The Jacob Whittemore House is a historic American Revolutionary War site in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.

[1] Paul Revere and William Dawes were detained by a British Army patrol nearby during the "Midnight Ride" to Concord of April 18.

Mary then relayed the message to Captain William Smith, commanding officer of the Lincoln minutemen,[3] who lived a little to the west and whose home still stands along Battle Road.

Instead, Jacob helped Moses carry his wife, Sarah, who was still recovering from the birth of her third child eighteen days earlier, and her children, to the relative safety of a nearby woodlot just before the battle reached their home.

To the west of the house, Captain John Parker led the Lexington militia in engaging the retreating British regulars.