The History & Lineage of the Acton MinuteMen
A work in progress of the colonial history of the Town of Acton, the lineage of the men who served as Acton Minutemen and in Acton's East and West Militia Companies
This is a photograph of the Daniel Chester French statue of the Minuteman with the Revolutionary Monument
at Acton Center in the Spring of 1975. The Statue was removed from Concord by the Acton Monument Company
and is shown here in transit to Boston to have a mold made.
Welcome
My English ancestors came to this country 385 years ago. They arrived on the Mayflower and helped settle the Plymouth Colony. During the decades that followed they helped form the Massachusetts Bay Colony and eventually moved west settling in Concord and Acton. There my ancestors became Minutemen and fought and died in the Revolutionary War along with many others descendants of other American families (perhaps your ancestors).
Over the years that have followed my family has moved about Massachusetts (and out of it for short periods of time) but we usually return to Massachusetts and particularly to Acton to bury our dead.
This site is dedicated to the Minutemen and the Town of Acton, the Woodlawn & Forest Cemeteries and those that are buried there.
Linda
Patriots who have visited this site
