admin In This Article His Story Born in Colonial Brookfield Answering the Call in 1780 Serving Under the Thayers The Military Record That Survived Seeking a Pension Fifty Years Later Recognition by the Federal Government From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Elias Adams … Read more
In This Article His Town, His Times Understanding Historical Lynn The Community Before the Revolution A Community Divided (1763–1775) Lynn’s Minutemen and the Lexington Alarm The Cost of April 19 The Revolutionary War Years (1775–1783) Returning Home (1783–1800) A New Generation (1800–1820) The Aging Veterans (1820–1840) Historical Timeline Soldiers Connected to Lynn Original Sources & … Read more
In This Article His Story A Childhood Spent in Other People’s Homes The Enlistment That Failed Becoming Robert Shurtliff A Soldier in Washington’s Army Wounded Near British-Held New York The Fever That Revealed Her Identity An Honorable Discharge The Making of a Revolutionary Legend Taking Her Story Before the Public Paul Revere Comes to Her … Read more
In This Article His Story The Minister’s Son Who Wanted to Fight A Fifteen-Year-Old Goes to War The Disastrous New York Campaign Returning to the Continental Army Under Fire at Fort Mifflin Hunger at Valley Forge The Heat and Gunfire at Monmouth Faith, Providence, and the Hungry Soldier Digging Toward the British at Yorktown The … Read more
In This Article His Story A Young Soldier from Pelham Under Colonel John Stark Sickness and the Surrender at Saratoga Guarding Major John André A Crossed-Out Account of Privateering Building a Life in Maine The Pension He Lost and Regained From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & … Read more
In This Article His Story A Young Man on the Virginia Frontier From Frontier Forts to the Southern Army A Rifleman at the Battle of Cowpens The Retreat Across the Yadkin His Final Campaign in Virginia Building a New Life at Peterstown The Mills and Founding of the Town From His Account Military Service Later … Read more
In This Article His Story From Ipswich to Rowley Drafted for the New York Campaign A Second Enlistment: White Plains and Bound Brook Guarding Burgoyne’s Captured Army The Old Soldier Seeks His Pension The Mystery of the Missing Certificate His Widow’s Years of Hardship From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier of Essex County Serving Under Colonel Glover The Uncertain Connection to Bunker Hill Returning to Service in 1776 The Widow Who Remembered A Pension More Than Thirty Years After His Death From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier from Lynn The Illness That Changed His Life Service in the Invalid Regiment Returning Home with a Disability The Long Fight for a Pension The Loss of His Home A Veteran’s Final Appeal From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier with Two Names Six Years and Five Months Discharged by George Washington A Discharge That Was Not Yet Final Marriage and Life in Danvers A Widow’s Struggle for Recognition When a Name Stood in the Way From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants … Read more