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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
The Journey of Phillis Wheatley’s First Published Poem
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As related in yesterday’s posting , a storm in September 1767 pushed a schooner packed with whale oil onto Cape Cod . But that ship was...
“Castaway on the Back of Cape-Cod”
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On Thursday, 1 Oct 1767, the biggest local story in the Boston News-Letter was the weather: The Beginning of last Week we had here very ser...
Saturday, March 18, 2023
“We Perceived A Battery Erected On the Hill on Dorchester Neck”
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As I continue to recount merchant John Rowe ’s experience of the end of the siege of Boston , I’ll skip his diary notes on the weather, soci...
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