took my stand south of where Dr Minot then lived; when I saw the British coming from Concord, their right flank in the meadows, their left on the hill. “When near the foot of the hill Col. Thompson of Billerica came up, with three or four hundred men, and there was heavy firing, but the distance so great that little injury was done on either side; at least I saw but one killed, and a number wounded.” The rest of the story is more familiar to us—the steady, running fight, all the way, until Lord Percy’s welcome reinforcement saved the day—and the exhausted British detachment reached once more the sheltering lines of Boston, whence they had set out with so much confidence that early morning. Of the patriots, 49 were killed, 39 wounded and 5 missing. Of the British, 73 were killed, 174 wounded and 26 missing. III DR. FISK’S BILL LEXINGTON, _April, 1775_. The Province of Massachusetts, Debtor to Joseph Fisk, to going to Woburn to dress one of the King’s troops; travel three miles and dressing £0 3s. 6d. April 19, to dressing one of King’s troops at Mr. Buckman’s in Lexington; travel half a mile 2 0 April 20, to dressing seven of the King’s troops, at Mr Buckman’s in Lexington; two days at one shilling per day each 1 3 0 April 20, to going to Lincoln to Dress two of King’s troops; travel three miles 3 6 April 20, to going to Ebenezer Fisk’s to dress three of the King’s troops, two miles 3 6 April 23, to going to Cambridge to dress one of the King’s troops; travel five miles 4 0 April 26, to dressing one of the King’s troops three times, at Mr Buckman’s in s’d town 4 0 Lexington, June 6, 1775 Errors Excepted, JOSEPH FISK. [On Monument in Lexington.] _In memory of_ DR. JOSEPH FISK, _Surgeon in the Revolutionary Army and member of the Mass. Cincinnati Society, who died Sept. 25, 1837, Aged 84 Years_. THE DEAD OF PATRIOTS’ DAY[23] APRIL 19, 1775[24]