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
In This Article His Story A Black Patriot in the Revolution A Fifer in the Continental Army The Battle of Harlem Heights The Battle of Monmouth Service with New Hampshire Troops Captured by the British Sold into Slavery Taken to Nova Scotia The Escape to Freedom The Contradictions of Liberty From His Account Military Service … Read more
In This Article His Story A Sailor from Salem A Remarkable Account of Bunker Hill The Continental Frigate Boston The Capture of the British Fox Lieutenant of the Black Prince The Disaster at Penobscot From Naval Officer to Merchant Captain A Privateer in the War of 1812 The Extraordinary Voyage of Cleopatra’s Barge A Federal … Read more
In This Article His Story A Young Man from Danvers A Captain Ten Days Before War The Bloody Fighting at Menotomy Ammunition for Bunker Hill The Siege of Boston From Captain to Major General The Chocolate-Making General Two Fires and a New Beginning A Soldier in Public Office Remembering the Men of 1775 From His … Read more
In This Article His Story Answering the Call to Arms Service in the Continental Army Captured and Taken to New York Freedom, but Not Recovery A Veteran’s Life in Poverty A Family Facing Hardship From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Jonathan Harwood … Read more
In This Article His Story Taken from Africa Enslaved in Massachusetts Fighting for Freedom A Second Enlistment The Name Freeman Recognition After the War From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Sharper Freeman Born Africa; date and location unknown Died 1822 or 1833; … Read more
