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tain of a company of the province, when he heard the fliouting of the men of war, that he armed himself and ran, and about four hun- dred men followed after him to the battle :

6. And they overtook the soldiers of the king of Britain, at a place called in the ver- nacular tongue, Lexington; pnd they fought with them there; and the soldiers fled by the highway of the country; and John and the men who were with him, followed hard af- ter them, warring as they went, until thou comefl to the Mountain* that looketh to- wards the town :

7. And the men of Britain were very wea- ry and chafed in their minds; and it v/as about the going down of the sun when they ascended the mountain 5 and they reded there that night.

8. And on the morrow they pafled over the river and went into the town j and the num- ber of the flain of the men of Britain were


 * Bunker's- hill.