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From: "Guy I. Colby IV" <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Ride of Paul Revere
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:58:52 -0500
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The 1909 Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, p. 1943,
supports Bill's statement that the Ipswich militia which answered the 19
April alarm wound up marching to Cambridge rather than Lexington, presumably
to participate in the initial phase of the siege of Boston.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xdsgysln66MC&pg=PA1943&lpg=PA1943&dq=minutemen+ipswich&source=web&ots=FUdprMZZlO&sig=YCe53moooqDjNzPCNpxLMYK5E_E&hl=en

Guy I. Colby IV
Irving, TX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Boyington" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Ride of Paul Revere


> There were other horsemen besides Paul Revere. One of them rode all night
> to
> the north, past Winnisimet, over the Lynn marshes, He arrived at Newbury
> about midnight after having gone to Salem and Ipswich. At sunrise, the
> companies set out. The minuteman who left from Ipswich actually went to
> Cambridge as they didn't get there in time for the Concord fight.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Priscilla Haines" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Ride of Paul Revere
>
>
>> Could someone give me an answer to a question I have. It takes a bit of
>> time to drive to the places that the militia came from, today. How were
>> they able to get to Lexington/Concord so quickly to assist in the fight?
>> Weren't they exhausted? Ipswich seems so far away and I am sure not
>> every
>> soldier had a horse. Priscilla

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