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October Muster topic - “Lives of the Lincoln
Minute Men,” -
Don’t miss our guest, Mr. George Quintal,
historian present "The Lives of the Lincoln
Minute Men of 1775". Mr. Quintal is a graduate of RPI, Troy
NY with a degree in applied mathematics. He
worked as a UNIX database consultant until 1997,
and today he works nearly full-time studying the
common soldiers of the Revolutionary War. In
1975 he began to research the names of the men
who accompanied Benedict Arnold on the Quebec
Expedition. He is in the process of reading and
extracting the entire US pension set, including
2670 rolls of microfilm. He frequently visits the
Waltham National Archives in order to study the
Lincoln Minute Men of 1775. He authored
the book "Patriots of Color at Battle Road and
Bunker Hill" and he is currently working on five
others books with co-authors. He is also
a consultant for the Boston Tea Party Ship &
Museum.
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