Fox Boston 25 News Jul 29, 2017 - 10:48 DANVERS, Mass. - Nearly 200 years after he died, a veteran of the Revolutionary War finally received his military honors. His final resting place was rededicated Saturday. The discovery of this…
By David Allen Lambert The Past Finder July 24, 2017 Being a genealogist I started looking at joining various hereditary societies over the years. I am honored to be a life member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati;…
SAR Magazine Vol 111, No. 4, Spring 2017 Minuteman and former Historian General Robert L. "Bob" Bowen has published a memoir My Life and Lens: The Story of A Marine Corps Combat Correspondent. The book tells of Bowen’s life —…
Picture: THE DEATH OF MAJOR KENNEDY AND MOSES DOAN. From the Piratical and Tragical Almanac for 1846. Collection of the Houghton Library, Harvard University (APA.P664A.1846). This fanciful woodcut, published long after the incident, tries to capture the scene in which…
Painting by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson of Smallwood's Departure From Annapolis. It was painted in 1876 in commemoration of American independence. The Maryland National Guard displays paintings and artifacts of the Maryland 400 at the 5th Regiment Armory in Baltimore. A…
by Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Project Coordinator The Weekly Genealogist Vol. 19, No. 78, July 5, 2017 During the Revolutionary War, Provincetown, Massachusetts (founded in 1727), was little more than a fishing station — and many of the town's earliest records,…
