page_title: Raid on Chester, Nova Scotia
section_title: Afterward
hierarchical_section_title: Raid on Chester, Nova Scotia / Afterward
caption_attribution_description: English: Chester Cannons, Chester, Nova Scotia - used to defend the town in the Raid on Chester (1782)
context_page_description: The Raid on Chester occurred during the American Revolution when the US privateer, Captain Noah Stoddard of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and four other privateer vessels attacked the British settlement at Chester, Nova Scotia on 30 June 1782. The town was defended by Captain Jonathan Prescott and Captain Jacob Millett.
context_section_description: The day after the raid on Chester, the American privateers redirected their attack on Lunenburg, presumably believing the Lunenburg militia had left the town to defend Chester.
  Prescott was suspected of being an American Patriot sympathizer given that, after the initial hostile engagement, Prescott reportedly allowed Captain Noah Stoddard to bury his dead and then had tea with him the day before Stoddard orchestrated the Raid on Lunenburg (1782).  People were also suspicious of Prescott's allegiance because a number of Dr. Prescott's family were Patriots in the American Revolution.  His nephew Samuel road with Paul Revere. Samuel eventually was taken prisoner to Halifax where he is reported to have died during the war.  Jonathan named one of his son's after his nephew Samuel and he is buried in Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Jonathan's son Joseph joined the Continental Army, fought at Fort Ticonderoga and was a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Another of Dr. Prescott's sons John fought in the Battle of Lexington. His other son was Charles Ramage Prescott.
  After the war, Prescott was given the blockhouse (present-day the Wisteria Cottage House) and used it as his home.
caption: Chester Blockhouse Cannons, Chester Legion, Chester, Nova Scotia
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