The fight at Meriam’s Corner removed any hesitation provincials had about firing on soldiers of the Crown.
A mile past this site stood the low eminence called Hardy’s Hill, where the road cut into the northern part of the hill. Five companies of militia and minutemen waited for the British column in the woods close to the road.
"We saw a wood at a distance, which appeared to lie on or near the road where the enemy must pass. Many leaped over the walls and made for that wood. We arrived just in time to meet the enemy. There was on the opposite side of the road a young growth of wood, filled with Americans. The enemy were now completely between two fires, renewed and briskly kept up. They ordered out a flank guard on the left, to dislodge the Americans from their posts behind the trees; but they only became better marks to be shot at."
Pvt. Edmund Foster, Reading Company of Militia
Sources
Eaton, Lilley. Genealogical history of the town of Reading, Mass.. United States: A. Mudge & Son, Printers, 1874, page 702
Gift of Cummings E. Davis (1886); Concord Museum
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