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Showing posts with label William Greenleaf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Greenleaf. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2026

“I am to be confined in Prison for that I cannot in Confidence do”

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A month ago , Boston 1775 followed Hopestill Capen (1731–1807) to the Boston jail, suspected of being disloyal to the new U.S. of A . And ...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

“To hear the proclamation for independance read and proclamed”

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On 18 July 1776, 250 years ago today , the Declaration of Independence was officially proclaimed in Massachusetts. People had already hea...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

Capt. Preston and the Boston Committee

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At 3:00 P.M. on Friday, 13 July 1770— 250 years ago today —the white men of Boston resumed their town meeting in Faneuil Hall . There w...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

The Hancocks’ Dinner Table

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Ticonderoga, New York , boasts the most accurate recreation of the Hancock mansion that used to stand on Beacon Hill. The merchant Thoma...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

“A proceeding which we could not but regard as traitorous”

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Yesterday’s installment from the 1835 United Service Journal article ended with the unnamed, and perhaps fictional or composite, author be...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The Drama of Dr. Byles

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Also in the new Common-place is Edward M. Griffin’s dramatically written article about the experiences of the Rev. Dr. Mather Byles (sho...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Sheriff Greenleaf and Col. Crafts Read the Declaration

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In October 1841, Daniel Greenleaf (1762-1853) wrote to a Boston newspaper from his home in Quincy. He was correcting some recollections of R...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

George Washington Sat Here?

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On 19 January, Sotheby's in New York is scheduled to auction this chair. It's Lot 362 in a sale of "Important Americana includ...
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