When Berkshire Museum collections manager Jason Vivori went searching for a copy of one of our nation s founding documents in the museum s archives, he expected to find nothing more than
John Hancock sent Paul Revere to the First Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia with the news that the colony had established the first autonomous colonial government in the 13 colonies.
On Sept. 21, 1774, patriot leaders met in Worcester, Massachusetts, in response to the British seizure of gunpowder and munitions from a magazine in Charlestown earlier that month. The British raid on the magazine to what became known as "the gunpowder alarm."