Major John Buttrick House

Major John Buttrick lived here in a house built in 1715 and later altered, on a hillside where the Buttrick family had lived since the founding of Concord in 1635. At the time of the battle in 1775, he was a 44 year old farmer, well respected in Concord and active in town government, and he and his wife Abigail had eight children. As the Colonial officer leading the advance to the North Bridge, he gave the order, “Fire, fellow soldiers, for God’s sake, fire!” while British soldiers fired directly at his men. It was the first time Colonists were ordered to fire on the King’s troops, an act of treason. After the battle, the bodies of the two Colonists killed at the bridge, Isaac Davis and Abner Hosmer, were laid out in the house.

Concord, Massachusetts · United States