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The Last Soldier and Widow to Receive Revolutionary War Pensions
American Ancestors Magazine
Fall 2024, by David Allen Lambert
“A Box Worth Keeping”: The Story of the Robinson Tea Chest
American Ancestors Magazine
Fall 2023, by Josiah George
On the Trail of Treason- Peggy Shippen’s Amazing Story
American Ancestors Magazine
Fall 2012, by Stephen H. Case
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The Loyalist Experience During the American Revolution
Fall 2025, by Alexander Cain
The Revolutionary War’s Hard Winter
Fall 2025, by Judith E. Harper
Peter Maynard: A Black Revolutionary War Soldier from Westborough, Massachusetts
Fall 2025, by Ross W. Beales Jr.
The “Fighting Armstrongs” of Boston’s Granary Burying Ground
Summer 2022, by Philip O’Brien
Dr. Joseph Warren - Reflection, Research & Remembrance
Fall 2019, by Christian Di Spigna
Elizabeth King Hortons Fight for Half-pay Pension
Fall 2019, by Stephen D. Sanford
Tales from the Courthouse - Waiting for Ichabod - A Revolutionary War Wife’s Tale
Summer 2011, by Diane Rapaport
Images of the Revolutionary War Generation
Summer 2010, by Maureen A. Taylor
Vita Brevis Blog Posts
On the Other Side of Lexington Green—April 19, 1775
Spring 2025, by David Allen Lambert
Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride—Which Old North Church?
Spring 2023, by Christopher C. Child
The Boston Tea Party: An Ancestor’s Perspective
Fall 2023, by Jared Nathan
Revolutionary Women
Winter 2017, by Michelle Norris
Revolutionary Privateering
Winter 2017, by Nancy Bernard
Heartbeat of the Revolution
Spring 2021, by Elizabeth Peay
Cato Freedom: Soldier of the Revolution
Winter 2025, by Jonathan Hill
A voice from the Revolutionary War
Summer 2016, by Andrew Krea
The Real Molly Pitcher
Spring 2016, by Andrew Krea
Patriotic Presidential Ancestors
Winter 2022, by Christopher C. Child