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Best known today among those from Boxborough who answered the call was Luther Blanchard. He and his brother Calvin were learning the stonemason's trade and living at the home of Deacon Jonathan Hosmer in Acton. Their father had been a soldier who was killed at the Battle of Quebec on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Calvin belonged to the Westford Militia Company of Captain Joshua Parker, Colonel William Prescott's regiment.Luther was a fifer and went with his friend, Abner Hosmer, to drill with the Acton Minute Company. When the alarm sounded that the "regulars are coming," Luther and Abner joined 38 Acton men at the home of Captain Isaac Davis early on the morning of April 19.