Above: The farmhouse where Simon Blood purportedly lived at the time of the Revolution.

​Simon Blood served in Captain James Russell’s company in Colonel Eleazer Brook’s regiment which marched to Dorchester on March 4th 1776. He also served at Ticonderoga in 1776.

After the war in 1780, Simon served as one of the Districts' "Surveyors of Highways" overseeing the creation of new roads throughout the community, many of which still exist today. Simon also served as one of the District's schoolmasters and received a bi-monthly salary of two hundred pounds for performing this service. He is buried in Concord. 

Simon Blood’s farmhouse is located at 981 Bedford Road. Nearly all of his historic farm remains undeveloped. Today, parts of his farm comprise the Foss Conservation Land and Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
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Above: Grave of Simon Blood.