Scores gathered at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday afternoon to remember the actions of two Bermuda-born patriots.

An historic plaque honouring St George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker was officially dedicated in front of a delegation of more than 50 US citizens from the Sons, Daughters and Children of the American Revolution.

The ceremony, which is part of a series of events this weekend to mark the 240th anniversary of the Bermuda Gunpowder Plot, took place at just after 4.30pm. It was held at the golf course because both men were born close to Port Royal.

In 1775 St George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker informed leaders of the American cause that the lightly guarded magazine in Bermuda contained about 100 barrels of gunpowder.

Benjamin Franklin and other leaders in Philadelphia were then able to convince a few Bermudians to take the gunpowder and have it loaded on to American ships waiting off of Tobacco Bay.

The Bermuda gunpowder helped ensure that Charleston’s port remained open to shipments of weapons, gunpowder and other goods from American allies until 1780, thus altering the course of the war in favour of the patriot cause.

Yesterday, members of the Sons, Daughters and Children of the American Revolution also attended a reception at Government House as part of the anniversary celebrations.

This afternoon a second remembrance ceremony will be held in Town Square in St George followed by an historic re-enactment of the rolling of the barrels of gunpowder down the hill towards Tobacco Bay.