Crowds gather in Uptown for the annual 'Burning of Kingston'event – Daily Freeman

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Crowds gathered Saturday as musket blasts pierced the air and smoke rose outside the Matthewis Person House for the annual commemoration of the Burning of Kingston. The weekend marks the Oct. 16, 1777, burning of Kingston, then the first capital of the nascent New York state, during the American Revolution by British […]

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