Captain, Continental Line, Revolutionary War. Farmer; husband of Mehitable Nichols.
Following supplied by contributor Ben Lima:
This is possibly the same Captain Preston who was interviewed as an old man in 1842 by the young historian Mellen Chamberlain. As quoted by Morison and Shain:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht3hkiOrC4QC&pg=PA79&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
Captain Preston, what made you go to the Concord Fight (on 19 April 1775)?"
"What did I go for?"
"...Were you oppressed by the Stamp Act?"
"I never saw any stamps, and I always understood that none were ever sold."
"Well, what about the tea tax?"
"Tea tax, I never drank a drop of the stuff, the boys threw it all overboard."
"But I suppose you have been reading Harrington, Sidney, and Locke about the eternal principle of liberty?"
"I never heard of these men. The only books we had were the Bible, the Catechism, Watts' psalms and hymns and the almanacs."
"Well, then, what was the matter?"
"Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should."
Contributor: Ben Lima (48452108)
Following supplied by contributor Ben Lima:
This is possibly the same Captain Preston who was interviewed as an old man in 1842 by the young historian Mellen Chamberlain. As quoted by Morison and Shain:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht3hkiOrC4QC&pg=PA79&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
Captain Preston, what made you go to the Concord Fight (on 19 April 1775)?"
"What did I go for?"
"...Were you oppressed by the Stamp Act?"
"I never saw any stamps, and I always understood that none were ever sold."
"Well, what about the tea tax?"
"Tea tax, I never drank a drop of the stuff, the boys threw it all overboard."
"But I suppose you have been reading Harrington, Sidney, and Locke about the eternal principle of liberty?"
"I never heard of these men. The only books we had were the Bible, the Catechism, Watts' psalms and hymns and the almanacs."
"Well, then, what was the matter?"
"Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should."
Contributor: Ben Lima (48452108)
Captain, Continental Line, Revolutionary War. Farmer; husband of Mehitable Nichols.
Following supplied by contributor Ben Lima:
This is possibly the same Captain Preston who was interviewed as an old man in 1842 by the young historian Mellen Chamberlain. As quoted by Morison and Shain:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht3hkiOrC4QC&pg=PA79&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
Captain Preston, what made you go to the Concord Fight (on 19 April 1775)?"
"What did I go for?"
"...Were you oppressed by the Stamp Act?"
"I never saw any stamps, and I always understood that none were ever sold."
"Well, what about the tea tax?"
"Tea tax, I never drank a drop of the stuff, the boys threw it all overboard."
"But I suppose you have been reading Harrington, Sidney, and Locke about the eternal principle of liberty?"
"I never heard of these men. The only books we had were the Bible, the Catechism, Watts' psalms and hymns and the almanacs."
"Well, then, what was the matter?"
"Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should."
Contributor: Ben Lima (48452108)
Following supplied by contributor Ben Lima:
This is possibly the same Captain Preston who was interviewed as an old man in 1842 by the young historian Mellen Chamberlain. As quoted by Morison and Shain:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht3hkiOrC4QC&pg=PA79&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
Captain Preston, what made you go to the Concord Fight (on 19 April 1775)?"
"What did I go for?"
"...Were you oppressed by the Stamp Act?"
"I never saw any stamps, and I always understood that none were ever sold."
"Well, what about the tea tax?"
"Tea tax, I never drank a drop of the stuff, the boys threw it all overboard."
"But I suppose you have been reading Harrington, Sidney, and Locke about the eternal principle of liberty?"
"I never heard of these men. The only books we had were the Bible, the Catechism, Watts' psalms and hymns and the almanacs."
"Well, then, what was the matter?"
"Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should."
Contributor: Ben Lima (48452108)
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