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Sunday, December 25, 2022
A “Christmas eve” in John Adams’s Imagination
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On 23 July 1813, John Adams wrote to his son-in-law, William Stephens Smith , then serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. That let...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Seeing London with Nathaniel Balch
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I’ve long puzzled over why hatter Nathaniel Balch chose to sail to Britain in May 1775, a month after war broke out in Massachusetts. B...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Friends of the Royal Government on Liberty Tree
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I want to go back to that first report of the naming of Liberty Tree in Boston on 11 Sept 1765. That happened on a Wednesday, which mean...
Sunday, May 17, 2015
How Hutchinson Learned Latin and French
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This is Thomas Hutchinson writing in the third person about himself as a young man: When he left College [1727] he went into his fathe...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Joseph Green, John Hamock, and the Freemasons
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Yesterday I shared a bit of a scatological attack on Freemasonry published on the front page of the Boston Evening-Post on 7 Jan 1751. ...
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