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Showing posts with label Samuel Waldo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Waldo. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

“Last Monday evening Miss Hannah was married to Mr. Fluker”

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On 27 Dec 1750, Boston ministers announced that Hannah Waldo and Thomas Flucker (shown here) intended to marry. The Rev. Jonathan Mayhe...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

“She would not marry one who had occasioned her so much mortification”

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Toward the end of 1750, the families of Hannah Waldo (shown here) and Andrew Pepperrell gathered in Boston for their long-anticipated wed...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

“Your wish that the alliance between our son and your daughter were completed”

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As I quoted yesterday , in early 1748 the Maine grandees Sir William Pepperrell and Samuel Waldo exchanged letters reassuring each other...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

“The long talked of affair between Mr. Pepperrell and my daughter”

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As I wrote yesterday , Sir William Pepperrell , baronet, and Samuel Waldo , militia brigadier and great proprietor, were pleased when thei...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Hannah Waldo, Patent Heiress

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Hannah Waldo was born in Boston on 21 Nov 1726 and baptized in the town’s First Meetinghouse. She was the daughter of Lucy and Samuel Waldo...
Monday, August 02, 2021

Podcast Episodes to Search Out

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I subscribe to several podcasts dedicated to Revolutionary history (broadly defined). I also listen to several podcasts that range more wi...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Richard Fry’s Greatest Scheme

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Before going on with The Saga of the Brazen Head , I’ll zip through what happened with Richard Fry . Under his contract for the  paper m...
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

“Brown Paper made at Mr. Fry’s Mill”

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In 1734 Richard Fry finally set about making paper at the mill built for him in Stroudwater outside Falmouth (now Portland), Maine , by ...
Friday, December 28, 2018

“Richard Fry, Stationer, Bookseller, Paper-maker, and Rag Merchant”

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In September 1728 the Massachusetts General Court promoted local paper manufacturing by granting a ten-year patent to a group of investo...
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