How Well Do You Know Lynnfield's Revolutionary War History?

1. When the American Revolution started, Lynnfield was part of which other town?

Saugus

Lynn

Danvers

Reading

2. Name the most prominent historic Lynnfield house that is directly connected to the Revolutionary War.

The Newhall House

The Danforth House

General Putnam's Summer Home

The Lafayette Homestead

3. The definitive source of history on Lynnfield's Role in the Revolution is:

The Diary Of Lieutenant Simeon Newhall (1780)

Lynn In The Revolution (1909)

The Patriots Of The Lynnfield Parish (1953)

My Life In Ye Continental Army, By Major Hiram Smith (1799)

4. Lynnfield Minuteman Daniel Townsend died at:

The Battle of Menotomy

The Battle of Stones River

The Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Lexington and Concord

5. Once the siege of Boston began, most Lynnfield Minutemen ended up joining:

The Committees of Correspondence

The Continental Army

The Hessians

Colonel Stonington's Artillery Brigade

6. The home of Revolutionary War hero Daniel Townsend once stood where?

Intersection of Walnut and Summer streets

What is now Post Office Square

Essex Street

Lynnfield Street not far from Salem Street

7. In 1772, Lynnfielders:

Participated in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate British General Thomas Gage

Established a cannon foundry not far from the site of the current senior center

Signed a mutual defense pact with North Reading and Middleton

Voted to establish a committee of correspondence to discuss grievances against the British with other nearby towns.

8. The first man to (technically) die from an American Revolutionary military activity, a Lynnfielder, succumbed to:

Grape shot from a cannon accident

Bayonet wounds sustained near Lexington

Seizrures from a cold

Heart attack on way to Lexington

9. During the Revolution, Patriot weapons were hidden where in Lynnfield?

The Old Meeting House

The Centre Congregational Church

Gerry's Cider Mill

A stone hut on Pillings Pond