American Revolution

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#669933" TEXT="#080000" background="0a5b85a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Bev and Jim Winsness</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bev and Jim Winsness"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="immigration.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Immigration">Immigration</A>   |   <A HREF="mayflower.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mayflower">Mayflower</A>   |   <A HREF="brown_book_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brown Book ">Brown Book </A>   |   <A HREF="christmas_letter_2009.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas Letter 2009">Christmas Letter 2009</A>   |   <A HREF="christmas_letter_2008.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas Letter 2008">Christmas Letter 2008</A>   |   <A HREF="public_site.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Site">Public Site</A>   |   <A HREF="private_site.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Private Site">Private Site</A>   |   <A HREF="genealogy_books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogy Books">Genealogy Books</A>   |   <A HREF="phone_book.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Phone Book">Phone Book</A>   |   <B>American Revolution</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#669933" TEXT="#080000" background="0a605043.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>American Revolution</I></div> <div> The first day of the American Revolution, April 19, 1775, as the British Troops left Lexington, they were fired upon by local militias.  Of those militias, the one from Woburn was prominent, and was led by Laomi Baldwin, the 3rd cousin 8 times removed of Jim Winsness.</div> <bR> <div> To read of this first successful attack on the British on the first day of the American Revolution, click on the link below (open in another window) and read its description from the book <I>Woburn, Forgotten Tales and Untold Stories</I> by William C. Campbell, Robert E. Maguire, John D. Mcelhiney, and Tom Smith.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/bev-jim/baldwin_laomi" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/bev-jim/baldwin_la"><B>"The World Turned Upside Down"</B></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>