LECTURE BY JOHN PFEIFFER AT 6PM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Lyme’s Native American Fighters of the Revolution
The indigenous Nehantic people who lived in Lyme long before European settlement were exceptional warriors who joined the Patriot cause during the American Revolution. Nehantics served at Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga, and Saratoga. They sailed on the Essex-built warship Oliver Cromwell, were at the retreat of New York, and imprisoned on the death ships at Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn. Nehantic men gave their lives for American freedom, but over the past 250 years their names, sacrifice, and contributions to America were forgotten. The 250th celebration will be the start of their remembrance.
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2025-26 Board of Trustees
Front row: Dawn McCarthy, Reno Bolduc, Nancy Mol, and James Meehan.
Middle row: Ann Marie Jewett, Treasurer & Corresponding Secretary, Michaelle Pearson, Co-Chair, and Mark Terwilliger, Co-Chair. Back row: Priya Mattam,
Mary Dangremond, Ross W. Higgins, Paula Melillo, Mary Ellen Jewett, and
Paul Loether, Not Shown: Ted Freeman, Eleanor Hufford, Kinny Kreiswirth,
Jaymie Nickerson-Buckmaster, Recording Secretary, Elaine Stiles, Nicholas Westbrook, and Alison Mitchell, Board Member Emerita. - Photo by Jim Meehan