Revolutionary War Monument - Nashua NH
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N 42° 42.874 W 071° 26.568
19T E 299967 N 4732012
Memorial to Revolutionary War heroes in the city of Nashua, originally Dunstable, NH. The monument is in an old cemetery in south Nashua.
Waymark Code: WM6ZPN
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 08/10/2009
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With the coming of the Revolutionary War, the men and families of Dunstable, NH were present from the very first days of the glorious struggle. When news of the Battle of Lexington reached Dunstable by the afternoon of April 19, 1775, many men rushed to arms and hurried to Concord, MA to participate in driving the English back to Boston. Within less than a week of the Lexington-Concord battles a company of 66 men was organized at Cambridge, MA under Capt. William Walker of Dunstable, New Hampshire. Fox’s History of Nashua states, “The whole man population of the town at this time between the ages of 16 and 50 was only 128; so that nearly one-half the able-bodied inhabitants must have been in the army at the first call of liberty, a month before the Battle of Bunker Hill. From no other town in New Hampshire was there so large a number in the army…” The soldier names included, Lovewell, Whitney, Blanchard, Lovejoy, Roby, Clogstone, Harris, Lund, Greeley, Butterfield, and Harwood, to name a few.
It is a little known fact that no less than half the men who fought on Bunker Hill the day of June 16, 1775 were New Hampshire minute-men. Many Dunstable, NH men were on Bunker Hill that day; William Harris the young drummer boy, Paul Clogstone who eventually died from his wounds, and most memorably Col. Ebenezer Bancroft; thought to be the last man on Bunker Hill, and being the man who apparently killed English Maj. John Pitcairn who led the march on Lexington & Concord. Bancroft is buried at the Old South Burial Ground on Daniel Webster Hwy. south, the ancient Bancroft family homestead once standing at the site of today’s Pheasant Lane Mall.
~~Above information was taken from the City of Nashua website.
Type of Memorial: Monument
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