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Friday, October 03, 2025
“To Ring the Bells for two hours Each Time”
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Yesterday I described the arrival in 1745 of a set of eight bells from Gloucester, England, for the steeple of Christ Church, now also call...
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...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
“The Child whom you used to lead out into the common”
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In April 1785, seventeen-year-old John Quincy Adams had finished his first job, as secretary and translator for American minister Francis...
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