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Historic Northampton
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<span>Historic Northampton focuses on local history and the local community. We preserve objects and documents that illuminate the lives of past residents while creating structures through which contemporary residents can preserve</span><span> and celebrate their own histories in ways that honor both tradition and change.</span><br /><br />46 Bridge Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060 <a href="https://www.historicnorthampton.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.historicnorthampton.org</a>, info@historicnorthampton.org, 413-584-6011
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The house in this photo may no longer stand on King Street in Northampton, but the stories of the people who lived there remain. When Mary and Timothy Dwight built this house in 1751, they were a young couple embarking on their new life together. For 20 years, the Dwights navigated Timothy’s career as a merchant and a judge, and raised their thirteen children. At some point during this period, they enslaved a woman named Sylvia Church. The Dwights’ imposing house was renovated in the late the 19th century and would stand until 1905, when it was pulled down to build a school.
During the American Revolution, Timothy left Northampton to deal with a land investment in Mississippi, and died there in 1777. Before his death, Timothy had been a loyalist and that position dogged his wife and children even after he left. Mary was a loyalist herself, which fueled the resentment of those who disagreed with her politically. Her fields were burned, her livestock run off her land, and one of her children was bullied so much that he no longer wanted to attend school.
Mary Dwight was an intelligent woman with a mercurial temperament, a force of nature in her household and her community. Lewis Tappan, who grew up playing on this house’s grounds (much to Mary’s chagrin), remembered that she gave strict orders and saw that they were obeyed.
Tappan’s recollections also shed light on the other adult woman who lived in the house during the Revolution: Sylvia Church. Lewis Tappan recalled that when he and the other neighborhood children would be scolded by Mary, Sylvia Church would hide them from her until they weren’t scared.
This remembrance is important, because glimpses of Sylvia Church’s life are few and far between. She was probably born in Africa around 1754, and by the Revolution she had been enslaved for over half her life. She remained in this house for years after she technically had her freedom when Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1783. Like so many people who were enslaved, legally obtaining her freedom did not remove her from the people who had enslaved her or the house where she was enslaved.
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The Loyalist House on King Street
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Sepia-toned B/W photograph of the Dwight-Fisk home on King Street, Northampton, MA.
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1751
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The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum
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<p>The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum is a unique historical resource in Hadley, Massachusetts. Its significance goes beyond the well-preserved eighteenth century architecture of the house itself: the house was continuously occupied by a single family from its construction in 1752 until the death of Dr. James Lincoln Huntington, the museum’s founder. The house contains the family’s belongings accumulated and preserved over 300 years. The family also left a rich collection of personal letters, diaries and account books, photographs and other material. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers are now housed at Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. The house was the heart of the large farmstead known as "Forty Acres" that included over 600 acres stretching from the banks of the Connecticut River to the top of Mount Warner, in North Hadley. Today, the house is surrounded by over 350 acres of protected farmland land, forest, and river frontage retaining its original rural setting. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is located on the National Tri-State Connecticut River Scenic Farm Byway.</p>
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<p>The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum<br />130 River Drive<br />Hadley, MA 01035<br /><br />Phone: (413) 584-4699<br />Website: <a href="https://www.pphmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit the Museum's website</a><br />Email: <a href="mailto:pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com">pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com</a></p>
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Among the myriad of interesting figures buried at the Old Hadley Cemetery, there rests an unlikely resident by the name of John Morrison. The story of how Morrison came to Hadley begins in June of 1776, when he arrived outside of Boston Harbor as part of the Seventy-First regiment of Highlanders. Unaware of the evacuation of Boston by the British Troops, the Highlanders' ships were engaged by American vessels upon their approach to port. Their commander, Lt. Col. Campbell, decided to surrender to the Americans. John Morrison was among the 267 Highlanders taken as prisoners of war, captured before he ever set foot in North America!
Throughout Massachusetts, the recruitment of local men into militias had put a strain on the available labor force. The shortage of able-bodied farmhands was a serious problem for growers in the area. As a result, farmers petitioned the local Committees of Safety for permission to use captured enemy soldiers as labor in their fields. John Morrison was one of these captives, and was sent to work in Hadley on the locally influential estate then known as “Forty Acres”. On March 23, 1777 Elizabeth Porter Phelps, who managed the farm alongside her husband Charles, mentioned in her diary that “one of the Highlanders” who was captured by her cousin Colonel Porter, was sent to live and work at the farm.
Upon his arrival, John Morrison was initially put to work in the fields. Back home in Scotland, before joining the army, Morrison was an ornamental gardener. With his experience, Morrison eventually was given the responsibility of creating and maintaining the gardens at Forty Acres. Most families in Hadley at the time had gardens but they were most often just extensions of their vegetable plots. It is likely that the Phelps were the only family in Hadley with their own private gardener. Prior to Morrison’s tenure at Forty Acres, Elizabeth had described gardening as sporadic and casual. Morrison’s garden was carefully planned; it was laid out in a rectangular shape with four subdivided paths, a circular rose-bed at the center, and was lined by fruit-trees along its sides. The meticulously designed North Garden brought a sense of elegance to the rural landscape that surrounded Forty Acres.
Morrison was obviously a very skilled gardener. According to family letters, however, he was also somewhat of a notorious drunkard. His relationship with alcohol led to periods of prolonged absences which frustrated family members. He would allegedly skirt his duties at Forty Acres to nap on top of Mount Warner—the hilltop at the edge of the family's estate. It was on top of Mount Warner where he would recover from his bouts of drinking. The secluded area was a great spot for a nap, but it also gave John a vantage point to admire his work in the garden from a distance. The planned and orderly garden, inspired by European-style gardens, would have stood out from the rural landscape that surrounded it. Today, if one hikes to the summit of Mount Warner, it is possible to find “John’s Rock”, a boulder which Morrison regularly used to rest his head during his naps.
After the Revolutionary War, John Morrison remained at Forty Acres. He would eventually be considered a member of the extended Phelps Family. When he died in 1814, he was buried alongside family members in the Old Hadley Cemetery, where his grave can still be seen today. Signs of Morrison’s handiwork, too, are still visible around Forty Acres. The estate has been preserved as the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, and the North Garden is still laid out according to Morrison’s original plan. Many of the same plant varieties that were grown during his time as gardener can be found in the North Garden today. The garden is open to the public, and serves as a testament to the lasting impact of revolutionary war figures like John Morrison.
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John Morrison / a Scotch Highlander / captured with / Col. Campbell / in Boston Harbour / June 1776 / died in the family / of Chas Phelps / Sept. 13. 1814 / aged about 65
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John Morrison: Highlander, POW, Gardener, Tippler
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Solomon Burt's gravestone
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May 7, 1777
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Accounts from David Burt's powder mill business
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David Burt, Solomon Burt's father, continued the powder mill business even after the explosion that killed his son, as detailed in this document from 1781.
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Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum in Springfield, MA.
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Longmeadow Cemetery Association
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When the precinct of Longmeadow moved up the hill from the flood-prone meadows along the Connecticut River in 1702/3, they planned for a burying ground that became the Longmeadow Cemetery. It grew from the original one acre to its present-day 10 acre size. The oldest section of the cemetery is in the Historic District. In 1872, the Longmeadow Cemetery Association was established, with the charge of maintaining the growing cemetery. There are many redstone gravestones made by local carvers from the excellent Longmeadow stone (sandstone) quarries. The Association is a volunteer-run 501c13.<br /><br />Address: Williams Street, Longmeadow, MA 01106 (opposite 34 Williams Street)<br />Phone number: 413-244-7215 (superintendent)<br />Web: www.longmeadowcemetery.org<br />Facebook: Longmeadow Cemetery<br />Email: <a href="mailto:longmeadowcemetery@gmail.com">longmeadowcemetery@gmail.com</a>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As this gravestone attests, patriots faced danger at home as well as on the battlefield. This stone stands in Longmeadow Cemetery, describing the untimely death of 18 year-old Solomon Burt, "Who was suddenly Kill'd by the Blowing up of a Powder Mill."</span></p>
<p class="p2">Two years before this catastrophe, Longmeadow's minister Stephen Williams wrote about the growing conflict with Great Britain in his diary.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On April 20th, 1775,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Reverend Stephen Williams wrote (Vol. 8): "this morning–as Soon as it was light, ye Drum beat & three Gun/fired an Alarm–the Story is that Some of ye troops had marched from Boston to Seize Some military Stores, at Lexington, or Concord–& that Some men had been Killed..." <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On April 21st, Captain David Burt led 22<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Longmeadow minute men to the Lexington alarm. On the 26th, Reverend Williams, upon hearing of various conflicts occurring in New England, prayed "to God to Give wisdom, prudence, discretion and moderation to all his people." In May, he bemoaned the state of affairs: "the nation in a ferment; Some are for violent and coercive measures, with ye colonies, & provinces; some few for lenient, & moderation measures–destruction both to the parent country & the colonies Seems inevitable..." <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p2">While Williams seems to have been torn about the rift with Great Britain, the Burt family's sympathies were clearly on the side of the patriots.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Solomon Burt worked at a powder mill situated on the Mill River in Springfield.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The mill, owned by his father David, supplied powder to the American army.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p2">On May 7, 1777, the powder mill exploded, with predictably disastrous results.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sabotage was suspected, but powder mills were by their very nature extremely volatile, and any spark could have set it off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Reverend Williams wrote about the event in his diary (Vol. 9): "this day ye powdr Mill blew up & Solomon Burt (Son to Lt. David Burt) was Kill'd- was cari'd over ye Mill River - Severall rod/ & upon ye Hill - his leggs broke - & his Body much Bruis'd- Asahell Bliss - yt was in ye mill with him - was flung into ye River & one of his legs broke de [ditto]- de [ditto]- a very awefull & affecting providence - ..."</p>
<p class="p2">David Burt continued the powder mill business even after the explosion, as detailed in the following document from 1781 in the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum in Springfield, MA.</p>
<p class="p2">Other local cemeteries record similar dramatic explosions, including Southwick and Glastonbury, CT.</p>
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In Memory of Mr. Solomon Son of Lieut. David & Mrs. Mary Burt Who was suddenly Kill'd by the Blowing up of a Powder-Mill May 7th 1777 In His 19th Year.
Here is a Voice Directed here' To Old and Young & all, That they be Ready to appear, When ever GOD shall Call.
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Red sandstone grave marker
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Bill of Sale for Caesar Phelps
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Single page manuscript documenting the sale of Caesar Phelps to Charles Phelps, Jr.
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Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum
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March 1770
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N/A (Box 4, Folder 15)
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<p>The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum is a unique historical resource in Hadley, Massachusetts. Its significance goes beyond the well-preserved eighteenth century architecture of the house itself: the house was continuously occupied by a single family from its construction in 1752 until the death of Dr. James Lincoln Huntington, the museum’s founder. The house contains the family’s belongings accumulated and preserved over 300 years. The family also left a rich collection of personal letters, diaries and account books, photographs and other material. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers are now housed at Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. The house was the heart of the large farmstead known as "Forty Acres" that included over 600 acres stretching from the banks of the Connecticut River to the top of Mount Warner, in North Hadley. Today, the house is surrounded by over 350 acres of protected farmland land, forest, and river frontage retaining its original rural setting. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is located on the National Tri-State Connecticut River Scenic Farm Byway.</p>
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<p>The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum<br />130 River Drive<br />Hadley, MA 01035<br /><br />Phone: (413) 584-4699<br />Website: <a href="https://www.pphmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit the Museum's website</a><br />Email: <a href="mailto:pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com">pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com</a></p>
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Within the collection of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum in Hadley, Massachusetts, is a letter from a soldier stationed at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, in 1776. The letter, written by a man named Caesar Phelps, is quite brief. Nevertheless, it recounts the Revolution from a very important and often underrepresented point of view.<br /><br />After its famous capture by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in 1775, the Americans put a great deal of effort into upgrading Ticonderoga’s defenses throughout the following year; Caesar was likely engaged in this work during his time there. The fort represented a strategic prize, and the Americans were determined not to lose it. Despite their efforts, the British managed to capture Ticonderoga without firing a shot in July of 1777, and held it until fighting subsided in the area following the surrender of General John Burgoyne’s army at Saratoga later that fall. Caesar Phelps’ voice is remarkable among the troops at Ticonderoga for the fact that he was enslaved. The only known record of Caesar’s time at the fort is brief— consisting of this single letter.<br />
<p>Prior to arriving at Fort Ticonderoga, Caesar lived and worked at a vast estate known as Forty Acres in Hadley, Massachusetts. His enslaver, Charles Phelps, Jr, was a man of high status in the community, and had him sent to fight in his place. It was common for white men, when called up to serve in the army, to send their enslaved servants as a substitute. Though they would receive the same wages as their white counterparts, they were required to give half or more to their owner. Caesar wrote to Charles in September of 1776, complaining that he had not received his wages. While lack of pay was frequently an issue for American soldiers during the Revolution, Caesar’s poignant letter reveals the complicated and precarious nature of his life as an enslaved person. He strives for some control over his living situation and meager personal possessions even as he acknowledges his status and that Charles has the power to sell him at any time.</p>
The “stock and buckel” Caesar requests in his letter would have been his neck stock and buckle, a clasp that held a tightly wrapped piece of fabric around the neck. They would have been some or all of the possessions he would have been able to own. Enslaved persons were able to purchase small items like this, usually with the exchange of labor.<br /><br />Though the letter is signed “Sezor,” it is unknown whether or not he penned it himself, or dictated it to a fellow literate soldier. Regardless, it is his voice. Unfortunately, known historical records of Caesar end with this letter. Whether he died at Ticonderoga, returned to Forty Acres to find that he had been sold, or gained his freedom, we do not know. Today, Forty Acres has been preserved as the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum in Hadley. Caesar’s letter is a small, but important part of its vast collection— one that serves as a rare voice for those who were so often voiceless during this time period. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.pphmuseum.org/slavery-and-servitude-at-forty-acres-blog/2018/6/27/caesar-phelps" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click this link to the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum website</a> to find more about Caesar and his life at Forty Acres.
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Camp Ft Ticonderoga Sept the 30th 1776
Sir I take this opportunity to Enform you that I dont Entend to Live with Capt Cranston if I can helpit and I Would Be glad if you Would Send me a letter that I may git my Wagers for I have not got any of my Wagers and I Want to know how all the Folks Do at home and I desire yor Prayers for me While in the Sarves and if you Determin to Sel me I Want you Shud Send me my Stock and Buckel. So no more at Present But I remain your Ever Faithful Slave
Sezor Phelps
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Letter from Caesar Phelps to Charles Phelps, Jr
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Single page manuscript written by Caesar Phelps to his enslaver Charles Phelps, Jr
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September 30, 1776
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The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers on deposit at Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. Box 4, Folder 12
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Hatfield Historical Society
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<p><span>The Hatfield Historical Society (HHS) manages the museum collections of the Town of Hatfield, including the Hatfield Historical Museum and the Mary Lou & Robert J. Cutter Hatfield Farm Museum. The mission of HHS is to promote an understanding of the history of Hatfield, by collecting, preserving, interpreting and sharing that history and its relationship to the region.</span></p>
<p>The Hatfield Historical Museum, owned by the Town of Hatfield, is located at 39 Main St., Hatfield. Its collection consists of some 24,000 items.</p>
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Sometime in the period leading up to the Revolution, someone was strolling along the bank of the Connecticut River in Hatfield, MA. He might have been a stylish dresser, given the fancy engraving of this coat button, sometimes called a “dandy” button in the English fashions of the era. Colonists had deep connections to England, especially for trade goods and manufactured items, and continued to prefer and use British fashions like this button. It’s about the size of a quarter, and most likely not from a military uniform, as those often were either plain or had military-themed patterns. Not everyone in the Revolutionary era was involved in the war, and many of the men who did fight wore a combination of military issued uniforms and their own civilian clothing. Without the rest of the outfit, there’s no way to know if his overcoat was the red of the British Regulars, or Continental Line blue, or something else besides.
This button was cast in a mold, then spun on a lathe to dish out the back very slightly before soldering on the copper loop for the shank. The surface is carved or stamped with a stronger metal to scrape away the dark surface and reveal a brighter metal design. That it had a shank tells us the garment was a thicker fabric, likely layers of linen or wool. Clothing of the era had many buttons, some of them purely decorative. Did the owner even notice he’d lost it? Probably not right away, or he would have picked it up again!
Like all other parts of clothing production, buttons were often saved and repurposed for later use, worn up until they wore out. The wire shank on this one has broken, so it could have come loose by either the thread breaking or the shank giving way, leaving us to wonder what became of the rest of the set, and the man who wore them.
Discovered and donated by Robert Osley, 2020
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A Dandy of a Button
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White metal, 1" diameter
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Fife detail
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Historical Society of Greenfield
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<p>The Historical Society of Greenfield, Massachusetts, is a non-profit historical and educational resource institution maintaining and communicating the diverse history of Greenfield by promoting its archival collections, exhibitions of cultural artifacts, documents, publications, educational resources and programs accessible and targeted to area residents, the wider public and students of all ages.</p>
<p>We're located at: 43 Church St,<br />Greenfield, Massachusetts<br />413-774-3663 (please leave a message)</p>
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<p>Daniel Severance was about 25 years old, dark-complected, light-eyed, and working as a blacksmith in what is now Washington, New Hampshire when the talk of revolution began. He enlisted as a private in Captain Ezra Towne's Company, Colonel James Read's Regiment on April 23, 1775. Less than 2 months later, he fought with his regiment at the pivotal Battle of Bunker Hill. In September of 1776, Daniel reenlisted as a private in Captain Abijah Smith's Company, part of Colonel Loammi Baldwin's 26<sup>th</sup> Massachusetts Continental regiment.</p>
<p>We know this was Daniel’s fife, but as there is no concrete record of him serving as a fifer, many questions remain. The military companies that made up the larger militia and continental army regiments during the Revolution included at least one fifer and one drummer. The owner of this fife had to master all the musical calls that told the members of his company when to get up, where to muster and when to go to bed, as well as providing the music on the march that helped the company keep the cadence and hopefully lift the army’s spirits. In battle, fifers and drummers used special tunes and drum beats to cut through the din of battle and communicate officers’ orders, including when to advance or retreat. Did Daniel ever learn or play these special tunes? How did this fife come into his care? What else might he have played?</p>
<p>Before the Revolution, music was already an important part of the colonial social experience. Although the early Puritans of the 1620s were less inclined to song, by 1776 there were not only the everyday lullabies and work songs and tavern anthems, but sacred hymns and public concerts as well. In 1770, William Billings, of Boston, printed The New-England Psalm-Singer, the first book of music written in colonial America, with a frontispiece engraving by Paul Revere. A few pieces were new words written to familiar tunes, but most were entirely new, like <em>Chester</em>, which was extremely popular in the 1770s, and started off boldly, thus:</p>
<blockquote>Let tyrants Shake their Iron rod<br />And slav'ry Clank her galling Chains<br />we fear them not we trust in god<br />New englands god for ever reigns.<br />(Billings, New-England Psalm-Signer)</blockquote>
<p>This was everyday music, the type anyone could play or sing, in a type of book anyone could buy. The type Daniel could have picked up during his time in Boston.</p>
<p>After the war, Daniel bought land in New Hampshire, married Betsy Safford, and raised two sons, Benjamin and Jeremiah. The fife went to his oldest son, who passed it to his son Ben Jr, who passed it to his son, B. F. Severance, who donated it to the Historical Society of Greenfield in 1910. What tunes might this little wooden fife played all those long years!</p>
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<p>The Historical Society of Greenfield, Massachusetts, is a non-profit historical and educational resource institution maintaining and communicating the diverse history of Greenfield by promoting its archival collections, exhibitions of cultural artifacts, documents, publications, educational resources and programs accessible and targeted to area residents, the wider public and students of all ages.</p>
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<p>Prudence Hastings was 22, and 6 months pregnant when she and Ebenezer Graves were married on January 1st 1753. Eben wrote on the back of the title page of his Bible “bought in the 28th year of his age, which is the year 1753. Price 6 pound ten shillings." As their oldest son, also Ebenezer, was born in March 1753, it is highly likely that the Bible was bought in preparation for raising the family they anticipated. Their second son, Daniel Graves, was born in 1754. 10 more children followed, all recorded on the blank page between the Old and New Testaments.</p>
<p>The Bible's expense was a major investment in the family's future, equaling $1,930 in 2020 dollars. Having a Bible in the home would help the children learn to read, teach them the ethical and religious position of their parents, and bind the family together through daily prayers and reading aloud. The Holy Bible was the most commonly owned book in colonial America, with annual agricultural almanacs a close second. The Protestant emphasis on the Bible in liturgy, instruction and meditation played a major role in the high literacy levels that characterized early New England.</p>
<p>1753 was also the year Greenfield became a separate town from Deerfield. Eben and Prudence Graves were part of the excitement of forming a new township while they were raising a young family, and were part of America becoming a new country as well. The three oldest Graves brothers were eager to do their part to help bring about the birth of the new nation:</p>
<p>Daniel joined the fight first, and died in January 1776, in the very beginning of the war, but his service record is missing.</p>
<p>Job enlisted next. He started as a Private in Captain John Williams’ company in Colonel Timothy Robinson’s detachment of the Hampshire militia in December of 1776, fought with his unit at Ticonderoga, and served in several different units throughout 1777 and 1779, for a total of 209 days.</p>
<p>Eben Jr, the oldest child of Eben and Prudence, enlisted in February, 1777. He was a Private in Captain Timothy Child’s company in Colonel David Leonard’s regiment at Ticonderoga and in Colonel David Field’s regiment at Bennington, for a total of 1 month and 21 days in 1777.</p>
<p>The process of independence was not without great hardship and many losses, and the Bible would have been a comfort to the Graves family, even through the deaths of their children: Eben and Prudence lost two-year-old Moses in 1760, and Daniel, their second son, died in 1776 as a revolutionary in the very beginning of Revolutionary War, at age 22. Soldiers traveling through town were often sick, with smallpox and dysentery and other illness, and in 1777, 50 people out of 900 inhabitants of Greenfield died in an outbreak credited to sick soldiers, including Electa (age 2) on the 1st of August and Solomon (age 8) on the 23rd of September.</p>
<p>Imagine Eben and Prudence Graves in the summer of 1777, having lost one son to the war and worrying about two others currently away fighting, seeing young soldiers like their own sons come through town ill, and their baby daughter sickens and dies. This was part of the terrible price of what was, in many ways, a civil war playing out on the home front. Perhaps this Bible gave them some comfort.</p>
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<span><span><strong>Page facing Bible’s title page:</strong><br /><br /></span></span>
<div>Ebenr Graves junr Born March ye 19 1753<br />Daniel Graves 2nd Boar November ye 23 1754<br />Job Graves Born December ye 26 1756<br />Moses Graves Born September 17th 1758<br />Moses Graves Dissest February ye 8 1760<br />Mother Graves Dissest April ye 21 1760<br />Brother Joel Graves Dissest April ye 16 1760 <br />Thankful Graves Born August ye 8 1760<br />Father Graves Dissest August ye 23 1756<br />Brother Daniel Graves Dissest September ye 8 1755 <br />Moses Graves Born September ye 29 1762<br />Joel Graves Born October ye 10th 1764<br />Elihu Graves Born June ye 16th 1766<br />Solomon Graves Born May ye 10th 1768<br />Rufus Graves Born June ye 27th 1770</div>
<div>Prudence Graves Born September 29th 1772</div>
<div>Lecta Graves Born August 4th 1775</div>
<div>Daniel Graves Dissest January 18th 1776</div>
<div>Lecta Graves Dissest August 1 1777</div>
<div>Solomon Graves Dissest September 23 1777</div>
<div>Prudance Graves consort of Ebenr Graves Dissest October 19 1804 in the 74 year of her age<br />Ebenzer Graves Dissest April 26 1814 Age 88 years and one month [written in a different hand]<br /><br /><strong>Flyleaf:</strong><br /><br /><span>Ebenr Graves His Bible bought in the 28th year of his age, which is in the year 1753, Price 6 pound ten shillings</span><br /><span>Ebenr Graves junr Born March ye 19 1753</span><br /><span>Daniel Graves Born November ye 23th 1754</span></div>
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<span>Historic Northampton focuses on local history and the local community. We preserve objects and documents that illuminate the lives of past residents while creating structures through which contemporary residents can preserve</span><span> and celebrate their own histories in ways that honor both tradition and change.</span><br /><br />46 Bridge Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060 <a href="https://www.historicnorthampton.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.historicnorthampton.org</a>, info@historicnorthampton.org, 413-584-6011
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<p>Being the child of a prominent loyalist during the American Revolution was a challenge. Growing up in Northampton, Anna Stoddard experienced childhood during a time when crown-appointed officials such as her father were “not only deposed, but denounced” by the general populace.</p>
<p>Anna was 12 or 13 years old when she made this sampler dated 1782. Born on March 24, 1769 to Solomon Stoddard (1736-1827) and his first wife Martha Partridge (1739-1772), Anna was born into a family that for just over a century held various religious, political or military appointments governing Hampshire County. In 1774, her father was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire County, the very year when this authority could no longer match the collective will of the governed.</p>
<p>Solomon Stoddard’s appointment came at a time when the governor and the crown attempted to implement the Massachusetts Governance Act. This act made changes to town and county government that curtailed the rights of citizens. Among its provisions, it allowed the governor to appoint county sheriffs, without the consent of the council, to serve at his will. The citizens of Hampshire County directly challenged this act. In August 1774, grassroots activists gathered to close the court in Springfield and asked Stoddard to sign a document promising to never hold office under this act. In February 1775, citizens surrounded his house on Prospect Street and brought him to trial in Hadley. In 1776, he was jailed overnight in Northampton and later asked to sign an affidavit of “pledging to report all conspiracies or other movements inimical to the cause of liberty.”</p>
<p>Solomon Stoddard apparently maintained his loyalty to the crown. And in 1782 - the same year the sampler was made - a large gambrel-roof house for the Stoddard family was built, fronting the smaller circa 1730 house that had been surrounded by citizen activists.</p>
<p>Anna’s brother, Solomon Stoddard, born in 1771, would describe his childhood during the war in an 1837 recollections as follows:</p>
<blockquote><em>I was born, as you all know, in 1771, and of course was a boy in troubled times. My mother died when I was twenty months old; so that figuratively speaking, I had no Mother. Here was a deprivation which you never experienced. A mother, if intelligent, judicious & affectionate, is every thing among children. Without some details, you would have a very imperfect idea of the difficulties which the youth of that day, & especially the sons of the Tories, had to encounter. The war of the revolution, altho’ of a national character, was, nevertheless, as respected many of its immediate evils, more like a civil war. After the Declaration of Independence, those holding offices under the old Dynasty, were not only deposed, but denounced. A new race came forward, under the name of whigs, led on generally by violent, and frequently unprincipled men. Contributions for the public service were levied by Town Committees; and if the Tories questioned at all the amount, or called for the law under which they acted, a mob was at hand to silence complaint by violent measures, as the exigency, in their opinion, might require. These outrages were experienced by my Father at different times (in common with others who had been deposed) from these mobs; sometimes to gratify party feelings, and at others to show their zeal in the cause of Liberty. These things were going forward occasionally from 1776 to 1783. For most of the time between these dates, we were without law and without Courts, and every effort was making to prejudice the community against those men who were previously in Office, and who had too much conscience to violate the Oath of Allegiance, by which they were bound. Of these, my Father was one, being High Sheriff under the King. At such a time, and under such circumstance, little attention was paid to education. Even Yale College was broken up for a considerable period-our Town Schools were nothing, and the sons of Tories, owing to the prejudices alluded to, were practically excluded from their benefit, if any benefit was derivable. Of course I had no schooling in early life, except that one summer, when eight or nine years old, I attended a girl’s school kept by Mrs. Henshaw, at the house where she now lives. This school I could hardly attend without being insulted in the street as the son of a Tory. You might suppose that I enjoyed good advantages at home, but it was not so. Without a mother, as I before observed, and my Father, otherwise occupied & frequently in a state of agitation, was not favorably situated to instruct his children…. The first ten or eleven years of my life I spent at home, almost wholly excluded from the company of boys of my age, and groping my way under the circumstances I have stated.</em></blockquote>
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Did you know that soldiers received travel reimbursement based on how far they marched from home? This document lists how much was paid to thirty-seven soldiers who served the Continental Army for the month of July 1778. They served in Albany, New York, and then marched back to their homes in western Massachusetts. These men, who were members of their local militias in western Massachusetts, were temporarily attached to General Timothy Danielson’s Brigade (he was from Deerfield) to do a special service for the Continental Army in Albany.
In this detachment, there were seven officers and thirty privates. Daniel Pomeroy, the captain, was paid six times as much as the privates, (12 pounds to 2 pounds), and the lieutenant was paid four times as much as the privates (8 pounds to 2 pounds). At this time, the Americans used the British currency system of pounds-shillings-pence. There were twelve pence in a shilling, and twenty shillings in a pound. A pound contained 240 pence. During the War, inflation was high and rising, so the soldiers’ pay may not have amounted to as much as they had hoped.
Everyone was paid a penny per mile for their march home. By looking down the list you can see that several of the men marched the same distance, so they must have come from the same towns. The closest to Albany was sixty miles and the furthest was 115 miles. It is a puzzle to figure out which town was sixty-six miles east of Albany, which one was one hundred miles, and if these are names of men who lived in these towns.
We know that the captain, Daniel Pomeroy, was from Northampton so all the men who marched eighty miles must also have come from Northampton. He stayed on to serve until October 31, 1778. Before and after the war, Daniel Pomeroy ran a tavern, called the “red tavern” on Northampton’s Main Street. He was the fourth generation of Pomeroys to live on Main Street and own a tavern.
This payroll shows that many men participated in the American Revolution, even if they were part of a local militia and even if they served for only a short time. July would have been an okay time to leave their farms for a month. Their crops were already growing in the fields. The soldiers would be home in August in time to harvest them. While they were gone, their wives and children worked the farm.
Every company had a clerk whose job it was to keep detailed records, like this payroll. He used his good math skills to add up the long column of figures, and then he copied the record several times so that everyone in charge had a copy.
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<td>A Pay Roll of Capt. Daniel Pomeroy Company Being A Detachment from Genll Danielson Brigade in The Continental Service for the Month of July 1778</td>
<td>A Mileage Account For Each man in this Pay Roll Sett opposite Their names from Their Respective homes To Albany</td>
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<td>Mens Names</td>
<td>Rank</td>
<td>Time Entered</td>
<td>Time Service to</td>
<td>Amount For Month</td>
<td>Remarks</td>
<td>Whole Amount Lawfull Money</td>
<td>Number of Miles Marched</td>
<td>The Whole Amount At one Penny Per Mile</td>
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<td>Daniel Pomeroy</td>
<td>Capt</td>
<td>July 1st</td>
<td>August 1<sup>st</sup></td>
<td>12-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>£12-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td>Ezekiel Foster</td>
<td>Leut</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>8-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>8-0-0</td>
<td>115</td>
<td>0-9-7</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Eliphaz Wright</td>
<td>Sergt</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>3-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>3-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Martin Severance</td>
<td>Sergt</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>3-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>3-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Jonathan Pomeroy</td>
<td>Corpl</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-4-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-4-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
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<td>William Turner</td>
<td>Corpl</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-4-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-4-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Samuel Turner</td>
<td>Corpl</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-4-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-4-0</td>
<td>115</td>
<td>0-9-7</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Nathan Strong</td>
<td>Private</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Eleazer Root</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Moses Hendrick</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Moses Danks</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>David Wood</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>David Frisby</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Enoch Beats</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Jesse Woolcot</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
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<td>John Fobes</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td>Simeon Higgins</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Samuel Hamilton</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td>Ezekiel Thomas</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0-5-6</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>David Ingram</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Benjn Parker</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0-6-8</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jonas Leonard</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>0-5-0</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Howard</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>0-5-0</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Daniel Morse 3rd</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>0-5-0</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joseph Allen</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>0-5-3</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gideon Howard</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>0-5-3</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jonathan Taylor</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>0-5-3</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thomas Ford</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>0-8-4</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Moses Smith</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>0-8- 4</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jonathan Lions</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>0-8-4</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Francis Gooding</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>0-8-4</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Oldin</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>0-8-4</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Gant</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>115</td>
<td>0-9-7</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thomas Wallis</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>0-8-4</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rubin Casmorhugh??</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eli Gold</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eldad Corbit</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>Do</td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>2-0-0</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>0-7-6</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>92-12-0</td>
<td></td>
<td>12-13-10</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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Title
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Captain Daniel Pomeroy's Payroll
Subject
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soldiers, money
Description
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document, approximately 14 3/4" (37.6 cm) x 9 5/8" (24.6 cm)
Date
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July, 1778
Contributor
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Historic Northampton
Type
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Manuscript
Identifier
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A.R.W.17.9
march
money
soldier
-
https://revolutionhappenedhere.org/files/original/c7a05b992106bb4257382f76a2388c6e.JPG
68e2589f964e572266d4e242d6916f61
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Revolution Happened Here
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Story
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Engraved natural boulder marking the route of part of the "Convention Army" - so called - who surrendered to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga. The boulder is located at Hessian Lane and Elm Street, in New Salem, Massachusetts.
The prisoners from the Battle of Saratoga (N.Y.) were divided into three groups and escorted by local militia troops (mostly) to imprisonment in Boston. The groups were created so one large group passing through an area would not strip their route in passing of food and other resources. The group that passed by the route commemorated with this marker had taken the “northern route.”
The inscription reads:
Oct 25th 1777
1000 Hessians who surrendered
at Saratoga Passed Here
Date Sort
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1777-10-25
Text
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Oct 25th 1777
1000 Hessians who surrendered
at Saratoga Passed Here
Dublin Core
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Title
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Hessian Rock
Contributor
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Dennis Picard, Pioneer Valley History Network
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
October 25, 1777
Description
An account of the resource
Boulder marker
Subject
The topic of the resource
Experience of minorities
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Place or Site
Hessian
march
memorial
minorities