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#OTD May 3, 1683, Rev. George Burroughs returns to Salem Village to settle accounts, only to be arrested for a debt owed to Capt. John Putnam. Specifically it was "for two gallons of Canary wine, and cloth, &c. bought of Mr Gedney on John Putnam's account, for the funeral of Mrs Burroughs."

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Welcome to the new Bluesky page for the @arcdurham.bsky.social / Auckland Project #archaeology excavations! Preparations are underway for the 2025 season - (primarily stocking-up the coffee!). Be sure to follow along for what will be our -Final- season at Auckland Castle!

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#OTD May 2, 1692, Dorcas Hoar of Beverly, a known fortune teller and thief, is questioned by the court in Salem about witchcraft.

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#OTD May 1, 1691 Wabanaki leaders fail to appear in Wells, Maine, for a prisoner exchange and treaty negotiations.

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#OTD April 30 1692, in Salem a warrant is issued to arrest George Burroughs for witchcraft. Word is sent to arrest him in his home in Wells, Maine.

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#OTD April 29, 1692 Reverend Cotton Mather spends the day in private prayer, contemplating the "many continuing Iniquities and Calamities of the Countrey."

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What are the connections between founders such as John Adams, Elbridge Gerry and Ben Franklin and the Salem witch trials? Find out in my Historic New England Zoom talk “1692 to 1775,” April 29 at 7pm Eastern time: tinyurl.com/47ax87h6

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#OTD April 28, 1692, in Salem, the specters of Giles Cory and Mary English beat and choke Susanna Sheldon when she tries to eat anything.

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#OTD April 27, 1692 the Devil, in Salem the specters of Giles Cory, Mary English, Bridget Bishop & their familiars afflict Susanna Sheldon

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Excited this just arrived! Congrats to Mary Beth Norton on her latest book.

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#OTD April 26, 1692 in Salem Village, an afflicted Susanna Sheldon is found in a woodlot, screaming and flailing as if fighting an unseen assailant.

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#OTD April 25, 1692 in Stamford, Connecticut, Katherine Branch shows the first signs of of being afflicted by a witch.

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#OTD April 23, 1692 in Acadia, Captain John Alden bungles prisoner exchange with the French. Alden's son and John Nelson remain captive.

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April 23, 1640, Colonel Wolfgang Romer is born in Dusseldorf. The military engineer and follower of William of Orange/William III, designed many English colonial fortifications.

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#OTD April 22, 1692, a case of mistaken identity in Salem! 30 year old Nehemiah Abbott Jr. of Ipswich is set free by the court - it was not his specter, but someone who looked like him. He is the first and only person freed by the Court of Oyer and Terminer after initial questioning.

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Lucy is a bit disappointed I did not post her photo as the Easter Basset yesterday, so here she is, and apologies Lucy!

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#OTD April 21, 1692 Thomas Putnam writes to Judges Hathorne and Corwin, warning them he "thought it our duty to inform your Honors of what we conceive you have not heard, which are high and dreadful: of a wheel within a wheel, at which our ears do tingle," a reference to Ezekiel 1:16-18.

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#OTD April 20, 1692 in Salem, Abigail Hobbs admits attending the satanic mass where they "did Eat of the Red Bread and drink of the Red wine"

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#OTD April 19, 1692, in Salem the court examined Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory, Abigail Hobbs & Mary Warren for witchcraft.

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Between Lexington, Concord and the retreat to Bunker Hill, the British casualties were 73 killed, 174 wounded, 26 missing, while colonial casualties were 49 killed, 41 wounded, 5 missing.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, 8pm. The battle is over. The British occupy Bunker Hill with a strong defensible position. They spend the night there, and ferry troops across the Charles the next day. They will soon abandon Bunker Hill, a decision that will cost the British over 1,000 casualties on June 17.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, the British arrive at Bunker Hill. “We got there between 7 and 8 oclock at night, took possession of the hill above the Town...the Rebels did not chuse to follow us to the Hill as they must have fought us on open ground and that they did not like. . .” - John Barker's Diary.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, 7:30 pm “. . .Captain Linzee and Captain Collins in two Small Armed Vessels were ordered up Charles River to Bring off the Troops to Boston but Lord Percy and Smith thought Proper to encamp on Bunker’s Hill. . .” (from the diary of Boston merchant, John Rowe).

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#OTD April 19, 1775, at 7pm in Charlestown, a regiment from Salem, 700 strong, arrives a few minutes too late to cut off the British forces at Prospect Hill, before they can reach Charlestown Neck. Percy fires his cannon to disperse the modest American force that does confront him.

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#OTD April 19, 1775 Cambridge, 6:30pm General Lord Percy made the decision to take alternate route to Boston. The British would march to Charlestown, to avoid crossing of the bridge over the Charles River (at present-day Harvard Street). Percy later wrote:

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#OTD April 19, 1775 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ambush at Jacob Watson house—Watson’s Corner. British flankers overwhelmed militia. Major Isaac Gardner of Brookline, John Hicks, Moses Richardson of Cambridge were killed.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, 5:30pm in Menotomy (Arlington). The Jason Russell house is the site of heavy casualties as the fighting goes house to house. Elderly and lame, Russell was bayoneted and killed. British flankers overwhelmed Danvers militiamen, in the yard and inside the house. 12 men killed.

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#OTD, April 19, 1775 Menotomy (Arlington), approximately 4:30pm, the house of Deacon Joseph Adams plundered and set afire. The fire was extinguished. Hannah Adams, having recently delivered a baby, testified on May 17, 1775 to the confrontation with British soldiers. (Retreat from Concord)

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#OTD April 19, 4:30pm. As the British retreat reached Menotomy (Arlington), more militia units joined the fight.The battle became more desperate in this more urbanized landscape, with fighting from house to house. Dr. Joseph Warren joined in the fight at "Foot of the Rocks."

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#OTD April 19, 1775 in Lexington, 3 houses were ordered to be set on fire to prevent use by provincial snipers. Deacon Joseph Loring, Mrs. Lydia Mulliken, and Benjamin Merriam,Joshua Bond, sustained the most damage. Other houses were plundered by soldiers but not burned (Doolittle's view).

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#OTD April 19, 1775, about 3:30pm, after a brief rest and time to tend the wounded at Munroe Tavern in Lexington, the British column now under the command of Hugh Earl Percy resumed their march to Boston. With the addition of 1st Brigade, the column was now more than 1600 strong.

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#OTD, April 19, 1775 Lexington, 3pm. Percy's troops fired two six-pound field pieces. The cannon placed on hills on either side of the road to Boston, fired toward massing militia near the meeting-house. The building was damaged by a ball passing through the wall. Monument for Percy's Cannon.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, 3pm, Smith's column is now in disorganized, almost full headlong retreat. Fortunately, a half mile east of Lexington Common they are met by Lord Percy's relief column. Had they not been reinforced when they were, they probably would not have made it back to Boston.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, about 2:30 pm, Ensign DeBerniere noted “Within a mile of Lexington, our ammunition began to fail, and the light companies were so fatigued with flanking they were scarce able to act. . .” The British retreat is in danger of becoming a rout.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, at Fiske Hill, Lexington, 2:15pm, more fighting takes place. After, the dead and dying lay strew across the landscape & Rebecca Fiske remembered coming home to find a dead British soldier near her doorstep and three wounded men laying within her home. tinyurl.com/3mhuyy6w

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#OTD April 19, 1775, 2:00pm, in Lexington, the British carry out a rear guard action to protect their retreat at "The Bloody Bluff." Lt. Col. Smith is wounded in the leg. www.nps.gov/places/the-b...

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A bit west of the Bloody Bluff on Battle Road is the home of Jacob Whittemore. According to family tradition the family abandoned the home and temporarily took to the woods when the British approached on April 19, 1775.

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#OTD April 19, 1775, 1:45pm. Capt. Parker has rallied the Lexington militia, carrying out an ambush on a rise on a hill on the Lexington/Lincoln line. Artifacts found on this hillside suggest significant fighting occurred here. www.nps.gov/places/parke...

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East of the Bloody Angle on Battle Road is the picturesque and historic Hartwell tavern, part of Minute Man National Historic Site.

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#OTD April 18, 175, 1:30pm,at Elm Brook Hill in Lincoln (the Bloody Angle). Approx. 200 men, mostly from Woburn commanded by Maj. Loammi Baldwin ambush the British column, killing 8 and leaving many others wounded. www.nps.gov/places/elm-b...

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#OTD April 19, 1775, April 19, 1775, 1pm, at Brooks Hill in Lincoln, approximately a mile east of Meriam’s Corner. Approximately 500 militia from Sudbury and Framingham, had massed for directed fire upon the British. Intense fighting takes place before the British continue east toward Lexington.

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Nathan Meriam House, not far from Meriam's Corner.

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#OTD April 19, 1775 c. 12:30pm Concord. Militia from Reading, Billerica, Chelmsford, Tewksbury & probably Sudbury, ambush the British columns at Meriam's Corner. Thus begins a running 16 mile long battle that marked the opening salvo of an eight year war. Photo of British grave near Meriam's Corner.

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April 19, 1775 Concord, c. 12 noon. The British commenced the march back to Boston.

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