The Old Men of Monotomy Marker commemorates the group of twelve “old men” who met at Cooper’s Tavern and unfit for military duty, formulated a plan to capture a British convoy carrying supplies to Lexington on April 19, 1775.

Led by David Lamson, a mulatto of African and Native American descent who was described as “a man of undoubted bravery and determination”, they hid behind a “bank wall of earth and stones” and ambushed the British as they approached.

The marker reads: 

At this spot
on April 19, 1775
the Old Men of Menotomy
captured a convoy of
eighteen soldiers with supplies
on its way to join
the British at Lexington.