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  • Newburyport Commemorates 250th Anniversary of the 1775 Quebec Expedition (Friday)

    Newburyport Commemorates 250th Anniversary of the 1775 Quebec Expedition with Multi-Day Celebration Newburyport’s Road to Revolution—a collaboration with community partners including the Museum of Old Newbury, the Custom House Maritime Museum, First Parish Church, Newbury, Old South Church, and the Brigadier General James Brickett–Old Newbury Chapter, NSDAR—proudly presents a special three-day commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Benedict Arnold’s...

  • Newburyport Commemorates 250th Anniversary of the 1775 Quebec Expedition (Saturday)

    Newburyport’s Road to Revolution—a collaboration with community partners including the Museum of Old Newbury, the Custom House Maritime Museum, First Parish Church, Newbury, Old South Church, and the Brigadier General James Brickett–Old Newbury Chapter, NSDAR—proudly presents a special three-day commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Benedict Arnold’s 1775 Quebec Expedition. Details for all events are found at HERE. Saturday, September 20th -...

  • Newburyport Commemorates 250th Anniversary of the 1775 Quebec Expedition (Sunday)

    Newburyport’s Road to Revolution—a collaboration with community partners including the Museum of Old Newbury, the Custom House Maritime Museum, First Parish Church, Newbury, Old South Church, and the Brigadier General James Brickett–Old Newbury Chapter, NSDAR—proudly presents a special three-day commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Benedict Arnold’s 1775 Quebec Expedition. Details for all events are found at HERE. Sunday, September 21st -...

  • Newburyport’s Road to Independence, Part I: The Long, Dark Winter of 1776

    St. Paul's Episcopal Church 166 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Step into the fraught winter of early 1776 with historian Alexander Cain. As Boston freezes under siege and smallpox shadows the lines, tensions ignite from barracks to backrooms. Then the spotlight shifts to Newburyport: independence is in the air, or is it treason? Alex has authored numerous research articles and presentations on the American Revolution, including...

  • Newburyport’s Road to Independence III: Loyalists, Prisoners, and the Homefront

    St. Paul's Episcopal Church 166 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    In 1776, as war raged across the American colonies, the clash of armies echoed far beyond the battlefield into everyday life in Newburyport. Historian and fan favorite Alex Cain invites you to step into a time where loyalists were persecuted, British prisoners were confined, and families struggled with soaring prices, shortages, and the constant shadow...

    $10

  • Revolutionary Privateers at Sea Symposium: Newburyport and the Wider World

    Firehouse Center for the Arts 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United States

    From Newburyport wharves, privateers pushed past Plum Island and into the Atlantic to strike British commerce. Operating under letters of marque, these privately owned vessels captured cargoes and ships, disrupted supply lines, and funneled provisions and matériel back to the Revolutionary cause. Privateering was also a community enterprise. Investors financed voyages; shipyard trades outfitted vessels;...

    $50

  • Newburyport’s Road to Independence, Part IV – American Rebels: Hancock, Quincy, Adams

    St. Paul's Episcopal Church 166 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Newburyport's Offin Boardman carried secret letters for John Adams, who argued court cases in Newburyport. The USS Hancock was built in Newburyport in 1776, and all three families were linked by ties of blood and friendship to this community. Join Nina Sankovitch, author of American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames...

    $10