18
Sep
2019
The quote attributed to Minuteman commander John Parker at Lexington is likely fabricated by his grandson Theodore to glorify the family.
But probably this quote isn't real. There's no actual solid historical basis for the quote, which is to say that no reliable source who was there put it down into writing until a lot later. The quote was spread initially by Parker's grandson Theodore, who was not present at the time of being said. Yeah, probably not. Yeah, so anything coming from him is secondhand to begin with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And as it was his grandfather, he might be trying to mythologize his family as being like these heroic figures within the Revolution.