|
Our Programs
We have four programs a year and a Annual Event, the Treaty Day Celebration & Pow Wow which was
on the weekend of July 15 & 16, 2006. This year (2007) we do not have enough volunteers or
resources to successfully maintain the level we have had in the past. We are busy with the restoration and presevation of
the Edmund Fowle House and plan to have a celebration to commemorate Treaty Day later this year. If you would like to volunteer
in any capacity to make this happen, your help would be appreciated. Thank you for understanding, sincerely Karl H. Neugebauer
(617-923-7539 home) or (617-458-1439 cell)
Historical Significance
The Edmund Fowle House has been listed as an historic
site with the National Register of Historic Places since November 11, 1977. The House was constructed in the 1770's. The most
historically significant period of the house was the first two years of the American Revolution, 1775 - 1776. Two major events
significant to history are:
1) Executive meetings of the Second and
Third Provincial Congresses were held on the second floor of the Edmund Fowle House. Among the noted participants were: John
Hancock, John Adams, Sam Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Dr. Joseph Warren, James Otis and James Warren. Also Ben Franklin, General
George Washington, Henry Knox and Paul Revere.
2) The Treaty of Watertown was signed at
the Edmund Fowle House on July 19, 1776. It is a Treaty of Alliance and Friendship between the Governors of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony and the Delegates of the St. John's & Mi'kmaq Tribes of Native Americans. This is the first treaty to be signed
by a newly-formed United States with a foreign power.
|
