Wolcott Family Cast 42,088 Musket Balls From King George III Statue

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 4

4,000 pounds of lead from the toppled King George III statue were hauled from New York to Litchfield, Connecticut, where Oliver Wolcott’s family and neighbors cast 42,088 musket balls for the Continental Army.
July 9, 1776, provided the trigger: after George Washington’s troops heard the Declaration of Independence, soldiers, sailors and patriots pulled down the gilded monument at Bowling Green.
Laura Wolcott, daughter Mariann and local children worked the furnaces and molds in the family orchard, turning a symbolic act of protest into urgently needed wartime supply.
Forensic evidence suggests some of the statue’s lead was later fired at the 1778 Battle of Monmouth, linking the destroyed royal monument to a battlefield where Washington’s army proved it could stand against British regulars.