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The second of three memorials dedicated on Patriots\u2019 Day in Acton<\/a> in 1895, the Calvin and Luther Blanchard Memorial Stone was erected by Luke Blanchard to recognize the contributions that his grandfather, Calvin, and his grandfather\u2019s brother, Luther, made to the fight for American independence.<\/p>\n

Its dedication featured an address by Reverend W. R. Buxton, pastor of South Acton\u2019s Congregational Church, and the reading of an historic paper by the Honorable Luther Conant. Two other memorials dedicated that day include the Joseph Robbins Home Site Memorial Stone<\/a> and the Issac Davis Home Site Marker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Calvin & Luther Blanchard Memorial Stone can be found on Prospect Street, less than a tenth of a mile north of Spencer Road. It marks the former property of Deacon Jonathan Hosmer, to whom the Blanchard brothers were apprenticed when Acton\u2019s militia and minute men received their call to arms on April 19, 1775.<\/p>\n

While Calvin lived on to fight at the Battle of Bunker Hill weeks later, Luther\u2014a fifer in Captain Isaac Davis\u2019s company\u2014 was reportedly the first man shot at the Battle of Concord<\/a>. He died after a prolonged struggle with complications stemming from those wounds.<\/p>\n

The marker\u2019s text reads:<\/p>\n

FROM THIS FARM WENT
\nCALVIN AND LUTHER BLANCHARD
\nTO CONCORD FIGHT AND BUNKER HILL.
\nSONS OF SIMON BLANCHARD WHO WAS
\nKILLED AT THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC 1759.
\nLUTHER WAS THE FIRST MAN HIT BY A
\nBRITISH BALL AT THE OLD NORTH BRIDGE
\nAND DIED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY
\nA FEW MONTHS LATER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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