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Samuel Dana
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Samuel Dana
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Younger Samuel Dana
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I’ve been tracing the Revolutionary experiences of the Rev. Samuel Dana of Groton, from comfortably ensconced minister to reviled Loyalist ...
Saturday, May 21, 2011
“Should Forget and Forgive Every Thing of a Political Nature”
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Despite being voted out of the pulpit and reportedly shot at , the Rev. Samuel Dana never moved out of Groton during the Revolutionary War...
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Friday, May 20, 2011
“To Preserve Him and His Family and Substance from Injury and Abuse”
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At the top of New England rural society were a town’s wealthy landowners and professionals, its selectmen , its militia officers, and—once ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Groton Seeks a New Minister
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By April 1775, as described yesterday , the Patriot majority in Groton and their Loyalist minister, the Rev. Samuel Dana , were at a stale...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Rev. Samuel Dana: “not allowed to enter the meeting-house”
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In early 1775, the Rev. Samuel Dana (1739-1798) had been the minister in Groton for nearly fourteen years. But in his thinking he was a Loy...
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