THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR INN

In the late 1770s, an innkeeper was forced to billet a number of British Army officers during their punitive campaign against elements of the Continental Army. 100 years later, a family’s home was built upon that inn’s foundations. In the 1950s, laborers digging septic tank trenches found a stone chamber and summoned the home’s new owner. He ordered it re-covered due to a superstitious belief that the chamber was a grave.

However, during the Revolutionary War, it was common practice for well-to-do families to dig pits on their lands and build hiding places for silverware and other valuables (aka, ‘Silver Cellars’). Fortunately, that homeowner’s curious daughter also witnessed the buried stone structure’s discovery.

Many years later she spoke with Mr Egan about the find and indicated its location.

Good subject for a documentary film.