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Saturday, June 07, 2025
“Belonging to Mr. Henry Howell Williams”
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Henry Howell Williams lost more property in the Battle of Chelsea Creek than anyone else but the Royal Navy . Williams held the lease fo...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
“Permission to pass to & repass from Noddle’s Island”
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As discussed yesterday , Henry Howell Williams ’s oversaw what was probably the biggest farming operation in Boston harbor in 1775. He was...
Monday, April 17, 2017
Samuel Haws on the Second Day of the War
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Yesterday we left Samuel Haws and his fellow Wrentham minutemen at Nathaniel Richards ’s tavern in west Roxbury on the evening of 19 ...
Friday, September 30, 2016
A Look at Boston’s Lost and Found
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Last month at the African American Intellectual History blog, Jared Hardesty wrote about a surviving scrap of colonial Boston town records ...
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