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In May of 1775, a mysterious letter was sent to British General Thomas Gage here in Boston the likes of which had never been received before. This letter contained far more than meets the eye.
In this video, Katie discovers how Benjamin Thompson, later known as "Count Rumford" a brilliant physicist accused of treachery in the earliest days of the American Revolution used covert chemistry to relay military insights, and why his childhood friend, Patriot militia leader Major Loammi Baldwin trusted him. From desperate petitions to the Provincial Congress to the first invisible‑ink correspondence of the American Revolution, this video reveals the secret Revolutionary War letter, that you were never meant to see.
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Link to digitized spy letter: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/gage/gag...
Maps:
Map of eastern Massachusetts and vicinity]. S.l: s.n., 1711. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
De Costa, J., “A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Boston. and the Country adjacent with the Road from Boston to Concord Shewing the Place of the late Engagement,” The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
Low, John, Anderson, Alexander, and Cornelius Tiebout. "The State of New Hampshire." Map. New York: John Low, [1799]. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center,
Rumford House from the collection of the Concord Public Library, Concord, NH.
Spy Letter and intelligence by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Woburn, 1775 May 6, American Series, 1755-1775 Thomas Gage Papers at Clements Library, University of Michigan
Rumford Petition, Massachusetts State Archives, MAC, volume 180, page 19
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