Defiance & Heroism of Captain Samuel Russell Trevett, Artillery Commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775

Available on Zoom  ~  The bold defiance of an artillery commander from Marblehead, Captain Samuel Russell Trevett, at the Battle of Bunker Hill –– and his subsequent false accusation and military censure for his heroic actions (though he was eventually exonerated).  A free public talk (not illustrated) by Marblehead's Town Historian, Donald Doliber, a retired award-winning history teacher and former high school administrator.  Captain Samuel Russel Trevett fought valiantly and was the only American to lead his cannon company into the thick of the battle, defying the orders of his superior officers.  He and his team also managed to drag a field-piece down off the hill as the American forces retreated. That was the only American cannon not captured by the British. Trevett, however, was falsely accused of his superior officer’s failures. Though exonerated soon after, he never rejoined the army, but served instead as a Captain aboard privateer vessels through the war’s end in 1782.  Captain Trevett's home in Marblehead still survives, among nearly 300 of the 525 houses that stood in Marblehead in 1775, when the town was British North America's sixth most populous metropolis.