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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: September 19, 2009
Caption: An Older Marker
Additional Description: America’s Most Famous Cannon
When on September 21, 1780, Moses Sherwood
and John Peterson, Continental Militiamen,
took it to Teller’s Point and fired on the
Vulture, Major Andre could not return
to New York on it, and so was captured at
Tarrytown.
Presented 1952 by Paul L. Bleakley

(This marker is located behind the museum.)
Submitted: September 21, 2009, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p78073
File Size: 0.953 Megabytes

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