For 37 years, this was the home of General Artemas Ward, the first Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution. Born Nov. 26. 1727 and died Oct. 28. 1800, he rode from this house on news of the Battle of Lexington and Concord to Cambridge to take command of the militiamen hurrying toward Boston, and with them he commenced the Siege of Boston, which eleven months later resulted in expelling the British Army from Massachusetts.
