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Showing posts with label Pembroke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pembroke. Show all posts
Monday, October 05, 2026

Reading Documents about the Governor and the Towns

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I plucked out a couple more documents from the digitized Thomas Gage Papers to see how well the automated handwriting-recognition program T...
Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Legal Trouble in Pembroke

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Back on Thanksgiving , I mentioned that the Rev. Kilborn Whitman (1765-1835, shown here) delivered the holiday sermon in Quincy , Massachus...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Abigail Adams’s Quiet Thanksgiving in 1798

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On 29 Nov 1798, Abigail Adams sat down to an unusually small Thanksgiving dinner . An autumn Thanksgiving feast was an important tradit...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

“Pool Spear informs, that last Week he heard one Kilson a Soldier…”

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I’ve been looking into Pool Spear , the Boston tailor accused of tarring and feathering sailor George Gailer in October 1769. A little ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Unboxing Pool Spear

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Yesterday I noted the difficulty of finding out more information about a sailor with a common name. Luckily, the next person on George Ga...
Wednesday, July 06, 2016

A Plymouth County Protest “as if written with a sunbeam”

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The letters I quoted yesterday described the arrival of about a hundred British soldiers in Marshfield on 23 Jan 1775, sent by Gen. Thoma...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

More Upcoming History Seminars

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Last week I noted an upcoming session  in the Boston Early American History Seminar. The Massachusetts Historical Society sponsors other ...