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Dr. Charles Russell
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Saturday, September 07, 2024
Gunshots in the Countryside
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On 7 Sept 1774, 250 years ago today , Henry Vassall was riding in Lincoln when he heard a gunshot. The only Henry Vassall I was able to ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2022
Calvin Piper in Sickness, War, and Peace
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Yesterday we left eleven-year-old Calvin Piper of Westborough in bed after falling off a colt and banging his head in August 1774. Dr. ...
Friday, June 17, 2022
“The Case of the poor Boy, Calvin Piper”
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In 1758, a young man named John Piper bought farmland in Bolton . He married around the same time, and from 1759 to 1765 Mary Piper had fou...
Friday, April 23, 2021
Dots on the Ensign’s Map
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Yesterday I started to discuss a hand-drawn map from the Library of Congress that Ed Redmond has identified as likely coming from British a...
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