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Thomas Longman
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Thomas Longman
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
“A Sett of Globes (which came over by Mistake)”?
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In eighteenth-century New England, booksellers sold more than books, pamphlets, and magazines. As the business letters of Thomas Hancock ...
Sunday, August 03, 2025
John Hancock Sees a Chance to Do a Favor for Thomas Longman
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My ears perked up at this announcement from the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: The Colonial Society is publishing the Papers of John Han...
Sunday, November 24, 2024
“Rescued from the Tyrants by the real Friends of Liberty”
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Most of the “Characters in high Life , some in low ” in the 8 May 1770 Nova Scotia Chronicle were derogatory. Even when I’m not sure what...
Monday, May 18, 2020
When Hancock Moved on Mein
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John Mein arrived in Boston from Scotland in 1764. He first set up a shop with Robert Sandeman , though he wasn’t a member of the Sandema...
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