250 Years Ago, Sudbury was in the middle of an epidemic known as the bloody flux. We know this from Rev. Jacob Bigelow’s Burial Records and the Diary of Experience Wright Richardson, in which she recorded her thoughts from 1728 until 1782. She mentions the disease first in August 29 and twice more, for example:…

250 years ago on June 17th, 1775, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought and the phrase “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” was made famous. Officers Colonel John Nixon and Major Cudworth had both been promoted from Captains, who led the Sudbury Militia on April 19th, two months prior. The provincials tried…

250 Years Ago, Concord Road did not lead to Concord; it only led to Nine Acre Corner. The bridge over the Sudbury River would not be constructed until 1802. The attached map shows the likely routes taken by the six companies of the Sudbury Minute and Militia as far as we know today. The…

250 Years ago, on March 29th, 10 hogsheads of rum and other supplies were shipped to Sudbury to reduce the concentration of stores in Concord. Here is the story from Shattuck's History of Concord* "On the 29th of March a report was circulated that the British troops were coming to Concord, which produced considerable…

Sudbury has three significant Revolutionary War stories that happened in the town itself. And I use the term  "happened"  loosely, the stories either march from Sudbury, or pass through the town. The most notable of these is April 19, 1775, when the Militia and Minute companies left Sudbury and marched to the Battle of Concord.…

[Jan Hardenbergh serves as the Sudbury Town Historian] On September 12th, 1774, Town Meeting meeting voted to gunpowder and "to purchase Six hundred Weight & 300 French Flynts or 500 English Flynts, to purchase a Chest of Arms to the Number of 30 with Bayonets to be under the Care of the Select Men,…