Mary Hartwell

[2] On September 12, 1769, a 22-year-old Flint married Samuel Hartwell, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth, who was five years her senior.

[2] In the early hours of April 19, 1775, during Paul Revere's "Midnight Ride", Samuel Prescott escaped a British Army patrol on Battle Road in Concord, Massachusetts.

[3] Mary made her way to alert Captain William Smith, commanding officer of the Lincoln minutemen, who lived nearby.

[4] The army of the King marched up in fine order and their bayonets glistened in the sunlight like a field of waving grain.

Some of the rough, angry soldiers rushed up to this house and fired in but fortunately for me and the children the shots went into the garret and we were safe.