# The Yost Post


## Posts

- [Elias Adams: A Teenage Massachusetts Soldier of the American Revolution](https://theyostpost.org/elias-adams-a-teenage-massachusetts-soldier-of-the-american-revolution/): No authenticated likeness has been identified.
- [Lynn, Massachusetts](https://theyostpost.org/lynn-massachusetts/): View an 1829 map in the Library of Congress collection.
- [Deborah Sampson - The Woman Who Enlisted as Robert Shurtliff](https://theyostpost.org/deborah-sampson-revolutionary-war/): Jonathan Sampson Jr.
- [Joseph Plumb Martin - The Soldier Who Told the Revolution from the Ranks](https://theyostpost.org/joseph-plumb-martin-revolutionary-war/): When Joseph Plumb Martin looked back upon the American Revolution, he remembered more than the battles. He remembered hunger.
- [Amos Gage - The Soldier That Guarded John Andre](https://theyostpost.org/amos-gage-revolutionary-war/): On the night before British Major John André was executed in October 1780, an American private named Amos Gage later recalled being assigned to guard the condemned officer.
- [Christian Peters - Founder of Peterstown](https://theyostpost.org/christian-peters-founder-of-peterstown/): Long before Christian Peters became associated with the founding of a Virginia frontier town, he was a young rifleman marching into the Carolinas to fight the British.
- [Reuben Howe: The Revolutionary War Soldier Who Guarded Burgoyne's Captured Army](https://theyostpost.org/reuben-howe-revolutionary-war-massachusetts/): In the winter of 1777–1778, Reuben Howe of Rowley, Massachusetts, found himself guarding men who had recently belonged to one of Britain's most ambitious military expeditions of the American Revolution.
- [Thomas Proctor: Revolutionary War Soldier and Bunker Hill Witness](https://theyostpost.org/thomas-proctor-revolutionary-war/): On September 4, 1837, an eighty-six-year-old widow named Jane Proctor appeared before a Massachusetts judicial officer to recount the military service of a husband who had been dead for thirty-seven years.
- [James Nourse: The Revolutionary War Soldier Who Lost His Health and His Home](https://theyostpost.org/james-nourse-the-revolutionary-war-soldier-who-lost-his-health-and-his-home/): By June 1823, James Nourse had little left to show for his years of service in the American Revolution.
- [Ezra Harwood: Six Years in Washington's Army and a Soldier's Forgotten Name](https://theyostpost.org/ezra-harwood-revolutionary-war/): In June 1783, as the American Revolution approached its conclusion, a Massachusetts soldier named Ezra Herod received a military discharge issued under the authority of General George Washington.
- [Anthony Gilman: The Black Revolutionary War Soldier Who Escaped Slavery](https://theyostpost.org/anthony-gilman-revolutionary-war/): Anthony Gilman fought for American independence, only to find himself deprived of the very freedom for which he had served.
- [Benjamin Crowninshield — From the Capture of the Fox to the Disaster at Penobscot](https://theyostpost.org/benjamin-crowninshield/): In August 1832, an elderly sailor from Massachusetts appeared before an Essex County probate judge to recount his service during the American Revolution.
- [Gideon Foster: Revolutionary War Captain, Major General & Chocolate Maker](https://theyostpost.org/gideon-foster/): On April 19, 1775, Gideon Foster led a company of Massachusetts minutemen from Danvers toward the fighting at Lexington and Concord.
- [Jonathan Harwood: Captured by the British, Forgotten in Poverty](https://theyostpost.org/jonathan-harwood/): When the American Revolution began in 1775, Jonathan Harwood was a young Massachusetts man in his early twenties.
- [Sharper Freeman: From African Captivity to Freedom Through the American Revolution](https://theyostpost.org/sharper-freeman/): Sharper Freeman was born in Africa, carried across the Atlantic against his will, and enslaved in colonial Massachusetts.
- [Martin Herrick: The Midnight Alarm Rider Who Became a Revolutionary War Surgeon](https://theyostpost.org/martin-herrick/): Martin Herrick was a Massachusetts physician whose Revolutionary War service took him from the communities north of Boston to the Continental Army and eventually aboard an American armed vessel.

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