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Elizabeth Winship
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Elizabeth Winship
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Monday, August 16, 2021
When Owen Richards Sued Joseph Akley for Assault
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My last posting about Joseph Akley argued that despite being indentured away from his impoverished family at the age of ten and seeing his...
Friday, August 06, 2021
What Would Become of Young Joseph Akley?
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When Timothy Winship died at the end of 1767, the apprentice he’d taken in for Boston’s Overseers of the Poor, Joseph Akley , was fifteen y...
Thursday, August 05, 2021
What Timothy Winship Died With
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When peruke-maker Timothy Winship died, he made his third wife, Elizabeth , his executrix. Late in 1767 she filed an inventory of her hus...
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Wednesday, August 04, 2021
Timothy Winship, Peruke Maker of Boston
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Yesterday I described how in October 1762 the Boston Overseers of the Poor indentured ten-year-old Joseph Akley to a man named Timothy Win...
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