The Original Company
Lieutenant Aquila Jewett's Company, Littleton, Massachusetts
Corporal Daniel Whitcomb
Privates: Peter Fox, Joseph Lawrence, Samuel Lawrence, Thomas Lawrence,Ebenezer Phillips, Jr., Joseph Raymond, Thomas Wood
Captain William Whitcomb's Company, Stow, Massachusetts
Sergeant Ephraim Taylor
Privates:
Nehemiah Batchelor, Oliver Taylor, Phinneas Taylor, Jr., Solomon Taylor, Reuben Wetherbee, Silas Wetherbee
Captain Isaac Davis' Company, Acton, Massachusetts
Fifer Luther Blanchard
Captain Joshua Parker's Company, Westford, Massachusetts
Private Calvin Blanchard
Captain James Burt's Company, Harvard, Massachusetts
Corporal Abel Whitcomb
Privates:
Jonathan Crouch, Jr., and Timothy Crouch
Captain Jonathan Davis' Company, Harvard, Massachusetts
Private Oliver Mead
Fifer Luther Blanchard
Best known today among those from Boxborough who answered the call was Luther Blanchard. He and his brother Calvin were learning the stonemason's trade and living at the home of Deacon Jonathan Hosmer in Acton. Their father had been a soldier who was killed at the Battle of Quebec on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Calvin belonged to the Westford Militia Company of Captain Joshua Parker, Colonel William Prescott's regiment.Luther was a fifer and went with his friend, Abner Hosmer, to drill with the Acton Minute Company. When the alarm sounded that the "regulars are coming," Luther and Abner joined 38 Acton men at the home of Captain Isaac Davis early on the morning of April 19. With Luther Blanchard, fifer, and Francis Barker, drummer, playing "The White Cockade," the Acton Company marched over what is now known as the "Isaac Davis Trail" towards Concord.