Revolutionary War Wife: Sally Cobb Paine and the Taunton Home Front, 1770-1781

"I hope I Shall See you with your head on your Shoulders once more but my Stout heart begins to quiver for fear of blood Shed." So wrote Sally Cobb Paine to her husband, only ten days before the battles at Lexington and Concord ignited the American Revolution. While Robert Treat Paine served the cause of independence in Philadelphia and Boston, his wife and children waged a different kind of war from their home on Taunton Green.

Drawing upon almost fifty of Sally's letters, which are now in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Dr. William Hanna will present a new interpretation of life on the Taunton home front between 1770 and 1781. Join him as he describes the Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Taunton family.  

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