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Ceremony will Honor Newton's First Revolutionary War Casualty

A memorial service will be held at the South Burying Ground to honor Noah Wiswall, injured during action at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Newton’s Noah Wiswall was injured on the first day of the American Revolution, and on his birthday a memorial service will be held for him and all Disabled American Veterans (DAV).

The ceremony will be held Sept. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Wiswall Tomb in the South Burying Ground on Winchester Street in Newton Highlands.

Wiswall was in one of three companies sent from Newton to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and was injured in the hand but survived. He was Newton’s first DAV. He was 75 at the time.

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His story was discovered by Gerry Marrocco who, like his brothers and father before him, researched the Revolutionary War veteran’s buried in Newton.

Wiswall’s descendents from Maine, Florida and other states will attend the ceremony.

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The event is open to the public and will be attended by veterans groups, the Newton Fire Department Color Guard, the Knights of Columbus Color Guard and the Charlestown Militia/Gardener’s Regiment of Revolutionary War reenactors.


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