Join the Topsfield Historical Society for a Zoom book discussion on Phyllis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta. While the Boston Patriots claimed that the British Empire was treating Americans as slaves, Phillis Wheatley, a young enslaved Bostonian, was writing powerful poetry arguing for freedom for all. Vincent Carretta's concise...
Part of the Massachusetts Archaeology Society Speaker Series: Fields of Conflict and Hallowed Ground, Ten Years of Battlefield Archaeology in the National Park Service Northeast Region Presented by Joel Dukes of the National Park Service. Explore a diverse range of conflict sites from Maine to Virginia. Over the last ten years NARP has worked with...
Captain Samuel Page’s Company: At the Front Lines of the American Revolution In Massachusetts we often think of the Revolution through the lens of the 18th of April, Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Historian Beth Bower will discuss Captain Samuel Page’s Company, a diverse group of soldiers from Danvers and Beverly, who fought at...
Marblehead Museum is thrilled to announce the acquisition of a 1779 letter from General George Washington to Marblehead's heroic Revolutionary War general, John Glover. This special letter, featuring George Washington's signature, is a reply to John Glover's request to resign from the Continental Army due to the recent death of his wife, Hannah. The response,...
General John Glover died on January 30, 1797 and is entombed at Old Burial Hill. The commander of the Glover's Marblehead Regiment; Captain Seamus Daly will deliver an oration remembering General Glover’s service to the country, state and town. Following the oration, members of the regiment will render honors by firing three musket volleys and...
The annual community re-enactment commemorates Col. Alexander Leslie’s tense stand-off with local militiamen at the bridge over Salem’s North River on February 26, 1775. Now known as “Leslie’s Retreat,” this failed attempt by British redcoats to seize control of a local weapons stockpile places Salem firmly in the midst of Massachusetts’s unrest just before Lexington...
Join Charlie Newhall and Bob Erbetta to learn about this turning point of the politics of Salem in 1774, Pickering’s role in reshaping the Militia, and the coming of the American Revolution.
Register to attend via Zoom HERE. Register to attend in person HERE. Dive into Marblehead’s architectural heritage through a talk about five Glover family homes from the mid-1700s, with photos, beginning with General John Glover’s handsome Georgian-style home located on today’s Glover Square, near the public Town Landing on Front Street. Glover’s heroism in the American...
Road to the Revolution: The Stamp Act Crisis in Massachusetts Presented by Abby Chandler More information TBD Lynnfield Historical Society for more information
Join Revolutionary Spaces for a live reading of the screenplay Dill, a story inspired by real people and real events on the Cape Ann Shore in Massachusetts during a tumultuous time on the cusp of the American Revolutionary War. The protagonist is an enslaved woman named Dill, short for Deliverance, who despite her strong-willed character and...
A Lecture by Robert Allison, Ph.D., Suffolk University Thursday, March 21, 7pm At Marblehead Museum & Virtual via Zoom Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament cracked down on Massachusetts. Find out how the Coercive Acts (or, as Massachusetts called them, "the Intolerable Acts") made otherwise loyal subjects into rebels by taking power to choose local...
G. Patrick O'Brien, an assistant professor at the University of Tampa, will host this Zoom lecture on his research into resisting slavery in colonial Marblehead. This lecture explores the life of Flora Lee, an enslaved Marblehead woman, who had her daughter spirited away from her during the Revolution. Lee's efforts to be reunited with her...
