Editing Dartmouth, Massachusetts (section)

=== Revolutionary War ===
One of the minutemen signalled by [[Paul Revere]] spread the alarm of the approaching British forces into Dartmouth, after moving through [[Acushnet, Massachusetts|Acushnet]], [[Fairhaven, Massachusetts|Fairhaven]], and Bedford Village. Three companies of Dartmouth [[Minutemen]] were marched out of the town on April 21, 1775, by Captain Thomas Kempton to a military camp in Roxbury, joining 20,000 other soldiers. Prior to the [[American Revolutionary War|war]] Kempton had been a whaler in [[New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford]]. The additional two Dartmouth companies were led by Captain's Dillingham and Egery. The last Dartmouth town meeting called in the name of [[George III]] occurred in February 1776. Also in 1776, and again in 1779, Dartmouth voters where called upon to sit on the Committee of Correspondence, Safety and Inspection, with the job of looking for individuals performing treasonous acts—and to report them to the War Council. Dartmouth had two companies of soldiers in the 18th Regiment of the Bunker Hill Army. No Dartmouth troops were ever again ordered north following March 17, 1776.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Glennon |first=Beverly |title=Dartmouth: The Early History of a Massachusetts Coastal Town |publisher=American Printing |date=October 2001 |isbn=978-0971459106 |location=New Bedford, MA |pages=181–186 |language=EN}}</ref>

In 1778 the village of Padanaram was raided by British troops as part of [[Grey's raid]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barboza |first=Robert |title=Patriots of Old Dartmouth |publisher=Vineyard Sound Books |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9825075-6-8}}</ref> The village was then known as Akin's Landing, and following Elihu Akin driving three [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]] out of the village in September 1778, British raiding parties burned down most of the village, focusing on Akin's properties. The raiders targeted Akin specifically because he had expelled the Loyalists from Dartmouth.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Medeiros |first=Peggi |title=Akin House: The Elihu Akin House Narrative |url=https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=baker_documentation |website=Roger Williams University}}</ref> They forced Akin to move to his only remaining property, a small home on Potters Hill—the [[Elihu Akin House|Elihu Akin house.]] Elihu never financially recovered from the attack and died poor, he lived at the house until he died in 1794.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |title=Guest views: Preserving Dartmouth's 1762 Elihu Akin House |url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/local/chronicle/2015/03/06/guest-views-preserving-dartmouth-s/35052428007/ |access-date=June 18, 2023 |website=New Bedford Standard-Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":52">{{Cite web |title=Akin House |url=https://rwu.shorthandstories.com/baker-akin/ |access-date=June 20, 2023 |website=rwu.shorthandstories.com |language=en}}</ref> Fixing the damage to the town from the raid cost £105,960 in 1778. Which is roughly equivalent to nine million dollars in today's money.<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Kate |date=October 23, 2020 |title=Dartmouth during the American Revolution |url=https://dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/dartmouth-during-american-revolution/50249 |access-date=June 18, 2023 |website=Dartmouth the Week Today |language=en}}</ref> In honor of Elihu, and to commemorate his earlier shipbuilding, the village of Padanaram was called Akin's Wharf for 20 years after the war.<ref name=":7" />

In 1793 [[Davolls General Store]] was established in the Russells Mills area.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sousa |first=Ron |title=Russells Mills Village Historic Tours |url=https://dartmouthrotary.com/stories/russells-mills-village-historic-tours}}</ref>