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Up next, a story from a young woman on the first day of the American Revolution, courtesy of Constituting America, an organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and inspiring young people. People across America on our founding documents. Go to ConstitutingAmerica dot org to find out more. Let's get into the story. Hi, I'm Sabrina Bhatia, and I'm a 15 year old on a mission to bring the American Revolution back to life.
Today, we need to go back 250 years ago, on April 18th, 1775, to Boston, Massachusetts. More specifically, to the house of Dr. Joseph Warren around 8 p.m. Dr. Warren was a well-known colonist.
He was an important figure in 1770s Boston and charged with revolutionary spirit. Dr. Warren caught word that the regulars, what the colonists called the British forces representing the crown, are coming to seize arms in Concord and capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two important rebel leaders who were staying in Lexington for the Provincial Congress. He sends express riders Paul Revere and William Dawes to alert Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were staying with their family, Reverend Jonas Clark, Lexington's minister, and his wife, John Hancock's cousin, Lucy Bose Clark. It's about now when Joseph Warren goes into the Old North Church to send out the signal.
If the regulars were coming by land, one lantern. If they were coming by sea, there would be two. This is where we get the famous phrase: one if by land, two if by sea. The lanterns hung in the steeple would only be shown for a couple of minutes, but this was a signal the entire city could see. The regulars had decided to come by sea to get to Lexington.
You're probably wondering why I'm calling them the regulars. It's because in 1775, everyone was British, and that just would have caused confusion. What do you mean we're coming? Paul Revere actually never said that. He most likely either said the lobsterbacks are out, the regulars are out, or the redcoats are coming.
Paul Revere goes through Charlestown, up and around through Mystic, and gets to the Hancock Clark house about 30 minutes later. Revere is met with Sergeant Monroe from the Lexington Militia. He tells him, "Keep it down. Family is retired and would not like to be disturbed by the noise." Noise! You'll have noise enough before long.
The regulars are out. Revere says, yelling from the rooftops. John Hancock hears and invites him inside to chat. A few moments later, Dawes joins. Both talk about the information that Doctor Warren sent to these important men.
But this kept twelve-year-old Elizabeth Clark up. She was worried what was going to happen to her family because the regulars were coming for them. She told all of her siblings to be quiet and to go to bed, and laid in her bed and listened to the conversation with the men going on downstairs, which was extremely important. Her mother burst in, telling her, "Elizabeth, you must help Miss Dolly Quinsey hide her valuables. They're coming to loot our house." Her and Dolly Quinsey Hancock, John Hancock's fiance at the time, hid things under leaves, potatoes, and anything else they could find.
Afterwards, Elizabeth went back upstairs to bed, but something still wasn't quite right with her. Dolly needs to go get her father from Boston, and she's very worried about it. Nonsense! It's the middle of the night, and there's soldiers coming for me. Ridiculous to even bring up," says John Hancock.
Dolly replies, "Recollect, Mr. Hancock, I am not under your control yet. I will get my father and rescue him from Boston." She says, to the richest man in Massachusetts. She was probably one of the only people who could say this. Hancock and Adams are packing up their belongings.
It's not right for me to leave them. These men are my friends, Hancock says to Adams. That's foolish. You don't even have your musket. What use are you?
Adams responded. And Adams eventually reasoned with Hancock and decided it was the right thing to leave. And he was putting the family and the town in more danger by staying. On one condition, Hancock says, "You bring the salmon we had for dinner." Yes, this is something Hancock actually said. He was hyper fixated on their fabulous feast they had earlier.
That was enough to get him to leave. The belfry in the center of town started to ring. It was the alarm for the Lexington Militia to assemble on the green at Buckman Tavern. There were about eighty patriots, but about seven hundred regulars coming towards Lexington. No wonder Paul Revere had to ride out.
We were greatly outnumbered. Two men carried a trunk with John Hancock's important documents. To this day, we don't know what was inside, but the trunk still exists and is at the Worcester Historical Museum. And all we know is that in the wrong hands, John Hancock would be a dead man. The regulars were actually headed towards Concord and were only stopping in Lexington to capture these two rebel leaders.
So when they saw the men assembled on the green, they assembled too. Both sides were told not to fire. Captain John Parker, the captain of the Lexington militia, told his men, "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war." Let it begin here.
With the sun barely being up at five in the morning, someone fired. We don't know who, but there are many theories which will never be able to be proven, just because we don't have that information. This was the first shot of American liberty. This was the start of the American Revolution. The regulars went on the rest of the day to have a similar event in Concord, but instead, their leader says, "For God's sakes, fire!" The colonists chased them all the way back to Boston the same way they came.
This was the first day of the American Revolution. It left a profound impact on American history and the history of the world. And a special thanks to Sabrina Baticharia, whose website is Lexington Two Fifty. Nothing brings us more joy than young people falling in love with their country. A special thanks also to Constituting America for turning us on to this story.
Go to constitutingamerica.org to find out more about their great work. The story of the first day of the revolution here on Our American Stories. Lee Habibi, your host of Our American Stories. Every day on this show, we bring you stories of America, stories of us. And it's because of listeners like you that we're able to tell the story of this great and beautiful country every day.
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