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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
“This Convinced me that they were Actually fled”
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Gen. John Sullivan of New Hampshire wrote this description of how experienced the end of the siege of Boston for John Adams : We Saw the...
Thursday, November 28, 2019
A Dinner in “Plymouth, the great mausoleum”
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On 24 Dec 1770, the Old Colony Club of Plymouth met to celebrate Forefathers’ Day, a tradition that went back a whole year but which comm...
Monday, February 06, 2017
Dinner with the Old Colony Club in 1769
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The Old Colony Club started as a group of seven young gentlemen from Plymouth . They formed their club in January 1769, and on 22 December o...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Elkanah Watson’s “embryo military duties”
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I’m skeptical about a bunch of the stories Elkanah Watson told in his memoir, Men and Times of the Revolution , but I like this early ane...
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