A monument in Mason, New Hampshire honors the town’s Patriots who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Among them was Captain Benjamin Mann, who commanded a regiment at the famous battle and served in other Revolutionary War engagements.

Born in Woburn, Massachusetts about 1740, Mann arrived in Mason around 1771. Active in civic affairs Mann was town moderator upon twelve occasions: town clerk; selectman for six years; representative as a member of the Committee of Public Safety and the town’s first justice of the peace. He was the father-in-law of Samuel Wilson, who later, during the War of 1812, became known as “Uncle Sam.”

Captain Mann’s tavern still stands nearby on Darling Hill Road and currently serves as the home of the Mason Historical Society.  They erected the monument in Mann’s memory during the 1975 Bicentennial commemorations.

A plaque affixed to the stone monument reads:

1775 – 1975
In honor of
Captain Benjamin Mann
and the men who went
from Mason
to the Battle of Bunker Hill

Mason Historical Society

This story is featured in How We Remember: Monuments, Memorials & Markers in the Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area, part of our semiquincentennial initiative, Freedom’s Way 250, made possible with support from the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati and the National Park Service.