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Soon after this he left Williamsburg not to return . News travelled but slowly in those days , and so the May sun had been shining some weeks when a man on horseback brought the tidings that at about the same time that the gunpowder had been seized , there had actually been fighting near Boston . `` Think of it ! '' exclaimed Parson Kendall , at the table at noon ; `` the messenger who rode into town this morning saith that seven of our minutemen were killed , and four others wounded , at Lexington , not far from Boston . And at Concord also , close by , there soon followed more fighting . `` Thinketh any one that we will lay down our arms after that ? Not so !