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Showing posts with label John Vinal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Vinal. Show all posts
Thursday, November 27, 2025

A Tight Squeeze for the 1780–81 School Year

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When we left the Boston selectmen yesterday , a town meeting committee had just told them that they’d heard the widow Rebecca Holbrook mig...
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Friday, October 24, 2025

“In Lieu of that Part of his Salary received annually from England”

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New England’s Puritan heritage made those colonies less than welcoming for the Church of England. There was an Anglican missionary organiz...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

The “Doctrine of Projectiles” and Other Doctrines

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On 10 Aug 1775, the Newburyport schoolmaster John Vinal wrote out the text of a new advertisement to appear in the next day’s Essex Journ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

“To open his EVENING-SCHOOL, as usual”

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Isaiah Thomas and Henry-Walter Tinges launched the Essex Journal newspaper in Newburyport in 1773. Among its advertisers was town scho...
Monday, October 20, 2025

A New Schoolmaster for a New Town

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In January 1764 the Massachusetts General Court passed a law allowing part of the town of Newbury to split off as the new town of Newbury...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

John Vinal “continues to keep a private School”

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Back in September I quoted John Adams ’s account from 17 Apr 1764 of meeting a man who had taken the smallpox inoculation before him: My ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

“Swelled to three times his size, black as bacon”

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Here’s another account of anti-epidemic measures from the Adams family papers, this one a 17 Apr 1764 letter from John Adams to his fiancé...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

The End of the Constitutional Telegraphe

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When we left off with John S. Lillie on Tuesday , he was feeling triumphant about the election of Thomas Jefferson as President in 1800....