10 Middle Street Closed

The galleries at 10 Middle Street will be closed on Saturday, July 4 We encourage you to visit the John Paul Jones House instead (free admission day!). On Display at the John Paul Jones House In the 1760s and 1770s, residents of the American colonies, including Portsmouth, were forced to make a serious choice between democracy or monarchy, between being a Patriot or a Loyalist. Despite the Patriot’s emphasis on asserting longstanding English liberties, what did the Revolution actually mean for local African Americans, Native Americans, or women? What was life on the homefront like? What did the town look like at this time, in terms of its architecture and material life?