BTW - the broken headstone fragments do not appear to be vandalism - they look like they broke apart due to sheer age and weather. I think they've been left in place, not neglected. The cemetery is well-maintained -- American flags on the grave in good condition that are clearly being replaced yearly, the Veteran headstone, signs, and not a shred of trash around. 💐
My ancestor was in the Virginia militia at the time though made it through the war later dieing in Kentucky. He's buried next to my 5x grandmother in Greenville and I'm lead to believe their headstones are just little pieces of stone too. There's many descendants in that part of the country so I hope they look after their graves like has happened here.
-There are some folks out there that can restore these, just need to make sure the know their stuff.....a guy around here can even restore slate ones...
There is an old cemetery located in Holliston, Massachusetts on a street called Cedar Street. It is near a water tower located in Ashland, Massachusetts. There are a couple of Graves that are dated in the 1700s and 1800s if you want to check them out.
I’m a member of the Danvers alarm list company. We perform memorial dedication ceremonies at this place and in Peabody and at monuments in Danvers and one man in Beverly. You don’t yet know about. We do this on Patriots day every year rain or shine! Contact me for more information.we’d love to have you join us.
@@dpjr47 Kindly of ya ta say but... I'm doubtful .... Just think of conditions back then : foot , horse or boat travel , flintlock firearms , No radio communication s , poor medical care , etc.. I go on n on... Just like George Roger's Clark's capture of Fort Vincennes in Vincennes , Now in Indiana ; not 17 miles from me. He and his men , about 200 strong braved marching from Keskasicia ( sp ? 🤔 ) ( Present day St. Louis , Mo.) To Vincennes , in the Dead of Winter ; most all the way through flooded plains / water...!! Now Those Were Men...!! Ethan Allen n Green Mountain Boys , all those who endured the Winter at Valleye Forge and Battle of Trenton ...
Pretty cool that someone went to the effort to get this Patriot a VA stone to augment the original stone. Wow, I was wondering what they would put on it. Not a lot of VA stones that say “Revolutionary War” on them. Just a side note, I have a great (x4) grandfather who served at the Battle of New Orleans. In the early 1960’s my grandfather found his grave in an abandoned cemetery near Quincy, IL. He did a lot of cutting of trees and brush to restore the old cemetery and did the paperwork to get a new VA stone. Now, 60 some years later most of my extended family gather at Memorial Day to visit ancestral graves and the grave of Moses Guthrie is always a source of all kinds of stories. Thanks for all your efforts
Really amazing to find that grave site. I have used ground penetrating radar for many years now primarily to identify underground utilities but I have also done a good bit of unmarked grave location as well. Would be great to GPR scan a burial site like that and try to document how many graves may be in that area and no stone is visible. If the locations were then surveyed and saved digitally it would capture the history for future generations.
Thank you so much for remembering these fallen men. Your presentation almost brought me to tears. Being from the Deep South, I love your distinctive accent. Blessings.
I almost want to hear more about your fear of large drainage pipes. But I am glad you decided to push past them and continue in your search. One thing I found very interesting was the inscription of the plaque that you showed at 7:38. Underneath the names of the fallen, it says, "Dulce est decorum est pro patria mori". The translation I found corrected it to "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" and it means "It is sweet and glorious to die for the fatherland" It is a line from "Odes" by the Roman lyric poet, Horace, and has been used to mark memorials, and used in countless manners in books, movies, and statues and buildings all over the world. I have not found any other uses where the second word is "est" and not "et" in the other examples, so I don't know if that was a typo when the plaque was made or a different translation, but either way, the meaning is not lost - these men did make the ultimate sacrifice for their home, land and way of life and should be honored as such.
Thanks so much for digging up that additional history on the phrase - very interesting! I didn't realize it was so widely used in memorials. That is wonderful to know - thank you for watching!
One of the most famous poems to come out of the First World War, written by Wilfred Owen, is entitled "Dulce et Decorum Est." It is a rather bitter take on Horace's lines. Owen was killed on the 4th of November, 1918, a week before the end of the war, aged 25. His mother received the notice of his death on the day of the Armistice.
The fact that your love for American history is a God sent in these trying times, your accent is so precious, and i can hear the voices of our patriots through you. Thank you and may the Lord keep you and yours safe.
I found this family gravesite completely by accident. I was walking the Rail Trail and decided to take a hike up that same path. And like Katie, I happened to glance in that direction and found it. It's a very peaceful spot in the woods. Thanks for the video
George Southwick was reluctant to join the minutemen that day, as his wife was close to giving birth. However, he could not find a replacement. George Southwick, Dennison Wallis and Joseph Bell found shelter in Jason Russell’s house. When it appeared, the British soldiers had moved on, Southwick, Wallis and Bell emerged. However, they were surprised by British soldiers, and Southwick was struck in the head by an enemy sword. Wallis was shot multiple times, but miraculously survived by pretending to be dead. Bell was taken captive by the British and imprisoned two months on an English frigate. George Southwick, Samuel Cook, Henry Jacobs, Ebenezer Goldthwaite, and Benjamin Daland died in Arlington and resided in what it is today, Peabody. Jotham Webb and Perley Putnam were also killed and lived in what it is today, Danvers. At the time of their deaths, the men were all young, with much life before them. Samuel Cook was 33. George Southwick and Benjamin Daland were 25. Henry Jacobs, Ebenezer Goldthwaite and Jotham Webb were 22. Perley Putnam, the youngest, was 21. The deceased were transported back to Peabody and Danvers via oxcart. Samuel Cook, George Southwick, Henry Jacobs and Ebenezer Goldthwaite were taken to the home of Samuel Cook, 65 Central Street, to be waked. The funeral services took place in the South Congregational Church. George Southwick, Samuel Cook, Benjamin Daland and Ebenezer Goldthwaite were buried at the Old South Burial Ground on Main Street, near today’s border with Salem. Henry Jacobs was buried at his family’s cemetery in West Peabody.
@@Ivehadenuff Maybe some parts of the south. It seems to me that the missing R that causes New Englanders to paak the ca migrated to Texas, where they warsh theirs.
Thank you for another great video. Don't forget to check yourself for ticks, every time I go to Minuteman NHS the ticks always seem to find me and my dog.
I have visited a Revolutionary War graveyard, Old Fort Niagara at the Niagara River Western NY. Surprised looking at the gravestones of the number of Revolutionary War soldiers who were born in Ontario but fought for the American side. Very moving video, in these troubled uncertain times it's sad that there are selfish political vultures that do not appreciate the Herculean efforts to found this country and only think of ways to destroy it.
Katie... I love your channel. I've been binge watching all weekend. Your ascent and all the sites bring me back home to New England. It's funny, my son just asked me over the phone... dad, what's up with your voice? You have an accent like Aunt Teri.
Thank you for caring so much about these young patriots. I hope this video will energize the community to care for this graveyard on Memorial Day. I could not help to note your emphasis on the ages of these men. As a retired Army veteran let me add that young age is a characteristic of a great number of our fallen veterans. You are so special. My church has three cemeteries with many graves dating back to most of our wars.
Good stuff !! Huge history guy myself as my 10th great POP is the PILGRIM FATHER , W. Bradford .Restoring a 1930 model A bought new by my cousin Frank Bradford . Also just added 20 acres to my land in upstate NY. which I discovered Henry Knox & crew camped on way to Boston with the cannons 1/9-10/1776 . I dug up a bayonet while doing electrical dig. Brought my detector friends in and found 50+ items !!
As you can tell, my surname has made me a little curious about the events 1682 ( George Hadley was the first, in Ipswich MA )-now. My father’s family were ALL Mainers, and since -1823 Maine was part of MA, there is a family connection to Boston. In fact, my great-grandmother was a Brown. It was shocking to see a photo of the interred heroes of Lexington, that both a Hadley and a Brown. So of course, whatever you have lately been exposing is of great concern. Your history to me, has been engrossing. I do want to see how they lived, what their lives were like. You are getting it done. We Hadleys have been intertwined with the wars and settlement of the Colonies to now. You might even note that a destroyer ( featured in Fredericksburg TX ) at the Museum of the Pacific War, no less ) is USS Hadley DD774, severely damaged under kamikaze attack and shooting down no fewer than 23 aircraft. We have been around for awhile… It was related under several other genealogical sites that the Hadley killed 4.19th was followed by a younger brother at Breed’s Hill in the summer fighting, and that his resting place may be in the fortifications. Is there any evidence to indicate that this occurred?
I am a huge AR fan and reader. I live in Connecticut and I can’t believe I never knew about this channel. I want to make trips to visit places like you show - your real life discovery and humor are refreshing. Is there maybe a compliled list of the locations you visited?
I just found your channel and loving it. Im a big student of history and the Revolution is my favorite to study. Been on that hallowed ground of Lexington, Concord and Menatomy.
I'm from up that way. Spent the last 20 years in Virginia and North Carolina. Although I'm not from Mass, hearing her accent is putting a smile on my face and making me feel homesick. Peebitty!
I am so happy I found you CZcams channel. I went to art school and prep school in Massachusetts and love hearing you speak. Do you ever say , so shouldn’t I when you mean so should Thanks
I grew up in CT and my history education revolved primarily around New England's history. My daughter and I are history geeks and enjoy visiting mainly Revolutionary sites. I have spent the last 31 years living in North Carolina and have subsequently learned a great deal about the Southern Campaign. There are some great places to see down here, such as Cowpens, King's Mountain, Guilford Courthouse, and Moore's Creek battlefields. Loved the video and I have subscribed!
Welcome to NC. My grandparents built their home about 1910 along the Indian path that connected Hillsboro to Greensboro right between the Alamance battlefield and the Clapp’s Mill battle sites. My dad and I would fish at the old mill dam site before it was covered by lake McIntosh. I have walked parts of that old trail and still do.
Are you a professor, Katie? You have excellent narrating skills, and I majored in history. I've subscribed to your channel and appreciate you keeping up the good job and sharing the upload.
thx for your enthusiasm and videos, i love rev history, grew up in bangor maine where the penobscot expedition left many cannons on the riverbed of our penobscot river. always fascinated me that paul revere was on that expedition. love your accent as well. you sound EXACTLY like my cousins from milford mass. :-)
I grew up in Centerfield, Peabody in the 1960's. I saw Henry Jacob's grave way back then - around 1966 as did most of the neighborhood boys. Believe it was the Jacob's family cemetery. In the woods between Centerfield subdivision and Lowell St.
Katie, I am glad to have found your YT channel this past week. Awsome stuff 😊. So when I hopefully get out East again at some point, I will have places to go & see with pre knowledge of the areas.
I stumbled upon that grave last year while metal detecting. The only thing i found was a bicentenial quarter. I left it there, cause it seemed like the right thing to do.
Born and raised in idaho however my relatives came in 1630 founded danbury Connecticut they named after their home in danbury england. My great grandfather was in deadwood sd. In 1876,butte mt 1877 idaho the following year 1878 in a boom town called gibbonsville. Im just now looking into my ancestry and finding revolutionary tales and i love it. Thank you for your time and energy
Katie, I so appreciate your dedication and passion for the Revolutionary War. It is a time in our nation’s history that I cannot get enough information about. Having read so many books by noted scholars there is nothing like seeing the actual battlegrounds. You do a marvelous job of explaining what you are seeing. To discover the gravesite of fallen heroes on that transformative day in April, 1775 was very emotional. It made me envision the day when they actually buried these young men, and how somber it must have been. What did these colonists think at that time? It had to be a bit terrifying knowing that this group of militiamen just kicked the lion in the backside. Now, they must deal with the wrath of the most powerful military in the world. The unknown must have been both exciting and scary.
Another great video! I most liked how through historical records you identified that they had a procession of sorts with the return of the body. Not a like, but similar to what is done today for our service members.
From what I've read, Newburyport, on April 19th, 1775, sent out a company of minutemen under the command of Captain Moses Little and a militia company under the command of Captain Moses Nowell (my 4th ggf, Caleb Haskell, was in that company - he was fifer or drummer). I don't believe either company encountered the British. Nowell's company was recalled after a few days (and possibly Little's, but I think they stayed behind in Cambridge) over a panic among the communities over a possible British landing at the Merrimack River. I was reading an article about smuggling in Newburyport during the War of 1812 and Colonel Moses Nowell was mentioned as having been the commander of a garrison on Plum Island during the Revolution. Caleb joined another company that was raised at the beginning of May to go back to Cambridge and become a part of Colonel Little's new regiment. The company was commanded by Captain Ezra Lunt (according to one source, the company spontaneously formed in the aisle of the Old South Church after a rousing sermon given by Reverend Jonathan Parsons). Caleb was at the Siege of Boston (and Battle of Bunker's Hill) until he signed up for Arnold's Quebec Expedition in September. By the end of May the next year Caleb made his way home and "found all friends well".
What a fascinating place where you live with such wonderful history at your fingertips. I went on a gravesite hunt years ago for a great great grandfather who had served in the Civil War. My hunt was unsuccessful, as it seems that after the war my ancestor decided to do the 19th century version of “going off the grid.” I have a theory about why, but a CZcams comments section is no place for family secrets…lol.
PTSD was a “thing,” and has been for a very long time. Read up on the life of Lt. Col. Rufus Dawes battlefield commander of the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863. Though a tremendous leader, he was done after Gettysburg. A shame; this was the unit that Lee always wanted to know the whereabouts of, as part of his pre-battle intel. They lost 82 % of their strength at Gettysburg, and were never again, the unit as constituted.
@@johnhadley7715 PTSD wasn’t the “thing” in the case of my ancestor, but you have a great point about undiagnosed PTSD in soldiers. Even during World War II and Korea it still lived under the moniker “battle fatigue,” which comes with a certain level of shaming.
Thank you for this video. I've known that story that most of us learned in school (do they even still teach this any more?) about April 19, but this in-depth story struck me on a deeply personal level. Henry Jacobs young age, and that he dropped everything and ran with his company on that morning....and that he didn't come home safely, was incredibly moving. Somehow the quiet solitude and remoteness of that family plot just adds to the story. Paraphrasing and stealing from a friend of mine who is a history buff: "To us history may be dry and dusty but to Henry Jacobs, that was his every day life, his entire world." Thanks again!
Just a FYI, a lot of American militia were bayoneted in that battle as the British attempted to sweep the woods of American snipers. It's also a fact these battles around Boston gave the Americans the impression that the milita were a lot better then they were in actuality. The Battles for New York put that notion to rest.
Great question - the British troops were buried where they fell, or brought to local burying grounds and buried. A couple British soldiers are buried at North Bridge, Concord, and several graves are scattered down Battle Road. Many Americans and British who were killed at Menotomy were buried in the town burying ground there. Thank you for watching!
Good point. School never taught what happened to the British dead. One would assume they were somehow magically taken back to their native soil. Do we honor British graves with the Union Jack?
I recall reading about, or seeing a photo, of two graves of British soldiers from about this time. The graves were inscribed, "Out enemies in life, our guests in death".
One of my favorite activities as a young historian was to these old lost graves and I would make a charcoal rubbing of the face of the gravestones onto large sheets of paper. This usually made it possible to read what you couldn't see otherwise. Enjoyed this action adventure!
I had a relative die at Bunker Hill and can't find his grave. He was brought to Andover to a Mr. Blunt's home. His name was Daniel Evans. His son was George Evans of Allentown, NH.
Huzzah! Thanks to all y'all who comprehend and honor. "Lest We Never Forget." Aye, Capt. R.A. "Rick" Briggs, Jr., US Army, Retired. Killeen, Texas 20240213.
Hiya Katie, I really enjoyed the video. But, if stepping over a log is adventurous and scary, you need to get out more :). I admit I've recently taken a renewed interest in the Revolutionary War after a recent visit to Monmouth State Park here in New Jersey. I just watched your recent video over the Boston map anomaly, and it raised and answered some other questions I had. Thanks.
So we made it out to this spot last Saturday. wasn't to bad to find very nice walk not too muddy. We explored the area and the other headstones. paid our respect and as a Veteran myself to a fallen brother. Then we took a ride out to Salem and while their talking to a local who is working on a book told us that Henry Jacobs is related to George Jacob who was hanged Aug 19th 1692 as a witch and is now buried at Nurse Burial Ground which we now plan to visit on another road trip.
maybe you can get a few people together and repair the broken headstones and clean the small cemetery up alittle. ( I have seen other cemeterys that have a metal band that keeps the headstones together once repaired.) Just a thought. One of my ancestors died at Andersonville prison during the civil war and in researching that i still haven't been able to find anyone that was in the revolutionary war. But I am going to keep looking! There has to be someone!
The Danvers Men also had among their casualties, Rueben Kennison, a native of Newmarket, NH who was married to Apphia Batchelder and lived across the town line in Beverly's Rial Side. He was in Israel Hutchinson's company that traveled all the way from Danversport. Reports are that he after Hutchinson realized that they were trapped had tried to break out of the house when he was shot and bayonetted to death. Rueben was New Hampshire's first casualty in the war of independence as well as Beverly's first war fatality. Kennison traveled the farthest to die defending Jason Russell's home.
You really need to get out in the woods more often. It was more like what much of the colonial landscape was, maybe not in urbane MA, but I have climbed into and bushwhacked much worse in the quest for finding missing ancestors.😅
BTW - the broken headstone fragments do not appear to be vandalism - they look like they broke apart due to sheer age and weather. I think they've been left in place, not neglected. The cemetery is well-maintained -- American flags on the grave in good condition that are clearly being replaced yearly, the Veteran headstone, signs, and not a shred of trash around. 💐
My ancestor was in the Virginia militia at the time though made it through the war later dieing in Kentucky. He's buried next to my 5x grandmother in Greenville and I'm lead to believe their headstones are just little pieces of stone too. There's many descendants in that part of the country so I hope they look after their graves like has happened here.
-There are some folks out there that can restore these, just need to make sure the know their stuff.....a guy around here can even restore slate ones...
There is an old cemetery located in Holliston, Massachusetts on a street called Cedar Street. It is near a water tower located in Ashland, Massachusetts. There are a couple of Graves that are dated in the 1700s and 1800s if you want to check them out.
Katie must be a city girl? Watching you step over that log was hysterical. I love the enthusiasm you bring to our history. Keep up the great work!
As a Concord public historian, I'd like to say that your channel is absolutely wonderful!
Thank You for your Service ;)
Agreed.
I’m a member of the Danvers alarm list company. We perform memorial dedication ceremonies at this place and in Peabody and at monuments in Danvers and one man in Beverly. You don’t yet know about. We do this on Patriots day every year rain or shine! Contact me for more information.we’d love to have you join us.
Thank you Sir for what you do
( From a Vietnam Naval Veteran who use to live in Manomet , Mass. Just outside of Plymouth )
@@nelsonlanglois9104Thank you, sir. I appreciate your comment but your contribution is more significant.
@@dpjr47
Kindly of ya ta say but...
I'm doubtful ....
Just think of conditions back then : foot , horse or boat travel , flintlock firearms , No radio communication s , poor medical care , etc..
I go on n on...
Just like George Roger's Clark's capture of Fort Vincennes in Vincennes , Now in Indiana ; not 17 miles from me.
He and his men , about 200 strong braved marching from Keskasicia ( sp ? 🤔 ) ( Present day St. Louis , Mo.) To Vincennes , in the Dead of Winter ; most all the way through flooded plains / water...!!
Now Those Were Men...!!
Ethan Allen n Green Mountain Boys , all those who endured the Winter at Valleye Forge and Battle of Trenton ...
No substitute for being able to walk the ground to see where the history happened. Enjoyed! Thank you!
Pretty cool that someone went to the effort to get this Patriot a VA stone to augment the original stone. Wow, I was wondering what they would put on it. Not a lot of VA stones that say “Revolutionary War” on them. Just a side note, I have a great (x4) grandfather who served at the Battle of New Orleans. In the early 1960’s my grandfather found his grave in an abandoned cemetery near Quincy, IL. He did a lot of cutting of trees and brush to restore the old cemetery and did the paperwork to get a new VA stone. Now, 60 some years later most of my extended family gather at Memorial Day to visit ancestral graves and the grave of Moses Guthrie is always a source of all kinds of stories. Thanks for all your efforts
Really amazing to find that grave site.
I have used ground penetrating radar for many years now primarily to identify underground utilities but I have also done a good bit of unmarked grave location as well. Would be great to GPR scan a burial site like that and try to document how many graves may be in that area and no stone is visible. If the locations were then surveyed and saved digitally it would capture the history for future generations.
Thank you so much for remembering these fallen men. Your presentation almost brought me to tears. Being from the Deep South, I love your distinctive accent. Blessings.
I almost want to hear more about your fear of large drainage pipes.
But I am glad you decided to push past them and continue in your search. One thing I found very interesting was the inscription of the plaque that you showed at 7:38. Underneath the names of the fallen, it says, "Dulce est decorum est pro patria mori". The translation I found corrected it to "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" and it means "It is sweet and glorious to die for the fatherland" It is a line from "Odes" by the Roman lyric poet, Horace, and has been used to mark memorials, and used in countless manners in books, movies, and statues and buildings all over the world.
I have not found any other uses where the second word is "est" and not "et" in the other examples, so I don't know if that was a typo when the plaque was made or a different translation, but either way, the meaning is not lost - these men did make the ultimate sacrifice for their home, land and way of life and should be honored as such.
Thanks so much for digging up that additional history on the phrase - very interesting! I didn't realize it was so widely used in memorials. That is wonderful to know - thank you for watching!
One of the most famous poems to come out of the First World War, written by Wilfred Owen, is entitled "Dulce et Decorum Est." It is a rather bitter take on Horace's lines. Owen was killed on the 4th of November, 1918, a week before the end of the war, aged 25. His mother received the notice of his death on the day of the Armistice.
What a gem this channel is! Thank you for the history lessons.
The fact that your love for American history is a God sent in these trying times, your accent is so precious, and i can hear the voices of our patriots through you. Thank you and may the Lord keep you and yours safe.
Thank you so much for your kind words 🍀
I found this family gravesite completely by accident. I was walking the Rail Trail and decided to take a hike up that same path. And like Katie, I happened to glance in that direction and found it. It's a very peaceful spot in the woods. Thanks for the video
Very compassionate, Katie. We can feel your emotion, your reverence. Keep it up. You’re a gem.
I grew up in Danvers and we weren’t taught this in school. Fascinating video.
George Southwick was reluctant to join the minutemen that day, as his wife was close to giving birth. However, he could not find a replacement. George Southwick, Dennison Wallis and Joseph Bell found shelter in Jason Russell’s house. When it appeared, the British soldiers had moved on, Southwick, Wallis and Bell emerged. However, they were surprised by British soldiers, and Southwick was struck in the head by an enemy sword. Wallis was shot multiple times, but miraculously survived by pretending to be dead. Bell was taken captive by the British and imprisoned two months on an English frigate. George Southwick, Samuel Cook, Henry Jacobs, Ebenezer Goldthwaite, and Benjamin Daland died in Arlington and resided in what it is today, Peabody. Jotham Webb and Perley Putnam were also killed and lived in what it is today, Danvers. At the time of their deaths, the men were all young, with much life before them. Samuel Cook was 33. George Southwick and Benjamin Daland were 25. Henry Jacobs, Ebenezer Goldthwaite and Jotham Webb were 22. Perley Putnam, the youngest, was 21. The deceased were transported back to Peabody and Danvers via oxcart. Samuel Cook, George Southwick, Henry Jacobs and Ebenezer Goldthwaite were taken to the home of Samuel Cook, 65 Central Street, to be waked. The funeral services took place in the South Congregational Church. George Southwick, Samuel Cook, Benjamin Daland and Ebenezer Goldthwaite were buried at the Old South Burial Ground on Main Street, near today’s border with Salem. Henry Jacobs was buried at his family’s cemetery in West Peabody.
I just stumbled across your channel, and love that accent. Being from Tennessee, I sound like a bale of hay, when I talk.
I have a flat accent from the west coast. Raised in Southern California. The same accent you hear in the media.
Southerners and those of us from Massachusetts share the British /r/.
@@Ivehadenuff Maybe some parts of the south. It seems to me that the missing R that causes New Englanders to paak the ca migrated to Texas, where they warsh theirs.
Again,
Great content, historical detail is what I live on! It brings the history alive!
Finally somebody who speaks my language about the Revolution - and a lovely lady to boot! ☺ Love the videos, keep them coming...
Thank you for another great video. Don't forget to check yourself for ticks, every time I go to Minuteman NHS the ticks always seem to find me and my dog.
Thank you! Will do! 😁
Probably no danger of ticks in Jan/Feb in MA 😉
this channel is like listening to a wicked smaht sistah. I love it! love the content!
Just about the most moving video on our heroes. We tend to focus on the survivors, but we owe so much to the fallen. Keep up this moving work.
Your enthusiasm cracks me up! Keep up the good work 👋🏻😎
Thank you so very much Katie. Good work and so interesting! Plus you are fun 😅 throughout.
Weren’t there men from Boxford who responded ?
If so, they would have been further away
I have visited a Revolutionary War graveyard, Old Fort Niagara at the Niagara River Western NY. Surprised looking at the gravestones of the number of Revolutionary War soldiers who were born in Ontario but fought for the American side.
Very moving video, in these troubled uncertain times it's sad that there are selfish political vultures that do not appreciate the Herculean efforts to found this country and only think of ways to destroy it.
Thanks for taking me along on your adventure Katie. I'm glad you had someone there with you.
Katie... I love your channel. I've been binge watching all weekend.
Your ascent and all the sites bring me back home to New England.
It's funny, my son just asked me over the phone... dad, what's up with your voice? You have an accent like Aunt Teri.
Well done and you found the grave. Wonderful stories. Gray homespun stockings detail!
I appreciate your perseverance! Thanks Katie!
I got chased out of Massachusetts by corrupt cops.
This history, and that ACCENT, bring a tear to my eye.
I love this comment.
easily one of my favorite channels on YT
Thank you so much for watching! 🙏
Thank you for caring so much about these young patriots. I hope this video will energize the community to care for this graveyard on Memorial Day. I could not help to note your emphasis on the ages of these men. As a retired Army veteran let me add that young age is a characteristic of a great number of our fallen veterans. You are so special. My church has three cemeteries with many graves dating back to most of our wars.
Good stuff !! Huge history guy myself as my 10th great POP is the PILGRIM FATHER , W. Bradford .Restoring a 1930 model A bought new by my cousin Frank Bradford . Also just added 20 acres to my land in upstate NY. which I discovered Henry Knox & crew camped on way to Boston with the cannons 1/9-10/1776 . I dug up a bayonet while doing electrical dig. Brought my detector friends in and found 50+ items !!
Nicely done, Miss Katie!
As you can tell, my surname has made me a little curious about the events 1682 ( George Hadley was the first, in Ipswich MA )-now. My father’s family were ALL Mainers, and since -1823 Maine was part of MA, there is a family connection to Boston. In fact, my great-grandmother was a Brown. It was shocking to see a photo of the interred heroes of Lexington, that both a Hadley and a Brown. So of course, whatever you have lately been exposing is of great concern. Your history to me, has been engrossing. I do want to see how they lived, what their lives were like. You are getting it done. We Hadleys have been intertwined with the wars and settlement of the Colonies to now. You might even note that a destroyer ( featured in Fredericksburg TX ) at the Museum of the Pacific War, no less ) is USS Hadley DD774, severely damaged under kamikaze attack and shooting down no fewer than 23 aircraft. We have been around for awhile… It was related under several other genealogical sites that the Hadley killed 4.19th was followed by a younger brother at Breed’s Hill in the summer fighting, and that his resting place may be in the fortifications. Is there any evidence to indicate that this occurred?
Hi I'm a new subscriber from Cortez CO. How could anyone not love Katie.
Thank you for watching! 😀
I'm engrossed by this woman's love and care of history. She makes me feel it.
I am a huge AR fan and reader. I live in Connecticut and I can’t believe I never knew about this channel. I want to make trips to visit places like you show - your real life discovery and humor are refreshing. Is there maybe a compliled list of the locations you visited?
I just found your channel and loving it. Im a big student of history and the Revolution is my favorite to study. Been on that hallowed ground of Lexington, Concord and Menatomy.
Thank you, again.
nice work - thank you
I have forwarded your videos to several friends. Thank you.
This is what the founding fathers meant by militia in the Constitution.
One very intelligent and beautiful Lady 😊
I'm from up that way. Spent the last 20 years in Virginia and North Carolina. Although I'm not from Mass, hearing her accent is putting a smile on my face and making me feel homesick. Peebitty!
It must be amazing/awe inspiring to live in an area where a walk in the woods can lead to a hidden family graveyard. Thanks for sharing.
I am so happy I found you CZcams channel. I went to art school and prep school in Massachusetts and love hearing you speak. Do you ever say , so shouldn’t I when you mean so should Thanks
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Excellent documentary. We'll done.
Great video! Love it.
I really have been enjoying your rev war Chanel. I hope you make it to Southern battlefields as well.
I grew up in CT and my history education revolved primarily around New England's history. My daughter and I are history geeks and enjoy visiting mainly Revolutionary sites. I have spent the last 31 years living in North Carolina and have subsequently learned a great deal about the Southern Campaign. There are some great places to see down here, such as Cowpens, King's Mountain, Guilford Courthouse, and Moore's Creek battlefields. Loved the video and I have subscribed!
Welcome to NC. My grandparents built their home about 1910 along the Indian path that connected Hillsboro to Greensboro right between the Alamance battlefield and the Clapp’s Mill battle sites. My dad and I would fish at the old mill dam site before it was covered by lake McIntosh. I have walked parts of that old trail and still do.
Excellent!! Wonderful video and thank you for doing all the hard work :)
"Minute Man." No prouder name in US history.
Loved this video Katie
Are you a professor, Katie? You have excellent narrating skills, and I majored in history. I've subscribed to your channel and appreciate you keeping up the good job and sharing the upload.
Another amazing video Katie
Really enjoying your presentations. Thank you for the research and time to produce these videos. Looking forward to more.
Cool video!! When hiking the woods around my home I see many old forgotten grave yards on us forest land. I have to ask what’s scary about pipes?? Lol
Thank you for this amazing video.
Very interesting katie ,great job😊
Katy, please watch out walking through these old grave areas. Lots of times a grave collapses because the wooden coffin rots. 😖
Oh jeez, I never thought of that! 😳
Yes indeed Katy. You might end up falling into a ten foot hole I know you want to visit these people but not that way. 😉
thx for your enthusiasm and videos, i love rev history, grew up in bangor maine where the penobscot expedition left many cannons on the riverbed of our penobscot river. always fascinated me that paul revere was on that expedition. love your accent as well. you sound EXACTLY like my cousins from milford mass. :-)
I grew up in Centerfield, Peabody in the 1960's. I saw Henry Jacob's grave way back then - around 1966 as did most of the neighborhood boys. Believe it was the Jacob's family cemetery. In the woods between Centerfield subdivision and Lowell St.
Really enjoy your videos!! My way through them all!
I love your videos!
Katie, I am glad to have found your YT channel this past week. Awsome stuff 😊. So when I hopefully get out East again at some point, I will have places to go & see with pre knowledge of the areas.
You do amazing work. Thanks for posting, I really appreciate it.
~Fritz
I have lived in or very near all of the places you mention. History is all around us. I have subscribed to your channel ❤
I stumbled upon that grave last year while metal detecting. The only thing i found was a bicentenial quarter. I left it there, cause it seemed like the right thing to do.
Hi I just found your channel . I love it .
Born and raised in idaho however my relatives came in 1630 founded danbury Connecticut they named after their home in danbury england. My great grandfather was in deadwood sd. In 1876,butte mt 1877 idaho the following year 1878 in a boom town called gibbonsville. Im just now looking into my ancestry and finding revolutionary tales and i love it. Thank you for your time and energy
Katie, I so appreciate your dedication and passion for the Revolutionary War. It is a time in our nation’s history that I cannot get enough information about. Having read so many books by noted scholars there is nothing like seeing the actual battlegrounds. You do a marvelous job of explaining what you are seeing. To discover the gravesite of fallen heroes on that transformative day in April, 1775 was very emotional. It made me envision the day when they actually buried these young men, and how somber it must have been. What did these colonists think at that time? It had to be a bit terrifying knowing that this group of militiamen just kicked the lion in the backside. Now, they must deal with the wrath of the most powerful military in the world. The unknown must have been both exciting and scary.
Another great video! I most liked how through historical records you identified that they had a procession of sorts with the return of the body. Not a like, but similar to what is done today for our service members.
From what I've read, Newburyport, on April 19th, 1775, sent out a company of minutemen under the command of Captain Moses Little and a militia company under the command of Captain Moses Nowell (my 4th ggf, Caleb Haskell, was in that company - he was fifer or drummer). I don't believe either company encountered the British. Nowell's company was recalled after a few days (and possibly Little's, but I think they stayed behind in Cambridge) over a panic among the communities over a possible British landing at the Merrimack River. I was reading an article about smuggling in Newburyport during the War of 1812 and Colonel Moses Nowell was mentioned as having been the commander of a garrison on Plum Island during the Revolution. Caleb joined another company that was raised at the beginning of May to go back to Cambridge and become a part of Colonel Little's new regiment. The company was commanded by Captain Ezra Lunt (according to one source, the company spontaneously formed in the aisle of the Old South Church after a rousing sermon given by Reverend Jonathan Parsons). Caleb was at the Siege of Boston (and Battle of Bunker's Hill) until he signed up for Arnold's Quebec Expedition in September. By the end of May the next year Caleb made his way home and "found all friends well".
What a fascinating place where you live with such wonderful history at your fingertips. I went on a gravesite hunt years ago for a great great grandfather who had served in the Civil War. My hunt was unsuccessful, as it seems that after the war my ancestor decided to do the 19th century version of “going off the grid.” I have a theory about why, but a CZcams comments section is no place for family secrets…lol.
LOL, I love it, Fred, thank you!
@@KatieTurnerGetty have a great weekend! This was a fun video to watch!
PTSD was a “thing,” and has been for a very long time. Read up on the life of Lt. Col. Rufus Dawes battlefield commander of the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863. Though a tremendous leader, he was done after Gettysburg. A shame; this was the unit that Lee always wanted to know the whereabouts of, as part of his pre-battle intel. They lost 82 % of their strength at Gettysburg, and were never again, the unit as constituted.
@@johnhadley7715 PTSD wasn’t the “thing” in the case of my ancestor, but you have a great point about undiagnosed PTSD in soldiers. Even during World War II and Korea it still lived under the moniker “battle fatigue,” which comes with a certain level of shaming.
@@MrDodgerfred Before that their was 'shell-shock'. Different times, different names, same thing tho.
Thank you for this video. I've known that story that most of us learned in school (do they even still teach this any more?) about April 19, but this in-depth story struck me on a deeply personal level. Henry Jacobs young age, and that he dropped everything and ran with his company on that morning....and that he didn't come home safely, was incredibly moving. Somehow the quiet solitude and remoteness of that family plot just adds to the story.
Paraphrasing and stealing from a friend of mine who is a history buff: "To us history may be dry and dusty but to Henry Jacobs, that was his every day life, his entire world."
Thanks again!
Just a FYI, a lot of American militia were bayoneted in that battle as the British attempted to sweep the woods of American snipers. It's also a fact these battles around Boston gave the Americans the impression that the milita were a lot better then they were in actuality. The Battles for New York put that notion to rest.
Katy, just a question. Where were the British soldiers buried in that altercation? Were they carried back to Boston?
Great question - the British troops were buried where they fell, or brought to local burying grounds and buried. A couple British soldiers are buried at North Bridge, Concord, and several graves are scattered down Battle Road. Many Americans and British who were killed at Menotomy were buried in the town burying ground there. Thank you for watching!
Thanks Katy😉
Good point. School never taught what happened to the British dead. One would assume they were somehow magically taken back to their native soil. Do we honor British graves with the Union Jack?
I recall reading about, or seeing a photo, of two graves of British soldiers from about this time. The graves were inscribed, "Out enemies in life, our guests in death".
Katie...awesome channel! Love your style and accent. Ever thought about doing something on King Phillips war?
Love your videos!
Thank you.
One of my favorite activities as a young historian was to these old lost graves and I would make a charcoal rubbing of the face of the gravestones onto large sheets of paper. This usually made it possible to read what you couldn't see otherwise. Enjoyed this action adventure!
Nice to see our government has no time or money to preserve our history. The Uxbury cemetery was a disgrace as well for the Pilgrim colony. Nice job.
She is dedicated to what she does.
I had a relative die at Bunker Hill and can't find his grave. He was brought to Andover to a Mr. Blunt's home. His name was Daniel Evans. His son was George Evans of Allentown, NH.
Way to go Kate-T :)
I am supprised at the poor condition of the area surrounding the grave sites. It should be kept up better...
Huzzah! Thanks to all y'all who comprehend and honor. "Lest We Never Forget." Aye, Capt. R.A. "Rick" Briggs, Jr., US Army, Retired. Killeen, Texas 20240213.
Hiya Katie, I really enjoyed the video. But, if stepping over a log is adventurous and scary, you need to get out more :). I admit I've recently taken a renewed interest in the Revolutionary War after a recent visit to Monmouth State Park here in New Jersey. I just watched your recent video over the Boston map anomaly, and it raised and answered some other questions I had. Thanks.
So we made it out to this spot last Saturday. wasn't to bad to find very nice walk not too muddy. We explored the area and the other headstones. paid our respect and as a Veteran myself to a fallen brother. Then we took a ride out to Salem and while their talking to a local who is working on a book told us that Henry Jacobs is related to George Jacob who was hanged Aug 19th 1692 as a witch and is now buried at Nurse Burial Ground which we now plan to visit on another road trip.
Hello from San Angelo Texas, i love your accent lol
maybe you can get a few people together and repair the broken headstones and clean the small cemetery up alittle. ( I have seen other cemeterys that have a metal band that keeps the headstones together once repaired.) Just a thought. One of my ancestors died at Andersonville prison during the civil war and in researching that i still haven't been able to find anyone that was in the revolutionary war. But I am going to keep looking! There has to be someone!
😊great video
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Hallowed Ground! Thats a National Treasure Cemetery.
The Danvers Men also had among their casualties, Rueben Kennison, a native of Newmarket, NH who was married to Apphia Batchelder and lived across the town line in Beverly's Rial Side. He was in Israel Hutchinson's company that traveled all the way from Danversport. Reports are that he after Hutchinson realized that they were trapped had tried to break out of the house when he was shot and bayonetted to death. Rueben was New Hampshire's first casualty in the war of independence as well as Beverly's first war fatality. Kennison traveled the farthest to die defending Jason Russell's home.
my mom is on the Peabody historical society, they are going to clean up the trail and the graveyard for the 250 year anniversary of the battles.
You really need to get out in the woods more often. It was more like what much of the colonial landscape was, maybe not in urbane MA, but I have climbed into and bushwhacked much worse in the quest for finding missing ancestors.😅
I had two Ancestors there who survived.