“The Governor, the Sheriff, and the Sawyer: a New Hampshire Perspective on the Coming of the Revolution”

Kimberly Alexander, Director of Museum Studies & Senior Lecturer History Department,

University of New Hampshire, and Peter Flood present the last of the Paul Revere House's Lowell Lecture series. 

Paul Revere made multiple rides to New Hampshire to pass messages between Patriot groups. New Hampshire had its own long tradition of protest: laws that claimed pine trees for the Royal Navy contributed to growing discontent with colonial rule, reflected in a series of riots. By late 1774, New Hampshire colonists were seizing Royal munitions.