Steve Crosby is the present captain of today’s Acton Minutemen. He grew up in Acton, living at various times in Patriots’ Hill, Minuteman Ridge, on Revolutionary Road, and directly on the Isaac Davis Trail itself. He has been a reenactor for 22 years and loves teaching the story of Acton’s own heroes to the greater world!

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“I Haven’t a Man Who is Afraid to Go”: The Acton Minutemen on April 19, 1775

September 15, 2023

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The Acton Minutemen were formed at the end of 1774 at a town meeting. Tensions with England had grown to a boil, and towns everywhere were responding by training their men to fight. The town of Acton, which had previously been part of Concord, chose their best men from their existing militia units to form the new Minute Company, and those men voted 30-year-old Isaac Davis as their Captain.

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“I Haven’t a Man Who is Afraid to Go”: The Acton Minutemen on April 19, 1775