Tag: Powder Major DeMerritt

• Revolution 2024

  4 July 2024 On Saturday, 15 June, Durham NH celebrated—six months early—the sestercentennial (aka 250th anniversary) of some doughty Durham residents’ 1774 raid on the British Fort William and Mary in New Castle, enacting there at the mouth of the Piscataqua River the first major act of colonial rebellion that took place four months before…

  georgeannmurphy

  July 4, 2024

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  american-revolution, Durham NH, Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, Ft. William & Mary, Gen. John Sullivan, John Paul’s stone house, Madbury NH, New Castle NH, Oyster River, Paul Revere, Piscataqua River, Powder Major DeMerritt