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Described as the \u201cmother\u201d of the Boston Tea Party, Sarah Bradlee Fulton<\/a> (1740-1835) is credited with the idea of disguising the men who participated in that event in Native American-style clothing and later disposing of their disguises.<\/p>\n

While this story is open to interpretation, her valor did not end there. During the Battle of Bunker Hill, Fulton, a prominent leader of the Daughters of Liberty, organized women to nurse wounded soldiers. A year later in March of 1776, she purportedly traveled alone across enemy lines to deliver an urgent message to General George Washington, who later visited the Fulton home in appreciation. Since 2006, the punchbowl she supposedly used when Washington visited has been\u00a0in the collection at Mount Vernon<\/a>.\u00b9<\/a><\/p>\n

When a shipment of wood, meant for American troops in Cambridge was confiscated by the British, she went in pursuit, reportedly grabbing a pair of oxen by the horns and leading them away, even as the British prepared to shoot her. Defiant, Fulton purportedly told them to \u201cshoot away.\u201d Stunned by her defiance they surrendered without resistance. Afraid of neither man or beast, Sarah later told her grandson that she \u201cnever turned her back on anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

A hero of the American revolution, Fulton was buried in Medford<\/a>\u2019s Salem Street Burying Ground in 1835. Some sixty years later, in the 1899 Medford Historical Society Papers (Volume 2) <\/em>Helen Tilden Wild evokes Fulton\u2019s passing, the founding of a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the city of Medford in her name and their subsequent efforts to erect a \u2018tablet\u201d in Fulton\u2019s memory, which was dedicated on May 26, 1900.<\/p>\n

Tilden describes the tablet as \u201ca rough slab of native granite, set on a foundation of field stone\u201d that was furnished and installed by the City of Medford. She notes that the stone originated from the threshold of Fulton\u2019s home, a witness to both the glad and sad days of Fulton\u2019s long and useful life.<\/p>\n

The dedication ceremony was a simple affair, with the pastor of the First Parish Church, which Fulton attended offering the invocation. The State Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution provided an overview of Fulton\u2019s patriotic deeds according to Tilden \u201cenjoining the audience and through them, the people of Massachusetts, to emulate the devotion to the country which she [Fulton] possessed.\u201d Following a poem, William Cushing Wait, Esq. an ancestor of Fulton\u2019s reminisced about her \u2013 first as a mother, then as a patriot.<\/p>\n

The ceremony concluded with a benediction and the simple memorial, wreathed in laurel with the colors of the Daughters of the American Revolution inscribed with the words below:<\/p>\n

Sarah Bradlee\u00a0Fulton<\/em>
\n1740-1835<\/em>
\nA Heroine of the Revolution<\/em>
\nerected by the\u00a0<\/em>
\nSarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter, D. A. R.\u00a0<\/em>
\n1900<\/em><\/p>\n

In the words of the Regent of the Chapter, as recollected by Tilden, \u2018The memory of the lives of those noble women of a hundred years ago is a legacy to every American woman, a trust to be proud of, and one to be administered in the spirit of unselfish devotion, lofty purpose, and true womanhood.\u2019<\/p>\n

In addition to this stone marker, Fulton Street in Medford is named for her, while the local non-profit Looking Back at Medford History <\/a>sponsors Sarah Bradlee Fulton Day at Medford’s Salem Street Burying Ground each fall and is actively fundraising to erect a statue in her honor.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThis story is featured in <\/em>How<\/span> We<\/span> Remember<\/span>: Monuments, Memorials & Markers in the Freedom\u2019s Way National Heritage Area<\/strong>, part of our semiquincentennial initiative, Freedom’s Way 250<\/a>, made possible with support from the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati and the National Park Service.<\/em>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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