Massachusetts Patriots: Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites - Paperback

by Lawrence Knorr (Author), Joe Farrell (Author), Joe Farley (Author)

Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. This special volume includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Massachusetts. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 21 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause.

In this volume:

• John Hancock: The Signature
• Abigail Adams: Mrs. President
• John Adams: Second to George
• Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary
• Crispus Attucks: The Boston Massacre
• Thomas Cushing, III: Protégé of John Hancock
• Francis Dana: Congressman at Valley Forge
• Deborah Sampson Gannett: Female Minuteman
• Nathaniel Gorham: President of Congress
• Samuel Holten: Physician Continental Congressman
• Henry Knox: "Miracle on the Dorchester Heights"
• Benjamin Lincoln: Received the Surrender at Yorktown
• James Lovell: Teacher, Orator, Signer, Spy
• Joseph Plumb Martin Private Yankee Doodle
• James Otis Jr.: "Founding Firebrand"
• Robert Treat Paine: The Objection Maker
• Timothy Pickering: Radical Federalist
• Paul Revere: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear"
• Artemas Ward: First Commander-in-Chief
• Joseph Warren: Hero of Bunker Hill
• Mercy Otis Warren: The Muse of the Revolution
• Index