Lexington Alarm Letter on View
April 7 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Couriers delivered the news of the conflict at Lexington soon after the event. One of the letters that helped spread the news will be displayed at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library in April. Joseph Palmer, a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, sent the first urgent missive by messenger Israel or Isaac Bissell in the late morning of April 19, 1775. Bissell rode to Connecticut and perhaps further. Recipients duplicated Palmer’s letter several times to carry the news far and wide. An online exhibition about the Alarm Letter can be viewed at https://bit.ly/3LNwFri.
The museum’s copy of the Lexington Alarm Letter will be displayed alongside a broadside from John Hancock, issued on April 15, 1775. The documents will be on view from April 7 – April 26, 2025.
The museum is open 9 AM to 4 PM Monday through Friday, plus Saturday, April 19 and 26, 2025.
Museum website: https://www.srmml.org/
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