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The Meet Our Members Project

The Sandwich Business Group’s project—Meet Our Members—is a series of interviews with people who live in Sandwich and are engaged in running businesses, organizations, and other creative projects and pursuits. This small town has more than its share of fascinating, creative people. Read stories of how people found their way to Sandwich, and what they have been doing since they arrived, as children, or last year.... These posts are first published on our blog, News & Views. Click here for the full list of Meet Our Members posts.

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A Look Back ... Interesting entries from the ​
​Sandwich Reporter

Director Jim Mykland has pulled together some interesting entries from the Sandwich Reporter (1883-1944). 

October 4, 1883: About 1776, according to the best authority, there were in Sandwich, about forty-six voters. The sense of the voters was taken on the question of American Independence. The number giving their adherence to the American cause was proportionately large, being all but eight. Three names are given of soldiers of the old French and Indian Wars living in Sandwich at that time; Benjamin Atkinson, Richard Bryant and Eliphalet Maxfield.  Twenty-three soldiers of the war of the Revolution, either went from Sandwich or settled in this town after the war. They are Theodore Atkinson,  Samuel Thompson, John Watson, John Kent, Andrew McGaffey,  Weymouth Wallace, Stephen Ethridge, Nathaniel Eliphalet Smith, Aaron Quimby, Daniel Moulton, Thomas Burleigh, Andrew Neally, Josiah Bean, Simon Mason, Ebeneezer Cook,  Stephen Webster who was, although we omitted to so state, also a soldier of the old French and Indian war and purchased his freedom from Indian captivity by running the gauntlet of Indian fire, John Beede, Simeon Smith, Elias Smith, Samual Moulton and Jeremy Hilton.  Andrew McGaffey was wounded at Bunker Hill. So was also Weymouth Wallace, of whom it is reported, when the bullet of the enemy went crashing through his wrist, the shock caused the gun to fall from his hands, but though his ammunition was exhausted, and the charge of the enemy was sharp, close and incessant, he withstood the galling fire till he recovered his gun.

Click the following link http://www.sandwichhistorical.org/miscellany-and-mystery.html... or visit sandwichhistorical.org. 

Downtown North Sandwich, early 1900s