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April 19th, 1775 2:30 PM The Battle of Lexington
& Concord
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Major Loammi Baldwin, commander
of three companies of Minutemen from the city of Woburn,
executed the first and most costly ambush of the British
“Redcoats” as the British began their 15-mile retreat all the
way back to Boston. The location of this skirmish on the
Lincoln-Concord line has ever after been known as "the Bloody
Angle" since it was there that the largest ratio of British to
American casualties occurred that day. In addition, eight out of
ten commanding officers of the British forward units were killed
or wounded there by Baldwin and his men. In 1780, even before
the Revolutionary War was over, Major Loammi Baldwin became
the first democratically elected Middlesex Sheriff.
MIDDLESEX SHERIFFS
Order of Incumbency
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| 1. |
Capt. Timothy Phillips |
1692-1702 |
| 2. |
Capt. Samuel Gookin |
1702-1714 |
| 3. |
Col. Edmund Goffe |
1714-1717 |
| 4. |
Samuel Gookin (same) |
1717-1729 |
| 5. |
Samuel Dummer |
1729-1731 |
| 6. |
Richard Foster, Jr. |
1731-1764 |
| 7. |
Col. David Phips |
1764-1775 |
| 8. |
Col. James Prescott |
1775-1781 |
| 9. |
Col. Loammi Baldwin |
1781-1794 |
| 10. |
Maj. Joseph Hosmer |
1794-1808 |
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Gen. William Hildreth, Jr. |
1808-1813 |
| 12. |
Gen. Nathaniel Austin, Jr. |
1813-1831 |
| 13. |
Benjamin Franklin Varnum |
1831-1841 |
| 14. |
Col. Samuel Chandler |
1841-1851 |
| 15. |
Fisher Ames Hildreth |
1851-1853 |
| 16. |
John Sheppard Keyes |
1853-1859 |
| 17. |
Charles Kimball |
1859-1879 |
| 18. |
Eben Winslow Fiske |
1879-1883 |
| 19. |
Henry Greenwood Cushing |
1883-1899 |
| 20. |
John Robert Fairbain |
1899-1934 |
| 21. |
Joseph M. McElroy |
1934-1947 |
| 22. |
Loring R. Kew |
1947-1947 |
| 23. |
Louis E. Boutwell |
1948-1949 |
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Howard W. Fitzpatrick |
1949-1970 |
| 25. |
John J. Buckley |
1970-1980 |
| 26. |
Edward F. Hennebury , Jr. |
1980-1984 |
| 27. |
John J. McGonigle |
1985-1994 |
| 28. |
R. Bradford Bailey |
1994-1996 |
| 29. |
James V DiPaola |
1996—Present |
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| Compiled by: |
| Edward M. Burns, Esq. |
| Middlesex Special Sheriff |
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