Patriots' Day

Patriots' Day: anniversary of the 1775-04-19 skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, MA
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2018-04-19: Mark Alexander: Patriot Post: Patriots Day commemorating 1775-04-19 skirmishes at Lexington & Concord
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Lexington local Patriots' Day observances schedule
letter by E. James Adkins
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History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in Massachusetts
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FreeRepublic: Jim Koch wants national Patriots' Day Celebrations
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Liberty Ride
Worcester Polytechnic Intitute: Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Mohican Press: Lexington Green
Boston 1775: events leading up to Patriots' Day
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Lexington MA: Patriots' Day 2022 schedule of events 🇺🇸
Concord MA: Patriots' Day 2022 celebrations 🇺🇸
Concord Museum, Highland Street Foundaion & MA Society of the Cincinnati: Patriots' Day 2022 family activities 🇺🇸
Barbara Evangelista: Macaroni KID Acton-Concord-Bedford-Lexington: Patriots' Day 2022 week-end guide 🇺🇸... British search of the Barrett farm for gun-powder, cannon, & small-arms
Patriot Resource
The American Revolution
Library of Congress
Alice Waugh: Lincoln MA Squirrel: Patriots' Day 2022 events start Saturday 2022-04-09 Lucie LeBlanc Consentino: battles of Lexington & Concord

Warning of British Incursion

FindAGrave: Dr. Joseph Warren ii (s of Joseph Warren & Mary Stevens) b: 1741-06-11 at Roxbury, MA d: 1775-06-17 at Breed's Hill, body was desecrated by frustrated British troops, & buried at battle site, re-interred at Copp's Hill, re-interred: Forest Hills cem., Jamaica Plain, MA     m: Mehitable May
National Heritage Museum/Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library: Dr. Joseph Warren sent Revere, Dawes, et al. to warn of the cannon-grabbers; his brother founded Harvard Medical School, nephew founded MA General Hospital
Concord MA: The Love Story

Prudence Cummings Wright
FindAGrave: Prudence Cumings Wright
Freedom's Way: Prudence Cummings Wright
New England Historical Society: Prudence Cummings Wright, patriot militia commander, captured 2 British spies
Women History web log: Prudence Cummings Wright: American patriot and minutewoman

Samuel Adams
FindAGrave: Samuel Adams
WikiTree: Samuel Adams

Doctor Samuel Prescott, William Dawes ii & Paul Revere
1956-04-19: Henry R. Viets, M.D.: New England Jornal of Medicine (NEJM): Samuel Prescott, M.D., and his mid-night ride
Rense on Samuel Prescott
Samuel Prescott, M.D.
FindAGrave: Dr. Samuel Prescott (s of Abel Prescott & Abigail Brigham) b: 1751-08-19 at Concord, MA d: 1777 at Ft. Ticonderoga, Halifax, Nova Scotia cenotaph: Samuel Presott Memorial, Concord, MA

Color Pro: William Dawes ii
2009: BloggerHeads
US History
FindAGrave: William Dawes ii (s of William Dawes & Lydia Boone) b: 1745-04-05 at Boston d: 1799-02-25 at Marlborough buried: Forest Hills cem., Jamaica Plain, MA     m: Mehitable May

American Revolution: Midnight Ride: Paul Revere and the "mechanics"
Paul Revere, silversmith & dentist
Longfellow's poem

Alice Waugh: Lincoln MA Squirrel: Patriots' Day: the capture of Paul Revere
FindAGrave: Paul Revere ii, silversmith & dentist (s of Paul Revere & Deborah Hitchbourn) b: 1734-12-21 at Boston d: 1818-05-10 at Boston buried: Granary burying ground, Boston, MA     m1: Sarah Orne     m2: Rachel Walker

captain John Riley Parker
WickedPedia: captain John Riley Parker
EyeWitness Account of the Skirmish
Captain Parker
American Revolutionary War
2024-04-05: Kerry J. Byrne: Fox: meet the North American who led 77 Lexington Trainngi Band/MinuteMen against 700 British regulars at the battle of Lexington: John Riley Parker

re-enactment photo by Nicolaus Czarneck of MediaNews/Getty, showing how the muzzle-loading muskets actually belch burning gun-powder (matches what one observes at the Friendship/Versailles Indiana muzzle-loader meet, where mostly .50 calibre arms are used [some like to camp at Versailles State Park a few miles NW & then go SE to stop by the Friendship meet for part of a day, or hike the byways]) while other photos embedded depict a re-enactment how Parker's cousin, Jonas, described at the time as an elderly man of 53, was one of the first killed in the skirmish
FindAGrave: farmer, mechanic, captain John Parker (s of Josiah Parker & Anna Stone; descendant of deacon Thomas Parker; grand-father of abolitionist Theodore Parker) b: 1729-07-13 at Lexington, MA d: 1775-09-17 at Boston, MA from tuberculosis buried: Old burying ground, Lexington, MA     m: Lydia Moore
Lexington MinuteMen
FabPedigree
WikiTree: captain John Riley Parker 1729-1775; son of Josiah Parker 1694-1756 & Anna Stone 1694-1760; grand-son of John Parker 1664-1741 & Deliverance Dodge 1661-1718)
Geni.com
FamilySearch
History Junkie: family tree
Military History Fandom
New England Historical Society
USA National Archives: after-action report/deposition by captain John Parker

FindAGrave: Jonas Parker (son of Andrew Parker 1692-1776 & Sarah Whitney 1705-1774; grand-son of John Parker 1664-1741 & Deliverance Dodge 1661-1718; ggs of lieutenant Hananiah Parker 1638-1724 & Elizabeth Browne 1647-1697) b: 1722-02-06 d: 1775-04-19 at Lexington Green
Jonas Parker (son of Andrew Parker 2693-1776 & Sarah Whitney 1705-1774; grand-son of John Parker 1664-1741 & Deliverance Dodge 1661-1718) b: 1722-02-06 d: 1775-04-19 at Lexington Green
Lexington MinuteMen

colonel James Barrett
Barrett farm
Freedom's Way: Barrett farm
FindAGrave: colonel James Barrett i (s of Benjamin Barrett & Lydia Minott) b: 1710-07-31 at Concord, MA d: 1779-04-11 at Concord, MA buried: Old burying ground, Concord, MA     m: Rebecca Hubbard
WikiTree

Freedom's Way: Patriots' Day: British search of the Barrett farm for gun-powder, cannon, & small-arms
the home-teacher/mother: Patriots' Day activities, lesson plans, & more
Alyssa Kariofyllis: National Parks Service: Women of the Battle Road
Tour Lexington: Lexington women in the American Revolution: Lydia Mulliken, Millicent Barret, Mary Munroe Sanderson, Abigail Harrington
News One: "blacks" in the American Revolution
UMich Library: depositions of eye-witnesses, town militias that deployed...

John Leonard Bell 2016 _The Road to Concord: How 4 "Stolen" Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War_ (234 pages; ISBN 9781594162497; OCLC 933449748; Westholme)

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