{"id":2180,"date":"2025-08-08T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:42:00","slug":"a-revolutionary-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/2180","title":{"rendered":"A Revolutionary casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 8, 1775 \u2014 250 years ago this day \u2014 a Gloucester, Massachusetts, militia company scrambled and successfully fought off a shore raid by marines from HMS <i>Falcon<\/i>, menacing Gloucester Harbor. Dogtown resident and militiaman Peter Lurvey, age 35 \u2014 my ancestor \u2014 was fatally shot, dying later in the day. He is my only (known) Revolutionary War ancestor killed in action.<\/p>\n<p>My mother&#8217;s cousin Janet was in the DAR as a Peter Lurvey descendant. A photocopy of her lineage paper was my first introduction to genealogy \u2014 about 40 years ago. The odd twist that we descend from Peter Lurvey *twice* got me even more curious about all this stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2184 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gloucester-Harbor-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gloucester-Harbor-map.jpg 1176w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gloucester-Harbor-map-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gloucester-Harbor-map-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gloucester-Harbor-map-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Detail of &#8220;Gloucester Harbour&#8221; from &#8220;Map of Gloucester, Cape Ann&#8221; from survey by John Mason, printed by Senefelder Lithographic Co., Boston, in 1831, available at the Library of Congress and the <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.leventhalmap.org\/search\/commonwealth:cj82ks41h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A whole book contextualizing the Battle of Gloucester is Joseph Garland&#8217;s <i>The Fish and the Falcon: Gloucester\u2019s Resolute Role in America\u2019s Fight for Freedom<\/i> (2006). There&#8217;s a recent webpage at HistoricIpswich.net (using the same map illustration) <a href=\"https:\/\/historicipswich.net\/2025\/01\/12\/battle-of-gloucester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 8, 1775 \u2014 250 years ago this day \u2014 a Gloucester, Massachusetts, militia company scrambled and successfully fought off a shore raid by marines from HMS Falcon, menacing Gloucester Harbor. Dogtown resident and militiaman Peter Lurvey, age 35 \u2014 my ancestor \u2014 was fatally shot, dying later in the day. 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