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Robert Hallowell
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Wednesday, April 07, 2021
“Strict Examination into the Affair of taring, feathering & carting Owen Richards”
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Yesterday’s posting quoted two accounts of the assault on Customs employee Owen Richards on 18 May 1770. Richards and a colleague had c...
Thursday, August 29, 2019
“Having made Seizure of a Sloop named the Sally”
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As I’ve been relating, July of 1769 was not a good month for the royal Customs service in New England. On 19 July, a Newport mob had ...
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