The November 26th Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus reported that a skull believed to have belonged to a Revolutionary War soldier was to be reburied at the Milford Cemetery in Connecticut today.
The unidentified soldier's remains were discovered in the 1840s when workers laying railroad tracks in Milford near where 46 Americans captured by the British in 1776 died of smallpox. Their British captors left them by what is now Milford Cemetery.
The skull belonged to a man of European descent between the ages of 25 and 35 years of age. The state archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni says there is now way to be absolutely sure, but circumstances suggest that it might be.
He will be buried with full military honors.
I have to wonder what happened to the skull between the 1840s and today?
A Part of History, --DaCoot
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