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Fair copy of the Circumstantial Account sent to Gov. Trumbull of Connecticut
The royal governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage (1719-87), responded to the flurry of news reports of the Battles of Lexington and Concord by sending official accounts of the confrontation to high officials in the adjoining colonies. He…
"Extract of a letter from Leicester, August, 1774. 'Yesterday Mr. Paine, of Worcester, was visited by near 3000 people"
Timothy Paine (1730 – 93) was a wealthy and influential loyalist from Worcester, Massachusetts, connected by marriage to the Chandlers, another wealthy loyalist family. Paine graduated from Harvard and studied law after he was appointed clerk…