Women Of The Battle Road Appendix

Battle Road Families, April 19, 1775 – Arranged Alphabetically

Alyssa Kariofyllis, M.A., 2016 Scholar in the Park Minute Man National Historic Park

This appendix presents current research on the Battle Road families. The limitations of time and restrictions of my project’s research goals are evident. This is, thus, intended to be a starting point for other historians interested in the history and legacy of the Battle Road families. We look forward to the work of future historians on this project to fill the remaining gaps in our records and knowledge of those persons who lived along the famous road on April 19, 1775.

In researching who was present on April 19, 1775, I consulted a wide array of sources. They include: Massachusetts Vital Records, Historic Structure Reports available on the Minute Man National Historical Park's website, and Town Papers, Treasurers Accounts, and Meeting Records for Concord, Lincoln, and Lexington. Also helpful were Joyce Lee Malcolm's spectacular book The Scene of the Battle, 1775, David Hackett Fischer's thorough collection of essays Concord: The Social History of a New England Town, 1750-1850, relying especially on Marc Harris' piece, and Josiah Benton's Early Census Making in Massachusetts, 1643-1765. Full citations for these works and others consulted over the course of this project are available in the accompanying bibliography.

1 Historians have debated whether the Hartwells owned their own slave and, if so, what his/her name was. Some sources say the Hartwells owned their own slave named Sukey or, alternately, Crispus. Others say the slave in the Hartwell household was owned by a relative. Still others have said that the slave woman who assisted Mary on April 19th was a free woman of color who lived near by. For more on this important debate, see Donld Hafner, "Mary Hartwell and the Alarm of April 19, 1775," December 22, 2016, unpublished but available upon request.

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