Teachable Texts: Who Fired the Shot Heard 'Round the World? Prequel to Independence: Who Fired the Shot Heard 'Round the World? Documents Meeting in Watertown on April 22, 1775, following the April 18th incident in Lexington, the Second Provincial Congress of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Ordered, That Mr. Gerry, Col. Cushing, Col. Barrett, Capt. Stone, Doct. Taylor, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Watson, and Esquire Dix, be a committee to take depositions, in perpetuam , from which a full accou