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Sunday, December 28, 2025
“Under the hieroglyphical similitude of tropes and figures?”
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As a prominent gentleman in Connecticut , Israel Putnam couldn’t ignore what “A New-York Freeholder” wrote about him in the New-York Gaze...
Sunday, May 19, 2024
“The taste of their fish being altered”
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Just because the British Empire was sliding toward internal warfare in 1774, that was no reason to stop laughing about the news. Here are ...
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Sunday, February 07, 2021
London Imprints on Boston Bibles?
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In 1756 the Boston Overseers of the Poor indentured Isaiah Thomas as an apprentice to the printer Zechariah Fowle (1724-1776). He was sev...
Friday, February 23, 2018
The Further Evolution of “The New Massachusetts Liberty Song”
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As I discussed back here, in April 1774 the New-York Journal published a new version of “The New Massachusetts Liberty Song” that was actua...
Saturday, September 05, 2015
“A special Court for the Trial of a certain Criminal”
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Yesterday I quoted two reports of anti- Stamp Act protests from the 30 Aug 1765 New-London Gazette . Here’s yet another, from the town of L...
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