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On April 19, 1775, Deacon Haynes, heard the alarm, dressed quickly, said a quick goodbye to his family and marched to Concord with Captain Aaron Haynes and his company of Militia. When they approached the South Bridge, where a British guard was known to be, the Deacon attacked the enemy and drove them from the area. However, the Company was under orders not to commence an attack and proceeded around the village to the North Bridge where the first shots of the Battle of Concord had just been fired.

He was killed by a British musket ball when nearing Lexington. His gravestone in the Old Cemetery in Sudbury Center bears this epitaph:

In memory of Deacon Josiah Haynes who died in Freedom's ye 19th day of April 1775; in the 79th year of his Age.