Battles of Lexington/Concord, MA

TL;DR -- This post has a 250th theme. Our work of fourteen years has generated a lot of data. With this anniversary, we will go back and connect with that done over 100 years ago. 

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The title refers to the conflict in Massachusetts in April of 1775 between the military forces of England and the militas of New England. One might say that the 250th of the U.S. celebration can use that as a starting point. England's troops were pushed to Boston. And, later were allowed to leave that area, too. 

Now, in a real sense, the 250th started before. There were meetings several years in advance. We will name names as we look at the historical/genealogical aspects. Some events were well known: the Boston Tea Party. 

Where could the English troops go? North to Canada, for one thing. BTW, "troops" would include several types of military resources that the old country had. The whole of the time of the Revolutionary War has been researched and written about by historians. Our interest goes further as we have the genealogical and family historical aspect to cover, too. 

For instance, one of our tabs is "TMM" (The Massachusetts Magazine) which was an effort of a Thomas Gardner descendant. As an MD, he was a medical officer with a group in Salem MA; but, he did a lot of research which was done during the time of the late 1800s and early 1900s. We honor his work and will continue referring to it. 

On looking at the first issue of the TMM in 1908, we counted the number of refernces to Lexington. Every Issue (Quarterly) had an article on a military group (Regimental History Series, background and motivation) that had been at the Boston Siege. Most of these were at the earlier event, as well. 

• See TMM tab and look at TMM, Vol I, 1907 provided by archive[.]org. Each Volume had four Issues. 

So, over 100 years later, in 2025+, we can continue the research with lots more facilities available. For one, the computer is now quite capable. We have more sources that are digitized (offical records; eye witness accounts; &c). In terms of personal experience, pensions were offered. Much of the data consists of application data. 

Regimental History Series, background and motivation

In terms of interest, the Thomas Gardner Society, Inc. has a mission related to honoring the start of Massachusetts, particularly after the establishment of the Plymouth colony. That is a 400-year view about which we have spent time and effort doing our own research. Now, we have the 250th arrive related to the Revolution and the start of the U.S.

At the same time, we have added Technology as a special interest. In particular, computational systems in all of their aspects will be the focus especially with respect to knowledge systems dealing with particulars from the specifics of mathematics up through the 12-floors of science using physics as an example, such as Gibbs and thermodynamics. 

Remarks: Modified: 12/18/2024

12/18/2024 --  Put in a link to the Gibb's post.