Postcard depicting Danvers Common - "Old Training Field"

In 1694, two years after the famous witchcraft delusion of 1692, this plot of ground was deeded to the people by Nathaniel Ingersoll as a training field. The set a huge boulder on the green. Here mustered the Danvers company of minutemen who marched under Capt. Isaac Hutchinson to Lexington and Concord April 19, 1776.

Institution: Peabody Institute Library, Danvers

Nolan, Janet

Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Danvers

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