MA250 Event – Plymouth in the Revolution Lecture Series 2025 (Plymouth)

Lecture Series 2025 – 5 presentations-Wednesdays April 2, 9, 30 and May 7 & 14  at 7pm – Held at The Plymouth Public Library

Two hundred years ago, on 19 April 1775, American history changed. Colonial forces faced the British army at Lexington & Concord … and won. Word spread rapidly, and two regiments of Plymouth “Minute Men,” led by Colonel Theophilus Cotton, rallied to the Patriot cause. For the next six years, Plymoutheans participated in America’s battle for independence.

Although not the site of any great battles, nor the home of any triumphant generals, Plymouth is filled with the stories of the lawmakers and lawyers whose rhetoric inspired the Patriot cause, of the men who risked their lives and livelihood in military service, and of the civilians who kept the home fires burning, as well as of the Americans who, valuing loyalty above all, continued to support the King. They illuminate the complex and fascinating history of Massachusetts’ earliest town, as it embraced the movement for American independence, and the lasting impact it made on the Town’s historical landscape.

April 9: Peggy Baker – Benjamin Warren’s War: A Plymouthean in the Continental Army
Benjamin Warren’s war, from the siege of Boston to the northern frontiers, and finally, after six years of service, home to resume civilian life, is the quintessential Plymouth story, unusual only in being so well-documented. Like many other Plymoutheans, Benjamin was an ordinary man, who, in these extraordinary times, rose to the occasion and made a mark on history.
Peggy M. Baker, Rogers family researcher for the Mayflower Society “Silver Books” Project, Director Emerita of the Pilgrim Society/Pilgrim Hall Museum. An elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and honorary member of the Massachusetts Mayflower Society, she has written more than 50 articles, many focused on her (adopted) hometown of Plymouth.

Upcoming Lectures:
April 30: Patrick Browne – “Patriotism in a High Degree Zealous”: Ephraim Spooner & the Home Front
May 7: Mark Schmidt – Choosing Sides: Loyalists in the American Revolution
May 14: Donna Curtin – Dr. James Thacher & Plymouth’s Revolutionary Generation