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Monday, March 20, 2023
“Utmost Endeavors to have all such Articles convey’d from this Place”
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Here’s merchant John Rowe ’s diary entry for Sunday, 10 Mar 1776: Capn. Dawson is Returnd with Two Vessells —he has had a severe Brush with...
Friday, April 23, 2021
Dots on the Ensign’s Map
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Yesterday I started to discuss a hand-drawn map from the Library of Congress that Ed Redmond has identified as likely coming from British a...
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Friday, December 25, 2020
A “very Cheerfull” Christmas at the Rowes’
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The merchant John Rowe was one of Boston’s leading Anglicans , so he celebrated Christmas while his Congregationalist neighbors generally i...
Monday, November 05, 2012
“Powder Alarm” Talk in Sudbury Tonight
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On the morning of 1 Sept 1774, the Boston merchant John Andrews wrote this in a letter to a relative in Philadelphia: Yesterday in the af...
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