How Well Do You Know Danvers Revolutionary War History?

1. Putnam Pantry is named after which Danvers Revolutionary war hero?

General Israel Putnam

Colonel Ichabod Pantry

Lieutenant Joseph Putnam

2. During the Leslie's Retreat incident of 1775 in Salem, British troops unsuccesfully wanted to march into Danversport (then called New Mills) to seize what?

Oxen

Cannon

Local militia leader Samuel Stonington

What was rumored to be a large supply of white powdered wigs

3. Like many of his contemporaries, General Israel Putnam was a veteran of which war before the Revolution?

The 1748 Norwegian Invasion of Newfoundland

The French and Indian War

King Philip's War

The Hundred Years' War

4. Who was the British commander who was stationed in Danvers during the Revolution?

General Thomas Gage

Lord Mountbatten

General Richard Montgomery

Colonel Alexander Leslie

5. Hidden behind some bushes on the People's United Bank (Formerly Danvers Savings Bank main office), there is a stone monument commemorating what episode of the Revolutionary War? (Hint: It's one of the only ones of its kind in America)

Henry Knox transporting the cannon to Boston Harbor to force the British to exit the harbor

Benedict Arnold's march to Quebec, which passed through Danvers

George Washington's 1788 visit to Danvers

Artemas Ward's victory in the battle of Endicott Green

6. After the Battle of Lexington and Concord, fallen soldiers were brought to whose house, which stood at the time in Danversport?

Israel Hutchinson

Israel Putnam

Simon Fraser

Dr. William Newhall

7. Which happened at the house the British Commander was staying at in DanverS?

It was burned down

A patriot fired a musket ball into the door

It was badly damaged by cannon fire, repaired, and stood near the site of the Liberty Tree Mall until 1926

Nothing. It still stands on Sylvan Street

8. Where is that house the British Commander stayed in now?

No longer exists

Pine Street in Danvers

Washington, D.C.

Olde Sturbridge Village