EXHIBIT NOTE

This exhibit is almost exclusively based upon the work of Charles Lathrop Parsons (b. 1867) and was created by scanning in the N.H. Historical Society reprint of Parsons' published work, The Capture of Fort William and Mary, December 14 and 15, 1774 (1903).

U.N.H. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Charles L. Parsons, 1912.
Other information used in creating this exhibit, such as Captain Eleazer Bennett's 1849 account of the Capture of Fort William & Mary, the numerous images, and M.P. Thompson's writings on the event, come from the holdings of the Milne Special Collections Department and can be found in:

Read another account of the attack and seizure of Fort William and Mary in 1774, by Thomas F. Kehr, Treasurer of the New Hampshire Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.