BOSTON, April 19, 1775

After safely sending his press off to Worcester, late into the night of April 16^th, Isaiah Thomas remained in or near the  Boston area.

On April 19^th, before dawn, Thomas and fellow revolutionary, Dr. Joseph Warren, crossed the Charles River to Charles Town.  There they met with other revolutionaries, and  then Thomas “hastened to Lexington where, according to one of his friends, he joined the militia at daybreak”.

Soon after, in Worcester, when Thomas set up The Massachusetts Spy printing office, on May 3^rd he wrote his account of the battle of Lexington--which made him the nation’s  first  war correspondent.

Isaiah Thomas’s historical and fiery article read as follows: 

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AMERICANS! Forever bear in mind the BATTLE OF LEXINGTON - where British Troops, unmolested and unprovoked, wantonly, in a most inhuman manner, fired upon and killed a number of our countrymen, then robbed them of their provisions, ransacked, plundered and burnt their houses! Nor could the tears of defenseless women, some of whom were in the pains of childbirth and cries of helpless babes, nor the prayers of old age, confined to beds of sickness, appease their thirst for blood! - or divert them from their DESIGN of MURDER and ROBBERY!