Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and soup lecture by Nancy Hammond.

Jonathan Mitchel Sewall was born in Salem, Massachusetts and educated at Boston Public Latin School. When he came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a young lawyer at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he wrote the words to a song that was sung in all the American camps, taverns, homes, and on the march. He also wrote the New Hampshire Bill of Rights, contributed songs and poetry to every civic celebration, and probably presented the 1779 Petition of Freedom, authored and signed by 20 enslaved Black men, to the General Assembly of the state. If there had been a Poet Laureate of Portsmouth at that time it would have been Jonathan Mitchel Sewall.

Join us as Portsmouth author Nancy Hammond shares her well-researched account of Sewall’s life and his impact on our young country.

Our summer lecture series will take place the 3rd Wednesday of every Monday from June through October. Lectures start at 12pm with refreshments at 11:30. Reservations are highly encouraged as we have limited seating. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org or call 603-436-5909 to save a spot.