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An account of Lexington and Concord written by Isaiah Thomas
within the Connecticut Courant, and Hartford Weekly Intelligencer…Number 541 . Hartford: Eben Watson, 8 May 1775. 4 pp., bifolium (365 x 240 mm). Text in three columns. Disbound. Condition : cellotape repairs. contemporary newspaper account of the battles of lexington and concord. Following the 19 April battle, Isaiah Thomas penned a detailed description of the events and a passionate call to arms in a 3 May issue of his Massachusetts Spy. That article, under the heading Worcester but without reference to Thomas, was reprinted here five days later by the principal Hartford newspaper. The oft-quoted text begins: “Americans! Forever bear in mind the Battle of Lexington - where British Troops, unmolested and unprovoked, wantonly, in a most inhuman manner fired upon and killed a number of our countrymen, then robbed them of their provisions, ransacked, plundered and burnt their houses! Nor could the tears of defenseless women, some of whom were in the pains of childbirth and cries of helpless babes, nor the prayers of old age, confined to beds of sickness, appease their thirst for blood! - or divert them from their Designe of Murder and Robbery!" The text comprises most of the second page and a portion of the first column of the third. This issue of the Courant also includes, on the final page, an early printing of Joseph Warren’s “Song for Liberty” (sung to the tune British Granadier) beginning “That seat of science, Athens, and earth's proud mistress, Rome, — Where now are all their glories ? We scarce can find their tomb.