“Freedom to those who have virtue to defend it.”
— one of the toasts offered by the Provincial Congress to his Excellency General Washington, and his suite, the General and Staff Officers, and the Commanding Officer, of different regiments in & near the City of New York, on June 19, 1776.
[from: Freeman’s Journal, Published as the New-Hampshire Gazette, dated July 20, 1776, Vol. I, Issue 9.]
My father, Berwin H. Webster with sisters Anna (holding flag) and Margaret, posing against a fence in Merrimack NH circa 1918. Berwin went on to serve in the United States Navy during World War II. His great-grandfather Aaron Webster served as a nurse in the 93rd Regiment Co. B from PA during the Civil War, and his 3rd great grandfather Ezra Abbott was a patriot of the American Revolution, serving in Colonel Bedel’s Regiment and was at Fort Cedars, Canada East, May 19, 1776 and in General Stark’s brigade, Col. Stickney’s Regiment 1777.
***ADDITIONAL READING***
(just a few posts from my friend, Heather Rojo’s blog at Nutfield Genealogy)
4th of July ~ Celebrate the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (2012)
