Author: Roberto O. Flores de Apodaca

Roberto O. Flores de Apodaca is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina. He holds a BA from Concordia University in Irvine and an MA from the University of South Carolina. His research interest in American religious history during the American Revolution is reflected in his dissertation on the religious lives of Patriot soldiers during the American Revolution.

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Giving Thanks: John Gridley’s Prayer Bill

Housed in the Medfield Historical Society is a rare collection of prayer bills containing the prayers of thanksgiving from Massachusetts soldiers and their families during the American Revolution. These commonplace slips of paper include fascinating stories and spiritual requests of ordinary Continental soldiers. One of these late-eighteenth-century prayer notes was written by a veteran named […]

by Roberto O. Flores de Apodaca