[footnote attached to the brother of Rev. Alpheus Spring, Marshall Spring:] The doctor "was said to have been," says Mr. Bond in his History of Watertown, "a very humorous man, the only gentleman who could successfully meet Chief Justice Parsons in a witty encounter. A strong Tory and yet when he arrived on the field of Lexington quickly devoted himself to his wounded fellow countrymen on the Federal side."
[Note: see Source: Bond, Henry. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855), Vol. 1, p. 444. Despite the quote marks, this is not an quote from the source, it is an abstract only.]