AUGUST 23: Spinning Tableau at the Monument
1769 SPINNING PROTEST REENACTMENT
Phebe Banister Burdoo
Significance:
Phebe represents free Black women who have contributed to
our community and country from the colonial period on. The
Burdoo family was a free and multi-generational Black family
living in Lexington in the years preceding the Battle. Phebe
came to Lexington from neighboring Concord and married
Moses Burdoo. As the woman of the house, Phebe would have
tended the family’s garden, helping provide food. Phebe’s son,
Eli, served in Captain Parker’s company. Though Phebe died
early, her legacy lived on in the Revolution.
Birth:
Death:
Born in Concord
8 October, 1756
Obituary:
Marriage:
Married on Feb 13, 1754 to Moses Burdoo (born Jan 19, 1709 or 1710; baptized April 10, 1710; died 1760)
Children:
Eli (baptized July 20, 1755)
Places Lived:
Concord, Lexington
Connection to Lexington:
Lived here in a multigenerational free Black family
Her son fought in the Revolution in Captain Parker's company
Wikipedia:
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Employment:
Quotation:
Link to page in Notable American Women:
Inclusion in the Lexington
Historical Society Exhibit?
No
Additional Info:
Preliminary Sketch
- Meredith Bergmann
