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Thursday, October 02, 2025
“A fine set of 8 Bells were brought hither”
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On 25 July 1745 the Boston News-Letter reported the arrival of a new type of sound in Boston—or at least the potential for one. The newsp...
Thursday, February 16, 2023
“Except these boats all in a hurry”
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Continental surgeon general Benjamin Church ’s secret letter to Maj. Edward Cane of the British army contained three warnings about attack...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
John Adams and “the important Secret”
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John Adams ’s diary offers a case study of how well the Massachusetts Whigs kept the secrets that Benjamin Franklin asked Thomas Cushing ...
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Colonel Fenton’s “confidential and verbal message” for Samuel Adams
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In 1865 William V. Wells published a biography of his great-grandfather: The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams . It’s both a highly...
Monday, November 05, 2012
“Powder Alarm” Talk in Sudbury Tonight
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On the morning of 1 Sept 1774, the Boston merchant John Andrews wrote this in a letter to a relative in Philadelphia: Yesterday in the af...
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