Fort Ticonderoga acquires $12 Million Revolutionary War collection with 3,000 artifacts

Fort Ticonderoga acquires $12 Million Revolutionary War collection with 3,000 artifacts

Hannah Lawrence fell into the rarest of demographics: a bellicose Quaker. “She was a New York City Quaker who was ardently pro-American as the Revolutionary War broke out, which is interesting because Quakers, of course, are a pacifist sect,” said Matt Keagle, curator at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. “She was a poet, and wrote these poems that expressed her support for the American war effort, the heroism of General Montgomery at Quebec an…