Boston 1775
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Sunday, August 25, 2024
“A Committee exercising such extensive Powers as this”
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In addition to the main protest against Boston’s committee of correspondence and Solemn League and Covenant boycott , quoted yesterday , the...
Saturday, July 13, 2024
“Many among us, who are for compromising matters”
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John Andrews was another merchant who left a lively record of the discussions in Boston in spring 1774 as the business community grappled w...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
For and Against the Committee of Correspondence
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During Boston’s town meeting session on 27 June 1774, town clerk William Cooper didn’t record who spoke. But the merchant John Rowe did...
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
“Assertions that Salem, Marblehead and Newbury had departed”
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On 31 July 1770, Faneuil Hall hosted another meeting of “The Trade and Inhabitants of the Town of Boston.” The group of people invited to...
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