Let us now briefly recite the probable events that transpired in and around Sharon on the 18th and 19th of April, 1775.
On the evening of the 18th Job Swift attends a meeting of the Provincial Congress at Dedham . At this meeting the secret plan of the British for a raid the next day on Concord and Lexington was disclosed. Each member knew his part.
Job Swift, on horseback in silence and with speed, bearing the burden of great responsibilities in his breast, hastened to his home in Sharon . Here he aroused his grownup sons, and the rest of the night was passed in giving the alarm at the homes of men and boys able to bear arms.
Picture, partly in imagination, the situation in Sharon early the following morning April nineteenth, 1775 - one hundred and forty-four years ago.
Behold, standing in partial concealment, at the edge of the forest near the rough road leading from Easton and Foxboro: Job Swift in the 64th year of his age, grim and determined of aspect; his grown sons, Joshua, Job, Jr., and Jirah, aged 31, 29 and 27, tall and erect, with their long barreled muskets at their sides, waiting to fall in with Capt. Tisdale and his company as they should come marching down the road for Concord and Lexington.
We are all somewhat familiar with the story of the fights at Concord and Lexington early in the morning of April 19th, 1775 ; how the British plot failed; her soldiers dispersed; and with the prophetic saying of Parson Clark: "From the 19th of April, 1775 will be dated the liberty of the American world."
Sharon has a long list of Revolutionary soldiers; two hundred and eleven from a total population of less than one thousand men, women and children, or, an average of at least one from each household; soldiers with longer records of military service, but no one who more modestly accepted and bravely performed such a variety of patriotic services at so critical a time in the crisis as Job Swift.
Job Swift's perishable dust lies beneath Sharon 's sod, but it is most fitting that his Name and his Fame be inscribed upon the enduring bronze.
On the evening of the 18th Job Swift attends a meeting of the Provincial Congress at Dedham . At this meeting the secret plan of the British for a raid the next day on Concord and Lexington was disclosed. Each member knew his part.
Job Swift, on horseback in silence and with speed, bearing the burden of great responsibilities in his breast, hastened to his home in Sharon . Here he aroused his grownup sons, and the rest of the night was passed in giving the alarm at the homes of men and boys able to bear arms.
Picture, partly in imagination, the situation in Sharon early the following morning April nineteenth, 1775 - one hundred and forty-four years ago.
Behold, standing in partial concealment, at the edge of the forest near the rough road leading from Easton and Foxboro: Job Swift in the 64th year of his age, grim and determined of aspect; his grown sons, Joshua, Job, Jr., and Jirah, aged 31, 29 and 27, tall and erect, with their long barreled muskets at their sides, waiting to fall in with Capt. Tisdale and his company as they should come marching down the road for Concord and Lexington.
We are all somewhat familiar with the story of the fights at Concord and Lexington early in the morning of April 19th, 1775 ; how the British plot failed; her soldiers dispersed; and with the prophetic saying of Parson Clark: "From the 19th of April, 1775 will be dated the liberty of the American world."
Sharon has a long list of Revolutionary soldiers; two hundred and eleven from a total population of less than one thousand men, women and children, or, an average of at least one from each household; soldiers with longer records of military service, but no one who more modestly accepted and bravely performed such a variety of patriotic services at so critical a time in the crisis as Job Swift.
Job Swift's perishable dust lies beneath Sharon 's sod, but it is most fitting that his Name and his Fame be inscribed upon the enduring bronze.
Let us now briefly recite the probable events that transpired in and around Sharon on the 18th and 19th of April, 1775.
On the evening of the 18th Job Swift attends a meeting of the Provincial Congress at Dedham . At this meeting the secret plan of the British for a raid the next day on Concord and Lexington was disclosed. Each member knew his part.
Job Swift, on horseback in silence and with speed, bearing the burden of great responsibilities in his breast, hastened to his home in Sharon . Here he aroused his grownup sons, and the rest of the night was passed in giving the alarm at the homes of men and boys able to bear arms.
Picture, partly in imagination, the situation in Sharon early the following morning April nineteenth, 1775 - one hundred and forty-four years ago.
Behold, standing in partial concealment, at the edge of the forest near the rough road leading from Easton and Foxboro: Job Swift in the 64th year of his age, grim and determined of aspect; his grown sons, Joshua, Job, Jr., and Jirah, aged 31, 29 and 27, tall and erect, with their long barreled muskets at their sides, waiting to fall in with Capt. Tisdale and his company as they should come marching down the road for Concord and Lexington.
We are all somewhat familiar with the story of the fights at Concord and Lexington early in the morning of April 19th, 1775 ; how the British plot failed; her soldiers dispersed; and with the prophetic saying of Parson Clark: "From the 19th of April, 1775 will be dated the liberty of the American world."
Sharon has a long list of Revolutionary soldiers; two hundred and eleven from a total population of less than one thousand men, women and children, or, an average of at least one from each household; soldiers with longer records of military service, but no one who more modestly accepted and bravely performed such a variety of patriotic services at so critical a time in the crisis as Job Swift.
Job Swift's perishable dust lies beneath Sharon 's sod, but it is most fitting that his Name and his Fame be inscribed upon the enduring bronze.
On the evening of the 18th Job Swift attends a meeting of the Provincial Congress at Dedham . At this meeting the secret plan of the British for a raid the next day on Concord and Lexington was disclosed. Each member knew his part.
Job Swift, on horseback in silence and with speed, bearing the burden of great responsibilities in his breast, hastened to his home in Sharon . Here he aroused his grownup sons, and the rest of the night was passed in giving the alarm at the homes of men and boys able to bear arms.
Picture, partly in imagination, the situation in Sharon early the following morning April nineteenth, 1775 - one hundred and forty-four years ago.
Behold, standing in partial concealment, at the edge of the forest near the rough road leading from Easton and Foxboro: Job Swift in the 64th year of his age, grim and determined of aspect; his grown sons, Joshua, Job, Jr., and Jirah, aged 31, 29 and 27, tall and erect, with their long barreled muskets at their sides, waiting to fall in with Capt. Tisdale and his company as they should come marching down the road for Concord and Lexington.
We are all somewhat familiar with the story of the fights at Concord and Lexington early in the morning of April 19th, 1775 ; how the British plot failed; her soldiers dispersed; and with the prophetic saying of Parson Clark: "From the 19th of April, 1775 will be dated the liberty of the American world."
Sharon has a long list of Revolutionary soldiers; two hundred and eleven from a total population of less than one thousand men, women and children, or, an average of at least one from each household; soldiers with longer records of military service, but no one who more modestly accepted and bravely performed such a variety of patriotic services at so critical a time in the crisis as Job Swift.
Job Swift's perishable dust lies beneath Sharon 's sod, but it is most fitting that his Name and his Fame be inscribed upon the enduring bronze.
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Found a stone as such:
Philip, Sept 1, 1754-Oct. 1754
Charity, Nov. 11,1750-Nov. 13, 1754
Patience May 8, 1743-Feb 12, 1768
Children of Job and Sarah Blackwell Swift
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