George Washington

Seth Sturtevant: George Washington’s Body Guard

Corporal Seth Sturtevant was born in 1760 in Halifax, Massachusetts.  He joined the cause for the American Revolution at the ripe old age of 16 when he enlisted for an…

[1775] Augusta, Maine’s First Murder

September 24, 1775 – a time when Augusta was little more than Fort Western and its military inhabitants – right here near the Eastern bank of the Kennebec River occurred…