At this point on the Old Concord Road, as it then was, Paul Revere’s midnight ride ended. At about two o’clock on the morning of April 19, 1775, with the night clear and the moon in its third quarter, he had reached this far on his way from Lexington to Concord, alarming the inhabitants as he went, when he and his companions, William Dawes of Boston and Dr. Samuel Prescott of Concord, were suddenly halted by a British patrol stationed at this bend of the road. Dawes turned back and escaped. Prescott cleared the stone wall, followed a path known to him through the low ground, regained the highway at a point farther on, and gave the alarm at Concord. Revere tried to reach the neighboring wood, but was intercepted by officers accompanying the patrol, detained, and kept under arrest. He was then carried back to Lexington by the patrol, released there, and that morning joined Hancock and Adams. Three men of Lexington, Sanderson, Brown, and Loring, stopped earlier in the night by the same patrol, were also taken back with Revere.