, about
five o'clock on Wednesday last, afternoon, being in her
bedchamber, with her infant child, about eight days old, she was
surprised by the firing of the king's troops and our people, on
their return from Concord. She being weak and unable to go out of
her house, in order to secure herself and family, they all
retired into the kitchen, in the back part of the house. She soon
found the house surrounded with the king's troops; that upon
observation made, at least seventy bullets were shot into the
front part of the house; several bullets lodged in the kitchen
where she was, and one passed through an easy-chair she had just
gone from. The door of the front part of the house was broke
open; she did not see any soldiers in the house, but supposed, by
the noise, they were in the front. After the troops had gone off,
she missed the following things, which, she verily believes, were
taken out of the house by the king's troops, viz., one rich
brocade gown, called a negligee, one lutestring gown, one white
quilt, one pair of brocade shoes, three shifts, eight white
aprons, three caps, one case of ivory knives and forks, and
several other small articles.

"HANNAH BRADISH."

PROVINCE OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS BAY, WORCESTER, SS., _April 26, 1775_.

"Mrs. Hannah Bradish, the above deponent, maketh oath before us,
the subscribers, two of his majesty's justices of the peace for
the county of Worcester, and of the quorum, that the above
deposition, according to her best recollection, is the truth.
Which deposition is taken in _perpetuam rei memoriam_.

"THOMAS STEEL,
"TIMOTHY PAINE."

"CONCORD, _April 23, 1775_.

"I, James Marr, of lawful age, testify and say, that, in the
evening of the 18th instant, I received orders from George
Hutchinson, adjutant of the fourth regiment of the regular troops
stationed at Boston, to prepare and march: to which orders I
attended, and marched to Concord, where I was ordered by an
officer with about one hundred men to guard a certain bridge
there. While attending that service, a number of people came
along, in order, as I suppose, to cross said bridge, at which
time a