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Showing posts with label Richard Lechmere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Lechmere. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Good Properties of Richard Lechmere

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Back here , in introducing a letter by Richard Lechmere , I wrote about him as leaving his country estate in Cambridge after accepting a se...
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Thursday, November 14, 2024

“You will have doubtless have an account of their surprizing Ticonderoga”

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One striking feature of Richard Lechmere ’s 22 May 1775 letter to Henry Seymour Conway, partially transcribed here , is how well informed th...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

“You justly observe that he has a difficult card to play”

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Yesterday I started quoting from Loyalist merchant Richard Lechmere ’s 22 May 1775 letter about the beginning of the Revolutionary War, as...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

“I fear Great Brittain will find it difficult to subdue an extensive Continent”

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Back in 2008, Heritage Auctions sold a letter from Richard Lechmere (1727–1814) commenting on the first month of the Revolutionary War. ...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

“The barracks that were begun now stand still”

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Richard Lechmere was a friend of the royal government with a country estate in Cambridge . In the summer of 1774, the ministry in London...
Sunday, July 02, 2017

“All the Seals have been taken out of the Council Chamber”

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Hace you seen the last royal seal of Massachusetts? At left is a picture of the impression the seal made. It shows the royal arms of Gre...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The View from Lechmere Point

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Yesterday I quoted an account from inside Boston of an artillery battle between a new Continental Army battery along the Charles River, Br...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

Revolutionary History Makes the Boston Globe

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A couple of articles touching on Revolutionary history have appeared this month in regional sections of the Boston Globe . On 9 November, th...