By Charles R. Lampman SAR Magazine Summer 2017 Vol. 112 No. 1 Background The First Continental Congress (September–October 1774) was a meeting of representatives from the Colonies to discuss how they were going to handle the Cohesive Acts. At adjournment,…
An Exploration of Four Generations Attendees at the 2017 SAR Annual Conference listen as David Waldstreicher and Richard Samuelson discuss John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams after they presented their papers in the Carriage House on the grounds of…
Episode 201 – SAR President General Talks Revolution / Breakthrough! Name Change? No Birth Town? No Problem! By Ryan Bennett Extreme Genes 30 July 2017 Host: Scott Fisher with guest David Allen Lambert Host Scott Fisher opens the show with…
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,…
Westford Massachusetts — April 19, 1775 By Rev. Edwin R. Hodgeman History of Westford, 1883, p. 104 ff. Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth Authorities vary somewhat in stating the facts relating to this fight, some claiming that in Lexington the first…
