from Chronicles of Danvers, Old Salem Village by Harriet Sylvester Tapley

"Lexington Memorial Erected" , page 133

Sixty years after the Battle of Lexington, Danvers erected a monument (1835) to the memory of her young men who were killed on that memorable day.  The occasion was made one of great interest, especially form the fact that nineteen survivors of the Revolutionary War were present and took part in the exercises.  Twelve of these were from Danvers: Gen. Gideon Foster, Sylvester Osborn, Johnson Proctor, Levi Preston,  Asa Tapley, Rogers Nourse, Joseph Shaw, John Joscelyn, Ephraim Smith, Jonathan Porter, Joseph Tufuts, William Flint.

The shaft stands at the junction of Main and Washington streets, in what is now Peabody.  On one side are the names of the slain, followed by the words: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori  ("It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country."  On the reverse side, "Erected by the citizens of Danvers on the 60th Anniversary, 1835."  The cost of the monumne6t was $1000.,