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Amos Baker
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Amos Baker
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Saturday, May 04, 2024
G. F. Hoar and “stories of the Battle of Concord”
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George Frisbie Hoar (1826–1904, shown here) was born in Concord . His father, Samuel Hoar, represented the area in the U.S. Congress and co...
Monday, April 18, 2016
“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end.”
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When we left the nonagenarian Amos Baker of Lincoln yesterday, he had just described how the commanders of the Middlesex County militiamen...
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Sunday, April 17, 2016
Amos Baker at the Bridge
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On 22 Apr 1850, three days after the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord , justice of the peace Ebenezer Roc...
Saturday, April 16, 2016
“I wished to ask him more about the Concord Fight”
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On 5 July 1850 Josiah Adams called on Amos Baker of Lincoln , a veteran of the fight at Concord ’s North Bridge over seventy-five years bef...
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Mystery of James Nichols, Reluctant Soldier
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One of the most striking anecdotes of the confrontation at the North Bridge in Concord is the story of an Englishman who mustered with his ...
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Exploring Concord on the 19th of April and Beyond
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Concord and the Dawn of Revolution: The Untold Truths is a collection of articles by D. Michael Ryan about the details of the outbreak of ...
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