tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1936679029801230512..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “John Raymond, an aged man,…was brutally fired upon”?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-90111721031215942402017-10-10T12:14:39.517-05:002017-10-10T12:14:39.517-05:00https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&...https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Raymond&GSfn=John&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1775&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=7606621&df=all&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-34861369087287895262011-11-08T13:02:56.099-05:002011-11-08T13:02:56.099-05:00Thanks for the reply. (Sorry if my question seemed...Thanks for the reply. (Sorry if my question seemed brusque; I was excited about the prospect of additional early sources.) <br /><br />As a general pattern, I see American accounts of Revolutionary War incidents from, say, 1830 to 1900 getting more dramatic and often more accusatory than the initial reports. See, for example, the stories of <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/search/label/Samuel%20Whittemore" rel="nofollow">Samuel Whittemore</a> and <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Stockton" rel="nofollow">Richard Stockton</a>. <br /><br />Part of the difference might be some stoic reticence in the culture of the late colonial and early Federal period, in contrast to post-Romantic drama. But I think that as the stories got passed down, families and local historians exaggerated or filled gaps in the most dramatic way. <br /><br />In the case of John Raymond, it seems most likely to me that the Munroe family found his body outside the tavern after the battle, but there were no local eyewitnesses to his death. In the late 1800s writers filled in that incident with details about how he interacted with the British soldiers that probably no one left in Lexington could have known.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-70885996699711773552011-11-08T00:19:59.089-05:002011-11-08T00:19:59.089-05:00I'm sorry to be tardy with my response. My so...I'm sorry to be tardy with my response. My sources are probably the secondary sources "Paul Revere's Ride" by David Hackett Fischer and "William Diamond's Drum" by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot. I don't have these books available to confirm. I wish I had been aware of your website when I was writing my book.Harold Titusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-9085758595336143882011-10-21T19:56:02.559-05:002011-10-21T19:56:02.559-05:00Have you found sources other than those I’ve quote...Have you found sources other than those I’ve quoted, particularly from the first few decades after the Revolution?J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-28312213921333310772011-10-21T19:16:05.296-05:002011-10-21T19:16:05.296-05:00My sources jibe with that of Sergeant Munroe: he w...My sources jibe with that of Sergeant Munroe: he was lame, he was a neighbor, he stood in for Munroe when Munroe was absent, and, fearful of his life, he fled the tavern and was shot. I depict all of this in "Crossing the River."Harold Titushttp://booklocker.com/books/5692.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-85500663862979237182011-09-28T14:08:07.021-05:002011-09-28T14:08:07.021-05:00Coburn probably based his statement that William M...Coburn probably based his statement that William Munroe suffered approximately L203 in damages to his tavern from the records of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. But the original records of the losses suffered by the residents in Lexington (in good colonial fashion determined by a special committee) were not retained and the losses were determined by special order of the Legislature in 1783. It's not clear how the amounts were determined. William Munroe (long since deceased) did claim L203 in damages, but one of the heirs to his estate, Issac Reed, addded an additional L9 for "household goods and furniture" on January 24th, 1783.EJWitekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05796418061787943596noreply@blogger.com