To Adopt the Continental

Congress’ Sentiments as Encourage Minute Men

Reading on the Eve of
Our Own: Reading’s Town to Enlist: Organizing
War: Details about the
Meeting Supports the Reading’s Fourth Company
Town in 1775
Continental & Provincial of Minute, 1775
Congresses, 1774-1775

The Need for Powder Reading is

Fifer, Charles Eaton, 16:
Muskets, and Lead: The Assigned: Reading, MA as
The Role of a Fifer in
Principal Weapons & Supply a Supply Depot for Food
Military Service
Needs Stores for the Army, 1775

Selling in Direct Elected Captain: The

A Fascinating Journey:
Opposition: Establishing a Selection of 22-year-old
The Early Life of Reading
Committee of Inspection to John Brooks as Captain of
Minutemen Captain John
Stop the Consumption of the Reading Company of
Brooks
British Goods, 1775 Minutemen

The Bell was Rung and Give Whatever Aid Stand to Your Arms!
Alarm Guns Were Fired: Possible: Supporting the Reading’s Alarm Riders
Reading Responds to the People of Charlestown Upon Spread the Word that the
Salem Alarm, February 27, the Closing of the Port of British are Marching on
1775 Boston, 1774-1775 Concord, April 19, 1775

To Respond to the Remained at Cambridge

War has Begun: Reading and Served: The Army
Alarm: The Reading
Men Strike at the British, Camp at Cambridge and
Minutemen’s March to
April 19, 1775 the Reading Men Who
Concord, April 19, 1775
Signed Up to Serve

Carted Eight Now a Major: Major John Fleeing to the

Barrels: Helping to Feed Brooks’ Service at Countryside: Citizens of
and Supply the Provincial Cambridge & Charlestown, Charlestown relocate to
Army Massachusetts Reading, 1775

Prisoners of War: Lt. Col.

Sending Provisions: Confinement in the
Archibald Campbell and
Reading Sends Supplies to Countryside: Lt. Col.
Scottish Highlanders
the Enlisted Men in Archibald Campbell and His
become Prisoners of War in
\ Cambridge, 1775-1776 Prisoner Exchange
Reading
 A Number of Our Friends Another to Step Prolonged Absence from
are Taken with Small Pox:
Forward: The Wartime Loved Ones: The Letters
Smallpox among Reading
Service and Death of Sgt. of Captain James Bancroft
Soldiers in Ticonderoga, New
Joshua Eaton, 1775-1777 and His Wife Sarah, 1777
York, 1777

Storming the Enemy: The Committed to Mill

Lived in the Greatest
Actions of Major John Brooks Prison: The Maritime and
and Captain Bancroft of Fear and Apprehension:
American Revolutionary War
Reading at the Battle of The Story of Captain Jacob Experience of Thomas
Saratoga, New York, October Rogers Emerson of Reading,
1777 Massachusetts

Camp Near Valley Forge:

Crewmen on the Sloop
Wolfe: Reading Men as
Privateers and Prisoners of
\ War, 1776
Freedom was Doubly
Col. John Brooks’
Meaningful: Reading’s
Descriptions of Soldiers’ Life
African American Soldiers
at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, Winter 1777- in the American Revolution
1778