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John Marston
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John Marston
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Monday, April 07, 2025
“This BOWL commemorative of Events prior to the American Revolution”
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In August 1768 a Boston Gazette item, quoted back here , announced that Nathaniel Barber had commissioned a large silver bowl “for the Use...
Thursday, July 03, 2014
A Different Point of View on the “Bunker Hill” Song
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As I discussed yesterday , in post-Revolutionary Boston young veterans of the war preserved and passed around the words to a song about the ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2014
“It has been copied so many times, for the last fifty years”
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It’s no surprise that British soldiers composed a song about the Battle of Bunker Hill , as quoted yesterday. After all, they won the fight...
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Thanksgiving Memories from John Marston
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For the holiday I’ll quote John Marston ’s recollection of Thanksgiving in Boston before the Revolution. Marston evidently wrote this letter...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
A House in Beverly and Its Revolutionary Owner
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In Beverly , a developer has offered a 1715 house to anyone who will move it away from its present location, where the firm plans to build a...
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