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Thursday, April 09, 2026
“This Party behaved very Insolently & with Great Rapacity”
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Samuel Austin , quoted yesterday , wasn’t the only Boston merchant to complain about how Crean Brush had confiscated cloth in March 1776. ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
“They Stole many things & plunder’d my Store”
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John Rowe reported that Monday, 11 Mar 1776, brought “Gloomy heavy Weather,” and his mood wasn’t any better. The day before, as quoted ye...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
“Onboard the Prison Ship at New York”
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A little more than nine months after Richard Carpenter — immigrant , barber, and former prisoner of war — resigned from the Continental Army...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
No Pox Party in
John Adams
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I thought I was done writing about H.B.O.’s John Adams miniseries for a while, but interesting comments on Dr. Samuel Gelston’s smallpox h...
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