The Virginia Gazette

Some short time before the skirmish at Concord, the officers of the army being highly incensed by the inhabitants of Boston, from the many insults which had been offered them, and exasperated by the many inflammatory preachings and orations delivered from the pulpit, resolved privately to take an opportunity to seize the promoters of these discourses, the principals of which were Adams, Hancock, and Dr. Warren. The scheme was now laid, and the young man fixed upon was an ensign in the army, who was to give the signal to the rest, distributed about the church, by throwing an egg at Dr. Warren in the pulpit. However this scheme was rendered abortive, in the most whimsical manner, for he, deputed to throw the egg, fell in going to the church, dislocated his knee, and broke the egg, by which means the scheme failed, and the skirmish at Concord happening within a few days, these worthy patriots of their country retired to Roxborough.