Jim Philbrick

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49 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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Noiser Presents · Founding Fathers: A Shot Heard Around the World · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I know that David was affected by the atrocities at Bunker Hill because the very first thing he did was try to go back over to Bunker Hill.

Whether he wanted to find his lost stuff or the friends that had been missing since that day, not sure yet.

He wasn't allowed to go.

There was a sentry posted.

They needed to check the whole place for booby traps.

So he couldn't go down that first day, but then the next day he was allowed.

And several times immediately after that, he goes with family members or friends and takes them there to view it.

He doesn't describe what they do or see, just the fact that they go there.

But that tells me that he was processing stuff in his mind.

It had a great effect on him that day at Bunker Hill.

There's not a lot of flowery emotion involved in the diary.

The things he wrote down were matter of fact.

He was very resourceful.

I think one of the things that probably encouraged him was he was the third son, so he most likely wasn't going to inherit the farm.

He's going to have to make his own life.

There was talk of politics amongst all these other people around, but really when it came down to it, it was to defend home.

I think that was his main motivation.

David was born and raised on a farm in Methuen, Massachusetts.

His father was born there, from what I could tell, and they had lived there for several generations.

That whole part of the family was from New England going back into the 1600s with some of the first groups that came over.

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