Stories from Lynnfield with Alan Foulds

As word spread of the British march to Lexington and Concord,  communities from all over Massachusetts and greater New England responded.  Historian Alan Foulds tells us about the Lynn End (now Lynnfield) militia, who were warned by medical student Martin Herrick, and their march to Menotomy, where they fought the British at the Jason Russell House.  The Lynnfield Historical Society has told these stories in a series of videos, and will re-enact these events, and will put on a play, "Shadows of 1775," in which the men and women in the town of 1775 will tell their stories to their townsfolk and visitors today.  

Transcript

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 Hello, everyone.
 
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 Welcome to the Revolution
 
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 Two-Fifty podcast.
 
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 I am Bob Allison,
 
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 professor of history at
 
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 Suffolk University, also chair of Rev.
 
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 Two-Fifty's advisory group.
 
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 We are a consortium of about
 
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 seventy-five organizations
 
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 in Massachusetts planning
 
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 commemorations of American independence.
 
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 and our guest today is alan
 
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 folds and alan folds is uh
 
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 wears many many hats he's
 
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 the uh has been the
 
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 moderate rep are you still
 
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 the reading town moderator
 
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 I am yes yes yeah wow wow
 
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 but he is also here with us
 
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 today as the member of the
 
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 linfield historical society
 
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 and helping head up that
 
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 group's revolution two
 
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 fifty plans and author of
 
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 many books but we'll focus
 
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 today on linfield
 
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 Actually,
 
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 you did write a history of Linfield,
 
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 Linfield two centuries.
 
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 So I guess you are the
 
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 historian of Linfield.
 
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 Well, one of a few, yes.
 
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 And so Linfield is doing
 
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 some exciting things to
 
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 commemorate its role,
 
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 the people of what then was
 
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 Linfield's role in the
 
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 American Revolution.
 
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 So you have some stuff
 
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 happening actually on
 
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 Patriot's Day weekend.
 
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 We do, yeah.
 
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 Just to explain,
 
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 I know I talked to Jonathan earlier.
 
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 Lynn End was what Winfield
 
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 was called back in
 
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 seventeen seventy five.
 
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 It was actually part of the
 
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 town of Lynn at the time.
 
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 It was the second precinct or parish,
 
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 but it really was almost an
 
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 independent place from the start.
 
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 It built a meeting house in
 
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 seventeen fourteen.
 
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 So there's a lot of local
 
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 heritage and with its own
 
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 militia company.
 
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 There's a lot of history there.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 About how many people lived
 
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 there at the time of the revolution?
 
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 We have been told probably a
 
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 hundred years ago,
 
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 one historian said there
 
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 were roughly twenty five
 
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 houses at the time.
 
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 But there were thirty eight
 
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 people in the in the militia company.
 
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 So I guess there were a lot
 
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 of people in each household.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 OK.
 
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 So they have a militia company.
 
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 And then what are they up to
 
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 in early seventeen seventy six?
 
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 Well, actually,
 
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 if you even go back a little bit farther,
 
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 they started having, well,
 
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 the regular moderator for
 
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 Lynn's town meeting
 
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 happened to come from Linfield.
 
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 So he had a lot of sway in
 
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 the town meetings.
 
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 They began back in as early
 
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 as seventeen sixty eight,
 
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 making motions supporting
 
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 Boston when the T was
 
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 closed or when the
 
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 quartering act went in.
 
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 So they were doing a lot.
 
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 And then locally in Lynn Inn, Linfield,
 
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 they were having village
 
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 meetings as well in support of the cause.
 
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 I think it was very,
 
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 very a patriot town at the time,
 
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 patriot village.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 So was Lynn also what now is what then was,
 
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 you know, the main part of Lynn,
 
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 was that also a patriot place?
 
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 Yes.
 
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 The town of Lynn at the time
 
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 was made up of Lynn, Saugus,
 
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 Swamps Getting Hot, and Linfield.
 
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 And the downtown Lynn area,
 
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 which is today still Lynn,
 
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 had two militia companies,
 
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 plus the Minute Company was
 
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 based there as well.
 
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 And then Saugus had its own company,
 
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 and Linfield had its own company.
 
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 So like I said,
 
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 the town of Lynn had two
 
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 plus the Minute Company.
 
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 So I think they were pretty
 
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 patriot-sided as well.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 And then Saugus and the Hunt
 
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 also had militia companies.
 
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 The Hunt did not.
 
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 I don't think anybody really
 
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 lived out there at the time,
 
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 at least not many.
 
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 But Saugus did.
 
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 Saugus actually had what was
 
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 called the first company of Lent.
 
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 And they were actually much
 
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 larger than Lentfield's.
 
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 Lentfield was the smallest
 
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 of the five in Lent.
 
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 So, you know, they had a militia company.
 
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 And then what did they do on April XIXth?
 
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 well they they were right
 
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 there in the thick of it
 
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 they had to back up a
 
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 little bit they were also
 
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 involved up in leslie's
 
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 retreat in february they
 
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 didn't well I say they were
 
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 involved they marched and
 
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 when they got there
 
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 everything was over so they
 
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 just turned around and went
 
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 home but they did lose a
 
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 guy that was actually
 
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 joseph newhall got
 
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 violently ill and then died
 
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 the local company always
 
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 called him the first the
 
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 first casualty of the world
 
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 but it was actually do we
 
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 know why he was ill
 
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 They said he caught a cold.
 
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 I'm suspecting it was
 
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 probably pneumonia or something.
 
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 Yeah,
 
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 it's February and they're marching
 
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 around up to Salem.
 
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 But then on April eighteenth
 
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 or eighteenth and nineteenth,
 
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 they were heavily involved.
 
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 One of the local heroes is
 
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 named Martin Herrick.
 
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 He actually lived in what is
 
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 today North Reading at the time.
 
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 But right on the Winfield
 
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 North Reading line,
 
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 he was the one who had ridden up.
 
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 He met Paul Revere in Medford when
 
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 Paul Revere came through.
 
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 He stopped at Captain Isaac Hall's house,
 
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 the captain of the Medford militia.
 
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 He lived right next door to Simon Tufts,
 
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 who was a teaching doctor.
 
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 Mark Herrick was there as a
 
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 student of Simon Tufts.
 
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 He and another guy named
 
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 John Sprague were both there at the time.
 
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 Sprague presumably went up to Malden,
 
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 and then Herrick headed off
 
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 to Reading and then to Linfield and End.
 
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 and so they but they were
 
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 ready for it they knew
 
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 something was happening
 
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 because okay so just back
 
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 up alan so revere stops at
 
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 this in this house in
 
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 medford right um because he
 
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 knows why why does he stop
 
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 there well he apparently
 
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 knew the captain because in
 
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 his own um one of his three
 
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 accounts he mentioned
 
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 stopping at the medford
 
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 captain's house okay then
 
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 he said I alarmed every
 
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 house after that from here
 
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 to lexington so he must have known uh
 
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 Paul personally,
 
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 or at least knew where he was.
 
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 And then Tufts was right next door.
 
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 And then Herrick rode north.
 
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 We're guessing he went from
 
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 there to Stoneham because
 
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 the Stoneham captain, Samuel Sprague,
 
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 was only about a quarter of
 
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 a mile north of Tufts.
 
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 And it was the direct route
 
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 to Reading and Linfield.
 
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 And all Samuel Sprague says is,
 
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 a rider came up from Medford,
 
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 knocked on my door.
 
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 We're assuming it's him.
 
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 And then he...
 
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 So again,
 
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 one of the great myths we have is
 
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 Paul Revere riding along yelling,
 
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 but actually we know he
 
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 actually knows where he is
 
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 going and he knows whose
 
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 house is to where to wake
 
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 up someone who's then going
 
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 to get this word out.
 
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 Exactly.
 
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 In fact, even to go back further,
 
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 obviously it was more
 
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 complicated or more
 
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 sophisticated than we think.
 
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 Because even back in Leslie's retreat,
 
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 the Lynn End Group got word
 
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 to march to Salem.
 
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 And we don't know anything
 
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 about who came then.
 
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 At least we've never found it yet.
 
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 But obviously,
 
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 the word was going out into
 
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 the countryside.
 
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 In fact,
 
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 they met the Redding Group on
 
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 their way back and told them,
 
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 it's too late.
 
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 Go home.
 
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 Wow.
 
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 Wow.
 
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 The Redding had heard about it as well.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 A little later.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 I mean, I don't want us to keep backing up,
 
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 but Linfield also had its
 
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 own version of a tea party.
 
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 That's right.
 
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 It was actually in Lin, but it was,
 
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 like I said,
 
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 Linfield was very much involved in it.
 
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 It was a few days after the
 
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 Boston tea party.
 
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 In fact, again, to back up,
 
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 on the night of December sixteenth,
 
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 the actual tea party,
 
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 the Lin town meeting met to
 
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 discuss this whole thing
 
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 and that they were opposed
 
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 to the landing of any tea.
 
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 not realizing that the Sons
 
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 of Liberty were kind of
 
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 busy at that same moment.
 
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 But four or five days later,
 
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 the women of Lynn marched
 
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 into the bake shop of James Bowler.
 
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 He was also a tea vendor.
 
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 And they demanded that he
 
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 stop selling any of the tea
 
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 that was imported.
 
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 And he refused.
 
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 So these women just went in,
 
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 stormed the place,
 
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 ripped all the tea off the shelves,
 
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 went out in the street and
 
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 dumped it into the street.
 
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 They didn't touch anything else,
 
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 just the tea.
 
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 So does anything happen or
 
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 are there any repercussions
 
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 for these women or for Mr. Bowler?
 
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 Nope.
 
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 That's why I suspect that it
 
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 was a very patriot side of town because,
 
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 no, everybody thought it was great.
 
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 Wow.
 
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 Does he stay in town then?
 
 00:08:04.985 --> 00:08:06.045
 He sort of disappears from
 
 00:08:06.105 --> 00:08:07.026
 history after that.
 
 00:08:07.425 --> 00:08:08.505
 I suspect he may not have
 
 00:08:08.526 --> 00:08:09.745
 been around much longer.
 
 00:08:09.766 --> 00:08:10.927
 That's interesting.
 
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 So we're talking with Alan Foulds,
 
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 historian and a member of
 
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 the Linfield Historical Society,
 
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 which is planning events to
 
 00:08:18.867 --> 00:08:19.908
 commemorate the role of
 
 00:08:19.968 --> 00:08:22.129
 Linfield in the events of the Revolution.
 
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 And so you have then the militia,
 
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 Martin Herrick's arrived
 
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 with his message.
 
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 And so then what happens with the militia?
 
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 Well,
 
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 Martin Herrick rode up to Gowling's
 
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 Tavern,
 
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 which was sort of the heart and
 
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 soul of the village.
 
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 It's where everybody congregated.
 
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 And it was the official
 
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 meeting place of the militia.
 
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 In fact,
 
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 Gowling was initially elected as
 
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 captain when they formed
 
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 the company back in November.
 
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 But almost immediately
 
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 relinquished it to Nathaniel Bancroft,
 
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 who was kind of a statesman in town.
 
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 He had been involved in everything.
 
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 And Gowling stepped back to
 
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 be first lieutenant.
 
 00:09:00.182 --> 00:09:01.162
 But Gowling's tavern was
 
 00:09:01.201 --> 00:09:03.043
 still the meeting house, meeting place,
 
 00:09:03.082 --> 00:09:03.503
 excuse me.
 
 00:09:04.123 --> 00:09:05.644
 So they met there.
 
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 Benjamin Adams, a sixteen-year-old,
 
 00:09:08.065 --> 00:09:09.405
 the youngest member of the company,
 
 00:09:09.566 --> 00:09:11.866
 was already there ready to
 
 00:09:12.126 --> 00:09:12.787
 beat the drums.
 
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 And according to legend,
 
 00:09:14.355 --> 00:09:15.615
 he beat it so loud it could
 
 00:09:15.635 --> 00:09:16.716
 be heard a mile away.
 
 00:09:17.517 --> 00:09:21.038
 We do know that when it was heard,
 
 00:09:21.538 --> 00:09:23.097
 they fired shots and so
 
 00:09:23.118 --> 00:09:24.719
 forth to pass the alarm on.
 
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 We know that a guy named Daniel Townsend,
 
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 who lived just about a mile away,
 
 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:31.100
 headed down there.
 
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 It was his next door neighbor.
 
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 um blanking on his name
 
 00:09:38.681 --> 00:09:39.380
 it'll come to me in a
 
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 second oh thomas hadley uh
 
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 also headed down and those
 
 00:09:43.863 --> 00:09:44.823
 two would not return they
 
 00:09:44.864 --> 00:09:47.225
 both were killed that well
 
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 and then there was a house
 
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 this is a little bit of a
 
 00:09:49.446 --> 00:09:51.746
 mystery a house maybe a
 
 00:09:51.826 --> 00:09:52.667
 quarter of a mile from
 
 00:09:52.726 --> 00:09:54.927
 there wellman house ten
 
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 people from that house
 
 00:09:56.269 --> 00:09:57.328
 marched down to the center
 
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 of town we don't know if
 
 00:09:58.690 --> 00:09:59.809
 they were they're waiting
 
 00:09:59.929 --> 00:10:01.291
 or whether they were all related
 
 00:10:02.251 --> 00:10:02.812
 Not sure.
 
 00:10:03.352 --> 00:10:04.553
 Interesting.
 
 00:10:05.394 --> 00:10:08.395
 Do any of these houses still stand, Alan?
 
 00:10:08.416 --> 00:10:09.096
 No.
 
 00:10:09.336 --> 00:10:10.496
 Daniel Townsend's house
 
 00:10:10.616 --> 00:10:13.859
 burned in the eighteen eighties sometime.
 
 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:15.980
 And then Gowling's Tavern
 
 00:10:16.020 --> 00:10:17.581
 burned in eighteen ninety six.
 
 00:10:18.101 --> 00:10:20.864
 Hadley's house was torn down
 
 00:10:21.384 --> 00:10:23.024
 sometime in the eighteen sixties.
 
 00:10:23.404 --> 00:10:24.765
 Another house was built on the site,
 
 00:10:24.885 --> 00:10:25.527
 which is still there.
 
 00:10:26.778 --> 00:10:28.539
 Um, the meeting, oh,
 
 00:10:28.620 --> 00:10:30.081
 and Captain Bancroft's house,
 
 00:10:30.140 --> 00:10:32.403
 unfortunately, we just lost in December.
 
 00:10:32.783 --> 00:10:34.464
 It was there until this past December.
 
 00:10:34.543 --> 00:10:35.644
 It was in pretty rough shape.
 
 00:10:36.065 --> 00:10:36.625
 Yeah.
 
 00:10:36.644 --> 00:10:37.966
 And then, but the meeting house,
 
 00:10:37.985 --> 00:10:38.706
 the seventeen fourteen,
 
 00:10:38.907 --> 00:10:40.268
 fourteen meeting house is still there.
 
 00:10:40.288 --> 00:10:40.567
 Oh, wow.
 
 00:10:40.587 --> 00:10:41.989
 Wow.
 
 00:10:42.028 --> 00:10:43.990
 So the legend is they marched,
 
 00:10:44.129 --> 00:10:45.311
 they all met at Gowling's
 
 00:10:45.331 --> 00:10:46.110
 Tavern and then they
 
 00:10:46.150 --> 00:10:47.371
 marched about an eighth of
 
 00:10:47.392 --> 00:10:48.572
 a mile to the meeting house
 
 00:10:48.633 --> 00:10:49.953
 where the gunpowder was stored.
 
 00:10:50.433 --> 00:10:51.453
 Okay.
 
 00:10:51.534 --> 00:10:52.174
 Interesting that they're
 
 00:10:52.195 --> 00:10:53.054
 storing the gunpowder in
 
 00:10:53.075 --> 00:10:53.716
 the meeting house.
 
 00:10:54.085 --> 00:10:54.304
 Right.
 
 00:10:54.404 --> 00:10:55.606
 Now, whether that's true or not,
 
 00:10:55.667 --> 00:10:56.427
 nobody really knows,
 
 00:10:56.467 --> 00:10:58.850
 but that's the legend that has come down.
 
 00:10:58.870 --> 00:10:59.910
 But I have heard of that,
 
 00:10:59.951 --> 00:11:01.352
 that that would be a place
 
 00:11:01.393 --> 00:11:02.173
 because that's the last
 
 00:11:02.212 --> 00:11:03.214
 place anyone would look.
 
 00:11:03.615 --> 00:11:04.235
 Right, right.
 
 00:11:04.336 --> 00:11:05.616
 Yeah, that's right.
 
 00:11:06.806 --> 00:11:08.826
 So, okay, so then they march off,
 
 00:11:09.027 --> 00:11:10.528
 but where are they heading to?
 
 00:11:10.607 --> 00:11:11.648
 They headed, well,
 
 00:11:12.048 --> 00:11:14.489
 they headed into what is today Wakefield.
 
 00:11:14.609 --> 00:11:16.429
 It was part of Reading at the time,
 
 00:11:16.470 --> 00:11:17.049
 South Reading.
 
 00:11:17.549 --> 00:11:18.510
 And then from there down
 
 00:11:18.551 --> 00:11:20.231
 through what is now Melrose.
 
 00:11:20.652 --> 00:11:21.611
 And then in Malden,
 
 00:11:21.971 --> 00:11:23.613
 they met up with the other
 
 00:11:23.852 --> 00:11:25.553
 four Lynn companies, the Saugusson,
 
 00:11:25.573 --> 00:11:26.594
 the three Lynn companies,
 
 00:11:27.313 --> 00:11:28.495
 and a Danvers company.
 
 00:11:28.754 --> 00:11:30.076
 And I think Danvers had a few companies,
 
 00:11:30.115 --> 00:11:31.035
 but they all kind of
 
 00:11:31.076 --> 00:11:32.076
 congregated there and were
 
 00:11:32.115 --> 00:11:32.976
 given instructions.
 
 00:11:33.216 --> 00:11:33.856
 That's all we know,
 
 00:11:34.096 --> 00:11:35.118
 who gave them the instructions,
 
 00:11:35.138 --> 00:11:35.677
 we don't know.
 
 00:11:36.217 --> 00:11:36.720
 But we were given
 
 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:37.802
 instructions that they
 
 00:11:37.822 --> 00:11:39.004
 should go to Monotony,
 
 00:11:39.024 --> 00:11:39.967
 the town of Arlington,
 
 00:11:40.227 --> 00:11:41.871
 where they would meet the
 
 00:11:42.173 --> 00:11:44.077
 British troops on the way back to Boston.
 
 00:11:45.181 --> 00:11:46.062
 So when they got there,
 
 00:11:46.761 --> 00:11:47.841
 as they were marching in,
 
 00:11:48.423 --> 00:11:50.024
 Captain Bancroft said to
 
 00:11:50.124 --> 00:11:52.884
 one of his privates, by the way, Bancroft,
 
 00:11:53.044 --> 00:11:53.745
 although he'd been a
 
 00:11:55.385 --> 00:11:57.667
 colonel or something in the
 
 00:11:57.986 --> 00:12:00.568
 King's regiments, had never seen combat.
 
 00:12:01.548 --> 00:12:02.809
 He turned to one of his privates,
 
 00:12:03.049 --> 00:12:04.711
 a guy named Zerubba Belharc,
 
 00:12:04.951 --> 00:12:06.951
 who had been in the French Navy boards,
 
 00:12:07.011 --> 00:12:07.371
 and said, well,
 
 00:12:07.392 --> 00:12:09.212
 are you afraid of going into battle?
 
 00:12:09.913 --> 00:12:11.653
 And his answer was, no,
 
 00:12:11.833 --> 00:12:13.534
 but watch for the flankers.
 
 00:12:14.914 --> 00:12:16.176
 unfortunately the that
 
 00:12:16.216 --> 00:12:17.155
 warning came a little too
 
 00:12:17.196 --> 00:12:20.217
 late look up and the main
 
 00:12:20.918 --> 00:12:21.859
 line was coming down the
 
 00:12:21.899 --> 00:12:22.818
 road and the flankers were
 
 00:12:22.859 --> 00:12:24.340
 surrounding them they were
 
 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:25.639
 at about the jason russell
 
 00:12:25.659 --> 00:12:27.860
 house at the time and the
 
 00:12:27.900 --> 00:12:29.481
 danvers group hid behind
 
 00:12:29.542 --> 00:12:30.982
 some um shingles that they
 
 00:12:31.003 --> 00:12:34.563
 piled up to use as a like a
 
 00:12:34.604 --> 00:12:36.404
 protection the uh
 
 00:12:36.644 --> 00:12:38.005
 bankrupt's company by the way
 
 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:40.780
 It was officially Lynn's Fifth Company,
 
 00:12:40.821 --> 00:12:42.600
 but every record refers to
 
 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:44.041
 it as Bancroft's Company,
 
 00:12:44.321 --> 00:12:45.601
 including the state records
 
 00:12:45.981 --> 00:12:47.282
 when they're paying the guy.
 
 00:12:47.621 --> 00:12:48.922
 But Bancroft's Company kind
 
 00:12:48.981 --> 00:12:50.503
 of dispersed throughout the area,
 
 00:12:50.523 --> 00:12:51.562
 hiding in different places
 
 00:12:51.582 --> 00:12:53.043
 or hiding behind rocks or the house.
 
 00:12:53.903 --> 00:12:54.783
 Two of the members,
 
 00:12:56.043 --> 00:12:58.384
 Daniel Townsend and a guy
 
 00:12:58.404 --> 00:12:59.465
 named Timothy Monroe,
 
 00:13:00.951 --> 00:13:02.251
 suddenly realized they were
 
 00:13:02.292 --> 00:13:03.192
 surrounded they were at the
 
 00:13:03.231 --> 00:13:04.692
 back of the house they ran
 
 00:13:04.773 --> 00:13:06.433
 it they ran into the jason
 
 00:13:06.474 --> 00:13:08.174
 russell house tried to go
 
 00:13:08.215 --> 00:13:09.715
 downstairs but the door was
 
 00:13:09.796 --> 00:13:10.816
 bolted I think there was
 
 00:13:10.995 --> 00:13:12.937
 there were other uh muslims
 
 00:13:12.976 --> 00:13:14.398
 down there yeah and the
 
 00:13:14.538 --> 00:13:16.058
 bullets were pouring in the
 
 00:13:16.119 --> 00:13:17.298
 back window the glass was
 
 00:13:17.339 --> 00:13:18.480
 flying everywhere they
 
 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:19.379
 thought they were trapped
 
 00:13:19.900 --> 00:13:21.922
 so they both jumped out a side window
 
 00:13:22.873 --> 00:13:23.734
 townsend was killed
 
 00:13:23.774 --> 00:13:25.794
 instantly monroe somehow
 
 00:13:25.835 --> 00:13:27.836
 survived he depending on
 
 00:13:28.196 --> 00:13:29.437
 what era he was telling you
 
 00:13:29.496 --> 00:13:31.457
 he either was his clothes
 
 00:13:31.477 --> 00:13:32.857
 had twelve bullet holes or
 
 00:13:32.898 --> 00:13:35.059
 twenty two bullet holes but
 
 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:36.460
 he did get away and he
 
 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:37.701
 lived to a ripe old age
 
 00:13:37.760 --> 00:13:39.961
 actually wow well and he
 
 00:13:40.042 --> 00:13:41.082
 goes back to linfield then
 
 00:13:41.143 --> 00:13:43.344
 and right well actually they then
 
 00:13:44.062 --> 00:13:46.984
 when they followed the troops to Boston,
 
 00:13:47.724 --> 00:13:48.504
 then came back.
 
 00:13:49.804 --> 00:13:50.926
 It's actually a story that
 
 00:13:51.025 --> 00:13:53.486
 he comforted a mortally
 
 00:13:53.527 --> 00:13:55.248
 wounded British soldier on the way back.
 
 00:13:55.268 --> 00:13:56.548
 It was just a guy laying
 
 00:13:56.568 --> 00:13:57.429
 there and asked for help.
 
 00:13:57.870 --> 00:14:00.051
 So he tried to stem the flow of the blood,
 
 00:14:00.091 --> 00:14:01.412
 but to no avail.
 
 00:14:01.792 --> 00:14:03.952
 But again, according to legend,
 
 00:14:04.974 --> 00:14:05.995
 the British soldier gave
 
 00:14:06.014 --> 00:14:08.395
 him a belt buckle and that
 
 00:14:08.456 --> 00:14:09.677
 passed down through the family.
 
 00:14:09.736 --> 00:14:10.756
 And unfortunately,
 
 00:14:10.777 --> 00:14:12.077
 we don't know where it is today.
 
 00:14:12.158 --> 00:14:12.258
 Wow.
 
 00:14:12.317 --> 00:14:12.498
 Yeah.
 
 00:14:14.445 --> 00:14:15.065
 That's interesting.
 
 00:14:15.184 --> 00:14:16.846
 But then they did go back to Linfield.
 
 00:14:17.426 --> 00:14:17.885
 Okay.
 
 00:14:17.926 --> 00:14:20.125
 But then does this fifth
 
 00:14:20.166 --> 00:14:21.447
 company or bankrupt company
 
 00:14:21.527 --> 00:14:23.586
 serve subsequently in the war?
 
 00:14:23.927 --> 00:14:25.648
 They never marched or fought
 
 00:14:25.687 --> 00:14:27.048
 together again.
 
 00:14:27.447 --> 00:14:28.808
 They were formed in November
 
 00:14:28.849 --> 00:14:29.769
 of seventy-four.
 
 00:14:29.889 --> 00:14:31.229
 They went to Salem in
 
 00:14:31.369 --> 00:14:32.609
 February of seventy-five
 
 00:14:32.668 --> 00:14:33.590
 and they marched in April
 
 00:14:33.649 --> 00:14:34.250
 and that was it.
 
 00:14:34.850 --> 00:14:36.870
 They pretty much went their separate ways.
 
 00:14:37.351 --> 00:14:38.493
 Some of them joined up with
 
 00:14:38.613 --> 00:14:39.312
 Colonel Pickering's
 
 00:14:39.373 --> 00:14:40.573
 regiment out of Salem.
 
 00:14:40.913 --> 00:14:42.014
 A couple of them joined up
 
 00:14:42.115 --> 00:14:42.796
 other companies.
 
 00:14:43.235 --> 00:14:43.635
 Some of them,
 
 00:14:43.937 --> 00:14:45.317
 some of the older ones particularly,
 
 00:14:45.398 --> 00:14:46.577
 just went back to their lives.
 
 00:14:46.958 --> 00:14:47.178
 In fact,
 
 00:14:47.739 --> 00:14:49.379
 Bancroft himself never saw any
 
 00:14:49.419 --> 00:14:49.961
 more action.
 
 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.282
 That was the only day he was
 
 00:14:51.322 --> 00:14:51.902
 involved in the war.
 
 00:14:51.922 --> 00:14:54.124
 Wow, interesting, interesting.
 
 00:14:54.144 --> 00:14:55.404
 So that was his one bit of
 
 00:14:55.445 --> 00:14:56.524
 military experience.
 
 00:14:56.765 --> 00:14:57.365
 Right, right.
 
 00:14:57.385 --> 00:14:57.525
 Well,
 
 00:14:58.126 --> 00:14:59.668
 technically he was in the military
 
 00:14:59.707 --> 00:15:01.249
 for years before, or in the militia,
 
 00:15:01.308 --> 00:15:01.589
 I should say.
 
 00:15:01.609 --> 00:15:02.870
 Right, yeah, but he had never actually...
 
 00:15:03.048 --> 00:15:05.461
 As far as battling, as far as combat goes,
 
 00:15:05.542 --> 00:15:06.525
 it was just that one day.
 
 00:15:07.048 --> 00:15:08.168
 Wow, wow, interesting.
 
 00:15:09.149 --> 00:15:10.450
 Now, you've been working on a play.
 
 00:15:10.470 --> 00:15:11.051
 Yes, we have.
 
 00:15:11.071 --> 00:15:12.510
 It'll be telling a lot of the story,
 
 00:15:12.530 --> 00:15:13.471
 Shadows of Seventeen,
 
 00:15:13.532 --> 00:15:14.951
 Shadows of Seventeen Seventy-Five.
 
 00:15:14.991 --> 00:15:16.572
 Can you tell us a bit about that project?
 
 00:15:16.592 --> 00:15:17.052
 I can, yeah.
 
 00:15:18.013 --> 00:15:21.394
 A lot of it came from actual documentation,
 
 00:15:21.414 --> 00:15:24.556
 state records or history books.
 
 00:15:25.076 --> 00:15:26.035
 Howard Kendall Sanderson
 
 00:15:26.076 --> 00:15:27.616
 wrote a great book back
 
 00:15:27.657 --> 00:15:29.878
 around nineteen-oh-seven, I think it was,
 
 00:15:29.898 --> 00:15:31.378
 called Lynn and the Revolution.
 
 00:15:31.899 --> 00:15:35.360
 And he did amazing amount of research.
 
 00:15:35.970 --> 00:15:36.811
 And then there's Alonzo
 
 00:15:36.850 --> 00:15:39.312
 Lewis' Hats and Homes of Old Lynn,
 
 00:15:39.592 --> 00:15:40.894
 Wellman's History of Linfield,
 
 00:15:42.114 --> 00:15:44.716
 and a couple of minor places too,
 
 00:15:44.917 --> 00:15:45.356
 not minor,
 
 00:15:45.376 --> 00:15:47.639
 but smaller parts of Linfield's story,
 
 00:15:47.719 --> 00:15:49.100
 Essex County and the Revolution.
 
 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.240
 So we've pieced these together,
 
 00:15:51.321 --> 00:15:53.101
 knowing that many of them are facts,
 
 00:15:53.283 --> 00:15:54.043
 some are legends,
 
 00:15:54.143 --> 00:15:55.864
 but these are the stories that come down.
 
 00:15:56.504 --> 00:15:57.865
 So we created this play,
 
 00:15:58.426 --> 00:16:00.248
 and the idea of the play is
 
 00:16:02.067 --> 00:16:03.328
 without being overt about it,
 
 00:16:03.489 --> 00:16:04.950
 they're effectively goats
 
 00:16:04.990 --> 00:16:06.770
 coming back to tell us their stories.
 
 00:16:07.652 --> 00:16:08.552
 Most of them are buried
 
 00:16:08.692 --> 00:16:09.653
 right across from where
 
 00:16:09.673 --> 00:16:10.494
 we're having the play,
 
 00:16:10.894 --> 00:16:12.235
 and they are coming in and
 
 00:16:12.254 --> 00:16:13.254
 they're telling a modern
 
 00:16:13.355 --> 00:16:15.557
 audience each of their individual stories,
 
 00:16:15.596 --> 00:16:16.878
 which we're hoping will
 
 00:16:16.918 --> 00:16:18.138
 tell the entire story.
 
 00:16:18.719 --> 00:16:19.739
 Interesting, interesting.
 
 00:16:20.340 --> 00:16:21.480
 And it's being done then in
 
 00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:22.860
 the place where these
 
 00:16:23.221 --> 00:16:24.341
 actual living people would
 
 00:16:24.361 --> 00:16:25.423
 have been back in the
 
 00:16:26.149 --> 00:16:27.789
 well almost originally we
 
 00:16:27.830 --> 00:16:28.990
 were going to do in the old
 
 00:16:29.009 --> 00:16:30.610
 meeting house okay which is
 
 00:16:30.750 --> 00:16:31.990
 right on the common and it
 
 00:16:32.071 --> 00:16:33.392
 was there then it's the
 
 00:16:33.471 --> 00:16:34.633
 only building really well
 
 00:16:34.673 --> 00:16:35.552
 it's a couple of houses but
 
 00:16:35.793 --> 00:16:36.832
 it's the only public
 
 00:16:36.913 --> 00:16:37.673
 building that still
 
 00:16:37.714 --> 00:16:39.433
 survives okay but as a
 
 00:16:39.514 --> 00:16:40.995
 practical matter we have
 
 00:16:41.095 --> 00:16:42.416
 moved it just across the
 
 00:16:42.436 --> 00:16:43.875
 street into the chapel of
 
 00:16:43.936 --> 00:16:45.517
 the center congregational church
 
 00:16:45.756 --> 00:16:47.037
 which is the successor
 
 00:16:47.076 --> 00:16:47.976
 church to the Meeting House.
 
 00:16:47.996 --> 00:16:48.817
 And that building is, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:48.837 --> 00:16:49.898
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:50.057 --> 00:16:51.018
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:51.038 --> 00:16:52.038
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:52.057 --> 00:16:52.758
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:52.918 --> 00:16:53.937
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:53.957 --> 00:16:54.938
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:54.958 --> 00:16:55.678
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:55.698 --> 00:16:56.379
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:56.658 --> 00:16:57.519
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:16:57.538 --> 00:17:00.659
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.019
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:04.640
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:05.780
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:05.881 --> 00:17:07.040
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:07.201 --> 00:17:09.141
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:09.181 --> 00:17:10.181
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:10.201 --> 00:17:11.362
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:11.402 --> 00:17:12.122
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:12.162 --> 00:17:12.902
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:12.922 --> 00:17:13.642
 it's not quite, it's not quite,
 
 00:17:13.662 --> 00:17:13.981
 it's not quite
 
 00:17:14.276 --> 00:17:15.523
 what happened that night and
 
 00:17:15.865 --> 00:17:16.973
 of course into the next day.
 
 00:17:18.092 --> 00:17:20.133
 And we have, there's twelve people.
 
 00:17:20.252 --> 00:17:22.994
 Well, one narrator, we have a poem reader.
 
 00:17:23.055 --> 00:17:24.355
 We have a poem about Martin
 
 00:17:24.395 --> 00:17:26.196
 Herrick that one person is going to read.
 
 00:17:26.498 --> 00:17:28.239
 And then we have ten villagers,
 
 00:17:28.338 --> 00:17:30.059
 real people from that era.
 
 00:17:30.619 --> 00:17:32.961
 Five of them are militia members.
 
 00:17:33.142 --> 00:17:34.423
 One is the wife of a militia
 
 00:17:34.482 --> 00:17:36.344
 member who had a very sad story.
 
 00:17:36.544 --> 00:17:37.884
 Her husband was killed.
 
 00:17:37.904 --> 00:17:40.707
 And then she just, six months later,
 
 00:17:40.727 --> 00:17:41.887
 she died of a broken heart,
 
 00:17:42.887 --> 00:17:43.909
 leaving her five kids.
 
 00:17:45.509 --> 00:17:46.950
 The minister of the church
 
 00:17:47.390 --> 00:17:48.490
 is part of the story.
 
 00:17:48.509 --> 00:17:48.809
 In fact,
 
 00:17:49.050 --> 00:17:50.371
 the current minister of the church
 
 00:17:50.431 --> 00:17:51.530
 is playing that role.
 
 00:17:51.550 --> 00:17:52.332
 Perfect.
 
 00:17:52.531 --> 00:17:55.692
 Great.
 
 00:17:57.153 --> 00:17:57.932
 And you're also doing a
 
 00:17:57.972 --> 00:17:59.834
 reenactment of Martin Herrick's ride.
 
 00:18:00.336 --> 00:18:00.636
 Right.
 
 00:18:01.337 --> 00:18:02.558
 It's cut down a little bit
 
 00:18:02.578 --> 00:18:03.720
 from what we had hoped.
 
 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.861
 But so instead of coming up from Medford,
 
 00:18:06.281 --> 00:18:06.942
 what we'd hoped,
 
 00:18:07.403 --> 00:18:08.262
 he is going to be coming
 
 00:18:08.303 --> 00:18:08.923
 from around the corner.
 
 00:18:08.943 --> 00:18:12.006
 Okay.
 
 00:18:12.026 --> 00:18:14.387
 But yes, he's coming in.
 
 00:18:14.728 --> 00:18:15.788
 This will actually be the
 
 00:18:16.970 --> 00:18:18.270
 third time that Martin
 
 00:18:18.310 --> 00:18:20.373
 Herrick's ride has been reconstructed.
 
 00:18:20.853 --> 00:18:21.874
 It happened back in nineteen
 
 00:18:21.913 --> 00:18:23.575
 sixty one when a plaque was
 
 00:18:23.654 --> 00:18:25.557
 put out for Daniel Townsend,
 
 00:18:25.576 --> 00:18:28.318
 who was killed in nineteen seventy five.
 
 00:18:29.517 --> 00:18:30.318
 it was done again.
 
 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:32.103
 So we thought we'd repeat it.
 
 00:18:32.143 --> 00:18:32.964
 So it's almost like a
 
 00:18:33.025 --> 00:18:34.106
 recreation of nineteen
 
 00:18:34.147 --> 00:18:35.190
 seventy five as well as
 
 00:18:35.230 --> 00:18:35.932
 seventeen seventy five.
 
 00:18:36.635 --> 00:18:37.395
 Very good, very good.
 
 00:18:37.777 --> 00:18:38.356
 And then you're going to
 
 00:18:38.376 --> 00:18:40.198
 have the Common decorated too.
 
 00:18:40.597 --> 00:18:40.917
 Yes.
 
 00:18:42.038 --> 00:18:42.898
 We haven't come up with a
 
 00:18:42.939 --> 00:18:43.859
 good name for it yet,
 
 00:18:44.059 --> 00:18:44.920
 but we're tentatively
 
 00:18:44.940 --> 00:18:47.541
 calling it the Biography Gallery.
 
 00:18:47.741 --> 00:18:49.623
 We're putting lawn signs up,
 
 00:18:50.163 --> 00:18:51.943
 telling the stories of all
 
 00:18:52.003 --> 00:18:53.684
 thirty-eight who marched that day,
 
 00:18:54.045 --> 00:18:54.905
 plus the minister,
 
 00:18:54.945 --> 00:18:56.086
 plus Martin Herrick and a
 
 00:18:56.125 --> 00:18:57.386
 couple of other people who
 
 00:18:57.426 --> 00:18:58.748
 were involved at the time.
 
 00:18:59.501 --> 00:18:59.882
 It's funny,
 
 00:18:59.981 --> 00:19:01.423
 one of the people on the committee said,
 
 00:19:01.943 --> 00:19:02.565
 we were trying to come up
 
 00:19:02.585 --> 00:19:03.285
 with a name for it.
 
 00:19:03.305 --> 00:19:03.605
 She said,
 
 00:19:03.645 --> 00:19:05.346
 how about calling it Meet the Patriots?
 
 00:19:05.728 --> 00:19:06.828
 And we thought we might be
 
 00:19:06.888 --> 00:19:10.832
 inundated with football fans.
 
 00:19:10.872 --> 00:19:12.212
 So we haven't come up with a name,
 
 00:19:12.232 --> 00:19:13.314
 but they're going to be all
 
 00:19:13.374 --> 00:19:14.055
 over the Common.
 
 00:19:15.395 --> 00:19:17.097
 As I said, Martin Herrick is riding in.
 
 00:19:17.137 --> 00:19:18.118
 We've got some music.
 
 00:19:18.159 --> 00:19:19.078
 We've got a fiddler.
 
 00:19:19.138 --> 00:19:20.621
 We've got a patriotic concert.
 
 00:19:20.641 --> 00:19:21.821
 It's going to end up.
 
 00:19:22.866 --> 00:19:24.407
 very good we have a militia
 
 00:19:24.948 --> 00:19:26.188
 it's it's going to be a
 
 00:19:26.228 --> 00:19:27.528
 very small reenactment of
 
 00:19:27.568 --> 00:19:29.249
 the marching off toward
 
 00:19:29.328 --> 00:19:32.529
 okay very good good now
 
 00:19:32.549 --> 00:19:33.510
 this is I mean it's a very
 
 00:19:33.550 --> 00:19:34.411
 important thing to do
 
 00:19:34.471 --> 00:19:37.531
 because we will we focus on
 
 00:19:38.597 --> 00:19:39.959
 Lexington and Concord,
 
 00:19:40.019 --> 00:19:40.979
 but we know actually the
 
 00:19:41.019 --> 00:19:42.319
 troops were coming from all
 
 00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:44.121
 over Massachusetts and then Connecticut,
 
 00:19:44.161 --> 00:19:45.621
 Rhode Island, New Hampshire.
 
 00:19:46.142 --> 00:19:47.541
 And this is an uprising.
 
 00:19:47.741 --> 00:19:50.084
 And most of the guys at
 
 00:19:50.124 --> 00:19:51.584
 Lexington and Concord and
 
 00:19:51.644 --> 00:19:53.924
 even at Monotony were not from Lexington,
 
 00:19:53.964 --> 00:19:55.086
 Concord, Monotony,
 
 00:19:55.125 --> 00:19:57.707
 but they're coming from other places.
 
 00:19:57.886 --> 00:19:58.448
 That's right.
 
 00:19:58.468 --> 00:19:58.827
 That's right.
 
 00:19:59.008 --> 00:20:00.648
 In fact, at the Battle of Monotony,
 
 00:20:00.709 --> 00:20:02.410
 in addition to Linfield and
 
 00:20:02.430 --> 00:20:03.309
 the other parts of Lynn,
 
 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:05.182
 Danvers was a strong present.
 
 00:20:05.202 --> 00:20:06.365
 I think they lost either
 
 00:20:06.384 --> 00:20:07.567
 seven or eight men there.
 
 00:20:08.869 --> 00:20:10.251
 Winfield lost three, actually.
 
 00:20:10.593 --> 00:20:11.795
 Daniel Townsend gets all the
 
 00:20:11.815 --> 00:20:13.657
 publicity because his body
 
 00:20:13.678 --> 00:20:15.642
 was brought back and he had a big family.
 
 00:20:16.942 --> 00:20:19.384
 poor Thomas Hadley, there was nobody here.
 
 00:20:19.443 --> 00:20:21.684
 His, both of his children had died young.
 
 00:20:21.785 --> 00:20:25.207
 His wife had died fairly, not too early,
 
 00:20:25.346 --> 00:20:26.928
 not too much before the battle.
 
 00:20:27.508 --> 00:20:28.907
 And then his body never came back.
 
 00:20:28.988 --> 00:20:29.888
 It just, it was,
 
 00:20:30.068 --> 00:20:31.209
 it's still in Arlington today.
 
 00:20:31.250 --> 00:20:32.849
 So it was kind of a lot.
 
 00:20:32.970 --> 00:20:34.211
 Linfield had three people
 
 00:20:34.790 --> 00:20:36.352
 and it was out of twenty-five houses.
 
 00:20:36.372 --> 00:20:37.511
 That's a, that's a lot.
 
 00:20:37.531 --> 00:20:38.272
 Yeah.
 
 00:20:39.298 --> 00:20:42.059
 Now, are there graves marked in Linfield?
 
 00:20:42.520 --> 00:20:45.202
 Well, Daniel Townsend's grave is there,
 
 00:20:45.282 --> 00:20:47.344
 as well as his wife, Zavaya, dead there.
 
 00:20:47.984 --> 00:20:50.467
 And Thomas Hadley and William Flint,
 
 00:20:50.646 --> 00:20:52.028
 the other two from Linfield,
 
 00:20:52.228 --> 00:20:54.670
 are in the cemetery in Arlington.
 
 00:20:54.710 --> 00:20:55.990
 And there is a monument there,
 
 00:20:56.270 --> 00:20:56.971
 not just to them,
 
 00:20:56.991 --> 00:20:58.053
 but to all of the people
 
 00:20:58.192 --> 00:20:58.732
 who were killed there.
 
 00:20:58.752 --> 00:20:58.933
 Yeah, yeah.
 
 00:21:00.816 --> 00:21:01.896
 What about Joseph Newhall?
 
 00:21:01.916 --> 00:21:02.978
 I mean,
 
 00:21:03.077 --> 00:21:04.038
 I feel kind of badly for him dying.
 
 00:21:04.058 --> 00:21:04.420
 I do too.
 
 00:21:04.579 --> 00:21:04.900
 I know.
 
 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:07.182
 He is buried in the South Burial Ground,
 
 00:21:07.201 --> 00:21:08.143
 which is another old,
 
 00:21:08.604 --> 00:21:10.384
 seventeen hundreds burial ground in town.
 
 00:21:10.925 --> 00:21:12.386
 And Newhall was a big name
 
 00:21:12.406 --> 00:21:13.288
 in South Linfield.
 
 00:21:13.528 --> 00:21:15.289
 And I think I found his grave,
 
 00:21:15.329 --> 00:21:16.111
 but there's about six
 
 00:21:16.171 --> 00:21:17.211
 Joseph Newhalls in there.
 
 00:21:19.694 --> 00:21:20.836
 So he's probably one of them.
 
 00:21:21.076 --> 00:21:22.217
 But I know, unfortunately,
 
 00:21:22.477 --> 00:21:23.298
 we don't know much about
 
 00:21:23.317 --> 00:21:25.019
 him except he was part of that family.
 
 00:21:26.451 --> 00:21:26.590
 Now,
 
 00:21:26.631 --> 00:21:28.413
 what got you interested in doing all
 
 00:21:28.492 --> 00:21:30.394
 this deep dive into both
 
 00:21:30.413 --> 00:21:31.734
 Linfield's history, but also,
 
 00:21:32.076 --> 00:21:33.457
 Seventeen Seventy-Five and Linfield?
 
 00:21:34.037 --> 00:21:34.237
 Well,
 
 00:21:35.357 --> 00:21:38.200
 I've always been a local history nerd,
 
 00:21:38.361 --> 00:21:39.480
 but I just love things that
 
 00:21:39.561 --> 00:21:41.623
 I can go and see the locations of.
 
 00:21:41.682 --> 00:21:41.923
 Right.
 
 00:21:42.663 --> 00:21:43.525
 I grew up in Linfield.
 
 00:21:43.585 --> 00:21:44.925
 I've been living in Reading
 
 00:21:44.965 --> 00:21:46.067
 now for forty-four years,
 
 00:21:46.106 --> 00:21:47.228
 but I grew up in Linfield.
 
 00:21:47.488 --> 00:21:48.949
 Both parents were heavily
 
 00:21:48.989 --> 00:21:50.789
 involved in the historical society.
 
 00:21:50.830 --> 00:21:51.990
 My father was the longest
 
 00:21:52.030 --> 00:21:52.811
 serving president.
 
 00:21:54.605 --> 00:21:56.045
 Back in nineteen seventy five,
 
 00:21:56.164 --> 00:21:59.425
 I got involved in the bicentennial and I,
 
 00:21:59.445 --> 00:22:00.707
 I learned so much at that time.
 
 00:22:00.767 --> 00:22:01.946
 I didn't know this stuff
 
 00:22:01.987 --> 00:22:03.087
 happened in my own town.
 
 00:22:03.167 --> 00:22:04.708
 I knew Lexington and Concord,
 
 00:22:04.748 --> 00:22:05.708
 but here's my own town.
 
 00:22:05.948 --> 00:22:07.489
 I can walk on to where this
 
 00:22:07.588 --> 00:22:08.628
 all took place.
 
 00:22:09.609 --> 00:22:11.329
 So I thought this time around,
 
 00:22:12.009 --> 00:22:14.250
 we need the whole new audience.
 
 00:22:15.411 --> 00:22:17.211
 We need to kind of educate them.
 
 00:22:17.311 --> 00:22:18.372
 I don't want to put it that way,
 
 00:22:18.412 --> 00:22:19.271
 but there's people that
 
 00:22:19.291 --> 00:22:20.593
 just don't realize in their own town,
 
 00:22:20.613 --> 00:22:21.272
 just like I didn't,
 
 00:22:21.432 --> 00:22:22.874
 that so much happened right here.
 
 00:22:22.973 --> 00:22:23.913
 Right, right, right.
 
 00:22:25.215 --> 00:22:25.855
 That's right.
 
 00:22:25.875 --> 00:22:26.416
 It's a great thing.
 
 00:22:26.436 --> 00:22:27.297
 So we're talking with Alan
 
 00:22:27.336 --> 00:22:28.518
 Folds from the Linfield
 
 00:22:28.538 --> 00:22:29.538
 Historical Society,
 
 00:22:29.597 --> 00:22:30.979
 also the town moderator in
 
 00:22:30.999 --> 00:22:32.199
 the neighboring town of
 
 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:33.980
 Reading and historian.
 
 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:34.881
 You've covered a lot of things.
 
 00:22:34.901 --> 00:22:35.020
 I mean,
 
 00:22:35.040 --> 00:22:36.461
 he's written about baseball parks
 
 00:22:36.521 --> 00:22:37.342
 and other things.
 
 00:22:37.382 --> 00:22:39.522
 So you have lots of great
 
 00:22:39.563 --> 00:22:40.943
 history that you have done.
 
 00:22:40.963 --> 00:22:43.265
 And this is, you also have a podcast.
 
 00:22:43.325 --> 00:22:44.345
 It's also history.
 
 00:22:44.405 --> 00:22:45.685
 There are tales from Alan's
 
 00:22:45.746 --> 00:22:46.686
 archives because you've
 
 00:22:46.727 --> 00:22:48.988
 been at this for a long time.
 
 00:22:49.048 --> 00:22:50.188
 It's an extraordinary amount
 
 00:22:50.228 --> 00:22:51.128
 of work you've done to
 
 00:22:51.169 --> 00:22:52.088
 recover this history.
 
 00:22:54.016 --> 00:22:55.277
 How, I mean, how is this?
 
 00:22:55.376 --> 00:22:56.176
 Are you getting involved
 
 00:22:56.196 --> 00:22:57.196
 with the schools in
 
 00:22:57.217 --> 00:22:58.698
 Linfield and other ways of
 
 00:22:58.778 --> 00:22:59.979
 reaching these audiences?
 
 00:23:00.499 --> 00:23:01.219
 We are trying to get
 
 00:23:01.239 --> 00:23:02.098
 involved with the schools.
 
 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:03.299
 Unfortunately,
 
 00:23:03.539 --> 00:23:04.721
 because we want to have it
 
 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:05.760
 on the exact day,
 
 00:23:05.901 --> 00:23:07.261
 it's smack in the middle of
 
 00:23:07.602 --> 00:23:08.402
 school vacation.
 
 00:23:08.682 --> 00:23:10.702
 So we've lost a little bit
 
 00:23:10.722 --> 00:23:12.304
 of momentum there, but not completely.
 
 00:23:12.864 --> 00:23:13.984
 Not everybody goes away.
 
 00:23:14.045 --> 00:23:15.164
 So we've been working,
 
 00:23:15.224 --> 00:23:16.685
 trying to get schools involved.
 
 00:23:17.306 --> 00:23:19.366
 And we do have a
 
 00:23:20.276 --> 00:23:21.757
 a youth component of this,
 
 00:23:22.397 --> 00:23:23.137
 a little bit younger.
 
 00:23:23.959 --> 00:23:24.679
 The library,
 
 00:23:24.719 --> 00:23:26.319
 which is right there on the Common,
 
 00:23:26.740 --> 00:23:28.741
 is hosting a children's
 
 00:23:28.761 --> 00:23:30.163
 event that morning,
 
 00:23:30.782 --> 00:23:33.865
 three-cornered hat-making, storytelling.
 
 00:23:33.925 --> 00:23:34.685
 Somebody's going to be
 
 00:23:35.066 --> 00:23:36.968
 reciting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,
 
 00:23:37.448 --> 00:23:38.588
 and that'll all feed into
 
 00:23:38.608 --> 00:23:39.809
 the events on the Common at
 
 00:23:39.849 --> 00:23:40.789
 the end of that event.
 
 00:23:41.310 --> 00:23:43.112
 So we do have a younger group coming in.
 
 00:23:43.132 --> 00:23:44.032
 Yeah, yeah.
 
 00:23:44.772 --> 00:23:44.972
 Now,
 
 00:23:45.294 --> 00:23:46.755
 did you say there was a poem about
 
 00:23:46.815 --> 00:23:48.957
 Martin Herrick, or was I mishearing that?
 
 00:23:49.237 --> 00:23:49.336
 No,
 
 00:23:49.396 --> 00:23:51.038
 there's also a poem about Martin Herrick,
 
 00:23:51.057 --> 00:23:51.258
 yeah.
 
 00:23:51.699 --> 00:23:53.539
 Not by Longfellow.
 
 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:54.340
 Not by Longfellow.
 
 00:23:54.361 --> 00:23:55.922
 It was by a guy named Alan Falls.
 
 00:23:56.182 --> 00:23:58.203
 Oh, okay.
 
 00:23:58.364 --> 00:23:59.744
 Written fifty years ago,
 
 00:23:59.785 --> 00:24:00.385
 believe it or not.
 
 00:24:02.508 --> 00:24:04.409
 So that will be part of the play.
 
 00:24:04.990 --> 00:24:05.970
 Oh, good, good, good.
 
 00:24:06.230 --> 00:24:07.612
 You don't want to recite it for us,
 
 00:24:07.632 --> 00:24:07.932
 do you?
 
 00:24:08.443 --> 00:24:13.347
 Well, I could try, but listen, my children,
 
 00:24:13.387 --> 00:24:14.788
 and you shall hear a tale
 
 00:24:14.828 --> 00:24:15.910
 of that fateful night.
 
 00:24:16.529 --> 00:24:18.791
 On the eighteenth of April in seventy-five,
 
 00:24:19.031 --> 00:24:20.794
 the Redcoats wanted a fight.
 
 00:24:21.615 --> 00:24:23.355
 Our hero, Martin Herrick,
 
 00:24:23.615 --> 00:24:25.096
 his studies nearly done,
 
 00:24:25.698 --> 00:24:27.759
 as word came down to Medford town,
 
 00:24:27.980 --> 00:24:29.780
 the crisis had begun.
 
 00:24:30.521 --> 00:24:31.541
 Ride, Martin, ride,
 
 00:24:31.561 --> 00:24:33.263
 you've got to warn the countryside.
 
 00:24:33.463 --> 00:24:34.865
 Our differences with England
 
 00:24:35.144 --> 00:24:37.207
 have grown far too wide.
 
 00:24:38.105 --> 00:24:40.166
 It's hard to believe, young Herrick said,
 
 00:24:40.247 --> 00:24:41.887
 they finally lit the fuse.
 
 00:24:42.328 --> 00:24:43.169
 Duty calls,
 
 00:24:43.288 --> 00:24:44.730
 I must ride home to Reading
 
 00:24:44.750 --> 00:24:45.411
 with the news.
 
 00:24:45.810 --> 00:24:47.711
 My commander must be told, he thought,
 
 00:24:47.771 --> 00:24:49.113
 as he put away his books.
 
 00:24:49.653 --> 00:24:51.493
 With lightened load and familiar road,
 
 00:24:51.775 --> 00:24:53.635
 he raced to Captain Brooks.
 
 00:24:54.395 --> 00:24:55.557
 Ride, Martin, ride,
 
 00:24:55.717 --> 00:24:57.178
 you've got to tell our side.
 
 00:24:57.938 --> 00:24:59.159
 Before this thing is over,
 
 00:24:59.538 --> 00:25:02.161
 our bonds will be untied.
 
 00:25:03.123 --> 00:25:04.923
 As Herrick rode into his hometown,
 
 00:25:04.983 --> 00:25:06.243
 his journey nearly through,
 
 00:25:06.604 --> 00:25:07.404
 the neighbors who'd
 
 00:25:07.444 --> 00:25:09.605
 responded had numbered quite a few.
 
 00:25:10.144 --> 00:25:11.145
 But upon arriving,
 
 00:25:11.185 --> 00:25:12.806
 he was told that Dr. Brooks
 
 00:25:12.826 --> 00:25:15.027
 was out attending patient Hartshorn,
 
 00:25:15.386 --> 00:25:17.228
 a story some folks doubt.
 
 00:25:17.768 --> 00:25:18.769
 But Herrick found his
 
 00:25:18.828 --> 00:25:21.449
 captain who sent riders east and west.
 
 00:25:21.869 --> 00:25:24.049
 Who did he send to warn Lynn End?
 
 00:25:24.671 --> 00:25:26.010
 Brooks sent out his best.
 
 00:25:26.550 --> 00:25:27.731
 Ride, Martin, ride.
 
 00:25:27.892 --> 00:25:28.692
 Ride, Martin, ride.
 
 00:25:28.711 --> 00:25:30.292
 You've got to warn the countryside.
 
 00:25:30.752 --> 00:25:31.573
 Martin, ride.
 
 00:25:33.682 --> 00:25:34.723
 Now,
 
 00:25:34.743 --> 00:25:36.946
 I should explain a little bit the story.
 
 00:25:37.406 --> 00:25:39.390
 When he, John Brooks,
 
 00:25:39.430 --> 00:25:41.152
 who actually got fairly well known later,
 
 00:25:41.172 --> 00:25:42.252
 he became governor of Massachusetts.
 
 00:25:43.467 --> 00:25:44.646
 He was from Medford,
 
 00:25:45.106 --> 00:25:47.248
 but he was also a student of Dr. Tufts.
 
 00:25:47.847 --> 00:25:48.807
 He graduated.
 
 00:25:48.827 --> 00:25:50.608
 That's why you call him Dr. Brooks.
 
 00:25:50.749 --> 00:25:51.028
 Right.
 
 00:25:51.628 --> 00:25:52.969
 He had graduated just before
 
 00:25:53.009 --> 00:25:54.388
 the battle and had moved to
 
 00:25:54.469 --> 00:25:56.069
 Reading to become the town doctor.
 
 00:25:56.670 --> 00:25:57.890
 He also was immediately
 
 00:25:57.950 --> 00:25:59.069
 elected captain of the
 
 00:25:59.130 --> 00:26:01.250
 minute company in Reading.
 
 00:26:01.570 --> 00:26:03.111
 He had been with Joseph
 
 00:26:03.131 --> 00:26:05.592
 Warren on the sixteenth or seventeenth,
 
 00:26:05.632 --> 00:26:06.412
 we're not exactly sure,
 
 00:26:06.432 --> 00:26:07.471
 but he was in Boston and
 
 00:26:07.811 --> 00:26:09.692
 knew a lot of things that were going on.
 
 00:26:11.403 --> 00:26:13.324
 When Herrick went to his
 
 00:26:13.423 --> 00:26:15.365
 boarding house on John Street, by the way,
 
 00:26:15.506 --> 00:26:16.547
 that house still exists
 
 00:26:16.586 --> 00:26:17.988
 today where Brooks was rooming,
 
 00:26:18.627 --> 00:26:19.709
 he was told that he was out
 
 00:26:19.788 --> 00:26:21.490
 with a patient, a guy named Hartshorn.
 
 00:26:21.789 --> 00:26:21.970
 Well,
 
 00:26:22.790 --> 00:26:24.192
 Herrick really didn't believe that's
 
 00:26:24.392 --> 00:26:25.212
 what he was doing.
 
 00:26:25.272 --> 00:26:26.634
 He felt like he was probably
 
 00:26:26.693 --> 00:26:28.075
 planning stuff because...
 
 00:26:29.874 --> 00:26:31.013
 Hartshorn was a member of
 
 00:26:31.054 --> 00:26:32.315
 the local committee of safety.
 
 00:26:33.375 --> 00:26:35.257
 So he found him and that
 
 00:26:35.297 --> 00:26:36.617
 house still exists and it's
 
 00:26:36.657 --> 00:26:39.398
 not very far from downtown Linfield.
 
 00:26:39.940 --> 00:26:41.460
 So from there he wrote to
 
 00:26:41.621 --> 00:26:42.560
 Linfield and then
 
 00:26:42.601 --> 00:26:44.321
 eventually went back to
 
 00:26:44.342 --> 00:26:45.482
 meet his own company up in
 
 00:26:45.502 --> 00:26:46.943
 the north part of Reading, north Reading.
 
 00:26:46.963 --> 00:26:48.805
 Wow, interesting, interesting.
 
 00:26:49.586 --> 00:26:50.346
 Now, does Merrick,
 
 00:26:50.747 --> 00:26:52.148
 he's studying to be a doctor.
 
 00:26:52.169 --> 00:26:53.130
 Does he become a doctor?
 
 00:26:53.549 --> 00:26:53.910
 Oh, yes.
 
 00:26:53.990 --> 00:26:54.150
 Yeah.
 
 00:26:54.451 --> 00:26:56.172
 After the war, he well,
 
 00:26:56.192 --> 00:26:57.854
 I should say in the during the war,
 
 00:26:58.074 --> 00:27:00.395
 he was a naval surgeon and
 
 00:27:00.435 --> 00:27:01.457
 was captured twice.
 
 00:27:02.097 --> 00:27:04.480
 And after the war, he moved to Winfield.
 
 00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:05.340
 He didn't move back to
 
 00:27:05.740 --> 00:27:08.123
 Reading and became a country doctor.
 
 00:27:08.182 --> 00:27:09.344
 He was also a schoolteacher
 
 00:27:09.384 --> 00:27:10.204
 for a while in town.
 
 00:27:10.944 --> 00:27:12.585
 He married Sally Wright of Middleton.
 
 00:27:12.605 --> 00:27:13.665
 They raised two daughters.
 
 00:27:14.465 --> 00:27:15.746
 And then in eighteen twenty,
 
 00:27:15.986 --> 00:27:17.205
 at his own request,
 
 00:27:17.405 --> 00:27:18.707
 he was the last person ever
 
 00:27:18.747 --> 00:27:20.047
 buried in the old burial ground.
 
 00:27:20.646 --> 00:27:20.946
 Wow.
 
 00:27:21.346 --> 00:27:21.606
 Wow.
 
 00:27:21.926 --> 00:27:22.426
 Interesting.
 
 00:27:22.586 --> 00:27:23.027
 Interesting.
 
 00:27:23.507 --> 00:27:24.847
 So he had a long life after
 
 00:27:24.867 --> 00:27:26.028
 this as a country doctor.
 
 00:27:26.067 --> 00:27:26.647
 But again,
 
 00:27:26.667 --> 00:27:27.907
 being captured twice by the
 
 00:27:28.008 --> 00:27:30.308
 British is no small feat.
 
 00:27:30.989 --> 00:27:31.509
 No, I know.
 
 00:27:31.888 --> 00:27:34.769
 There's a note in one of the
 
 00:27:34.848 --> 00:27:35.910
 old history books saying
 
 00:27:35.930 --> 00:27:38.069
 that when Martin Herrick died,
 
 00:27:38.782 --> 00:27:39.663
 A lot of the townspeople
 
 00:27:39.683 --> 00:27:40.304
 thought they'd never
 
 00:27:40.384 --> 00:27:41.664
 survive another illness now.
 
 00:27:46.048 --> 00:27:49.372
 We're talking with Alan Folds, historian,
 
 00:27:49.412 --> 00:27:50.853
 town moderator, poet,
 
 00:27:51.153 --> 00:27:52.815
 and history empresario
 
 00:27:54.056 --> 00:27:55.217
 about what was happening in
 
 00:27:55.277 --> 00:27:57.499
 Linfield at the time of the revolution.
 
 00:27:57.519 --> 00:27:58.819
 This is a fascinating work.
 
 00:27:58.859 --> 00:28:00.101
 So how, I mean, I know you've,
 
 00:28:00.935 --> 00:28:02.636
 The Linfield Historical Society,
 
 00:28:02.656 --> 00:28:03.997
 you've created a YouTube channel,
 
 00:28:04.037 --> 00:28:06.198
 other ways of getting these stories out.
 
 00:28:06.218 --> 00:28:07.519
 Can you tell us a bit more about that?
 
 00:28:07.538 --> 00:28:08.019
 I mean, that.
 
 00:28:08.699 --> 00:28:08.919
 Sure.
 
 00:28:08.959 --> 00:28:09.799
 Yeah,
 
 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.060
 we our Facebook page is pretty robust.
 
 00:28:14.061 --> 00:28:14.781
 As you just mentioned,
 
 00:28:14.821 --> 00:28:16.883
 we've been creating videos
 
 00:28:17.603 --> 00:28:18.284
 through a little three or
 
 00:28:18.304 --> 00:28:19.544
 four minute stories on each
 
 00:28:19.624 --> 00:28:20.285
 of these subjects.
 
 00:28:21.665 --> 00:28:23.126
 We had two last year when we
 
 00:28:23.146 --> 00:28:24.647
 were getting ready for the vigil,
 
 00:28:24.667 --> 00:28:26.769
 the hunt, the two hundred forty-ninth.
 
 00:28:27.269 --> 00:28:29.171
 This year we've got seven of them planned.
 
 00:28:29.290 --> 00:28:30.471
 Two of them are up and
 
 00:28:30.652 --> 00:28:31.593
 another one will go up in a
 
 00:28:31.633 --> 00:28:32.752
 couple of weeks and then
 
 00:28:32.833 --> 00:28:34.074
 we'll have two in March and
 
 00:28:34.134 --> 00:28:35.174
 another couple in April.
 
 00:28:36.675 --> 00:28:37.876
 They're just telling small stories.
 
 00:28:38.057 --> 00:28:39.657
 One is the story of Martin Herrick.
 
 00:28:39.877 --> 00:28:41.378
 One is the story of marching
 
 00:28:41.459 --> 00:28:42.420
 off to monotony.
 
 00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:43.601
 Another one is all of the
 
 00:28:43.641 --> 00:28:45.041
 town meeting votes that
 
 00:28:45.061 --> 00:28:46.482
 took place before all of
 
 00:28:46.502 --> 00:28:47.864
 this and how involved they
 
 00:28:47.884 --> 00:28:50.005
 were even before there was
 
 00:28:50.045 --> 00:28:51.145
 even a thought of the war.
 
 00:28:53.086 --> 00:28:53.867
 In addition to that,
 
 00:28:53.907 --> 00:28:55.548
 we're trying to reach out
 
 00:28:55.769 --> 00:28:57.210
 and find descendants.
 
 00:28:58.431 --> 00:28:59.692
 We've got a list of all of
 
 00:29:00.571 --> 00:29:01.853
 the people that we know
 
 00:29:02.334 --> 00:29:03.273
 that marched that day.
 
 00:29:03.374 --> 00:29:04.095
 Although I have to admit,
 
 00:29:04.115 --> 00:29:05.615
 it's a little bit of a moving target.
 
 00:29:07.656 --> 00:29:09.196
 We've always used the number thirty-eight.
 
 00:29:09.336 --> 00:29:10.218
 It's somewhere between
 
 00:29:10.317 --> 00:29:11.377
 thirty-seven and forty.
 
 00:29:12.739 --> 00:29:13.739
 But we have a list of these
 
 00:29:13.778 --> 00:29:14.980
 people and we're calling out,
 
 00:29:15.299 --> 00:29:16.920
 are you related to these people?
 
 00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:18.740
 And we've come across,
 
 00:29:19.741 --> 00:29:20.922
 I'd say seven or eight
 
 00:29:20.942 --> 00:29:21.981
 descendants already.
 
 00:29:22.962 --> 00:29:24.442
 A whole family of Townsends
 
 00:29:24.462 --> 00:29:26.263
 that are related to Daniel
 
 00:29:26.284 --> 00:29:27.224
 Townsend who was killed
 
 00:29:27.424 --> 00:29:28.065
 have been involved.
 
 00:29:28.105 --> 00:29:29.164
 They were actually involved
 
 00:29:29.204 --> 00:29:31.026
 in the vigil last year and
 
 00:29:31.306 --> 00:29:32.166
 will be involved again this year.
 
 00:29:32.946 --> 00:29:34.827
 Wellman is another big name in town.
 
 00:29:34.948 --> 00:29:35.407
 We found a
 
 00:29:36.087 --> 00:29:36.388
 In fact,
 
 00:29:36.869 --> 00:29:38.692
 we kind of matched up two Wellmans,
 
 00:29:38.792 --> 00:29:39.714
 one that lives in Maine and
 
 00:29:39.734 --> 00:29:40.797
 one that lives in Connecticut.
 
 00:29:40.856 --> 00:29:42.240
 They were writing to our
 
 00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:42.941
 page and now they're
 
 00:29:42.961 --> 00:29:44.222
 talking to figure out how
 
 00:29:44.262 --> 00:29:45.345
 they're related because
 
 00:29:45.365 --> 00:29:46.106
 they both know they're
 
 00:29:46.126 --> 00:29:47.388
 related back to Linfield.
 
 00:29:48.901 --> 00:29:50.282
 And what else are we doing?
 
 00:29:50.603 --> 00:29:52.003
 Well, Herrick had daughters.
 
 00:29:52.025 --> 00:29:53.405
 Have you tracked any descendants?
 
 00:29:53.445 --> 00:29:54.626
 Because that's a little more difficult.
 
 00:29:54.728 --> 00:29:55.407
 We have not.
 
 00:29:56.009 --> 00:29:57.210
 Again, because of the last name,
 
 00:29:58.070 --> 00:29:58.971
 we have not been able to
 
 00:29:59.011 --> 00:30:00.394
 find any descendants there.
 
 00:30:00.835 --> 00:30:02.616
 We've worked down a ways
 
 00:30:03.076 --> 00:30:03.778
 from the daughters,
 
 00:30:03.817 --> 00:30:05.460
 but then we just sort of lose it.
 
 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:06.820
 Okay.
 
 00:30:06.840 --> 00:30:07.883
 That would be great if we
 
 00:30:07.903 --> 00:30:08.844
 could come across that.
 
 00:30:09.423 --> 00:30:10.403
 And you must have the
 
 00:30:10.443 --> 00:30:11.344
 original muster roll.
 
 00:30:11.364 --> 00:30:12.684
 Is that where you're working from?
 
 00:30:12.724 --> 00:30:14.246
 Or is there one?
 
 00:30:14.685 --> 00:30:14.846
 Well,
 
 00:30:14.885 --> 00:30:16.467
 we have the muster roll from the state.
 
 00:30:16.586 --> 00:30:17.727
 It's actually the payroll.
 
 00:30:19.788 --> 00:30:20.528
 It's interesting.
 
 00:30:20.568 --> 00:30:22.150
 Some things are kind of a mystery.
 
 00:30:22.710 --> 00:30:24.131
 One poor guy was only paid
 
 00:30:24.471 --> 00:30:25.632
 for half the distance that
 
 00:30:25.652 --> 00:30:26.372
 the others were.
 
 00:30:26.392 --> 00:30:27.553
 So we don't know if he
 
 00:30:27.573 --> 00:30:29.334
 didn't make it the whole way or what.
 
 00:30:29.953 --> 00:30:31.575
 Another guy was paid double
 
 00:30:31.615 --> 00:30:33.796
 distance because he was sent
 
 00:30:34.194 --> 00:30:35.895
 to Ipswich after the battle
 
 00:30:36.056 --> 00:30:37.257
 to bring prisoners up to
 
 00:30:37.356 --> 00:30:38.217
 the Ipswich jail.
 
 00:30:38.617 --> 00:30:39.597
 So prisoners were taken.
 
 00:30:39.798 --> 00:30:41.118
 He was James Bancroft.
 
 00:30:41.138 --> 00:30:42.640
 He was a relation to the captain.
 
 00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:43.701
 He was the nephew.
 
 00:30:45.402 --> 00:30:46.261
 He wasn't the only one.
 
 00:30:46.281 --> 00:30:47.123
 There were several that were
 
 00:30:47.202 --> 00:30:48.223
 assigned to bring these
 
 00:30:48.263 --> 00:30:49.523
 prisoners up north.
 
 00:30:49.644 --> 00:30:50.664
 That's an interesting story.
 
 00:30:50.984 --> 00:30:52.026
 What happens to the guys who
 
 00:30:52.046 --> 00:30:52.865
 get captured then?
 
 00:30:52.906 --> 00:30:54.047
 Because it's not like they
 
 00:30:54.106 --> 00:30:56.008
 have any system for holding them.
 
 00:30:56.048 --> 00:30:57.769
 So these guys went to the jail in Ipswich.
 
 00:30:57.970 --> 00:30:59.230
 They went to the jail in Ipswich.
 
 00:30:59.711 --> 00:31:00.570
 I don't know what happens
 
 00:31:00.671 --> 00:31:01.751
 after that to them, whether they
 
 00:31:02.051 --> 00:31:03.492
 being part of an exchange or
 
 00:31:03.532 --> 00:31:05.034
 they just spent the whole time there.
 
 00:31:05.974 --> 00:31:08.737
 An interesting side story is in Redding,
 
 00:31:08.936 --> 00:31:09.798
 my other town,
 
 00:31:11.179 --> 00:31:14.241
 we had a very well-known prisoner here,
 
 00:31:14.321 --> 00:31:15.221
 Archibald Campbell.
 
 00:31:16.542 --> 00:31:18.444
 He was leading a transport
 
 00:31:19.204 --> 00:31:20.526
 that came into Boston a few
 
 00:31:20.566 --> 00:31:21.507
 days after the
 
 00:31:24.628 --> 00:31:26.970
 Right, right, yeah.
 
 00:31:27.029 --> 00:31:28.310
 These Scots showed up not
 
 00:31:28.351 --> 00:31:30.531
 knowing that the British had evacuated.
 
 00:31:31.192 --> 00:31:33.353
 So Archibald Campbell was
 
 00:31:34.534 --> 00:31:37.015
 assigned to be held at the
 
 00:31:37.115 --> 00:31:38.655
 Parker Tavern in Reading,
 
 00:31:38.675 --> 00:31:40.876
 which is another still existing house,
 
 00:31:41.576 --> 00:31:42.557
 and he was there for a few
 
 00:31:42.617 --> 00:31:44.057
 months and then he was
 
 00:31:44.157 --> 00:31:45.759
 moved to the Concord Jail.
 
 00:31:46.358 --> 00:31:47.819
 Apparently he liked living
 
 00:31:47.859 --> 00:31:49.480
 in Reading because he was
 
 00:31:50.305 --> 00:31:51.726
 The way it was worded is he
 
 00:31:51.746 --> 00:31:52.846
 couldn't go more than half
 
 00:31:52.865 --> 00:31:54.886
 a mile from the tavern.
 
 00:31:54.906 --> 00:31:55.487
 So in other words,
 
 00:31:55.686 --> 00:31:57.048
 he had pretty much free reign.
 
 00:31:57.528 --> 00:31:58.768
 And they had picnics up in
 
 00:31:58.788 --> 00:31:59.608
 this place that's now
 
 00:31:59.628 --> 00:32:00.648
 called Scotland Hill.
 
 00:32:01.589 --> 00:32:03.170
 Then he was moved to Concord,
 
 00:32:03.230 --> 00:32:04.550
 and things were more serious.
 
 00:32:04.730 --> 00:32:08.432
 He actually wrote to Washington,
 
 00:32:08.612 --> 00:32:09.813
 General Washington, to say,
 
 00:32:10.313 --> 00:32:11.334
 can you do anything for me?
 
 00:32:11.354 --> 00:32:11.653
 Wow, wow.
 
 00:32:11.673 --> 00:32:11.913
 Yeah,
 
 00:32:15.075 --> 00:32:16.776
 I think being held in a tavern might
 
 00:32:16.796 --> 00:32:18.777
 not have been bad for a lot of guys,
 
 00:32:18.797 --> 00:32:19.136
 I think.
 
 00:32:19.196 --> 00:32:19.737
 No, no.
 
 00:32:20.760 --> 00:32:21.462
 Especially if you can only
 
 00:32:21.502 --> 00:32:22.586
 go half a mile away.
 
 00:32:23.067 --> 00:32:24.150
 Right, half a mile away.
 
 00:32:24.471 --> 00:32:25.432
 And he got to keep a couple
 
 00:32:25.472 --> 00:32:26.316
 of his servants too.
 
 00:32:26.936 --> 00:32:28.377
 Wow, interesting, interesting.
 
 00:32:29.278 --> 00:32:31.259
 And so we've been talking with Alan Folds,
 
 00:32:31.298 --> 00:32:33.480
 who is one of the driving
 
 00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:34.540
 forces in Linfield
 
 00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:36.362
 Historical Society's plans
 
 00:32:36.402 --> 00:32:39.304
 for April eighteenth, April nineteenth.
 
 00:32:39.324 --> 00:32:40.805
 They will be putting on a play,
 
 00:32:40.825 --> 00:32:42.705
 Shadows of Seventeen Seventy Five,
 
 00:32:42.766 --> 00:32:45.126
 with some of the colonial
 
 00:32:45.186 --> 00:32:46.327
 residents who will be
 
 00:32:46.387 --> 00:32:48.348
 telling their stories of what happened.
 
 00:32:48.368 --> 00:32:49.710
 They'll be reenacting Martin
 
 00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:50.910
 Herrick's ride and the
 
 00:32:50.950 --> 00:32:52.371
 March to Monotony and the
 
 00:32:53.991 --> 00:32:55.393
 All kinds of things happening,
 
 00:32:55.452 --> 00:32:57.133
 thanks to what you guys at
 
 00:32:57.173 --> 00:32:59.294
 Linfield are doing to commemorate April,
 
 00:32:59.433 --> 00:33:01.494
 actually commemorate Patriot's Day.
 
 00:33:01.515 --> 00:33:02.515
 And then, as you said,
 
 00:33:02.535 --> 00:33:03.215
 there are a lot of stories
 
 00:33:03.236 --> 00:33:04.135
 that happen afterwards.
 
 00:33:04.155 --> 00:33:06.497
 So you must have plans.
 
 00:33:08.778 --> 00:33:11.040
 Well, just to keep the celebration going,
 
 00:33:11.060 --> 00:33:13.923
 it's not exactly the same story,
 
 00:33:13.962 --> 00:33:15.765
 but we're holding an event
 
 00:33:15.805 --> 00:33:18.047
 called If This House Could Talk.
 
 00:33:19.488 --> 00:33:20.328
 A few towns have done it.
 
 00:33:20.388 --> 00:33:21.710
 In fact, in Reading, we did it.
 
 00:33:21.730 --> 00:33:23.932
 What we're asking people to
 
 00:33:23.971 --> 00:33:25.853
 do is come up with a story
 
 00:33:25.873 --> 00:33:26.453
 of their house.
 
 00:33:26.653 --> 00:33:27.394
 It doesn't have to be...
 
 00:33:28.154 --> 00:33:29.414
 George Washington slept here
 
 00:33:29.434 --> 00:33:30.316
 or Paul Revere here.
 
 00:33:30.415 --> 00:33:32.395
 It's anything that has some interest.
 
 00:33:32.855 --> 00:33:33.777
 Maybe it used to be a
 
 00:33:33.856 --> 00:33:35.277
 factory or maybe it was the
 
 00:33:35.336 --> 00:33:36.557
 old train station, whatever.
 
 00:33:37.018 --> 00:33:38.218
 And just tell stories.
 
 00:33:38.278 --> 00:33:39.417
 And you're not inviting
 
 00:33:39.458 --> 00:33:40.159
 people into your house.
 
 00:33:40.179 --> 00:33:41.118
 You're just inviting them to
 
 00:33:41.138 --> 00:33:42.838
 your front lawn where you put this sign.
 
 00:33:43.398 --> 00:33:44.640
 And we're picking a couple
 
 00:33:44.660 --> 00:33:46.921
 of weekends in probably September.
 
 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:48.441
 We'll advertise this.
 
 00:33:48.461 --> 00:33:50.922
 We'll have a website with a map.
 
 00:33:51.602 --> 00:33:52.981
 And eventually we'll put a
 
 00:33:53.021 --> 00:33:55.282
 book together with stories.
 
 00:33:55.303 --> 00:33:55.482
 Okay.
 
 00:33:56.751 --> 00:33:58.133
 Terrific.
 
 00:33:58.192 --> 00:33:59.273
 Anything else we should talk about, Alan,
 
 00:33:59.314 --> 00:34:01.096
 before we let you go?
 
 00:34:01.316 --> 00:34:03.357
 I think that probably wraps it up.
 
 00:34:04.138 --> 00:34:05.400
 I should say everything is
 
 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:06.901
 free and open to the public.
 
 00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:08.081
 We're hoping that we get
 
 00:34:08.121 --> 00:34:09.443
 people from Linfield and
 
 00:34:09.744 --> 00:34:11.324
 wherever they want to come
 
 00:34:11.344 --> 00:34:13.027
 to hear one of these side
 
 00:34:13.067 --> 00:34:14.268
 stories of the revolution.
 
 00:34:15.108 --> 00:34:15.907
 This is tremendous.
 
 00:34:15.967 --> 00:34:17.949
 And I think as more we explore this,
 
 00:34:17.969 --> 00:34:18.789
 we realize these side
 
 00:34:18.829 --> 00:34:20.269
 stories really are the revolution,
 
 00:34:20.309 --> 00:34:21.329
 as these ordinary folks
 
 00:34:21.750 --> 00:34:22.791
 making these choices.
 
 00:34:22.811 --> 00:34:24.271
 So thank you so much for
 
 00:34:24.291 --> 00:34:24.891
 leading this charge.
 
 00:34:24.911 --> 00:34:26.472
 We've been talking with Alan Foulds,
 
 00:34:26.512 --> 00:34:28.092
 Linfield Historical Society,
 
 00:34:28.112 --> 00:34:30.512
 as well as the Reddingtown moderator,
 
 00:34:30.552 --> 00:34:31.873
 prolific historian.
 
 00:34:31.913 --> 00:34:33.414
 Your books include Boston's
 
 00:34:33.474 --> 00:34:34.793
 Ballparks and Arenas,
 
 00:34:34.873 --> 00:34:36.454
 as well as Linfield's Two
 
 00:34:36.514 --> 00:34:38.876
 Centuries and many others.
 
 00:34:40.835 --> 00:34:41.476
 Looks like you're about to
 
 00:34:41.496 --> 00:34:42.235
 say something else, Alan.
 
 00:34:42.255 --> 00:34:42.496
 I don't know.
 
 00:34:42.536 --> 00:34:43.597
 Okay, good, good.
 
 00:34:45.077 --> 00:34:46.918
 And so thank you so much for joining us.
 
 00:34:47.157 --> 00:34:49.378
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 00:34:49.438 --> 00:34:50.157
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 00:34:50.297 --> 00:34:51.338
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 00:34:51.378 --> 00:34:52.199
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 00:34:52.259 --> 00:34:53.619
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 00:34:53.659 --> 00:34:54.659
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 00:35:12.134 --> 00:35:13.094
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