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Flag of the Minute Men of 1775.
Copyright 1907 by E. A. BUCK, CONCORD, MASS.
This banner, now the property of the town of Bedford, is thought
to have been made in England about 1670, and brought to Massachu-
setts Bay for an early military company. It was afterward stored in
Nathaniel ,Page's garret in Bedford. whence it was taken by his
grandson, Nathaniel Page, the 19th of April, 1775, and carried to
Concord, and figured in the fight at the bridge. It was then returned
to its former resting place and brought forth again in 1875 in the
centennial celebration at Concord, where Emerson for the first time
saw the banner so beautifully portrayed by him in the following lines
" By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world."
Abram Eglrk
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United States,
and Island Pos-
sessions, Cuba,
Canada and
Mexico,
Foreign,
HISTORICAL SERIES OF REVOLUTIONARY TOWNS
PUBLISHED BY EDITH A, BUCK, CONCORD, MASS,
