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Patriot’s Day Remembrance
April 15, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
FREE
Every year on Patriots Day, the members of Danvers Alarm List Company honor the Danvers men who fell at the Jason Russell House on April 19th 1775, by doing our own mini-marathon march. You are welcome to join us in person at any of our spots (check the tentative schedule below) or we try to livestream on our Facebook so you can watch at each of our stops.
- 8:00am – 8:20am Training Field (Centre Street Danvers). The Village Training Field
on Centre Street was given to the town by Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll in 1709 as a training place. A marker at the Training Field stands as a memorial to the seven Danvers men who died on April 19, 1775 in Menotomy (Arlington). - 8:40am – 9:00am Jacobs Gravesite (Edgehill Road Peabody). Henry Jacobs was one of the Danvers men who fell on April 19. He is buried in a family cemetery. At that time, Peabody was part of Danvers.
- 9:30am – 10:00am Old South Burial Ground (Main Street Peabody). The South Burial Ground contains the graves of four Danvers men who died on April 19: Ebenezer Goldthwaite, George Southwick, Samuel Cook, and Benjamin Daland.
- 10:15am – 11:00am Lexington Monument (Washington St. Peabody)
- 11:20am – 11:40am Hutchinson Home Site Marker (Water Street Danvers). Capt. Israel Hutchinson commanded a Minute company that fought in Menotomy. Hutchinson lived in a home on Water Street in Danversport, which is no longer standing. The bodies of the Danvers dead were brought back to this house on April 20, 1775. A granite marker marks the location of the house.
- 11:50am – 12:10pm Reuben Keniston Grave – Leach Burial Ground (Elliot Street Danvers). Ruben Keniston was a Beverly man who marched to Menotomy with Capt. Israel Hutchinson’s company. He was killed on April 19th.
- 12:25pm – 1:00pm Nurse Homestead Cemetery (Pine Street Danvers). The cemetery at the Nurse House contains the graves of Revolutionary War veterans Francis Nurse (great grandson of Rebecca) and Matthew Putnam.
(Times are estimated and might change based on travel time and traffic.)
