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It's the second largest port city in Massachusetts and it's a thriving cosmopolitan city.

And its fortunes are made on fish, specifically codfish. And the men of marble had fish, the

Grand Banks. This is well over a thousand miles to the north up near Nova Scotia. But the

Grand Banks are teaming with codfish. In some cases, which are 100 pounds or more, John.

And they fish the Grand Banks, bring back the cod, and then they trade the cod, which

they put in salted barrels for other goods. And they have a massive merchant fleet that

they've developed where they trade around the world and bring goods in and out of marble

head. In 1774, October of 1774, marble had abays the orders, the directions, the guidelines

of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. To form a militia, these are the minute men

that are at Lexington Concord. Each town is to have its own militia and Patrick's reporting,

about 50 with sergeants and lieutenants and colonels. That becomes the core of the marble

head regiment that will spend years as parts of the continental army. Important to introduce

some of the players here. Colonel Jeremiah Lee and lieutenant John Glover. I'm going

to key on Glover because it's a discovery to me to meet John Glover. What is he in 1774,

Patrick? John Glover starts out. He's a self-made man, John, and a very wealthy self-made man.

A five foot three stocky, red-haired, very scrappy, begins life as a cobbler, does shoes and

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