The Men of Boxborough District

who marched to Concord

April 19th 1775

Lieutenant Aquila Jewett's Company, Littleton, Massachusetts

Corporal Daniel Whitcomb

Privates

Peter Fox, Joseph Lawrence, Samuel Lawrence, Thomas Lawrence, Ebenezer Phillips, Jr., Joseph Raymond, Thomas Wood

Captain William Whitcomb's Company, Stow, Massachusetts

Sergeant Ephraim Taylor

Privates

Nehemiah Batchelor, Oliver Taylor, Phinneas Taylor, Jr., Solomon Taylor, Reuben Wetherbee, Silas Wetherbee

Captain Isaac Davis' Company,

Acton, Massachusetts

Fifer Luther Blanchard

Captain Joshua Parker's Company, Westford, Massachusetts

Private Calvin Blanchard

Captain James Burt's Company, Harvard, Massachusetts

Corporal Abel Whitcomb

Privates

Jonathan Crouch, Jr., and Timothy Crouch

Captain Jonathan Davis' Company, Harvard, Massachusetts

Private Oliver Mead

Best known today among those from Boxborough who answered the call was Luther Blanchard. He and his brother Calvin were learning the stonemason's trade and living at the home of Deacon Jonathan Hosmer in Acton. Their father had been a soldier who was killed at the Battle of Quebec on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Calvin belonged to the Westford Militia Company of Captain Joshua Parker, Colonel William Prescott's regiment.

Luther was a fifer and went with his friend, Abner Hosmer, to drill with the Acton Minute Company. When the alarm sounded that the "regulars are coming," Luther and Abner joined 38 Acton men at the home of Captain Isaac Davis early on the morning of April 19. With Luther Blanchard, fifer, and Francis Barker, drummer, playing "The White Cockade," the Acton Company marched over what is now known as the "Isaac Davis Trail" towards Concord.