Revolution in the Lymes: From the New Lights to the Sons of Liberty

• Author(s): Jim Lampos and Michaelle Pearson,
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Pages: 156
• ISBN_10: 1467135968
  ISBN_13: 9781467135962
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / United States , History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) , History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) , Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical ,

Description:... The Revolutionary War in the Lymes started as a rebellion of ideas. From its origins in the Cromwellian Saybrook Colony, Lyme (today's Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme and Salem) prospered under the free hand of self-governance and spurned King George III's efforts to rein in the wayward colonies. In 1765, Reverend Stephen Johnson wrote incendiary missives against the Stamp Act. A few years later, the town hosted its own Tea Party, burning one hundred pounds of British tea near the town green. When the alarm came from Lexington in 1775, Lyme's citizens were among the first to answer. Historians Jim Lampos and Michaelle Pearson explore how local Patriots shaped an epic revolt.