Three Men and a One-Shilling Knife: A Genealogical Look at Local History

Presented by the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists (NHSOG), this engaging program uses a dramatic 1788 tavern killing in New Durham to show how genealogists uncover the stories from the past. Through newspapers, court records, military records, petitions, and other original sources, the lecture follows the intertwined lives of three Revolutionary War veterans and reveals how family history research can illuminate the people, events, and communities of New Hampshire’s past.
NHSOG speaker, Sarah Brown, resides in Bow NH, where she volunteers as a Granite State Ambassador, serves on the Membership Committee for the Buntin-Rumford-Webster Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, an occasional OLLI class assistant, and has several roles with the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists. After retiring she took up genealogy and using her mother’s research for DAR as a starting point, found not only five more Revolutionary Patriots but also two Mayflower passengers in her family tree. She is finally putting her History degree to good use.