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I am a local Professor of African American History at Massasoit Community College in Brockton MA. In addition, I am also a Public Historian of New England slavery with my own nonprofit organization. I have a doctorate degree in African American History from the University of CA, Berkeley. I both live and work in Brockton, MA. I seek funding to research the 40 African American soldiers from Brockton MA who served in the American Revolution. The The research and writing for the project will be done in conjunction with staff from the Harambee Learning and Cultural Center, also a local Brockton nonprofit organization. It is my goal to use the research to write an article in a professional history journal.

American Ancestors offers a robust databases and sketches on American.Ancestors.org that will focus on Revolutionary War topics and scholarship, including tracing patriot and loyalist ancestors, researching colonial ancestors, and understanding Revolutionary War collections. Recently released and upcoming databases include:
Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies Presented in collaboration with the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum.
Connecticut: Society of the Cincinnati This database, drawn from Biographies of Original Members and Qualifying Officers—Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2023
Daughters of the American Revolution: Patriots of Color, 1712–1888 This database features more than 6,500 names of individuals of African, Native American, Iberian, Latin American, and multiracial descent who played significant roles in the American Revolution.
Index of Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1800–1900 This collection includes pension and bounty-land warrant application files based on the participation of American military, naval, and marine officers and enlisted men in the Revolutionary War.
Massachusetts: Revolutionary War Pensioners’ Receipts, 1799–1807 & Massachusetts: Revolutionary War Pensioners’ Receipts, 1827–1836 Many Revolutionary War soldiers were given pensions from the federal government for their service. This searchable database is drawn from the manuscript collection at American Ancestors.
Massachusetts: List of Pensioners The full title of this volume is A List of Pensioners in the State of Massachusetts, Comprising Invalid Pensioners and Revolutionary Pensioners Under the Acts of Congress.
Massachusetts: Society of the Cincinnati This database includes information on Massachusetts officers eligible for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati.
Weymouth, MA: Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775–1783 This collection provides names and descriptive text for 324 veterans from Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Berkshires250 is a county-wide celebration of the anniversary of the American Revolution and how it affected Berkshire Co. We are planning to erect liberty poles, host reenactors, listen to Revolutionary music concerts, have museum exhibits, and much more.

We aim to open a visitor center in downtown Lowell, centered on sharing and guiding visitors on how to experience the significant historical events of the Merrimack Valley; specifically, the American Revolution and Industrial Revolution.

A local committee dedicated to sharing the history of Marblehead’s role in the Revolutionary War and to provide public programming throughout the anniversary.

The Pepperell 250th Town Committee has announced a yearlong celebration of events and activities for our residents and for our friends and neighbors from throughout the region.

For MA250 – Educational and expeditionary programming illustrating the experience and sacrifice of the common citizen in rural Western Mass in response to the Battle of Saratoga. Include the response of women, children and infirm men left behind to tend all the crops and bring in the harvest that fall.

Ongoing – Preservation (earliest stage) of a structure built during the revolutionary war that served as home, store, tavern, inn, town meeting space, school, church meeting space, post office, stagecoach stop, and boarding house.

In celebration of the Semiquincentennial of our nation, The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth (HSOY) is holding a series of commemorations, lectures, demonstrations & outdoor events ranging from telling the stories of Yarmouth’s involvement in the American Revolution to showing how trades such as printing & glassmaking were performed in support of the war effort. Research by the Society shows nearly 70% of Yarmouth males over the age of sixteen participated in the Revolution. A new monument commemorating these 445 participants will be dedicated with the celebration to include the State SAR Militia, demonstrations & insights from characters in period dress who will perform in plays or talk graveside in the Ancient Cemetery about a veteran’s service.