The news that the British troops were on the march for Lexington and Concord, appears to have reached Framingham before 8:00a.m.. The bell was rung, and the alarm guns fired, and in about an hour, a considerable part of the two companies of Minute Men and one company of the militia were on the way to Concord, which place they reached about noon. Our companies reached Concord, not in season to join in the fray at the North Bridge, but in season to join in the pursuit of the flying British column. From the evidence preserved, it appears that a part of our men participated in the daring assault at Merriam's corner, and that all had arrived and were active in the more successful attacks in the Lincoln woods. Our captains kept up the pursuit till the British reached and passed Cambridge; and then the men disposed of themselves as best they could for the night. Josiah Temple, then living at Lechmere Point, Cambridge, started with a detachment of militia-men to intercept the British, on their return to Cambridge, and in the severe skirmish which took place just on the line between Lexington and Cambridge, received a musket-ball in the shoulder, which he carried to his grave.