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Showing posts with label John Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Brooks. Show all posts
Monday, January 11, 2021

Tracking Ebenezer Dumaresque

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When Dr. Nathaniel Martyn “absconded” in 1770, leaving his wife and two children with her family, he left behind another child as well. ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

William Eustis Returning to Roxbury

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At the start of the Revolutionary War, William Eustis (1753-1825) was a medical student of Dr. Joseph Warren . A son of Dr. Benjamin Eus...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

The Legends of Sarah Bradlee Fulton

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Helping her husband and brothers prepare for the Boston Tea Party wasn’t the only patriotic activity that descendants credited Sarah Brad...
Friday, September 01, 2017

Solomon Davis and the Fatal Plum Cake

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John and Dolly Hancock were known for hosting dinner parties in their mansion on Beacon Hill (shown here shortly before it was torn down...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Moses Parker, “the most prominent military character”

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Moses Parker was born on 13 May 1731 in Chelmsford . Seven years earlier, his father Joseph had served as a “Lieutenant of a company of sn...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Washington’s Return to the Vassall Estate in Cambridge

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Yesterday I quoted President George Washington ’s description of his return visit to Cambridge on 24 Oct 1789, when he viewed Middlesex C...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

On the Road with President Washington

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As I announced yesterday , on 21 January Prof. T. H. Breen will speak at the Cambridge Forum about President George Washington ’s visit to...
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Friday, July 06, 2012

“Great but fruitless interest for the commission in the artillery”

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Yesterday I quoted a few phrases from Alexander H. Everett’s address on the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill . He spoke i...
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