Event Info

Join us on December 14th and 15th, 2024

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Event Schedule (subject to change)

December 14, 2024

08:00 – Participants arrive at SBV / Prescott Park and Fort Constitution.

09:00 – SB Village and Fort Constitution open to public. Entrance to SB Village at gate by Puddle Dock restaurant.  Villagers, and interpretive stations, programs open.

10:30 – Paul Revere rides up to Portsmouth (SB), interacts with Samuel Cutts in the street

10:45 – Drummers and Sons of Liberty parade the streets, towns people and public are rallied, and are led to Prescott Park

11:00 – Gate to SB Village closed, Liberty Rally on Prescott Park, with vignettes of officials trying to break up the rally.

11:30 – March to the fort begins, others move to buses

01:00 – Marchers arrive and form up with others at Ft Wm Mary

01:30 – Towns people overwhelm Ft Wm Mary – King’s colors hauled down

02:00 – Powder Barrels moved from Fort to Gundalow

02:30 – Gundalow sails by with barrels Ft Wm Mary on trip to Great Bay

03:00 – Public and Reenactors begin trip back to SB

December 15, 2024

08:00 – Participants arrive at SBV / Prescott Park and Fort Constitution.

09:00 – SB Village and Fort Constitution open to public. Entrance to SB Village at gate by Puddle Dock restaurant.  Villagers, and interpretive stations, programs open.

18th century trades people and civilians populate the streets of SBV. Fort guard and civilians begin living history at the Constitution

11:30 – Militia arrives at SBV with Sullivan, marching through SBV. Vignette of exchange between militia and Gov Wentworth (either in SBV or on Prescott Park)

12:30 – Militia marches “to the boats” (over the bridge to buses on Pierce Island)

01:30 – Militia marches up to the fort. Vignette of exchange between Sullivan and Cochran. Militia enters and seizes musket crates and cannon and carries them to the dock (or out of sight on the seaward side of the fort, where the original dock was).

03:00 – Load buses at the fort to leave 

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