A boulder just past a wrought iron gate on Old Stockbridge Road marks the tavern location of Captain Charles Dibble. Dibble and his militia companions under the guidance of Colonel John Paterson were training to be ready at a minute’s notice, when news arrived in Lenox on April 21, 1775 that the British were on their way to Lexington. Over 30 men from Lenox were part of Paterson’s regiment who marched for Cambridge 18 hours later. Local History Librarian Amy Lafave’s presentation on this topic has been adapted for viewing on the Library’s YouTube Channel:
For further exploration of this topic, check out the following:
A map of the most inhabited part of New England, 1755
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cj82kn152
Map of the commonwealth of Massachusetts exclusive of the district of Maine, by Osgood Carleton 1795
American Antiquarian Society, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:z603vg353
The manual exercise, as ordered by His Majesty, in the year 1764
https://archive.org/details/2167044R.nlm.nih.gov/mode/2up?view=theater
How to fire a musket according to the 1764 Manual of Arms as demonstrated by Rangers Charlie Webster & David Hannigan at the Minuteman National Historical Park by the Hartwell Tavern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzBaBad75Q
National Park Service [NPS] Siege of Boston Map
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/siege-of-boston-map.htm
Minute Man NPS YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@MinuteManNPS
Orderly book of William Walker, from Ticonderoga Online Collections
https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30639