Patriots of the Revolution

Back by popular demand, Zach Studenroth, SHHM President, will conduct a series of four different walking tours of the Old Burying Ground, one on each of the last Sundays of June, July, August and September. Meet at the flagpole at Union and Church Streets. Attendance is free; donations are appreciated.

Twenty patriots and veterans of the American Revolution are buried at the Old Sag Harbor Burying Grounds. The youngest, Frederick Fordham, died at age 17 after enduring capture and confinement on a British prison ship in Wallabout Bay, New York Harbor. Captain Lester Beebee survived the war, became a noted ship builder, and constructed a windmill now preserved on the Berwind Estate in Bridgehampton. These and other patriots demonstrate the frightening circumstances that confronted Sag Harbor’s residents during wartime and the human cost of their service.