Talk:Sarah Tarrant

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This entire article is cut-and-pasted from the first two websites listed under "External Links". I have reworded it to avoid the copyright violation without doing any further research, which is certainly needed. The Band Alumni News website says that Tarrant "confronted a British soldier head-on" while The Truth of the Minutemen says the two women met "a British Troop". Is this one incident or two? How could an armed troop ("a British redcoat leveled his musket at her") have allowed their Captain to be taken prisoner by two enemy?

I have also removed the third external link since it is, as far as it relates to Sarah Tarrant, identical to the second. TAKIN' NAMES ✰ 19:12, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looking a little deeper into this, I find that the former version of the article, as well as my rewording of it, confuses Sarah Tarrant's story with that of Prudence Wright. The source for the account I am now giving is Account of Leslie's retreat at the North Bridge in Salem, on Sunday Feb'y 26, 1775 (1856) by Charles Moses Endicott (1793-1863). I have removed the former links as being unclear, and replaced them with a link to a downloadable PDF file of the Endicott booklet at Internet Archive. The account of Sarah Tarrant's actions is on page 40. I hope someone more experienced than I in the ways of Wiki can set up the citation correctly from this information. TAKIN' NAMES ✰ 02:38, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]