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Just read a post containing an account from a man that was at Lexington with Captain Parker [ link ]. In that post, Sylvanus Wood declares that only the British had fired in Lexington. This was news to me, and I grew up in Acton.

I knew Davis was the first officer down, but does this mean that the Acton Minutemen were the first to fire a shot at the British?

(maybe next time the guys in concord can get their asses out of bed and get to their own bridge... before guys from another town ;)

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I knew Davis was the first officer down, but does this mean that the Acton Minutemen were the first to fire a shot at the British?

I'm doing this off the top of my head but I think it is safe to say that the Acton Minutemen were ready to accept and give the first deliberate volley. They were chosen to take the bridge due to their training and equipment, being the only ones with bayonets to face the similarly equipped British regulars. I don't think it was an issue of the Concord men sleeping in :)

I'm not sure we can accept Wood's statement at face value and it is, of course, impossible to find out for sure.