BIO:

Ebenezer Lock of Woburn, Massachusetts fought at Concord and Lexington on April 19, 1775. Persistent rumor had it that he was the one who fired the first shot of the American Revolution, or "the shot heard round the world" made famous by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1836 poem, "Concord Hymn."

Ebenezer Lock was born in Woburn in 1735 and died in Deering, New Hampshire, in 1816. He married Lucy Wood; they had three sons. Lucy died at the age of 26.

Ebenezer and his cousins were members of Captain Joshua Walker's Company of the Woburn militia.