Cudmore: Settler in the town of Charleston was Revolutionary War hero | The Daily Gazette
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Researchers agree that Thomas Machin was the engineer who had two metal chains forged and strung across the Hudson River near West Point to prevent British warships from traveling from New York City up the Hudson to Albany to thwart the American Revolution.
There is also agreement that after the war Machin settled in Charleston in Montgomery County, south of the Mohawk River.
But Bevis Longstreth, in his recent historical novel “Chains Across the River,” disputes an account that Machin had supported the cause of liberty as far back as 1773 when he supposedly was one of the men who threw tea into Boston Harbor.
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