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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Dwellings – Homes of Patriots and Loyalists in Marblehead
DESCRIPTION:Nearly every house in Marblehead that predates 1775 was the home of a serviceman in America’s Revolutionary War. An estimated 300 houses still survive\, even if modified by later generations\, out of perhaps 525 or so that existed as the war began\, when Marblehead was apparently still the sixth most populous metropolis in British North America. In June 1775\, nearly 600 men and teenage boys from those homes joined the Continental Army’s new “Marblehead Regiment” under Colonel John Glover\, which grew from the earlier rebel Patriot militia led by Colonel Jeremiah Lee until his death in May 1775. Starting in Autumn 1775\, hundreds of them would sail out as captains and crews of privateer vessels. And many would lose their lives that way. But the “prize” vessels they captured helped to supply and pay soldiers in the new nation’s struggling army\, and to outfit its fledgling navy. Over the course of the war’s eight long years\, an estimated total of 1\,400 or more would serve from this town of about 950 families–– all living in those 525 houses! Nearly all were Patriots\, as only about a dozen heads of households can be identified as Tories\, or Loyalists. And nearly every house was filled with women and many children who suffered greatly. It would take several generations for the town to fully recover–– and that was only briefly. But that is the reason so many pre-Revolutionary homes still survive. Come learn about where some of Mhd’s. Revolutionary heroes and their families lived. \nJudy Anderson is an independent social\, cultural\, and architectural historian who worked at the Marblehead Museum for 16 years\nas the organization’s first administrative director in 1994 and the only specified curator of the Jeremiah Lee Mansion from 2001-2010.
URL:https://essexheritage.org/rev250/event/revolutionary-dwellings-homes-of-patriots-and-loyalists-in-mhd/
LOCATION:Abbot Public Library\, 3 Brook Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T190000
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SUMMARY:Captain James Mugford\, an early Revolutionary War Martyr in 1776
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn his 27th birthday in May 1776 (May 19th)\, Captain James Mugford became an early Revolutionary War hero and martyr\, killed in combat by the British in retaliation for his having audaciously and fortuitously captured a 300-ton British supply ship a day or two before. It’s a sad but fascinating story! – as his young wife successfully negotiated with the captain of the British warship for his release after the young Marblehead ship’s master had been “impressed” (essentially kidnapped from off a Marblehead street) and held prisoner on that British ship. While on board\, though\, Mugford heard about the supply ship’s imminent arrival. Soon after\, commanding the Franklin out of Marblehead\, he and his crew\, posing as a harmless fishing vessel\, captured the valuable munitions transport. Tragically\, he died in a retaliatory battle the following day. But the vital and desperately needed munitions and supplies\, however\, remained in American hands. \n  \nDonald Doliber was appointed as Marblehead’s Town Historian after 24 years as an award-winning history teacher\, who was selected as the “Outstanding American History Teacher in the United States” by the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.)\, followed by 17 years as an assistant high school principal. His ancestors arrived in Marblehead in the 1630s and were fishermen\, selectmen\, and merchants in the early community\, and later\, a few served in the Revolutionary War. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Marblehead 250 Committee and Abbot Public Library.  \nThis program is funded in part by a grant from the Marblehead Cultural Council\, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, a state agency. \n \n 
URL:https://essexheritage.org/rev250/event/captain-james-mugford-an-early-revolutionary-war-martyr-in-1776/
LOCATION:Abbot Public Library\, 3 Brook Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T190000
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SUMMARY:Captain Samuel Russell Trevett\, Artillery Commander at Bunker Hill 1776
DESCRIPTION:The Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17\, 1775\, up above Charlestown\, just north of Boston\, early in the war\, is famous for several reasons. The battle\, the Revolutionary War’s first major combat involving cannons\, was a loss for the Americans\, but the British suffered a high number of casualties. One of the American revolution’s charismatic young leaders\, Dr. Joseph Warren\, a doctor and a Son of Liberty of Boston\, was also a significant loss\, as he was mortally wounded there. But a little-known episode involves a Marblehead artillery commander\, Captain Samuel Russel Trevett\, who fought valiantly and was the only American to lead his cannon company into the thick of the fray\, defying the orders of his superior officers. He also dragged a field-piece down off the hill as the American forces retreated. It was the only American cannon that was not captured by the enemy. Trevett\, however\, was falsely accused of his superior officer’s failures. Though he was exonerated soon after\, he never rejoined the army\, but served instead as a Captain aboard privateer vessels through the war’s end in 1782. \nDonald Doliber was appointed as Marblehead’s Town Historian after 24 years as an award-winning history teacher\, who was selected as the “Outstanding American History Teacher in the United States” by the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.)\, followed by 17 years as an assistant high school principal. His ancestors arrived in Marblehead in the 1630s and were fishermen\, selectmen\, and merchants in the early community\, and later\, a few served in the Revolutionary War. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Marblehead 250 Committee and Abbot Public Library.  \nThis program is funded in part by a grant from the Marblehead Cultural Council\, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, a state agency.
URL:https://essexheritage.org/rev250/event/captain-samuel-russell-trevett-artillery-commander-at-bunker-hill-1776/
LOCATION:Abbot Public Library\, 3 Brook Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T190000
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Leader – Colonel John Glover & his Crucial Leadership in 1776
DESCRIPTION:John Glover is justly the most famous and celebrated of Marblehead’s hundreds of Revolutionary servicemen due to his capable and resolute leadership of his intrepid and unflinching Continental Army regiment during the war’s first year and a half\, through December 1776\, while he was a Colonel. Although the numbers of his soldiers were somewhat in flux as hundreds would leave to serve as captains and crews on privateer vessels\, nearly 600 men and teenaged boys served in the rebel Patriot army in June 1775. This talk will primarily discuss Colonel Glover’s time as commander of that so-called “Marblehead Regiment” (1775 – 76). But it will focus on the pivotal last four months of 1776 –– from the crucial evacuation of Long Island that saved Commander-in-Chief George Washington’s entire army of 9\,000 men and equipment\, to the pivotal December Crossing of the Delaware River in lashing sleet (and back again\, in worsened conditions\, with two grueling nine-mile marches in between)\, which saved the war effort itself. \nAfterward\, most of Col. Glover’s remaining men returned home\, and would join their mates in privateering –– to Glover’s frustration\, though a handful of stalwart officers stayed in the army with him. Colonel Glover was promoted to General in Feb. 1777\, and served throughout the rest of the war’s 7 long years. He retired from service in 1782\, as hostilities on the N. American continent finally ended. \nLarry Sands is the captain of Glover’s Marblehead Regiment\, a reenactment unit established in 1974. A member for over 35 years\, he has filled all leadership roles and has participated in reenactments of every engagement in which the original regiment served. \n 
URL:https://essexheritage.org/rev250/event/revolutionary-leader-colonel-john-glover-his-crucial-leadership-in-1776/
LOCATION:Abbot Public Library\, 3 Brook Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T190000
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SUMMARY:Captain Nicholson Broughton\, First Captain of the Privateer Hannah
DESCRIPTION:Captain Nicholson Broughton earned honor as the first commodore of the United States Navy. But he first gained fame as captain of the even more famous schooner Hannah\, the “first” official privateer vessel sent out from Marblehead / Beverly waters under a commission from George Washington in service of his Continental Army\, on September 2\, 1775. Broughton had at first been a captain of one of the ten regiments in Colonel John Glover’s 21st Massachusetts Regiment (as it began in June 1775). In November 1775\, Captain Broughton commanded the privateer Hancock\, which sailed up to Nova Scotia waters with the schooner Franklin\, commanded by Captain John Selman\, also of Marblehead\, to interrupt the shipping of British armaments to bases in Canada. Finding none\, they took matters into their own hands and were court martialed personally by Commander-in-Chief George Washington. \nDonald Doliber was appointed as Marblehead’s Town Historian after 24 years as an award-winning history teacher\, who was selected as the “Outstanding  American History Teacher in the United States” by the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.)\, followed by 17 years as an assistant high school principal. His ancestors arrived in Marblehead in the 1630s and were fishermen\, selectmen\, and merchants in the early community\, and later\, a few served in the Revolutionary War. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Marblehead 250 Committee and Abbot Public Library.  \nThis program is funded in part by a grant from the Marblehead Cultural Council\, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, a state agency.
URL:https://essexheritage.org/rev250/event/captain-nicholson-broughton-first-captain-of-the-privateer-hannah/
LOCATION:Abbot Public Library\, 3 Brook Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T190000
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary War Heroes in Marblehead Cemeteries
DESCRIPTION:Many men from Marblehead fought in the American Revolution. Most were part of the 14th Continental\, known as Glover’s regiment. There were also captains and sailors in Washington’s crucial privateer fleet. Rebels who fought back in other ways\, such as serving on Committees and attending the early Continental Congress\, were also part of the story. Many never returned home\, dying on battlefields or at sea. But those buried in Marblehead’s graveyards help us remember our Town’s role in the nation’s fight for independence. Find out more about who lies where\, and about what’s wrong with the 1930 Tercentenary sign at Old Burial Hill. \nPam Peterson is the Chair of Marblehead Historical Commission and served on Marblehead’s Cemetery Commission after 19 years at the Marblehead Museum\, first as Director of Education and then as Executive Director\, as well as designer of several exhibitions. She is a columnist for the Marblehead ‘Current’ newspaper\, and has recently written a book about all of the cemeteries in Marblehead\, which also includes stories about some of the people who were interred in them.
URL:https://essexheritage.org/rev250/event/revolutionary-war-heroes-in-marblehead-cemeteries/
LOCATION:Abbot Public Library\, 3 Brook Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States
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