Our First Shot Candle marks the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The thick-walled glass tumbler style jar holds 10 ounces of soy wax. The ash-color seems befitting for the scenes of British troops marching into the city of Concord, with the label showing the painting "A View of the Town of Concord", based on a photograph of the painting depicting the scene of April 19, 1775. The painting is by Timothy Martin Minot, ca. 1825. The certified, clean scent reminds us of smoky charcoal, and firewood, softened with warm amber.

More than a year before Americans declared their independence, the Revolutionary War erupted with the “shot heard round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Convinced that Massachusetts was already in outright rebellion and that the other colonies would soon follow, royal officials decided to act. In an attempt to collapse colonial resistance, 700 British soldiers, known then as “Regulars,” marched on the town of Concord to seize provincial military supplies and possibly arrest rebel leaders. Rather than end the rebellion, the events of April 19, 1775, triggered a war between Great Britain and its American colonies that raged for eight years.