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Lydia Barnard
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Lydia Barnard
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Lydia Barnard: “She Captured a Redcoat”?
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The first printed version of the legend of Lydia Barnard of Watertown grabbing a British soldier off a horse on 19 Apr 1775 struck me as...
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Lydia Barnard: “a woman of strong mind and massive physique”
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Yesterday I continued this year’s exploration of the stories of the Battle of Lexington and Concord with the story of Lydia Barnard (born...
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Lydia Barnard: “a woman of strong mind and body”
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Sidney Perley’s History of Boxford (1880) includes this ungraceful sentence in a footnote: When the British drove the General Court from B...
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