tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5201259297533355026..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “Sergeant Smith and His White Horse” Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-90058093339877385652017-02-21T22:59:12.163-05:002017-02-21T22:59:12.163-05:00As you can see by hitting the "Hezekiah Wyman...As you can see by hitting the "Hezekiah Wyman" labels on this blog, I've researched the men of that name and the myth attached to that name in detail. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-48634390089466865842017-02-20T15:51:17.502-05:002017-02-20T15:51:17.502-05:00In the Wyman Genealogy Database Hezekiah Wyman is ...In the Wyman Genealogy Database Hezekiah Wyman is attributed to be the famous rider as noted in his profile. Note: "◦he set off for Lexington too late for the battle on the Common, but he came upon the retreating British and made them very miserable. Chapman's history quotes the first known article about him from the Boston "Pearl" written sometime before 1840. "His tall gaunt form, his white locks floating in the breeze, and the color of his horse distinguished him from the other Americans; the British called him "Death on the Pale Horse"_Once a bayonet charge drove him off,_but ere long he was returning to the charge and this time killed an officer. His powerful white horse, careening at full speed over the hills, with the dauntless old man on his back, was continually to be seen, and the British learned to read his appearance in their front and the report of his trusty musket."<br /><br /> Hezekiah Wyman finally joined the "old men of Menotomy" who hid behind stone walls in what is now Arlington Center and attacked the ammunition and supply wagons that were sent from Boston to help the retreating British.<br /><br /> In his will made in June, 1779, Hezekiah left his white mare to his son , Daniel. One of Daniel's sons, George Wyman, lived in the house that still stands at 195 Cambridge Street, opposite the Winchester Conservatories."<br /><br />https://www.wyman.org/genealogy-test<br /> <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499482689009625892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-66839644550021455752015-02-03T12:46:22.300-05:002015-02-03T12:46:22.300-05:00Other myths of the American revolution: Peter Fran...Other myths of the American revolution: Peter Fransisco's fight <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%27s_Fight<br /><br />also "Myth on the Map"<br />http://www.americanheritage.com/content/myth-map<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-33124603525978446632015-01-03T19:22:45.277-05:002015-01-03T19:22:45.277-05:00Strange, indeed, but surely a coincidence. Seth Wy...Strange, indeed, but surely a coincidence. Seth Wyman's connection to "Lovewell's Fight" is well documented, but it came up in connection to another Wyman's shakier claims of a link to the marksman on the white horse. Meanwhile, this writer was eliminating the name of Wyman from the story in favor of the untraceable "Sergeant Smith."<br /><br />I guess that "Lovewell's Fight" was just notable in New England lore back when massacres weren't such a bad thing, so the author of this anecdote invoked it as a fight that an old man of 1775 could conceivably have been part of. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-29973283604215762412015-01-03T17:14:36.112-05:002015-01-03T17:14:36.112-05:00As you know, John, I've always been fascinated...As you know, John, I've always been fascinated by the legend of Hezekiah Wyman; and your post today got me rereading the series you did about Hezekiah back in June 2010. And there on June 15, 2010, the subject of Lovewell's Fight in Maine (1725) also comes up. Can this be just a coincidence?<br /><br />The search function on your blog indicates that today's post and the 2010 post are the only times you've mentioned the Lovewell incident since Boston 1775 began. And in your earlier thread about Wyman, the connection with Lovewell's Fight doesn't arise until 1895, or 50 years after the story in today's post...<br /><br />Strange!Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.com