Join JAR on a Rev War Road Trip!
The JAR 2018 Annual Volume is going on a road trip and you’re invited! If you plan on visiting any Revolutionary War historic sites…
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The Balls Whistled Over Our Heads: Continentals and Cannonballs
The booming roar of cannon shattered the stillness of the warm summer air around Boston. A thirty-two pound cannonball screamed through the sky toward…
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The House at Penny Ferry, Burnt: Skirmishes on the Mystic
In the summer of 1775, American forces had succeeded in bottling up the British army on the Boston peninsula and laying siege to the…
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The Route is by Way of Winnisimmet: Chelsea and the Refugees
It was August 1775 and Belcher Noyes, worried about his son Nathaniel, was writing to him from Boston for a third time. “My dear…
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Displaced: The Donation People of 1775
In late November 1775, just as the bone-chilling New England winter started to settle upon Massachusetts, British General Howe loaded three hundred poor, sick…
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Unfriendly to America? The Two Sides of Jacob Rogers
Jacob Rogers was scared. So scared, in fact, that he—a Loyalist and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy—traveled twelve miles to the Continental Army…
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Before the Bayonetting: The Untold Story of Capt. Samuel Whittemore
Capt. Samuel Whittemore, a seventy-eight year old American farmer, became a legend on April 19, 1775 when he was shot in the face by…