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Sunday, December 15, 2024
The Last of the Last Royal Governor of New Hampshire
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As evening fell on 14 Dec 1774, New Hampshire militiamen finished their (first) raid on Fort William and Mary. They loaded over a hundre...
Monday, August 20, 2018
“They well know that a guinea never glistened in my eyes”
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Because there was barely any copyright protection in early America, once a piece of writing was published, basically any other printer co...
Sunday, August 19, 2018
“The same facts of…the late Samuel Adams”
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In 1815 and 1816, Joseph Delaplaine (1777-1824, shown here) published one and a half volumes of Delaplaine’s Repository of the Lives and P...
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Colonel Fenton’s “confidential and verbal message” for Samuel Adams
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In 1865 William V. Wells published a biography of his great-grandfather: The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams . It’s both a highly...
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