Background
She was born in 1740 as Sarah Bradlee in Dorchester, married John Fulton in 1762 and moved to Medford.
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Sarah Fulton
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A tablet stone was dedicated to her memory in Medford, Massachusetts in 1900. She was involved with the Revolutionary War on several occasions. In June 1775, after the Battle of Bunker Hill, she organized women to nurse wounded soldiers.
In March 1776, she volunteered to dispatch an important message from John Brooks, the mayor of Medford, to George Washington to the Charleston war front.
She managed to cross the enemy lines and return home safe. A play Sarah Bradlee Fulton, Patriot: A Colonial Drama in Three Acts was written about her by Grace Jewett Austin in 1919.
Membership
She was an active member of Daughters of Liberty and is sometimes referred to as the “Mother of the Boston Tea Party”.
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Boston Tea Party