1820 newspaper SEA SERPENT spotted on the US East coast-Bunker Hill veteran dies for Sale

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1820 newspaper SEA SERPENT spotted on the US East coast-Bunker Hill veteran dies For Sale

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1820 newspaper SEA SERPENT spotted on the US East coast-Bunker Hill veteran dies:
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1820 newspaper - A SEA SERPENT is spotted on the US East coast + Death of a Revolutionary War veteran who participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill

1820 newspaper - A SEA SERPENT is spotted on the US East coast + Death of a Revolutionary War veteran who participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill- inv # 2B-420

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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,Niles Weekly Register(Baltimore, MD) dated Aug 19, 1820. This original newspaper contains an inside page heading: The Sea Serpent\" with a eyewitness description of a SEA SERPENT spotted off the East coast of the US.

This issue also contains news of the death of Joseph Spaulding, a Rev War veteran who was a participant in the BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL in 1775.

At Chelmsford, Mr. Joseph Spalding, aged 64 (died).—He was one of the heroes of Bunker Hill;—he fired the first gun, and was supposed to be the man who killed Maj. Pitcairn, having frequently declared he took deliberate aim at him.

Spalding would have been nineteen years old in 1775, the right age for military service. As for firing the first gun and shooting Pitcairn, that seems like a big claim. In fact, most of the time Spalding didn’t talk about shooting the major. His local epitaph said:

He was among the brave asserters & defenders of the liberties of his country at Bunker Hill, where he opened the battle by firing upon the enemy before orders were given...

Hang on—at that battle the American officers supposedly said, “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!” And here Spalding boasted about firing early. Apparently, some people asked him about that discrepancy. According to Abram E. Brown’s Beside Old Hearth-stones (1897), Spalding told his grandson:

I fired ahead of time, and [Gen. Israel] Putnam rushed up and struck at me for violating orders. I suppose I deserved it, but I was anxious to get another good shot at [Gen. Thomas] Gage’s men ever since our affair at Concord. The blow from “Old Put” hit me on the head, made a hole in my hat, and left this scar.

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