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Tuesday, November 06, 2018
The Mystery of “William Benson a Negro Man”
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On 6 Nov 1775, the Boston Gazette , then being published in Watertown , ran this announcement from the keeper of the jail at Cambridge : ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013
“Near this site was buried a British soldier”
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Yesterday’s posting included a recent photograph of the monument marking the grave of two British soldiers who died in the skirmish at the ...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Dr. Daniel How: prepared to receive insane patients
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Yesterday I quoted Samuel Breck’s passing remark that Andover, Massachusetts, was “a town where insane people are well nursed and comfortab...
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