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Minute Man (1755–1844) who is believed to be the last surviving soldier of the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775. He recounted the fight to Ralph Waldo Emerson who later published his poem 'Concord Hymn,' from which Emerson’s famous phrase 'shot heard round the world' was introduced. Manuscript DS, signed “Thad. Blood,” one page, 7.5 x 12, June 23, 1801. Document by which Thaddeus Blood sells 70 acres of property "lying in the northerly part of Concord," Massachusetts, to Jotham Blood. Signed at the conclusion in ink by Thaddeus Blood and countersigned by some relatives as witnesses. Later signed on the reverse by Samuel Bartlett, a Concord silversmith whose works rivaled those of Paul Revere, as Middlesex county register. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light staining.
John Kaag, author of 'American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation,' observes: 'Thaddeus Blood had just turned twenty when he joined his fellow Minute Men at the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775. He was, by many accounts, the last survivor of the battle, and, by all accounts, gave the testimony of the fight to Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1833, as Emerson prepared his Concord Hymn, delivered first in 1837. This was the poem in which Emerson famously recounted ‘the shot heard round the world.''
